Today's Acceptances - which schools

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Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore! Yeesh, glad that’s over.

Congratulations! Terrific school - several friends attended and loved!

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Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore! Yeesh, glad that’s over.

Congrats! Care to share stats and ECs?

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Anonymous wrote:West Point. That was a long and complicated process.

Congrats! VA?

Congrats also! But I'm confused. I know someone applying; I thought the deadline was in January. Is it rolling admissions?

The WP admissions specifically says that there are no rolling admissions and the deadline is January 31st. Maybe PP meant their DC got all their requirements in?

Yes offer of admission and accepted to USMA. DS had a Letter of Assurance (LOA) in July - guarantee of admission if you pass physical, physical fitness test and get nomination. USMA uses LIA much more than other academies. They have already offered admission to about 50 kids. And yes - VA Congressional nomination.

What kind of stats does one need to gain admission to USMA?

I am not sure of the averages and academic is only 60 percent of application we were told. To get the Letter of Assurance DS had 1550 SAT and 4,2 GPA weighted from STEM HS. It was a very confusing process and took a long time. For interested kids, apply to summer program Junior year.

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Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore! Yeesh, glad that’s over.

Congrats! Care to share stats and ECs?

Thanks! She’s thrilled. All A’s and took every AP class they would allow. Tons of ECs that demonstrated how she kept very busy but nothing of national/international note.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone comment on accepted or denied EA students to Stanford? What kinds of high schools and stats?

I know of a local private school kid. Both parents went there and have made multi-millon dollar gifts. Smart kid, don't mean to diminish he accomplishments, but...

Rejected...Our son has a 4.85/4.0 at a VA Governor's STEM School. 1550 SAT/ 35 ACT, 8 varsity letter's, captainship in one. Has dedicated over 700 hours of community service to include youth advisory board of the largest youth volunteer organization in our area. Club sports at the highest level and all of the other obligatory clubs...National, Spanish, Science and Math Honor Society as well as Special Olympics Committee. Reality is these schools are a crapshoot, can't get mad if you don't make it.

Top schools aren’t actually looking for all this club sports stuff, honor society this and that and endless committee memberships. Unless kid is an Olympic athlete or likely pro player. What they are looking for is passion, high achievement and exceptional aptitude for his or her chosen area of study, whatever that is.
High test scores are expected but they’re not an ‘achievement’ - they’re just a box to check.

If your child enjoys volunteering 700 hours while being on 8 sports teams and 10 clubs and committees while taking 8 AP classes or whatever then great. Seems like too much to me but people should do what they want. But he shouldn’t do that stuff to ‘get into college’.

Your kid can still develop into a great person while volunteering fewer hours and being in less clubs. How is your kid not burned out with all this??

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Anonymous wrote:In at UChicago, ED
MCPS public (nonmagnet) 3.96 uw, 35 ACT, 3 APs
Co-captain 2 clubs. 250 service hours
#1 in national academic competitions
No hooks

A happy household

Congratulations! Any merit received, or does that come later?

Thanks everyone. Its a bit overwhelming. Like the other poster, when I saw the jump in the number of applications coupled with the fact that UC needed extra time to process all the ED/EA applications, I was sure DC would not get in.

I doubt there will be any merit aid- DC applied ED. But we planned for this and saved so DC could have the option to go where ever. A big gift, I know, but we will be fine, even though we do not have what would be considered high incomes around the DMV.

I'm trying not to out DC on this public board, but I guess some can figure it out who it is, just as I have in the past from other postings. As an obsessive reader of this board and occasional poster, its been nice to hear the positive comments. Thanks!

UC is one of the best for financial aid. Congrats, hope your child likes it. Hope next year is way better than this year. We have a junior there now.

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Congrats on UChicago - such a terrific school. My son's best friend is ED there also - she is so excited.

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DD was accepted to Pepperdine today

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Congrats!!

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Anonymous wrote:DD was accepted to Pepperdine today

Any merit aid?

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Anonymous wrote:DD was accepted to Pepperdine today

Any merit aid?

The email said merit will be communicated via separate email by January 20. So still waiting on that. She has some solid merit offers already on the table, curious to see where she lands with Pepperdine.

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University of New Hampshire

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Anonymous wrote:University of New Hampshire

Congrats! Looks like a beautiful campus and area! Go Wildcats!! My DC will be a wildcat at another school!

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Anonymous wrote:University of New Hampshire

Congrats! Looks like a beautiful campus and area! Go Wildcats!! My DC will be a wildcat at another school!

It is beautiful! Thank you and good luck to your Wildcat, too. Villanova?

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Anonymous wrote:University of New Hampshire

Congrats! Looks like a beautiful campus and area! Go Wildcats!! My DC will be a wildcat at another school!

It is beautiful! Thank you and good luck to your Wildcat, too. Villanova?

Davidson