QOTD posted above^^^^^^^^
worse case scenario
Son 17 gets rejected from Northeastern,BU, Bentley, Babson and has to attend UVM. The horror!
worst case scenario? She has to drop Russian and attend Bama.
@jedwards70 See my previous post 
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19846857/#Comment_19846857
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@jeepgirl I’m going to go there, because well, I’m not averse to controversy. :)) What racial/ethnic breakdown is your student and H looking for since Emory is “too diverse”?
We really try not to rank the schools in order of probable attendance…just yet. For us, the question is only whether the school is on or off the list of schools DS thinks he can see himself being happy attending, does it fit for the financial, and how does it fall in the reach/none reach/safety mix of schools necessary. At the end of the day, I think it’s really important that wherever he lands he’s excited about the prospect, rather than just having to “settle”. Ideally it’s nice for the student to at least have some choice (between at minimal 2 schools) come April. The only “rank” we encourage is the top rank, if he/we opt for ED.
My D’s worst case scenario is she has to attend Drexel University tuition-free and see her mami and papi constantly 
Worse Case Scenario - The worse case scenario would relate to my out of pocket cost as D does not have a bad school on the list. So, I’d say it would be that she becomes adamant about going to UT without merit and I’d probably cave and pay. More realistic worse case scenario is she doesn’t get merit anywhere else besides her auto merit school and goes to Ole Miss, which is a fantastic option for her given strength of their Arabic, Accounting, Honors, and Croft programs. There will be no tears in our house. 
QOTD: Worse case for us is also probably 'Bama, maybe the New College with a cobbled together CogSci or Neurosci, perhaps BioEngin major. Not bad at all, IMO. As a matter of fact, ‘our’ worst case is towards the top of ‘my’ best case! 
QOTD: Well, since S has yet to complete or submit an application, I guess the worst-case scenario is that he never does. :))
Realistically, the worst-case scenario would be attending a school with no merit aid and no easy way to get there and back.
@eandesmom, since you have Ursinius on the list and I know a young man who is studying environmental engineering at St.Francis University, maybe that would fit the bill? They do offer merit and need based aid. And even low interest loans I believe.
https://www.francis.edu/Scholarships-and-Grants/
“May the net price calculator be ever in your favor!” (not sure if it figures in merit)
I’m with @itsgettingreal17 Our worst case scenarios are money related. Either he does really poorly on the ACT and doesn’t qualify for any merit aid, or he does really well on the ACT and gets accepted to his reach school that doesn’t give much merit aid.
EDIT: Best case - 32 ACT
@MotherOfDragons, that’s the right way to look at it, when you have an average, there will be some lower and some higher numbers and lots in the middle.
For example Pitt, what is the average CR and M score, around 650 maybe? Well the honors college average CR&M last year was much higher, over 1450.
You want your kids to be above 75 percentile to have a chance at merit and honors.
@mommdc yeah I really get confused between mean, median, mode, range, and average. I struggle to visualize it in my head in a meaningful way.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek, have you talked to anyone at Pitt’s language department and honors college to see if they could offer a program suitable to your D? It might be worth visiting.
Really informative thread to follow that lists EA/ED acceptance rates of some (mostly top) colleges. Some of your reach schools may be on there.
@2muchquan That is not a bad option. Far better than, well, there are some native speakers usually on campus that you could probably arrange to talk to, X_X
Worse case scenario:
DS gets rejected (or the $$ doesn’t make sense) at his reach and match schools, leaving us with his safety…UCF!
:-bd Go Golden Knights!! :-bd
@Gator88NE I circle back to the UCF website every day. Aside from its enormous size, I’m looking for a reason not to love it.
@itsgettingreal17 I love that you are going there, but I don’t want to offend anyone. Lets put it this way, my D is a preppy white girl from an upper middle class suburb in the northeast. She is looking for a school that has a lot of like minded/looking people and Emory was not it. It was too ethnic. I am trying so hard to be politically correct and am not doing a very good job with it.
My white preppish girl goes to a school that is about
50 percent Latino
20 percent Asian
20 percent white
10 percent other/mixed
When we have toured schools that were mostly white it was very hard for her to picture fitting in there
Worst case for us
Gets in nowhere, gets offered UC Merced. Honestly I see some things to like about Merced