winning LOCI?
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Anonymous
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hi! does anyone have a letter of continued interest that led to an admittance?! I am not sure my DD has a good idea of this and I would love to preview an example of someone's LOCI that was successful! thank you in advance! |
Anonymous
| Search loci here |
Anonymous
| Start with a template online but then you really have to make it personally fit your kid, based on new circumstances, the school and major, etc. |
Anonymous
Stop creating posts about this. One is enough |
Anonymous
| I read dc's friend's letter that worked at an Ivy. It was a warm letter about love of the school and it also discussed many truly impressive accomplishments that had happened since submitting the original app. |
Anonymous
Who are these students with “many truly impressive accomplishments” that have taken place in the last 2-ish months? My kid (not a senior, so I can only extrapolate) got another dean’s list and a scholastic gold key. Not nothing, but not “truly impressive” and not “many.” What kinds of things are seniors doing that there is so much to update on in a LOCI? |
Anonymous
I’m curious about this, as well. Our school gives a handful of major awards to to top students at the end of junior year and again at the end of senior year. Nothing in between. Since applying ED in mid-September, DC has been made co-captain of both their fall and winter varsity sports. But they’re not a recruited athlete, so does this even matter? What other awards or even “updates” have deferred kids included in their LOCI that weren’t already in their initial application? |
Anonymous
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Research paper finished and published
Club founded has won another competition Attended a conference where presented paper at poster session Promoted to leadership position at non-profit has been working at for the last couple of years. Just some examples. |
Anonymous
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If a deferred school explicitly says the loci deadline is March 1, would it be too late to submit it in mid/late February? What if the school doesn’t mention a deadline? Thanks.
My son was wondering because he has a couple of bigger activities coming up in the second half of Feb. |
Anonymous
If the explicit deadline is March 1, then mid/late February is before the deadline and not too late. If no deadline given, no later than early March is best — you want to get it in while they are doing RD app reviews. |
Anonymous
Thanks. Did you mean no later than early February? |
Anonymous
| Most schools release RD decisions around mid/late March, so sending by March 1 or a few days later should be ok. Some release decisions earlier, however, so you’d want to send a LOCI earlier. If they do t say when decisions are released, Google or ask here for what they’ve done the last few years and determine a personal LOCI deadline that way. |
Anonymous
I posted about dc’s friend’s letter. I get it, my kid is in the same boat with fairly minor accomplishments to mention. But this kid had multiple achievements like winning robotics and debate tournaments and a sports championship and receiving a community service award from a local group and publishing a paper. It was a lot and honestly the college would have been crazy not to take the kid. Not shocked they did. |
Anonymous
My kid got into top 20 with loci that had mostly bullet updates: - offered 2 diff paid internships for the summer after HS grad (both pointy interests focused) - writing was published (non humanities intended major) - several awards (one county wide and one nationwide) - took college classes that spring semester as a HS senior and was doing really well in them Did not include anything unhelpful (small potatoes) |