You need the FAFSA for federal student loans as well. And we would not have gotten state aid without filing FAFSA.
D applied to UCLA, but not UCB. How well students from her school fare seems to vary somewhat from year to year. Dâs counselor told me that last year it seemed that students did better getting into UCB rather than UCLA. In fact, there was one very high stats student who got into pretty much everywhere he applied (including UCB and Stanford), but was rejected at UCLA. However, two years ago, several students who didnât have such high stats got into UCLA! So who knows? At this point Iâm just crossing my fingers and hoping for the best for my D, especially since UCLA is one of her top 3 choices.
@Mysonsdad Thank you and I would trade todayâs UCB acceptance with yours last week UCLA if I could. DD is extremely honored to be accepted to UCB, but she is not sure that activists movements at UCB is what she is looking for her college experience. Every time we visited this school they had political demonstrations on campus. Few month ago she showed me FB posts from kids who graduated her school last year and now at UCB and they had photos of the smoke and tear gas during another demonstration on campus.
Congrats again to all of those celebrating tonight! We are visiting our state flagship tomorrow. There will be an admitted students presentation, tour and he will also be able to attend presentations for the honors college and journalism program. This was a plot twist after years of S insisting he would never go here. So, we shall see⊠Feeling thankful that he has the choices he does!
@Ballerina2016, the nice thing for your D is that she also has USC. The protests at UCB had me a little worried for S, but according to CC if the students stay away from Sproul then it isnât too much trouble. I actually like UCB more than S. I think I just wanted the admittance more than anything else.
I can understand that @Mysonsdad we all very much invested in this admission game. Sometimes more than our kids. So far USC is her number 1 from her acceptances. I think it a good fit for her and it is 40 minutes away for our peace of mind.
@CAMidwestMom have fun on the visit! we havenât done the admitted students day there but it remains right at top of list. My D is going on a solo school trip Sunday ⊠so things are definitely getting real.
Wow, what a busy day on this board! Congrats to so many of you-looks like Fridays are banner days around here. We took D out to celebrate, then H was looking online for a tee shirt that says, âMy kid and my money go toâŠâ We saw them at every school we toured, but online, not so much. So I designed him one in Fisk colors on one of the sites where you can make your own. D has her usual busy weekend planned, but it includes a sleepover on Sunday night, so H and I are celebrating Valentineâs Day. Itâs the anniversary of when we got engaged. Weâre going to dinner,then Iâm surprising him with a hotel reservation. Those Groupon deals come in handy!
D graduates exactly 4 months from today. I know it will be here before we know it.
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D received official word from one of her schools today that she didnât advance in the higher level scholarship she applied for, which was just a formality since we had heard through CC about numerous other kids having already interviewed for it more than a month ago and invites to the Campus event for the scholarship had gone out a few weeks ago. She wasnât happy, even though it was expected. The scholarship offer she already has there and I think she would have been happy just to get the interview for the more advanced one.
On the brighter side she just received an invitation to a Scholarship weekend she thought she had been shut out of. This is a school where the top initial scholarship they offer is not nearly enough to make it affordable for her to go. We are OOS for this one, even though it is physically closer than her in-state school. Almost everyone who goes to this weekend gets a bump in their scholarship offers, but there are a limited number of full tuition and full ride opportunities, so there is hope. It had fallen off our list when she thought the invite wasnât coming, but is definitely back on (and happens to be Dadâs favorite) the list again. (-:
BTW, speaking of lists, D16 and I have a fairly unique way of doing her school countdown. Whenever a school made her list throughout the entire process, I would download an app related to the school preferably the main school app or one specific for campus visits, and placed them all in a âCollegesâ cluster on my phone. When a new school came on board as a possibility we added it, having two nearly full pages of apps at one point, and as they fall completely off her list they are deleted. I just had to go back into the cloud and re-download the app for her scholarship weekend school, and happily so.
Anyone else have some sort of similar little system of tracking the school list like that, beyond our ubiquitous spreadsheets and/or keeping it in our brains? Just wonderingâŠoh, and we are at four apps now.
@ballerina016 - I see common data set for 2014-15 saying about 11,860 people were admitted with about 5400 showing up. So it sounds like there is still about 9800 people who may be admitted at UCB.
http://opa.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/uc_berkeley_cds_2014-15_august.pdf
@texaspg They might increase number of seats this year, but majority of this increase will probably be for in state students. http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/01/11/more-than-100000-students-seek-admission-to-berkeley/
@Ballerina2016 is right, enrollment increases are only for California students.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/11/20/uc-regents-to-vote-on-plan-that-would-expand-enrollment-for-california-students/
Congratulations @mom2jl and @lifegarding ! Nice Friday for many!
We are down to getting the March college notifications. When those are in we will update the list with her acceptances. The decision is going to be a tough one I am afraid.
Found out I got in UC Berkeley 
Congrats to everyone else who did as well!
Congratulations to all other good news to celebrate!
For those with what feels like bad news right now, remember that it just means the list is becoming more focused on the right school and the decision is actually becoming easier. I spent some time on the checklist for parents of freshmen thread and time to get the decision made and all those things done really is getting short. The big dance is coming up and you do not want to be late so things that narrow the list are necessary.
Yesterday during our drive to this weekendâs college visit, DS caught me up on where his close friends seem to be leaning at this point. None of them are staying IS but they may all end up within a 2-3 hour drive of each other. That could make for some really fun college road trip weekends. I am so pleased, and proud, that they all have great opportunities.
@frenchtoastlover Congratulations
@ballerina016 - The stories say that they will increase the enrollment by 10,000 over a 3 year period at 9 UC campuses. My guess is it is doable without having to have more than 300-500 seat increase at the top UC schools.
@texaspg UCLA, UCB, UCSD and UCR are getting an additional 750 students each this year.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-enrollment-20160120-story.html
Congrats to everyone . My head is spinning from trying to keep up
@mysonsdad - It is interesting to see they have a target of 750 additional students which means they probably need to admit an additional 1600 or more assuming the 40% yield holds up.
One of the stories above mentioned the average SAT score of applicants is 1945. That sounds like a ridiculously high number for 100,000 applicants.