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Anonymous wrote:Accepted Harvard, Yale. Waitlisted Princeton.

Princeton sux (they did you a favor by not accepting). What does DC plan to study?

DC also was accepted to Stanford REA. Loves CS but also equally loves Math, Econ, and Urban Studies (which is what his main EC was about). I’m hoping he picks something on the east coast. We’ll visit during admit weekends, talk to people he knows at each school before deciding.

There are few colleges that open as many doors as Stanford. (And I didn't go there.) Are you hoping for an east coast school to keep him close to home?

A friend of DCs chose Yale over Stanford, and Stanford was REA. It happens.

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Anonymous wrote:DS accepted by Dartmouth, his only Ivy app. Gonna be a hard choice between it and some great LACs.

Congrats to the fortunate and my commiserations to the unfortunate! It really does feel like a crapshoot. DS was denied outright by his first choice in ED, which has a higher acceptance rate than three of the schools he has since been admitted to in RD. He had a great application, but no traditional hooks.

Barring Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, and Pomona--this should not be a discussion. Dartmouth.

Even if these SLACs were in play, would still choose Dartmouth over them.

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted Harvard, Yale. Waitlisted Princeton.

Princeton sux (they did you a favor by not accepting). What does DC plan to study?

DC also was accepted to Stanford REA. Loves CS but also equally loves Math, Econ, and Urban Studies (which is what his main EC was about). I’m hoping he picks something on the east coast. We’ll visit during admit weekends, talk to people he knows at each school before deciding.

There are few colleges that open as many doors as Stanford. (And I didn't go there.) Are you hoping for an east coast school to keep him close to home?

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted Harvard, Yale. Waitlisted Princeton.

Princeton sux (they did you a favor by not accepting). What does DC plan to study?

DC also was accepted to Stanford REA. Loves CS but also equally loves Math, Econ, and Urban Studies (which is what his main EC was about). I’m hoping he picks something on the east coast. We’ll visit during admit weekends, talk to people he knows at each school before deciding.

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Anonymous wrote:DS accepted by Dartmouth, his only Ivy app. Gonna be a hard choice between it and some great LACs.

Congrats to the fortunate and my commiserations to the unfortunate! It really does feel like a crapshoot. DS was denied outright by his first choice in ED, which has a higher acceptance rate than three of the schools he has since been admitted to in RD. He had a great application, but no traditional hooks.

Barring Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, and Pomona--this should not be a discussion. Dartmouth.

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted Harvard, Yale. Waitlisted Princeton.

Princeton sux (they did you a favor by not accepting). What does DC plan to study?

Anonymous wrote:DS accepted by Dartmouth, his only Ivy app. Gonna be a hard choice between it and some great LACs.

Congrats to the fortunate and my commiserations to the unfortunate! It really does feel like a crapshoot. DS was denied outright by his first choice in ED, which has a higher acceptance rate than three of the schools he has since been admitted to in RD. He had a great application, but no traditional hooks.

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Anonymous wrote:DD got rejected from all 8 and collapsed sobbing on the floor. A tad dramatic, I’d say. Perhaps she should have applied to Juilliard…

Bad troll attempt. C-

If they are not a troll, they applied badly. No one should want to go to both Dartmouth and Columbia.

You have a crazy view that the only criterion that matters is the size of the city a college is in. Maybe Columbia & Dartmouth both have kickass Balkan history professors, or both have great fencing teams. Or they both have special dorm rooms for people who are allergic to some chemical. Maybe the applicant has a grandparent near both schools.

These are all hypothetical, but the point is there are a range of criteria, & not everybody prioritizes them the same.

Burt Reynolds was married to skinny Judy Carne & buxom Loni Anderson. Under your view, maybe he was crazy because the only thing that matters to you is bust size. But maybe he liked them both because they were funny. Or smart. Or smelled good. Everybody has different priorities.

I agree with PP...there is too much trophy hunting with Ivy applications. If the two schools both have equally great things, then it is all the other things you want from college that matter. So, if you want an urban environment, you would be very unhappy with Dartmouth. Opposite, if you want a rural college experience.

Unfortunately, I know too many parents/kids that want ANY Ivy over any other school...what the kid wants from the college experience be damned.

But who’s to say the urban/rural criterion trumps all other criteria?

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Anonymous wrote:DD got rejected from all 8 and collapsed sobbing on the floor. A tad dramatic, I’d say. Perhaps she should have applied to Juilliard…

Bad troll attempt. C-

If they are not a troll, they applied badly. No one should want to go to both Dartmouth and Columbia.

You have a crazy view that the only criterion that matters is the size of the city a college is in. Maybe Columbia & Dartmouth both have kickass Balkan history professors, or both have great fencing teams. Or they both have special dorm rooms for people who are allergic to some chemical. Maybe the applicant has a grandparent near both schools.

These are all hypothetical, but the point is there are a range of criteria, & not everybody prioritizes them the same.

Burt Reynolds was married to skinny Judy Carne & buxom Loni Anderson. Under your view, maybe he was crazy because the only thing that matters to you is bust size. But maybe he liked them both because they were funny. Or smart. Or smelled good. Everybody has different priorities.

I agree with PP...there is too much trophy hunting with Ivy applications. If the two schools both have equally great things, then it is all the other things you want from college that matter. So, if you want an urban environment, you would be very unhappy with Dartmouth. Opposite, if you want a rural college experience.

Unfortunately, I know too many parents/kids that want ANY Ivy over any other school...what the kid wants from the college experience be damned.

But who’s to say the urban/rural criterion trumps all other criteria?

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Anonymous wrote:DD got rejected from all 8 and collapsed sobbing on the floor. A tad dramatic, I’d say. Perhaps she should have applied to Juilliard…

Bad troll attempt. C-

If they are not a troll, they applied badly. No one should want to go to both Dartmouth and Columbia.

You have a crazy view that the only criterion that matters is the size of the city a college is in. Maybe Columbia & Dartmouth both have kickass Balkan history professors, or both have great fencing teams. Or they both have special dorm rooms for people who are allergic to some chemical. Maybe the applicant has a grandparent near both schools.

These are all hypothetical, but the point is there are a range of criteria, & not everybody prioritizes them the same.

Burt Reynolds was married to skinny Judy Carne & buxom Loni Anderson. Under your view, maybe he was crazy because the only thing that matters to you is bust size. But maybe he liked them both because they were funny. Or smart. Or smelled good. Everybody has different priorities.

I agree with PP...there is too much trophy hunting with Ivy applications. If the two schools both have equally great things, then it is all the other things you want from college that matter. So, if you want an urban environment, you would be very unhappy with Dartmouth. Opposite, if you want a rural college experience.

Unfortunately, I know too many parents/kids that want ANY Ivy over any other school...what the kid wants from the college experience be damned.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s see, $100k for four years at UMD or one year at a top school. Hmmm…

Mine is at Ivy for less than UMD cost. Great FA for middle class

Doubt it.

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Anonymous wrote:In Harvard, no hooks.

Congrats

Harvard really in a league of own!

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Anonymous wrote:DD got rejected from all 8 and collapsed sobbing on the floor. A tad dramatic, I’d say. Perhaps she should have applied to Juilliard…

Bad troll attempt. C-

If they are not a troll, they applied badly. No one should want to go to both Dartmouth and Columbia.

You have a crazy view that the only criterion that matters is the size of the city a college is in. Maybe Columbia & Dartmouth both have kickass Balkan history professors, or both have great fencing teams. Or they both have special dorm rooms for people who are allergic to some chemical. Maybe the applicant has a grandparent near both schools.

These are all hypothetical, but the point is there are a range of criteria, & not everybody prioritizes them the same.

Burt Reynolds was married to skinny Judy Carne & buxom Loni Anderson. Under your view, maybe he was crazy because the only thing that matters to you is bust size. But maybe he liked them both because they were funny. Or smart. Or smelled good. Everybody has different priorities.