If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
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Anonymous
| Rejected Northwestern, attending Haverford |
Anonymous
| Rejected Princeton, attending UVA |
Anonymous
Did people talk openly about it? |
Anonymous
| Rejected Dartmouth, attending Colgate (little brother is also now attending too) |
Anonymous
| Rejected Bowdoin, attending Middlebury |
Anonymous
Wow |
Anonymous
Not the person you're quoting, but I went to Georgetown and it felt like everyone there had been rejected from an Ivy League school. People only talked about it the first week of freshman year. |
Anonymous
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Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
DD's friends from HS Rejected Cornell, attending Pitt Rejected Columbia, attending CMU Rejected MIT, attending Northeastern Rejected Georgetown, attending Case Western Rejected Barnard, attending Bryn Mawr Rejected Penn, attending Wesleyan Rejected Brown, attending Amherst Rejected Davidson, attending Case Western Rejected Stanford, attending WashU Rejected Oxford, attending St John's College Friends at college Rejected Amherst, attending Oberlin Rejected Brown, attending Oberlin Rejected Harvard, attending Oberlin Rejected Wellesley, attending Oberlin Rejected Northwestern, attending Oberlin Rejected NYU, attending Oberlin Rejected Dartmouth, attending Oberlin Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin Rejected Williams, attending Oberlin |
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Anonymous
How the bloody heck do you know this about your kid's COLLEGE friends? I am super involved in the lives of my college kids and talk to them almost every day but i would have zero knowledge about where 10 of their college friends were rejected from college. That is just really, really, really weird. |
Anonymous
| Overall impression is that kids thrive at the schools they ended up, and grew the fastest. They may not be if admitted to their first choices. |
Anonymous
This is interesting. Most are pretty big steps down. |
Anonymous
That’s the nature of the ED system. Especially EDII. A lot of the steps down (including Oberlin) are EDII schools. People burn out and feel defeated after the first rejection and just want to be done. |
Anonymous
This was my daughter last cycle....Just wanted it to be over. Took a step down and is happy at college. |
Anonymous
Why is this a "wow"? |