Happy to say that my son has made his decision! His choices were narrowed down to two schools - Northeastern and Pitt. He visited both during the same week, attending the University Scholars weekend at Northeastern and interviewing for the Chancellors scholarship at Pitt. He came back from the weekend visit really liking Northeastern and then came back from the other trip really liking Pitt.
After he received notification of the Chancellors scholarship, he mentioned that even with just the full tuition scholarship he preferred Pitt. Since both schools were well within budget, we let him know that either school was fine. It was pretty hard to say that, because the idea of turning down a full ride is painful but weâd committed to paying up to a certain amount so he really could make a choice of either school. We told him to use his credit card to pay the deposit.
I noticed his Facebook update yesterday- he chose Pitt (and the full ride )
@missbwith2boys â Congrats on the amazing scholarships and your sonâs decision to accept Pitt! We did the same thing. At the end, my DD narrowed the choices to Temple (full tuition scholarship) or Pitt (partial scholarship). We told her that even without full tuition Pitt was still in our budget and she chose Pitt. She loved it and cannot wait to start in the fall! I should add that she is now furiously applying for outside scholarships.
Congrats @missbwith2boys on the Pitt decision! Ironically, D13 had the same final 2 but chose Northeastern. In the end Boston beat Pittsburgh! Unfortunately, Pitt wasnât even on the radar of D16. Great school, great programs!
@readingclaygirl, thanks for the offer. Iâll definitely keep it in mind. So far, he does a pretty good job of self advocating when he needs to do so. He much prefers to keep it on the âdown lowâ; a lot of people, when they first meet him, donât even realize he wears aids.
@Skates76, my S is considering going to the summer ASL immersion program at RIT. That says a lotâŠ
@critter, I think I can spare some extra changeâŠ
Congrats to everyone with getting those decisions made. I know for us, as a family, it was a huge weight lifted off everyoneâs shoulders. Let Senioritis really roll in now.
We are in a holding pattern here. We will be visiting Cornell at the end of the week. Iâm 99% sure son will be choosing Cornell but we are waiting until the visit to make it official. Son got another small scholarship notification in the mail yesterday. He is now maxed out on all the outside scholarships that are useful. This most recent one is renewable so that is great.
@Dragonflygarden If outside scholarships can be given different year or they are willing to divide the scholarship into 2-4 years period. It will help you.
Congrats to all the families who are committing! We wont be visiting Sâs final two choices until the weekend of the 23rd - so we will be down to the wire. I fear I will be sailing the Indecision solo by that point!
@critter - Apparently Yale has the same issue. Some Y parents were complaining that the parents who attend bulldog days look very grim because their kids holding an admission at H are enjoying Y too much. Dâs freshman year, I was having lunch with 3 other Indian parents during parents weekend - it was odd to hear that all of their kids chose S over H (D didnât have that choice).
This is my third username. Last time when DD found my postings she was extremely angry and I tried to avoid to posting any. And I posted one weird post. I probably wonât post many but would like to stay and talk a little bit here where everybody is so supportive.
DD got accepted to Columbia, Brown, Cornell, U of Chicago, Williams, Wellesley after visiting U of Mich as a full ride scholarship recipient. She did not like Mich. She felt it is much bigger than she thought. So she narrowed down to Columbia, Brown, Chicago and Williams. Not sure where she is going.
Welcome back HappyDad2112. We just got the FA letter from Williams and I think it is off the table for us. Best wishes for your D â she sounds like she has terrific options â and good luck staying under cover!
@Highbury You will not be alone at the end. We are revisiting Sâs top choice on April 25th. I keep telling him that his decision must be made by April 28th, a Thursday. I am willing to wait until then but I donât want the decision being made over the last weekend. Figuring it will be 11:58pm on April 28th.
@carlson2 Thanks a lot. I am not sure Williams matches peer schools FA but if you have not tried, it might be worth it. Brown gave us 20K more in 12 hours we uploaded a copy of Columbia FA letter.
@highbury@pao2008 I will be joining you to the end :). We are waiting on one scholarship notification to see if one school will be affordable. And, even then she is not sure. One school she had decided against has sweeted the pot and she is now tossing it around and going to revisit it. UGH⊠So, we went from narrowing down to 2 and now to 3.
@Highbury not a chance youâll be lonely on the ship. D has 3-4 schools to choose between. She has 3 visits scheduled between now and the 25th. She leaves town for a competition on the 27th so I asked her if she could commit somewhere before then so that she doesnât drive me mad like her brother with a 11:59:59 kind of decision. She assured me that since I wonât be with her, I wonât know how close to the wire she is, I just have to give her a credit card to put down the deposit. Oy. So in other words, Iâll be on the lounge chair right next to you sipping those margaritas.
@texaspg DD was accepted to Germany year program and she accepted the offer. Sheâs waiting another year program but I think she will head to Germany. She knows nothing about German so it will be interesting how much she can improve her German for next few months.
DD won a prestigious writing award in March with small cash prize. Only a couple of dozen students were given cash prize. Sheâs going to attend award ceremony in June at Carnegie Hall. She participated award ceremony a couple of times but only seniors were walking on the stage. So she will walk on the stage this year.
@sseamom Thanks. Because DD was so angry, I posted something is not true. She asked me more but I was not good at. I am really sorry to the post.
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