Match an Indecisive Engineering girlie from CA who's ready to make the most killer college list ever! [CA Resident, 4.0, $40k, Engineering]

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Please please find two affordable colleges that you like where you would be happy to attend. Do that first!!

Your mom’s list and some of the colleges mentioned here are reaches for all. You should apply…but you need a sure thing too. Not just reach schools.

I’m going to link a thread here. Please read the whole thing. The student was a class val, NMF, great ECs, great LOR, an overall strong student. No one expected he would be denied admission everywhere he applied. But that is what happened. He took a gap year an landed well…but the end of his senior year in HS was horrible. You dont want this to be you!

No Acceptances: One Kid's Story - A year later...

Part I of III Sorry this is long but some posters have pm’d me about our story and I thought it would be of help to re-tell it. One year ago I posted a question here on CC – “We’re Picking up the Pieces …but what went wrong?” My son had applied to eight schools, been rejected at five and waitlisted at three. I expected to get a few responses and see the thread disappear deep into the archives of CC. Little did I imagine that one year later, not only would I still be posting about the progress, but an entire cyber family on College Confidential would still be going through it with me. For the benefit of those of you starting out on college applications, or – hopefully not-- for those of you who may find yourselves in our position, this is the story of one kid’s worst case scenario and how he made the best of it. I’m re-telling it here by way of my own original posts and those of other CC posters whose advice was so vital to the journey. Thanks to all of you! My original post o…