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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else love this?

My DD received some pretty good merit money from 2 schools but was waitlisted at another that was near the top of her list. The waitlist school required supplemental materials, but when my DD saw that she was like “forget that! I don’t want to go there that badly!”

I was like this too when I was applying (ages ago), and I’m glad my DD felt that way that on her own, rather than start writing letters of interest and sending supplemental info, and then still have the chance to be rejected. Seems like you’re begging a school to take you, when they don’t seem terribly interested.

I guess the question is this a school that anyone that has criteria of X receives Y, or is this an individualized award of merit?

If the latter...completely agree with you. If the former, I guess just understand that this is the school's business model...high rack-rate and merit for everybody.

If a school has criteria for merit (your X receives Y example), how is that merit for everyone? Presumably not everyone applying to that school has the GPA or test score merit cut off.

Meaning, everyone that achieves X gets Y. There is nothing individual about it. Also, there is little mystery regarding acceptance if you have the minimum stats for merit.

Put another way, you can go to Niche Direct Admit and input your stats and there will be a number of schools with automatic acceptance and the merit they will give you.

Yup. It’s an algorithm nothing individual about it. But hey if it helps OP’s sour grapes to say it this way, that’s fine.

Again, which schools are individually assessing kids for merit awards? Regardless of their stats?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else love this?

My DD received some pretty good merit money from 2 schools but was waitlisted at another that was near the top of her list. The waitlist school required supplemental materials, but when my DD saw that she was like “forget that! I don’t want to go there that badly!”

I was like this too when I was applying (ages ago), and I’m glad my DD felt that way that on her own, rather than start writing letters of interest and sending supplemental info, and then still have the chance to be rejected. Seems like you’re begging a school to take you, when they don’t seem terribly interested.

I guess the question is this a school that anyone that has criteria of X receives Y, or is this an individualized award of merit?

If the latter...completely agree with you. If the former, I guess just understand that this is the school's business model...high rack-rate and merit for everybody.

If a school has criteria for merit (your X receives Y example), how is that merit for everyone? Presumably not everyone applying to that school has the GPA or test score merit cut off.

Meaning, everyone that achieves X gets Y. There is nothing individual about it. Also, there is little mystery regarding acceptance if you have the minimum stats for merit.

Put another way, you can go to Niche Direct Admit and input your stats and there will be a number of schools with automatic acceptance and the merit they will give you.

Yup. It’s an algorithm nothing individual about it. But hey if it helps OP’s sour grapes to say it this way, that’s fine.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else love this?

My DD received some pretty good merit money from 2 schools but was waitlisted at another that was near the top of her list. The waitlist school required supplemental materials, but when my DD saw that she was like “forget that! I don’t want to go there that badly!”

I was like this too when I was applying (ages ago), and I’m glad my DD felt that way that on her own, rather than start writing letters of interest and sending supplemental info, and then still have the chance to be rejected. Seems like you’re begging a school to take you, when they don’t seem terribly interested.

I guess the question is this a school that anyone that has criteria of X receives Y, or is this an individualized award of merit?

If the latter...completely agree with you. If the former, I guess just understand that this is the school's business model...high rack-rate and merit for everybody.

If a school has criteria for merit (your X receives Y example), how is that merit for everyone? Presumably not everyone applying to that school has the GPA or test score merit cut off.

Meaning, everyone that achieves X gets Y. There is nothing individual about it. Also, there is little mystery regarding acceptance if you have the minimum stats for merit.

Put another way, you can go to Niche Direct Admit and input your stats and there will be a number of schools with automatic acceptance and the merit they will give you.

Isn’t this how it works for most merit scholarships? Are schools really saying “we’ll look at sally…she’s super interesting! Let’s give her…say…15k! And look at Mary…she’s pretty smart too, but not as much as Sally. Let’s give her 12k.”

I still take issue with “merit for everyone.” Clearly everyone is not getting merit at most schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else love this?

My DD received some pretty good merit money from 2 schools but was waitlisted at another that was near the top of her list. The waitlist school required supplemental materials, but when my DD saw that she was like “forget that! I don’t want to go there that badly!”

I was like this too when I was applying (ages ago), and I’m glad my DD felt that way that on her own, rather than start writing letters of interest and sending supplemental info, and then still have the chance to be rejected. Seems like you’re begging a school to take you, when they don’t seem terribly interested.

I guess the question is this a school that anyone that has criteria of X receives Y, or is this an individualized award of merit?

If the latter...completely agree with you. If the former, I guess just understand that this is the school's business model...high rack-rate and merit for everybody.

If a school has criteria for merit (your X receives Y example), how is that merit for everyone? Presumably not everyone applying to that school has the GPA or test score merit cut off.

Meaning, everyone that achieves X gets Y. There is nothing individual about it. Also, there is little mystery regarding acceptance if you have the minimum stats for merit.

Put another way, you can go to Niche Direct Admit and input your stats and there will be a number of schools with automatic acceptance and the merit they will give you.

I wouldn’t approach this on personal terms.

It's fine to take this approach, and it's also fine to submit the extra stuff to the other schools and wait for them and maybe pick one of them. A school admitting you or waitlisting you isn't really an indication of whether they like you.

Anonymous wrote:When your kid gets out of college, she should take a $40k a year job with a company that REALLY WANTS HER instead of jumping through hoops to get a $140k a year job with a company that makes her work for it.

Lol FACTS.

When your kid gets out of college, she should take a $40k a year job with a company that REALLY WANTS HER instead of jumping through hoops to get a $140k a year job with a company that makes her work for it.

Anonymous wrote:OP - Congrats to your DD for her good offers and pragmatism. But no need to diminish other schools for requesting more info or other applicants who choose to provide it.

THIS

Anonymous wrote:A school that accepts 70-90+% of applicants doesn't really want you personally. You just met their very low standards.

I think some of the small schools with high admits are much more likely to take a personal approach. Because they can and want to woo as many kids as possible, most likely. For example, we went to an accepted student event last week locally for one of the smaller private colleges in VA. At the end of the program, we went to talk to the admissions guy as we were about to head out about a special program they offer, and he knew my daughter and gave us information that was very relevant to HER specific circumstances first before talking about the program we had asked about.

People are looking for different things out of schools.

Anonymous wrote:OP - Congrats to your DD for her good offers and pragmatism. But no need to diminish other schools for requesting more info or other applicants who choose to provide it.

I mean, at this point of senior year, the kids are so TIRED. I totally understand getting that request for more info and just saying no.

OP - Congrats to your DD for her good offers and pragmatism. But no need to diminish other schools for requesting more info or other applicants who choose to provide it.

Could be something subconscious going on. Perhaps kid actually preferred the schools already accepted to, & was kind of looking for a reason not to attend the higher-ranked school. I would guess if kid REALLY wanted to attend the higher-ranked school, the request for additional info wouldn’t be considered excessive.

Unfortunately, some kids feel pressure to attend the highest-ranked school they get into, even if it isn’t their favorite.

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Anonymous wrote:community college always wants you - support local business.

I mean, this isn't wrong.

My neighbor did this. Went to MCC for a year then transferred to U of MD and is happier than a pig in sh¡t.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else love this?

My DD received some pretty good merit money from 2 schools but was waitlisted at another that was near the top of her list. The waitlist school required supplemental materials, but when my DD saw that she was like “forget that! I don’t want to go there that badly!”

I was like this too when I was applying (ages ago), and I’m glad my DD felt that way that on her own, rather than start writing letters of interest and sending supplemental info, and then still have the chance to be rejected. Seems like you’re begging a school to take you, when they don’t seem terribly interested.

I guess the question is this a school that anyone that has criteria of X receives Y, or is this an individualized award of merit?

If the latter...completely agree with you. If the former, I guess just understand that this is the school's business model...high rack-rate and merit for everybody.

If a school has criteria for merit (your X receives Y example), how is that merit for everyone? Presumably not everyone applying to that school has the GPA or test score merit cut off.