Anonymous
Post 03/28/2016 16:00     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
Surprised they require tests if they're so meaningless
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2016 20:15     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's fucked. Outstanding test scores are meaningless.

Agree it's a crazy year. DS has several friends with fantastic scores that have been rejected from schools that I would have thought were safeties. We are increasingly grateful that DS got into his first choice ED.


I think it's like that every year. Your DC can have stellar grades and scores and great ECs and still have a tough time. Trust me, I've been there. For those where it works out, wherever you're aiming, congrats if the process goes well. It's a true crapshoot.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2016 20:00     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
Anonymous wrote:It's fucked. Outstanding test scores are meaningless.

Agree it's a crazy year. DS has several friends with fantastic scores that have been rejected from schools that I would have thought were safeties. We are increasingly grateful that DS got into his first choice ED.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2016 19:52     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
It's fucked. Outstanding test scores are meaningless.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2016 13:14     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:To answer OP's original question, it has been a banner college acceptance year EA for Commonwealth Academy - a school not often mentioned here because it's a SN school for average to gifted students with ADHD or other LDs. One young man (not mine!) got into MIT last night. Also Case Western with huge scholarship. Another young man got into UVA. A third into Brown University. A fourth into UVA, Georgia Tech, Purdue and Penn. State. all for EA aerospace engineering. Other students are Waitlisted at Princeton, Brown, Cal Tech, MIT, etc. I am so happy for all of them. They are really really good kids and they have worked so hard to overcome LDs and score high on testing. A great achievement. Congrats!


Great news re the EA acceptances!

Wow! Congratulations!
I also have ADHD kid in magnet in MD, who is dreaming about aerospace engineering. That shows me that there is hope at the end of the tunnel after tremendous non-stop work. I will show this post to my child tonight.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 22:49     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DS applied to 11 schools, 10 LACs and one OOS school. He's been admitted to the OOS school and 6 of the 10 remaining LACs. He has been offered substantial merit aid at all the LACs. That was a surprise because he is not a straight A student by any means. And we're not applying for financial aid.

We worked with an independent college counselor and (and with the college counselors at his school) she was very low key and I think she helped DS pick schools that would be a good fit for him. He has gotten into all the school she thought would be a reach for him. All his schools are strong in what he thinks he wants to major in and they also offer good choices if he changes his mind about a major.

We are very lucky that DS has so many good choices in front of him. And all the choices were ultimately his.

If you asked me a year ago where we'd be on 3/15/16, I would have said that DH and DS would have been a wreck with anxiety and we'd be trying to keep it from DS. Amazingly, we are all calm and happy with DS's happiness being the most important.

With the winter and spring EA school admissions, we just could not be happier. I think the college counselor we worked with helped with my anxiety and DS's, but I certainly commend his school counselors as well.

I am very grateful that DS has great options to choose from. I really didn't think this would play out like this.

Good luck everyone!

Good luck to everyone.




+1. What independent counselor did you use?


Ruth Brodsky
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 18:31     Subject: Re:How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
[quote=Anonymous]DC applied to nine schools, eight OOS SLACs and the state flagship (large university). Was accepted at all schools, with substantial merit aid at all except for the flagship. Any one is feasible financially (<$33K or less/year all-inclusive) and a possible good fit, but DC has boiled it down to three final choices and will visit all three for overnights in the next month.

We are very pleased with how it has worked out.




Congrats! We did 8. All four EA were accepted. Now waiting for the Ivies on March 3lst.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 16:54     Subject: Re:How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
DC applied to nine schools, eight OOS SLACs and the state flagship (large university). Was accepted at all schools, with substantial merit aid at all except for the flagship. Any one is feasible financially (<$33K or less/year all-inclusive) and a possible good fit, but DC has boiled it down to three final choices and will visit all three for overnights in the next month.

We are very pleased with how it has worked out.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 16:48     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
Anonymous wrote:My DS applied to 11 schools, 10 LACs and one OOS school. He's been admitted to the OOS school and 6 of the 10 remaining LACs. He has been offered substantial merit aid at all the LACs. That was a surprise because he is not a straight A student by any means. And we're not applying for financial aid.

We worked with an independent college counselor and (and with the college counselors at his school) she was very low key and I think she helped DS pick schools that would be a good fit for him. He has gotten into all the school she thought would be a reach for him. All his schools are strong in what he thinks he wants to major in and they also offer good choices if he changes his mind about a major.

We are very lucky that DS has so many good choices in front of him. And all the choices were ultimately his.

If you asked me a year ago where we'd be on 3/15/16, I would have said that DH and DS would have been a wreck with anxiety and we'd be trying to keep it from DS. Amazingly, we are all calm and happy with DS's happiness being the most important.

With the winter and spring EA school admissions, we just could not be happier. I think the college counselor we worked with helped with my anxiety and DS's, but I certainly commend his school counselors as well.

I am very grateful that DS has great options to choose from. I really didn't think this would play out like this.

Good luck everyone!

Good luck to everyone.




+1. What independent counselor did you use?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 16:06     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
My DS applied to 11 schools, 10 LACs and one OOS school. He's been admitted to the OOS school and 6 of the 10 remaining LACs. He has been offered substantial merit aid at all the LACs. That was a surprise because he is not a straight A student by any means. And we're not applying for financial aid.

We worked with an independent college counselor and (and with the college counselors at his school) she was very low key and I think she helped DS pick schools that would be a good fit for him. He has gotten into all the school she thought would be a reach for him. All his schools are strong in what he thinks he wants to major in and they also offer good choices if he changes his mind about a major.

We are very lucky that DS has so many good choices in front of him. And all the choices were ultimately his.

If you asked me a year ago where we'd be on 3/15/16, I would have said that DH and DS would have been a wreck with anxiety and we'd be trying to keep it from DS. Amazingly, we are all calm and happy with DS's happiness being the most important.

With the winter and spring EA school admissions, we just could not be happier. I think the college counselor we worked with helped with my anxiety and DS's, but I certainly commend his school counselors as well.

I am very grateful that DS has great options to choose from. I really didn't think this would play out like this.

Good luck everyone!

Good luck to everyone.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 15:24     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:To answer OP's original question, it has been a banner college acceptance year EA for Commonwealth Academy - a school not often mentioned here because it's a SN school for average to gifted students with ADHD or other LDs. One young man (not mine!) got into MIT last night. Also Case Western with huge scholarship. Another young man got into UVA. A third into Brown University. A fourth into UVA, Georgia Tech, Purdue and Penn. State. all for EA aerospace engineering. Other students are Waitlisted at Princeton, Brown, Cal Tech, MIT, etc. I am so happy for all of them. They are really really good kids and they have worked so hard to overcome LDs and score high on testing. A great achievement. Congrats!


Great news re the EA acceptances!



Yeah, it really is. Hard working class. I'm proud of all of them. And now they wait for April lst.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 15:21     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
Anonymous wrote:To answer OP's original question, it has been a banner college acceptance year EA for Commonwealth Academy - a school not often mentioned here because it's a SN school for average to gifted students with ADHD or other LDs. One young man (not mine!) got into MIT last night. Also Case Western with huge scholarship. Another young man got into UVA. A third into Brown University. A fourth into UVA, Georgia Tech, Purdue and Penn. State. all for EA aerospace engineering. Other students are Waitlisted at Princeton, Brown, Cal Tech, MIT, etc. I am so happy for all of them. They are really really good kids and they have worked so hard to overcome LDs and score high on testing. A great achievement. Congrats!


Great news re the EA acceptances!
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 15:18     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Early action means that the school tells the applicant whether s/he is admitted/deferred/or rejected sometime in the winter. Applicant is not bound to accept the offer -- can decide when other results are in in the Spring.

SCEA (used by HYPS) is single choice early action, which means that if you apply to one of the SCEA schools, you may not apply EA to any other domestic private university. You may apply to state school(s) or schools outside the US.



Thank You, this helps. I am just learning about these things to get myself familiar with as I have a sophomore now. But the whole process seems very demanding and stressful just reading through the post.


You should learn how to do your own research. You will find that you won't be able to just use other people's experiences because every child and everyone's situation is different. My older child is in college, but I will need a different approach with the younger one, because they are so different. And that is within one family.


Was this response unintentionally or deliberately rude? A request for definitions of abbreviations being tossed around hardly warrants an admonition to learn to do your own research. Or a claim that everyone's experience is different. Or did you mean this as more generic advice to someone who hasn't started the process yet?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 15:11     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
To answer OP's original question, it has been a banner college acceptance year EA for Commonwealth Academy - a school not often mentioned here because it's a SN school for average to gifted students with ADHD or other LDs. One young man (not mine!) got into MIT last night. Also Case Western with huge scholarship. Another young man got into UVA. A third into Brown University. A fourth into UVA, Georgia Tech, Purdue and Penn. State. all for EA aerospace engineering. Other students are Waitlisted at Princeton, Brown, Cal Tech, MIT, etc. I am so happy for all of them. They are really really good kids and they have worked so hard to overcome LDs and score high on testing. A great achievement. Congrats!
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 13:24     Subject: How are college admissions going this year fro class of 2016?
[quote=Anonymous]To the pp 15:06: Insteads of recent "deferrals" I assume you meant waitlist? It's a little late in the process for a deferral.



No, i meant deferral. He was deferred from an SCEA in December. April lst he will hear from the SCEA school and the other Ivies. After April lst will come the wait list unless you are applying to MIT or Cal Tech, which usually use Pi day to send out the acceptances which other schools do March 3lst or April lst.