My son got into Ross Business School of University of Michigan by preferred admission. We are all so happy for him. This school is his second choice next to Wharton, but our first choice because the in-state tuition. He only applied to two collages, UPenn and Michigan. It worked out for everyone in the family.
@JH8888 Congrats to your family!! That is awesome!!
Congrats @JH8888 and @HappyFace2018! I see that @JH8888 already has added to the acceptances doc, but I invite you to do the same
S accepted to University of Kansas (KU) Honors with Chancellor’s scholarship. It’s the only local (Kansas) school to which he applied, and at the bottom of his list. Waiting on: American, Georgetown, GW, Boston, Northeastern, Harvard, Brown, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Wash U, Columbia. So hard to wait when almost everyone we know has decided (either going local or did ED).
@Midwest67, we are in the same boat as you are with #2 - S knows what a long shot financially all of his schools are, but we couldn’t dissuade him from trying.
Assuming he gets SOME acceptances he will have a big decision to make, similar to yours, @psychmomma.
And yeah, we’re totally freaking out about the EFC, @Baylorpoly.
All of this is agonizing. Happy he’s at DECA state competition this week and leaving for a fun Spring Break trip next week, to keep his mind off it. Wish I could say the same!
@efinand Good luck!
@efinand Seeing so many parents and kids are still waiting for more acceptances or agonizing over which school to pick, I again count myself lucky we only told our son to apply to 2 schools and he agreed. We told him we would not pay for private school tuition other than Wharton Business School. It does not make any sense to go to other business school over U of Michigan Ross Business School on an out of state tuition.
Now we can sit back and relax.
@jh8888 My son has had all acceptances locked in since Dec with the exception of one Honors programs. It’s all the additional scholarship interviews and notifications that keep him from locking in. Hopefully , within the next several weeks. Congrats to your son.
@JH8888 I am very happy for your son. While our process is more involved, we, as a family, are enjoying the process. Is there a lot to consider? Yes, but to see my D grow through this process has been awesome. She spent three years preparing a list of colleges which would allow her to pursue her passions (international affairs/law/politics). Once she traveled abroad limiting her choices was not in the cards. We are blessed to be in a position to entertain private colleges. We wouldn’t change a thing.
Hope you all make the best decision. Enjoy the process is a good way to look at it. It’s a reward to all the hard work you and your child put into.
@JH8888 I think the reason why we are enjoying the process is because we started saving for it 30 years ago. We both grew up dirt poor, put ourselves through college and are retiring together (from the same job) in less than two years. Our D is well aware of our struggles through college and she appreciates how blessed she is.
@JH8888 You’re fortunate to have a great in-state flagship. Others are not as fortunate. Still others have kids who want to experience a different part of the country, and can do so at similar or less cost. The way admissions works these days, I would not take the chance of applying to just two schools. UofM is a great choice to have. Check out room 8612 in South Quad. I spent some great times there.
D was accepted to:
BC $0
Tulane full tuition
Miami ~1/2 tuition
U of Wi $0
Waiting for RD’s from Vanderbilt, UCSB (her top choice), USC
Don’t expect to see much merit aid from the remaining schools she hasn’t heard from and am very worried she is not going to be happy as I think it’s very foolish to pay $65K for Vanderbilt or USC. Already told her UCSB is out at 55K. Never expected to get full tuition at Tulane but now that she has it just feels so foolish to pass it up because she MAY be happier somewhere else. Didn’t think this would be so hard!!
@fontana Wow! Full tuition is awesome! I agree, with that in the bag, paying $65k would be difficult.
Don’t envy your situation @fontana. Except for the full tuition!!!
DD has 2 acceptances in hand, but just got waitlisted at 2 schools that seems, from all the info available and from Naviance to be matches, possibly even low matches. They were not her favorites, but she is still pretty disappointed, and I fell like I did a bad job guiding her. She has 6 more applications in, and I have told her if she is not pleased with the results, she can take a gap year and try again, but she is not really eager to do that. The accepted schools are great, but are both large, and she in now thinking she might prefer a smaller school. This process is awful, and it is so hard to guess the outcome. Thanks for letting me vent!
@headoflife I’m so sorry. I totally agree. This process is horrible. To be honest, I wish I just shut it all down after my D was accepted at the first college.
@HappyFace2018 I couldn’t agree more! I wish we could get back to those feelings of elation when the early acceptances came in. Now that the admission season has dragged on and my S has gotten his first wait list (and I fear a few rejections soon to come) it appears we’ve reached that “jump the shark” moment. I’d like to just wrap this up and move on at this point - what started out really exciting has become utterly exhausting for everyone.
@FCSmomRN It is gut wrenching. Watching my D and her classmates go through this is painful. Kids you think would be easy choices for college are getting wait listed or outright rejected. On the other hand…last year a student was accepted to Stanford, WashU, UMich and Cornell FULL RIDE and ended up at our state school.
It is just a heartbreak. I just peeked at Naviance again, and while I know it is not perfect, she is way above the average for one of the schools, and pretty solidly in the average for the other. I would say it is “Tufts Syndrome” but even if is, that doesn’t really help, especially if she doesn’t actually get in to her reach schools. She has 3 more matches, and 3 reaches left…or at least I thought they were matches.
@headoflife Sorry for your D re the waitlists. It is so hard to figure out what these schools are looking for. I’ve spent a lot time on Naviance for my S. He has been accepted to 3 safeties and his reach school. But he is waiting on his 5 “match” schools. The reason there are five is that I’ve told him that he probably won’t get into to more than 2 or 3 - it is just so hard to predict even using Naviance. I think if S had been denied from his reach school a few days ago, we’d really be so down stressing about the match schools. His safeties are also his largest schools and while they can certainly work, one in particular, I’m still of the opinion that S would excel and thrive at a smaller school. We’ll see. I truly hope good news is just around the corner for your D. FWIW, I have an older D. She and her HS friends ended up at a wide variety of schools - from state schools to an Ivy - and almost two years out of college they are all doing well. They each found their place - both academically and socially - at their respective schools and it was all good. Hoping the same for your D and all the other kids who are stressing about decisions (including my own).