@TLD1267 So true. I have learned a lot from this website-- and a lot of what I have learned here makes me feel kind of sad. The college admissions process is not as clear cut as all of the glitzy brochures, the bozillion emails, and fancy websites would lead you to believe. It is a rather cut throat business and there is a lot of strategy and gaming that goes into it for some schools and some applicants. If I have learned anything from this process, and by hanging out here at CC is that the college admissions process is not for the innocent!
I appreciate this website as a wealth of information about the process, financing, etc. and for the fact that I don’t do Facebook or Twitter or other social media and I have been able to keep up with when notifications and things are occurring at the schools my daughter applied to. At the same time, I am glad that I didn’t find CC sooner than I did, and we took a straightforward approach in our selections rather than all the gaming and strategy. Maybe we lost a little in taking this approach, especially scholarship wise, but that’s okay. My daughter added Northeastern to her list late (applied in December), and had she been able to visit or interview (not a possibility for us, we live overseas) and had she applied EA and more assertively highlighted the fact that she pioneered the internship opportunity that she currently has for future students in her high school, then the result may have been different. But we weren’t that strategic.
We are grateful that UCONN admissions actually looked deeply at her application and offered her the STEM Honors and scholarship which she is very likely going to accept. And, I think once the last couple decisions come in and we make our final decisions, I won’t be hanging out on this website so much anymore.