How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?

[Anonymous]

Another great admissions year at GDS. Of course, Harvard comes out this week, regular round, so there's lots of anticipation and excitement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another great admissions year at GDS. Of course, Harvard comes out this week, regular round, so there's lots of anticipation and excitement.

Typical obnoxious, disgusting, graceless GDS parent.

[Anonymous]

I don't even think it's true. Or, at very least, too early to tell (re admissions).

Could just be a troll invoking a stereotype.

-- an actual GDS parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't even think it's true. Or, at very least, too early to tell (re admissions).

Could just be a troll invoking a stereotype.

-- an actual GDS parent

The trolling by this GDS sycophant is tiresome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS applied to 11 schools, 10 LACs and one OOS school. He's been admitted to the OOS school and 6 of the 10 remaining LACs. He has been offered substantial merit aid at all the LACs. That was a surprise because he is not a straight A student by any means. And we're not applying for financial aid.

We worked with an independent college counselor and (and with the college counselors at his school) she was very low key and I think she helped DS pick schools that would be a good fit for him. He has gotten into all the school she thought would be a reach for him. All his schools are strong in what he thinks he wants to major in and they also offer good choices if he changes his mind about a major.

We are very lucky that DS has so many good choices in front of him. And all the choices were ultimately his.

If you asked me a year ago where we'd be on 3/15/16, I would have said that DH and DS would have been a wreck with anxiety and we'd be trying to keep it from DS. Amazingly, we are all calm and happy with DS's happiness being the most important.

With the winter and spring EA school admissions, we just could not be happier. I think the college counselor we worked with helped with my anxiety and DS's, but I certainly commend his school counselors as well.

I am very grateful that DS has great options to choose from. I really didn't think this would play out like this.

Good luck everyone!

Good luck to everyone.

Would you mind naming the LACs that offered substantial merit aid? My DS is a junior, and we're trying to find potentially affordable options aside from in-state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC applied to nine schools, eight OOS SLACs and the state flagship (large university). Was accepted at all schools, with substantial merit aid at all except for the flagship. Any one is feasible financially (<$33K or less/year all-inclusive) and a possible good fit, but DC has boiled it down to three final choices and will visit all three for overnights in the next month.

We are very pleased with how it has worked out.

PP, Please name the schools that offered merit aid. It would help those of us in the donut hole. DS is upset that he can't apply to NESCAC schools, but none offer merit aid.

[Anonymous]

Sucks. 2300+. Rejections everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC applied to nine schools, eight OOS SLACs and the state flagship (large university). Was accepted at all schools, with substantial merit aid at all except for the flagship. Any one is feasible financially (<$33K or less/year all-inclusive) and a possible good fit, but DC has boiled it down to three final choices and will visit all three for overnights in the next month.

We are very pleased with how it has worked out.

PP, Please name the schools that offered merit aid. It would help those of us in the donut hole. DS is upset that he can't apply to NESCAC schools, but none offer merit aid.

Allegheny, Muhlenberg, Ursinus, Juniata, Susquehanna, College of Wooster, Wittenberg, Ohio Wesleyan, Kenyon, Denison, U. of Mary Washington. Beloit, Augustana, Whitman, St. Olaf, Lawrence U., Clark U., Marlboro, Champlain, Agnes Scott, Guilford.

[Anonymous]

Also, Southwest, Eckard.

[Anonymous]

Rhodes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC applied to nine schools, eight OOS SLACs and the state flagship (large university). Was accepted at all schools, with substantial merit aid at all except for the flagship. Any one is feasible financially (<$33K or less/year all-inclusive) and a possible good fit, but DC has boiled it down to three final choices and will visit all three for overnights in the next month.

We are very pleased with how it has worked out.

PP, Please name the schools that offered merit aid. It would help those of us in the donut hole. DS is upset that he can't apply to NESCAC schools, but none offer merit aid.

Allegheny, Muhlenberg, Ursinus, Juniata, Susquehanna, College of Wooster, Wittenberg, Ohio Wesleyan, Kenyon, Denison, U. of Mary Washington. Beloit, Augustana, Whitman, St. Olaf, Lawrence U., Clark U., Marlboro, Champlain, Agnes Scott, Guilford.

Kalamazoo, Earlham.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC applied to nine schools, eight OOS SLACs and the state flagship (large university). Was accepted at all schools, with substantial merit aid at all except for the flagship. Any one is feasible financially (<$33K or less/year all-inclusive) and a possible good fit, but DC has boiled it down to three final choices and will visit all three for overnights in the next month.

We are very pleased with how it has worked out.

PP, Please name the schools that offered merit aid. It would help those of us in the donut hole. DS is upset that he can't apply to NESCAC schools, but none offer merit aid.

Allegheny, Muhlenberg, Ursinus, Juniata, Susquehanna, College of Wooster, Wittenberg, Ohio Wesleyan, Kenyon, Denison, U. of Mary Washington. Beloit, Augustana, Whitman, St. Olaf, Lawrence U., Clark U., Marlboro, Champlain, Agnes Scott, Guilford.

Did your child apply to all these schools? Or are these colleges that generally offer merit aid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a Sr. that was deferred by his first choice EA, and got into two safeties. We are waiting for the other schools. It seems very quiet this year so I wonder if it is a unusually difficult year for admissions for some reason?

DD applied to 7 solidly mid-tier schools, got into all of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC applied to nine schools, eight OOS SLACs and the state flagship (large university). Was accepted at all schools, with substantial merit aid at all except for the flagship. Any one is feasible financially (<$33K or less/year all-inclusive) and a possible good fit, but DC has boiled it down to three final choices and will visit all three for overnights in the next month.

We are very pleased with how it has worked out.

PP, Please name the schools that offered merit aid. It would help those of us in the donut hole. DS is upset that he can't apply to NESCAC schools, but none offer merit aid.

Allegheny, Muhlenberg, Ursinus, Juniata, Susquehanna, College of Wooster, Wittenberg, Ohio Wesleyan, Kenyon, Denison, U. of Mary Washington. Beloit, Augustana, Whitman, St. Olaf, Lawrence U., Clark U., Marlboro, Champlain, Agnes Scott, Guilford.

Did your child apply to all these schools? Or are these colleges that generally offer merit aid?

These are schools that offer merit aid.

My DC applied to eight SLACs that offer merit aid, and received merit aid from all eight.

[Anonymous]

My Big 3 senior is a B+/A-/A student w SAT of 2220 (one sitting) and subject tests in the mid to high 700s, strong ECs, community service, etc. Interested in STEM. Got into 3 schools with acceptance rates of 35% or above (all considered safeties, good merit aid) and 1 low match (no aid), WL at a high match and a reach, rejected at 2 high reaches. Didn't apply to any ivies. The accepted schools are all strong so it will be okay but the WLs are a little painful.