<p>D2 was also admitted to UCLA. This is the first school she’s heard from! She’s leaning now towards wanting a smaller school, but that could change. We know a few UCLA students, friends of D1s, who just love it.</p>
<p>madbean-congrats on the merit award at Tulane. Excellent news!</p>
<p>Dignified- we had the same experience with state vs. private schools. Got only unsubsidized loans for instate public U, but nice packages for more expensive privates with not bad subsidized loan amounts. It is a shock though the first few times when they show how much they want to you pay!
Right now D is blasting thru an online h.s. class that the GC has been bugging her about. The study halls at school are too noisy for her to concentrate, and she does not much care for this required class anyway, so she is doing the entire class in 5 days, not counting two longer term projects which include attending public meetings. She figures this way he’ll back off and leave her alone and she can concentrate on Pre-Calc as well as her other classes.</p>
<p>Wow, I just ventured over to the UCLA thread. They received 61,000 applications this year for a freshman class of 5300 students! It makes me wonder how many people are working in their admissions office.
One students was rejected with a SAT of 2340 and a 4.2 weighted average. My heart breaks for that kid. I wonder how many mistakes are made in processing that many applications.</p>
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<p>amandakayak - we just got back from UMiami - it was high on my Ds list but it is has now dropped off her list since her visit. It just isn’t a fit for her…if you fly mid week it tends to be less expensive. There are plenty of relatively inexpensive hotels nearby. Definitely try to spend some time walking around downtown Coconut Grove - it is very quaint and a great place to go for a bite to eat.</p>
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<p>Flmathmom, this made me chuckle. I live with sb, and as most of you know we are very in tune (ha) with each other. Must be funny (or not?) to have a freak-out and have nobody notice!</p>
<p>YES YES YES! The logjam is beginning to break up.</p>
<p>I just checked the Dartmouth Application Status website for my son, and it has changed–it now has a new tab for “Class of 2015” and a cryptic note about “expect to hear from us soon.” </p>
<p>But he is off at the state debate tournament today, so I guess I will wait until he gets home tonight and tell him to log on. I did not click the new tab, so I guess this is the contemporary analogy to me getting the envelope from the mailbox, and waiting to let him open it.</p>
<p>50isthenew40: Congrats on the UCLA acceptance. The first acceptance is always special.</p>
<p>Madbean: Yay for additonal $$ from Tulane. Enjoy the receptions.</p>
<p>Amanda: Did you check into flying into Ft. Lauderdale instead of Miami? It might be cheaper. I think it’s about a 1 hour drive to the U. I think its worth the visit if Miami is a real contender.</p>
<p>UT: That sounds promising. I thought that all the Ivy’s had an agreement to release results on the same day.</p>
<p>Yes indeed the results are starting to come in - son had a good day yesterday, got UCLA admission along with the Regents scholarship and a likely letter from Columbia ! Berkeley was the front runner assuming he got regent’s scholarship there - but Columbia now has definitely stirred the pot.</p>
<p>FlMath I have fingers, toes, and even eyeballs crossed for your son! Remember to breathe.</p>
<p>Yes the FA being so much higher that FAFSA makes no sense-worth a phone call?</p>
<p>amandak we join you in being offered an unsubsidized loan of $5,500 in our “award”. He got a very nice merit scholarship from this school but it is still way more than several other options and I would be surprised if he ends up there-he can if he wants to take on the debt. We had hoped this school would consider him for their highest MA award but he didn’t make the cut so unless they want him enough to match or come close to what he already has in hand I doubt he will go.</p>
<p>We did the applications to Merit schools and he is doing well on that front. We are waiting on two more that offer MA and then the 3 Ivies that don’t-but at this point I have no idea if he even gets in what kind of FA if any he would get to those.</p>
<p>I just told my parents about my acceptances. My mom left to get her nails done. Considering how much my mom talks (actually, brags) about my college results, maybe this was not a great idea.</p>
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The old agreement about the same day has pretty well been shattered. They have gone to a process of likely letters and calling/emailing that is much more variable and incremental. I only knew to look at the Application Status site because people have been posting on the CC Dartmouth thread for weeks that this is how they got the first indication of acceptance.</p>
<p>Ups and downs in the last 24 hours. D had one close friend elated with UCLA admittance, and another crushed with rejection. The three girls were all together when they found out, and had to deal with the emotional roller coaster-- one girl trying to tamper her joy in sympathy for the other, and the other trying to put on a happy face, and my D being the friend to both. She came home exhausted last night.</p>
<p>Then she awoke early to an email from American that she was accepted. So far she’s 4 for 4!</p>
<p>UT84321 - That ‘Class of 2015’ tab is most likely a good sign 
I checked my S’s and it is not there. A good friend of his received a likely letter so he knows his chances are shot. His friend is well-qualified and a legacy and for some reason despite many qualified applicants Dartmouth has historically only accepted ONE student from our high school. What makes my S frustrated is that his friend has NO intention of attending Dartmouth. She just applied to see what would happen. </p>
<p>S told me last week that he and his friends wished that the application process worked more like fraternity rush where interest could somehow be considered. Way above my pay-grade to figure out how that would work. But there are several kids who applied to schools they’ve said upfront that they don’t want to attend but want to accepted. I know that these things all work themselves out, but you can’t help but want to shout, I REALLY would like to go here and for them to know you REALLY mean it!!</p>
<p>Wow - what a busy 24 hours of postings. I am sure I will miss someone so I will generalize.</p>
<p>Congrats on the WashU and UCLA decisions and the other FA awards that were positive and/or surprising.</p>
<p>Glad to hear the car accident only damaged the car and not the driver.</p>
<p>Glad to hear the Japanese d’s are OK and their immediate families are OK. The whole thing sounds terrible and looks worse on TV.</p>
<p>Airlines typically adjust fares on Tuesday afternoons. Ft Lauderdale and West Palm are possible alternates if you don’t mind an hour or two drive. Ft. Meyers is about two hours drive across the state. The nice thing about car rentals in most of Florida is you can rent and drop without any one-way charges.</p>
<p>I think the Dartmouth posting may be a “teaser” for the 30th’s announcements.</p>
<p>The roller coaster ride has topped the big hill and its a wild ride from here to the finish line! Buckle your seatbelts everyone because as previously said, there will be some bumps along the way.</p>
<p>rom828 that’s a very interesting topic-should you apply to a school unless you really want to go there?</p>
<p>I know of the 11 schools my son applied to he would really like to go to 5, maybe on 3, and not really on 3. I sometimes wonder if him applying took a spot from someone who really wants to go to those 3 schools-but since they were determined to be safeties I think we had a responsibility to have him apply in case he didn’t get accepted anywhere else. I want to notify those schools right now so those three spots can be opened up to another applicant. My husband says not until my son makes a decision-we have had some heated discussions about this.</p>
<p>The three Ivies he applied to he would really like to go to-again my husband wanted him to apply to all of them! If he gets into any of them we will have to figure out if we can swing it and they are a better choice than a couple of schools he has already been accepted to-but he didn’t apply to any schools just to see if he could get in for bragging rights.</p>
<p>rom828–
It would be a bummer if there was a hard quota for a particular school, and the slot got wasted. I would like to think that any school’s process is more nuanced than that. But that is not a worry out here–I’ll bet the majority of people could not even tell you what state Dartmouth is in.</p>
<p>I would love to see the admissions process greatly restructured so that the number of applications went way down. I wish FA awards became more predictable/standardized so that families (like us) did not have to apply to a bunch just to get more swings at the FA pinata. I wish there was a way to really judge & consider interest. I wish the adcoms could spend more time on each application. I wish schools would inform early decisions of non-acceptance during the RD pool.</p>
<p>this thread is moving! congrats to all with good news</p>
<p>I think kids should NOT apply unless there is some chance they would attend. Despite what the adcoms say, there must be some intra-school/region competition amoung students. I wish there was a way to limit every kid to 8 - 10 or fewer applications. Everyone would be forced to really consider their lists. Yields would rise so one would not have to do 10+ because it would be far less of a crap shoot. 35,000+ apps are crazy even for the tippy top selectives. It would help everyone involved in the process: kids, parents, rec writers, adcoms, alum interviewers. My D has friends that apply to all the ivies, Stanford, MIT, some merit schools, and a match or two. Can’t fault them with yields that may be <5% at many schools this year, but it perpetuates the problem. We did 10 and that was a huge amount of work and money (and that was with no auditions or FA stuff). The only winners the way it is now are College Board ($), CommonApp($), and professional college advisors ($$). </p>
<p>Pepper - we are struggling with the same decision here. D is in with money at a school that she has come to realize would not work for her. We are waiting to hear what her other options are. The other safety she likes a lot better has not given her the scholarship info yet. I know we are not taking a spot/money away from another person, though. This school does a probability of attending assessment when doling out the money.</p>
<p>Ut, my son has same note on the dartmouth website and can access the 2015 directory. Does this mean he is getting a likely? How certain is that? We will be out of town for next 10 days and not receiving our mail…</p>
<p>I hear all of you above. My S was just accepted to WashU yesterday and seeing some of the highly qualified kids who were either waitlisted or denied admissions now posting that if they were accepted, they wouldn’t have considered attending anyway comes off so badly. Why the heck did they apply then? I agree that so many kids seem to indiscriminately apply to the ivies + SM and other highly selective schools regardless of whether it’s a good fit for them or not. Wish this system could be overhauled.</p>
<p>Just read this page of posts and need to read back several pages today. Ended up going to a school play last night of a friend’s kid and will be attending one tonight and tomorrow of other kids we know. Thankfully my son and I will be happily distracted from any college-related thoughts.</p>