Rejections

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Anonymous wrote:DC NYU. Painful 24hrs here so far. Glad it’s the weekend. Everyone in grade knew this was the dream so when it hit yesterday people were seeking DC out to ask. : (

You dodged a bullet. NYC is going from bad to worse soon, despite what the naive useful idiots are posting here.

No it is not.

Shut up.

NYU is a great school.

I have started to think that all the anti-Northeast schools and cities and pro-SEC schools and lifestyle are from people trying to eliminate competition.

I think that is especially possible with NYU

My kid is at a stronger SEC school and I promise you, I’m not trying to eliminate competition. Kid had no interest in NYU, Northeastern, BU etc.

There are trolls on this site though, like the poster above who is obviously trying to get political about NYC.

I think it’s more like this poster. they have a kid at a Southern school with 85% admission rate and give every reason they can think of not to be going to a Northeast school. It’s the weather, the football, the school spirit, happy shiny people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC NYU. Painful 24hrs here so far. Glad it’s the weekend. Everyone in grade knew this was the dream so when it hit yesterday people were seeking DC out to ask. : (

You dodged a bullet. NYC is going from bad to worse soon, despite what the naive useful idiots are posting here.

No it is not.

Shut up.

NYU is a great school.

I have started to think that all the anti-Northeast schools and cities and pro-SEC schools and lifestyle are from people trying to eliminate competition.

I think that is especially possible with NYU

My kid is at a stronger SEC school and I promise you, I’m not trying to eliminate competition. Kid had no interest in NYU, Northeastern, BU etc.

There are trolls on this site though, like the poster above who is obviously trying to get political about NYC.

I think it’s more like this poster. they have a kid at a Southern school with 85% admission rate and give every reason they can think of not to be going to a Northeast school. It’s the weather, the football, the school spirit, happy shiny people.

I said it is one of the stronger SEC schools. It absolutely does not have an 85% admission rate. But keep telling yourself that. I’m happy my kid goes there. Believe it or not you can get a good education AND have nice weather, fun sports, school spirit, and be genuinely happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of good schools with latter RD dates like Holy Cross Jan 15 and Bucknell Jan 10.

LOL

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Anonymous wrote:Amherst. Very high stats kid. Knew it was a tough admit so not totally surprised, but disappointed. The only one we know of admitted is a recruited athlete. Trying to decide whether to ED2 Bowdoin, Rice, or Chicago or just RD everywhere.

Don’t bother with ED2 Bowdoin - just as tough an admit and same athlete and first gen problem taking all the ED spots. Rice and Chicago ED2 might be worthwhile.

I can see that ED1 full of hooked kids. Why is ED2 Bowdoin for athlete and 1st gen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rejected at Stanford.
1540 SAT (one and done,) 4.95w (4.0w), lots of AP/IB/DE classes including MV Calc, Diff Eq, Linear Algebra.
Great essays and recs
Good ECs but nothing earth-shattering -- which is why they were never expecting to get in and why we're not really sad about it. They wanted to shoot their shot, and now focused on a large, balanced list of RDs

Major? I’m sure they’ll do great in RD. Good luck!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected at Stanford.
1540 SAT (one and done,) 4.95w (4.0w), lots of AP/IB/DE classes including MV Calc, Diff Eq, Linear Algebra.
Great essays and recs
Good ECs but nothing earth-shattering -- which is why they were never expecting to get in and why we're not really sad about it. They wanted to shoot their shot, and now focused on a large, balanced list of RDs

Major? I’m sure they’ll do great in RD. Good luck!!

Engineering (BME.) Tough -- but not sorry she tried. There's some comfort in knowing and not wondering what-if, yk?

Thanks for the kind words!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected at Stanford.
1540 SAT (one and done,) 4.95w (4.0w), lots of AP/IB/DE classes including MV Calc, Diff Eq, Linear Algebra.
Great essays and recs
Good ECs but nothing earth-shattering -- which is why they were never expecting to get in and why we're not really sad about it. They wanted to shoot their shot, and now focused on a large, balanced list of RDs

Major? I’m sure they’ll do great in RD. Good luck!!

Engineering (BME.) Tough -- but not sorry she tried. There's some comfort in knowing and not wondering what-if, yk?

Thanks for the kind words!

I absolutely agree!!

Our DD with similar stats took her ED shot with a different T10 school. She hasn’t heard yet, but either way, I’m really proud of her for going for it. She’s a great kid whose instinct is sometimes to play it safe/small rather than risk rejection/vulnerability.

It’ll sting if she’s rejected after fully owning that this school is her “first choice”. But kids can’t grow if they always play it safe to protect themselves from setbacks/“failure”/disappointment. True resilience comes from realizing they’re actually strong enough to handle those things (and then some!) It may hurt, but it’s not so bad that they need to avoid or even fear the risk.

I get that this isn’t hard for some kids. But for mine, it’s turned out to be a huge growth milestone. Cheers to every kid who took a big swing at ED. If it doesn’t go their way, it can be a lot to sit with until RD decisions comes out, but a big growth opportunity, too!

[Anonymous]

Not sure about Bucknell, but Holy Cross is a fantastic SLAC with loads of famous grads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rejected at Stanford.
1540 SAT (one and done,) 4.95w (4.0w), lots of AP/IB/DE classes including MV Calc, Diff Eq, Linear Algebra.
Great essays and recs
Good ECs but nothing earth-shattering -- which is why they were never expecting to get in and why we're not really sad about it. They wanted to shoot their shot, and now focused on a large, balanced list of RDs

Glad to hear DC is in a good headspace about it. Stanford is one of those schools you just have to acknowledge is a lottery. They could build at least 2 completely different, equally strong freshman classes from their rejection pool.

[Anonymous]

Rejected from Wesleyan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rejected at Stanford.
1540 SAT (one and done,) 4.95w (4.0w), lots of AP/IB/DE classes including MV Calc, Diff Eq, Linear Algebra.
Great essays and recs
Good ECs but nothing earth-shattering -- which is why they were never expecting to get in and why we're not really sad about it. They wanted to shoot their shot, and now focused on a large, balanced list of RDs

PP, why not consedering ED2 with such a high stat profile?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rejected from Wesleyan

I'm so sorry to hear that. What was your DC's gender and stats? Unfortunately they did away with the essay and demonstrated interest so it really comes down to profile and business/institutional needs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC NYU. Painful 24hrs here so far. Glad it’s the weekend. Everyone in grade knew this was the dream so when it hit yesterday people were seeking DC out to ask. : (

You dodged a bullet. NYC is going from bad to worse soon, despite what the naive useful idiots are posting here.

No it is not.

Shut up.

NYU is a great school.

I have started to think that all the anti-Northeast schools and cities and pro-SEC schools and lifestyle are from people trying to eliminate competition.

Bingo. All the pro-SEC people each spring are the ones who were deferred or rejected from NE schools or UVA in state a few months before

Apparently you’ve never strolled around a beautiful SEC campus in February when it is 55 degrees.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC NYU. Painful 24hrs here so far. Glad it’s the weekend. Everyone in grade knew this was the dream so when it hit yesterday people were seeking DC out to ask. : (

You dodged a bullet. NYC is going from bad to worse soon, despite what the naive useful idiots are posting here.

No it is not.

Shut up.

NYU is a great school.

I have started to think that all the anti-Northeast schools and cities and pro-SEC schools and lifestyle are from people trying to eliminate competition.

Bingo. All the pro-SEC people each spring are the ones who were deferred or rejected from NE schools or UVA in state a few months before

Apparently you’ve never strolled around a beautiful SEC campus in February when it is 55 degrees.

and what about the 90+ degree, 90% humidity May to Sept?

I just read an article about why so many NE kids are going to SEC. A lot has to do with social media, and apparently the RushTok videos. They typically tend to be blonde blue eyed people. It's not about education; it's about being seen.

https://www.vox.com/culture/471431/bama-rush-sec-universities-tiktok-alabama-ole-miss-fraternities

Neither of my kids are those types, and VA is as far south as they go. They also hate the humid weather.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected at Stanford.
1540 SAT (one and done,) 4.95w (4.0w), lots of AP/IB/DE classes including MV Calc, Diff Eq, Linear Algebra.
Great essays and recs
Good ECs but nothing earth-shattering -- which is why they were never expecting to get in and why we're not really sad about it. They wanted to shoot their shot, and now focused on a large, balanced list of RDs

PP, why not consedering ED2 with such a high stat profile?

Good question - thanks. The only real reason is bc we're low income and need to be able to compare offers.