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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I give up. It’s hard to to stay optimistic. He worked his ass off at his private school, got mid-1500 on his SAT, continued his in person volunteering throughout the pandemic (which I was not excited about, but he wanted to do it). He has had one B+ his entire 4 years of college, the rest As. His teachers speak highly of him and I believe they must have written good letters.

His counselor said his list was solid. He’s been waitlisted or rejected nearly everywhere. He has one acceptance to a “likely” and that’s it. Only one place teaming and it’s a huge reach, esp this year.

It’s hard to stay positive, happy, and upbeat for my kid. He is unexcited about the one place he got in. I know I should try to point out the positives of getting in that one place but it is so hard. I wish he would defer and take a gap year. I brought it up once but he said he isn’t interested.

I’m not thrilled with his college counselor at school. She hasn’t even checked in on his to see how he is doing. I give up on that process too. He is crushed. I am crushed for him.

I’d anyone else having this horrible of a situation? And please don’t say, “my love sucks too, my daughter only got into Emory and not Brown” or some such nonsense. His safety he got in is a safety for everyone.[/quote]

I'm terrified for my son to begin the process next year.  This could be his stats exactly.

Some of his friends who are seniors with much better stats and resumes got obliterated this year.  There's one who applied to the safeties the college counselor advised him to and was waitlisted at them all.  He's not 'in' anywhere.  This is a kid who will be either #1 or #2 in the class, depending on how things end up.  How the hell can that be?

He has better stats than my DD who is a senior at UVA right now.  I said this in another thread!  So if she was applying today, she wouldn't have gotten in.  [/quote]

How can his friend have stats “much better” than mid 1500s snd perfect gpa save for a single b+? Surely there’s only room for “a bit better”!? [/quote]

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