<p>^^^That beats my story. I assume this is the same daughter at Y2018. </p>
<p>I agree that it boggles the mind that someone could make this kind of mistake. As for the GC, she probably thought Annie was an academic match for Wesleyan College and the choice perhaps seemed to make sense to the GC. Anyway, Annie has asked D not to tell their classmates while she tries to work this out with the GC. The classmates are telling Annie how surprised and impressed they are that she got into Wesleyan, and D is keeping her mouth shut.</p>
<p>GC at most public schools are overwhelmed with college application during the prime time. Don’t expect them to go through your list of schools. As a matter of fact, most students would have reach and safety schools. There is no way for them to think that may be a mistake. It is the student and parents to be blamed in my opinion.</p>
<p>I would hold the GC responsible, too. They sign off on the ED application, and that signature should mean that there has been a conversation verifying the choice.</p>
<p>I’m sure there’s got to be mix-up stories about Columbia College (Chicago) and Columbia University (NYC)</p>
<p>My guess is that they’ll let her out of the contract. The point of ED is to attract kids who really want to be there, not kids who’ve never heard of the school.</p>
<p>Is this Williams, Roger Williams, or William and Mary?</p>
<p>At Connecticut College they sell Not UCONN t-shirts. </p>
<p>You mean I’m at the Yale School of Locksmithing?</p>
<p>She should visit - she may love it 
- there’s no risk at the moment anyway.
Does “Annie” know there are considerable differences between the “Wesleyan” universities? Wesleyan University in CT is far-left/liberal leaning, whereas Indiana Wesleyan is evangelical/very conservative; Ohio Wesleyan is academically intensive and moderate, as is the much larger and more selective Illinois Wesleyan University, while Nebraska Wesleyan has Musical Theater and pretty good merit aid, and Wesleyan College in Georgia can be a pretty good choice for a B student who needs a supportive environment.</p>
<p>My son sent his test score to “Chicago” but said afterwards that he thought he’d made a mistake and sent it to UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) instead of UofC (University of Chicago). No problem, except I had to pay for the additional score to be sent.</p>
<p>Poor Annie. Even if she manages to get out of the ED commitment (assuming she doesn’t change her mind and decide she really does like the one in Georgia), she’s lost her opportunity to apply ED to the Wesleyan in CT. And her friends who are all so impressed are probably not going to be able to keep from teasing her if/when they find out the truth. </p>
<p>In college, I went out with a girl who upon arriving at wellsley for freshman move-in, turned to her parents and asked “where are all the guys?” 
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<p>It was my first (but not my last) experience with a person that was much smarter than I but couldn’t get out of her own way. On top of all that, she was beautiful…basically a nightmare of a date </p>
<p>@mackinaw - lol. My son wrote the wrong college code down to send his free AP scores to… They ended up going to a college that wasn’t even in the United States…</p>
<p>This thread is great! </p>
@Corinthian What happened with Annie? Did she contact the “mistake” school?
Winter Break is over on Monday. I’ll see what D can find out and report back if I get an update.
There really isn’t an association between area code and place anymore. Phone number portability has resulted in numbers moving with a person rather than staying with a place. Also some “areas” are out of numbers so even if you get that cell phone where you live, the area code could be from somewhere else. Teens have never lived in a world where all the shares codes were the same based upon geography.
But the other “did someone not notice” questions are very valid.
wow
me thinks this is like the line from breakfast club…yeah i have a girlfriend in the niagara falls area you wouldn’t know her(something along those lines) there is more to the story and perhaps a student/friend not wanting to admit they did not apply to that school, get in or can not afford college etc…I can not put my finger on it obviously… but this story has a background story which holds the truth.
I don’t put this on the GC, i put it on her. Sorry…
The worst mistakes are always when you don’t know what you don’t know.