<p>DS has three schools still listed on his common app, 2 reaches due Jan 15 and one safety due Feb 15. I’m 95% sure he is only going to do one more app, 1 of the reaches, but since test scores, transcripts and recommendations have been sent he is leaving them on the common app until the last minute so he could change his mind.</p>
<p>@shoboemom Are you happy with the 6 schools? Have you thought of invoking a parents choice and asking that she apply to one more school of your choosing. Not that she has to attend that school, but so she will have more choice come spring.</p>
<p>@Mom24boys, One of the safeties she has on her list (and has been accepted to) was a parent choice. It’s one of the state schools, actually 2 of them are, but the 2nd one she added on her own. I told her she had to apply to at least one state school…admission and financial safety. She did so reluctanctly, but luckily, when we visited she liked it more than she thought she would. Not as much as her reaches, but says she could imagine being there and being happy. There are a couple other schools that are more in the middle (match) that I keep mentioning, but she hasn’t been swayed. She knows that could mean that the safeties are her only options if the reaches don’t work out…but I will keep mentioning the others, right up to the deadline. ;-)</p>
<p>Another happy dance in the Cabbage field tonight! </p>
<p>Looks like we dodged an “ED twin sibling rivalry moment”, @Threesdad and @Mom24boys…so I won’t have to beg your coaching/counseling services.</p>
<p>However, Cabbage2 apparently received his acceptance e-mail last night, too. He just didn’t click on either his “All” or “Social” tabs in Gmail, so he didn’t see it in his inbox. So, Cabbage1 is now insisting his brother should withdraw his app given his incompetence with basic email services is indicative of future poor academic performance…and so it continues </p>
<p>So happy to hear Cabbage1! Twins are tough - mine have very different interests and expectations so it made it easier. </p>
<p>My D got her expected deferral from Yale ED today. Surprisingly, she is totally ok with that – and after looking at stats/descriptions kids have posted in results thread, she is feeling like she is in good company. Onward and upward… and another few essays for her over the holidays - blech!</p>
<p>@Cabbage1: So will the Brassica oleracea (cabbgae - i googled it) family be tending to fields of crops in separate locations or are the Brassicae (plural I hope) being planted in the same field??</p>
<p>Same story here, @kidsrexpensive, kiddo deferred at Yale. Brief tears, already over it. The results thread does offer some perspective on the very impressive company!</p>
<p>Many schools have filtered on and off the list but we are now at 7 and I’m pretty sure that’s the final total. There’s at least one of every variety of institution, except the two lesser Ivies (if there’s such a thing) that dropped off the list for good yesterday. So for the places that are left: he is virtually guaranteed to get into one (Ginormous State Honors College), will likely get into some, and may even get into all. There’s one HMFR, which he has shown a lot of interest in, visiting etc (also called Super Selective-LAC in my previous posts), and a few that are pretty good reaches that he has shown as much interest as is possible from thousands of miles away, without being a pest. So there it is. I keep thinking there should be more, but he shows no interest in learning about any more colleges. He just has to get the final two apps in and he’s done, and they’re not actually even due til 1/15. Hears about his EA school on Thursday. </p>
<p>Congrats to all who have gotten acceptances and support for those who are deferred or denied. Particular joy to the Cabbages - twins must be very tough.</p>
<p>S was accepted to NEU in the honors program. Nice scholarship but still at least $10K higher cost than our other acceptance, a safety… and he has applied for more money there already. So probably won’t go to NEU but it was nice to have an acceptance for a more reachy school :)</p>
<p>@VSGPeanut101 - I think in a way this has helped D re-focus on schools that might be an even better fit. She kind of likes getting kudos for her academics and is realizing that she would be an exceedingly average student at Ivies. I do wish the wait until next wave of potential acceptances (mid-late Jan) was a bit shorter.</p>
<p>I’m digging the taxonomy, @Threesdad. Yes, we’ve got two fields planted with B. oleracea. One is the Jumbo variety, and the other is var. Quaker. Boston and Philly, here we come.</p>
<p>How about you and your brother? Did you go for the same state? School? Just curious since it looks like there are a few other parents of twins aboard the Indecision.</p>
<p>Hello friends…I have not been here in ages, literally, but coming back today with a good news.
I am the original OP, started this thread when my first kid was going to college and kid #2 was just looking into the process. Well, today she has been accepted to Yale We are thrilled ! Congrats and best wishes to all !</p>
<p>a couple of things this morning… first, for those of you who have older kids, when is the best time to sell college textbooks online? Now or after the first of the year when kids are getting ready to start the new semester?</p>
<p>Second… hubby is very upset that S did not apply to Harvard. Keeps hearing of people getting “lots of money” to go there. S15 and I were under the impression that Harvard only gives need based aid not merit. I know they are more generous with need than others with a higher income level given some money. He was out to dinner last night and someone was telling them about how his nephew got a full ride to wrestle at Harvard. Anyone know the real scoop?</p>
<p>1) Harvard offers only need-based aid but is quite generous in doing so. (The $36 billion endowment helps with such things.) According to its fact sheet, the university offers FA that results in families earning $150,000 or less paying no more than 10% of their income. Harvard also claims that 90% of its students can attend cheaper than they could attend their state flagship – assuming the kids can get in. (See point #4, infra.) </p>
<p>2) The apocryphal “full ride to wrestle” is likely a good FA package. Ivies are not supposed to offer sports scholarships or preferentially package aid for athletes – although Harvard is finding that its overall FA is so good that it can recruit athletes successfully. </p>
<p>3) If your son actually wants to apply to Harvard, the deadline is January 1st, and the supplement is fairly modest.</p>
<p>4) The RD admission rate at Harvard last year was about 3%. It will probably go down this spring.</p>
It’s one of the state schools, actually 2 of them are, but the 2nd one she added on her own. I told her she had to apply to at least one state school…admission and financial safety. She did so reluctanctly, but luckily, when we visited she liked it more than she thought she would. Not as much as her reaches, but says she could imagine being there and being happy. There are a couple other schools that are more in the middle (match) that I keep mentioning, but she hasn’t been swayed. She knows that could mean that the safeties are her only options if the reaches don’t work out…but I will keep mentioning the others, right up to the deadline. ;-)</p>
We are thrilled ! Congrats and best wishes to all !</p>