Anonymous
05/27/2025 09:32
Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WLs all done. None came through.
DC is heading to a school w/ 80% admit. Stats, awards, research and still waitlisted everywhere. Transfer plans are in the works. Anyone else in the same boat?
name the schools or don’t post - this is a waste of our time without you naming the schools. Cardinal rule of DCUM, name the school or don’t bother
Not accepted:
- Yale
- Brown
- Gtown
- Columbia
- Emory
- NYU
- Northeastern
- BC
- W&M (In-state)
- UVA (In-state)
- Vanderbilt
- Richmond
Admitted:
- VCU
- JMU
- GMU
- Rutgers
- PSU
- Drexel
- Hofstra
- Syracuse
Will not be disclosing which she will attend.
If she goes to JMU, I gurantee she will want to stay. Guarantee it.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return
Data is available these days.
JMU is relatively not bad in retention (90%) for a mediocre school. 1 of 10 gets out so of course no guarantee. Syracuse has th same rate and PennState is better.
PennState benefits by being by far the best in state public option for PA.
Disagree. I transferred from PSU with a 4.0 to Pitt. Happy Valley isn't so great for everyone.
One random exception does not negate what PP said. PSU is hugely popular. Of course there will be unhappy kids at popular schools.
Anonymous
05/26/2025 19:15
Subject: No WL movement---done
I stopped reading after I saw that the acceptance list. On what planet are Syracuse and Penn State not good schools???
Tell her to pick one and both of you need to be happy about it!
Tell her to pick one and both of you need to be happy about it!
Anonymous
05/26/2025 17:20
Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WLs all done. None came through.
DC is heading to a school w/ 80% admit. Stats, awards, research and still waitlisted everywhere. Transfer plans are in the works. Anyone else in the same boat?
name the schools or don’t post - this is a waste of our time without you naming the schools. Cardinal rule of DCUM, name the school or don’t bother
Not accepted:
- Yale
- Brown
- Gtown
- Columbia
- Emory
- NYU
- Northeastern
- BC
- W&M (In-state)
- UVA (In-state)
- Vanderbilt
- Richmond
Admitted:
- VCU
- JMU
- GMU
- Rutgers
- PSU
- Drexel
- Hofstra
- Syracuse
Will not be disclosing which she will attend.
Based on the rejections and where your kid was admitted, I hate to say it but she applied ambitiously. I bet if she had GW, American, Tulane, etc. she would have gotten one of those.
Or she should have used her ED at her preference of UVA or WM. Instead I bet she ED'd to Princeton.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 21:49
Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WLs all done. None came through.
DC is heading to a school w/ 80% admit. Stats, awards, research and still waitlisted everywhere. Transfer plans are in the works. Anyone else in the same boat?
name the schools or don’t post - this is a waste of our time without you naming the schools. Cardinal rule of DCUM, name the school or don’t bother
Not accepted:
- Yale
- Brown
- Gtown
- Columbia
- Emory
- NYU
- Northeastern
- BC
- W&M (In-state)
- UVA (In-state)
- Vanderbilt
- Richmond
Admitted:
- VCU
- JMU
- GMU
- Rutgers
- PSU
- Drexel
- Hofstra
- Syracuse
Will not be disclosing which she will attend.
If she goes to JMU, I gurantee she will want to stay. Guarantee it.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return
Data is available these days.
JMU is relatively not bad in retention (90%) for a mediocre school. 1 of 10 gets out so of course no guarantee. Syracuse has th same rate and PennState is better.
PennState benefits by being by far the best in state public option for PA.
Disagree. I transferred from PSU with a 4.0 to Pitt. Happy Valley isn't so great for everyone.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 21:44
Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WLs all done. None came through.
DC is heading to a school w/ 80% admit. Stats, awards, research and still waitlisted everywhere. Transfer plans are in the works. Anyone else in the same boat?
name the schools or don’t post - this is a waste of our time without you naming the schools. Cardinal rule of DCUM, name the school or don’t bother
Not accepted:
- Yale
- Brown
- Gtown
- Columbia
- Emory
- NYU
- Northeastern
- BC
- W&M (In-state)
- UVA (In-state)
- Vanderbilt
- Richmond
Admitted:
- VCU
- JMU
- GMU
- Rutgers
- PSU
- Drexel
- Hofstra
- Syracuse
Will not be disclosing which she will attend.
If she goes to JMU, I gurantee she will want to stay. Guarantee it.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return
Data is available these days.
JMU is relatively not bad in retention (90%) for a mediocre school. 1 of 10 gets out so of course no guarantee. Syracuse has th same rate and PennState is better.
PennState benefits by being by far the best in state public option for PA.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 21:07
Subject: No WL movement---done
Ohio?
Anonymous
05/25/2025 20:44
Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WLs all done. None came through.
DC is heading to a school w/ 80% admit. Stats, awards, research and still waitlisted everywhere. Transfer plans are in the works. Anyone else in the same boat?
name the schools or don’t post - this is a waste of our time without you naming the schools. Cardinal rule of DCUM, name the school or don’t bother
Not accepted:
- Yale
- Brown
- Gtown
- Columbia
- Emory
- NYU
- Northeastern
- BC
- W&M (In-state)
- UVA (In-state)
- Vanderbilt
- Richmond
Admitted:
- VCU
- JMU
- GMU
- Rutgers
- PSU
- Drexel
- Hofstra
- Syracuse
Will not be disclosing which she will attend.
If she goes to JMU, I gurantee she will want to stay. Guarantee it.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return
Data is available these days.
JMU is relatively not bad in retention (90%) for a mediocre school. 1 of 10 gets out so of course no guarantee. Syracuse has th same rate and PennState is better.
Rutgers and Ohio are also better.
Ohio would be the best bet for wanting to stay.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 20:38
Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WLs all done. None came through.
DC is heading to a school w/ 80% admit. Stats, awards, research and still waitlisted everywhere. Transfer plans are in the works. Anyone else in the same boat?
name the schools or don’t post - this is a waste of our time without you naming the schools. Cardinal rule of DCUM, name the school or don’t bother
Not accepted:
- Yale
- Brown
- Gtown
- Columbia
- Emory
- NYU
- Northeastern
- BC
- W&M (In-state)
- UVA (In-state)
- Vanderbilt
- Richmond
Admitted:
- VCU
- JMU
- GMU
- Rutgers
- PSU
- Drexel
- Hofstra
- Syracuse
Will not be disclosing which she will attend.
If she goes to JMU, I gurantee she will want to stay. Guarantee it.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return
Data is available these days.
JMU is relatively not bad in retention (90%) for a mediocre school. 1 of 10 gets out so of course no guarantee. Syracuse has th same rate and PennState is better.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 20:22
Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Your DC is going to go to her school thinking she’s better than everyone there and she doesn’t belong there. It won’t be true. Be the adult here.
Kids can find their academic peer group at hundreds of schools. With the way admissions has evolved over the past 30 years, more and more schools will have cohorts of top academic kids because T-10 can only take so many.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 19:00
Subject: No WL movement---done
Your DC is going to go to her school thinking she’s better than everyone there and she doesn’t belong there. It won’t be true. Be the adult here.
Anonymous
05/25/2025 18:59
Subject: No WL movement---done
I missed where she was waitlisted, OP. Can you list her WLs?
Anonymous
05/25/2025 18:46
Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Plenty of solid acceptances on that list of eight schools! I don’t know why you suggested the student was only admitted to one safety school.
Your kid couldn’t get excited about PSU or Syracuse? I don’t see the need to focus on transferring under these circumstances? The post feels kind of deceptive, it’s not as dire as suggested.
Or Rutgers. It's a good school!