Accepted: Texas Tech (merit aid) UNT (merit aid), Oklahoma State (merit aid), UTD
Not Accepted: UT Austin (CAP’d), TAMU (PSA’d)
Attending: Texas Tech University, Rawls College of Business.
On another note, we got the email this morning that he received TWO scholarships from our district’s education foundation!! One from our local Rotary Club, and the other from a Memorial Scholarship Fund set up for one of the teachers from his elementary school who passed away from an aggressive form of cancer a few years ago. That one really had me bawling…for him to be honored by her memory just means the world to me
Accepted: UPenn, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Georgia Tech, University of Virginia (Rodman Scholar), Boston University (presidential scholarship) - all Engineering. Also her safety school Pitt were she was accepted to Computational Biology.
Waitlisted: Dartmouth, Duke (Engineering), Carnegie Mellon (Computer Science), and Michigan (Engineering)
Rejected: Harvard, Princeton, MIT (after EA deferral), Brown, and UNC Chapel Hill
Her basic stats were SAT 1570 4.0 GPA (4.76 weighted). All STEM APs.
Accepted: UPenn, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Georgia Tech, University of Virginia (Rodman Scholar), Boston University (presidential scholarship) - all Engineering. Also her safety school Pitt were she was accepted to Computational Biology.
Some incredible opportunities. Where is your daughter leaning? Seems like she’s a city person.
You might look at Section C2 in the Common Data Set for each of the waitlisted schools, if you want to get an idea from historical data how many students are waitlisted and how many get offers from the waitlist. Of course, this year is probably going to be an anomaly due to Covid.
Thanks. It looks like BC has an enormous WL this year - 6k - and it’s very unlikely he will come off there. Davis we are letting go since it’s hot, they require an essay, and he got into another UC. UCLA I’m not sure and should look again.
They don’t take too many but Notre Dame might take him since they probably have some hooked soft nos on their list, he’s at Catholic school, we are full pay and may ask the counselor to contact them. They are also a distance from everyone so many kids maybe haven’t seen it, and their admits might have gotten into multiple great schools. He’s doing his LOCI letter.
UW pulled quite a few off the wait list last year and they have already started pulling for in state. One of these last two is probably his best chance.
Was so hoping we would be done with the college admission season by now but the waitlist situation will keep us going for little while later. My D21’s list was mainly target and safety with one reach thrown in for fun.
Accepted: UGA, SDSU, University of Washington, Syracuse (leadership scholar),
Waitlisted: NYU, CalPoly(dream school), UCSB, UCSC
Rejected:UCLA
It’s hard watching her having to pick a school and not be enthusiastic. I have to keep reminding her that she will thrive where she lands and that everything is going to work out the way it needs to.
Its been an exhausting season and I can’t wait to have it behind us! This community has been a life savor. The support and compassion is unparalleled!
Accepted at U Mich (Honors LSA), UVA (Echols Scholar), NYU (Presidential scholarship), UT Austin, Georgetown. Visiting Georgetown and UVA this weekend.
Rejected at JHU, UCB, USC, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Duke and Brown
Waitlisted at million other schools: UPenn, Dartmouth, UChicago, Northwestern and Columbia are among those WL schools. (I didn’t list all because the number is too many)
I love reading everyone’s posts, and sorry I discovered this forum so late. Thought I’d add my D21’s since she is not a science/engineering kid.
Accepted: UIUC, UW Madison, Mich St (honors), Minn-TC, McGill, Toronto, Kenyon, Oberlin, Denison, St. Olaf, College of Wooster (all LACs with excellent - okay merit)
Waitlisted: Macalester
Rejected: nowhere
Will likely attend: College of Wooster The long shot, come-from-behind winner
Here’s my D21’s list (in alphabetical order):
Accepted: Bates, Beloit, Bryn Mawr, Colby, Connecticut College, Kenyon, Knox, Mount Holyoke, Wheaton (MA)
WL: Davidson, Grinnell
Denied: Bowdoin, Middlebury
She applied to more schools than she normally would have because it’s such a crazy application year, and it seems like she’s in good company here. She’s narrowed it down to Bates, Bryn Mawr and Kenyon. In a normal year I’m guessing she would do a couple of longer/overnight visits and likely have little trouble making a decision, but this year she’s struggling to let go of some great options.
I have to say as much as it sucks to go through this process and also hang out at the waitlist bar, I’m so completely grateful that he should get a residential, at least hybrid experience wherever that happens. Also grateful that California should be open since a lot of his best admits are from here. I guess Covid could still surprise us, but I’m feeling hopeful at this point.
On waitlist size, keep in mind that a large portion will not accept the spot on the waitlist. It’s too early and not possible to know how many will do so.
The long shot, come-from-behind winner