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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

I’m sorry to hear this. Has he joined/tried clubs/activities/voluntering?

[Anonymous]

^volunteering

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

100%

[Anonymous]

1560 SAT / 36 ACT, 3.96 UW, incredible ECs.

Last year he was rejected at 4 Ivies.

Accepted into our State School (Florida) and all of his safeties (Pepperdine, SMU, Tulane).

After touring them all again and evaluating the Merit offers, he selected Pepperdine on basically a full ride.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1560 SAT / 36 ACT, 3.96 UW, incredible ECs.

Last year he was rejected at 4 Ivies.

Accepted into our State School (Florida) and all of his safeties (Pepperdine, SMU, Tulane).

After touring them all again and evaluating the Merit offers, he selected Pepperdine on basically a full ride.

No full ride at Tulane?

[Anonymous]

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.

This sounds like my DC but at a different college. But honestly, with how it all went down - I don't necessarily believe that taking it easier in HS would have landed them at their school (or your DC at Wisconsin).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1560 SAT / 36 ACT, 3.96 UW, incredible ECs.

Last year he was rejected at 4 Ivies.

Accepted into our State School (Florida) and all of his safeties (Pepperdine, SMU, Tulane).

After touring them all again and evaluating the Merit offers, he selected Pepperdine on basically a full ride.

No full ride at Tulane?

Unfortunately no. He got something like $20k per year… Pepperdine was close to 100%.
if he had received $40k at Tulane he would have probably gone there….but it was hard to pass up a free education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jail.

[Anonymous]

My first kid only got into safeties but I had at least insisted they apply to two: U of Arizona and Indiana. Flagships are a great safety for bright kids because they have lots of options, lots of bright students (in many states, just about everyone goes to instate publics, including valedictorians) and there are graduate programs so bright students can often get graduate research or graduate coursework under their belt.

[Anonymous]

1540 SAT. Applied EA and attending Northeastern.