Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:49     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Wanted to put my average kids schools out there for other parents.

Reach South Carolina (Deferred)
Target Pitt (admitted)
Safety WVU, Arizona, Kentucky, Iowa and a few others. (admitted to all)


Was this for business or for another major?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:48     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
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Anonymous wrote:Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM


I like this one.


I like this too!

Ours is Reach: MIT and Bowdoin
Target: Bryn Mawr and University of Toronto
Safety: UVM and URI

We are DC residents.

Can you explain how? It seems like you can’t choose between big rigorous hard colleges and easy liberal arts schools. They have nothing in common


What can I say-- my kid "contains multitudes". She has compelling reasons to go to any of them.

Anyway, I consider neither Bowdoin, nor Bryn Mawr "easy"-- she plans to major in math and evidently both schools have exceptional math programs that she is excited to be a part of.


Bryn Mawr absolutely. Careful with Bowdoin, especially if she is coming in with post-AP math. My math major loves the school itself but has been limited by course availability - lots of faculty leaves in an already tiny department.


Woah-- thanks for the heads up! Hope Bowdoin can right the ship and get excellent new staff for its math department.

Their math faculty come from really underwhelming schools like University of Oklahoma and Manhattan college. This confirms to me that bowdoin is a much lower tier than people put on.

Threw up in my mouth


Had to look this up. The Manhattan College guy went on to get a PhD in Math from Brandeis. Is this really so horrible? He probably has a 200 IQ.
https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/r.maresca/index.html
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:42     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Reach
UVA, Wake, UMD, UNC
Target
VA Tech, Pitt, Penn
Safety
Binghamton, JMU and Delaware


Surely you mean Penn State, not Penn.


My kids name is not Luigi. Not UPENN, Penn State

Weird wording but lol'ed at this
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:41     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Reach
UVA, Wake, UMD, UNC
Target
VA Tech, Pitt, Penn
Safety
Binghamton, JMU and Delaware


Surely you mean Penn State, not Penn.


My kids name is not Luigi. Not UPENN, Penn State
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:38     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
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Anonymous wrote:Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM


I like this one.


I like this too!

Ours is Reach: MIT and Bowdoin
Target: Bryn Mawr and University of Toronto
Safety: UVM and URI

We are DC residents.

Can you explain how? It seems like you can’t choose between big rigorous hard colleges and easy liberal arts schools. They have nothing in common


What can I say-- my kid "contains multitudes". She has compelling reasons to go to any of them.

Anyway, I consider neither Bowdoin, nor Bryn Mawr "easy"-- she plans to major in math and evidently both schools have exceptional math programs that she is excited to be a part of.


Bryn Mawr absolutely. Careful with Bowdoin, especially if she is coming in with post-AP math. My math major loves the school itself but has been limited by course availability - lots of faculty leaves in an already tiny department.


Woah-- thanks for the heads up! Hope Bowdoin can right the ship and get excellent new staff for its math department.

Their math faculty come from really underwhelming schools like University of Oklahoma and Manhattan college. This confirms to me that bowdoin is a much lower tier than people put on.

Really? That’s pretty dismal if they can’t hire top talent.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:38     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Reach
UVA, Wake, UMD, UNC
Target
VA Tech, Pitt, Penn
Safety
Binghamton, JMU and Delaware


Surely you mean Penn State, not Penn.

DP.
Calm the f--- down.


NP -- I had the same (calm) thought regarding the Penn acceptance.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:33     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM


I like this one.


I like this too!

Ours is Reach: MIT and Bowdoin
Target: Bryn Mawr and University of Toronto
Safety: UVM and URI

We are DC residents.

Can you explain how? It seems like you can’t choose between big rigorous hard colleges and easy liberal arts schools. They have nothing in common


What can I say-- my kid "contains multitudes". She has compelling reasons to go to any of them.

Anyway, I consider neither Bowdoin, nor Bryn Mawr "easy"-- she plans to major in math and evidently both schools have exceptional math programs that she is excited to be a part of.


Bryn Mawr absolutely. Careful with Bowdoin, especially if she is coming in with post-AP math. My math major loves the school itself but has been limited by course availability - lots of faculty leaves in an already tiny department.


Woah-- thanks for the heads up! Hope Bowdoin can right the ship and get excellent new staff for its math department.


Sorry, I meant like sabbaticals not that people have left entirely. The timing has just been off for her to get the classes she wants/needs.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:30     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Reach
UVA, Wake, UMD, UNC
Target
VA Tech, Pitt, Penn
Safety
Binghamton, JMU and Delaware


Surely you mean Penn State, not Penn.

DP.
Calm the f--- down.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:30     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Reach
UVA, Wake, UMD, UNC
Target
VA Tech, Pitt, Penn
Safety
Binghamton, JMU and Delaware


Surely you mean Penn State, not Penn.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:30     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Reach
UVA, Wake, UMD, UNC
Target
VA Tech, Pitt (accepted), Penn (accepted)
Safety
Binghamton (accepted), JMU and Delaware (accepted)
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:28     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Reach
UVA, Wake, UMD, UNC
Target
VA Tech, Pitt, Penn
Safety
Binghamton, JMU and Delaware
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:25     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM


I like this one.


I like this too!

Ours is Reach: MIT and Bowdoin
Target: Bryn Mawr and University of Toronto
Safety: UVM and URI

We are DC residents.

Can you explain how? It seems like you can’t choose between big rigorous hard colleges and easy liberal arts schools. They have nothing in common


What can I say-- my kid "contains multitudes". She has compelling reasons to go to any of them.

Anyway, I consider neither Bowdoin, nor Bryn Mawr "easy"-- she plans to major in math and evidently both schools have exceptional math programs that she is excited to be a part of.


Bryn Mawr absolutely. Careful with Bowdoin, especially if she is coming in with post-AP math. My math major loves the school itself but has been limited by course availability - lots of faculty leaves in an already tiny department.


Woah-- thanks for the heads up! Hope Bowdoin can right the ship and get excellent new staff for its math department.

Their math faculty come from really underwhelming schools like University of Oklahoma and Manhattan college. This confirms to me that bowdoin is a much lower tier than people put on.

Threw up in my mouth
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:24     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM


I like this one.


I like this too!

Ours is Reach: MIT and Bowdoin
Target: Bryn Mawr and University of Toronto
Safety: UVM and URI

We are DC residents.

Can you explain how? It seems like you can’t choose between big rigorous hard colleges and easy liberal arts schools. They have nothing in common


What can I say-- my kid "contains multitudes". She has compelling reasons to go to any of them.

Anyway, I consider neither Bowdoin, nor Bryn Mawr "easy"-- she plans to major in math and evidently both schools have exceptional math programs that she is excited to be a part of.


Bryn Mawr absolutely. Careful with Bowdoin, especially if she is coming in with post-AP math. My math major loves the school itself but has been limited by course availability - lots of faculty leaves in an already tiny department.


Woah-- thanks for the heads up! Hope Bowdoin can right the ship and get excellent new staff for its math department.

Their math faculty come from really underwhelming schools like University of Oklahoma and Manhattan college. This confirms to me that bowdoin is a much lower tier than people put on.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:23     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Rare profile on DCUM
2.5UW/2.7W NOVA public, 1110
Reach: Charleston (denied)
Target/Reach: Coastal Carolina (deferred from EA); ECU, WVU, ODU, Radford (accepted all)
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 13:22     Subject: Re:What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:
my kid has 1570 SAT (800m, 770r), 4.0 UW, all 5s on APs with great leadership on ECs over several years along with an internship in is field of study.

Yet I consider every school a toss up between the standard "reach" schools that are reaches for everyone and the other schools which should be safety schools, but who would look at him and think "he's not coming" and deny him.

This process sucks.


Binding ED would help since it shows interest - did he?


None of the schools in his top 3 had ED so he didn't do binding ED.