Background - My son applied to repeat Junior year due to learning disorder discover when studying for ISEE exam as part of application to LDS. He applied to four BS (time did not allow for more as the idea of BS wasn’t even a thought until October) and felt good about the visit/interview experience at all of them. One visit was very short due to travel plans to get to another BS. If we were to guess which school we thought he would get into we believed he did well enough to be accepted to all four but the stumbling block we were concerned about were his grades at current day school as it is the highest ranked school in our state. So we were hoping and praying he would get into just one school Final results he was accepted at 3 schools and waitlisted at the 4th.
As the original poster for this thread I wanted to follow up and say that our intuition was actually quite good.
My wife and I had expected admits to 3-4 schools and DS did get into those exact schools (4). The WLs he got were expected by at least one of us. So not too shabby.
best wishes to all
Our intuition was also pretty in line with the results. We had one acceptance that surprised us…we thought that the interviewer had not connected super well with either of us. But it turns out he told us later DD was one of the favorite interviews of the year. (Good secret-keeping because we spent months thinking he didn’t like us!). But overall – the schools we felt strongly were good fits and that we loved seemed to feel the same way back.
The big surprise: the school we were most confident about (example: when athletic coach joined in at interview, he strongly hinted child would be working out with him following year, perfect fit school, SSATs 30 points above school average, wonderful interview) was a waitlist.
Small surprise: two very competitive schools on our list - one accept, one reject (accept had child’s sport, reject did not). Accept was our small surprise.
The somewhat expected: two schools with very good match for main EC, both accepts. The roll the dice: one school with no perfect match in EC/sport/scores (child’s scores too high) but great match to kid’s personality & goals (and to our family’s outlook): that school was an accept.
Good surprises: the 4 accepts had more generous FA than we thought might be awarded, with one so generous I got lightheaded.