<p>Agent99: What a coincidence! We’ve been discussing CSU this morning! D was recently accepted and received a nice Dean’s Scholarship there this week. Even though the school is a match in many areas (size, location, Greek life, etc.), the program D wants is not as strong there as other schools she’s been accepted to or waiting to hear from. CSU has soared in popularity at D’s HS and many have applied there because of it’s part of the WUE, so greatly reduced costs for qualifying OOS students. Don’t think it’ll be the final choice, but the low price is very tempting… 
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<p>Congrats to you both! D received her 3rd acceptance this week. Nice to hear good news while we’re snowed in!</p>
<p>Congrats to your DD, LisaK. Three acceptances is fantastic! So nice to have choices.</p>
<p>@momofwon: The WUE was the cherry on top for DD’s friend. No word on scholarship or financial aid so thinking maybe she’s not in the running?</p>
<p>@Agentninetynine, thanks 
I’m guessing the WUE is an exchange for Western publics? We have an exchange in New England, but it only comes into play when your student’s in-state schools don’t offer the desired course of study. How does the WUE work?</p>
<p>It is, but many of the top schools do not participate or it is given as a scholarship. I believe the agreement for participating schools is that out of state tuition will be no more than 150% of what the in-state tuition is.
<a href=“Save On College Tuition | Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE)”>http://wiche.edu/wue</a></p>
<p>Some schools that participate in the WUE limit majors or have high GPA/test score qualifications. Oregon State dropped out last year and before that had only a few majors that qualified for the discount. </p>
<p>That’s interesting, thanks. In NE, an out of state student can attend and pay the tuition of his/her in-state school (I assume the flagship) if the home state does not offer the program the student wants. For example, if my daughter wanted a program the CT schools don’t offer, she could pay in-state rates and attend, say, UNH.</p>
<p>Acceptance #4 came today with $$! Now my biggest problem is that D wants to visit all these schools, and they’re all over the country. Glad she’s excited but I’m trying to get her to narrow it down!</p>
<p>^^^lisaK - I wish this was true…In NE it depends on the college or university. For example - - we live in ME and UMO does not offer Neuroscience - my son was accepted to UVM but UVM only offered reduced tuition for only a few majors and Neuroscience is not one of them. Bummer ! </p>
<p>Congrats, @LisaK216 ! Yesterday we also got acceptance #4 (from UNH), with five more to hear from. We have now visited all but two of these 9 schools. </p>
<p>Of course, the ones most likely to make my S’s short list are the ones that a) he hasn’t yet been accepted to, and b) will cost the most. He’s currently leaning towards Northeastern because they put on a very convincing show this weekend about how effective their co-op program is. We’re in this odd situation of having NMF status because of test scores but marginal grades – so if he gets in (not guaranteed, especially with his midterm grades) he should qualify for their $30K/scholarship and honors program. I guess I should check on that.</p>
<p>Trying to give him enough space to figure out what he wants… which is hard because he’s avoiding thinking about it!</p>
<p>@onlyonemom…really/ My friend’s daughter was able to attend UNH at in-state rates – I believe it was for occupational therapy. Maybe the exchange doesn’t apply for certain programs? Sorry to hear that :(</p>
<p>@crowlady – thank you! Funny what you said about your son – my D is pining for a couple of the priciest schools which we haven’t heard from yet. A couple of my friends’ sons both got into Northeastern, but many other kids we know were surprisingly deferred, including the Val from D’s school. It’s a very popular school this year. They seem to be looking for high test scores which will help your son!</p>
<p>First acceptance here! My daughter got the big envelope from Rochester Institute of Technology today. It’s right in the middle of her preferences, among the seven schools she applied to. She did a summer weekend program for prospective applicants there and had a really good time, and I am sure she’d be happy there. Of course it depends on the money, but I think we can make it work if she doesn’t get into her top 3.</p>
<p>She didn’t apply early anywhere because she had a crappy year last year and a great year this year and we needed her schools to see her midyear report. So it was a long time coming, but here it is, at last!</p>
<p>@oldmom4896, congrats on RIT! I know a couple of freshman there who love it.</p>
<p>Congrats old mom on the first acceptance. Getting that first acceptance is very exciting and definitely takes some of the pressure off. </p>
<p>Congrats oldmom! I was on this thread last year. My D is a Freshman at RIT and loves it! </p>
<p>Congrats Oldmom! </p>
<p>A large envelope arrived from Wooster today. </p>
<p>This was the ‘parent prerogative’ application, so I’m delighted that expatSon was accepted.</p>
<p>@expatCanuck, that’s great news, congratulations!! Wooster is such an impressive school.</p>
<p>Congrats @expatCanuck! Is Wooster your son’s first choice? </p>
<p>I don’t know whether my son even knows what his first choice is. </p>
<p>My sense is that Wooster and Mount Allison are likely the most academically demanding schools to which he’s been offered admission – the question is whether he wants that (he’s insanely bright but not (yet) the best student). The acceptance came as a surprise, given his deferral 2 months ago.</p>
<p>All that said, the Wooster acceptance makes me think that the Clark rejection was as much (if not more) a demographic determination as it was an academic decision [i.e. - all other things being equal (and they never are), the further afield we go from the east coast, the greater the likelihood of admission].</p>
<p>Congrats @oldmom4896 and @expatCanuck. Last week my son learned that he got into RITs highly ranked game design program, but he keeps confusing it with RPI which we visited the same week almost a year ago. Still, he says it is near the top of his list. But he also says he knows he needs to do more research.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see how he will weigh things like academic rigor and reputation, specific programs like majors or co-ops (which he’s also not set in stone on), and finances. I’ve done so much of the work to help him decide where to apply. He knows I’m not going to make the decision for him now that he has some good choices.</p>