Rejected from Chicago, Northwestern, Williams, Vanderbilt...

[Anonymous]

There are no match schools for kids at the very top of the pool - only reaches and likelies.

[Anonymous]

This nearly happened to me. I was my high school valedictorian. I was rejected by all of the Ivy's and my one "safety" was a top 25 state school. I got wait-listed at the safety. My congressman was an alum of the safety and made some calls. Eventually I was accepted, but my plan B was going to be to apply to schools abroad because they had different calendars.

I transferred out of the safety after a year to a better school. Sometimes it's easier to get in as a transfer applicant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a thread on this thread, in Website feedback.

Jeff confirms that the OP is not a troll but she is a jerk.

Why is OP a jerk? It's hard to watch your kid back herself into a corner. Yeah, it's first world problems and the kid has room to grow, but watching this stuff is no fun as a parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This nearly happened to me. I was my high school valedictorian. I was rejected by all of the Ivy's and my one "safety" was a top 25 state school. I got wait-listed at the safety. My congressman was an alum of the safety and made some calls. Eventually I was accepted, but my plan B was going to be to apply to schools abroad because they had different calendars.

I transferred out of the safety after a year to a better school. Sometimes it's easier to get in as a transfer applicant.

I am curious what the definition of "better" is I was listening to the "Getting In" Podcast last year and their was a student who called in and said he was attending the University of Pittsburgh, but wanted to transfer to another school that he would be more proud to tell his friends he was attending. Julie Lythcott-Haims, she show host and author of "How to Raise an Adult" told him that really wasn't a good enough reason, especially since Pitt is a perfectly fine school.

My daughter has also floated this idea to me. I've told her that she should only attend the safeties if she is truly committed to them from the beginning. If it turns out the safeties are not a fit, then she can consider transferring. Otherwise, she go to NVCC and do one of the guaranteed admission programs for UVA or W&M.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a thread on this thread, in Website feedback.

Jeff confirms that the OP is not a troll but she is a jerk.

Why is OP a jerk? It's hard to watch your kid back herself into a corner. Yeah, it's first world problems and the kid has room to grow, but watching this stuff is no fun as a parent.

You misunderstood the comment above. Jeff said OP is a jerk because of something OP said about Jeff in a post totally unrelated to this thread. You can go to the Website forum to read the thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a thread on this thread, in Website feedback.

Jeff confirms that the OP is not a troll but she is a jerk.

Why is OP a jerk? It's hard to watch your kid back herself into a corner. Yeah, it's first world problems and the kid has room to grow, but watching this stuff is no fun as a parent.

You misunderstood the comment above. Jeff said OP is a jerk because of something OP said about Jeff in a post totally unrelated to this thread. You can go to the Website forum to read the thread.

Guess I missed some pages in here...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are no match schools for kids at the very top of the pool - only reaches and likelies.

That is what we found out for both my children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a thread on this thread, in Website feedback.

Jeff confirms that the OP is not a troll but she is a jerk.

Why is OP a jerk? It's hard to watch your kid back herself into a corner. Yeah, it's first world problems and the kid has room to grow, but watching this stuff is no fun as a parent.

You misunderstood the comment above. Jeff said OP is a jerk because of something OP said about Jeff in a post totally unrelated to this thread. You can go to the Website forum to read the thread.

Guess I missed some pages in here...

Again it's NOT in this thread. Here: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/631570.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ivy Day isn't going to go so well for my DD, is it? She didn't apply to any safeties. Only Ivies and Duke remain.

This has to be a troll. Certainly nobody is this clueless.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy Day isn't going to go so well for my DD, is it? She didn't apply to any safeties. Only Ivies and Duke remain.

This has to be a troll. Certainly nobody is this clueless.

Whether a troll or not, it's annoying that OP hasn't contributed to the thread much if at all. However, I'm glad OP posted this because this sort of thing does happen to some kids every year. Hopefully it helps those who haven't been through the process to focus a lot on finding some good safeties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivy Day isn't going to go so well for my DD, is it? She didn't apply to any safeties. Only Ivies and Duke remain.

This has to be a troll. Certainly nobody is this clueless.

And if they are not a troll...they are a jerk. Letting your kids be admissions rate fodder for schools way out of their league without any safeties is an act of parental abdication.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy Day isn't going to go so well for my DD, is it? She didn't apply to any safeties. Only Ivies and Duke remain.

Wow op... DC didn't know about importance of safeties?

She did. Just refused to submit an app to a place she'd never attend.

What does this mean, "never attend." She would never attend any school not at the level of the ones that rejected her?

Frankly it sounds like she needed this lesson.

+1

The lesson of diversity?

[Anonymous]

I want to know if she got any acceptances yesterday!

[Anonymous]

Me too

[Anonymous]

Let's all hope! We should take the time and think positive thoughts and maybe even say a prayer, seriously. You know you would not want to be in this situation.