So much disappointment this week

[Anonymous]

1600 denied almost everywhere
Accepted:

UT Austin University of North Carolina Boston College University of Georgia

Waitlisted:

Wake Forest Case Western Reserve Vanderbilt UChicago UVA

Denied:

Harvard Yale Northwestern Cornell Duke USC Rice WashU Emory

In the end, UT Austin was my top choice so I’m happy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1600 denied almost everywhere
Accepted:

UT Austin University of North Carolina Boston College University of Georgia

Waitlisted:

Wake Forest Case Western Reserve Vanderbilt UChicago UVA

Denied:

Harvard Yale Northwestern Cornell Duke USC Rice WashU Emory

In the end, UT Austin was my top choice so I’m happy

If you presented with a perfect test score as the main reason for admittance, you were given poor advice. That is not how to get into those schools in that list. Those school reject almost every student that applies.

This list of acceptances is impressive as those school also reject the large majorityof the students that apply.

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Anonymous wrote:Blair mom poster here. I know that folks assume that Covid instruction wasn't all "that" during the Zoom year. But - at least for mine - she managed to end the year taking a UMD mutivariable calculus exam and score an A on it so that if she were to go to UMD, she would be able to start there at a higher level and not retake the class. So, it's not like the teens sat around doing nothing...

I agree with the other poster that I think the LAC's don't necessarily understand the Blair magnet program or believe that the students there could actually want them as a first choice (which mine did).

And she certainly was on camera communicating during her ASL class !

If it is her first choice, why didn’t she apply ED? Isn’t ED a strong indicator of first choice?

I agree with this. She should’ve figured out which school was her first choice.

I'm the other Blair parent, and we can't afford ED. Even w/ NPC, there were too many variables with home value (Brown dropped this when it was too late for us). Also, we need to compare FA. So, ED was not an option. On the bright side, everything she's gotten so far has been on the lower end of the NPC calculations.

Here's hoping for at least to more to Brown from Blair!

That doesn’t make sense. You can run the NPC before applying and also back out of ED if you can’t afford it.

Not everyone can afford what the NPC states you should be able to afford. You just can't back out of ED because you can't afford what the NPC states so if in that situation ED wont work for your family

You wouldn’t be able to afford it in RD either. So you would need to pick a different school either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The NPC are not possible for many doughnut hole families and we need to compare aid offers. ED favors the wealthy and has really changed college admissions. I respect the schools who don’t do it but instead of have only non- binding early admissions.

This is only true if you are counting on holistic based merit. The schools on this thread generally don’t offer merit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1600 denied almost everywhere
Accepted:

UT Austin University of North Carolina Boston College University of Georgia

Waitlisted:

Wake Forest Case Western Reserve Vanderbilt UChicago UVA

Denied:

Harvard Yale Northwestern Cornell Duke USC Rice WashU Emory

In the end, UT Austin was my top choice so I’m happy

Every. Single. One. of the 1600 kids at my kid's high school in the last five years was rejected by Harvard and Princeton. One got into Yale.

There's more to a kid than a test score. Lots of high-scoring kids are disappointed, especially this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1600 denied almost everywhere
Accepted:

UT Austin University of North Carolina Boston College University of Georgia

Waitlisted:

Wake Forest Case Western Reserve Vanderbilt UChicago UVA

Denied:

Harvard Yale Northwestern Cornell Duke USC Rice WashU Emory

In the end, UT Austin was my top choice so I’m happy

UNC is fabulous!! Great choices. Your DC will do fine!! Congratulations!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The NPC are not possible for many doughnut hole families and we need to compare aid offers. ED favors the wealthy and has really changed college admissions. I respect the schools who don’t do it but instead of have only non- binding early admissions.

What is a donut hole family?

Term DCUM uses to describe families who don’t get financial aid from elite schools, but can still afford to pay full price at expensive state schools like W&M, UMich etc

No, term is used widely. https://www.marketplace.org/2021/01/27/finding-affordable-college-merit-scholarship-need-based-aid-fafsa-full-tuition-ron-lieber/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1600 denied almost everywhere
Accepted:

UT Austin University of North Carolina Boston College University of Georgia

Waitlisted:

Wake Forest Case Western Reserve Vanderbilt UChicago UVA

Denied:

Harvard Yale Northwestern Cornell Duke USC Rice WashU Emory

In the end, UT Austin was my top choice so I’m happy

Are you the student?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blair mom poster here. I know that folks assume that Covid instruction wasn't all "that" during the Zoom year. But - at least for mine - she managed to end the year taking a UMD mutivariable calculus exam and score an A on it so that if she were to go to UMD, she would be able to start there at a higher level and not retake the class. So, it's not like the teens sat around doing nothing...

I agree with the other poster that I think the LAC's don't necessarily understand the Blair magnet program or believe that the students there could actually want them as a first choice (which mine did).

And she certainly was on camera communicating during her ASL class !

If it is her first choice, why didn’t she apply ED? Isn’t ED a strong indicator of first choice?

I agree with this. She should’ve figured out which school was her first choice.

I'm the other Blair parent, and we can't afford ED. Even w/ NPC, there were too many variables with home value (Brown dropped this when it was too late for us). Also, we need to compare FA. So, ED was not an option. On the bright side, everything she's gotten so far has been on the lower end of the NPC calculations.

Here's hoping for at least to more to Brown from Blair!

That doesn’t make sense. You can run the NPC before applying and also back out of ED if you can’t afford it.

Not everyone can afford what the NPC states you should be able to afford. You just can't back out of ED because you can't afford what the NPC states so if in that situation ED wont work for your family

You wouldn’t be able to afford it in RD either. So you would need to pick a different school either way.

You can back out of ED for financial reasons, but that's the only reason. I don't know how that's determined, but that's what I'm told by our high school counselor.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but parents crying over this?

Really, that cannot be helping their children cope at all.

I think the parents posted that they cried away from their children.

I completely get parents crying when their child gets rejected from a first choice school. We all hate to see our beautiful children hurt or disappointed, but in this case, there is zero we can do about it except support our children. But it's painful for the parents too! We love our children and are so proud of how accomplished they are. I'm truly amazed by my child and can't understand why she hasn't received the Nobel by now! Of course we know our kids will be fine at their third or seventh choice college and this momentary pain will be forgotten. But don't think it doesn't hurt.

Sorry, but this just tells me you have not known true hardship, as a parent: your kid getting cancer or attempting suicide, for example.

The fact that they may need to attend a college that has a lower ranking in USNWR...is just not tragic or awful. It isn't.

If a teen does not realize that, the adult who is their role model should.

You have no freakin idea what I as a parent have endured. None whatsoever.

STFU.

[Anonymous]

My DD at Blair (very similar to your kids in terms of grades, etc) also didn't get into her top schools. It was a tough year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The NPC are not possible for many doughnut hole families and we need to compare aid offers. ED favors the wealthy and has really changed college admissions. I respect the schools who don’t do it but instead of have only non- binding early admissions.

+1 I see it as an advantage for the wealthy who can pay $80,000 a year. As I looked through Common Data Sets for various schools, I noticed that acceptance rates are 40-50% in ED when the overall acceptance might be 20-30%. Quite a difference.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blair mom poster here. I know that folks assume that Covid instruction wasn't all "that" during the Zoom year. But - at least for mine - she managed to end the year taking a UMD mutivariable calculus exam and score an A on it so that if she were to go to UMD, she would be able to start there at a higher level and not retake the class. So, it's not like the teens sat around doing nothing...

I agree with the other poster that I think the LAC's don't necessarily understand the Blair magnet program or believe that the students there could actually want them as a first choice (which mine did).

And she certainly was on camera communicating during her ASL class !

If it is her first choice, why didn’t she apply ED? Isn’t ED a strong indicator of first choice?

I agree with this. She should’ve figured out which school was her first choice.

I'm the other Blair parent, and we can't afford ED. Even w/ NPC, there were too many variables with home value (Brown dropped this when it was too late for us). Also, we need to compare FA. So, ED was not an option. On the bright side, everything she's gotten so far has been on the lower end of the NPC calculations.

Here's hoping for at least to more to Brown from Blair!

That doesn’t make sense. You can run the NPC before applying and also back out of ED if you can’t afford it.

Not everyone can afford what the NPC states you should be able to afford. You just can't back out of ED because you can't afford what the NPC states so if in that situation ED wont work for your family

You wouldn’t be able to afford it in RD either. So you would need to pick a different school either way.

You found get merit or a scholarship…so one might afford it in RD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1600 denied almost everywhere
Accepted:

UT Austin University of North Carolina Boston College University of Georgia

Waitlisted:

Wake Forest Case Western Reserve Vanderbilt UChicago UVA

Denied:

Harvard Yale Northwestern Cornell Duke USC Rice WashU Emory

In the end, UT Austin was my top choice so I’m happy

Your student applied to (at least ) 18 schools. You are contributing to the problem. Clearly many of these schools were not feeling the love and could tell that your student was not interested in going there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The NPC are not possible for many doughnut hole families and we need to compare aid offers. ED favors the wealthy and has really changed college admissions. I respect the schools who don’t do it but instead of have only non- binding early admissions.

This is only true if you are counting on holistic based merit. The schools on this thread generally don’t offer merit.

No, not just merit — different schools determine need differently.