Reply to s/o this brutal admissions year

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "s/o this brutal admissions year"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My kid was admitted to:

UCLA 
Washington & Lee
UVA
William and Mary
Miami University 
American University 
Christopher Newport University

Rejected from:

UC Berkeley 
NYU (today)

She is extremely bitter because I won’t co-sign six figures of parent plus loans to attend UCLA. You cannot convince me it’s $120,000 better than UVA or W&M. In fact, W&M is more highly rated for undergraduate teaching (#4 in country, tied with Princeton and behind Brown, Elon and Georgia Tech, of all places).

She hears from Duke tomorrow and Brown next week. I am anticipating rejections from both.

I have tried to explain to her that her success rate is incredible and a lot of kids with better stats aren’t even getting into some places she has. But it doesn’t matter. She is fixated on selectivity percentages rather than finding a school that will be the right fit. Says she will be “miserable” going to school in Virginia. I said misery is making payments on six figures of college debt for 20-25 years.

Serenity now. Or at least better drugs...[/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