<p>Momstl4: Sometimes the “safety” school turns out to be the best choice for the student in terms of financial aid and academics.</p>
<p>Here’s an article from the NY Times about this year’s admissions:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04colleges.html?ref=education[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04colleges.html?ref=education</a></p>
<p>Hi mom, as a parent it is so tough to watch the kids go through this when it was so different for most of us. My daughter wanted to “take to her bed” over the weekend and I insisted she get into action. Aside from biochemical depression, I’ve found the best way out of depression is to spring into action. We started researching schools with rolling admissions, ready to start the process anew and then prepared to do heavy battle with one of her waitlists. We’re hoping for good news this weekend from one of her schools, but she’s the only one in her class that doesn’t have at least one acceptance under her belt. I too, felt like the counselors and I misled her, but even a year ago, no one could’ve predicted how tough this would be. My son is 12 and by the time he gets there it’ll be even worse!!!yikes!!! At any rate, good thoughts and prayers during this trying time and it will all be revealed soon enough, I’m sure.</p>
<p>“My son is 12 and by the time he gets there it’ll be even worse!!!yikes!”</p>
<p>Nope. I think that applications are expected to peak around 2011, so he should have an easier time than your D. He won’t be applying at the peak of the applications of the echo boom – kids of the boomers.</p>
<p>Homero, are you for real?</p>
<p>Thank you all for the support and advice. I wish I could take away the emotional turmoil for my son, but that is an unfortunate part of growing up. I am going to back off and let him decide what to do as long as it involves actually going to college.</p>
<p>Son</p>
<p>rejected
Georgetown</p>
<p>wait listed
Johns Hopkins
Vanderbilt
Cornell
UVA</p>
<p>accepted
Emory
University of MD (honors +2000 per year
American (18,000 per year)</p>
<p>This was a brutal process</p>
<p>Does he have any energy left to work those waitlists?</p>
<p>I finally received all my decisions today. <em>cough</em>Wesleyan<em>cough</em> And I’ve been accepted to both SUNY Geneseo and Binghamton, rejected from Wesleyan, Vassar, and Brandeis, and waitlisted by Colby and Oberlin.</p>
<p>Does anybody have any opinions on Geneseo and Binghamton? Which is better… for somebody who’s pretty much alternative in every aspect? I would describe myself as a counterculture intellectual/independent, artsy film buff/a bit antisocial. Thanks to anyone who responds.</p>
<p>i dont know. binghamton is just so much bigger, so some people say there’s a bigger mix of people. but i think its just more preppy. </p>
<p>i’ll be going to geneseo. i wouldn’t say that im as far alternative as you are describing yourself, but i certainly did not fit into the private schools i applied to where every girl looked the same. so anyways. i hope geneseo will be what i want.</p>
<p>Rejected:
Amherst
Barnard
Columbia
NYU
Swarthmore
Princeton
Vassar</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Haverford
Wesleyan</p>
<p>Accepted:
Rutgers</p>
<p>Rejected
Columbia
Stanford (double legacy)
UCLA (OOS, and everyone else who all had WAY lower stats (low 1300sat) than me all got in from my school. go figure? maybe I applied to the wrong major…) </p>
<p>Waitlisted
NYU (stern)
CMC</p>
<p>Accepted
Tufts
Boston College
UCSD
UCI
UTexas (mccombs)</p>
<p>I’m just slightly angered at the UCLA, but it turned out ok, as I was never going to spend OOS tuition to kill myself studying, now i get to chill at home.</p>
<p>I feel so stupid… I think i really have no future… i’m like rejected from almost everywhere…</p>
<p>REJECTED:
harvard (deffered ED)
princeton
caltech
williams
cornell
oxford</p>
<p>waitlisted:
wellesley</p>
<p>Aceepted:
some stupid unknow place called brandeis university and carleton college and this stupid place called UBC in canada</p>
<p>Conditional offer (in UK)
London school of economics (i bet i wont get in)
Warwick</p>
<p>when i told my mom she got so *<strong><em>ed that she walked out of the house and came back like much later…i seriously dont think i’ll be a somebody in my life… everyone whos a somebody goest to lke HYP or oxbridge… seriously i’m soo *</em></strong>ed off at myself… doubt i have a future…</p>
<p>o_o;; Dude at least you got somewhere. Most of the rejectees did not get accepted YET. Relax. You will have a future. Let me guess, Harvardd was your first choice?</p>
<p>Nice try–nobody is buying it.</p>
<p>yes obviously…</p>
<p>no one gets a job when they graduate from somewhere like carleton college… most people in US dont even know carleton college… and i’m an international student</p>
<p>and everyone from my school always gets into like harvard princeton yale etc.</p>
<p>=] Nice try for what? xP</p>
<p>Brandeis University is a good college. I applied there. xD Got REjECTED.</p>
<p>its not… for my parents it has to be like in the “top 50 universities in the world”… otherwise they wont pay for it…</p>
<p>:( Sorry. Can’t help much. Are you going to apply to Harvard for grad school? :] Just curious.</p>