<p>^ While I hate to discount support for the original story is bogus (I too think it is!), I am not sure if the occasional spelling or grammatical error on a forum can be indicative of something meaningful. Case in point: my writing sucks on CC, despite having a PhD from a top school and being a former professor at an Ivy :)</p>
<p>badwillhunting,</p>
<p>Not everyone has a terrific grasp of essay writing, and it’s possible that you are more inclined towards math/engineering, but your first post was a rambling mess.</p>
<p>You just got into four of the most competitive colleges in the country, and waited until the very last minute to get your stuff together to deposit? Did you not know that your father was traveling? Had you not considered how to pay for this before the last moment? </p>
<p>Most of the kids on this board have gone through endless testing - and paying for it - and numerous deadlines. I am surprised that a student would have waited till the last possible moment to figure out that they didn’t have any way to pay for the deposit. Makes me think that you weren’t thinking ahead. Something this important…seems kind of odd that you would wing it after all that hard work to get into these schools. (Which doesn’t strike us as the typical HYP or U Chicago student)</p>
<p>People are calling BS for several of the reasons stated in other posts - your grammar just doesn’t strike us as a typical HYP student. </p>
<p>Also - be careful about procrastination with projects and studying in college. It will catch up with you. 
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<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>I think there’s a cumulative sense of things not quite adding up. The poster is supposedly smart enough to get admitted to 3 Ivies & earn a merit scholarship at Chicago… but too inept to figure out how to resolve issues related to making a deposit on the last possible day to notify colleges. Plus the fact that May 1 fell on a Saturday this year…</p>
<p>Funny how to OP seems to have disappeared. Don’t know about you, but I definitely noticed lately a trend of teen posters coming to the parent forum with bored hypothetical situations. Typically they haven’t posted before and their OPs are pretty generic and often have things that just don’t add up. I think at this time of year they have too much time on their hands and get a kick out of creating parental responses and debate.</p>
<p>I don’t believe it either. Does UChicago really have merit aid? Anyway, there are some extraordinary kids who do get into HYP and Chicago (with merit aid if it exists). Still very fishy.</p>
<p>Some teenagers are more mature than others. Parents do so much for their kids today that many of them don’t know how to make decisions, accept consequences, or just bend with the punches. My kids are “last minute” decisionmakers which drives me crazy. But I strive to hold my tongue after I made a suggestion a few times and let them decide and live with those decisions. Frankly, if this kid doesn’t want to go to Yale, she shouldn’t. She needs to make up her own mind where she studies; that way, she can’t blame anyone else for her unhappiness. And I get the feeling she may be a little histrionic and could use some “get over yourself” advice. So I advise: sit both parents down for a long, honest conversation. No pouting; no ultimatums. College is very expensive. In many ways, it doesn’t matter where you go. Just study hard and get a part time job while in school. You may end up living with your parents after college, so make nice now!</p>
<p>We’ll never know if the OP was a fake or not. I’m still shaking my head over the fact that I just spent 10 minutes of my life reading a woe-is-me-I-have-to-go-to-YALE thread.</p>
<p>I agree that you should call U Chicago and ask if it’s too late for you to get in. If it is not too late, you and your parents can discuss how much you would prefer U Chicago. If it is too late, take pride in being a bulldog. In either case, if you have a debt of $15K, you are still not that badly in debt; you can still make it work to take lower-paying jobs if you want them. Also in either case, I don’t think that you would be any bigger or smaller a fish at U Chicago than at Yale - they are peers even though only one gets to be an Ivy.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I fell like I just watched the old eat their young. I not so sure that this was not a real story.</p>
<p>Call U of C and see what you can do to get reninstated.</p>