@greeneandh Is Lehigh up on the list for you?
@Benji3025 well, like I’ve said, I love me a nice hot cup of speculation tea :)) ~O) It keeps me distracted and a little more sane :bz
I also heard you got into Yale! Congrats! I get my Yale decision next week :O)
@greeneandh Thanks! I hope that you get into Yale and we can meet up! How do you use so many emojis on CC? All I can do are the smiley faces lol
@Benji3025 yes! Lehigh is my top choice! I mainly applied because they have my specific major(molecular bio), and met 100% need aid! I also applied to other schools like F&M, BU, Northeastern, Lafayette, and Michigan to try to shoot my shot :ar!
Rejected by all, waitlisted at F&M, clinging onto Laf, Mich, and Lehigh and Ivies will kick my butt :(( Otherwise I’m going to StonyB or Susquehanna U with 50k debt lolol
I’ve also found a weird thing with Laf, since I could sign up for the admitted student day (by logging into my portal) so hopefully that’s so G O O D N E W S !
@Benji3025 either phone or computer, when you’re typing, there should be a smiley face on the top right corner of the comment box! Click on it and you should get options 3:-O
@greeneandh I was waitlisted by CWRU tonight, and, apparently, some other person found a similar portal trick before decisions were released that worked as well… and was accurate (oof). Four waitlists under my belt… geez I need some good luck on Ivy Day. :-S
@Benji3025 you got accepted to Yale but rejected from CWRU??? My mind has turned inside out :))
Waitlisting is hard… I am taking my gap year, so I’ve been through this process twice and I hope this time I will have some luck!! Last year I was waitlisted from Marist, Cornell, and Tufts, then rejected :)) All I need is a good financial package, pretty campus, and a Wawa :x
@greeneandh Sadly, I am really bad at showing interest to schools that measure “demonstrated interest” like Lehigh and CWRU (I’m quite bad at it, actually). I have a friend who is a freshman at Lehigh and have visited the campus, but my odds still don’t seem to be turning out too well according to this portal trick. Just goes to show that college admissions truly is a process that I will never understand. :-/ :-@
Just out of curiosity out of those of you deferred ed, have any of you changed your mind on where you might want to go to school? I am deferred and Lehigh has stayed my first choice, but I just got into UCSB and Im really considering it due to the low instate tuition. Just curious how many ED kids end up not going to the school they were most confident in.
By the way Im from California so the Instate UC tuition is much much cheaper
@collegelehigh I’m crossing my fingers that you get in RD! :)>-
@Benji3025 For me, it seems like colleges can’t look past my grades lolol ! :(|)
I have a 3.6 GPA and a 27 ACT. My grades are a little low because I had a huge blood sugar moment during senior year. My high Bg’s left concentration difficult and etc. I took 6 AP’s and received 4’s, could’t afford SAT II’s (yikes!)
I have done so much during my senior year… I’ve been co-president of my VAASA club and spoke about diabetes to middle school students. I’ve started my own Celiac Awareness club, took care of my autistic sister, won 2nd place in Science Olympiad, and during my gap year I tutor kids for the Olympiad competition + work two jobs. >-) ~O)
Although I’ve done much, I feel like my grades make colleges run away, literally! It only shows my senior year however I think that was a huge deciding factor for them :o3
Hopefully Lehigh saw something different! I’ve been through two years of rejections, it will be nice to see something nice X_X
@greeneandh Wow, you are so impressive! You deserve the world–I have so much respect for your achievements and all that you have done on your own! I sincerely hope that colleges can look beyond your grades and see how amazing you are. Lehigh or any other school would be lucky to have you! I have a 34 ACT and 4.0 UW GPA, but I don’t have even close to your extracurricular achievements. Wow. ^:)^
@collegelehigh Lehigh is expensive but meets all 100% need based aid! I believe the UC and Lehigh tuition after aid may look similar :x
@Benji3025 Thank you so much!! while I was going through my blood sugar spikes, I knew that if my grades were going to suffer, I should try to make the best out of everything! So i worked hard, only ate caffeine, and tried my hardest!! I hope we all get into some great colleges! no more taking L’s :)>-
@greeneandh Keep me updated about any future speculation and I’ll be sure to see you around as Friday approaches… gotta hit the pillow now! Thanks for talking–best of luck for us both! I-)
@Benji3025 what is the portal trick for Lehigh?
@greeneandh WOW! You are smart!
What do I do if I have only 2 initials though! /
Yeah, what if i don’t have a middle name?
Um… no idea. And if someone has your initials it’s a variation of your initials but you don’t know how they get put together. It’s a spotty trick. It seems to be reliable sometimes I guess. Good luck!!