Reply to What do you wish you had known/done differently

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "What do you wish you had known/done differently "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) [b]I wish DC had not spend the time (and $$) applying to so many safety and targets. You only need 1 (maybe 2) safeties, and 3-ish targets IMO. [/b]Apply to as many reaches as you want.

2) Don't focus on ED out of panic or assuming it's the only way in. ED didn't work out for DC since it was a tiny SLAC that uses that round primarily to lock in institutional priorities (First-Gen, Low Income, Recruited Athletes, Children of Donors/Legacy/etc. Go ahead and apply if it's your true 1st choice, but have reasonable expectations. But don't expect the odds to be much better since ED round is a weird one.

3) If you don't need financial aid, RD is a goldmine. DC got into multiple, higher ranked schools with lower admission rates in RD. Schools we never thought there was a good chance in! Take the time to really tailor those essays for schools that still want them![/quote]

[b]100%. We wasted hundreds of dollars and SO MANY HOURS applying to and demonstrating interest at safety & target schools our DC didn't really want to seriously attend as a "just in case" something catastrophic occurred. As it turns out, DC also got into 6 reaches that were liked more so was able to quickly decline all the safeties and targets pretty quickly in April. But my goodness, what a colossal waste of time-money!

Your student can only attend one college. Keep that in mind. I think we were too scared of a calamitous outcome that never was close to happening. [/quote][/b]
So true! [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics