Anonymous wrote:We were at a Junior admission panel meeting last week at our HS. It was made up of 4 seniors and 4 admissions reps. One of the seniors applied to 23 schools and I think the others were between 12 and 18.

Wow- interesting that those kids were chosen by counselors to “represent” students as a norm.

We were at a Junior admission panel meeting last week at our HS. It was made up of 4 seniors and 4 admissions reps. One of the seniors applied to 23 schools and I think the others were between 12 and 18.

Anonymous wrote:Tons of kids in my daughters school have still not committed.

Plus some sent a deposit in on a school not committed to as wait listed the schools they want to attend.

My neighbors daughter accepted 17 schools and has not withdrawn one offer. Still on fence. 14 gave her Merit money.

My daughter is not attending the four highest ranked schools she got into.

Until they mail tuition check the deposit is meaningless.

Sorry applying to 17 schools is nuts. No wonder she hasn't made a choice yet. What 18 year old could without limits. You've just made it harder.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read the comments of racists among us who posted in the following thread (there are many good people who defended the URMs and criticized the racist comments). The racists are strangely silent about the student who accepted 17 admission offers with 14 schools offering merit scholarships. I hope they show the same restraint in future with respect to URMs getting acceptance offers from multiple schools.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/719331.page

I don't really get the connection here to race at all. No one is questioning the kid being admitted to 17 schools, only that the student apparently accepted the offers of admission which presumably requires a deposit to each. I know they aren't huge $ (my DC's enrollment deposit was $300) but when you multiply that by 17 it's over $5000. I would have expected my kid to narrow down the list before forking over $300 per school. We don't know the race of the kid in question and don't really care.

Maybe the PP who posted about this neighbor kid can provide some insight on why the kid accepted 17 offers.

Here is my explanation. Yes, people commented only in terms of the money required to pay 17 deposits to those 17 schools. And I don't mean at all these commenters are racist. In fact, I don't this such comments indicate they may be racist. What I am saying is, nobody commented that 17 universities, though unnamed, could be very different in terms of FIT. Nobody commented the student was trophy collecting. Nobody commented she was taking away opportunities from her classmates by not only applying to 17 universities but also siting on 17 acceptances by paying deposits and not releasing even one university. That is because the racists in the thread I quoted are silent about this student's case. When you read the thread I quoted, you see those racists (some of whom went to Ivies and yet sadly never learned enough to shed their racist outlook) lamented about the URMs applying to all 8 ivies without regard to the "FIT", taking away opportunities from others (may be they are jealous because in spite of so many advantages they bestowed on their snowflakes, their snowflakes couldn't get into even the lowest of the low ivies!), the URMs were trophy hunting, called the media and advertised themselves to the whole world, etc. I understand this is an anonymous board so people feel free to express their true feelings. But I never knew there are people with such dark minds masquerading as civilized people in the society. I feel bad for the URMs and I am not even an URM.

Harvard.

I think they were trying to say she was accepted at 17 schools and 14 gave merit aid not that she put in 17 deposits because she couldn't narrow things at all.

Anonymous wrote:Read the comments of racists among us who posted in the following thread (there are many good people who defended the URMs and criticized the racist comments). The racists are strangely silent about the student who accepted 17 admission offers with 14 schools offering merit scholarships. I hope they show the same restraint in future with respect to URMs getting acceptance offers from multiple schools.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/719331.page

I don't really get the connection here to race at all. No one is questioning the kid being admitted to 17 schools, only that the student apparently accepted the offers of admission which presumably requires a deposit to each. I know they aren't huge $ (my DC's enrollment deposit was $300) but when you multiply that by 17 it's over $5000. I would have expected my kid to narrow down the list before forking over $300 per school. We don't know the race of the kid in question and don't really care.

Maybe the PP who posted about this neighbor kid can provide some insight on why the kid accepted 17 offers.

Read the comments of racists among us who posted in the following thread (there are many good people who defended the URMs and criticized the racist comments). The racists are strangely silent about the student who accepted 17 admission offers with 14 schools offering merit scholarships. I hope they show the same restraint in future with respect to URMs getting acceptance offers from multiple schools.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/719331.page

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tons of kids in my daughters school have still not committed.

Plus some sent a deposit in on a school not committed to as wait listed the schools they want to attend.

My neighbors daughter accepted 17 schools and has not withdrawn one offer. Still on fence. 14 gave her Merit money.

My daughter is not attending the four highest ranked schools she got into.

Until they mail tuition check the deposit is meaningless.

That is a f***load of money. She really can't decide among 17? She will have troubles next year choosing a lunch entree.

i find it so weird that students can't decide. When I applied, I had a definite order of preference to the schools I applied to, so when I got my acceptances/rejections, it was just obvious which one I was going to.

My own kid only applied to 3 schools--one "safety", one school that he was reasonably sure he could get into but wasn't a sure thing, and a reach school. He got accepted at the safety and reasonably sure, but rejected at the reach. In the end, he decided he actually preferred the safety over the "reasonably sure" so he's going there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tons of kids in my daughters school have still not committed.

Plus some sent a deposit in on a school not committed to as wait listed the schools they want to attend.

My neighbors daughter accepted 17 schools and has not withdrawn one offer. Still on fence. 14 gave her Merit money.

My daughter is not attending the four highest ranked schools she got into.

Until they mail tuition check the deposit is meaningless.

That is a f***load of money. She really can't decide among 17? She will have troubles next year choosing a lunch entree.

17 deposits? That’s insane! I might have been willing to do 2.

Wait! Wut?? There are people accepting admissions offers to multiple schools, putting down deposits, choosing dorms, making schedules, etc and then when the tuition bill comes due they simply don't pay it and never show up to start classes?

Are students actually doing this??

Anonymous wrote:Berkeley over Hopkins and UVA.

Can we ask why Berkeley over Hopkins? That's unusual.

Berkeley over Hopkins and UVA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tons of kids in my daughters school have still not committed.

Plus some sent a deposit in on a school not committed to as wait listed the schools they want to attend.

My neighbors daughter accepted 17 schools and has not withdrawn one offer. Still on fence. 14 gave her Merit money.

My daughter is not attending the four highest ranked schools she got into.

Until they mail tuition check the deposit is meaningless.

That is a f***load of money. She really can't decide among 17? She will have troubles next year choosing a lunch entree.

17 deposits? That’s insane! I might have been willing to do 2.

Well, the acceptance deadline is looming. Better decide soon!

Anonymous wrote:Tons of kids in my daughters school have still not committed.

Plus some sent a deposit in on a school not committed to as wait listed the schools they want to attend.

My neighbors daughter accepted 17 schools and has not withdrawn one offer. Still on fence. 14 gave her Merit money.

My daughter is not attending the four highest ranked schools she got into.

Until they mail tuition check the deposit is meaningless.

Glad the people who couldn't stand reading about some URMs getting admitted to all the ivies are silent and didn't make any racist comments about your neighbor and her daughter! Or, did they have an inkling that they are of the same race as your neighbor's and so they felt it's okay for your neighbor's daughter to pay deposit to 17 schools, 14 of which offered merit money to her, and not withdraw from even a single one of them as of your posting!