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Anonymous wrote:My kid is a bit more average than most, but we are really excited for University of Arizona (amazing merit!)

Admitted to:
Ohio State
Indiana
Wisconsin
Clemson
Penn State
Miami (Ohio)
Towson

It made the most financial sense and she is 10/10 excited!!

Congrats. An "average" kid is not getting into Wisconsin or Clemson. Ask me how I know.... At our highly rate FCPS HS, it takes over a 4.1W to get into those schools. A more average kid with a 3.5-3.7W GPA is getting into Towson, JMU, UMW, Hood type places. Anyway, congrats on great results. We visited UofA, nice place!

"At our highly rate FCPS HS" So rude with the hood cmt. The OP TOLD YOU, their kids acceptance's. There are so many students in FCPS.... Her child could be at a much smaller school with strong/established connections with those schools. Where will you child be attending in the fall? Alabama?!

NP. I noticed you only bolded Hood… you know that’s a college’s name, right? On par with UMW and Towson… hence Hood, not ‘hood?

Ha, ha. Oh my, now I see why that poster was making the "rude" comment. She must not know about Hood.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is a bit more average than most, but we are really excited for University of Arizona (amazing merit!)

Admitted to:
Ohio State
Indiana
Wisconsin
Clemson
Penn State
Miami (Ohio)
Towson

It made the most financial sense and she is 10/10 excited!!

Congrats. An "average" kid is not getting into Wisconsin or Clemson. Ask me how I know.... At our highly rate FCPS HS, it takes over a 4.1W to get into those schools. A more average kid with a 3.5-3.7W GPA is getting into Towson, JMU, UMW, Hood type places. Anyway, congrats on great results. We visited UofA, nice place!

"At our highly rate FCPS HS" So rude with the hood cmt. The OP TOLD YOU, their kids acceptance's. There are so many students in FCPS.... Her child could be at a much smaller school with strong/established connections with those schools. Where will you child be attending in the fall? Alabama?!

NP. I noticed you only bolded Hood… you know that’s a college’s name, right? On par with UMW and Towson… hence Hood, not ‘hood?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is a bit more average than most, but we are really excited for University of Arizona (amazing merit!)

Admitted to:
Ohio State
Indiana
Wisconsin
Clemson
Penn State
Miami (Ohio)
Towson

It made the most financial sense and she is 10/10 excited!!

Congrats. An "average" kid is not getting into Wisconsin or Clemson. Ask me how I know.... At our highly rate FCPS HS, it takes over a 4.1W to get into those schools. A more average kid with a 3.5-3.7W GPA is getting into Towson, JMU, UMW, Hood type places. Anyway, congrats on great results. We visited UofA, nice place!

"At our highly rate FCPS HS" So rude with the hood cmt. The OP TOLD YOU, their kids acceptance's. There are so many students in FCPS.... Her child could be at a much smaller school with strong/established connections with those schools. Where will you child be attending in the fall? Alabama?!

I do not understand your response. I am this poster. My DC is one who is going to a school like Hood - similar acceptance/graduation rate. Just saying that the above average students are going to those schools the PP mentioned. I was making the point that students like mine who are average are not getting into schools like Ohio State, Indiana or Wisconsin.

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Anonymous wrote:NC State! (We're having a fun March Madness)

Other accepted options: Penn State, VA Tech, W&M
Waitlisted at UVA

4.4 gpa, 1520 SAT, 10 APs (and 2 post-APs), varsity sports, majoring in Engineering/CS

I bet you are This Tar Heel is rooting for you guys!

As a Blue Devil I don't usually agree with a Tar Heel.....but go Wolfpack!!

As a Tarheel who became a Blue Devil for grad school....go Wolfpack from me too! NC State is a terrific school.

I’m (I guess) one of the few onboard NCSU alum….so I’ll take it! Thanks!

The Triangle universities are truly phenomenal. NC residents have no idea how fortunate they are. Congrats to all who got into any of them!!

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Anonymous wrote:NC State! (We're having a fun March Madness)

Other accepted options: Penn State, VA Tech, W&M
Waitlisted at UVA

4.4 gpa, 1520 SAT, 10 APs (and 2 post-APs), varsity sports, majoring in Engineering/CS

I bet you are This Tar Heel is rooting for you guys!

As a Blue Devil I don't usually agree with a Tar Heel.....but go Wolfpack!!

As a Tarheel who became a Blue Devil for grad school....go Wolfpack from me too! NC State is a terrific school.

Anonymous wrote:Stats: 4.5 wgpa; 1530 SAT

Accepted: W&M, UVA, Ohio State, Lehigh, Clemson, Villanova, Florida State, University of Florida, Virginia Tech, Penn State, Tulane, UGA

Waitlists: None

Rejected: University of Pennsylvania

Choosing: University of Florida

Go Gators!

Congratulations! We have very similiar results and kid is also headed to UF! However, our rejection was Carnegie Mellon (did not apply to Ivies).

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Anonymous wrote:Yale - rejected from Stanford and Princeton

accepted: Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Amherst, WashU, USC, UVA - OOS, Georgetown, Boston U

7/10

Sure you did.

Someones bitter... where did your kids get into? Congrats PP!

Anonymous wrote:Yale - rejected from Stanford and Princeton

accepted: Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Amherst, WashU, USC, UVA - OOS, Georgetown, Boston U

7/10

Sure you did.

Tulane. ED2.
Thrilled- 10.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is a bit more average than most, but we are really excited for University of Arizona (amazing merit!)

Admitted to:
Ohio State
Indiana
Wisconsin
Clemson
Penn State
Miami (Ohio)
Towson

It made the most financial sense and she is 10/10 excited!!

Congrats. An "average" kid is not getting into Wisconsin or Clemson. Ask me how I know.... At our highly rate FCPS HS, it takes over a 4.1W to get into those schools. A more average kid with a 3.5-3.7W GPA is getting into Towson, JMU, UMW, Hood type places. Anyway, congrats on great results. We visited UofA, nice place!

"At our highly rate FCPS HS" So rude with the hood cmt. The OP TOLD YOU, their kids acceptance's. There are so many students in FCPS.... Her child could be at a much smaller school with strong/established connections with those schools. Where will you child be attending in the fall? Alabama?!

Yale - rejected from Stanford and Princeton

accepted: Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Amherst, WashU, USC, UVA - OOS, Georgetown, Boston U

7/10

Davidson

Accepted to Amherst, Carleton, CMC, Colby, Georgetown (REA), Tufts, WashU and W&M

Rejected at a bunch of schools including Williams and Pomona

Super excited to be a WildCat!

Anonymous wrote:DC deciding between Stanford and Harvard (leaning Stanford). Waiting for visit weekends before committing.

Congrats! my DC was deciding between those 2 as well a few years ago, picked Stanford and absolutely LOVES it there. Went sight unseen - no in person admit days (Covid) and had never visited.

Anonymous wrote:Headed to Harvard in the fall. Also accepted to Yale, Penn, and Dartmouth. Can't wait to see the great things he does!

I am so sorry for your child.

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Anonymous wrote:Smith College

Go Smithy. Have a friend's who's daughter is deciding between Smith W&M and UMD

My current junior DD adored Smith on our tour, and has the stats to throw her hat in the ring for ED, but there’s no way we could afford it even if she did get in.

Now hunting for similarly academic schools that offer merit aid. She particularly liked the decentralized housing and dining systems at Smith.

This was my thinking during junior year. But it turns out that SLACS, and especially those with large endowments, often give a lot of money. In our case, those schools gave more than the big state schools with merit scholarships. A pleasant surprise! All of this is to say that you may want to apply and see what you get from
Smith.

In their info session, Smith said specifically they don’t offer merit scholarships. And we make just a bit too much to get any financial aid.

I think Vassar, her other favorite, will be the same.

MHC?

My kid got into MHC and Smith--big merit scholarship from MHC, small need-based (?) from Smith. She's probably going to end up at W&M out of state, but honestly MHC would cost less.