<p>And you never know, he may still get in to Providence. In the meantime, Bryant is a very good school and very big on technology.</p>
<p>He actually got a nice merit scholarship at Bryant and he got into the business school at UVM, which is a solid state University in a great spot - Burlington.</p>
<p>My older son goes to Champlain College in Burlington, it’s a small private college that he loves and is great for him since he has NVLD (non verbal learning disability).</p>
<p>Personally I think UVM is a really great school, but it’s not me going. Strangely enough his best friend is going to Bryant for their environmental engineering program. We haven’t visited yet but will do so if he doesn’t get into PC.</p>
<p>Lesson learned, we probably shouldn’t have visited Loyola and let him fall in love with it.</p>
<p>“Kids do get in off the wait list, especially since so many of them are applying to 10 schools or more and colleges are having a hard time predicting who’s coming and who is not. If Providence doesn’t work out, it may be worth it to accept a spot on the wait list, then have him send a letter expressing how much he wants to attend and listing any additional honors or awards, an additional teacher recommendation, and an updated transcript.”</p>
<p>He already sent the email telling them he definitely wants to stay on the waitlist and I’m calling the guidance office at his school to get them on the bandwagon and will have him ask for recommendations. Thanks Kelly, those are .some great suggestions.</p>
<p>GC, I hope Geneseo get’s the thumbs up! It’s wonderful that he got into some top schools.</p>
<p>What town is that in? My parents are from Utica.</p>
<p>CT mom…thanks…Geneseo is 40 mins from Rochester.Its Geneseo NY
I think thats a great idea for your son to do. Let him show an interest. If he really wants to go there make every effort.
Even if I am accepted into Loyola I dont know if I will get enough aid. Im sure alot of people are in my boat. So many people will be getting off the waitlist. I would NOT lose hope. I hope he makes it!! Keep us posted!
I applied to 11 schools total. I needed to have a few safety and financially safe as well.</p>
<p>Well, the mail from B’more hasn’t reached New Hampshire yet, but it’s sounding like that’s probably a GOOD thing. Can’t imagine it’s gonna be good news for my DD with all the bad news from y’all!</p>
<p>It’s gotta be difficult position for Loyola admissions with the 30% increase in applications this year - on top of having to admit so many b/c it seems to be second (or more!) choice of so many kids.</p>
<p>Sheesh. Now I’m wishing we hadn’t visited Loyola and (all of us!) fallen in love with it, too…</p>
<p>(((hugs)))</p>
<p>I got into rutgers, penn state, towson, montclair, high point university, and bryant. I got denied from loyola marymount and waitlisted at loyola. I’m still waiting for marist and ucf ugh I hate colleges why can’t they just let us attend where we really wanna go cuz I know a lot of people applied here who prob aren’t gonna go :(</p>
<p>It was smart to apply to 11 schools. My husband thought that 8 was a lot, but as it turned out, it probably wasn’t enough.</p>
<p>This is such a tough wait.
I did not visit Loyola because I knew we might fall in love.
After some hopeful acceptances I will have to possibly still so visit Vassar and Gettysburg.
I will also post if my son hears anything new from Loyola so you all know about the waitlist thing. The more info you have the better.</p>
<p>Thanks GC, although just knowing that he didn’t even make the cut for “priority waitlist” (ridiculous!), is discouraging.</p>
<p>Why don’t they just say, "Thank you for applying to Loyola, but we received oodles of applications from people way more qualified than you (as determined by our experienced team of 20 something year old admissions staff), so we’ll put you on a waitlist so you don’t jump off the nearest bridge.</p>
<p>Maybe if the slightly more qualified applicants who made the priority waitlist don’t get into better instittutions (as if), and we have a spot vacated then and only then will you receive the privilege of paying 51,000 a year to attend"</p>
<p>What can I say, I’m getting snarky in my old age. Maybe if I burn the Loyola t-shirt my son has been sleeping in I’ll feel better.</p>
<p>no news in Denver… I’m nervous now that I’ve heard about the increased competition… I thought this was probably a safety school for me, but now… :/</p>
<p>that sounds fun to burn my loyola tshirt hahahaha good idea!</p>
<p>This is what happened to my son 3 years ago with Villanova. It was supposed to be a safety for him and he got waitlisted, even though his stats were over the 75th percentile of their accepted applicants. Who knows what goes on behind the scenes. The whole process is something of a crapshoot, but luckily the kids are resilient and mostly end up very happy at the school they ultimately attend.</p>
<p>CT Mom your so funny…
But really I would not lose hope.
Please keep us posted literally…</p>
<p>I think the word is out about Loyola - not only is it a beautiful campus but the students poll as some of the most satisfied in the country - with the academics, their professors, the social life, their dorms, the food. We have known 5 or 6 families who have sent multiple kids thru different colleges – without fail they all put Loyola at the top of list for their parental experience and how their kids liked it - often ahead of ‘better’ schools. So I think they’re doing something right there. </p>
<p>Loyola would normally be considered my DD’s safety (3.9 gpa, 1450+ SATs) but knowing friends who are there and their experiences are the reason she wanted to visit in the first place…and she fell in love with it. She was accepted early decision into the honors program and got a $25k/year Presidential Scholarship -plus another grant/work study etc which will make it affordable for us. And it still remains very high on her radar - I’d say there is a good chance she’ll end up at Loyola. In this economy you are definitely seeing more kids with her profile applying knowing they can get merit scholarships…unfortunately that means that someone who maybe last year would have gotten in is now on the waitlist.</p>
<p>I tell my daughter she will end up at the place that is right for her – I always remind her I was waitlisted at my first choice so I went to my ‘second choice’ – but if I hadn’t gone there I never would have met her father!!</p>
<p>Son also was surprised by how much he liked Loyola. He’s a little more average than your daughter (29ACT, 3.1UW, 3.5W), but we were amazed by the financial package meeting our EFC. So out of 13 schools applied to (the famous “cast a wide net” for FA) it’s now down to Loyola and Pitt, how different can you get? The Admitted Students Days will be interesting for him. Meanwhile we were shocked that he was completely rejected by American, as he seemed to fit their 50% composite. It’s a strange admissions year.</p>
<p>“He’s a little more average than your daughter (29ACT, 3.1UW, 3.5W), but we were amazed by the financial package meeting our EFC.”</p>
<p>And he was accepted? Did he have amazing EC’s or some kind of extraordinary talent? </p>
<p>I’m beginning to feel like my son is cursed.</p>
<p>I received my acceptance today.</p>
<p>Well in response to ctmom2boys, I totally understand your exasperation. We watched the message boards on American and Northeastern, where he seemed to be a match at collegeboard and naviance and kids with lesser stats were being accepted, and he wasn’t even waitlisted, just rejected. I think in terms of Loyola, applying early action helped probably helped a lot, he had normal ECs, and in my opinion (granted I’m his mom) his essay was quirky and really neat. Also coming from a top flight school (some might call it cutthroat) probably helped put a little more sparkle on the gpa. He also got into UVM business, so perhaps if the FA is right we’ll cross paths. I wish the best for everyone caught in this tough admissions year.</p>
<p>Congratulations gabby!</p>
<p>Frugola, I hope I didn’t offend you, I apologize if I did, yes, I’m very exasperated. My sons high school is also one of the best in the country (99% of the students continue immediately to college after graduation), and it’s incredibly competitive but we were never “those kind” of pushy parents and now I feel like we should have been. I guess I’m feeling guilty that we didn’t hire the college consultants, pay for the $3000 SAT courses, send our son to builders beyond borders instead of insisting that he learn what it’s like to work (he had a job in maintenance at a country club, became a supervisor there and woke up at 6:30 am on weekends while his friends slept in), and insisted that the school assign him an experienced guidance counselor rather than a clueless new grad who frankly was useless, and hire a writer to help with his essay.</p>
<p>I am in no way saying that anyone here did those things, but if they did, well, you are smarter than us.</p>
<p>We could have done all those things but stupid us, we believed that a good work ethic, honesty and teaching our kids independence was the right route and that hey, we could actually trust naviance and collegeboard, and all those data tables that gave us every indication that our son would surely get into the schools he applied to and that we would have been thrilled to give money that we’ve saved 25 long years for.</p>
<p>It just seems so unfair and it’s frustrating because it’s too late for a “do-over”.</p>
<p>Thanks for letting me vent, I know all our kids deserve to go, but couldn’t he at least have gotten into ONE of his targets?</p>
<p>Sorry about the rant, I didn’t sleep a wink last night.</p>
<p>My sincerest congratulations to all of you who were accepted.</p>
<p>Just want to say good luck to floridamom’s D. She will love Loyola. For those who are thinking that Loyola is a second-rate, third tier, safety…you are wrong. D is there. Here’s where she was accepted last year (Georgetown, William & Mary, Univ. of Richmond, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and wait-list at Princeton - many of these schools with merit $$). At Loyola, she is surrounded by many students who are just as competitive. She tells me that among her friends not one regrets choosing Loyola Maryland. I am not alone in my thinking here: Do an advanced search for comments posted on CC by obxboy.</p>