Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 16:09     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA rejected. 4.1W lots of extracurricular, Va public. He knew it was a big reach.


Different poster but my older kid 2024 was rejected too from UVa with a 4.1w and good extracurriculars, etc, and alumni parents. Also not surprised by the rejection. Kid is thriving at an OOS public w a great merit scholarship that puts total COA at $40k so the same as UVA.

All this to say, it worked out fine.


Those are amazing stats! How is it possible they got rejected when they have not one but two legacy UVa parents? didn’t they still have legacy back then ?


4.1 weighted GPA is only amazing if the highest GPA kid in that school has a 4.128. In FCPS, for example, that is a low(er) weighted GPA.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 15:54     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC NYU. Painful 24hrs here so far. Glad it’s the weekend. Everyone in grade knew this was the dream so when it hit yesterday people were seeking DC out to ask. : (


You dodged a bullet. NYC is going from bad to worse soon, despite what the naive useful idiots are posting here.


With a 14% admit rate for ED and 92k a year, I told my child to pass and not to waste their ED.

Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 15:14     Subject: Rejections
Plenty of good schools with latter RD dates like Holy Cross Jan 15 and Bucknell Jan 10.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 15:13     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA rejected. 4.1W lots of extracurricular, Va public. He knew it was a big reach.


Different poster but my older kid 2024 was rejected too from UVa with a 4.1w and good extracurriculars, etc, and alumni parents. Also not surprised by the rejection. Kid is thriving at an OOS public w a great merit scholarship that puts total COA at $40k so the same as UVA.

All this to say, it worked out fine.


Those are amazing stats! How is it possible they got rejected when they have not one but two legacy UVa parents? didn’t they still have legacy back then ?
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 15:00     Subject: Re:Rejections
Anonymous wrote:Rejected at Stanford.
1540 SAT (one and done,) 4.95w (4.0w), lots of AP/IB/DE classes including MV Calc, Diff Eq, Linear Algebra.
Great essays and recs
Good ECs but nothing earth-shattering -- which is why they were never expecting to get in and why we're not really sad about it. They wanted to shoot their shot, and now focused on a large, balanced list of RDs


I should add -- no hooks or obvious institutional priority angle
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 11:58     Subject: Re:Rejections
Rejected at Stanford.
1540 SAT (one and done,) 4.95w (4.0w), lots of AP/IB/DE classes including MV Calc, Diff Eq, Linear Algebra.
Great essays and recs
Good ECs but nothing earth-shattering -- which is why they were never expecting to get in and why we're not really sad about it. They wanted to shoot their shot, and now focused on a large, balanced list of RDs
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 11:50     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC NYU. Painful 24hrs here so far. Glad it’s the weekend. Everyone in grade knew this was the dream so when it hit yesterday people were seeking DC out to ask. : (


You dodged a bullet. NYC is going from bad to worse soon, despite what the naive useful idiots are posting here.


No it is not.

Shut up.

NYU is a great school.



I have started to think that all the anti-Northeast schools and cities and pro-SEC schools and lifestyle are from people trying to eliminate competition.


I think that is especially possible with NYU


My kid is at a stronger SEC school and I promise you, I’m not trying to eliminate competition. Kid had no interest in NYU, Northeastern, BU etc.

There are trolls on this site though, like the poster above who is obviously trying to get political about NYC.


Hope they are enjoying it. I can certainly see going to an SEC school like UGA, Florida or even Alabama for STEM over NYU and, of course, social sciences and humanities are subjective, many reasons to choose one school over another for them.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 11:09     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC NYU. Painful 24hrs here so far. Glad it’s the weekend. Everyone in grade knew this was the dream so when it hit yesterday people were seeking DC out to ask. : (


You dodged a bullet. NYC is going from bad to worse soon, despite what the naive useful idiots are posting here.


No it is not.

Shut up.

NYU is a great school.



I have started to think that all the anti-Northeast schools and cities and pro-SEC schools and lifestyle are from people trying to eliminate competition.


I think that is especially possible with NYU


My kid is at a stronger SEC school and I promise you, I’m not trying to eliminate competition. Kid had no interest in NYU, Northeastern, BU etc.

There are trolls on this site though, like the poster above who is obviously trying to get political about NYC.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 11:03     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC NYU. Painful 24hrs here so far. Glad it’s the weekend. Everyone in grade knew this was the dream so when it hit yesterday people were seeking DC out to ask. : (


You dodged a bullet. NYC is going from bad to worse soon, despite what the naive useful idiots are posting here.


No it is not.

Shut up.

NYU is a great school.



I have started to think that all the anti-Northeast schools and cities and pro-SEC schools and lifestyle are from people trying to eliminate competition.


Bingo. All the pro-SEC people each spring are the ones who were deferred or rejected from NE schools or UVA in state a few months before
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 11:01     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:Penn state rejection, or at least, only admitted to 2 years branch campus and 2 years main campus. We are OOS, will be looking elsewhere.


Sometimes the major the student is interested in is at the branch campus. Could that be it?
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 10:59     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA rejected. 4.1W lots of extracurricular, Va public. He knew it was a big reach.


Different poster but my older kid 2024 was rejected too from UVa with a 4.1w and good extracurriculars, etc, and alumni parents. Also not surprised by the rejection. Kid is thriving at an OOS public w a great merit scholarship that puts total COA at $40k so the same as UVA.

All this to say, it worked out fine.


Where did they end up?
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 10:59     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC NYU. Painful 24hrs here so far. Glad it’s the weekend. Everyone in grade knew this was the dream so when it hit yesterday people were seeking DC out to ask. : (


You dodged a bullet. NYC is going from bad to worse soon, despite what the naive useful idiots are posting here.


No it is not.

Shut up.

NYU is a great school.



I have started to think that all the anti-Northeast schools and cities and pro-SEC schools and lifestyle are from people trying to eliminate competition.


I think that is especially possible with NYU
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 10:57     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:Penn state rejection, or at least, only admitted to 2 years branch campus and 2 years main campus. We are OOS, will be looking elsewhere.

What were the stats?
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 10:53     Subject: Rejections
Anonymous wrote:Amherst. Very high stats kid. Knew it was a tough admit so not totally surprised, but disappointed. The only one we know of admitted is a recruited athlete. Trying to decide whether to ED2 Bowdoin, Rice, or Chicago or just RD everywhere.

Don’t bother with ED2 Bowdoin - just as tough an admit and same athlete and first gen problem taking all the ED spots. Rice and Chicago ED2 might be worthwhile.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 10:50     Subject: Rejections
Penn state rejection, or at least, only admitted to 2 years branch campus and 2 years main campus. We are OOS, will be looking elsewhere.