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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our DD is attending the lowest ranked out of the 8 schools she was accepted to including her reaches (she got in every where she applied. She's happy there and honestly, once they start going to the school they choose, you don't think about it too much.  It seems like such a big deal during the application/acceptance process and that simmers down very quickly.[/quote]

My DS also wants to attend the lowest ranked (by far) of the schools he was accepted to. He too got in everywhere he applied, including two USNWR top 30 universities.

This has been a difficult year, and not being able to visit colleges ended up being really problematic for my DS. Mid-winter, his feelings about what he was looking for started to shift. I think if we had been able to visit more schools, this would have become clearer earlier in the process, although he also was very affected by the COVID winter and now wants to go someplace warm where he can be outside year round.

In retrospect, knowing what we know now, he did not apply to the right schools. He's completely lost interest in most of the schools on the table right now, and what's left are 2: the highest ranked and the lowest ranked. And the lowest ranked one appears to be winning.

So he has a week left to make his decision, and DH and I have decided to let him make it. It probably helps that we don't look at the higher-ranked school and think: this would be perfect for him. In fact, it's not perfect in some important ways. And the one that I do think would probably be the best fit for him, he will not consider for his own reasons that are important to him, even if not to me, and I can (grudgingly LOL) respect that.

I think it will be fine, whatever he decides. And if it turns out he made the wrong decision, he can transfer and that will be fine, too.[/quote]

NP: So funny, one of the schools that my student got into is perfect in all ways. Of course, he won't seriously consider it.[/quote]

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