College acceptance thread?

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Where did your kid get accepted?

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Nephew accepted at UMD, Brown, Cornell, Middlebury, Penn State, Berkeley (which was done for the heck of it...big surprise), and UVA. Will decide in the next week but I am discouraging UMD only because I think it would be great to have the experience of going away instead of staying local. Of course, local would have been fine if no other options elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Where did your kid get accepted?

Where did you get accepted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nephew accepted at UMD, Brown, Cornell, Middlebury, Penn State, Berkeley (which was done for the heck of it...big surprise), and UVA. Will decide in the next week but I am discouraging UMD only because I think it would be great to have the experience of going away instead of staying local. Of course, local would have been fine if no other options elsewhere.

Nice choices! What does he want to major in?

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Anonymous wrote:Nephew accepted at UMD, Brown, Cornell, Middlebury, Penn State, Berkeley (which was done for the heck of it...big surprise), and UVA. Will decide in the next week but I am discouraging UMD only because I think it would be great to have the experience of going away instead of staying local. Of course, local would have been fine if no other options elsewhere.

Nice choices! What does he want to major in?

Strong interest in neuroscience and probably minor in a long studied foreign language.

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Wouldn't such a thread be a lovely thing? The nastier posters could all tell us why our kids' state schools or SLACs stink, or alternatively why paying for an Ivy education is like throwing money down the toilet.

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Darn, couldn't attach. Just go here, if you care to do so:

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All HBCU's...Spelman, Hampton, Howard and NC A&T. We are actually deciding today.

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Anonymous wrote:All HBCU's...Spelman, Hampton, Howard and NC A&T. We are actually deciding today.

Spelman has some heavyweight alums but too bad there's no grad school.

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Anonymous wrote:All HBCU's...Spelman, Hampton, Howard and NC A&T. We are actually deciding today.

Good luck with decisions! Great your DD has choices.

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UVA, W&M, and Columbia. Denied at Brown. He's probably going to pick Columbia.

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Michigan, Barnard, Kalamazoo

WUSTL and Columbia said "no."

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Anonymous wrote:Michigan, Barnard, Kalamazoo

WUSTL and Columbia said "no."

Interesting, thanks. Did K offer any $?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA, W&M, and Columbia. Denied at Brown. He's probably going to pick Columbia.

DC loves Columbia! It's pretty stressful there - Huffington Post consistently rates it one of the most, or the most, academically stressful schools. But DC has made great friends and loves NYC.

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Could you share stats too?

DD, 3.85 GPA, 33 ACT got accepted to WUSTL, UChicago, NYU, UVA and Cornell. I think she's leaning toward UChicago.