Seriously, the US higher education marketplace is strong enough that it’s only just barely overstating things to say that as long as you steer clear of the for-profits and the places holding onto their accreditation by the skin of their fingernails for financial or administrative reasons, then honestly, you’re good.
@Scottish1 What sport will your son be playing at Hamilton?
@atanvarne the next week will tell the tale. An expected rejection today, a surprise WL yesterday, a surprise coach communication a couple days ago indicating DD was topic of a call he made to admissions. We shall see. She has a couple decent, affordable acceptances out of the way, so it’s just seeing what else is out there. Best wishes, all!
@Decal7 Good luck with the rest of them!
Hello! I just found this page. Good luck to all with continued success over the next few weeks.
More developments: A WL notice and an acceptance with a coach’s letter from another. So now she has four acceptances and one (likely reject) pending. One of the schools has bubbled to the top of her list, and we are pushing for her to give the other two front-runners a good long look. It should all be wrapped up before too much longer!
@MAandMEmom Your comment about the endowment is interesting. I’d never looked but of the four schools my D is considering she is favoring the one with the smallest endowment. But it’s the smallest of all, and its campus is beautifully maintained. Feeling better about it now!
@dfbdfb Also encouraging words. 
My D is leaning toward the smallest, least well-known of the four schools she got into and there’s this nagging sense that she could do “better.” But what’s “better”? She knows what she wants and will be inspired by and we are going to trust her gut to make the right choice. As you say, it’d be hard to go too far wrong.
@atanvarne you could also calculate the endowment per student for a better idea of their resources. Trouble is though that all colleges have fixed costs regardless of their enrollment. Take my area for example, information technology, regardless of the size of the institution one needs the gear to run the place and also keep it safe from cyber threats. That specifically is an area where I now spend oodles that I didn’t just a decade ago. Also, endowments for SOME public institutions will never be at the level of privates and you really can’t compare apples to apples because they annually rely on state support.
Here’s a weird feeling: My D19 has already committed to attend a particular school (Mississippi State for industrial engineering, FWIW), and she just texted me a screenshot of an email saying that the last college she applied to to release results (Lehigh, which she decided a month or two ago didn’t really have a curriculum she liked) has their decisions up on their portal. Her reaction:
Well, I figure they’ll mail a letter either way, so she’ll eventually know without checking the portal, but it’s such a, well, unstressful end to the application process, you know?
Our son applied to 12 schools, was accepted at 10. He’ll be attending the University of Colorado in the fall.
@knightcub Congratulations to your son on all his acceptances, and on his final decision!
Our son had applied to 9 schools
3 rejections
1waitlist
5 acepptances
Attending Ohio University in the Fall which is the school my husband and I attended.
So proud of him!
Congratulations, @OUBOBCAT92!!! OSU is an excellent choice, and I’m sure he’ll do very well. Just don’t bore him TOO much with stories about how it was like at OSU “back in my day”…
D applied to 13 universities, got 9 acceptances, 3 rejections and 1 waitlist. She put a deposit down yesterday for Loyola University Chicago. Very excited for her.
Thank you to all the posters, this site has been a huge help these past few months.
The bloom is off the rose. It’s time to give your child a break. He is going to be fine. I’m sure he is studying more than you think, and don’t you want his last memories of you to be good ones, and not ones of you trying to cajole him into studying? It’s the last few weeks of his senior year before he leaves for college, and maybe moves away for good. Make his last memories of home good ones so he will want to come home and not fear coming home to a mother who is always making sure he is doing his homework. Bake his favorite cookies. Make him laugh. Enjoy this time with him. If he hasn’t figured out by now that he has to keep,up a certain grade point average or he isn’t going to graduate, he will be back by the end of next semester. Let his teachers be the bad guys. You play good cop for once.
My kid is deciding between Colorado State, Western Washington, and NAU. Likes them all! He also would be happy going to Linfield, Eckerd, and Whittier, but we need to see how the money works out for those ones.
Anyone else look at some of these schools and wish you’d gone there or applied there? I feel that way about NAU…why didn’t I know about it when I applied?!
I only applied to USC because that was the school I really wanted to go to. Still can’t believe I got into my dream school and am excited to attend!
Congratulations to everyone who got into the universities they applied for!
I am a graduate of Uga. I have had two children not accepted both with 1400 sat scores . I am an alumni and disgusted with the school. I will never offer any support for the university and have lost all respect. I unfortunately sent my children to private school while wasting money and should have let them go to public school as I did
. I no longer am a bulldog and never shall return.
wrong thread?