<p>So D and her several of her friends are anxiously awaiting the results of their ED or EA applications. Yesterday, D came home from school and said, “You’ll never guess who just got into Wesleyan ED: Annie!” Annie (not her real name) is a very nice classmate of D’s, but not a top student. So I was extremely skeptical about Annie getting into Wesleyan University. I also noted that ED decisions for Wesleyan University aren’t due until 12/15, and that nobody on the Wesleyan University forum was reporting that they had gotten a decision. I told D that Annie must have applied to one of the many other schools with “Wesleyan” in the name, not the Wesleyan University in CT. </p>
<p>So today D asked Annie: “Annie, did you say you got into the Wesleyan in Connecticut because I didn’t think they released their ED decisions for two more weeks?” Annie said: “Yes, absolutely. I called them every day until they told me the answer. But what I really want is to transfer to their Indiana campus.” (Apparently Annie thought that Wesleyan University in CT was the gateway to all the other Wesleyans.) Five minutes later, after checking her phone, Annie ran back to D and said: “Oh God, it turns out I applied to the wrong Wesleyan! I’ve been admitted ED to Wesleyan College, an all women’s college in Georgia.” Hopefully she’ll be able to get herself out of this mess and into Indiana Wesleyan. Do you think this has happened before?</p>
<p>Wow… haven’t heard that one before! But I wonder if some of the many Wesleyans have… I bet she can get out of it. This is an example of a GC not being on the ball, though – I know our GC would have caught this.</p>
<p>Annie needs to get her GC involved immediately. She also needs to review the rest of her RD list to make sure that it accurately reflects her intended options.</p>
<p>The devil is in the details. Likewise, wow. One disadvantage to doing everything online… in the old days one would have at least addressed the envelope to the correct place.</p>
<p>@wis75 I had the same thought: when I applied to college we had to mail in our application. When D created her initial list of colleges on Naviance, she accidentally listed Northwestern College, a career college in Chicago, instead of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. But we quickly caught that error!</p>
<p>Now I understand why every time we talked to someone in the admissions office at Cornell College they asked “Are you sure you want the one in Iowa”.</p>
<p>That story has many fantastic overtones. One ought to have been pretty blind to miss the numerous questions about the familiarity with the school in Macon. Take a look:</p>
<p>In particular, the ED forms have the address prominently displayed on the form, and even the most clueless GC should have caught this one. </p>
<p>Fwiw, the student probably can undo this mess (if true) by claiming that the financial aid will not be sufficient. It is doubtful that Wesleyan will offer a full package to this student. If she did not apply for financial aid, she should not have many problems punting this admission as the deadline of Dec 15th has not come yet. The school can easily accept someone who really want to go there. </p>
<p>Wouldn’t the student have visited the website of the school at any point and noticed the address - or realized the pictures of the school seemed off…? Crazy! </p>
<p>“She called them every day until she heard she was admitted - without noticing the Georgia area code or the Georgia accent over the phone?”</p>
<p>There are a lot us transplants down here. I rarely hear a Georgia accent. Even my youngest who has been here since he was a year old sounds like he grew up in the Midwest. ; </p>
As michigangeorgia says, hearing true heavy southern accents isn’t very common… except when a news station is interviewing some yeehaw about something ridiculous… or honeybooboo and family… $-) </p>
<p>I told my very smart D1 she had to call me from a land line when she was going to a party in NYC. When the number appeared on my phone, it had a 201 area code. I asked D1 why she was calling me from NJ. She asked me how did I know that. She was surprised there was an association between area code and a place. I think she was 18 or 19 at that time. </p>
<p>There’s a SUNY Buffalo State and a SUNY University at Buffalo in Buffalo and people constantly mix them up and apply and get accepted to the “other one”.</p>
<p>There was a story here a few years ago about a student who thought he was going to Colgate but applied to Colby. And assume it happens a lot with U Miami/Miami of Ohio, Cornell College, California University of Pennsylvania, Mercer, the Loyolas etc.</p>
<p>oldfort - that is too funny. Sounds like the time my D was calling a radio station to ask for a song to be played. She got a busy signal and continued to hold on. I asked her what she was doing and she said there was some beeping on the phone and she was waiting for them to pick up. Clueless - had never heard a busy signal. Always been in a call waiting world.</p>
<p>omg @tperry1982 that is hilarious. Yes, one rarely hears busy signals any more! And the whole phone number thing has really gotten mangled with folks who get a cell phone number in one place and then keep it “forevermore”. A friend who moved to Texas 10 years ago still has a 914 (Westchester County, NY) area code. I doubt our kids even notice these things.</p>
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