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Anonymous
| For those accepted ED with no score, it would be helpful to know if the student is an athlete, URM, or similarly desired applicant. Also, the school name or selectivity of it would be helpful. |
Anonymous
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DD accepted to 9 out of 9 schools so far. Waiting for UVA (not likely).
No scores, 3.7 UW, 4.3 W, strong extracurriculars, recommendations, etc Baltimore private school UMD Freshman Connection Elon Thomas Jefferson James Madison U of Delaware Charleston USC Penn State Miami U - Ohio |
Anonymous
Congrats! Lots of excellent choices. Only possible lingering doubt with no rejections becomes “did we shoot high enough?” We were actually kinda relieved when our son got a reach rejection. Made us feel we’d targeted his schools properly. (Way better than the opposite problem of course.) |
Anonymous
Not the poster that you responded to, but we are in this boat with our son. He was in a funk when we started the process and didn't have strong feelings about schools. He also thought he would be fine staying in-state (which of course is better financially). He picked schools that seemed to be appropriate based on Naviance but we didn't push him. With two applications still outstanding, he has gotten into every school he applied to with decent merit money. We too were wondering if we should have encouraged him to have more reaches. Still, the Freshman Connection and Letters and Sciences major at Maryland is akin to a rejection. It is twisted, but like you, a part of me wants at least one of the remaining schools to be a rejection just to assure us that the targets were appropriate. |
Anonymous
Definitely aimed too low |
Anonymous
| ^^^Another way to look at this is that the colleges that accepted your DC and offered merit really want your son (or his scores, but still). The point is he can be an appreciated, bigger fish in a smaller pond. Our DD wants to go to law school after college. So for her, going match rather than “reach” gives her substantial merit aid, honors program and other perks, and may leave her less burnt out (and with more $ in her pocket) for when she has to throw down the gauntlet in law school. |
Anonymous
Not necessarily a bad thing. We're seeing a lot of kids straight out rejected from elites and the tier below. Feels a lot different in the house when you're seeing kids having great success around you and you're stuck with rejections. |
Anonymous
She didn't look at it as aiming low. We needed merit aid and she preferred not to stay in-state so she aimed for schools she knew would give her good merit aid and she could shine. She is very happy so far and we as parents are supporting her choices and of course relieved that many of the schools she chose are affordable. |
Anonymous
+1 I want to be your friend. I posted above about my DS and we, as a family, took the same approach, which was not aim for the stars, but aim for what is a good fit, realistic academically and financially, and won't leave him with crushing student loan debt when he graduates. Even so, I keep doubting myself as I hear about other acceptances. Glad to hear from others of like mind. |
Anonymous
I don’t see FC as a rejection at all. Lots of smart kids start that way. My D got L&S Scholars program. |
Anonymous
Good to know. My child took it as a rejection, but I'm trying to explain why it isn't. However, I am interested in finding out how difficult it is to internally transfer into an LEP from L&S. Is it basically automatic if you get acceptable grades in the gateway classes? |
Anonymous
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Our kid didn’t submit scores. 3.8 unweighted GPA (private school), good ECs and essays. It’s been “Deferral City” at our house.... I thought we would know a lot more now given how many EA applications submitted.
Some of the Admissions Directors are basically saying that they didn’t have time to read all the EA applications because the numbers are up so much (and I’m sure they take more time because they can’t filter as many out based on test scores). |
Anonymous
Is USC U of Southern California? |
Anonymous
4.53 W GPA and 4.0 UW. 12 AP classes all 5s and 4s, including AP Spanish (so six years of foreign language). Good ECs and leadership roles. Won a county-wide scholarship contest to study abroad. Strong essay and good refs Nothing out of the ordinary in other words. She got 1460 on SAT but decided not to include. |
Anonymous
Great stats. The only Brown admittees I know were URM. |