Colleges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor, who has solid C student kids, swears that the key is only applying to a variety of out of state schools.

She's got one at Elon, CSU Dominguez Hills, Colorado State, and one at a university in Buffalo (not sure of the exact name). None of them were great students. None were outstanding athletes that got scholarships. None did any extracurriculars to pad their academic resumes. After the first two got rejected or wait listed at every VA school they applied to, she only had the other two apply to out of state schools, where they were accepted at all.

Now, will this work for C students in VA applying to Harvard? No. But it seemed to work for her 4 applying to average schools.

She must have a lot of money.

[Anonymous]

^^ I should note, though, that my kid was not a mediocre student after Freshman year. Not Harvard material, but he managed to get a fair amount of money from some out of state flagships. One solid one gave him enough to be the same price as UVA.

So, there is something to the OOS thing.