DCUM Roll Call... Where is your DC Enrolling?

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Anonymous wrote:University of the Arts, London

Accepted:
Parsons, Pratt, RISD, Syracuse, Tisch

Congratulations! Your DC must be very talented to have those choices.

[Anonymous]

So excited to participate!

Enrolling at Virginia Tech
Accepted at LSU, Towson, JMU, U of Colorado-Boulder, Drexel, UMD, and Baylor
Rejected from Clemson, UF, Auburn and Texas A&M

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Anonymous wrote:Boston College very excited. Turned down Dartmouth and Full Scholarship to Richmond.

Why not Dartmouth?

Dartmouth is too rural, too greek, too cold too small. BC was the right fit and she was awarded Presidential Scholarship to Business School.

Congrats! I have a child at BC. Absolutely loves it!

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Anonymous wrote:University of St Andrews. Wanted to go to a Stoxbridge university but didn’t get into Oxford.

RD, no ED. Yes visited, 9/10.

As a Brit (living in the DC area) I’m fascinated by stoxbridge - in the UK it’s Oxbridge. Is he st for st Andrews? There are other universities in this second tier like Durham Bristol Edinburgh Exeter LSE … Do you know why they’re not appealing to Americans?

Durham: sounds like it’s in North Carolina

Bristol: sounds boring; a city few Americans know of

Edinburgh: you guys pronounce it wrong

Exeter: sounds like a prominent American prep school

LSE: Sounds like it teaches only one subject

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So excited to participate!

Enrolling at Virginia Tech
Accepted at LSU, Towson, JMU, U of Colorado-Boulder, Drexel, UMD, and Baylor
Rejected from Clemson, UF, Auburn and Texas A&M

I'm actually surprised you got into VA Tech but got rejected from Clemson and Auburn. All good schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Stats: 4.5 wgpa; 1530 SAT

Accepted: W&M, UVA, Ohio State, Lehigh, Clemson, Villanova, Florida State, University of Florida, Virginia Tech, Penn State, Tulane, UGA

Waitlists: None

Rejected: University of Pennsylvania

Choosing: University of Florida

Go Gators!

Curious why DC chose UF - that is an amazing list of schools to pick from!

NP (not the pp whose kid chose UF) but if I had that same list I’d either choose UF or Tulane. Love the vibes at both schools and both are excellent schools! UVA and W&M are great too but I’d want to get farther away from home.

Really? I would never chose the school of 35,000 kids over a smaller school.

Ok. I would

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So excited to participate!

Enrolling at Virginia Tech
Accepted at LSU, Towson, JMU, U of Colorado-Boulder, Drexel, UMD, and Baylor
Rejected from Clemson, UF, Auburn and Texas A&M

I'm actually surprised you got into VA Tech but got rejected from Clemson and Auburn. All good schools.

We think that that he signed up for Corps of Cadets really helped. He also applied TO where available. Auburn requires test scores and makes it explicit that they look at GPA, scores, and nothing else. Clemson (which he loved) was a toss-up, I wasn’t too surprised he didn’t get in.

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Anonymous wrote:So excited to participate!

Enrolling at Virginia Tech
Accepted at LSU, Towson, JMU, U of Colorado-Boulder, Drexel, UMD, and Baylor
Rejected from Clemson, UF, Auburn and Texas A&M

I'm actually surprised you got into VA Tech but got rejected from Clemson and Auburn. All good schools.

I’m not. VA tech acceptance rate is around 57% whereas both auburn and Clemson only admit 43-44% of applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stats: 4.5 wgpa; 1530 SAT

Accepted: W&M, UVA, Ohio State, Lehigh, Clemson, Villanova, Florida State, University of Florida, Virginia Tech, Penn State, Tulane, UGA

Waitlists: None

Rejected: University of Pennsylvania

Choosing: University of Florida

Go Gators!

Curious why DC chose UF - that is an amazing list of schools to pick from!

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Anonymous wrote:Stats: 4.5 wgpa; 1530 SAT

Accepted: W&M, UVA, Ohio State, Lehigh, Clemson, Villanova, Florida State, University of Florida, Virginia Tech, Penn State, Tulane, UGA

Waitlists: None

Rejected: University of Pennsylvania

Choosing: University of Florida

Go Gators!

Curious why DC chose UF - that is an amazing list of schools to pick from!

NP (not the pp whose kid chose UF) but if I had that same list I’d either choose UF or Tulane. Love the vibes at both schools and both are excellent schools! UVA and W&M are great too but I’d want to get farther away from home.

Really? I would never chose the school of 35,000 kids over a smaller school.

Ok. I would

Many large schools offer so many clubs and organizations (I think over 700 at UF) that students can easily find ways to make a large school feel smaller (if they want). However, the opposite is often not true (i.e. making a small school feel large).

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Anonymous wrote:So excited to participate!

Enrolling at Virginia Tech
Accepted at LSU, Towson, JMU, U of Colorado-Boulder, Drexel, UMD, and Baylor
Rejected from Clemson, UF, Auburn and Texas A&M

I'm actually surprised you got into VA Tech but got rejected from Clemson and Auburn. All good schools.

I’m not. VA tech acceptance rate is around 57% whereas both auburn and Clemson only admit 43-44% of applicants.

Wow - I did not realize how competitive Clemson has become!

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Anonymous wrote:So excited to participate!

Enrolling at Virginia Tech
Accepted at LSU, Towson, JMU, U of Colorado-Boulder, Drexel, UMD, and Baylor
Rejected from Clemson, UF, Auburn and Texas A&M

I'm actually surprised

you got into VA Tech but got rejected from Clemson and Auburn. All good schools.

I’m not. VA tech acceptance rate is around 57% whereas both auburn and Clemson only admit 43-44% of applicants.

Clemson is much lower than that, around 36 percent.

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Anonymous wrote:Stats: 4.5 wgpa; 1530 SAT

Accepted: W&M, UVA, Ohio State, Lehigh, Clemson, Villanova, Florida State, University of Florida, Virginia Tech, Penn State, Tulane, UGA

Waitlists: None

Rejected: University of Pennsylvania

Choosing: University of Florida

Go Gators!

Curious why DC chose UF - that is an amazing list of schools to pick from!

NP (not the pp whose kid chose UF) but if I had that same list I’d either choose UF or Tulane. Love the vibes at both schools and both are excellent schools! UVA and W&M are great too but I’d want to get farther away from home.

Really? I would never chose the school of 35,000 kids over a smaller school.

Ok. I would

Many large schools offer so many clubs and organizations (I think over 700 at UF) that students can easily find ways to make a large school feel smaller (if they want). However, the opposite is often not true (i.e. making a small school feel large).

In exchange for a non residential campus where it’s difficult to get classes and at Florida in particular, many are prerecorded online. But your kid will have nice weather.

[Anonymous]

Case Western for my kid. Intended math major.
Accepted to UMD, Pitt, UMBC, and Emory
Rejected Brown, UChicago, WashU
1500, 4.0/4.9, many APs and IBs, all 5/7s.
Right now he’s a 3/10 on enthusiasm. Definitely not where he wanted to go. He’s a positive kid by nature, so hoping to generate some excitement over the next few months.

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Anonymous wrote:Case Western for my kid. Intended math major.
Accepted to UMD, Pitt, UMBC, and Emory
Rejected Brown, UChicago, WashU
1500, 4.0/4.9, many APs and IBs, all 5/7s.
Right now he’s a 3/10 on enthusiasm. Definitely not where he wanted to go. He’s a positive kid by nature, so hoping to generate some excitement over the next few months.

If he doesn’t want to attend Case, it looks like he has other excellent options.