<p>We are just too non ivy.</p>
<p>Accepted: Indiana University (Kelley School Direct Admit)
Miami University (Honors)
St. Mary’s College - Notre Dame
University of Florida
Florida State University (Honors)</p>
<p>Where she is going? Small but mighty Florida Southern College which does not even merit a site on CC. She wanted a small campus, ability to maintain her interest in music and still concentrate on being a math education major.</p>
<p>My senior has the following good luck!</p>
<p>UDelaware - full tuition/honors prog
Villanova - merit scholarship/honors prog
William & Mary - merit scholarship/honors prog (Monroe)
UNC-Chapel Hill - honors
Washington & Lee
Colgate
Princeton
Duke - waitlisted
Brown - reject
Dartmouth - reject</p>
<p>Has not made up mind about where to go yet. (BTW - opened the emails from Ivies in this order: Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth - thinking if in Princeton then the other were greater than the 50/50 chance we had given them! No one knows what admissions at any school is looking for!).</p>
<p>Final results (though no decision yet):</p>
<p>Accepted –
UMD Priority Decision, College Park Scholars & President’s Scholarship
URochester RD w/Dean’s Scholarship
UChicago EA
Tufts RD</p>
<p>Waitlisted –
Carleton (never did send off football DVDs to schools, think it probably hurt here, as coach was very optimistic about acceptance in mid-Feb.)
Bowdoin (tried twice to get interview and was never able to coordinate schedules)</p>
<p>Declined –
Swarthmore (mega reach, visited last winter, decided to apply after getting into Chicago since there are commonalities between the two he liked)
Georgetown SFS – deferred EA, rejected RD (It’s darned hard to be a DC-area kid applying for SFS)</p>
<p>Chicago and Tufts were his favorites all along, so now he is delighted (??) to agonize.</p>
<p>Glad we made a lot of apps. Unpredictable results.</p>
<p>Wait list: Columbia, Chicago, Emory, Penn</p>
<p>Rejected: Stanford, Harvard(long shot), CalTech</p>
<p>Accepted: Berkeley College of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins, Vandy, UCLA, & Northwestern
Accepted with merit scholarship money: USC, UCSB, UF, Georgia Tech, and the U. </p>
<p>Straight As; 1st/~580; 5 APs all fives; Math, Reading & Chem subject test all 800s, 780 writing and level II math and 760 Lit subject test. NMS finalist. Lots of ECs. So, I wonder what it takes to get into and Ivy these days. Connections? </p>
<p>Down to Berkeley because the Chemistry College is so good and that is the major, or USC for the school spirit and the $$. Regret we did not get to visit Vandy.</p>
<p>Rejections are tough on a hardworking kid. I looks like California here we come.</p>
<p>Oh, and despite rejections from the top ten some good schools like Auburn offered her full boat even though she did not even apply!! I think the NMS finalist had a lot to do with it. Insane. Glad this is the only one!!!</p>
<p>Hi everyone.My youngest was accepted to Harvard,and has turned down a full tuition ride at Goucher,and 80 K at Dickinson,to go.Why,you ask?I guess because it’s Harvard.I know it’s a great school,but a full tuition offer is nice too.She had planned to attend Saint Andrews in Scotland,but didn’t expect to get an acceptance at Harvard…at least she’ll be in the US! This is my first post-fauxmaven</p>
<p>Congrats fauxmaven! And welcome to CC.</p>
<p>My senior has the following opportunities:</p>
<p>Brown
Notre Dame (Glynn Family Honors)
William and Mary (Monroe)
U of Chicago
Wash U
Ohio State Honors
Arizona State Barrett Honors </p>
<p>Harvard- waitlist… He’s going to ask not to be put on the list because he has so many other great options.</p>
<p>Only Ohio State and ASU gave him any money, so we will be full pay at the other schools. Fortunately, between his 529 and what we are used to putting aside for his education, we can pay. He is a History, Poly Sci humanities sort of guy with future aspirations of a PhD. </p>
<p>Currently, Brown, Notre Dame, William and Mary and ASU are the front runners. My husband is pushing ASU, ( Barrett Honors there is impressive). I worry that ASU won’t be able to give him what he needs to be competitive for a good PhD program in the fields that he is interested in, but he would have tons of cash left over for future education, travel etc. </p>
<p>We are going to Brown and W & M’s prospective student days next week. He has visited Notre Dame and ASU. </p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>My son: accepted at
Redlands
Southwestern
Willamette
Earlham
Whitman
Occidental
Pizter</p>
<p>The deposit is in, he’s going to Whitman, glad this process is over</p>
<p>My D was very fortunate and was accepted at her dream school via ED so all is well in our house. We have never seen her so happy. She applied and was accepted to:</p>
<p>Furman (Her dream school-accepted ED)
DePauw
Elon
Miami University (Ohio)
Loyola-Maryland
University of Dayton.</p>
<p>Once she was accepted from Furman, she withdrew her pending applications from Muhlenberg, Franklin & Marshall and St. Olaf.</p>
<p>Results are in:</p>
<p>Accepted:
U. of Chicago EA
Tufts
Vassar
American - Honors College, Presidential Scholarship</p>
<p>Rejected:
Harvard
Brown
Georgetown SFS</p>
<p>No decisions. Everything except American was a reach, so he didn’t want to fall in love with any school. He will see Chicago for the first time next week and will revisit Tufts and Vassar the week after that. I had visions of American being the only choice (which was fine, he really, really likes it), but things turned out much better than I expected. He’s a B+/A- student, but had a good rank (6%), great recommendations and the format of the applications where he was accepted helped him a lot. He had fun with the optional and quirky essays, and sent in origami earrings to Vassar. He showed his sense of humor and wasn’t afraid to be himself. His “Why Chicago” essay for example talked about all the reasons he didn’t want to go to Chicago before he looked into it a little more closely. I’m thrilled for him - I’m confident he’d be happy at any of the colleges he’s considering.</p>
<p>momof2men, unless money is a real issue, my personal opinion is taking ASU over all the other incredible choices (especially Brown and UChicago) would be a HUGE mistake and something your kid would regret down the line. I also agree with you that ASU would not help your child as much for graduate school opportunities as the other options would.</p>
<p>Hi xcmom2014-
yes, choosing which school is a dilemma for us as well. I do know W and L has an excellent business program with networking possibilities later on. Also, a significant # of students who attend there have strong journalism backgrounds (I forget the %, but many were hs newspaper editors!) My D is also a bit left of center, loves journalism, has her own business, and doesn’t know what she wants to do as far as a major. She’s still deciding on W and L vs. W and M, but is leaning towards the former. Will your son attend the new students meeting on April 28 (W and L)? I think that will help my D decide. Let me know! cheers, Zorrocat</p>
<p>Thanks MrsCollege! I’ve told my son to choose the school that he will give him the best experience. He feels guilty about the money. I’ve told him that if he were to “settle” in his choice, I would feel guilty forever. Fortunately, we are able to swing COA. It would be nice not to have to, but it’s certainly possible.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you.My S has made his decision.</p>
<p>USC - Trustee Scholar and Honors Program
UCLA - accepted
Emory - accepted
GW - accepted
Duke - waitlisted
WashU - waitlisted</p>
<p>Always wanted USC - Fight On!</p>
<p>Lots of amazing choices and acceptances; fun to read this thread.</p>
<p>Daughter accepted to:</p>
<p>Pomona at Claremont (top choice, will attend her dream school)
Brown
Cornell
UPenn (Vagelos Scholars Program in Molecular Life Sciences)
UC San Diego
UC Santa Cruz (Regents scholarship)
UC Santa Barbara (Regents scholarship, College of Creative Studies, physics)</p>
<p>Rejected Stanford/Princeton</p>
<p>My DD took a gap year after not so great results last year. This year she has a smile on her face.</p>
<p>Accepted:
Villanova
Lafayette
Union
Loyola Maryland</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Bucknell
Lehigh</p>
<p>Rejected:
GWU - a surprise
Rice - thought so</p>
<p>It came down to choosing between Villanova and Lafayette and she decided on Lafayette.
After two years of doing this, visiting over 25 colleges, applying the first round to 9 colleges and this round to 8 colleges, I am soooo happy it is over and that she is going to a place that she is very happy with.
Congrats to all!</p>
<p>Wow. Going through the admissions process was grueling enough one time…I can’t even imagine doing it twice! That said, I hear that gap year students are incredibly happy and in many ways better prepared for college.</p>
<p>Congrats to your and your DD on the amazing results (and for surviving!)</p>
<p>shelley14, congrats! What did she do during the gap year? Is this an entirely different list of colleges?</p>
<p>This year’s list is entirely new except for Lafayette who wait listed her last year. The first time around she mostly applied to colleges with 3/2 engineering programs which in the end she decided would not work well for her and to WPI. She had a very bad experience on revisit day at WPI and decided not to go there.
While all of this was going on she had also applied to the English Speaking Union Scholars program. Thankfully that came through and she is spending a year at an English prep school in northwest England studying for A level exams. I can really see that this gap year has made a difference for her - she seems more mature, more experienced.
Two years of her procrastinating through the whole college app process made me crazy! I am so glad it has ended, and, ended well!</p>
<p>I can finally breath again! My d received wait list offers from 6 out of 9 of her schools, one of her schools ( Princeton ) rejected her and one offer didn’t provide enough financial aide. Then, when we were fearing the worst, she received an offer from Vassar with a full ride scholorship! I love you Vassar!</p>
<p>It seems strange to me that she was wait listed at so many schools, is this common?</p>