I can't believe my kid got into X college . . .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Balliol College (Oxford)

A bargain at only $56k/yr incl living expenses....

Wow.

What was your kid's selling point?

Same as US schools. Top student and we pay for it.

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Anonymous wrote:Both Yale and Princeton.

I knew she would get in wherever she applied, but we didn't expect to be offered so much in financial incentives.

She turned down both.

Where is she going instead?

University of Florida. They have some kind of honors medical school program. It cuts a year out of the amount of time she'll have to spend in school. She talked with her pediatrician her senior year of high school when she started thinking about medical school. She is the one who pointed her towards the UF program. It's highly competitive, so she may have to go the traditional route in the end. This is a description of the program -

Junior Honors Medical Program offers a fast track to medical school. Students apply to this highly competitive program (12 spaces only) in the second semester of the second year of undergraduate study. If selected, they begin coursework for medical school in the third year and enter the M.D. program in the fourth year. After completion of the first year of medical school, students earn their B.S. degree.
Admission Criteria: 1200 SAT; 3.5 GPA. Apply during sophomore year

She was admitted to the Freshman Honors College and is doing really well, so she is headed in the right direction. I keep waiting for her to change her major.

I should add that we have two other kids in college. Both of them were pretty good students, but not great. We didn't do anything special with this one. No private tutoring or test prep. She is just really smart. She is a National Merit Scholar and graduated with a 4.45 GPA. We knew she would get in to just about any school she wanted to. I have no idea where she gets it - Both DH and I did o.k. in school, but we studied our asses off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both Yale and Princeton.

I knew she would get in wherever she applied, but we didn't expect to be offered so much in financial incentives.

She turned down both.

Where is she going instead?

University of Florida. They have some kind of honors medical school program. It cuts a year out of the amount of time she'll have to spend in school. She talked with her pediatrician her senior year of high school when she started thinking about medical school. She is the one who pointed her towards the UF program. It's highly competitive, so she may have to go the traditional route in the end. This is a description of the program -

Junior Honors Medical Program offers a fast track to medical school. Students apply to this highly competitive program (12 spaces only) in the second semester of the second year of undergraduate study. If selected, they begin coursework for medical school in the third year and enter the M.D. program in the fourth year. After completion of the first year of medical school, students earn their B.S. degree.
Admission Criteria: 1200 SAT; 3.5 GPA. Apply during sophomore year

She was admitted to the Freshman Honors College and is doing really well, so she is headed in the right direction. I keep waiting for her to change her major.

I should add that we have two other kids in college. Both of them were pretty good students, but not great. We didn't do anything special with this one. No private tutoring or test prep. She is just really smart. She is a National Merit Scholar and graduated with a 4.45 GPA. We knew she would get in to just about any school she wanted to. I have no idea where she gets it - Both DH and I did o.k. in school, but we studied our asses off.

That looks like a great program. Good luck to her!

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Anonymous wrote:Not such a coup if you're paying full-freight, which is why your kid got in, btw.

Nasty. NP and DS isn't a college candidate this year, but great schools don't simply accept students just because they can pay the tab. Lots of people who can pay don't get in. Sour grapes are unnecessary.

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Anonymous wrote:William & Mary.

Congratulations.

VA resident?

Top 10%?

Yes to both, we feel like it's like winning the lottery! Yay, in-state tuition!!

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Anonymous wrote:William & Mary.

Congratulations.

VA resident?

Top 10%?

Yes to both, we feel like it's like winning the lottery! Yay, in-state tuition!!

That is awesome but I got the sense that UVA and W&M accepted the top 10% of students from the good va high schools around here. Is that far from the truth, in your experience?

[Anonymous]

That looks like a great program. Good luck to her!

Thanks!

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That looks like a great program. Good luck to her!

Thanks!

I agree-- it's wonderful that your DC did the research to find a program that would fit her needs, rather than just "going for the big name." There are so many colleges out there, and so many innovative programs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not such a coup if you're paying full-freight, which is why your kid got in, btw.

Nasty. NP and DS isn't a college candidate this year, but great schools don't simply accept students just because they can pay the tab. Lots of people who can pay don't get in. Sour grapes are unnecessary.

It's also untrue in my experience. Our ability to pay doesn't seem to have affected our kids' acceptances.

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Anonymous wrote:It's one of the top ivies in the country by most measures including admissions ratios, but I'm uncomfortable outing DC.

How would you be outing your DC? There are 8 Ivys and dozens of kids from DC area schools who have gotten in to each of them. No one would be able to tell it was a specific kid being posted about.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale. Full ride.

Does Yale give "full rides"? I thought they were need blind/full need and didn't give merit aid.

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Anonymous wrote:11:46 probably referring to Cornell

I'm thinking Penn.

Haha. Wrong again. Nice try, only six more to go, so I'm stopping now. You'll just have to suffer in ignorance.

Ther's an Ivy with a higher rate of admission than U Penn? I didn't know that.

When did Penn start going by U Penn? Or is that a DC thing? I get that it is not to confuse it with penn state. But I grew up in Philly and have several family members that went there and everyone just said Penn - except the old waspy types just called it Pennsylvania.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yale. Full ride.

Does Yale give "full rides"? I thought they were need blind/full need and didn't give merit aid.

I thought the same thing. If you fill out the FAFSA and qualify for zero parental contribution and Yale steps up to the plate, well that's a different story.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's one of the top ivies in the country by most measures including admissions ratios, but I'm uncomfortable outing DC.

How would you be outing your DC? There are 8 Ivys and dozens of kids from DC area schools who have gotten in to each of them. No one would be able to tell it was a specific kid being posted about.

Why do you care whether some anonymous poster's kid goes to Columbia or Princeton?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:11:46 probably referring to Cornell

I'm thinking Penn.

Haha. Wrong again. Nice try, only six more to go, so I'm stopping now. You'll just have to suffer in ignorance.

Ther's an Ivy with a higher rate of admission than U Penn? I didn't know that.

When did Penn start going by U Penn? Or is that a DC thing? I get that it is not to confuse it with penn state. But I grew up in Philly and have several family members that went there and everyone just said Penn - except the old waspy types just called it Pennsylvania.

My brother graduated fom Penn 30 years ago. About 90% of the people I've mentioned it to think I'm talking about PSU. I'm from western PA. I guess the people from Philly can keep it straight.