Got in here; rejected there

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Troll

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In at Harvard, MIT, Princeton and UPenn. Rejected at VA Tech, JMU and Coastal Carolina.

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Anonymous wrote:DD and 1 other student from her HS: IN at a not-to-be-named OOS university. They were the only two, from her HS that applied and both got in. Other student got into the university's Honors College, DD was denied that. DD received merit aid of 1/2 off the tuition, for 4 years, other student did not. And it was a merit scholarship. It was not based on financial need.

Which proves the point about what honors colleges are and how they use them. They attract some students with money and others with honors, and they are guessing which will be most important to entice you to accept.

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Anonymous wrote:In at Harvard, MIT, Princeton and UPenn. Rejected at VA Tech, JMU and Coastal Carolina.

Damn

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In at Harvard, MIT, Princeton and UPenn. Rejected at VA Tech, JMU and Coastal Carolina.

Damn

LOL!

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My friend's daughter got in to Cornell but rejected UMich (OOS) - I was surprised but don't really know the stats. Michigan very popular in DMV which always cracks up my friends who grew up there and wanted anywhere but there!

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Everybody and their mother getting into Cornell

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Just to counter the nasty posters.

As the parent of a rising senior I appreciate these examples. Other readers are free to choose to not click.

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Accepted Carnegie Mellon, UMich, Rice. Rejected Northeastern, Case Western for COE.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend's daughter got in to Cornell but rejected UMich (OOS) - I was surprised but don't really know the stats. Michigan very popular in DMV which always cracks up my friends who grew up there and wanted anywhere but there!

Michigan native and same! In fact, many from my Michigan HS went there and they weren’t All Stars. They were above average middle class public school kids. This was early 2000s

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Anonymous wrote:In at Dartmouth; rejected from Georgetown (which we thought was a safety!)

There is no planet where Georgetown is a safety.

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There were something like 90,000 applications to Michigan this year.

20,000 of them were in state. For the instate applications, they are filling 4,000 seats.

70,000 of them were OOS. For the OOS applicants, they are filling 4,000 seats.

Do the math for OOS as compared to the other highly selective schools.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend's daughter got in to Cornell but rejected UMich (OOS) - I was surprised but don't really know the stats. Michigan very popular in DMV which always cracks up my friends who grew up there and wanted anywhere but there!

….and it probably was reflected in her essays. Thus the rejection.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS

In at U Michigan and UNC, Rejected at UVA and waitlisted at William & Mary

Similar results for DC's close friend from FCPS. In at UMichigan and W&M, waitlisted at Dartmouth, rejected at UVA, Stanford, and Harvard. Attending W&M.

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Anonymous wrote:Everybody and their mother getting into Cornell

Acceptance rate is 6.8% https://www.collegevine.com/questions/28020/cornell-s-admitted-today-that-it-offered-4908-admission-this-cycle-or-6-9-a-record-low, so not quite everybody.