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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had no involvement in my kid's essays, though I did read the Common App one before it went in.  I thought it was solid, and reflected both his voice and who he was, but it wasn't amazing.

His admissions results were not as good as I would have expected going into the process given his basic academic qualifications (3.98 GPA/4.53 wGPA, 35 ACT) and solid EC profile), though he's ended up in a good situation.

I don't know whether a better essay would have helped, but it might have.[/quote]

Are you willing to share admissions results from specific colleges & universities ?[/quote]

In at Northeastern, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, James Madison University.

Not in at Harvard, Yale, MIT, Williams, Amherst, or Virginia.

Was a full IB Diploma candidate, Eagle Scout, and two-time captain of both his high school and club hockey teams (hockey was a 25-30 hour a week commitment for all 4 years of high school).[/quote]

Yea I’d be disappointed too, honestly.  Those aren’t great choices.  No way it was just the essay.

Why didn’t he apply to LACs slightly below Amherst and Williams?  It’s like you had all reaches and safeties and no matches.   Or did you assume that UVA was a match?[/quote]

It turns out that Northeastern was a very good fit for him, and came through with a very good merit aid package.  So I am very happy with the way that turned out (and, more importantly, he is too).  I went to Williams, so I was pretty disappointed that he didn't get in there, though the admissions rate this year was mind-boggling low.  He applied to Williams and Amherst in hopes of playing hockey there.  Otherwise, they were a little small for what he wanted and didn't specifically have a business major, which is what he was interested in.  Not getting into UVa was stunning to me, given his profile.  Nothing but green checks around him in Naviance, and historically the full IB students with good grades all got in.  Obviously that changed this year.  If the merit aid package from Northeastern hadn't come through, he might have gone the junior hockey route and applied again in a few years.  But this is a good path for him.[/quote]

Are you saying that a student with stats as high as his and who is as good at hockey as you say he is and is a Williams Legacy wouldn’t have been accepted to Williams to play hockey? That seems so odd to me. I continue to think something is missing. Especially because of the UVA rejection. It’s mind boggling.[/quote]

The path to college hockey is much more convoluted than for most sports.  Almost all players have to go through at least 1 or 2 seasons of junior hockey before playing NCAA hockey, and many players aren't even recruited until they have already turned 20.  So the Williams coach, whom my son had met, might have been interested in him, but not for at least a few more years.  He simply applied Regular Decision.[/quote]

Ah ok I get it. Did your son apply anywhere early decision?  [/quote]

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