Congrats to you and your son @SoleCustodyDad. What a wonderful accomplishment for both of you.
We finally got the last results for my D this week. Hoping for the best with the financial aid piece.
Accepted:
Kenyon
Denison ($26,000 merit)
Davidson (finalist for writing scholarship, find out in April)
Lafayette (Marquis scholar award, $24,000)
Vassar
Centre ($26,000 merit)
U. Richmond (Richmond scholars semi-finalist, no merit)
UGA honors (full tuition scholarship)
U. Alabama (full tuition scholarship)
WL: Wellesley
Accepted:
UC Berkely, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UC Irvine engineering school, Cal Poly SLO Engineering School, CU Boulder Engineering School (merit aid), U of Oregon(merit aid), Lewis & Clark(merit aid), University of Portland(merit aid)
Rejected: UCLA, Northwestern, UNC oos
Waitlist: Clark Homors College at U Of Oregon
SAT 1420 / 4.3 GPA
10 accepted/3 denied/1 waitlist
Incredibley proud of son, he has some amazing choices and I know he will be happy and thrive wherever he decides to go. I Feel for him as he didn’t get into his top two choices, UCLA and Northwestern, but so grateful for all the schools that he did get into.
I’ll stop lurking and post my D’s results for future reference:
D17 App / Stats
ACT: 33 (34 super-scored)
SAT: 1400
SAT 2: 740 Math 2, 700 Chemistry
GPA: 4.0 UW
ECs: Lifeguard full time last 2 summers (manager last summer) , Managing Editor school newspaper, JV track, Step Team as part of a diversity young leaders association, MITES @ UT last summer, UIL, French Honor Society, Tae Kwon Do Black belt, Flag Runner at football.
Residency: Texas
Results: Chemical Engineering intended major
Prairie View A&M - Regents Scholar/color
Texas A&M - [color=green]Engineering Honors, $1250 engineering scholarship
UT Austin - Accepted/color, $5000 per year Presidential Scholars Award
Cornell: [color=green]Diversity Hosting (LL) then Accepted
Rice - Vision Invite (near LL) then Accepted Trustee Distinguished Scholarship $25,500 per year.
Princeton - Waitlisted
Yale - Waitlisted
MIT Early Action: Deferred then Rejected
Stanford - Rejected
Current #1: Rice (pending financial aid and Cornell visit)
Observations: TAMU financial aid package is actually $2600 per year better than UT even with bigger scholarship from UT.
@elena13 maybe my S and your D will be attending Davidson together next year! It’s still in the running for him.
Final results: Accepted at 5: UNH (New Hampshire), Tulane, Boston College, Davidson, Columbia
Waitlisted: Williams, Georgetown
Georgetown was his first choice and he applied early action, was deferred, and then was waitlisted RD. Turns out that he has several other great choices instead! At this point he’s leaning toward Davidson or Columbia.
Weird admissions season this year - maybe because so many people are applying to so many colleges, even the most selective can’t figure out who will actually attend??? Even just three years ago when DD went through this, it seemed more reasonable.
@Crusoemom -Is your son going to an accepted student day at Davidson? We’re going next week for her to interview for the scholarship and do some other events and we’ll stay for some of the Decision Davidson day. I’m still not sure the FA will work out for us so I’m feeling nervous.
My D was accepted to Penn State. WPI. Drexel. URI. UConn.Wentworth. Rowan . All for Biomedical Engineering
The one school she wanted North Carolina State… she was deferred and now waitlisted. Not sure what admissions looks for at these schools. I feel badly for her. She’s in such a funk.
Thank God that phase is over. It was an eye opener. My first to go to college. High stats kid with modest extracurriculars. No outside help with essays, ECs, or admission process in general. No hooks (white male and no legacies). 35 ACT (11 of 12 on writing), 4.0 UW GPA, 12 APs w/5s on all exams thus far, NMF, stellar reference letters (I read them), and I would assume good essays. Son is excellent writer with creative mind, but given some of his rejections, he may have rushed through them.
Accepted Early Action:
Univ of OK (NMF scholarship, honors college)
Univ of AL (NMF scholarship, honors college)
Tulane (Presidential Scholar $32k year plus modest NMF scholarship, honors program)
UNC Chapel Hill (no scholarship, HonorsCarolina, Carolina Research Scholar (think that’s the name))
UVA (deferred EA, accepted RD, nominated as Jefferson Scholar but didn’t advance after 2nd interview)
Accepted Regular Decision:
Rice (no scholarship)
Waitlisted (son turned down):
Duke
Vanderbilt
Rejected:
U of Chicago (deferred EA, rejected RD)
Wash U St. Louis (applied RD, demonstrated no interest, did not visit, apparently this is big deal with this school)
Yale (applied RD)
Harvard (applied RD)
Very proud of my boy!! Took rejections in stride and knows he has some wonderful options. Still deciding. Wants to be physician.
@ehsstudent17 Thank you so much!
@carachel2 Thank you as well. His story is amazing to me. He so easily could have taken the events in his life and gone the other way.
@Savi428 Congratulations to you and your son!! Maybe our sons will meet at Harvard.
Out of 8 acceptances my daughter has narrowed it down to three. Still waiting on 2 FA packages and 2 admitted student events next week. It’s such a relief to know the stress is over and she can enjoy all the senior events. Her grades have actually gone up since the application season is over.
S has all results…
Accepted:
UChicago EA Dean Scholar
UVA EA (Jefferson, Echols & College of Science Scholar)
University of Michigan EA OOS Honors won Bell Scholarship ($20K/year) and Departmental Math Scholarship
William & Mary RD Monroe Scholar
University of Alabama National Merit Finalist scholarship
Big decisions for everyone! These young adults are truly amazing working their way through this process! Definitely different then back in my day:-)
Warrenless: Truly impressive. You must be beaming. Congratulations to you and your son.
@chel17 we have a couple of crossovers with my S17.
Accepted: School of Mines; WPI; RPI; UMass Amherst; UMass Lowell; Stevens and Wentworth
Denied: Olin
He has decided on School of Mines. If he were going to commute to WPI it was comparable price to Mines. Wentworth was close to Mines for COA also. We visited Mines in January and he fell in love with it.
@Motiv8tedmom23 School of Mines…Great School! What will your S major in?
@chel17 He’ll be majoring in Civil Engineering.
@Motiv8tedmom23 Really terrific school for Civil Engineering. Congratulations to him! Our S will be CS major, so he may likely pick differently, however Mines certainly would be a little easier on our pocket book ;-(
Some info about my son that may be helpful to others in the future. He was accepted into 7 of 8 Ivies. Waitlisted at Yale.
-1550 SAT
-Nearly a 4.0 GPA. One A- last semester. Honors track at one of the top-rated public high schools in our state.
-Student body president. Held class office every year in high school including class president and VP.
-Involved with and held office in JSA.
-NHS President
-Varsity track and cross country
-Involved with youth group. Youth group leader and mentor was NFL player. Awesome guy.
-A bunch of other extracurriculars
-Part time job as a grocery bagger. Approximately 15-20 hrs per week.
-Pre high-school, he was the kid “CEO” of a group that won a business camp competition that was decided by Silicon Valley VC’s.
-Son and I have gone on several overseas volunteer trips together. One of his essays was about refugees we met in E Europe who had escaped from Syria and were trying to get into the EU - how complex and how human the issue is. It truly is a difficult situation with no easy answers.
-Another of his essays was about his experience with his mom’s substance abuse issues and growing up largely without her. Powerful. I get choked up every time I read it (but I’m his dad).
-Of course, this only conveys a slice of what he’s about. He’s truly a great kid. I wish I could be more like him in a lot of ways.
–Not on the resume, but he has been forced to become super independent largely because of our circumstances. For example, has done his own laundry since he was a toddler. Cooks his own food (and it’s really good). He often makes our dinners. Bought his own car with his own earned money. Will sometimes buy the two of us dinner as a way of saying thanks. Buys a lot of his own clothes and school supplies.
-Not legacy
-Army, Navy, and Air Force 4-yr ROTC scholarships to pay for tuition.
I’m super-proud of him. We’ve been through a lot together.
Hope the above helps!
@SoleCustodyDad - You have an AMAZING son, and you’ve done a phenomenal job of raising him as sole custody dad. Congrats!
Do you know which school your son’s leaning towards?
@TiggerDad Thanks! He is amazing. He is leaning toward Harvard. But we’ll be visiting four schools in the next few weeks to help us make an informed decision.
DC applied to 8 schools for biological sciences
UNC chapel Hill: deferred, then denied
UMD: denied
Bucknell: waitlisted
Penn State: direct admit to college of eberly
Miami of Ohio: direct admit to biology, honors college and merit scholarship
Indiana U: direct admit to biology, merit money
VIrginia Tech: direct admit to biology, merit money
Will be attending Virginia Tech: most affordable option