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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know people want to think this year is “very” different but it’s not. This is the same story every year. People want to blame COVID or No SATs.

But it’s not different.

Kids realize their likely schools were actually reaches every year, counselors act aghast every year. [/quote]

THANK YOU! Every year Emory is somehow the top 20 safety, just for their DC's to get rejected in late March. EVERY YEAR.[/quote]
NP.  Emory is never anyone's safety - that is a clear mistake that some people make, perhaps more prevalent among posters at DCUM than elsewhere on the internet.  Its acceptance rate has long been in reach-for-all territory.  Test optional policies and increased apps this particular year led to another drop in rate.

Acceptance rate for class of 2024, 18%

Acceptance rate for class of 2025, 13%

OP didn’t say Emory was a safety. 
OP also didn’t say her kid didn’t get into any colleges. He got into one.

PPs who say this year is just like every other are high. This year is not like every other. Last year kids deferred, leaving fewer spots for this year. It’s the first time in history ALL schools said people don’t have to submit standardized scores. We all know there is grade inflation and kids who wouldn’t otherwise have great GPAs suddenly have very good GPAs.

This is provably a good thing got society. But for the kid like OPs, make no mistake. It’s harder. As much as he is probably a nice, hardworking kids with good stats, he is in the same large pool. He is probably getting rejected from schools who think he won’t go to. Then he got waitlisted at others he might have gotten into any other year because he is up against so many other kids who normally wouldn’t apply. To a school like Wash U, Vanderbilt or Emory he probablh seems like a dime a dozen (don’t take offense OP). So here he is, rejected by schools who assume he is too good to want to go to, and rejected/waitlisted by schools he would go to but he is up against a crapload of good or interesting candidates. It is not the same as any other year. Colgate up 100% in applications? Harvard up over 50%?

He would not be in this boat if he had applied to his parent’s “no name” school, but that isn’t what he is wanted. It’s bad luck bad timing for the kid, and nothing else. Stop bashing or minimizing. It sucks for a kid like that to have no choices. Is it the end of the world? No. But stop telling the parent and kid to just get over it. It rightly stings, and bad.

-parent in a similar situation but not quite as bad[/quote]

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