<p>I have a general question about ED. I know that the only way out of an ED committment is for financial reasons, but if you don’t file FAFSA until the beginning of the year,and you don’t know what the financial aid will be until after filing FAFSA, how does a family know if they can afford the ED school and is it possible to know with enough time to apply to other schools if it turns out that the FA is insufficient? It was this concern that kept S1 from applying to any schools ED.</p>
<p>So much to catch up on…we’re traveling out of the country but D logged on to the elon website on DH’s iPhone and was accepted! We are all beyond excited!! Congrats to all those who’s kids have all received acceptances and I’m holding good thoughts to everyone waiting. This is d’s second acceptance but she really wasn’t very excited about the first one. Sh will have to wait until the end of March to hear from the rest but she loves Elon and would be thrilled to attend so this makes the wait so easy!</p>
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<p><sigh> Deferred at Elon. </sigh></p>
<p>The Admissions Committee requested 1st Semester Or 2nd Tri Grades. Those won’t be out til a month from now. </p>
<p>And wondering too if it makes sense for a trip to visit in Feb.</p>
<p>Congratulations collage1!</p>
<p>mhc48, You’re not alone. My son was deferred too. On to the RD round…</p>
<p>Congratulations Collage!. Enjoy the good news and have a great trip.</p>
<p>Kath and MHC: I’m sorry about the deferrals. I hope your kids get better news in the spring.</p>
<p>it looks like the people on the Elon thread who were deferred did not visit the school; demonstrated interest is impt there as well as expressing how you fit in with the philosophy of the school…not sure if MHC or KathieP visited but I do know that those who have been deferred in the past and subsequently visited and met with admissions reps were eventually admitted…sorry about the deferrals…</p>
<p>collage1: congrats!! keep in touch…my daughter is attending the March orientation but it sounds like you guys may be making decisions later than that…</p>
<p>for those applying next year and beyond: this school is not all about stats…these results (and those on the Elon thread) definitely make this evident…</p>
<p>calvin- can you elaborate? why would attending Purchase mean a longer college career?
My d’s friends who go there and love it are artsy/theatre types. Some complain the kids are a little “out there.”</p>
<p>^^Vitrac: I think calvin was referring to the general notion that attending a “state school” may lead to a longer college career due to budget cuts etc; not sure he/she was specifically referring to Purchase in particular…given that he/she comes from california, the concern is understandable but obviously doesn’t apply to all state schools…</p>
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<p>Apparently Elon also sent my D an e-mail telling her they wanted to see First semester grades and were not asking her for more tests (though they imply they do ask others).
We had not visited Elon, and planned to so do in February. Guess we’d better!</p>
<p>Congratulations to your D, collage1!</p>
<p>A suggestion for those who have been deferred: Besides visiting, the student can also email the regional admissions rep once a month to update him or her about any new information or accomplishments. For example, the January one can be about semester grades, the February one can be about the visit, and the subsequent ones can be about activities and accomplishments. If the student can possibly get any honors (even if it is a team honor), that is the subject for an email also. The student can ask a question in these emails so that the admissions rep has to reply - and that way the student will know that the email was read.
I think that more than once a month gets annoying and may have the opposite effect - but once a month shows continued interest in the school.
Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Mazel Tov to Collage1’s D! Sorry to hear about the deferrals for Kathiep and mhc48. But the advice to visit and keep in contact with your admissions rep. sounds like very good advice. Hopefully, they will have better news in the spring.</p>
<p>OK, so yesterday, I recalculated D’s GPA based on core classes only, I did both weighted and unweighted. The difference is minimal. Her unweighted gpa in the core classes is lower by .09 and her weighted gpa is higher by .05. Bottom line at this point for my D, I don’t think it makes a difference. It probably won’t matter for most kids who are fairly steady in their school performance.</p>
<p>@vitrac - I think it was levirm who responded re-my state school concerns, and was exactly right as to what my concerns were. Here in California, the state schools are now so underfunded and overenrolled that it is almost impossible to get your degree in 4 years. My worry was that the same might be true of Purchase College. Is this not a problem at the SUNYs? Good to hear that you know of some kids who are happy there. Purchase’s “out there-ness” is what my son likes about it!</p>
<p>As for De Paul for a Jewish kid, still no input from anyone here yet. I know there’s a Hillel, but have no idea how many Jewish kids attend the university at all and how strong the Hillel is. (Or anything really about student life in general.) Thanks for your replies. There may be an LAX to Chicago to NYC trip in our future to see for ourselves. Oy vey, this is a big country!</p>
<p>spectrum2 - the ED/FA question is a complicated one. Having been through it once - we did the calculators and had a rough idea of our EFC. If I had it to do over - I would contact the FA office of the particular college and ask if they do an “early read” on FA for students who want to apply ED. This means they will meet with you and go over your financial info and give you some ballpark ideas of what you might receive if your student is accepted. I know some smaller schools are willing to do this - not sure about the larger ones. Otherwise - you really can only apply ED - file the FAFSA and CSS Profile if needed by the appropriate dates and see what happens - but that can be risky if you don’t get the FA pkg til April. Which is basically why most people recommend against applying ED if you need substantial ED. </p>
<p>So - try for the early read at the proposed ED college - if they will not do that for you - I’d reconsider doing ED.</p>
<p>Elon - congrats to collage1 and anyone else with acceptances - and my sympathies to those who have been deferred. You have already rcvd excellent advice revisiting Elon, staying in touch with your regional rep and sending more grades as well as info on any new awards, honors, etc. Please stay positive - getting from deferred to accepted at Elon is very achievable and we will all be withing you luck.</p>
<p>One final tip - when you visit Elon - be sure to make contact with Nancy Luberoff - the Hillel director - perhaps call her ahead of time and make plans to meet with her and/or a Hillel member. She works closely with admissions and this step will be another check of demonstrated interest.</p>
<p>Calv1n - I just looked on the Hillel site for DePaul. It lists 800 out of 20,000 undergraduates as Jewish. There is a Hillel on campus which is part of the hillels around chicago. If you go to hillelsaroundchicago dot org you should be able to get a feel for what is going on.</p>
<p>We visited Elon in the Spring but are planning to do a semi-local hospitality event next month. And we’ll send the latest grades… My niece, who was with us when we visited, was accepted EA and got a scholarship. My SIL and I are rooting for my son to get in too so we can all share the experience. Although, having him at nearby Guilford might be fun too.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all who received acceptances the last few days and good luck in the spring to those who got deferred. </p>
<p>Boychild got two acceptances today - Hartwick with their top merit award and Allegheny with a Trustee Scholarship.</p>
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<p>Emilybee - great news - gotta love the merit money!</p>
<p>Yay! emilybee, I’m proud to be in the "E"s part of the big list with you!</p>
<p>Mazel Tov to Collage1 on Elon and to emilybee on Hartwick & Allegeny…sorry to kathiep and mhc48 on deferrals…good news always seems to comes out of this and when it’s all said & done, your children will indeed have fabulous college experiences wherever they end up attending. And Mazel Tov to Levrim or anyone else I may have missed with an acceptance! :)</p>
<p>Question for you all:
Would the jewish parents on this thread send their children to a Catholic, jesuit school for college? Boston College, Georgetown, Villanova, etc…I read that Boston College has a 2% jewish student attendence…@200 kids out of 9 or 10,000 kids that attend there! I think my S would feel very out of place there, yet we do know of a jewish student that has applied and been accepted…those schools were never on my radar! I looked up info. on Georgetown once and when I read that there were crosses in the classrooms, that was enough for me to take it off the list immediately! But obviously there is a draw if BC has 200 jewish kids…if I remember correctly, Trinity College in Hartford started that way too and many years later have a pretty small but active Hillel…I guess they have to start somewhere…</p>