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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He's been rejected from an ED, deferred from an EA that was considered a safety, rejected from MD Honors, rejected by UVA, did not receive a transcript request last month from the UC's (evidentially a telltale sign you have a rejection coming April 1), received no merit aid from a safety that in the past routinely gave kids like him 10-15K a year,  received no scholarship application invitation from another school that in the past routinely gave kids like him big scholarships...I could go on. When you are not full pay there are ways you can tell if a yes is coming from a lot of the schools. Of course there are others, and there's a decent chance he gets into one or two of them, but the trend does not make that feel likely. [/quote]

Not saying this to kick you when you are down but to educate other parents. The UCs and UVA are VERY difficult admits for out of state students. You can’t look at overall admissions stats and base your applications on these. Add to that the UCs don’t even consider test scores, that 1500 was worth nothing. All they looked at was your child’s 10th and 11th grade grades in terms of stats, and those were lacking in math and science. This outcome was entirely predictable — your kid basically applied to all reaches and the wrong kind of reaches (competitive state schools that cap out of state admits to low numbers).

This is why you can’t just focus on T20s national universities on US News because those are chock full of UCs and Ivies/Stanford type schools that get overwhelmed with applicants.  Sure, apply to some of the schools, but cast a broader net and don’t make those non reach applications an afterthought. [/quote]

UCs are just as difficult for in-state students.  You can argue that the pool of in-state is less competitive than OOS because large number of in-state students that apply [b]but the days when 40% to 50% of applicants get into UCB or UCLA and 90%+ get into UCSB are long gone.[/quote][/b]

When my DH was in high school in San Diego in 1991, he and his classmates applied to UCSD as a "safety school."[/quote]

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