<p>as well you SHOULD be! WL is NOT rejected! If he REALLY wants to go to MIT over CT or Chicago[ wow what fabulous choices!], then he should accept the WL spot and let them know that MIT is his first choice. he might just clear that list!</p>
<p>Caltech…wow, that is big. Congratulations! The story of how your son found out, and how he announced it, is pretty funny. Why do you suppose Caltech is evil?</p>
<p>^Chalk that statement up to the rivalry between MIT and CalTech.
:-)</p>
<p>I got into University of Michigan with a 3.4 GPA…not necessarily a top 20 school but it’s close enough.</p>
<p>Congrats, Flippers! U Michigan is a great school. Is it is in-state for you, then financially it may be the best deal for you too.</p>
<p>Dear PaperChasePop,</p>
<p>Congratulations to you and your family on your son’s on-going, excellent notifications. They are truly noteworthy. They also are inspiring, and for that I thank you and your family, too.</p>
<p>I happened upon this thread a while ago and have delighted in it, if lurkingly, ever since. Much has been learned and my family - which is just now starting the pointy-end of the application process (our D is a dual U.S.-Australian citizen based in Sydney, which adds an additional strategic gloss to our considerations as the competition for U.S. entry has hotted up astronomically over even the past two years) - is exceptionally grateful to you and all of those who are and have been so generously contributing to the many discussion points herein.</p>
<p>Again, congratulations to you and each member of the PCFamily. And congratulations to all who are beginning to note their superb results.</p>
<p>Kindest regards,
WM</p>
<p>PCP S continues to tear it up! Good luck to everyone on this thread in the next couple weeks.</p>
<p>Let me add Congrats to you and your DS, PCP. We have been following the many CC discussions. Best wishes to you and good luck with the basement.</p>
<p>BMM & weebixmum, thanks for your kind words.</p>
<p>bovertine & mantori, thank you on the congrats. Indeed, wish everyone the best on this thread in the next couple weeks.</p>
<p>MPM, yes. S1 plans to take the waitlist spot and hope for the best.</p>
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<p>I suppose it’s the same sentiment from those who call the NY Yankees the “Evil Empire”. It’s just more virulent when it comes from a well matched rival ;).</p>
<p>The basement is still flooded and our water heater is gone…</p>
<p>Feeling your pain, PCP. We’ve been lucky so far–our neighbors recently made some changes to their backyard that seem to have reduced runoff into our lot. Usually we get some seepage with this much rain, but as of this morning the basement was still dry, knock on mortar. </p>
<p>Our son got acceptances from Rochester and Goucher over the weekend. Very exciting, at least for us; he’s still blas</p>
<p>nightchef, congrats on Rochester and Goucher! Don’t know much about Goucher, but Rochester is definitely a great school! Good luck on Brandeis.</p>
<p>PCP</p>
<p>Congrats on Caltech admission!!! Whether your S attends MIT or Caltech, he’ll get a great education and be surrounded by a vibrant peer group. He’ll also be in a good position to achieve future goals.</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me</p>
<p>Any news, good or bad, for the under 3.6-ers with high test scores? Several more top schools have recently released their RD admission results.</p>
<p>^^ My S’s news been pretty universally bad news (2 no’s yesterday). His grades are in the 3.5 range but look worse with being pulled down by just a few REALLY bad grades.
No C’s ->no balance as it were.</p>
<p>So far 2 Yes, 8 NO, waiting on 3 more.</p>
<p>I’m VERY happy for the 2 yes’s ! He is going to college and he has a CHOICE!</p>
<p>For the juniors on the thread I believe that some of the No’s were due to not starting soon enough on the essays and not getting/taking enough suggestions. POLISH the heck out of the essays, people. Just don’t polish YOUR voice out of them. Put more of yourself out on the line in the essay (DS was hiding.) just my 2¢</p>
<p>sacchi, nothing to report from S1, he did not apply to this wave of schools. A girl I know who is a Siemens semifinalist, a TOC debater, and a Presidential Scholar candidate was rejected by Northwestern yesterday.</p>
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<p>And yet the kids I know who got into Northwestern this year (unhooked) were merely BWRK. No Siemens / Intel, no awards even at a state level, nothing of that nature. Merely BWRK. Maybe on a varsity team (though not award-winning), maybe did a few musicals and things of that nature at the school level. Which continues to make the point that it is about how a candidate strikes the adcom as a person they’d like to get to know / have on their campus, and not just “look at all the awards I’ve racked up.” I think that stuff impresses adcoms a lot less than the recipients think it does. I know my eyes glaze over from the candidates on CC who seem just like “rack 'em and stack 'em.”</p>
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<p>It’s also possible this was partially strategic admissions. NW wants to keep its yield up, like every school. It will be easier to say if we know where she got admitted.</p>
<p>PG, the levels attained by this girl in various fields are not something most people can just “rack and stack” even if they want to. I think it is incorrect to assume these high achieving kids are somehow less attractive to the adcoms in whatever qualities they were looking for. In fact, it is just the opposite, more of these high achieving kids are being accepted percentage wise than the mere BWRK’s.</p>
<p>I mentioned this girl because her GPA is relevant to this thread.</p>
<p>I think I can parse the WRK, but what’s the “B” stand for? Bland? Boring? Bratty? :D</p>
<p>EDIT: NM–google is my friend.</p>
<p>This group actually did pretty well with ED/EA results (including my S) at a few Top 20 schools, so I’m curious how the RD results will compare. </p>
<p>Because my S was accepted ED, we’ll never know how his RD admissions would have gone, as he either withdrew or didn’t submit his other applications. So, I’m trying to satisfy my curiosity with others’ results.</p>
<p>It’s a small, self-selected sample, so doesn’t have much objective statistical significance, but I still think it could be helpful for future years’ applicants.</p>