If your high-scorer didn't get in anywhere: where are they now?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes: UMD, WM, CWRU, Pitt, Lehigh, BU, UMN, Ohio St.
No: Harvard, Penn, UVA, NEU

Extremely surprised at Northeastern. Did you submit a 1400 or something? They hate submitters that are below median.

It was a dang 1560. EA, deferred, WL. 2023 seemed a little chaotic at NEU.

Mine is applying to NEU regular admission but really, really likes the school. She's high stats, 35 ACT + good sports, jobs and ECs and she's not at all confident of admission. I know there's a lot of hate, but our experience has been it's a tough admit for strong applicants. Based upon local experience, she's more confident about BC and BU, which are down her list.

How do people not understand that the good programs at NEU are mostly filled in ED. There are just not enough spots left in RD to accommodate all the little geniuses who didn’t bother to look at the CDS.

OP here. She does understand this. NEU is not her tippy-top choice, but it's very high up the list. There are also value/$ factors at play and neither parents nor child felt ED was worth the blind commitment. Surely that's easy enough to understand?

How do people

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is at Wisconsin, which was a safety. He has said a couple of times that if he had known this was where he was going, he would have had a little more fun in high school and wouldn't have killed himself taking such hard classes. In the end, no one understood what happened -- other than the two rounds of ED didn't work out and then he was stuck in the seventh circle of waitlist hell until early July. He got into one or two schools that might be considered better than Wisconsin but there are more opportunities in his major in Madison. I wish the process hadn't sucked so much and I wish he had been more proud of how it turned out but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter and he is happy.

Madison is a great town and Wisconsin is a wonderful university. Congratulations!

I would be so excited if my kid went there.

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Anonymous wrote:If they "didn't get in anywhere" how the heck are they ATTENDING anything much less a safety.

The unspoken idea that a safety school is not "anywhere" and doesn't count.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is at Wisconsin, which was a safety. He has said a couple of times that if he had known this was where he was going, he would have had a little more fun in high school and wouldn't have killed himself taking such hard classes. In the end, no one understood what happened -- other than the two rounds of ED didn't work out and then he was stuck in the seventh circle of waitlist hell until early July. He got into one or two schools that might be considered better than Wisconsin but there are more opportunities in his major in Madison. I wish the process hadn't sucked so much and I wish he had been more proud of how it turned out but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter and he is happy.

Then he might not have gotten into Wisconsin!

That is an excellent point! Wisconsin is where his hard work got him. Without that hard work, he could be in Eastern or Western (pick a state) University.

And honestly, still have a great life. Ask me how I know.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected everywhere but Princeton. Was a nail biting app season!

At least you got into your safety. Some people don't even manage that.

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Rose-Hulman

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UVA

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Rejected or WL at the other T20s DC applied to: now at Cornell.
Got into several T21-40….
Weird weird results.
But good fit for major which maybe explains it?

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The basement

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The framing of OP’s question highlights everything that’s wrong with the college admissions narrative these days.

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Anonymous wrote:The framing of OP’s question highlights everything that’s wrong with the college admissions narrative these days.

and you have nothing but criticism to offer, I see. Why comment at all? Did that post give you a fleeting sense of superiority?

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UVA. He doesn’t hate the experience, but is struggling to find a serious peer group, looking to transfer.

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Anonymous wrote:A close friend’s high score DC made the mistake of applying to all super reaches with one safety and ended up at the safety (RIT), which is still an excellent school.

It is an excellent school and don't make the mistake of thinking that because it's easier to get into than MIT or CMU that it's an easy school. If you are doing a STEM major at RIT, you will be working very hard.

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They got in lots of schools but not their reaches. At UVA in state.