<p>“you are exactly what we are looking for in an applicant” - if not, we can always doctor the statistics once you are accepted to make you exactly what we are looking for! </p>
<p>Just having some fun!</p>
<p>“No School Supplement, Common App Only” - Come on, apply, it’s worth a shot for $75, it’s your parents’ money anyway, not like they’re gonna give you the $75 if you don’t apply to our school, and we need to keep our admissions office as a revenue generator for the school.</p>
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<p>Just have the student take an economics course and pay particular attention to the concept of [price</a> discrimination](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination]price”>Price discrimination - Wikipedia).</p>
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<p>Or where the parents required their kids to live because the kids are anything but.</p>
<p>More:</p>
<p>“3+2 engineering program” – a way for the college without engineering to market itself to students interested in engineering, knowing full well that most students entering with intent to do the 3+2 engineering program never transfer to the “2” school for various reasons (including not wanting to leave after junior year, not being admitted to the “2” school, or not getting enough financial aid at the “2” school).</p>
<p>“Open curriculum” – we don’t really care if you get a well rounded education.</p>
<p>“Core curriculum” – we make sure that you are well rounded in our image.</p>
<p>On a good note: When daughter 2 was applying to college she applied to one university, the one that daughter was attending. Without being asked daughter 2 went to admissions. She introduced herself to the Adcom. Asked if there was any info that she might tell me, the mother, who was just finishing chemo. (totally true). The Adcom typed in my daughter’s name/id. She looked down and said quietly, “Tell your mother not to worry.”</p>
<p>Yes!!</p>
<p>This thread is amusing, and I don’t mean to derail it, but a response to two posts: The students I’ve known who’ve chosen to live in substance free dorms at several different colleges all liked them because they were, indeed (for the most part) substance free. It must depend on the school.</p>
<p>I have told my children that optional means mandatory unless the optional part really doesn’t apply – like giving one the option to explain a family hardship when there hasn’t been one.</p>
<p>^^you might be right but in our experience:</p>
<p>substance free = kids won’t drink in the dorm but do sleep drunk in the dorm</p>
<p>freshman dorm = study somewhere else</p>
<p>You folks are bunch of cynics!</p>
<p>(my kind of people!) ;)</p>
<p>EFC - the amount you will pay and leave you just above the poverty line.</p>
<p>Holistic - come on, tell a compelling story and buy a lottery ticket - only $75 - and you too can add to our applicant pool, which lowers our acceptance rate, which allows us to entice an even larger pool next year looking for the most selective college.</p>
<p>All family needs met - see EFC</p>
<p>Student athletes at our D1 really do major in science disciplines.</p>
<p>Small classes averaging only 6 students taught by full tenured professors - but the TA may or may not be able to communicate the material (maybe language proficiency, maybe the ability to teach adequately), and ignore the first two years of large boring lecture halls.</p>
<p>We want you to challenge yourself and take APs (with the testing costs, etc.) but we won’t give you credit for them.</p>
<p>We want leaders - so create a club and name yourself president</p>
<p>You don’t have to unmask those AP scores - but everyone who has a 5 or 4 does and you didn’t.</p>
<p>foreign language requirement – our attempt to look globally aware while really just requiring you to learn “do you speak english” in a second language </p>
<p>drinking policy – don’t barf on the president’s door step</p>
<p>honor code – don’t ask, don’t tell</p>
<p>“Need blind” - we make believe we don’t know, and don’t need to know whether your parents are prepared to fork over a quarter of a million dollars over four years. (a fish story)</p>
<p>“Need Blind” = we might let you in, but you might not be able to afford it.</p>
<p>“Need aware” = we’ll only let you in if we think you can afford it.</p>
<p>Blossom, we were told by a tour guide, “Substance-free housing? That’s where the addicts live!”</p>
<p>So yep, you’re right on the money.</p>
<p>“90% of our applicants are qualified” = 90% of our applicants would not fail out if admitted.</p>
<p>The neighborhood is “interesting”, “edgy”, etc. or, “It’s a city like any city.” – high crime rate and you should not walk alone at night.</p>
<p>My favorite non-answer by adcoms is when a student invariably asks: “Which is better, an A in a regular class or a B in an honors class?” The answer, of course, is “An A in an honors class.” Translation: If you have to ask, you’re not getting in.</p>
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<p>I recall one parent asking “what’s the drug situation here?” and the tour guide replied, “Don’t worry, you can find anything you want.”</p>
<p>OK, I’m a parent and still trying to make sense of all the college process (so much more challenging than when I went to college).</p>
<p>So, really optional = mandatory?</p>
<p>I guess I have been completely naive. I tend to believe what I read, silly me!</p>
<p>So, when the school says that SAT subject tests are NOT required, I really should have been telling my D to take them?</p>
<p>An actual quote from a little college in New Haven:</p>
<p>“How are relations with the neighborhood?”</p>
<p>“There is a blue phone within a minute of wherever you are.”</p>
<p>“There are many dining options” = we will charge you an arm and a leg your freshman year mandatory meal plan and you can eat in the dining halls if you wake up early (not), but don’t expect much on the weekends but fear not- you can use your dining dollars, an extra charge on your college account, to eat overpriced fast food, pizza or sushi in the late night alternatives.</p>
<p>@mini–</p>
<p>The sad, horrific irony is the last major issue with a student was a graduate student who was murdered by her colleague. In the Yale labs… it was thought that she was abducted(by one of us horrible townspeople) and her body was found a week later, stuffed in the wall… blue lights/phones are needed on the INSIDE of Yales buildings as well.</p>