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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shit just apply to a regional or directional state school and consider it a super safety. They don't yield protect because they don't give a damn. They know they ain't making big moves in USNWR anytime soon. At least you'll know in a worst-case scenario that you won't be relegated to community college or going to school overseas.[/quote]

Hell, tons of these schools have super late application deadlines. DD even got significant merit aid and honors college admit from ODU and she'd applied in May. I think we paid about $3k in tuition. She transferred after a year but certainly a better experience than NoVA and at a similar price (not counting room and board). Some OOS state flagships don't have application deadlines until the summer, too, and 90% of the country thinks they're just as good as UVA.

If directional state/mediocre flagship seems worse than paying full-freight for large lecture halls halfway across the planet, the UK is another wait-and-see option. Other than Oxbridge (and maybe Imperial), UCAS is generally rolling admissions and the application is pretty simple. If your kid has solid AP/SAT scores, they're likely to get an admit to Edinburgh/UCL/Warwick. [/quote]

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