<p>I doubt it! If you are invited for a scholarship interview, you are a shoe-in. I disagree with randc. Respectfully. :)</p>
<p>anxiousmom</p>
<p>Thank you for being so respectful lol.</p>
<p>While I agree that is rare, I know of at least one instance where:
1) a superstar student was invited to an all expense paid scholarship finalist weekend incl. airfare
2) she declined the weekend
3) they rejected her. </p>
<p>That's one way to keep the yield figures up.LOL.</p>
<p>I think we may (with me leading) have gotten off topic a little.
Sorry freshstart19</p>
<p>cur, is this superstar partial to hot tubs and saintly thinkers?</p>
<p>Nope. Not mine. And I'm not at all using superstar in a negative or sarcastic sense.</p>
<p>didn't think you were</p>
<p>I definitely agree that knowing early about a school makes it a LOT more appealing in my mind because a.) it lets me know they care about/want me to go there and b.) I have more time to get myself psyched about the school and imagine myself there
For a long time I had 3 schools that I loved equally. Last month I was accepted with a merit scholarship to one of those three, and got my FA info about 3 weeks after that. I will probably go there because they've gotten into my head so much more than the other schools (and the FA package was very generous). -- this was not a likely letter, this school had an earlier deadline for those applying for merit scholarships, so they let us know earlier than RD applicants
Another reason is that one of those 3 schools sent a likely letter to only one applicant from my school who also happened to be the least qualified person out of everyone who applied.. but she's a URM (the rest aren't). It might not have rubbed me the wrong way so much if she hadn't been so obnoxious about it, but either way the school likely lost a lot of highly qualified applicants from my school because of that.</p>
<p>Dartmouth sent one of my son's friends a "highly likely" letter. Although my son didn't apply there, this practice seems riduculous when it is only 15 days from the "agreed Ivy" date of 3/29. Why rub this in the face of all the great students who are sat waiting to get into top schools-hey, if they know if you are in just send a highly likely letter to everyone then if you don't get one you know you are rejected.</p>
<p>At this point, all of our children's RD applications must be getting pretty musty anyways.</p>
<p>^colleges don't need to make us feel warm and fuzzy</p>
<p>it's a second-class citizen thing.</p>
<p>if you are about to bless a union with hundreds of thousands of dollars, you want the affection to be mutual.
does one like to be chosen last for the baseball team?
better to reveal the roster all at once.
again, the practice claims to remove anxiety but really creates it for the majority since a limited number of letters is sent. it's like the canary in the mineshaft for all the applicant's applications . so this is disingenuous practice.
and dartmouth does promote its intimacy(warm and fuzzy in the snow?) as a selling-point feature,.. that it's not so big.</p>
<p>we all understand the baleful concept of getting tough for the real world.
which by the way college happily isn't.</p>
<p>do you realize that a mallomar is merely a cold 'smore? mmnnn, marshmallow graham cracker chocolate dome of delight,...</p>
<p>i don't really even like mallomars</p>
<p>im more of a Samoa person</p>
<p>alas, it is girl-scout season and the optimistic little dears, encamped at their tables, are begging by the market exits. how can I explain that this giant wants to dip below the 200lb mark, has no willpower and will probably eat the box and its contents well before reaching my driveway? </p>
<p>I have no problem asking the hockey teams to pay for my next tee time when they ask me to subsidize their fun.</p>
<p>well, mallomar, i recall you disclosing your asianness but now that you reveal yourself to be Samoan, I am certain you would consider my 203 lbs rather dainty, a weight you no doubt reached by age 7. But I do hope you will show some sympathy to my having had to have my hulahoop custom made,..</p>
<p>girl scout cookies!!! <a href="http://www.littlebrownie.com/clipart0405/PR/Samoas.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.littlebrownie.com/clipart0405/PR/Samoas.jpg</a></p>
<p>that's my hula-hoop!!!!</p>