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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son got in spring 2023.  He had 4.0 unweighted, 1580 SAT, all 5s on APs, good ECs, but not anything award winning.  He plans to major in Political Science or History so not anything STEM.  I have no idea what got him in, but he did get a note from the woman who read his application about his essays, so maybe that was it.

He ended up choosing not to go.  Too far and too expensive.  He's at UVA and is very happy.  [/quote]

It's a shame that people apply to schools they have no intention on attending....

Honestly, what about far and too expensive did you not know in advance?[/quote]

Seriously. People like this are taking away opportunities from their peers at their high school. Absolutely awful behavior by this family. If you don't want to go to Stanford or other highly selective schools, don't apply. Just go to UVA. Why take these possibilities away from other students at your high school? Nothing about Stanford's location or cost is mysterious. But highly selective universities will only take x amount of students from a particular high school, and this one took one away from someone that probably really wanted to attend. For no reason at all except the bragging rights. Pathetic.     [/quote]

This is a joke, right?  I never said anything about Stanford being a mystery.  Obviously we know where it is and how much it costs.  Could we have paid full tuition?  Yes.  But it would have made us make significant changes in our lifestyle.  After he got in to both UVA and Stanford and some other schools, we talked about it and decided it wasn't worth it.  And he didn't take away a spot from anyone at his school - he wasn't at a private or one of the public schools where everyone applies to Ivies - he was the only one in his class who applied to Stanford and one of the few who applied to Ivies.  Ugh, I don't even know why I am engaging you, but it pisses me off that you're assuming devious intent by my then 17 year old son.  [/quote]

Trophy hunting is a real thing at a lot of schools that do have a lot of applicants to Stanford and the like. So it gets people really riled up to see someone turn down such a hard acceptance for the reasons stated - location and cost. Which, duh. All well known. So the assumption is trophy hunting. You are very blessed to live in an area where you are the only applicant to selective schools and can make such choices without impacts to others.  [/quote]

It is not trophy hunting. I am a DP and we seriously considered UPenn vs. UVA when the cost of attendance was $70k v. $32K. But when UVA offered full tuition scholarship and comparison became $70k. v. $10k per year, UVA won. [/quote]

You are in a different scenario than what people are talking about here.[/quote]

It's almost impossible for an in-state kid to get a 'full tuition scholarship' at UVA.  Ivies have fantastic needs blind aid (full tuition) for HHI at 150k or less; in those instances the Ivy is the obvious choice: it's free.  As a donut hole family, it's $38k vs $78-87k, but if you factor in 17,000 students vs 7,000 and then start looking at additional benefits, special programs, undergrad teaching vs TA, things start to give you pause and we went with 'fit'.  A kid that doesn't want a larger state school or drinking/party culture, etc., it's a different decision.[/quote]

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