<p>How wonderful, bluesmama! Congratulations to your daughter (and to you for what seems like a roller coaster ride)!</p>
<p>Thanks Shelley14,definately an insane rollercoaster ride, I feel like my head is going to explode. I’m having a hard time getting my brain to relax and trust that everything is as I’d hoped it would be. My daughter is one of those low income high achieving BWRK, that often fall through the cracks. I was so afraid that her years of working insanely hard
were not going to pay off in terms of getting into a great college with the necessary funds for financial aid. I’m a high school drop out so I knew nothing about the application process and d’s highschool doesn’t have a college counselor so figuring out the complicated process was a huge challenge. I wish I had known at the start the things I know now. But she made it!
Congrats to all of the student and parents out there that were successful and my sympathy to those who didn’t get what they deserved.</p>
<p>The application process was brutal for sure, and an evaluation instrument in and of itself. Congratulations to all the parents, daughters and sons for hanging in there and surviving!</p>
<p>Daughter visited schools she was interested in over the summer, and returned overseas where we currently live. She went thru the application process thousands of miles away from home, adding along the way two or three schools that she didnt visit. Its a very happy and proud time for us, these are her results:</p>
<p>-Accepted with honors/merit scholarships: Ohio State U- Columbus, Miami Univ (Oxford Ohio), Case Western Reserve, Ohio Wesleyan, U of Michigan</p>
<p>-Accepted with Ok fin aid: Duke</p>
<p>-Accepted with better fin aid: Wellesley College, Stanford, Cornell, U Penn, Columbia, and Princeton</p>
<p>-Wait listed: Yale</p>
<p>-Rejected: Harvard</p>
<p>She hasnt decided yet where shell be next fall, though has narrowed down her options pretty quickly. Daughter feels lucky, happy and grateful that things worked out quite well and that theres reward for working hard!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all on thier acceptances and awards! </p>
<p>The big decision has finally been made and D will be headed to NC State this fall with a full ride with no loans! We are very excited since her big brother went there and it will be fairly close to home. Raleigh is a great city and nothing beats the Triangle during basketball season.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone in the fall!</p>
<p>D has narrowed her admitted choices to Bryn Mawr, WPI and Carnegie Mellon. BMC and WPI have awarded her healthy scholarships. CMU nothing. She’s gifted in math and physics - having taken the top level courses in both at high school. She’s not sure she wants to go the engineering/science route and is basically undecided in her major. What’s best for an undecided, gifted math kid? I really like what I’ve read about BMC (and D will visit this weekend). We visited WPI last week and they also seem very welcoming and have a great women in engineering/math program. </p>
<p>What’s the difference between an B.Sc. and B.A. in math or physics?</p>
<p>Sheffield, DS was accepted to CMU as a Physics major in the MCS but waitlisted as a Mechanical Engineering major in CIT. We’re going there tomorrow (Sunday thru Monday) to visit. His heart is really in Robotics and Design but he also excels in Physics. Now he has to decide b/w a sure thing at Lehigh (we haven’t heard anything yet about FA or Scholarships) or accept CMU (which gave us a nice Grant/FA package) as a Physics major -it is his 1st choice so far! We also saw WPI when my older DS was looking for Engineering schools. They have the most awesome major -Interactive Media and Gaming Development!! It had older DS’s name written all over it!!But alas, DS said that gaming was just a “hobby!” LOL!!
Good Luck with your DD’s decision!!</p>
<p>Okay, it’s official! We just left our deposit at CMU! DS said it Judy felt right for him- he was very excited! Everyone he spoke to seemed to also love CMU! And he even spoke to people just walking around , not necessarily tour guides! He feltore confident about his chances of entering as a Physics major and either minor or double major in MechE or try to transfer to CIT altogether!</p>
<p>Congratulations! D is visiting CMU tomorrow…will hear all about when she returns.</p>
<p>Frazzled, and sheffield, my older son is a junior at CMU and it’s been great for him. Hope your kids do as well there as mine has!</p>
<p>Sorry about the bad spelling! Still trying to get used to my new iPhone!
Sheffield, I hope your d has as nice an experience as my s did today!
Mathmom, which school is your s in? And thanks for the well wishes! Woo Hoo!</p>
<p>My son is in the school of computer science at CMU, he’s also minoring in physics.</p>
<p>We got the financial package from Emory and it is almost full tuition by $3000 dollars and my child has a scholarship for $5000 to over the difference. She wan’t offered Honors there, but NYU offered her some money and Presidential Scholars Honors including Study abroad. Elon offered partial scholarship and Honors Fellows. NYU leaves her owing $80,000 at the end of 4 years, Elon $40,000 and Emory will be basically free. She is waitlisted at Harvard and is actively following up there. Which one would you hose as your second. She is planning on attending Law School andI don’t know how or what grad schools look at. Is Honors important? Suggestions?</p>
<p>NYU and Emory are both great universities but, in my opinion NYU is not worth the additional 80 grand. I don’t think Elon is in the same class as these others and for 40k, I would rule it out.</p>
<p>I assume that most people on these here forums know my story by now: I’m the special ed girl with the 3.3 GPA and 29 ACT who did a lot of writing and autism advocacy in high school. I am happy to say that all the results are in:</p>
<p>Accepted:
Agnes Scott College EA (decent package)
Beloit College (decent package)
Earlham College EA (near full ride)
Maryville College - TN not MO (full ride)
College of Wooster (slim pickings, unfortunately)</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Kalamazoo College (didn’t stay on)
Lawrence University (didn’t stay on)</p>
<p>Denied:
Grinnell College
Hendrix College
Ursinus College EA</p>
<p>When it came down to the wire, I decided that I wanted to go to college closer to home, so it was a choice between Maryville and Agnes Scott. Maryville had the full ride, but Agnes Scott had better academics, a better graduation rate, better course selection, better disability and health services, better dorms, a better location (Atlanta!), a better political atmosphere (for me at least), and the women’s college advantage. At first I was at an impasse, but after I found out that there was a government program that could bridge the gaps in my financial aid package, I knew that Agnes Scott was a go. </p>
<p>[Agnes</a> Scott College - A private, liberal arts women’s college in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia.](<a href=“http://www.agnesscott.edu/]Agnes”>http://www.agnesscott.edu/)</p>
<p>:) 
:)</p>
<p>For the curious: the “government program” is a highly specialized outfit that provides means of getting along in the world for people with mental disabilities (mostly autism). The lower-functioning get job training, nursing care, and housing, while the higher-functioning get money for college and postgraduate education. Unfortunately for 99.9999% of parents with college-bound kids who need money, one has to meet TONS of qualifications to get into the program.</p>
<p>S has finally made his decision - headed to Cornell for engineering.</p>
<p>His final results were:</p>
<p>Accepted:
Cornell (very good FA pkg)
University of Michigan ($16K merit/yr + some FA)
Michigan State (basically full ride merit)
Tufts (very good FA pkg)
Syracuse ($12K merit /year + very good FA pkg)
Penn State (Accpted to Schreyer HC - very bad FA pkg)
SUNY Buffalo ($8k merit/year - Honors college)
SUNY Binghamton (Honors College - No merit)</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
UPenn
Columbia</p>
<p>Rejected:
Yale
Princeton</p>
<p>D will attend Penn State-University Park in the Fall</p>
<p>Final results:</p>
<p>Accepted: Penn State, Villanova, Univ of Miami, James Madison University, Marquette, Clemson, Univ of Central Florida</p>
<p>Waitlisted: Univ of Georgia</p>
<p>Denied: Univ of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>Sheffield, delurking to suggest BMC for a great liberal arts education but strong on sciences especially with Haverford next door. </p>
<p>As long as I’m delurked. D was accepted to all her applied schools: UNC (honors college/merit scholarship), Swarthmore, Haverford, Davidson, Oberlin, Wesleyen and Williams. Only UNC, Davidson, and Williams with financial aid within budget. Williams it is!</p>
<p>Accepted:
Bryn Mawr
Occidental
Pitzer
Scripps
Skidmore
Lewis & Clark EA
Lawrence EA ($11k/year)
Oberlin ($11k/year)
UCSC, UCSB, UCD
University of Oregon EA ($5k/year)</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Whitman (didn’t stay on waitlist)</p>
<p>Denied:
UCLA, UCB
Haverford</p>
<p>Just decided last night, it’s Oberlin!</p>
<p>Sheffield,
Just curious how d’s visit to CMU went? Hope she has made her decision!</p>
<p>it is now official…just sent in desposit and housing appcn for our daughter for The University of Chicago (class of 2014). A very difficult decision as she was being such great scholarships elsewhere but in the end decided that Univ. of Chicago was where she could best make her dreams come true. Time to become better acquainted with pork & beans & ramen noodles methinks! :)</p>