Rejected from Chicago, Northwestern, Williams, Vanderbilt...

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people so toxic on this board? The negativity and hatefulness is extraordinary. Root for people to succeed and not to fail.

Why would I be hoping for an eleventh hour miracle for a person who, by her own mother's description, sounds like she desperately needs the universe to teach her a hard lesson? I'm not rooting for her to fail. I'm rooting for her to have an experience that allows her to enter adulthood as a more empathetic and mature person.

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Is she eligible for military service?

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Anonymous wrote:If she has her heart set on going to one of these schools she will need to do something remarkable during her gap year......not just work a 9-5 job. It will be an interesting opportunity to strengthen her application for next year.

Yes, she must cure AIDS, single-handedly save a 3rd world country, and invent some form of new energy

What cracks me up is being an admissions officer takes what kind of education?

NP. Why eye roll and snark? PP has a really good point. Someone who got shut out of all the schools to which she applied one year is NOT going to get into those the next year unless something in her application changes significantly. Which means she WILL have to do something remarkable. I'm not sure why you are objecting to that.

Plus, most kids get accepted to their school of choice, communicate with the school, and THEN do the gap year. Like Malia Obama. Doing a gap year and then applying to schools she didn't get into the first time around seems really silly.

Check out that list a PP posted. Now, your daughter might think herself above any of the schools on the list, but there are plenty of good, USNWR top 100 schools on there she can still apply to.

She's 18. How freaking remarkable must a kid be? My GOD, if the things demanded of kids today fell on the backs of adults in the workplace, there would be a collective freak out!

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Applying to all 8 Ivys only that you prioritize image & prestige above all else. Some of these schools are very different from each other in very substantial ways.

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Anonymous wrote:Applying to all 8 Ivys only SHOWS that you prioritize image & prestige above all else. Some of these schools are very different from each other in very substantial ways.

^ fixed it.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, UChicago went from a >60% admission rate when DD was born to an <8% admissions rate the year she was accepted!

A lot of it is due to the yuge increase in foreign applicants, especially the Chinese.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy Day isn't going to go so well for my DD, is it? She didn't apply to any safeties. Only Ivies and Duke remain.

Wow op... DC didn't know about importance of safeties?

She did. Just refused to submit an app to a place she'd never attend.

Just wanted to point out there are all kinds of "safeties" out there. I agree with your daughter, I didn't want to apply someplace I wouldn't want to attend, so for my safety was the University of Washington, which didn't even require an essay and had a pretty high acceptance rate back in the day, and where I was a legacy. I'm pretty sure being from the east coast also helped. In the end, I did get into my first choice, but truth is my first choice and my safety were the only two schools (out of six) that I got in to.

Safety school doesn't have to mean GMU or NOVA or Radford etc. It can mean any school you think you are likely to get in to! Think outside the box.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy Day isn't going to go so well for my DD, is it? She didn't apply to any safeties. Only Ivies and Duke remain.

Wow op... DC didn't know about importance of safeties?

She did. Just refused to submit an app to a place she'd never attend.

Just wanted to point out there are all kinds of "safeties" out there. I agree with your daughter, I didn't want to apply someplace I wouldn't want to attend, so for my safety was the University of Washington, which didn't even require an essay and had a pretty high acceptance rate back in the day, and where I was a legacy. I'm pretty sure being from the east coast also helped. In the end, I did get into my first choice, but truth is my first choice and my safety were the only two schools (out of six) that I got in to.

Safety school doesn't have to mean GMU or NOVA or Radford etc. It can mean any school you think you are likely to get in to! Think outside the box.

Whoa Nelly, you must be ancient. GMU turned down four students at my son's school who REALLY wanted it. One got in the Honors program, the rest rejected.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. I do.

Then you are extremely naive.

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I recommend gap year to all kids, and especially so in this example. Reapply in August with semester 7 and 8 grades, and the better test score. She also has time to sit for SAT again in June, if she wanted. I'd ride her to finish strong this semester, which is tough when everyone else is checked out and in senior-itis mode.

In the end she'll enter a college she actually wants to attend and be a year more mature when she begins.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy Day isn't going to go so well for my DD, is it? She didn't apply to any safeties. Only Ivies and Duke remain.

Wow op... DC didn't know about importance of safeties?

She did. Just refused to submit an app to a place she'd never attend.

Just wanted to point out there are all kinds of "safeties" out there. I agree with your daughter, I didn't want to apply someplace I wouldn't want to attend, so for my safety was the University of Washington, which didn't even require an essay and had a pretty high acceptance rate back in the day, and where I was a legacy. I'm pretty sure being from the east coast also helped. In the end, I did get into my first choice, but truth is my first choice and my safety were the only two schools (out of six) that I got in to.

Safety school doesn't have to mean GMU or NOVA or Radford etc. It can mean any school you think you are likely to get in to! Think outside the box.

Whoa Nelly, you must be ancient. GMU turned down four students at my son's school who REALLY wanted it. One got in the Honors program, the rest rejected.

For the girl who only applied to Ivies, I would think GMU could be considered a safety.

Obviously one person's safety will not be another's.

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Did OP ever report back with final results?

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Anonymous wrote:Did OP ever report back with final results?

There was a poster who was claiming to be the OP but I could not confirm that it was. That poster has posted several times about how a gap year would be a good choice. If that poster is, in fact, the OP, it would seem that the student was not admitted anywhere and is being encouraged to take a gap year. Or, that poster could simply have been a troll. At any rate, it looks like nothing more will come of this thread so I will lock it.