Any other parents have HS seniors anxiously awaiting college acceptances this week?

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Anonymous wrote:what is causing the stress their expectations or yours?

Well in the case of my son, I'd say it's primarily his own expectations at this point. He set very ambitious goals for himself in high school and in the college admission process. He expects to succeed and, like a lot of kids his age, hasn't met wih too much disappointment et in his life. By far the most stressful thing for him this year -- more than college admissions -- has been his first romantic relationship breakup. He really has struggled with this, but it's shown him that life has success and disappointment and not everhing is wihin our control. Hopefully he can apply that lesson to he college admission process in the next few days.

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Anonymous wrote:Re: hooks. Being a National Hispanic Scholar and therefore being categorized as hispanic for demographic purposes, requires only 1/4 hispanic heritage. At our high school, these students are affluent, several generations removed - for example - don't speak any Spanish, college educated parents- often ivy educated. Saddens me that these types of programs aren't benefiting, who I think, are the intended students. Parents are going to take advantage of whatever is available, but I wish colleges would get called out on this.

It's all become a game. Best players win. The best players start early.

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My DD was rejected by several schools and she is really really disappointed. Luckily she got accepted by her two safety schools so she has a place to go. Sigh

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Anonymous wrote:My DD was rejected by several schools and she is really really disappointed. Luckily she got accepted by her two safety schools so she has a place to go. Sigh

I'm sorry. I know it can be rough. If it helps any, my friend's DD last year had to go with her safety school and was initially disappointed but ended up loving the school so much that she's abandoned her original idea of transferring out. You never know.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD was rejected by several schools and she is really really disappointed. Luckily she got accepted by her two safety schools so she has a place to go. Sigh

Same here for DC. Still 3 more to hear from but the only likely is another safety. Grateful for the safeties at least! Go Blue!

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone know about Vanderbilt? Do they mail, email or notify by portal?

They are apparently using the portal for the first time this year, then mailing. They haven't announced the date yet, at least last time I checked, but people are thinking they will want to beat the Ivies so it could be tomorrow. I've already given up on this one after reading on their website the admit rate for RD is 10% and the middle 50% of SAT scores for RD is 750-800 on each section.

Pp here, my DC was wait listed, which is better than I expected.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD was rejected by several schools and she is really really disappointed. Luckily she got accepted by her two safety schools so she has a place to go. Sigh

Give her time to grieve, but hopefully in time she'll know that going to her safety school is just "okay" but great. I ended up at my safety school (more due to financial aid reasons than accept/reject) and I now know that it was 100% the best place for me to be, and I'm so glad I didn't end up at the other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD was rejected by several schools and she is really really disappointed. Luckily she got accepted by her two safety schools so she has a place to go. Sigh

Same here for DC. Still 3 more to hear from but the only likely is another safety. Grateful for the safeties at least! Go Blue!

Michigan is a safety?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD was rejected by several schools and she is really really disappointed. Luckily she got accepted by her two safety schools so she has a place to go. Sigh

Same here for DC. Still 3 more to hear from but the only likely is another safety. Grateful for the safeties at least! Go Blue!

Michigan is a safety?

At my DCs school, yes. It's a good school, solid admission rate for kids who are applying to the very selective schools, and early notification for EA. So once my DC was accepted in Dec, she dropped a couple of apps to other schools.

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9:57 I so agree! Unethical in my view.