Applying somewhere nobody else from my school is applying to

beefeater
Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:55:09 +0000

You might find this episode below of Your College Bound Kid interesting. It’s an interview with a dean of admissions at Connecticut College. Yes, more competitive than Belmont. However, he describes how they think about admitting students from schools that don’t normally send many students. My take away is that it can be somewhat hard to predict how the school will act. If they think you’re not coming, then in theory they may not even accept you. Belmont may not be that aggressive. But then there’s also the question of what would it take (how much of a scholarship) for Belmont to yield you if they accept you. Seems there’s some behind the scenes math that takes place for that.

This is a long way of saying that I think you may struggle to predict how much scholarship you’ll get until they tell you.

Your College-Bound Kid – 27 Jan 24

Interview 165: Andy Strickler on "How admission file reading from a large...

Andy tells us about the five different schools he has worked at and the roles he has had at those schools Andy talks about the ways reading one school group together as its own entity, really allows the reader to learn so many things and to make more...

Est. reading time: 2 minutes