Our Current Situation - Not thrilled

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP Here and I can add more deferrals:

Ga Tech, Madison

and a rejection (which was anticipated): UT Austin

I really appreciate all the constructive comments. It is helpful. He is happy with Pitt and Ga Tech is number 1 choice if it turns into an acceptance. Boulder now off the table bc he does not want exploratory studies for that tuition.

Waiting on:
Rice
UVA
Duke
U Washington

I bet Madison is another yield protection. They know your kid will have better options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP Here and I can add more deferrals:

Ga Tech, Madison

and a rejection (which was anticipated): UT Austin

I really appreciate all the constructive comments. It is helpful. He is happy with Pitt and Ga Tech is number 1 choice if it turns into an acceptance. Boulder now off the table bc he does not want exploratory studies for that tuition.

Waiting on:
Rice
UVA
Duke
U Washington

I bet Madison is another yield protection. They know your kid will have better options.

It's not "yield protection," it's CS. There are way, way too many highly qualified candidates chasing way, way too few seats at the same set of schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP Here and I can add more deferrals:

Ga Tech, Madison

and a rejection (which was anticipated): UT Austin

I really appreciate all the constructive comments. It is helpful. He is happy with Pitt and Ga Tech is number 1 choice if it turns into an acceptance. Boulder now off the table bc he does not want exploratory studies for that tuition.

Waiting on:
Rice
UVA
Duke
U Washington

Rice & Duke are almost certainly a No because you screwed up your rec letters. Your counselor or someone should have told you that you need Recs from a STEM and a humanities teacher...not two STEM teachers. Even MIT requires this (in fairness, they are at least explicit).

U Washington only takes 3% OOS, so that one is tough.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, what are the numbers on girls in BSA??

Answer: We are now almost 1.1 million overall and growing steadily. About 27% of our membership is female at this point. It is clear that at the Scouts BSA age (11-17) we are overtaking GSUSA because their business model does not well-serve girls past 5th grade and fact that the older girls are drawn to our aggressive outdoor program. We are working on the younger age program to crack open the girl market effectively. Look for the ability to form girl cub dens on their own without having to be part of a "pack". Things like that will make things easier to organize our Cub girl program. Good things coming for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP Here and I can add more deferrals:

Ga Tech, Madison

and a rejection (which was anticipated): UT Austin

I really appreciate all the constructive comments. It is helpful. He is happy with Pitt and Ga Tech is number 1 choice if it turns into an acceptance. Boulder now off the table bc he does not want exploratory studies for that tuition.

Waiting on:
Rice
UVA
Duke
U Washington

Rice & Duke are almost certainly a No because you screwed up your rec letters. Your counselor or someone should have told you that you need Recs from a STEM and a humanities teacher...not two STEM teachers. Even MIT requires this (in fairness, they are at least explicit).

U Washington only takes 3% OOS, so that one is tough.

In re rec letters, yes. My kids had this drilled into their heads. Was a struggle for DD as she had been on a semester away program junior fall and, while an A student, was not confident about the recs she would get from the spring semester STEM teachers (one was due to a stupid Zoom screw up on the last day of class). All worked out but whenever we made suggestions about going this way or that way, she would nearly scream at us, "IT HAS TO BE ONE STEM, ONE HUMANITIES."

[Anonymous]

Why not go to PITT? It’s a great school. My “loser” DD is going with her her 1400 SAT. 😜😂😂😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP Here and I can add more deferrals:

Ga Tech, Madison

and a rejection (which was anticipated): UT Austin

I really appreciate all the constructive comments. It is helpful. He is happy with Pitt and Ga Tech is number 1 choice if it turns into an acceptance. Boulder now off the table bc he does not want exploratory studies for that tuition.

Waiting on:
Rice
UVA
Duke
U Washington

Rice & Duke are almost certainly a No because you screwed up your rec letters. Your counselor or someone should have told you that you need Recs from a STEM and a humanities teacher...not two STEM teachers. Even MIT requires this (in fairness, they are at least explicit).

U Washington only takes 3% OOS, so that one is tough.

Is this true even if you're an engineering major? DS asked calc and physics teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP Here and I can add more deferrals:

Ga Tech, Madison

and a rejection (which was anticipated): UT Austin

I really appreciate all the constructive comments. It is helpful. He is happy with Pitt and Ga Tech is number 1 choice if it turns into an acceptance. Boulder now off the table bc he does not want exploratory studies for that tuition.

Waiting on:
Rice
UVA
Duke
U Washington

Rice & Duke are almost certainly a No because you screwed up your rec letters. Your counselor or someone should have told you that you need Recs from a STEM and a humanities teacher...not two STEM teachers. Even MIT requires this (in fairness, they are at least explicit).

U Washington only takes 3% OOS, so that one is tough.

Is this true even if you're an engineering major? DS asked calc and physics teacher

Yes, it is.

[Anonymous]

No one told my son about 1 rec from humanities and 1 from stem except at schools that explicitly stated it. Thanks FCPS counselors.

[Anonymous]

I called Rice and they said one physics and one comp sci recommendation was perfect and if they required the other they would have put that in the instructions. Stop scaring people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all OP, this is extremely rude. There are so many students who have worked so hard and every bit as capable as your child (boy or girl? Who knows?) who do not have these acceptances. Second of all, what kind of high school are we talking about? GPAs vary so much and the top ranked college programs know that a 4.0 at one school—especially one that calls more than the top 1% the top 1%, that makes no sense—is very different than a more rigorous school. Your kid has great choices. Stop making him or her feel bad.

Why are you and some of the rest such as--holes. OP is allowed to be disappointed. OP is allowed to vent. These kids kill themselves for 4 years in the hopes that they'll get into dream schools. Your kids do it too. All kids do it. When that doesn't happen, some roll with it. Some are upset. And there is nothing bad about that. (And yes, parent feelings are valid. We are the ones watching them kill themselves).

If you don't have something constructive to say. If you can't empathize nicely. Then just shut the EF up. I'm sick of the piling on, nasty, judgmental responses to valid feelings on here.

+1. Me too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe Purdue didn't accept your kid.

I can’t either. I’m from Indiana too. Sheesh. What on earth is Purdue doing or giving out these days? My brother went there. So do half of my school and they were never your son.

[Anonymous]

My kid got deferred from Madison. They really are focusing on accepting in- state students. They offer Minnesota residents in-state tuition too, and consider them in-state.

[Anonymous]

Madison CS is stuffed to the brim and overflowing. Great program but CROWDED. I wouldn't be too upset about this deferral and I wouldn't be too excited about an admission. Apparently you declare a CS major later and there is currently no cap on the program. You can get much better experiences elsewhere where the number of kids is limited. Seems like EVERYONE wants to do CS these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe Purdue didn't accept your kid.

Purdue CS