alternates to Georgetown and Yale

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Georgetown is nothing like Yale
2. What???

NP These two places both are favorites of the upper crust.

So random. List what they like about each.

[Anonymous]

For your amusement? No thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For your amusement? No thanks

+1 lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we're a full pay family who is looking for alternatives to my kids dream schools of Harvard, Yale, Georgetown.

boy, high stats, national awards, humanities major.

I guess we'd have a hard time turning down Harvard, etc. But I'd like to skip over the rest of the T20 schools. I'm not sure Georgetown is worth it, but I guess for the SFS. But places like Tufts, BC at 90k makes no sense to me.

Can someone think of some schools with merit aid that might work. In NYS. Binghamton doesn't make his eyes light up, which I get. Doesn't want a SLAC

omg, you are new to the world of college admissions aren't you? Your white privilege is showing. Your kid will be LUCKY to get into a T100. Every single applicant is as, you described "boy, high stats, national awards, humanities major". well, that was my kid but with a 36 ACT, valedictorian, eagle scout, etc. SCEA Princeton deferred/waitlisted; all ivies, waitlisted; public EA: purdue, Ga Tech and UVA all for aerospace engineering.

Honey, you got to drop your expectations, omg "I guess we'd have a hard time turning down Harvard". My DS, legacy, and all that above was waitlisted, i.e., soft rejection, because unlike colleagues I know from Harvard, we could not pay the seven digit fee to get in.

If you are URM or first generation you might have a chance. Otherwise start reading because you are in for a shock

I hate this, “my kid didn’t get in bcs he’s not minority” bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we're a full pay family who is looking for alternatives to my kids dream schools of Harvard, Yale, Georgetown.

boy, high stats, national awards, humanities major.

I guess we'd have a hard time turning down Harvard, etc. But I'd like to skip over the rest of the T20 schools. I'm not sure Georgetown is worth it, but I guess for the SFS. But places like Tufts, BC at 90k makes no sense to me.

Can someone think of some schools with merit aid that might work. In NYS. Binghamton doesn't make his eyes light up, which I get. Doesn't want a SLAC

omg, you are new to the world of college admissions aren't you? Your white privilege is showing. Your kid will be LUCKY to get into a T100. Every single applicant is as, you described "boy, high stats, national awards, humanities major". well, that was my kid but with a 36 ACT, valedictorian, eagle scout, etc. SCEA Princeton deferred/waitlisted; all ivies, waitlisted; public EA: purdue, Ga Tech and UVA all for aerospace engineering.

Honey, you got to drop your expectations, omg "I guess we'd have a hard time turning down Harvard". My DS, legacy, and all that above was waitlisted, i.e., soft rejection, because unlike colleagues I know from Harvard, we could not pay the seven digit fee to get in.

If you are URM or first generation you might have a chance. Otherwise start reading because you are in for a shock

I hate this, “my kid didn’t get in bcs he’s not minority” bullshit.

Agree. My white kid with educated parents got into some T10s. Anyone who believes this is not happening is unhinged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we're a full pay family who is looking for alternatives to my kids dream schools of Harvard, Yale, Georgetown.

boy, high stats, national awards, humanities major.

I guess we'd have a hard time turning down Harvard, etc. But I'd like to skip over the rest of the T20 schools. I'm not sure Georgetown is worth it, but I guess for the SFS. But places like Tufts, BC at 90k makes no sense to me.

Can someone think of some schools with merit aid that might work. In NYS. Binghamton doesn't make his eyes light up, which I get. Doesn't want a SLAC

omg, you are new to the world of college admissions aren't you? Your white privilege is showing. Your kid will be LUCKY to get into a T100. Every single applicant is as, you described "boy, high stats, national awards, humanities major". well, that was my kid but with a 36 ACT, valedictorian, eagle scout, etc. SCEA Princeton deferred/waitlisted; all ivies, waitlisted; public EA: purdue, Ga Tech and UVA all for aerospace engineering.

Honey, you got to drop your expectations, omg "I guess we'd have a hard time turning down Harvard". My DS, legacy, and all that above was waitlisted, i.e., soft rejection, because unlike colleagues I know from Harvard, we could not pay the seven digit fee to get in.

If you are URM or first generation you might have a chance. Otherwise start reading because you are in for a shock

I hate this, “my kid didn’t get in bcs he’s not minority” bullshit.

The PP didn't say that.

In my view, the PP is saying that there are a huge piles of qualified students and chances of getting into these kinds of schools are tiny. There are some factors that can help a student stand out in that pike of outstanding students.....and URM and first gen are two of them. There was no winging that their child didn't get in because of URM, first gen. Their kid didn't get in because the pile is huge and the number of spots is small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we're a full pay family who is looking for alternatives to my kids dream schools of Harvard, Yale, Georgetown.

boy, high stats, national awards, humanities major.

I guess we'd have a hard time turning down Harvard, etc. But I'd like to skip over the rest of the T20 schools. I'm not sure Georgetown is worth it, but I guess for the SFS. But places like Tufts, BC at 90k makes no sense to me.

Can someone think of some schools with merit aid that might work. In NYS. Binghamton doesn't make his eyes light up, which I get. Doesn't want a SLAC

omg, you are new to the world of college admissions aren't you? Your white privilege is showing. Your kid will be LUCKY to get into a T100. Every single applicant is as, you described "boy, high stats, national awards, humanities major". well, that was my kid but with a 36 ACT, valedictorian, eagle scout, etc. SCEA Princeton deferred/waitlisted; all ivies, waitlisted; public EA: purdue, Ga Tech and UVA all for aerospace engineering.

Honey, you got to drop your expectations, omg "I guess we'd have a hard time turning down Harvard". My DS, legacy, and all that above was waitlisted, i.e., soft rejection, because unlike colleagues I know from Harvard, we could not pay the seven digit fee to get in.

If you are URM or first generation you might have a chance. Otherwise start reading because you are in for a shock

I hate this, “my kid didn’t get in bcs he’s not minority” bullshit.

The PP didn't say that.

In my view, the PP is saying that there are a huge piles of qualified students and chances of getting into these kinds of schools are tiny. There are some factors that can help a student stand out in that pike of outstanding students.....and URM and first gen are two of them. There was no winging that their child didn't get in because of URM, first gen. Their kid didn't get in because the pile is huge and the number of spots is small.

IMO, PP is a racist. She even assumes everyone is white. Which is nuts. A kid with national awards is LUCKY to get into a top 100? Cmon. She's the one with the son who SCEA to Princeton as an Eagle Scout valedictorian, not OP.

(Also, PSA: SCEA is a scam. It gives you no leg up at Princeton and knocks out your EA options. All private schools wisely move kids away from that)

[Anonymous]

Wash U, Northwestern and Vanderbilt.

[Anonymous]

Maybe take a look through this:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/20/top-fifty-schools-international-relations-foreign-policy/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For your amusement? No thanks

+1 lol

x10000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:William & Mary?

+1 and UVA.

My son has the same schools on his list--same area of interest.

He knows he's in at UVA and WM, waiting to see what pops up RD. It will be hard to justify $85-90k anywhere now that he has those acceptances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Georgetown is nothing like Yale
2. What???

My thoughts too

This is incorrect. SFS and Yale have a lot of overlap.

Maybe true but not Georgetown as a whole.

She said SFS is the post.

Should we also say Yale has nothing in common with UVA since that was also not in the post?

So many people here feel like they’re REQUIRED to post replies when they’re not willing to read 6 or 7 sentences in the post.

So many non-nothing know-it-alls on this page.

I love the how DARE you think you have a chance when my perfect Eagle Scout son did not. OMG …

+1

NAILED IT. Thank you.

So tired of these transparent "hate on (this school or that school)" threads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is he opposed to a SLAC, particularly as a humanities major?

+1

What are humanities majors at Yale and Georgetown, if not majoring in the liberal arts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe take a look through this:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/20/top-fifty-schools-international-relations-foreign-policy/

+1
My DC used this list in searching for IR options. (also applied other places not on this list).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is he opposed to a SLAC, particularly as a humanities major?

+1

What are humanities majors at Yale and Georgetown, if not majoring in the liberal arts?

I suspect the thing in particular is the S in the SLAC