Senior parents - how many applications this cycle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Four.

Two Safeties - UGA and South Carolina
One Likely- UVA
One Reach - UNC

All EA and Accepted at all.

Four-for-four! Excellent and well done!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine applied to 8

3 safeties: accepted with merit
2 reaches: 1 deferred/1 waitlist
3 targets/reaches: accepted w/o merit

I’m impressed your kid so accurately predicted what was a reach/target/safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four.

Two Safeties - UGA and South Carolina
One Likely- UVA
One Reach - UNC

All EA and Accepted at all.

Four-for-four! Excellent and well done!

How did you narrow it down to these four? Counselor, Naviance, something else?
Congratulations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four.

Two Safeties - UGA and South Carolina
One Likely- UVA
One Reach - UNC

All EA and Accepted at all.

Four-for-four! Excellent and well done!

How did you narrow it down to these four? Counselor, Naviance, something else?

Counselor+ Naviance+ youngest in the family… they have been on A LOT of college tours over the past few years and they narrowed the list after visiting older friends at various schools. A narrow list enabled them to focus on building the best application for each school. They did not apply to any school that they would not be thrilled to attend. Honors and merit $$$ have made South Carolina and UGA very attractive.

[Anonymous]

1660, every 4-year American nonprofit college we could find. DH and I started working on the applications in the delivery room a mere 17 years ago since we knew at first glance that our little bundle was going places and we wanted to give every academic institution an equal opportunity to be associated with our little Einstein’s eventual fame and fortune. After cramming as many enrichment activities, volunteer hours, and AP classes in as humanly possible, our little precious is almost ready to launch!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1660, every 4-year American nonprofit college we could find. DH and I started working on the applications in the delivery room a mere 17 years ago since we knew at first glance that our little bundle was going places and we wanted to give every academic institution an equal opportunity to be associated with our little Einstein’s eventual fame and fortune. After cramming as many enrichment activities, volunteer hours, and AP classes in as humanly possible, our little precious is almost ready to launch!

Time typing this = time you will never get back for writing something utterly unoriginal and not the least bit entertaining

[Anonymous]

My son applied to 9 schools, 3 reaches, 2 targets and 4 safeties.

he got in 7 schools. He got in 2 of his reaches which came as an utter shock, got deferred at one target and then pulled his application and got in all his safeties. He got substantial money at his safeties. He’s accepted at one of his targets.

His results were very surprising because he is ranked 30% at his NoVA high school and got in both UVA and UF, which is nearly unheard of at those schools. He declined both. He has absolutely no hooks. He does have one unique skill set and wrote killer essays that were extremely risky and very relatable IF someone didn’t toss them after the first few sentences. I think he benefited tremendously from the wholistic review.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son applied to 9 schools, 3 reaches, 2 targets and 4 safeties.

he got in 7 schools. He got in 2 of his reaches which came as an utter shock, got deferred at one target and then pulled his application and got in all his safeties. He got substantial money at his safeties. He’s accepted at one of his targets.

His results were very surprising because he is ranked 30% at his NoVA high school and got in both UVA and UF, which is nearly unheard of at those schools. He declined both. He has absolutely no hooks. He does have one unique skill set and wrote killer essays that were extremely risky and very relatable IF someone didn’t toss them after the first few sentences. I think he benefited tremendously from the wholistic review.

Congratulations, how do you find out Nova ranking for public?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four.

Two Safeties - UGA and South Carolina
One Likely- UVA
One Reach - UNC

All EA and Accepted at all.

Four-for-four! Excellent and well done!

How did you narrow it down to these four? Counselor, Naviance, something else?

Counselor+ Naviance+ youngest in the family… they have been on A LOT of college tours over the past few years and they narrowed the list after visiting older friends at various schools. A narrow list enabled them to focus on building the best application for each school. They did not apply to any school that they would not be thrilled to attend. Honors and merit $$$ have made South Carolina and UGA very attractive.

Thank you for the reply

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son applied to 9 schools, 3 reaches, 2 targets and 4 safeties.

he got in 7 schools. He got in 2 of his reaches which came as an utter shock, got deferred at one target and then pulled his application and got in all his safeties. He got substantial money at his safeties. He’s accepted at one of his targets.

His results were very surprising because he is ranked 30% at his NoVA high school and got in both UVA and UF, which is nearly unheard of at those schools. He declined both. He has absolutely no hooks. He does have one unique skill set and wrote killer essays that were extremely risky and very relatable IF someone didn’t toss them after the first few sentences. I think he benefited tremendously from the wholistic review.

Congratulations, how do you find out Nova ranking for public?

i’m in loudoun and we still have school rank. I thought he was wasting his time with UVA since they consider school rank important.

[Anonymous]

12. Seems like a lot but we are in D.C. so no State school that would be a guarantee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine applied to 8

3 safeties: accepted with merit
2 reaches: 1 deferred/1 waitlist
3 targets/reaches: accepted w/o merit

I’m impressed your kid so accurately predicted what was a reach/target/safety.

It’s not that hard honestly. My DD did 10. In at 2 safeties, in at 2 targets, rejected 2 reaches (which we expected) waitlisted one target and deferred another target. Waiting on another reach and target - although at this point she doesn’t care about either of them anymore. Shes deciding between her two safeties because she ended up liking them the best! And she got significant merit aid at both. She said “mom I watched you pay off your school loans (I’m a doctor, had significant loans) and I DON’T want to do that too!”

You have to pick a good list. And be ok with T50-T100 schools. Not every kid deserves to be at a T25. Once you accept that the process is pretty easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine applied to 8

3 safeties: accepted with merit
2 reaches: 1 deferred/1 waitlist
3 targets/reaches: accepted w/o merit

I’m impressed your kid so accurately predicted what was a reach/target/safety.

PP here. Yes, she fared about how we expected (tho she would’ve loved to get into a reach). But she not applied to schools she liked. She is now deciding between a safety she loves and one of the target/low reach schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine applied to 8

3 safeties: accepted with merit
2 reaches: 1 deferred/1 waitlist
3 targets/reaches: accepted w/o merit

I’m impressed your kid so accurately predicted what was a reach/target/safety.

It’s not that hard honestly. My DD did 10. In at 2 safeties, in at 2 targets, rejected 2 reaches (which we expected) waitlisted one target and deferred another target. Waiting on another reach and target - although at this point she doesn’t care about either of them anymore. Shes deciding between her two safeties because she ended up liking them the best! And she got significant merit aid at both. She said “mom I watched you pay off your school loans (I’m a doctor, had significant loans) and I DON’T want to do that too!”

You have to pick a good list. And be ok with T50-T100 schools. Not every kid deserves to be at a T25. Once you accept that the process is pretty easy.

I think because they are young and sometimes unsure of things, kids don’t always create such a good list. It might be all over the place or not realistic or schools they don’t like that much. It is hard to create a good list in my opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine applied to 8

3 safeties: accepted with merit
2 reaches: 1 deferred/1 waitlist
3 targets/reaches: accepted w/o merit

I’m impressed your kid so accurately predicted what was a reach/target/safety.

It’s not that hard honestly. My DD did 10. In at 2 safeties, in at 2 targets, rejected 2 reaches (which we expected) waitlisted one target and deferred another target. Waiting on another reach and target - although at this point she doesn’t care about either of them anymore. Shes deciding between her two safeties because she ended up liking them the best! And she got significant merit aid at both. She said “mom I watched you pay off your school loans (I’m a doctor, had significant loans) and I DON’T want to do that too!”

You have to pick a good list. And be ok with T50-T100 schools. Not every kid deserves to be at a T25. Once you accept that the process is pretty easy.

I think because they are young and sometimes unsure of things, kids don’t always create such a good list. It might be all over the place or not realistic or schools they don’t like that much. It is hard to create a good list in my opinion.

Sure, but presumably parents guide their kids? It’s only hard if you are out to lunch. My kid and I sat down and looked over many options and created a spreadsheet with stats and merit potential and his intended major. We then looked closely at the scattergrams for our school and he chose from that. He applied to 9 schools, got in 7, declined at one and deferred at one.

Hopefully parents are helping their kid create the list. You also have to be involved because of money. You don’t want your kid getting all jazzed up about a school that costs 90K/yr and not be able to actually afford that. In my kids case, he had 50k/yr to spend and when we went though all the schools he had to keep in mind merit money if the school was over 50K and if there wasn’t merit was he willing to take on loans. This is really their first adult lesson in finances responsibility.