“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
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Anonymous
| So what were the “hot” schools this admissions season? In other words, what schools had a buzz about them, any newly discovered treasures? Also, apart from the state schools, are there certain schools weee a fair number of kids from the same huhschool class ended up? |
Anonymous
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From our HS:
Georgia Indiana Tulane VT Colorado |
Anonymous
| Pitt |
Anonymous
The buzz at our kid's school was wtf happened with colorado engineering? They seriously cut back on the direct admits. My kid wasn't interested in a stoner school for rich northeasterners, so once engineering wasn't going to happen, he was done. |
Anonymous
| Pitt seems inordinately popular! |
Anonymous
| I talked to so many kids this year who had UMass-Amherst on their final list. I don't know how many, if any, ultimately chose it, but it was surprising to me how often that name kept coming up. It's like this year's University of Vermont. |
Anonymous
| Blair has like five kids going to Occidental College in Los Angeles. Perhaps the kids are all friends and arranged it that way, but it just seems like a weird anomaly to have so many kids from one school going to a small LAC on the opposite coast. |
Anonymous
Blair neighborhood/ blair CAP or Blair Magnet? |
Anonymous
Better than VT as can take classes at the other colleges around there |
Anonymous
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Brown
CU-Boulder Wisconsin Berkeley Boston College |
Anonymous
Interesting. Georgia Tech or UGA? I have a kid at TJ. And they always have a large number of kids admitted to GT Engineering and 1-2 kids who go. Vs. a couple dozen kids who go to each of to Michigan Engineering and Illinois-CU Engineering. And since I have a class of 2020 kids interested in LACs, And not Engineering, I never dig deep enough to figure out why that is? GT is as good, or better, in Engineering. Better financial aid? A desire not to love in the South? Better TJ recruiting? Interested because DH is from GA and I also grew up in the South. Also interested to hear about hot LACs or small national universities. Especially ones with good merit aid (which knocks out a lot of schools). Oberlin was always on my radar, but College of Wooster, Kenyon and Grinnell look surprisingly good on paper. Very high percent of kids in top PhD programs. Very good undergrad science research. Excellent merit aid. Also Denison, which was scratched of our list for my kid specific reasons. And Davidson, which I knew about since it is a Southern school. It would surprise me if there wasn’t a run on these schools. Anyone? |
Anonymous
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^^^
Not to live in the south. But the typo works too. |
Anonymous
| In VA, “hot” schools that are not well ranked are nothing more than places where the kids of privileged people go when the kids get turned down by UVA and/or William and Mary. |
Anonymous
My DC picked GT over Michigan and we are from the NE. I think people pick Michigan over GT if there could be a possibility of not majoring in engineering. At GT, it’s engineering and maybe business school. That’s it. My DC refused to apply to MIT/CMU/HM etc - DC wanted a college experience - football games, etc. At the end of the day, GT has been a good fit for DC - never thought we would say this as we were not happy when DC didn’t want to apply to the schools we thought were “better”! Hopefully all the parents going through this process will “relax” - your DC will be fine and sometimes they know better than us. |
Anonymous
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U Miami - Florida
Tulane |