<p>DeniseC - I'll look for that option the next time I start a thread. Thanks</p>
<p>Mathmom - I will look and see if there is a setting for me to change. If not I'll just keep in mind that I have to actively subscribe. Thanks</p>
<p>I was just going through my CC account doing some cleaning and noticed this thread. This thread was when I stopped being a CC lurker, broke down and became a member, and wrote my first post. It is now going on a year and a half later and I thought that some of you might be interested in the results of the advice you provided me way back when.</p>
<p>Over the subsequent 10 months, we ended up visiting the following schools: Harvard, Northeastern, Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, BU, BC, Brandeis, MIT, WPI, RPI, Yale, Brown, Williams, Dartmouth.</p>
<p>After the initial visits, D eliminated Williams (too rural - yes, I know that so are the Maine schools but she has a love for Maine), Brown (just didn’t like), Colby, Northeastern, and Harvard (two visits that did not win her over), Dartmouth (D did not fit in).</p>
<p>She decided that she would apply to the remaining nine schools with the assumption that she had covered from reaches to safeties. In November, when she was having to finalize her document requests to the High School, I suggested that she consider one more reach. Looking at the list, she decided that though the visits did not go well, Harvard did have a lot on paper and the application was something that, after the other applications, she could complete with relative ease. Now, she is appling to ten schools.</p>
<p>From July to January, D has her standard interviews: Bates on campus (was wonderful), Yale on campus (standard), MIT alumni (did not fair too well), Yale alumni (interviewer was reading questions off computer screen), Bowdoin alumni (D really connected), Brandeis alumni (great), Harvard alumni (a turning point in her interest in the school).</p>
<p>Meanwhile the results start coming in, Yes from WPI and Brandeis (special non-binding early notification application), so at least she is going to college. Then on the Monday of February vacation, D gets a voice mail message from Harvard asking her to come in for a second interview - on campus. She calls back and makes arrangements for two weeks later. That day is a snow storm that closes down Boston, but we make to campus anyhow. After the interview, we go across campus to dine in Anneburg Hall. Just as we sit down, D’s cell rings. Are we still on campus? Can D come back for another interview? She has now ended up with three interviews. Leaving, we can’t decide if this was good news or bad.</p>
<p>Further results come in, RPI - yes, MIT - her first rejection, early notification yes from Bowdoin, then yes, from BU and BC, followed by a yes from Bates. On March 31, she gets her rejection by Yale followed by an acceptance by Harvard 30 minutes later.</p>
<p>After the results, D did insist upon re-visiting many of the schools. In the end, it came down to her deciding between Bowdoin, WPI, and Harvard. Bowdoin, she loved the environment, people and intimacy. WPI she loved the Biotechnology degree and the vast opportunities for research she would have. Harvard was her final re-visit and she concluded that would offer her characteristics that she had loved from both Bowdoin and WPI. So, after all this, D decided to attend Harvard next year.</p>
<p>Thank you to all who provided advice. It has been a long road and I am thrilled that, until either of my kids face graduate school, I am done.</p>
<p>Wow, three interviews. I wonder what that was all about, but congratulations to your daughter. I hope she loves Harvard!</p>
<p>^ Given the results, we now assume it was a good thing. I know of one other CCer who had the same thing happen and, if I recall, she was also accepted.</p>
<p>It’s always great to see the “end result” of these initial search threads. </p>
<p>Looks like she had a really good selection of matches and reaches. Would be a good list for other high achievers to look at…as the overall results were not 100% admit, but gave her great options.</p>
<p>Best of luck to your daughter.</p>
<p>By the end, my daughter was very happy with the results. By the time she had applied to MIT, she really didn’t want to any more but she had begun the application, had the interview and paid the fee. I continued to push her with the idea that IF she were accepted if was an opportunity she should at least consider. So even though a rejection from any school feels lousy, it also meant no more pressure from mom (ie me). As for Yale, she had applied EA and had been deferred. By the time spring came, it had kind of become the “old school” and was no where near as exciting as it had been in the fall. Yes, she would have liked to consider Yale, but by the end, if she were accepted to only Yale or Harvard, she preferred Harvard.</p>
<p>Ironically, there is a web site out there (and I know we are no allowed to promote other sites) that actually predicted her results almost to the T. Yes, by Harvard. No, by Yale. 50-50 shot of MIT acceptance. In November, that was another factor in her decision to add Harvard as another “reach”.</p>
<p>Thanks all for the well wishes.</p>
<p>PS From watching my daughter and her feelings about Yale, I think I see why some schools have gotten rid of the early admission programs. The early school can sometimes become old. My nephew did that with Stanford and Princeton. EA to Standford. Was accepted and then Standford became his “safety” and rejected it later.</p>
<p>I love results! Brings closure. I read the first page and would have posted that Harvard was not a male dominated culture and that I wouldn’t have thrown it out based on private male clubs. Unneeded advice. Good luck to her!</p>
<p>Thank you for updating this thread. As a “lurker” who has recently started posting I can’t tell you how valuable it is to hear the results. My D is a rising senior (yikes - first I typed that she was a junior, then caught myself, I’m still getting used to the idea of her being a senior!), with a list of 15 schools. It is especially helpful to see the thought process in determining which schools should or should not stay on the list and encouraging to see that your D had such success.</p>