@sekere62 if you end up at UTD, you’ll be in good company;-)
For those of us with students bound for the same college, it would be so funny if our kids meet and click in real life! My S and @3scoutsmom’s S are bound to meet, since they’ll be in the same tiny honors CS classes and at the same events for their CS honors program. Who knows if they will like each other although on paper they have a lot in common. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
@traveler98 I’m on a facebook page for parents of UTD students and it looks like there are a lot of freshmen (and upper classmen) from the greater Austin area. I was thinking about seeing about doing a meet up, don’t see why we can’t include the kids too. Is this something you be up for traveling to Austin for? Anyone else?
@3scoutsmom, sure I’d be interested if the timing works. Will PM you.
A few things I have learned in this process: applying/keeping up with 9 schools has been too much for my S18, competitive scholarships are VERY VERY competitive, waiting is really hard, never underestimate the value of a true EA safety school with automatic merit. Since I have a D20, I will apply these hard lessons to her future search.
S18 also applied to probably 30 outside scholarships (20 local and 10 national) with values ranging from $500 to $10,000 one-time scholarships, as well as one that is $7500/yr for up to 8 years. It will be interesting to see how the odds fare there. Most of the essays were easily tweaked from ones written for college apps…but it was still a significant amount of time filling out apps and gathering the necessary documentation and rec letters. These award won’t roll in until April-June so can’t really factor them into the decisions too much (except for the big renewable one which will be awarded mid April).
Since D20 is not as high stats as S18, we will not chase merit so heavily, but will look for auto merit and affordability. She is also being recruited as a track and field athlete, so that will change things up a bit too.
Here on this end I am tired. Lots of disappointments in the way of scholarships so far, but still a few good options that we are thankful to have and holding onto hope for some big ones to still come through. S18 thankfully is not getting too caught up in all of it and is very content with his remaining choices.
@S18D20mom’s post reminds me that when all of this is over for everyone we should start a lessons learned thread for next year’s kids.
Just popping in to wish good luck to those of you with kids who applied to MIT. (We are not in that camp.)
Happy Pi Day!
As @suzy100 said, good luck to all of those waiting on MIT today!
Best of luck to the MIT hopefuls!! Did Stephen Hawking really die on Pi Day? Not sure if it was already March 14 in England.
@amominaz Yes, he did! Sad to see the news on him.
The MIT page on cc is brutal today. Endless stream of rejection. I sympathize as many years ago I received one of those MIT rejections also.
Guess today on MIT page is just a preview of the bigger slew of rejections on March 28 Ivy day.
My friend got in to 7 of the ivys and waitlisted at harvard last year
Yep, MIT was ugly. Neither of D18’s friends who applied were accepted (two accomplished, ACT 36 girls). AFAIK, the only kids to get into a “top” college around here so far are a couple of jocks.
So have we had any happy MIT results?
^^^ @labegg I was wondering the same thing.
Not here, my DS was deferred then rejected by MIT today…the odds are now telling me alabama or purdue for CS
Did MIT have a record year for applications? It seems I read that lots of schools had record numbers this year. The cycle keeps feeding itself, doesn’t it? Each year seems more brutal than the last, so at the beginning of the application cycle more and more kids and/or parents decide they “need” to apply to even more schools than last year’s seniors did.
2000 being the Year of the Dragon meant that there is a mini baby bump for children born in that year. So 2018 and 2019 are larger than any cohort before, and 2020 will see a slight dip.
@ninakatarina, where did you read that? It’s interesting. I thought I read that the population for these years have dipped (don’t remember where I saw that), but I’m absolutely positive that the number of apps have grown outside of that number.
@ninakatarina Year of the the Dragon is huge in Asian cultures, so I’m not surprised to hear about a mini baby bump. When I was pregnant with S18 in 2000, a Taiwanese friend kept telling me how lucky I was to have a Dragon baby. Also, she said the baby (gender unknown) would be lucky because he/she was a Dragon.
But I suspect the ridiculous number of apps this year is from the Common App effect. It’s become much easier to add another school to the list, and repurpose an essay.