Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 21:26     Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Go to Syracuse!


+2
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 21:26     Subject: No WL movement---done
What a pathetic, whiny OP. There are eight acceptances in what looks like an extremely unrealistic list.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 21:23     Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Your daughter has some great options! I hope both you and she start getting excited about her college. Start looking into what her college offers so she has things to be excited about. My ‘24 kid was waitlisted at their top choices, and is at a college that has the reputation of being a “fallback school”. They found a nice group of friends, got involved on campus and took advantage of social and cultural opportunities the surrounding area. When I broached the possibility of transferring, my kid said no!

GWU?
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 21:22     Subject: No WL movement---done
Your daughter has some great options! I hope both you and she start getting excited about her college. Start looking into what her college offers so she has things to be excited about. My ‘24 kid was waitlisted at their top choices, and is at a college that has the reputation of being a “fallback school”. They found a nice group of friends, got involved on campus and took advantage of social and cultural opportunities the surrounding area. When I broached the possibility of transferring, my kid said no!
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 21:20     Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Can you share stats, SAT's, GPA, AP's taken?


Not OP, but I’d discourage anyone from thinking this is a fate that can be avoided by achieving a particular score or GPA, or by taking certain courses. There’s just a lot of randomness in the system and many strong students wind up at big schools with high acceptance rates.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:40     Subject: No WL movement---done
Can you share stats, SAT's, GPA, AP's taken?
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:36     Subject: No WL movement---done
My dd was in a similar situation and just finished her first year at penn state. She is in the honors college and loves it. She went in planning to transfer and is now staying. Her words: the school spirit is intoxicating and everyone is so nice. She has a research internship lined up for the summer and people aren’t kidding about the alumni network. She has many friends which is a huge change from high school and is dating a nice kid.
She had very high stats, great ECs and cast a wide net. Shut out of top 20. We toured her acceptances and she was surprised how much she liked Penn state. All this to say is to give it a chance.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:34     Subject: Re:No WL movement---done
did you visit Syracuse? This was DS's safety that he would have happily attended. We don't know an unhappy kid there. It is pricey. If instate tuition appeals, JMU is also said to have very happy students.

Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:23     Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:One of the main rules is to not apply to any schools that you wouldn't be happy attending. Sounds like the plan wasn't thought out well from the beginning. And all of the ones who didn't accept her are tough acceptances for most. [/quote]

This is an understatement.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:16     Subject: No WL movement---done
Also, nobody “earns” admission at any school. You apply, they decide. If you are trying to “earn” admission you are doing it wrong. They hold all the cards and it’s not a meritocracy. It’s a business. Make sure your kid knows that from the beginning.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:15     Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:Yikes. Too many schools in both the reach category and the safety category. When we started out, I told my kid she needed at least 3 target schools and 3 safeties she would be excited to attend. Then, she was free to apply to as many more as she wanted. She applied to 6 reaches, 3 safeties, 3 targets. We started visiting safeties junior year and I explicitly told her we needed to find 3 she thought were great and had great opportunities for her. She did. She got WL at 2 reaches and into the 6 safeties/reaches. Her decision came down to a safety and a target. She withdrew from the WLs and is over the moon excited to attend her target. Top high school/1540/4.4 and national awards. You HAVE to teaxh your kids there are amazing opportunities everywhere. Because there are. And that is how you find happiness and success.


+1000
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:15     Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:WLs all done. None came through.

DC is heading to a school w/ 80% admit. Stats, awards, research and still waitlisted everywhere. Transfer plans are in the works. Anyone else in the same boat?


name the schools or don’t post - this is a waste of our time without you naming the schools. Cardinal rule of DCUM, name the school or don’t bother

Not accepted:
- Yale
- Brown
- Gtown
- Columbia
- Emory
- NYU
- Northeastern
- BC
- W&M (In-state)
- UVA (In-state)
- Vanderbilt
- Richmond

Admitted:
- VCU
- JMU
- GMU
- Rutgers
- PSU
- Drexel
- Hofstra
- Syracuse

Will not be disclosing which she will attend.


Weird that She would apply to Penn State out of state, but not Virginia Tech in state.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:12     Subject: No WL movement---done
Looks like the list was a bunch of reaches and then eights schools the parent says the student never wanted to attend. Why would they apply to eight schools they aren’t interested in? What’s wrong with PSU and Syracuse? Those are solid universities. Hope you and your kid come around!
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:12     Subject: No WL movement---done
Yikes. Too many schools in both the reach category and the safety category. When we started out, I told my kid she needed at least 3 target schools and 3 safeties she would be excited to attend. Then, she was free to apply to as many more as she wanted. She applied to 6 reaches, 3 safeties, 3 targets. We started visiting safeties junior year and I explicitly told her we needed to find 3 she thought were great and had great opportunities for her. She did. She got WL at 2 reaches and into the 6 safeties/reaches. Her decision came down to a safety and a target. She withdrew from the WLs and is over the moon excited to attend her target. Top high school/1540/4.4 and national awards. You HAVE to teaxh your kids there are amazing opportunities everywhere. Because there are. And that is how you find happiness and success.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:07     Subject: No WL movement---done
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wow, OP...your job as a parent is to help her find joy in the options in front of her. Clearly she liked those schools better than the 28937401928753 other schools in this country, because she chose to apply to them over the other schools she could have clicked on the common app. Buy the merch, learn the fight song, get excited about dorm shopping. Phenomenal graduates have come from all those schools, and they are dream schools for many.

Stop pretending that every CommonApp checkbox is a dream school. She chose those the way people buy insurance.

And just because phenomenal graduates could come from everywhere doesn't mean that doesn’t mean every school is the right place for every student. She earned more. She’s allowed to be disappointed.

We’ll buy the merch when it makes sense to buy for now we're focused on the future.


This, in a nutshell, is a good part of the reason why college admissions is so terrible these days.