Senior parents - how many applications this cycle?
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Anonymous
At least you have some use for your knowledge. We are done with our one DC. What a stupid waste of time this has turned out to be. |
Anonymous
No. Junior parents note how many kids have multiple acceptances across targets and likelies. Your child doesn't need to submit 20 apps, unless they're gunning for T25. Your high stat DC can get generous merit aid at schools ranked 40-100. |
Anonymous
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11 total
-3 safety EA (admitted to all by mid-December) -2 target EA (1 denied, 1 admitted) -2 reach EAs (1, accepted, 1 deferred) -4 RD - 2 targets and 2 reaches |
Anonymous
Yes - The JRs - watching the SRs are going to be really anxious because of what they observed this year. To combat it - they we apply to more in a shotgun manner as opposed to picking a few true safeties and targets. |
Anonymous
Yes, good point. As a parent of high-stat DC who applied to 20+ schools: a large number of apps is only necessary if you are shooting for T-20 and looking for private options beyond stage flagships. |
Anonymous
Yes exactly. So, some AO at the school that fits you best (Yale, say) decides you are not good enough and you drop 40 ranks? Intellectualism at Yale vs. Preprofessional focus at Penn will not matter much to an intellectual kid or a professionally focused kid at either school. Plenty of both in both places. |
Anonymous
The only way out of this insanity is to have matching algorithms. One applications with students ranking schools. Schools can rank applicants. Et Voila. Done. |
Anonymous
| If several kids from the same high school apply to 20+ schools, especially T30s, they will actually decrease their chances of admittance. |
Anonymous
Yes. It is like the tragedy of the commons. |
Anonymous
Yes, find other schools that have that aspect. U of Rochester is a great option with an open curriculum like Brown. 40% acceptance rate so not a safety but very likely for a student who is competitive for the lottery at Brown |
Anonymous
I have not limited to 1 school. Can you not read? SEVEN colleges in the UC. SEVEN. That's plenty. |
Anonymous
| As a parent of a junior, I can’t see how results from this year will influence my junior to apply to any less thqn 20. |
Anonymous
The kids at Wesleyan (and Amherst and Hamilton, etc.) are literally indistinguishable from the kids at Brown. As are the faculty. |
Anonymous
But please don’t apply what you think is normal for the UC schools to those sharing notes here. The systems are entirely different. And only two of yours -UCLA and Berkeley-are worth the effort of applying. But few here will apply because we know the Regents shut down OOs and international applications after the California voters got upset that their kids couldn’t get into the top UC schools. Besides they are too expensive for OOS even if you get in |
Anonymous
Yes, some could pursue Rochester or other excellent schools. Others may want to try get the Ivy experience (and branding). To each their own.. |