Senior parents - how many applications this cycle?

[Anonymous]

9. 1 ED, 4 EA, rest RD. Got into ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10 - also high stat kid. All apps except 2 reaches were submitted by 11/1, but no ED.

2 Safeties - in a both with very generous of merit (accepted before Thanksgiving)
3 targets - in at all of them with some merit (received 2 decisions before Christmas and 1 early Feb)
5 reaches -denied at 1 REA, in at 1 EA, waiting for last 3

DC is very happy to have great options at this point. Currently, the reach EA and one of the targets are top 2 choices. We're glad DC spent time to create a realistic and thoughtful list so they didn't need to shotgun 15+. Juggling school, a fall sport, a part time job and apps was incredibly stressful. But, it was also nice for DC to be done and hit that submit button before going to a party Halloween night.

Can you share the safeties with the generous merit?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We visited schools Jr year, picked a target, applied ED, and done. One application.

This is admirable. Parents take heed.
We have an 11th grader. Next year they will be making one application to 7 of the colleges of the University of California (we are in state).

Any preference for a campus?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do we think the 20+ apps trend continues next year?

Every kid is different. For some, having put in the Hs grind, they really want to max out on admissions possibilities to see what they could get. The system is totally awful. Will be glad when it is done.

100% learned so much this cycle but sadly will be doing it again for my hs freshman.

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.

Can you elaborate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We visited schools Jr year, picked a target, applied ED, and done. One application.

This is admirable. Parents take heed.
We have an 11th grader. Next year they will be making one application to 7 of the colleges of the University of California (we are in state).

Any preference for a campus?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:24 Total
1 REA - Deferred
5 EA (Publics) - Accepted at all
3 UCs - Waiting
15 RD (7 IVY + 3 SLAC)

Because your kid loves the core at Columbia but also the open curriculum at Brown? The rural isolation of Dartmouth and the vibe of Cambridge? The intellectualism of Yale and the preprofessional focus at Penn? SMH

lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son also did 10, some EA and some RD, but got in ED so pulled the other 9.

Same for my DC.

[Anonymous]

13

[Anonymous]

5

And as his stats had predicted, he got into 4 of them. I don’t know what the thinking is behind 20 applications. Better to narrow them ahead of time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We visited schools Jr year, picked a target, applied ED, and done. One application.

This is admirable. Parents take heed.
We have an 11th grader. Next year they will be making one application to 7 of the colleges of the University of California (we are in state).

And what happened if they don't get to those schools? Please don't just limit to 1 school, college admission is unpredictable.

I have not limited to 1 school. Can you not read? SEVEN colleges in the UC. SEVEN. That's plenty.

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

For the record, UCSD and even UCI shite all over whatever non-UC public schools you think are ahead of them.

[Anonymous]

DD applied 17. Her original plan is 10, however, after a flat-out rejection at ED , she (also me) got paranoid, and applied lot more than needed in RD round. Luckily she got in her target school from EA, thinking back, we would rather put in more in EA round for safety and target, and do 2 or 3 in RD round.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We visited schools Jr year, picked a target, applied ED, and done. One application.

This is admirable. Parents take heed.
We have an 11th grader. Next year they will be making one application to 7 of the colleges of the University of California (we are in state).

And what happened if they don't get to those schools? Please don't just limit to 1 school, college admission is unpredictable.

I have not limited to 1 school. Can you not read? SEVEN colleges in the UC. SEVEN. That's plenty.

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

For the record, UCSD and even UCI shite all over whatever non-UC public schools you think are ahead of them.

My kid is at the non-UC public school called Oxford. Please shite away. Also at my Alma mater Princeton. I went to school in Cal and know of what I speak. I am quite familiar with both UCI and UCSD, and many many other Cal schools. UCI and UCSD are not great schools. In fact they weren’t even good schools a few years back but demand for more reasonably priced opportunities has driven up demand.

[Anonymous]

11. Deferred from ED1 TO. Many EA submitted; deferred EA from 2nd choice, accepted in November at two solid EA safeties; rejected from 1 target, retook SAT in Dec and submitted, accepted ED2 to 2nd choice. Pulled remaining applications, except two rolling which still need to be pulled by Monday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We visited schools Jr year, picked a target, applied ED, and done. One application.

This is admirable. Parents take heed.
We have an 11th grader. Next year they will be making one application to 7 of the colleges of the University of California (we are in state).

And what happened if they don't get to those schools? Please don't just limit to 1 school, college admission is unpredictable.

I have not limited to 1 school. Can you not read? SEVEN colleges in the UC. SEVEN. That's plenty.

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

For the record, UCSD and even UCI shite all over whatever non-UC public schools you think are ahead of them.

My kid is at the non-UC public school called Oxford. Please shite away. Also at my Alma mater Princeton. I went to school in Cal and know of what I speak. I am quite familiar with both UCI and UCSD, and many many other Cal schools. UCI and UCSD are not great schools. In fact they weren’t even good schools a few years back but demand for more reasonably priced opportunities has driven up demand.

Perhaps demand a refund from Princeton, as they failed to help you understand the difference between public and private?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We visited schools Jr year, picked a target, applied ED, and done. One application.

This is admirable. Parents take heed.
We have an 11th grader. Next year they will be making one application to 7 of the colleges of the University of California (we are in state).

And what happened if they don't get to those schools? Please don't just limit to 1 school, college admission is unpredictable.

I have not limited to 1 school. Can you not read? SEVEN colleges in the UC. SEVEN. That's plenty.

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

For the record, UCSD and even UCI shite all over whatever non-UC public schools you think are ahead of them.

My kid is at the non-UC public school called Oxford. Please shite away. Also at my Alma mater Princeton. I went to school in Cal and know of what I speak. I am quite familiar with both UCI and UCSD, and many many other Cal schools. UCI and UCSD are not great schools. In fact they weren’t even good schools a few years back but demand for more reasonably priced opportunities has driven up demand.

Which public universities in the U.S. are on par with UCSD and UCI other than Michigan and I guess UVA (beyond the aforementioned Berkeley and UCLA)? Once UT Austin, Florida, Washington, and UNC are blown out of the water head-to-head due to their questionable in-state standards, I certainly hope you're not going to float UMD as a superior educational option?!