Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An uptick in waitlists. I think universities are going to struggle figuring out yield this year. The trend to apply to lots and lots of schools is continuing.

More schools admitting the majority of their students from ED/EA rounds

VA Tech sent out an email yesterday (after the deadline) saying RD will be on a space available basis.

What exactly is "lots and lots?"

My kid only applied to 2 and will re-asses after the Dec result.

My 2024 HS grad applied to 17…and then got into 16. It was way too many and a total waste of application fees. I hope the trend starts normalizing.

Anonymous wrote:An uptick in waitlists. I think universities are going to struggle figuring out yield this year. The trend to apply to lots and lots of schools is continuing.

More schools admitting the majority of their students from ED/EA rounds

VA Tech sent out an email yesterday (after the deadline) saying RD will be on a space available basis.

What exactly is "lots and lots?"

Anonymous wrote:An uptick in waitlists. I think universities are going to struggle figuring out yield this year. The trend to apply to lots and lots of schools is continuing.

More schools admitting the majority of their students from ED/EA rounds

VA Tech sent out an email yesterday (after the deadline) saying RD will be on a space available basis.

DP. Further preventing students from lower financial means to apply ($60-90/college application fee)

Anonymous wrote:Look for lessons learned thread

Link??

Anonymous wrote:An uptick in waitlists. I think universities are going to struggle figuring out yield this year. The trend to apply to lots and lots of schools is continuing.

More schools admitting the majority of their students from ED/EA rounds

VA Tech sent out an email yesterday (after the deadline) saying RD will be on a space available basis.

VA Tech has done this the last few years.

An uptick in waitlists. I think universities are going to struggle figuring out yield this year. The trend to apply to lots and lots of schools is continuing.

More schools admitting the majority of their students from ED/EA rounds

VA Tech sent out an email yesterday (after the deadline) saying RD will be on a space available basis.

How much of what's been discussed here has been coming true for class of '26 families?

I think state schools will be the way to go and have high application rates. The better ones will be hard to get into.

Anonymous wrote:we will prioritize state schools since our 529s will have declined so much under the "trump slump" that we won't be able to be full pay ....

I would expect cost and the trump recession to impact a lot of college strategies.

If you have your 529 invested in equities with a kid in class of 26, you should consider moving it mostly to the money market and portfolio for education today. You’ll be fine there.

Anonymous wrote:we will prioritize state schools since our 529s will have declined so much under the "trump slump" that we won't be able to be full pay ....

I would expect cost and the trump recession to impact a lot of college strategies.

Yep. My kid wants to transfer out of his $90k/top private in the athletic transfer portal to another school which is much lower cost. Pre- all of this Trump/elon crap I would have said he’s absolutely crazy to leave the school…now with everything up in the air not so much lol

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In-state with so many tied up in the Fed govt- either as a Fed or a contractor, etc.

$90k/year becomes way too tight —so that’s the top10s/20s …poof …and no most won’t qualify for aid

So what does this all mean for the guaranteed full pay student? Is there an even higher advantage if you are full pay?

Yes.

we will prioritize state schools since our 529s will have declined so much under the "trump slump" that we won't be able to be full pay ....

I would expect cost and the trump recession to impact a lot of college strategies.

Anonymous wrote:In-state with so many tied up in the Fed govt- either as a Fed or a contractor, etc.

$90k/year becomes way too tight —so that’s the top10s/20s …poof …and no most won’t qualify for aid

So what does this all mean for the guaranteed full pay student? Is there an even higher advantage if you are full pay?

In-state with so many tied up in the Fed govt- either as a Fed or a contractor, etc.

$90k/year becomes way too tight —so that’s the top10s/20s …poof …and no most won’t qualify for aid

if anyone was thinking of going need blind for international students, that's off the table. (I'm sure schools that just moved to that - like ND - are kicking themselves)