Today's Acceptances - which schools

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Anonymous wrote:My child got into Kenyon ED last night. 1480 SAT and 3.8UW GPA. Scholarship money as well, which was nice.

congratulations!!

Congrats! Fantastic school!

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DD was notified she is in at UMBC at Thursday. It is her safety, but good to confirm it is an option.

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Drexel decisions are in the portal.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid didn’t apply ED because he didn’t feel he knew enough (because of Covid canceling almost all visits) to have a first choice

I hugely regret that right now. Feels like colleges are looking to lock in as much of their class as possible in this uncertain time and seeing acceptances everywhere: Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Middlebury, BC, Carnegie Mellon

Never seen anything quite like it

Don't have regrets. My son really evolved in his thinking about where he wanted to go during his senior year, and was really happy to have a variety of schools to choose from. Take the long view on all of this.

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Georgetown decisions are in the portal (Sunday afternoon)

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Anonymous wrote:DD was notified she is in at UMBC at Thursday. It is her safety, but good to confirm it is an option.

Did you receive any financial aid info?

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Anonymous wrote:My DC did not ED anywhere for similar reasons to the PP (covid made campus visits impossible).

Wondering if that was a mistake now too.

I honestly wish that ED had been rethought across the board this year. Seems like plenty of kids were not able to make an ED choice, so I hope it doesn't greatly disadvantage students this cycle.

The experts were all saying ED full pay applications are the path to acceptance at reach schools this year. With challenged economic/business models and significant drop in full pay international students, American Universities and colleges are poised for the biggest re-stratification of their enrollment in decades. Ultimately a detriment to society, but an opportunity for affluent families.

Except for the need blind schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC did not ED anywhere for similar reasons to the PP (covid made campus visits impossible).

Wondering if that was a mistake now too.

I honestly wish that ED had been rethought across the board this year. Seems like plenty of kids were not able to make an ED choice, so I hope it doesn't greatly disadvantage students this cycle.

The experts were all saying ED full pay applications are the path to acceptance at reach schools this year. With challenged economic/business models and significant drop in full pay international students, American Universities and colleges are poised for the biggest re-stratification of their enrollment in decades. Ultimately a detriment to society, but an opportunity for affluent families.

Except for the need blind schools.

Plus, somewhere I read that international apps ended up increasing, unexpectedly (maybe due to test optional). I'll try to find it...

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Insight into release date for Chapman?

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Anonymous wrote:Insight into release date for Chapman?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/is2onr/chapman_early_megathread/

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Penn will notify students on 12/16

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown decisions are in the portal (Sunday afternoon)

From what others wrote about acceptance letter, 8700 apps, 11% accepted. That's about a 19% increase in apps.

That amount of increase is surprising to me, for a school that, unlike other top schools, is not really test-optional and doesn't seem to be planning in-person classes anytime soon.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown decisions are in the portal (Sunday afternoon)

From what others wrote about acceptance letter, 8700 apps, 11% accepted. That's about a 19% increase in apps.

That amount of increase is surprising to me, for a school that, unlike other top schools, is not really test-optional and doesn't seem to be planning in-person classes anytime soon.

Probably the most selective school that offers EA so maybe kids who weren’t ready to try ED anywhere because of inability to visit went ahead and put in an EA app to Georgetown

Will be interesting to see app trends when ED schools start to release that info

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC did not ED anywhere for similar reasons to the PP (covid made campus visits impossible).

Wondering if that was a mistake now too.

I honestly wish that ED had been rethought across the board this year. Seems like plenty of kids were not able to make an ED choice, so I hope it doesn't greatly disadvantage students this cycle.

The experts were all saying ED full pay applications are the path to acceptance at reach schools this year. With challenged economic/business models and significant drop in full pay international students, American Universities and colleges are poised for the biggest re-stratification of their enrollment in decades. Ultimately a detriment to society, but an opportunity for affluent families.

Except for the need blind schools.

Plus, somewhere I read that international apps ended up increasing, unexpectedly (maybe due to test optional). I'll try to find it...

haha. international applicants have their own set of test results - they do not need to take SATs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown decisions are in the portal (Sunday afternoon)

From what others wrote about acceptance letter, 8700 apps, 11% accepted. That's about a 19% increase in apps.

That amount of increase is surprising to me, for a school that, unlike other top schools, is not really test-optional and doesn't seem to be planning in-person classes anytime soon.

Probably the most selective school that offers EA so maybe kids who weren’t ready to try ED anywhere because of inability to visit went ahead and put in an EA app to Georgetown

Will be interesting to see app trends when ED schools start to release that info

Harvard and Yale offer EA.