Before the flood of RD dates coming up, I thought I’d drop an update on D23.
Overall, we’re in a good position. But it hasn’t been easy. Very stressful throughout the first semester senior year. Very… Essays were mostly done last minute, even if they were pretty decent. Grades dipped. Social challenges. But, at least for today, she has options she likes, and hope for more options over the next few weeks, and after spending a weekend visiting a friend at the local UC campus – finally seeing how she’s going to be ready for college.
Her initial list was reach heavy. It remained reach heavy. But as we said, you only need a few real “likely” schools --and we added some based on CC feedback. Since this initial list, she won her local Outstanding Citizen award, kept her weighted GPA just under 4.5, and decided she was not super small schools.
TLDR: Admitted to 3, Deferred 1, waiting on a bucket-load more. But one in-state, one-great OOS flagship, and one with good merit and we feel that it’s good to have options now.
Safety -
UWisconsin Madison (EA) - ADMITTED
UC Santa Cruz - ADMITTED
University of Oregon - ADMITTED, Stamps scholar with 10K/yr merit
U.Washington Seattle
George Washington Univ.
Targets:
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
UC San Diego (hard target)
UC Irvine
Pitzer
CalPoly SLO
American Unviersity
Reach:
USC (EA) - DEFERRED
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Claremont McKenna
Georgetown
University of Michigan
Barnard
Princeton
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Brown
She’ll be out of the country when many of the end of month decisions come out so that’ll be wild…
good luck all, updates again in a few weeks when she has to make choices!