<p>^^^ Where will you be posting first? Please post on this thread. I have been following your story and am hoping that everything works out for you!</p>
<p>Deferred.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>That’s so freaking sad…that I actually had to HOPE for deferrment…</p>
<p>Congrats?! ;)</p>
<p>At least you know you were competitive. URochester will be lucky to have you.</p>
<p>jPod:</p>
<p>Yep…Main Line is rather famous…</p>
<p>Actually, I have friends from there and I row (so I’ve been), so it’s just a quick car ride (well, maybe not so quick with traffic) from the Scukyll (I can never spell that right!) when I’ve gone to watch friends at the end of the school year. One of the coxswains for the lighweight boat is originally from there as well. Drives a volvo turbo wagon with a Swat, Penn, Haveford, F&M, Bucknell, and Reed sticker on the rear window (older sibs).</p>
<p>How did dad take the news?</p>
<p>Congrats! Deferred from U Penn. Nice Chanukah Gift.
Now I’ll sound like a pushy Jewish mom- If by chance you do get into Cornell- please give it a second look. Don’t believe all you hear about it being super competitive and cutthroat. It really isn’t like that. I think the nature of the school is that the kids going there are just academically competitive kids and push themselves to work hard. The cutthroat atmosphere is more hype than reality.
Have a good winter break- enjoy the next few months and hopefully you will have wonderful choices in April.
PS- U of R was always one of my d’s top choices too. If she did not get into Cornell, she probably would have been at Rochester!!
Actually- if she decided to be a psychology or cog. science major, she probably would have gone to
U of R or CMU, but she really liked the ILR program at Cornell. So you really do have to go for the school that has the right program!! Good luck!!</p>
<p>Dad was fine. He figured I wouldn’t get in, but, he wanted to give it a shot. He said, “I know you didn’t really want it anyway, so, at least there’s no tears. You’re free.” He’s a great guy, just, sometimes, he gets an idea in his head and decides that he’s right no matter what. Very black and white.</p>
<p>I’ll give Cornell a look. Chances are, I won’t get in, so, the point will be moot, but, I promised my Dad to do him the favor of at least looking at these schools.</p>
<p>See, sometimes things all work out for the best. One big problem with ED is that kids have to make preemptive decisions. You’ll be in much better shape to know what you want after a few more months of pondering. And it sounds like it will bring you and your dad closer.</p>
<p>BTW, I’m another Cornell parent here. You do know that Cornell has a golf course just a short walk from the freshman dormitories, right? And haven’t you always wanted to play snow golf?</p>
<p>Just a word to all you enthused Cornell parents: I am not a Cornell parent I actually attended Cornell. And talked with recent students via alumni activities over the years.</p>
<p>Cornell is a damned tough school. It is somewhat more relaxed in the liberal arts & social sciences than in the sciences, though.</p>
<p>ILR is a complete bubble there, its students are in classes mostly with each other. Experiences there cannot be extrapolated beyond ILR. However ILR posters to CC seem to express that it too is pretty tough. Though not directly relevant to this discussion.</p>
<p>What I noticed though when I did college search with d#1, and visited schools like Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore- is that all these schools seemed damned tough to their students; pretty much the same deal. I concluded that, at a certain level, there was basically no free lunch, effort-wise.</p>
<p>OP has been seeking to avoid this strata altogether. I’m not intitmately familiar with the work environment at his preferred schools, but his assessment might well be accurate.</p>
<p>I’ve known a number of Rochester grads over the years. They’ve liked their school and have done fine afterwards.</p>
<p>I’m not asking for an easy time at college. I feel that the schools I selected are very challenging academically, but, not to the point that the environment has a 100% cutthroat feel.</p>
<p>Well in that respect I agree with the others. You shouldn’t be expecting anybody there to be stealing reference material, or refusing to help you, or anything like that.</p>
<p>[You’re not pre-med, right??]</p>
<p>Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo</p>
<p>Heh. Yeah. Me and the physical sciences aren’t too friendly.</p>
<p>I’m going to probably double major in political science and creative writing (or English w/creative writing concentration, depending on the school I intend).</p>
<p>I’ll either go to law school, grad school for poli sci and/or creative writing, or, maybe both.</p>
<p>Cornell golf course was designed by that famous guy, who is an alum.</p>
<p>Didn’t do me any good, I don’t play golf.</p>
<p>UPDATE:</p>
<p>Turns out money may be an issue. My dad now acknowledges that it’s a double good thing I wasn’t accepted. He even told me that back in the day he just tolerated the place. Heh. Interesting turn of events.</p>
<p>Nothing’s set in stone, but, Rochester may not be able to happen. Eh, it’s fine. If I have to, I’ll get just as good an education from Pitt honors anyway.</p>