Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 10:04     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:50% acceptance rate isn’t high enough to consider a school a safety.


My kid was rejected from one of their safeties this year (Auburn). Before everyone says “then it wasn’t a safety”, it was definitely a safety by the definition above, but it is one of the southern schools you are reading about that is inundated with apps this year. College counselor was a little shocked by the rejection. Accepted at higher ranked schools, but my DC really liked this school so it was a bummer. We visited, etc.

Yes, this is what I'm afraid of.

Maybe I'm being silly. DC is in a magnet, near perfect SAT scores, 4.0 unw gpa.. good but not spectacular ec's. Most of the target schools are out of our reach financially, though DC still did apply, and the safety schools are basically the large public flagships.

I confess, I'm a worry wart. I guess we'll find out tonight.


Unless you are in state for one of the large public flagship, this is a very risky strategy. I would start researching some of the late app schools in this thread if things don’t go as you hope tonight.


This. I wouldn’t consider most flagships safeties OOS unless you’re talking about WVU or Kentucky
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 09:53     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
One of the challenges in applying to "safeties" is that it's not uncommon for some to reject applicants who they think will attend other schools (with tougher admission stats) to protect yield. There's really no easy answer here except to cast the net wide.

There's so much uncertainty in the process, which makes the waiting hard, especially when their confidence is rocked by all deferrals/rejections EA.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 09:49     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:50% acceptance rate isn’t high enough to consider a school a safety.


My kid was rejected from one of their safeties this year (Auburn). Before everyone says “then it wasn’t a safety”, it was definitely a safety by the definition above, but it is one of the southern schools you are reading about that is inundated with apps this year. College counselor was a little shocked by the rejection. Accepted at higher ranked schools, but my DC really liked this school so it was a bummer. We visited, etc.

Yes, this is what I'm afraid of.

Maybe I'm being silly. DC is in a magnet, near perfect SAT scores, 4.0 unw gpa.. good but not spectacular ec's. Most of the target schools are out of our reach financially, though DC still did apply, and the safety schools are basically the large public flagships.

I confess, I'm a worry wart. I guess we'll find out tonight.


Unless you are in state for one of the large public flagship, this is a very risky strategy. I would start researching some of the late app schools in this thread if things don’t go as you hope tonight.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 09:41     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:50% acceptance rate isn’t high enough to consider a school a safety.


My kid was rejected from one of their safeties this year (Auburn). Before everyone says “then it wasn’t a safety”, it was definitely a safety by the definition above, but it is one of the southern schools you are reading about that is inundated with apps this year. College counselor was a little shocked by the rejection. Accepted at higher ranked schools, but my DC really liked this school so it was a bummer. We visited, etc.

Yes, this is what I'm afraid of.

Maybe I'm being silly. DC is in a magnet, near perfect SAT scores, 4.0 unw gpa.. good but not spectacular ec's. Most of the target schools are out of our reach financially, though DC still did apply, and the safety schools are basically the large public flagships.

I confess, I'm a worry wart. I guess we'll find out tonight.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 07:22     Subject: Re:DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am so sorry. This is hard. Yes mine was deferred ED last year and accepted RD. Other RDs and EAs came back positively too. Keeping you in my prayrers

PP here. High stats kid. Ultimately accepted in RD to top 15 school. Had a mix of acceptances, deferrals, denials. Applied to a dozen schools. Had a balanced list of reaches, targets, safeties (list was reach heavy but had all 3 bases covered). The deferrals and denials sting - but grateful for the acceptances. Acceptances ran the gamut from safeties to reaches. Was ready to accept one of those until RD acceptance came through. Important to have a balanced, realistic list, as much as possible. It's so important. I wish you all the best. Please keep us posted. You will be okay.


Thank you, PP - this is helpful and reassuring. Sounds similar to DD. We’re visiting one of her “likelies” where she was accepted EA next weekend and she’s excited about it. She seems more serene than we do
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 07:00     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Anonymous wrote:50% acceptance rate isn’t high enough to consider a school a safety.


My kid was rejected from one of their safeties this year (Auburn). Before everyone says “then it wasn’t a safety”, it was definitely a safety by the definition above, but it is one of the southern schools you are reading about that is inundated with apps this year. College counselor was a little shocked by the rejection. Accepted at higher ranked schools, but my DC really liked this school so it was a bummer. We visited, etc.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 02:16     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
50% acceptance rate isn’t high enough to consider a school a safety.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2023 00:02     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My current senior DC has 7 deferrals. I keep telling him they will likely all be WL or rejections. Every single deferral my older 2 kids had were WL or rejection in RD. Not ONE turned into an acceptance. YMMV

what do you do when this happens?

What are the alternative paths?

I'm getting nervous.
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My kid is a very high stats (good e.c. not spectacular), so maybe my nervousness is unfounded, but I just feel like it's all a lottery these days.

DC did EA to flagships like Michigan, Chicago, etc. and RD to few elite ones like Stanford. I'm not holding my breath for the elite ones, but I am not even sure about the top publics now.

Am I being ridiculous? First kid to go to college. I went to a no-name state u.


Have him apply to your alma mater and some state directional schools.

my alma mater is a large public out west, and they don't care about legacy, nor would I ever pay OOS for that college.

What is a "state directional schools"?

To a PP, DC did apply to a "safety" according to collegevine or whatever it's called, but I feel like safeties aren't even safeties anymore. Plus, I'm hearing that colleges want to yield protect so some of the "safeties" will deny really high stats students.

sigh.. honestly... it really is like playing the lottery, except there's way more at stake.


OP, safeties have high acceptance rates, like 50+%. My kid applied to 4 safeties because admissions is so unpredictable and so far they are the only acceptances he has in hand.


Congrats to your kid!

Yes, safeties are 50%+ acceptance rates, your kid scores and GPA at/Above 75%, affordable to you, somewhere your kid likes and would be happy to attend, and most importantly, somewhere you show demonstrated interest to make them think this is one of your top choices (so they don't yield protect you).
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2023 23:50     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My current senior DC has 7 deferrals. I keep telling him they will likely all be WL or rejections. Every single deferral my older 2 kids had were WL or rejection in RD. Not ONE turned into an acceptance. YMMV

what do you do when this happens?

What are the alternative paths?

I'm getting nervous.
m

My kid is a very high stats (good e.c. not spectacular), so maybe my nervousness is unfounded, but I just feel like it's all a lottery these days.

DC did EA to flagships like Michigan, Chicago, etc. and RD to few elite ones like Stanford. I'm not holding my breath for the elite ones, but I am not even sure about the top publics now.

Am I being ridiculous? First kid to go to college. I went to a no-name state u.


Have him apply to your alma mater and some state directional schools.

my alma mater is a large public out west, and they don't care about legacy, nor would I ever pay OOS for that college.

What is a "state directional schools"?

To a PP, DC did apply to a "safety" according to collegevine or whatever it's called, but I feel like safeties aren't even safeties anymore. Plus, I'm hearing that colleges want to yield protect so some of the "safeties" will deny really high stats students.

sigh.. honestly... it really is like playing the lottery, except there's way more at stake.


OP, safeties have high acceptance rates, like 50+%. My kid applied to 4 safeties because admissions is so unpredictable and so far they are the only acceptances he has in hand.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2023 22:44     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My current senior DC has 7 deferrals. I keep telling him they will likely all be WL or rejections. Every single deferral my older 2 kids had were WL or rejection in RD. Not ONE turned into an acceptance. YMMV

what do you do when this happens?

What are the alternative paths?

I'm getting nervous.
m

My kid is a very high stats (good e.c. not spectacular), so maybe my nervousness is unfounded, but I just feel like it's all a lottery these days.

DC did EA to flagships like Michigan, Chicago, etc. and RD to few elite ones like Stanford. I'm not holding my breath for the elite ones, but I am not even sure about the top publics now.

Am I being ridiculous? First kid to go to college. I went to a no-name state u.


Have him apply to your alma mater and some state directional schools.

my alma mater is a large public out west, and they don't care about legacy, nor would I ever pay OOS for that college.

What is a "state directional schools"?

To a PP, DC did apply to a "safety" according to collegevine or whatever it's called, but I feel like safeties aren't even safeties anymore. Plus, I'm hearing that colleges want to yield protect so some of the "safeties" will deny really high stats students.

sigh.. honestly... it really is like playing the lottery, except there's way more at stake.


What is the safety?
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2023 22:28     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Anonymous wrote:I'm worried. Any tales of getting deferred and then getting in to ease my mind?


Early action was a help in the days before ED. Now, it’s no benefit at all and deferring doesn’t really mean anything. The schools wanna look at everyone together and are waiting for the RD round.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2023 22:26     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
What is the likely/safety school?
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2023 21:30     Subject: DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm worried. Any tales of getting deferred and then getting in to ease my mind?


So was my daughter, a few years ago. She was... distraught. Got into UVA (out of state) and never looked back. It will all work out for your son.


DD here also deferred at UVA and got jn RD. It does happen.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2023 21:29     Subject: Re:DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Adding Quinippac or however it’s spelled
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2023 21:27     Subject: Re:DS Was Deferred At All Early Action
Try DuPaul
Duquesne
Baylor
U of Cincinnati
Kentucky
Rollins
Temple