Where are your kids Getting in?

[Anonymous]

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Why are all these schools so close?


because people in VA think there is VA and then the world. narrow


Most people go to school relatively close to home.


The ones that still have the umbilical cord attached. There is a whole big world out there. Perfect age to enjoy it.

Nothing cracks me up more than UMCP freshman who are 20min from home and spending 13K to live in a moldy leaky can of a dorm.


What is your issue? Why do you care where they go to school? Perhaps they have a financial or medical reason. Maybe they just like it. Maybe they realize these are great schools with incredible academic opportunities. You are contributing nothing to the topic at hand. You really have nothing better to do at 6:30 am than to tell strangers how you laugh at bunch of college students because you think their living conditions are beneath you?

...Not to mention that for many families, these excellent local schools are very affordable! This way, kids can go to college and still have money left for grad school! Why would anyone trash that option?

There is an entire generation of Americans that are saddled with major college debts that they cannot repay. This is a major consideration for MANY families.

That is BS. If people wanted to save money for grad school, they would commute the 20 minute drive, not spend over $10,000 a year to live in a shared dorm. Heck I think it is over $15,000 with meal plan. MORE than tuition.

Or they would go to community college for 2 years ad get their BS for half the price.

Plenty plenty plenty of schools you can attend OOS for less than in-state tuition at UMD and especially all in-state VA schools.

The kids that stay local are doing it because they want the high school 2.0 experience and want their Mommies.

Are you really this much of an idiot IRL?

EXACTLY! I think it shows that the kids are smart, saving money and using an agreeable support system. I am proud of our children and the schools they attend but I would not have minded at all if at least one had stayed here and lived at home. We have some great schools in the DMV!

Why is PP equating "in-state" to "local"? Do you come from a really small state? I went in-state, about a 3-hour drive from home, and only came home for the usual breaks, same as my sister who was an 8-hr drive from home and also in-state because we were in CA. My kids can go farther if they want to but I'd be very happy w/ them going to school in VA for the in-state cost. DS is interested in VT right now and I doubt he'll be popping home all the time with that 4-hour drive! VA is a pretty big state.

Also, most student go to college within a few hours of home. This paper has an interesting analysis of the distance students travel by lots of factors. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ838811.pdf

Higher-achieving kids do tend to go farther (presumably because they have more options) but even then the top median distance is 234 miles.
Higher-income families also can send their kids farther away but in the higher income group (>$150K) the median is 150 miles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So we got our last decision today. What a long, long, long road it has been. We did not target any of elites since grades and test scores were not good enough. We applied widely not knowing what to expect.
We are a public HS in MD with a 3.5 GPA (unweighted) and 1290 SAT, only 1 AP class and several Honors. No exceptional EC's.

High Reach Schools: UMD, Clemson, UConn, Tulane, and Miami - denied at all.

Slight Reach Schools (At least in our view of things): VT, Pitt, Delaware, Miami Ohio, Indiana, Elon - accepted at all. Elon was after EA deferral.

Safeties: Towson, Alabama, South Carolina, Auburn.

Congratulations to your son! Any idea where he will end up? Thank you for posting these stats as my junior’s stats are nearly identical. Hoping to have some upward movement on SAT in late summer / fall, but this is a great benchmark for us. Appreciate it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to show this thread to my thirteen year old son to scare him straight. He wants to go to Stanford and thinks he can balance an acceptance with his fortnite schedule.

Hysterical.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm going to show this thread to my thirteen year old son to scare him straight. He wants to go to Stanford and thinks he can balance an acceptance with his fortnite schedule.

LOL! We had to have a talk with our son last year to let him know that there was no scholarship program at Fortnite University. He seemed intent on getting one.

1240 SAT, 3.5 weighted

Accepted at JMU, Longwood, Radford, small privates in MD

Going to Univ of Louisville with $21K in merit & grant aid. He’s a great kid and excited. And we’re happy to pay under $16K. So glad this process is over.

Awesome! Have you visited Louisville yet? What did you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to show this thread to my thirteen year old son to scare him straight. He wants to go to Stanford and thinks he can balance an acceptance with his fortnite schedule.

LOL! We had to have a talk with our son last year to let him know that there was no scholarship program at Fortnite University. He seemed intent on getting one.

1240 SAT, 3.5 weighted

Accepted at JMU, Longwood, Radford, small privates in MD

Going to Univ of Louisville with $21K in merit & grant aid. He’s a great kid and excited. And we’re happy to pay under $16K. So glad this process is over.

Thank you for this information. DD is about those STATS little higher GPA and little lower SAT (but just look once). She has not looked at Louisville because Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, South Carolina are more popular at our High School but if merit is in the picture and it checks all her boxes, we will certainly take a look!! What major?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to show this thread to my thirteen year old son to scare him straight. He wants to go to Stanford and thinks he can balance an acceptance with his fortnite schedule.

LOL! We had to have a talk with our son last year to let him know that there was no scholarship program at Fortnite University. He seemed intent on getting one.

1240 SAT, 3.5 weighted

Accepted at JMU, Longwood, Radford, small privates in MD

Going to Univ of Louisville with $21K in merit & grant aid. He’s a great kid and excited. And we’re happy to pay under $16K. So glad this process is over.

Awesome! Have you visited Louisville yet? What did you think?

Yes, we visited recently. It was perfectly fine, even on a cold, rainy day. Louisville is a nice little city that is on the move in terms of restaurants and places to go out. Everyone on campus was really nice. It’s clear that there has been a great deal of capital investment. What was most important for me as a parent was that there was diversity of all kinds—family backgrounds, race, religion, political stance. It was all there.
And it’s a 90 minute flight from BWI for $150 round trip. The airport is 10 minutes from school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to show this thread to my thirteen year old son to scare him straight. He wants to go to Stanford and thinks he can balance an acceptance with his fortnite schedule.

LOL! We had to have a talk with our son last year to let him know that there was no scholarship program at Fortnite University. He seemed intent on getting one.

1240 SAT, 3.5 weighted

Accepted at JMU, Longwood, Radford, small privates in MD

Going to Univ of Louisville with $21K in merit & grant aid. He’s a great kid and excited. And we’re happy to pay under $16K. So glad this process is over.

Thank you for this information. DD is about those STATS little higher GPA and little lower SAT (but just look once). She has not looked at Louisville because Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, South Carolina are more popular at our High School but if merit is in the picture and it checks all her boxes, we will certainly take a look!! What major?

DS was accepted into the Honors program, which was a nice plus. There are merit scholarship he has a regional one. Because of his grades and scores AND because we’re from DC, he qualified for $11K each year.
He’s interested in Sports Management. Or Fortnite.

[Anonymous]

^^^ excuse typos The merit scholarship...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wtd GPA 4.03 1280 SAT/29 ACT
Accepted to TCU, Pitt, South Carolina, Purdue, VT and going to JMU (didn't apply to UVa...pronounced, bleeecchhh following campus visit)

Doesn't matter - his or her GPA and scores aren't high enough to get into UVA - not even for the bottom quarter of the incoming class

[Anonymous]

In at Bates, Brandeis, Carleton, Macalester, Kenyon. WL at Haverford.

Attending Carleton.

3.6 UW/4.4 W GPA. 35 ACT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why are all these schools so close?


because people in VA think there is VA and then the world. narrow


Most people go to school relatively close to home.


The ones that still have the umbilical cord attached. There is a whole big world out there. Perfect age to enjoy it.

Nothing cracks me up more than UMCP freshman who are 20min from home and spending 13K to live in a moldy leaky can of a dorm.


What is your issue? Why do you care where they go to school? Perhaps they have a financial or medical reason. Maybe they just like it. Maybe they realize these are great schools with incredible academic opportunities. You are contributing nothing to the topic at hand. You really have nothing better to do at 6:30 am than to tell strangers how you laugh at bunch of college students because you think their living conditions are beneath you?

...Not to mention that for many families, these excellent local schools are very affordable! This way, kids can go to college and still have money left for grad school! Why would anyone trash that option?

There is an entire generation of Americans that are saddled with major college debts that they cannot repay. This is a major consideration for MANY families.

That is BS. If people wanted to save money for grad school, they would commute the 20 minute drive, not spend over $10,000 a year to live in a shared dorm. Heck I think it is over $15,000 with meal plan. MORE than tuition.

Or they would go to community college for 2 years ad get their BS for half the price.

Plenty plenty plenty of schools you can attend OOS for less than in-state tuition at UMD and especially all in-state VA schools.

The kids that stay local are doing it because they want the high school 2.0 experience and want their Mommies.

Are you really this much of an idiot IRL?

EXACTLY! I think it shows that the kids are smart, saving money and using an agreeable support system. I am proud of our children and the schools they attend but I would not have minded at all if at least one had stayed here and lived at home. We have some great schools in the DMV!

It is because mommy can’t bear to be an empty nester and that’s not fair to the child. My DD went off to college and is making lifelong best friends there - let them go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wtd GPA 4.03 1280 SAT/29 ACT
Accepted to TCU, Pitt, South Carolina, Purdue, VT and going to JMU (didn't apply to UVa...pronounced, bleeecchhh following campus visit)

Pronounced lack of qualifications to even apply to UVA...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wtd GPA 4.03 1280 SAT/29 ACT
Accepted to TCU, Pitt, South Carolina, Purdue, VT and going to JMU (didn't apply to UVa...pronounced, bleeecchhh following campus visit)

Pronounced lack of qualifications to even apply to UVA...

Just stop. Even if the student wasn’t likely to be admitted to IVa, they are allowed to dislike it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wtd GPA 4.03 1280 SAT/29 ACT
Accepted to TCU, Pitt, South Carolina, Purdue, VT and going to JMU (didn't apply to UVa...pronounced, bleeecchhh following campus visit)

Doesn't matter - his or her GPA and scores aren't high enough to get into UVA - not even for the bottom quarter of the incoming class

That is very important information for the PP to have, and you must be an extremely kind person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In at Bates, Brandeis, Carleton, Macalester, Kenyon. WL at Haverford.

Attending Carleton.

3.6 UW/4.4 W GPA. 35 ACT.

Congrats. Fantastic school. Invest in a serious coat!