Small update here: D says that “Annie” is keeping it quiet that she made this mistake. D thinks the GC knows and presumably has somehow dealt with it, but Annie is embarrassed to let her classmates know. So D is one of about 4 kids who know. In fact, over Winter Break, one of their mutual friends was home from her freshman year at Wesleyan (the one in CT). Annie tried to avoid this girl but eventually this girl caught up with Annie and told her how excited she is that Annie will be joining her, to be sure to let her know what dorm she is eventually assigned, etc. I think it’s likely that Annie will end up at our local state university, which is probably the right place for her right now.
Well, a Downton Abbey quote from Violet.
“It’s easy to avoid people you don’t like–it’s avoiding your friends that is difficult.”
I can’t even imagine what was going through “Annie’s” mind when the other Wesleyan girl was congratulating her. Maybe she should have explained it now and gotten it over with? She might have been able to sleep easier. Carrying this secret while worrying where you will attend has got to be causing a lot of angst. I feel bad for her!
I am just assuming the ED issue has been dealt with. My D was accepted ED to her top school and had to quickly respond and send in a $500 deposit. Presumably Wesleyan College has a similar requirement. I think that ultimately Annie will just say that the financial aid didn’t work out or something like that to explain her non-attendance at Wesleyan University to her friends.
But Annie never thought she had been admitted to the CT Wesleyan, right? And she didn’t even want to go to the CT Wesleyan. She wanted to go to the Indiana one.
Yes, her goal was to end up at Indiana Wesleyan. Somehow she thought Wesleyan was all one big university based in CT but with multiple campuses. Multiple layers of confusion. I have no idea what role the GC played in this.
I’m back with an update on this story. Truth really is stranger than fiction and I swear I’m not making this up. Annie enlisted in the Navy. This girl is stick thin, has a modeling job, and gets her hair professionally blown dry twice a week. D says this will either “make her or break her.” I keep telling D she needs to watch the movie “Private Benjamin.”
“Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!”
From Lord Byron’s Don Juan
Maybe she enlisted at an Old Navy store.
@xiggi LOL!
Thanks for the chuckle!
xiggi wins best post of the day.
A boy who graduated with ds1 didn’t like his college choices and enlisted in the military. I think this was the case of a kid who wasn’t a great student and not terribly mature. He’s done his four years, applied for colleges, and his list is like a who’s who – many of the big names, including Ivies. He’s always been bright, just needed to grow up a little, I guess. May the girl in the OP have a similar outcome.
ETA: I hesitated to post this as I don’t want parents thinking this is a great new strategy for getting into an Ivy.
It’s certainly not a new strategy, but it’s definitely a legitimate one.
When I worked at a company called Cabletron in Rochester, NH - there was a kid at RIT in Rochester NY who applied for an internship assuming it was right in town.
Still … 20+ years later, he’s still in the area - so I guess the 9 hour drive mistake didn’t work out too badly for him.
Frankly, if she’s that clueless she doesn’t belong at Wesleyan (even the one in Indiana).
^Having had a D graduate from Wesleyan, I can attest to the fact that approximately half the world thinks they’re some kind of chain. 8-|
^ I had a S graduate from Wes.
Nobody who goes there or is a serious applicant thinks it’s a “chain.”
Uh, yeah. But the student in question doesn’t go there, and apparently did think it was. And if your S never got a “which one?” when he said he graduated from Wesleyan, that’s great. I have heard it a number of times.
My S grew up in CT, so the “which one” question never came up.
I went to Wesleyan (many moons ago) and my older brother had gone to Ohio Wesleyan. It was a running joke in our family at how many people said to me something along the lines of “Didn’t you want to be on the same campus [or at the same branch] as Bob?”