<p>Congrats, Mikil!</p>
<p>yeah it's Pomona vs Columbia right now, and the Harvard waitlist</p>
<p>Congratulations on all of the acceptances. Good luck with your decisions and the waitlists if you pursue them. I hope that in a month everybody will post where they’ve decided to attend.</p>
<p>JC, did you guys have to take out LOANS to send in all those college applications?</p>
<p>i’m a homeschooler, and my kid applied to like, 4 schools. and took UCLA.</p>
<p>i have no idea why anyone would apply to 30+ schools.</p>
<p>sounds crazy.</p>
<p>Accepted:
Reed College
Lawrence University
University of Washington Seattle</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Whitman College</p>
<p>I was surprised about the Whitman waitlist because they told me that they absolutely loved homeschoolers and seemed really thrilled that I applied! I’m probably going to ask to be removed from the waitlist though. I was also very surprised that the UW accepted me; I had gotten an impression that they really didn’t like homeschoolers! However, it’s probably going to come down to a decision between Lawrence and Reed, depending on financial aid. I only applied to these four and am SO relieved that I have finally heard from everyone! <em>Crossing fingers about Reed</em></p>
<p>Who applied to 30+ schools?</p>
<p>I think the 30+ is just a compilation of what everybody has posted on this thread.</p>
<p>Yay, I’m sorry you weren’t accepted to Whitman. On a homeschooling mailing list I’m on, two homeschoolers report acceptances to Whitman this year. Maybe they didn’t want to fill their entire class with homeschoolers :)</p>
<p>My son was accepted to Yale, Princeton, Notre Dame, New England Conservatory and wait listed at Harvard and Columbia.</p>
<p>And yes, it did get expensive, especially with submitting copies of essays, music recordings, newspaper clippings, etc.</p>
<p>Cpq1xtbu, my son was not able to attend Owl Days. I saw on the Rice forum that your son attended several classes and liked them. Has he decided yet? What did you think of Rice from a parent prospective?</p>
<p>My son will attend Rice in the fall. We’ve visited a few times and the music department has a very good reputation.</p>
<p>Accepted
Hamilton College (47,000 $ yr) attending
Wabash College
Rejected
Amherst
Williams
Wesleyan
Bates</p>
<p>Waitlisted
Trinity</p>
<p>My son was partially homeschooled.</p>
<p>Accepted
Amherst
Bowdoin
Brandeis
Dartmouth
Rochester
Sarah Lawrence
Tufts
UMass Amherst
Vassar
Wesleyan</p>
<p>WL
Brown
Harvard
Williams</p>
<p>Turner-- I really like Rice. I love the size and the residential college system. The admissions staff and faculty were very friendly. I think the opportunities for faculty interaction and
research are good.<br>
My son is still undecided. He feels very conflicted about where he should go. I’m trying to gather information for him, but I’m trying avoid influencing him with my personal opinion. It’s tough because I’m pretty opinionated!
I have heard nothing but praise for the music department. A friend’s son (hs sophomore) attended a music event there yesterday and was very impressed.</p>
<p>Wow, shawbridge. In what direction is your son leaning?</p>
<p>He didn’t want to visit colleges with low acceptance rates and fall in love and then get rejected. So, only visited 2 schools, Brown and Tufts. Brown was implicit first choice, followed by Amherst, Dartmouth and perhaps Wesleyan. Brown and Amherst have no requirements, which is good for him (dyslexic plus used to being somewhat self-directed). Dartmouth has an ideal major for him given interests and dyslexia (mathematics and social science). Wesleyan has requirements but is reputed to have some of the quirkiness of Brown and lots of happy kids. So, we’ll visit those three plus Sarah Lawrence (to see a school with less effort expected and ability to self-direct).</p>
<p>He thought of Bowdoin as similar to Amherst and not quite as strong in key elements (e.g., location) and Vassar as similar to Wesleyan, so to simplify, he’s just going to visit those four. He visited Brandeis this past week and thought it was OK but wasn’t overwhelmed.</p>
<p>After the visits, he’ll have to decide if Brown is still the first choice and he pushes the WL or whether one of the others rises to the top. I’d predict Amherst or Dartmouth, but we’ll see.</p>
<p>My homeschooled kid is a freshman at Amherst this year, shawbridge. He is very happy there.</p>
<p>'rentof2, that is really good to hear.</p>
<p>Do you have a sense of how easy it might be to create one’s own major if that were something a student wanted to do? (The Amherst website says this is possible, but whether it is really doable or not is unclear).</p>
<p>We’re going to visit for Open House next weekend. We’ll be meeting with the head of Disabilities Services. Not clear who else ought to be on our list.</p>
<p>I don’t really know, but I’m sure when you visit you can talk to someone who can fill in the details on that. My kid seemed to find a major I never would have predicted for him. During freshman orientation week they have a day set up where students can jump from department to department where they get a short intro to that major, meet faculty, and ask questions. In the course of that hopscotching from one department to another he came upon something that just immediately appealed. Now he’s finishing up his freshman year, and he’s decided on that. Many students at Amherst double major, so he’s shopping around a bit for a second one now.</p>
<p>I hope you enjoy your visit. I was only there twice; once for our first initial visit prior to his applying, and then last August to help him get moved into his dorm. We live clear across the country, so I probably won’t see it again until he graduates. It’s a great place though, and he feels very grateful to be there. He says he appreciates it every single day.</p>
<p>Only complaint, and it seems to be a universally shared one, is that the food isn’t very good. He does say, however, that there is a kind of bonding that goes on between students all complaining about the food. He says he’s made a number of new friends that way. ;)</p>
<p>Good to know. We’ll investigate.</p>
<p>According to Google Maps, we are about 1 1/2 hours away, and there is a bus that goes from about 20 minutes away to the campus, though it is a longer trip.</p>
<p>My son was a homeschooler who went to Dartmouth. There are distribution requirements, but they are very friendly ones. For example, as a humanities major, he helped meet his science requirement by taking “Dinosaurs”. A lab science course had to do with New England. The lab sessions were trips to a coastal island, Mt.Washington, a bog, etc.
He was admitted to Amherst as well, which was on his short list. One factor for your son may be what size feels right to him. That is likely what tipped it for my son.
It’s terrific your son has such wonderful choices.</p>