<p>DS got accepted to Ohio State today. First one, whew. He is pretty committed to applying to his reach for 1/1 deadline, but it is great to have my mental sanity back.</p>
<p>We have four apps submitted from our house: two EAs to reachy schools, two to likelies. He has scores, transcripts and LORs sent out to eight more, but suspect two of them are getting dropped regardless of EA results. At this stage, we are in holding mode until EA comes in. He has a wide enough range of essays already written that the only substantive writing should be the “Why X?” essays for the remaining schools.</p>
<p>Lesson learned this weekend: if an application’s questions aren’t hitting you in a good way, perhaps it’s not the right school for you. S2 found one school’s questions to be so clearly seeking a personality profile he doesn’t fit (though he meets their target demographic in many other ways and I think it’s a place that would help in grow in some important personal ways) that he has put it aside. This is a school he has visited twice and liked a lot – but the app questions only served to reinforce his concerns about the school.</p>
<p>I see mantori’s S has another acceptance – what a great strategy to have good news early!</p>
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<p>Yup, Alabama this time! 
But that’s it…no more news, good or bad, until next year. :(</p>
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<p>Ohio State is awesome. Talk about a school that offers literally everything! If OSU doesn’t have it, you can’t study it. My brother is in his sixth year there and loves it. You could do a lot worse. Many would say you couldn’t do better.</p>
<p>Mantori,</p>
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<p>don’t write off U Chicago on account of that urban myth of fun coming to die. My freshman S1 empathetically tells me that fun did NOT come to die (I don’t want to know why he is SO convinced of this!). Then, he told me of the email he got from a school authority lamenting over the fact that alcohol related incidents shoot up significantly this year 
(though it is still VERY TAME compared with its peer institutions). </p>
<p>Already “U Chicago fundamentalists” 
are dubbing the class of 2013 as common app disaster class (this is the first student body that had common app, and obviously, it made it easier for a wider variety of students to apply) - these people would like to maintain the myth that U Chicago is a safe haven for monks and ascetics with a hair shirt an all :)</p>
<p>PS: what’s the code for other emoticons?</p>
<p>^^ Wow, I hope it doesn’t change too much. After hearing talk of U Chicago among relatives that have attended in the bygone days (myself included), my 11 year old declared that she’d perhaps like to attend, “it sounds like an interesting place” she said. I hope it remains quirky, nerdy and unusual at least until her time comes and goes.</p>
<p>I found this well-worn football cheer:</p>
<p>Themistocles, Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War,
X squared, Y squared, H2SO4.
Who for? What for? Who we gonna yell for?
GO, MAROONS!</p>
<p>I saw some posts on U Chicago forum where upperclassmen are already complaining that the common app class will cause deterioration of the college experience.</p>
<p>It’s funny: once I read a translation of ancient Sumerian stone tablets. It read something like this:</p>
<p>“The end of the world is approaching - we can tell because the young people these days do not work hard enough, do not respect their elders, and getting irresolute and corrupt”</p>
<p>Sound familiar?</p>
<p>Thanks, Mantori for the comments, and congrats on Alabama. I still can’t believe it is all coming down to the next few months. Looking forward to hearing how it all works out for your S.</p>
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<p>I’m sure the school’s no-fun reputation is exaggerated. On the contrary, I think the intensity of the academics would be great for my son. I think it’s the Common Core that’s really putting him off. He sees that at some lesser schools he could have lots of AP credit right off the bat, allowing him to jump right into his major, and I think he likes the idea so much that he’s put off by the idea of taking the same classes as everyone else for a year. I’m speculating about his thinking, because he’s not articulating it very well, but this is what I sense from him.</p>
<p>Yawn. As stressful as it is, I actually miss worrying about college apps. This stretch between early apps and regular apps is kind of boring. I should be thankful, I suppose.</p>
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That reminds me of studying for my Professional Engineering test - for months all I did was complain about how stressful it was and how I had no time to do anything else, then after I was done I felt like I was bored and couldn’t figure out what to do with my time.</p>
<p>S just had a Skype interview with two tutors from Oxford. The tutors were from two different Oxford colleges. The questions were definitely open ended, designed so that it is unlikely you’d know the answers. Apparently the goal is to assess how S thinks and how deep the thinking goes. S recognized one of the tutors as an authority in a field that S is interested in. I think S is thrilled by the prospect of having weekly one-on-one “tutoring” sessions with the tutor. Advertised as a half hour session, the interview lasted about 40 minutes. S felt okay about the interview.</p>
<p>The heart-in-the-throat part for me is this: The Decision Is Next Week!</p>
<p>Back to the domestic front, S submitted CA to Harvard last week, along with Drexel. Drexel immediately came back with a letter asking for the remaining items.</p>
<p>S was accepted ED to WUSTL today. 3.5UW, 4.2W, Top 10% (actually about 9%), 35 ACT.</p>
<p>We’re super excited!</p>
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Fantastic news! Congratulations to your son. Hopefully a good omen for others in this thread! (and how I predicted your future post is beyond me lol)</p>
<p>Something must be messed up with the time stamps. I don’t understand how bovertine could have responded to my post more than 6 hours before I posted it? (And before I even knew the good news!)</p>
<p>I had that problem earlier today with the time stamps, too.
Georgetown has mailed their EA decisions. We are nearby; perhaps tomorrow we’ll have news. It’s a tough admit for local kids, so we are operating under the assumption that he’ll be deferred.</p>
<p>We start the T20 admit news with a BANG! Congrats to sacchi & son!</p>
<p>Big congrats to saachi’s son, and to saachi for living through this! My D is poised to jump on that WUSTL app if she doesn’t get into Pomona next week so I’m really glad to see that a kid from this, my favorite CC thread, has been admitted there!</p>
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<p>Okay everybody, let’s not assume I am going to use my “fortune-telling” skills to predict everybody else’s results!</p>
<p>And I don’t work on WUSTL admissions or College Confidential.
Hmmm, but maybe time to use this to open my own “College Acceptance Prediction” business.</p>
<p>Seriously, it’s weird, but I’ve seen the system do this before here on CC.</p>
<p>Congrats, sacchi and sacchi’s son! WUSTL attracts a lot of very bizarre hatred on CC, but it really is a great school.</p>