This is my second time around. My first son wound up in the perfect school (Vassar). I know my younger one who is a great kid and a great student (Salutatorian, IB Diploma, top SAT etc) will wind up in his perfect school. But because none of the schools to which he applied offer EA or rolling, we haven’t heard from any yet! This is the longest month of my life. I think that he is only one of 2 kids in his entire class that hasn’t been accepted anywhere yet. OY!
If you think your child will be ‘devastated’ by a rejection, the article in the today’s NY Times (3/15) by Frank Bruni about college acceptances/rejections might be helpful. It offers a well-needed perspective on the ‘obsession with elite colleges’ that exists in some communities!
Thanks for the article @NorCal63.
Son was accepted early decision to Carleton! Also accepted early action to Carroll (MT) and Dickinson. Pending apps to others withdrawn. Future Knight (or Carl)!
Eight applications and eight acceptances for my child: Dickinson, Skidmore, College of Wooster, Ohio Wesleyan, Clark, Wheaton (MA), Roger Williams, and Arcadia. The first four are still under consideration for fall. The other four have already fallen off the list. Not sure what the final decision will be…ironically, we have a relative currently enrolled at Dickinson and another currently enrolled at Skidmore, but big merit aid from both Ohio schools makes them considerably more attractive.
My D, so far, has been accepted to Cornell University (likely letter - she was over the moon), University of Connecticut, Binghampton University Stony Brook University, and Siena College. She was deferred from Columbia University early decision, but would still like to go there the most (so fingers crossed). We are waiting to hear back from Ivy League colleges (Princeton, UPenn, Columbia, etc.), NYU, and Fordham.
My S, who was accepted as a Computer Science major at UT- Austin, UIUC, and EA at Georgia Tech, just accepted GaTech today. Campus visits made all the difference for him. He liked GaTech so much he accepted before hearing from the last three schools on his list (UCB, ULCA, and CMU)! He just really felt like he belonged at Georgia Tech. I’m excited for him.
My D got into Middlebury and Carleton today which is great. I am, of course so happy for her. I find this all more nerve-wracking than I care to admit. She has no first choice yet as she has not even visited 3 places she applied and been accepted to - Colorado college, Macalester and Carleton. I don’t think she will decide until April 30. It’s all good but I don’t want all this to eat at me so much. Anyone else feel that way?
I don’t think my D will decide until April 30 either. I think I will suggest she make a spreadsheet to help decide.
D2 so far accepted at Colorado College, Whitworth University, Western Washington University–and (just found out last night) Pomona!! That was quite a (happy) shock. Waiting on a few others which will probably include some rejections. And waiting on FA info.
On my sons account here just wanted to talk to some other parents. We are from NC hes been accepted to UNC Chapel Hill Honors ($32,000 Scholarship) University of South Carolina Honors College ($90,000) PItt Honors through MBA grad School, University of Virginia, UNC Charlotte Honors and through grad school, and waiting on Duke, Yale and Cornell. Cornell is his dream its been a stressful couple of weeks.
Congrats to Tmvwhv and others whose children were accepted to where they wanted to go. My daughter was offered a full tuition scholarship to the business school at Miami University of Ohio, where she also received a spot in the Academic Honors Program. It’s great because she received the news a few weeks ago and they are certainly going a good job with recruiting her - not too much constant, but every week or so a Miami shirt, rubiks cube, or similar arrives. She was also accepted into our flagship state school in the Honors college. The real dilemma will come soon from schools like Emory, Duke, Northeastern, and Wellesley which will probably accept her come up with their decisions soon.The key will be whether the financial aid will cover enough our the expenses to make it worthwhile. I’m very glad she applied early - a lot of stress was off our shoulders in the last couple of weeks. Right now she doesn’t have a “dream” school and is pretty good about picking out the good and bad at each school. Now that we have a couple of choices locked in, we can more enjoy the rest of the process.
@vegemama Congrats. Sounds very similar. My D also got into Middlebury and Wesleyan. She will also likely take until April 30th, has no preference and hasn’t visited any of these schools (we’re out west). We’re still waiting to hear on a bunch of other schools. I just booked a flight out east for us to visit schools but can’t even book the return flight since we won’t know all the results until after we’ve started our trip (timing is tied to our Spring Break which is next week).
It’s a bit crazy making, but in perspective, she has great choices now, so I can’t complain. I have to be a bit careful being the proud pappa - especially since I don’t really believe in the whole system and hated my own Ivy League experience. I’m proud because she wanted this, worked really hard to get into these schools and achieved it. That’s what really matters.
April 30th will be an interesting day.
@treehuggermom - are you local to Georgia state? Our son got into Georgia Tech also but we live in CA. Rght now it’s his first choice and I am very encouraged to hear that your son loved it. We plan to go to the admitted students day on April 13.
@lunar2015 - We are in Texas. DS just really liked Atlanta, the size of the school, how friendly the students were…really the whole vibe there. During this whole process I saw a million posts here on CC saying how important campus visits are and I now whole-heartedly agree!
@msdad - have you guys heard from Wesleyan or did you mean Macalester? (haha I meant Macalester and wrote wesleyan. You were unhappy at an ivy? - I’d love to hear more about that. We are still waiting on Wesleyan. My D just got into Vassar so like yours she has lots of choices. Best of luck to you.
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic but, is there an official discussion/decision thread for UW-Madison?? I can’t seem to find it anywhere
@Neurogirl07 , here you go:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-wisconsin-madison/
@Marylandfour thank you!!
Hi,
I recently got waitlisted at SCU and would like to ask if any of the parents here know how plausible acceptances off the waitlist are (I understand that the statistics may distort the truth considering only the yield from the waitlist is reported, or so I’ve heard). I also tried emailing a few of the faculty members whose courses I would like to take to ask them if they could try and advocate my acceptance… Is this too annoying and desperate?