My S who is interested in studying Econ broke my heart and chose University of Chicago over Duke (and Dartmouth and UVA in state) though it was a toss up between Chicago and Duke until the very last week (I'm a Duke alum and I think that wasn't a plus in my son's eyes). B/c Chicago gives housing preference based on date of deposit, my S is at the bottom of the barrel re: housing there but he doesn't seem to mind.

Colby!

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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.

Ridiculous! If you can't narrow it down more than that, you have no business applying. I'd love to see schools limit the number of apps.

I have a TJ kid, and there are a couple of teachers who are highly sought out for Recs who are telling this years juniors that they will not complete recommendations for anyone applying to more than 10 or 12 schools. I really like that. Just because you can apply to be the kid who gets into allof the Ivy’s, plus Stanford, plus a half dozen more does not mean you should.

How do the teachers know how many schools the kids are applying to? Don’t they just upload the rec in the common app?

Yeah. This is what I am trying to figure out. I’m not sure how they would police this— or if they can. Maybe they are working with guidance? Or maybe, this is just what they hope, and they know they can’t stop it. This is my first time through, so I’m a bit fuzzy on the mechanics— which have changed a lot in the last 20 years.

At any rate, I told my kid if he wants the rec, he needs to live within the conditions that come with it. If he doesn’t like the only 12 schools part, he should respect their wishes and ask someone else.

Anonymous wrote:Reed. She is wildly enthusiastic. I am trying to be!

I am jealous! I have a kid who is getting ready to apply to college and would love Reed. And I think it would be a great fit. After 3 years, I love the we emphasize skills and knowledge acquisition, not grades part. He has the work ethic. And I think it would be so freeing to not constantly be worried about grades. And they an amazing job with PhD placements and are very good in the area he is doing his HS senior lab in. But he is not even applying. Because we will not qualify for any need based aid, and they don’t do merit.

But anyway. Great choice! Sounds amazing!

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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.

Ridiculous! If you can't narrow it down more than that, you have no business applying. I'd love to see schools limit the number of apps.

I have a TJ kid, and there are a couple of teachers who are highly sought out for Recs who are telling this years juniors that they will not complete recommendations for anyone applying to more than 10 or 12 schools. I really like that. Just because you can apply to be the kid who gets into allof the Ivy’s, plus Stanford, plus a half dozen more does not mean you should.

How do the teachers know how many schools the kids are applying to? Don’t they just upload the rec in the common app?

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago over MIT, Case Western, Harvard, RPI, and UVA.

Who in their right mind would phi know U of Chicago over MIT.

Chicago sometimes throw money at students.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago over MIT, Case Western, Harvard, RPI, and UVA.

Who in their right mind would phi know U of Chicago over MIT.

With that list? Likely someone not headed into engineering. And probably not CS. Neither Harvard nor UVA are Engineering/ CS superstars. For engineering, it would By VT, for CS, CMU and the UCs. In fact, I’m not sure what RPI and UVA have in common. Bio? Chemistry? Probably not Physics...

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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.

Ridiculous! If you can't narrow it down more than that, you have no business applying. I'd love to see schools limit the number of apps.

I have a TJ kid, and there are a couple of teachers who are highly sought out for Recs who are telling this years juniors that they will not complete recommendations for anyone applying to more than 10 or 12 schools. I really like that. Just because you can apply to be the kid who gets into allof the Ivy’s, plus Stanford, plus a half dozen more does not mean you should.

Lawrence mom here. Oops, unfazed.

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Anonymous wrote:Lawrence University - turned down Skidmore and Grinnell for it. She just fell in love.

I truly hope you visited when the weather was bad.

Congrats to your daughter for finding the perfect school for her!

We visited twice. Once on a glorious, 60 degree, sunny October day. Then we visited three weeks ago and ended up having to stay an extra 2 days because of a 20-inches of snow blizzard. She was unphased. (We did live in Minnesota for 5 years when she was in elementary school.)

Anonymous wrote:UChicago over MIT, Case Western, Harvard, RPI, and UVA.

Who in their right mind would phi know U of Chicago over MIT.

Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin
Shopping for fleece, flannels, down etc...

My daughter is looking at the 3 in Maine for next year. Bowdoin is her favorite. Congrats!

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Anonymous wrote:Berkeley over Hopkins and UVA.

Would NEVER to go a school where the environment on campus is such that the student body can't tolerate toe hear opposing thoughts and shuts out non-far left dreams.

+100
Berkeley, Middlebury, probably Oberlin, etc. No way.

+1000. Didn't apply. Wouldn't even think of applying for DC2.

My daughter is gay and even she thought Oberlin was sooo one sided and way too progressive that it was nauseating. That said, Berkeley does have conservatives and those that actually tinker back and forth based on policies. They just aren’t loopy and starving for attention like the progressive liberals that go there.

Anonymous wrote:Lawrence University - turned down Skidmore and Grinnell for it. She just fell in love.

I truly hope you visited when the weather was bad.

Congrats to your daughter for finding the perfect school for her!

Lawrence University - turned down Skidmore and Grinnell for it. She just fell in love.