<p>@MAC8993 – yes, you decline your acceptance and lose your deposit. This is how kids get off wait lists so late.</p>
<p>And my apologies to @MrsPepper for the tardiness but CONGRATULATIONS to your S! Does your DH go by Mr. Salt? Oh the days when Blues Clues was the favored programming in our house! </p>
<p>2014NovaMom, I love your son. What an attitude! Go, 2014NovaSon. Wherever he ends up will be quite a fortunate school to have him.
Mrs. Pepper, congrats! I don’t remember NU being as popular in the class of 2013 forum as it seems to be here.
We refer to the “rejections” (such an ugly, rude word) as “redirections”. Sounds much more positive. 
My D had a team-mate whose mother was UVA alum. They went to games and gave money and the D wanted UVA badly. Deferred EA. Wait-listed RD. Selected her #2, deposited, visited, got her head “re-directed” and then got off the UVA waitlist. By then she was sure the other school was right for her. Her mom has kept me posted this year and you know, the D is absolutely rocking at her second choice and could not be happier. I think UVA did her a huge favor. I just hope all the kids who are re-directed end up feeling that way too.
Mac, when kids know they are accepting School A, it is nice for them to tell Schools B, C, & D before May 1, but most don’t so the schools don’t really know whether they can go to the wait-list until after that May 1 deadline. Seems like they usually wrap up offers by mid-June and then notify anyone else still on the WL that they’ve filled the class. </p>
<p>“Redirections.” I like that. I’m going to be pulling this one out in the coming week. Thanks @89wahoo!</p>
<p>I just read the following on an accepted thread and had to share:</p>
<p>“State: South Dakota
School type: Small public (but we DON’T ride buffalo to school!)”<br>
:D</p>
<p>Welcome @jonsmom96 and @Mac8993! </p>
<p>I think I would encourage my child to decline a waitlist spot just because of the sheer stress involved!</p>
<p>We are awaiting the snail mail decision from Kenyon. Heard they were mailed yesterday. </p>
<p>@4beardolls - We also ran out of time for visits. Some visits resulted in crossing schools off the list so D ended up visiting only 3/5 schools to which she applied. Our Spring Break isn’t until mid April. Good timing to visit accepted schools, but we could really use a break NOW rather than later. </p>
<p>Interesting bit of data on NU’s waitlist chances: According to Common Data Set for last year, 2,852 were waitlisted, 1,606 accepted being put on the wait list and only 14 were offered admission eventually! Time to move on or redirect as 89wahoo says!</p>
<p>Congrats @4Beardolls & @Mrs.Pepper (love the name, we were big Blues Clues fans). And hugs to those with “redirections.” Still waiting for three decisions here. Doesn’t the waiting seem endless? What I don’t get are these small LACs. Why does it take months to go through applications? It’s not like they have 30K kids applying.</p>
<p>The other piece of the puzzle still missing is the FA package from our in-state option. They accepted her weeks ago, but no word on $$.</p>
<p>Spygirl did receive some FA info from one of her top choices yesterday outlining her merit aid and scholarship. Thrown in the mix is a $5500 unsubsidized loan and we were explaining what this means in terms of interest and repayment this morning at breakfast. She didn’t quite understand that $5500 is actually $22k over four years, plus interest. When I mentioned to Max the actual dollar amount we would be paying, Spygirl says, oh no. That’s wrong. They gave me another $21k! She thought she was getting an additional $21K. If only </p>
<p>And this is our strong math student. </p>
<p>@Agentninetynine - My D is not a strong math student so I translated the monthly payments over a period of 10 years on student loans into the number of pairs of shoes she would have to forego. It got her attention. </p>
<p>@Agentninetynine The small LACs may not have 30k kids applying but they probably also don’t have the well-oiled corporate admissions operations that the more bigger schools have!</p>
<p>Plus, the small LACs read the applications more holistically. One admissions rep said every application gets at least a full hour of readings.</p>
<p>@Agentninetynine and @Overtheedge
I’m literally LOL. My daughter will be be in the same boat. When the time comes, I have to sit down w/ her and explain her FA.</p>
<p>@overtheedge - That is a *brilliant * strategy! Very true @crowlady, staffing is most definitely smaller. But still, it’s been months. @staceyneil - the rep said a full hour? Do you think that’s accurate? </p>
<p>@2018dad - And it’s not just understanding FA. I suspect that Spygirl (like many kids her age) doesn’t really grasp the whole concept of debt and its ramifications. When I was a senior in high school, we took a class that taught everything from doing one’s taxes, to balancing check books to understanding loans and interest. Best class ever. </p>
<p>My younger daughter was filling out her high school class request forms this week, and we kind of laughed over the fact that the school offers classes in “History of Floral Design” but nothing in Personal Finance.</p>
<p>Congrats to kids of @Mrspepper and @4beardolls on the NU admit! I’m really starting to wish that S14 had applied to more schools. He applied to 6, but it may as well have been 5 since his super safety can’t seem to get their act together and find his whole application. So far he’s accepted to his 4th and 5th choices, rejected from his #2 choice. I don’t think there’s any chance of him getting into his 1st choice. So we’ll keep our fingers crossed for 3rd choice. They snail mail acceptances and usually not until around Ivy release day so that will be the last one to come in. I know there are kids who would give their eye teeth to go his 5th choice school- I wish he could get excited about it as it may be his best option. He has had a total lack of interest in going to any of the accepted students events for schools 4 or 5. He may have to accept that they are actually schools 1 and 2 and he may need to do “real” visits to make a decision. I have no idea when he’d try to make that happen. He’s running out of time.</p>
<p>@agentninetynine Well IIRC that is what she told me! She said the first read, by the regional rep, is >30 minutes and then there are two second reads at ~ 10-15 mins each. </p>
<p>My D has a reasonable understanding of debt, interest, etc from listening to NPR’s “This American Life”. They had those terrific segments about the housing market and wall street a couple of years ago by the Planet Money guys. I’m thrilled that she has such a better understanding of that sort of thing than I did at her age.</p>
<p>Now, if she can take that knowledge and connect it to her own personal finances… that’s another story ;)</p>
<p>History of Floral Design - lol! </p>
<p>@Barnardmom - What about overnight visits?</p>
<p>We’ve had the loan conversations, too, @agentninetynine. Did she want the subsidized loans. D’s response? Whatever you think I should do, mom.</p>
<p>@ordinarylives - she doesn’t know the difference. I love your D’s outlook! </p>
<p>@Agentninetynine and @GertrudeMcFuzz - Not sure if this is just a local requirement or statewide, but at my kids’ school, they implemented a mandatory Personal Finance class this year. Seniors were exempt, but all other students are required to have it. My S14 is taking it and, honestly, wish my D14 was taking it (she already had a full schedule). We’ve talked some FA basics, but @Overtheedge, love the idea of equating the loan amount to the number of shoes she would have to forego!</p>
<p>Congrats Mrs Pepper on the good news…
I heard from my Brother…a no for Northwestern …1 yes ( UMASS) , 3 wl and,1 No…poor kid…he has the stats but internal competition at his HS ( public exam school) - they all go for the top schools- 60 applied to Harvard…</p>
<p>Tomorrow more notices…</p>