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Anonymous wrote:If deferred - can you update and change your application or add different recs or is application untouchable?

You can’t change anything, but you can send in a letter of continued interest with any updates but choose timing strategically to include anything upcoming as should only do one update.

anyone know the stats of what percentage of deferred kids get admitted in regular decision?

anyone know the date regular decision came in last year? I know the expected date but ed was early so curious how early regular decision may or may not be?

Use this site for prior years (this is last year but it has many years going back)
https://applyingto.college/decision-calendar/class-of-2028

DS is a freshman at BC now (ED1 admit). After meeting/hearing about 15 or so other freshmen, the one thing that really came across to me was the absolute diversity at every level: majority of the kids are white, but from all over the map literally (country and world), very different socio economic backgrounds, different religions, only one is "very catholic," all in a variety of majors. Basically, no 2 kids seemed the "same". Other threads have touched on the issue that so many of our kids look the same on paper. Just from DS's large circle, it seems to me there's little overlap among them (aside from assuming that they all have course rigor in their high schools). Just my observation from a small sample.

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Anonymous wrote:3.98, 1570, 15 APs by grad, applied for English and rejected. He's very bummed, but we're ready to kick back into the next college.

Those are good stats, I wonder if this is yield protection

Not w ED. You have to go.

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Anonymous wrote:We're just assuming BC wasn't a good fit.

DC's extracurriculars were creating a club on campus that teaches poetry workshops at 3 elementary and middle schools, on the city youth council, writing-based summer internship with a major newspaper, hosted two school-based banned book symposiums, math tutor, and leader of the philosophy club. He has a few national and state writing awards.

He likely is getting into somewhere better than BC. Surprised they flustered themselves this badly.

Great profile - not an easy admit either but they should consider Northwestern.

He should apply to a bunch of top 25 schools with those stats- pretty sure he will get into at least one. Good luck.

he needs a good story though.
and what is the competition like from his HS? Apply to schools where the herd isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're just assuming BC wasn't a good fit.

DC's extracurriculars were creating a club on campus that teaches poetry workshops at 3 elementary and middle schools, on the city youth council, writing-based summer internship with a major newspaper, hosted two school-based banned book symposiums, math tutor, and leader of the philosophy club. He has a few national and state writing awards.

He likely is getting into somewhere better than BC. Surprised they flustered themselves this badly.

Great profile - not an easy admit either but they should consider Northwestern.

He should apply to a bunch of top 25 schools with those stats- pretty sure he will get into at least one. Good luck.

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Anonymous wrote:We're just assuming BC wasn't a good fit.

DC's extracurriculars were creating a club on campus that teaches poetry workshops at 3 elementary and middle schools, on the city youth council, writing-based summer internship with a major newspaper, hosted two school-based banned book symposiums, math tutor, and leader of the philosophy club. He has a few national and state writing awards.

He likely is getting into somewhere better than BC. Surprised they flustered themselves this badly.

Great profile - not an easy admit either but they should consider Northwestern.

Anonymous wrote:It's embarrassing how many parents can't get their children into college without excessive paid admission. No one should be paying a firm to apply to a college.

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't the KIDS getting themselves into college and not the parents? I mean, I help my kid (as much as they'll let me) with applications and talking about options, but in the end, it's their application, not mine.

I really do think some parents are way too invested and see their kids' college acceptances as a reflection on how good a parent they are. They're not.

Anonymous wrote:We're just assuming BC wasn't a good fit.

DC's extracurriculars were creating a club on campus that teaches poetry workshops at 3 elementary and middle schools, on the city youth council, writing-based summer internship with a major newspaper, hosted two school-based banned book symposiums, math tutor, and leader of the philosophy club. He has a few national and state writing awards.

What a head scratcher.

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Anonymous wrote:If deferred - can you update and change your application or add different recs or is application untouchable?

You can’t change anything, but you can send in a letter of continued interest with any updates but choose timing strategically to include anything upcoming as should only do one update.

anyone know the stats of what percentage of deferred kids get admitted in regular decision?

anyone know the date regular decision came in last year? I know the expected date but ed was early so curious how early regular decision may or may not be?

Anonymous wrote:It's embarrassing how many parents can't get their children into college without excessive paid admission. No one should be paying a firm to apply to a college.

Agreed. We used a firm for essay overview and after I would read the essays there were so many things the counselor missed. Waste of money and this was at a top firm.

It's embarrassing how many parents can't get their children into college without excessive paid admission. No one should be paying a firm to apply to a college.

Anonymous wrote:We're just assuming BC wasn't a good fit.

DC's extracurriculars were creating a club on campus that teaches poetry workshops at 3 elementary and middle schools, on the city youth council, writing-based summer internship with a major newspaper, hosted two school-based banned book symposiums, math tutor, and leader of the philosophy club. He has a few national and state writing awards.

He'll have better options than BC in RD. Blessing in disguise.

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Anonymous wrote:3.98, 1570, 15 APs by grad, applied for English and rejected. He's very bummed, but we're ready to kick back into the next college.

Those are good stats, I wonder if this is yield protection

Agree. This exceptionally weird for a male English major.

It has to be yield protection or something off with his application. I would run everything by a college counselor. Good luck! He'll land somewhere great.

Agree. Did he not have four years of math? Four years of foreign language?

I found a couple of firms who do application reviews. I would do that now stat.

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Anonymous wrote:3.98, 1570, 15 APs by grad, applied for English and rejected. He's very bummed, but we're ready to kick back into the next college.

Wow. Amazing that he got rejected with these stats. Public or private?
Good luck for ED2 or RD!

Public. We're staying optimistic that this is a redirection!

Is this DCPS?

Anonymous wrote:We're just assuming BC wasn't a good fit.

DC's extracurriculars were creating a club on campus that teaches poetry workshops at 3 elementary and middle schools, on the city youth council, writing-based summer internship with a major newspaper, hosted two school-based banned book symposiums, math tutor, and leader of the philosophy club. He has a few national and state writing awards.

He likely is getting into somewhere better than BC. Surprised they flustered themselves this badly.