Did anyone attend the accepted students day?

CottageSpirit
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:08:34 +0000

YAY!! That’s great, orangecontrol! Congrats to your daughter, and it must be a relief for all that the decision has been made!

Like with secondround, S has a fair amount of overlap with your daughter as well. NCF, UVM-honors, New Paltz, and Skidmore. He was rejected at Vassar too, which was the only rejection that really stung.

NCF was a top contender until S was accepted into CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College at Hunter and until he got offered quite a generous aid package from Skidmore. Sometimes I wish I could just pluck NCF up and move it a little closer to where we live!! That’s really the only major drawback from S’s perspective, that he wouldn’t be able to easily get back to the area when he wanted to. From the parental perspective, Macaulay would end up costing significantly less than NCF and Skidmore would cost just a little more (with transportation costs figured in) but he’d be SO much closer to home. And we’re still waiting for Bard’s financial aid offer. I hate that it comes down SO MUCH to money, but the reality has set in that as two state workers with four children, once a few great fits are on the table, that’s largely what it’s going to come down to.

secondround, fingers crossed that we’ll get the Bard FA letters today - tomorrow at the latest!