3.0 to 3.3 (GPA) Parents Thread (2012 HS Graduation)

<p>Congratulations Smugness! </p>

<p>My son seems very set on Hofstra at this point. The second visit just confirmed his good feelings about the place. Perhaps resistance is futile. At least it is not a huge school (though certainly much bigger than I wanted for him). He says that of all the colleges he’s visited, this is the only one he feels good about attending. I have to say, I like it too. When we visited RWU, even though it seemed like it <em>should</em> be a good choice, something about it left both of us cold. I’m not even sure why, but I get a better feeling when I visit Hofstra. </p>

<p>He adamantly refuses to stay on the waitlist for Ithaca, doesn’t want to visit Lycoming again, wavering on visiting Plattsburgh. Interesting about Plattsburgh because a couple of his good friends are going there, but he says he doesn’t want to go to school with his friends from high school. I guess that’s good . . . ? We are still visiting Pace this weekend. However, I have already paid the deposit at Hofstra to make sure he gets into freshman-only housing (it’s refundable until May 1).</p>

<p>Smugness, congrats to you! You may have a ‘low’ GPA by some standards, but I’m betting you attend a very competitive high school, which helps. I’m also betting you are a math/science genius based on those SAT scores. CMU will be a great fit for you. Many young men are in your boat; college comes at just the right time for males in terms of physiology. Your laziness will still be with you, but other parts of your brain will be more fully cooked to give you a kick more often.</p>

<p>Congrats smugness! </p>

<p>S is now into 5 and WL at 2 with 1 still out there. And still won’t say which he favors until all the FA is in, and the one decision. I suspect he will decide on April 30th at 11:59PM because he’s like that :)</p>

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<p>Wonderful!</p>

<p>I should be on the train to NYC right now to visit Pace with S but instead I am drinking coffee and reading CC. </p>

<p>S got up and dressed but then started grumbling about “I’m definitely not going there, so why do I have to look at it? . . . I don’t want to go to a school with no campus . . . this was just my safety school” blah blah blah. So I said, fine, forget it. No reason for me to waste my day on this. HE was the one who wanted to apply to Pace in the first place. If he had any money at all, I’d make him pay me back for the application fee. (And BTW he knew perfectly well there is no campus because I discussed it with him, and he chose to apply to the NYC campus over their suburban location, which is a traditional college campus.) I forget how to make the eye rolly smiley, but please imagine some rolling eyes here.</p>

<p>davidthefat, As far as I’m concerned the college search has to be a family participation sport because of the enormous amount of money to be spent. We’re not talking a couple of thousand dollars. Our college payment per month is more then our mortgage. </p>

<p>Because of my input and research, my kids college loans will be/are reasonable. </p>

<p>Congrats to Smugness!</p>

<p>Well simpkin at least you get to drink coffee and hang out with us :)</p>

<p>Simpkin, {{Hugs}} to you! Boys are such a pain sometimes. At least he told you this information prior to you trip, so it wasn’t a complete waste of time.</p>

<p>Ohiobassmom, Congrats on the acceptances. Boo to the procrastination.</p>

<p>DS has made a decision… Hiram College. I am very happy with his choice, and we’re planning to revisit in April. I really like that it’s a tiny school with lots of teacher/student contact. It will make it much less likely that he’ll slip through the cracks. </p>

<p>Even though he says he excited about it, I am not feeling much excitement from him. He’s is so laid back (unlike his momma!) that I feel I have to light a fire under him just to get him to take th next step. Like letting the other colleges know he is not attending.</p>

<p>Oh well, I guess I should be just happy that we’re done.</p>

<p>Simkin: yucky day here anyway; you got the good end of that deal!</p>

<p>I got into california state of east bay with a 2.98, just so you all know</p>

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<p>I did, and that’s why I didn’t bother to argue with him. And after our doomed visit to Susquehanna, I decided not to waste any more of my time dragging him to colleges that he doesn’t want to visit. </p>

<p>familyof3boys, great news about Hiram. Sounds like a wonderful choice.</p>

<p>All of my son’s decisions are in. Four acceptances plus two Pennsylvania branch campus acceptances, one rejection, and two wait lists. Let me chime in about how I hate wait lists. To me, they say: “We do not really want you, but if the kids we want do not want us, we will take you.” DS isn’t too verbal about what he thinks. We took him out to lunch today to try to get him thinking about options. His current top choice is about six hours from home–a bit farther than he wanted.</p>

<p>Well honestly thats what it is, the thing I hate is that most schools dont let people know if they get off the waitlist till after accepting your acceptance is dew</p>

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<p>Lol…It is what it is. I still would rather have the rejection and deal with that. For the record, I don’t like the January admits either.</p>

<p>I thought only ivey schools did that because they know a number will drop out the first semester/quarter</p>

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<p>^^ Very few students drop out of ivy league colleges.</p>

<p>Just saying what I heard, that they are used to being in the top 10% at their high school, then going to the college they are bottom and cant handle the work</p>

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<p>Well that’s just the way kids are brought up. Do not derive success from the conventional means, but learn to love and embrace the pleasure of finding things out and changing the world with that knowledge. Do not let numbers define you, but disregard them. Focus on what you know and how you can expand your knowledge.</p>

<p>I understand it’s what you heard but what you heard is wrong. Do you always insist on believing what you want to believe? That will make college hard.</p>

<p>Here you go, according to US News, these are the graduation rates and retention rates of the ivy league colleges:
Princeton 90% 98%
Yale 89% 99%
Columbia 88% 99%
Dartmouth 88% 98%
UPenn 88% 98%
Harvard 87% 97%
Brown 86% 98%
Cornell 86% 96%</p>

<p>I believe what I am told by my teachers, yes college is hard, no matter what, but im getting my AA at the end of this quarter and I think im doing fine in college</p>

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<p>Softballkc, the University of Maryland, College Park does the spring admit as does tiny Colorado College in Colorado Springs. I have not heard of lots of others, but I am guessing it is done lots of places.</p>