DCUM Roll Call... Where is your DC Enrolling?

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Anonymous wrote:VCU

Congrats! DD is at VCU and loves it.

My Junior is interested in VCU. She has friends there who are very happy. DD has high stats and will also apply to UVA/VT/W&M, etc. but could see herself at VCU. I think VCU is really growing in popularity. Richmond is a big enough city for kids who like an urban vibe, but small enough that it’s not overwhelming. Close to home but not too close.

VCU juniors may want to start a new thread or reference the prior dozens.

Rising junior DS is also interested in VCU. Also love that there is an urban vibe but it’s not too far away. He is interested in either medicine or dentistry so the many options in the health sciences is another plus. So happy to hear others are having positive experiences! Does anyone know how they are with merit?

Surprisingly, they were terrible with merit. My daughter had 1510 and 4.4 with all the rigor and only got $6k a year.

Hmmmm, I just saw your reply (and replied we know of several full-rides). That's disappointing, for sure. Were you local? Degree of interest? Perhaps your DD was applying for a more selective program?

Yep - we were local (northern Virginia) and daughter applied to the arts. But I don't think her major mattered. I was surprised. I saw someone else with even higher stats that got the same scholarship.

We're even more local (in RVA) and I do believe they tend to favor the hometown kids. but what'do'I'know? My experience is anecdotal, at best (sample size < 10!)

Its arts programs are incredible and I hope your DD still considers it and it still fits in your budget.

My DD (and my) main concern was the crime in the area. Even when we were on our tour, a homeless guy approached us. The arts program definitely seems stellar though.

Being homeless and asking for money is not criminal behavior.

NP. That is exactly what I was going to say. Homelessness isn’t a crime. Approaching a stranger and asking for money or food/other necessities when you are homeless isn’t a crime.

It’s uncomfortable to be approached by a homeless person sometimes but the presence of homeless people in itself doesn’t prove the area is unsafe because there are homeless people in every city and town in the world.

Some homeless people are victims of their own past behavior and convey their “requests” in a menacing manner that suggests they’ll resort to violence if they aren’t given money. You see that regularly in DC.

Also, many are mentally ill - and frankly my kid is not equipped to handle that level of illness nor would I want her to become a victim or someone's illness induced behaviors. I know lot of schools are fine within the campus (even if the surrounding areas are unsafe); but we had a homeless person come up to us on campus and during an on campus tour.

Before she goes off to college or to live on her own, I suggest you equip her to deal w situations like a homeless or mentally ill person approaching her. You have to prepare her for the real world at some point.homeless and mentally ill people are a significant presence in any city or town she might live in and you can’t reasonably expect her to stay in a protected bubble all the time. She needs to learn some street smarts.

I'm sure most kids have some basic knowledge on how to handle mentally ill homeless people, but that doesn't mean that one would want to be an around it. While every school has some level of violence, some schools definitely have more of it.

Vatech and UVa have both had far more violent murders than the urban schools people on this site like to freak out about.

OMG. Just stop. One-off crazy situations that occur once a decade (or longer) are in no way comparable to the daily crime found on and around many urban campuses.
DP

Not one offs, can think of multiple examples at both schools.

No you can't.

UVA- three students killed by teammate last year
Hannah Graham murder
Yeardley Love Murder

Vatech

The mass shooting of 32 people
Murder of two students at Caldwell fields
Xin Yang murder

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MIT

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Anonymous wrote:A while back, but Gainesville had not one but 2 serial killers https://the-line-up.com/the-gainesville-ripper-terrified-the-university-of-florida?amp=1

I just listened to a 48 hours where a kid from Miami attending UFlorida was killed by a friend (non-student), within the last few years. And I remember the 1990s murder spree ar UFlorida because I was in college myself elsewhere and thought it was super creepy.

The UF student who was murdered was Christian Aguilar and his death had absolutely nothing to do with UF. The person who killed him was not affiliated w UF in any way and the murder did not take place at UF or even in Gainesville. It was a targeted crime committed by a jealous friend. So it really is not indicative of crime at UF. It was also in 2012, not within the last few years.

Also, to the other PP, there haven’t been 2 serial killers at UF/in Gainesville. That one, Daniel rolling, killed 5 people back in 1990. That was obviously a horrific event in Gainesville but very rare and there have been no other serial killers there. In the article you linked it mentions Ted Bundy who killed students at FSU, not UF.

Aguilar was a student at UF living in Gainesville at the time of his murder. His family relocated from Miami to Gainesville until the time his body was found. It is true that his murderer was not a student, and dumped his body elsewhere. I’m not sure why that matters. The point is that crime occurs on all campuses, not just urban campuses.

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Probably Harvard. They are up there this weekend for the new student visitas program and I suspect they'll come back all excited by the school.

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Anonymous wrote:A while back, but Gainesville had not one but 2 serial killers https://the-line-up.com/the-gainesville-ripper-terrified-the-university-of-florida?amp=1

I just listened to a 48 hours where a kid from Miami attending UFlorida was killed by a friend (non-student), within the last few years. And I remember the 1990s murder spree ar UFlorida because I was in college myself elsewhere and thought it was super creepy.

The UF student who was murdered was Christian Aguilar and his death had absolutely nothing to do with UF. The person who killed him was not affiliated w UF in any way and the murder did not take place at UF or even in Gainesville. It was a targeted crime committed by a jealous friend. So it really is not indicative of crime at UF. It was also in 2012, not within the last few years.

Also, to the other PP, there haven’t been 2 serial killers at UF/in Gainesville. That one, Daniel rolling, killed 5 people back in 1990. That was obviously a horrific event in Gainesville but very rare and there have been no other serial killers there. In the article you linked it mentions Ted Bundy who killed students at FSU, not UF.

Aguilar was a student at UF living in Gainesville at the time of his murder. His family relocated from Miami to Gainesville until the time his body was found. It is true that his murderer was not a student, and dumped his body elsewhere. I’m not sure why that matters. The point is that crime occurs on all campuses, not just urban campuses.

I know he was. I just said that his death had nothing to do w the university as he wasn’t killed by a UF student, wasn’t killed on campus, and the crime was targeted (would have happened no matter where Aguilar lived or went to school)

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Anonymous wrote:A while back, but Gainesville had not one but 2 serial killers https://the-line-up.com/the-gainesville-ripper-terrified-the-university-of-florida?amp=1

I just listened to a 48 hours where a kid from Miami attending UFlorida was killed by a friend (non-student), within the last few years. And I remember the 1990s murder spree ar UFlorida because I was in college myself elsewhere and thought it was super creepy.

The UF student who was murdered was Christian Aguilar and his death had absolutely nothing to do with UF. The person who killed him was not affiliated w UF in any way and the murder did not take place at UF or even in Gainesville. It was a targeted crime committed by a jealous friend. So it really is not indicative of crime at UF. It was also in 2012, not within the last few years.

Also, to the other PP, there haven’t been 2 serial killers at UF/in Gainesville. That one, Daniel rolling, killed 5 people back in 1990. That was obviously a horrific event in Gainesville but very rare and there have been no other serial killers there. In the article you linked it mentions Ted Bundy who killed students at FSU, not UF.

Aguilar was a student at UF living in Gainesville at the time of his murder. His family relocated from Miami to Gainesville until the time his body was found. It is true that his murderer was not a student, and dumped his body elsewhere. I’m not sure why that matters. The point is that crime occurs on all campuses, not just urban campuses.

And this crime didn’t occur on a campus anyway. Crime happens everywhere, urban and rural, on and off college campuses, in every part of the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Once decisions are made, please post here!
Which School? ED or RD?
Did they visit?
How happy is your child to be enrolling there, scale 1-10?

DC going to UVA! Was the first admitted students day they did and everything else had to be as good or better and nothing else came close.

Very happy to be enrolling there. Accepted EA.

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Anonymous wrote:Once decisions are made, please post here!
Which School? ED or RD?
Did they visit?
How happy is your child to be enrolling there, scale 1-10?

DC going to UVA! Was the first admitted students day they did and everything else had to be as good or better and nothing else came close.

Very happy to be enrolling there. Accepted EA.

Congrats to your DC!! It sounds like they are really excited which is great.

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Anonymous wrote:Probably Harvard. They are up there this weekend for the new student visitas program and I suspect they'll come back all excited by the school.

Congrats to them!

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Anonymous wrote:Committed to Swarthmore yesterday following the admitted student event! We are all proud of our daughter’s hard work and delighted the process is over.

Congrats to your DD and all of her hard work.

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Anonymous wrote:Oberlin with merit scholarship!

3.7 unweighted gpa from small private school. No leadership positions but artsy, language kid (4 years of Arabic), and volunteer work. Strong ceramics portfolio.

Also accepted to:
Skidmore
Brandeis
Mount Holyoke
Sarah Lawrence (merit scholarship)
Fordham
Muhlenberg (merit and art scholarships)
University of San Francisco (merit)
Willamette (merit)
University of San Francisco (merit
Univer

Congrats, great choices there - especially in this acceptance climate!

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Anonymous wrote:MIT

Nice, your DC must have worked very hard for that admittance.

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Getting this thread back on track.

DS chose Penn State and we paid the deposit tonight. He is very excited.

Other schools:
Accepted at JMU, WVU, and UMD
Waitlisted at VT
Rejected at UVA

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Going to Baylor

Accepted
Santa Clara
Pepperdine
ASU Barrett Honors College
Loyola Marymount
Pomona
Univ San Diego
TCU
and a couple of safeties

Rejected at USC

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10/10 excited for UCLA

UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan (RD), Emory (RD), and USC (RD) were the Final 5 in our house, and that was probably the final 1 - 5 order, too.

Hardest hitting rejections were from HYS and Duke (all RD, with exception of Stanford).