Final UK undergrad ranking is out as if last night (The Times)
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Anonymous
The difference in total cost (per year) is about 30k. |
Anonymous
The parents and child sign an agreement in front if the counselor committing to attend if selected. It’s a moral and ethical obligation. The counselor is required to be involved to emphasize the seriousness of the commitment and the fact that it reflects poorly upon the high school if the parents play games. Hence, Tulane is cracking down on schools whose parents misbehave. Expect more of this. You are sending a very poor example to your own children when you do this plus they will Be shunned at the high school if a school Like Tulane blackballs future students from that high school in applying. Why would you want to do that to your own kid? And, yes, it applies to all schools, Canadian, German, British. |
Anonymous
| Lol Tulane |
Anonymous
I guess you wouldn’t laugh if it were Brown ? |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Sorry, but you're not making sense here. What if your kid was rejected from the ED school? For ED, you are allowed to apply to other schools at the same time. However, you promise to attend the ED if accepted. Since Oxbridge applications are due in October but you don't get an ED decision until December, it is certainly ethical to put in applications for Oxbridge (and St. Andrews, LSE, etc). Then, if the kid gets an ED acceptance, you are required to pull your applications at the UK schools. I can understand that your counselor would not be okay with any continued effort toward UK schools AFTER and ED acceptance, but not before. |
Anonymous
Yes, you can put both applications but the commitment is to attend the ED school. The Oxford decisions come out in early January. The college counselor thought that the chances of getting into ED school were extremely high and that we had to honor the commitment if accepted. That took Oxford off the table, especially as the application process is not trivial. |
Anonymous
Well, you must have a very strong student AND a strong hook to feel so confident about an Ivy ED. Congratulations! Nonetheless, your confidence is pretty unusual. There's no reason for others applying ED to forego EA applications and UK applications even if they intend to honor their ED commitment. |
Anonymous
PP again. Just for the record, getting into Oxford is orders of difficulty higher than St Andrews, Durham, etc. The TSA exam is much harder than SATs, and the interviews are no joke. The acceptance rate for Americans is significantly lower than other nationalities. |
Anonymous
| you can apply to schools outside the US and do ED in the US |
Anonymous
Yes but you should honor the ED commitment if accepted. (That’s not the case that PP described above: getting accepted to Brown ED and going to St Andrews instead) |
Anonymous
You are correct about the TSA and the Oxbridge acceptance rate. However, my kid didn't find the Oxbridge application more time consuming than several US schools with a ton of supplementals. The interview stage was nerve-wracking, but not particularly complicated or time-consuming. The essay was substantially easier than a personal statement + supplementals for US universities. |
Anonymous
Yes on the personal statement. The TSA exam meant going to Philly to take it, which is quite inconvenient. The ED school application took a couple of days of solid work, which was much easier. |
Anonymous
After how Brown handled the recent shooting they should offer a release to all students accepted ED. |
Anonymous
| What if the family decided they couldnt afford Brown? |