Sending out best wishes, virtual hugs, good vibes and as much positive energy as I can muster. Hoping to read lots of good news.
@droppedit @MinnieFan. How does a school with 68k applications get excited about one student?
@MinnieFan liked your post. My D too is in a very different place than october and im glad at this point she has the opportunity for choice not going straight into a pressurecooker environment
Thinking of all of you waiting on news and wishing you all the best! =D>
@SnowflakeDogMom – it’s not the school being excited by the kid but rather the AO reading the application and deciding whether the kid is a good fit for the school. The most obvious first “fit” criteria would be test scores and GPAs. Once you pass that bar then it gets more subjective and, I’d suggest, more into whether your kid would actually like going to the school. For example, if a school likes “sporty” kids then they would see from D18’s app that she didn’t participate in any sports in HS and probably wouldn’t like it there.
@SnowflakeDogMom most schools get excited about their admits…that is why they admit them. Even though it is dated the Gatekeepers is a good read on this topic. If they are not excited about a student, something doesn’t click with them that is fine not all schools are good for all kids. Some schools might just go by the numbers for the majority but also might see something off the numbers that speaks to them. If you read some of these decision threads on CC schools are all over the place sometimes ( Clemson is a good example this year). Goes to reason if a student got in with lower numbers than another student something on that app excited the school.
Also on the schools my daughter applied RD to released decisions two weeks ago to students they are offering top merit to because they do not want to lose them (my daughter was not one of them). I would say the schools are excited about these kids, similar to the schools that have been sending good news notifications. I do not agree with these practices. If a school wants to doing rolling admissions than do it. If it wants a set release date then do it. If it is a set date it would be nice to know from the school the date…not from the history and speculation.
Also as happened with my daughter one school offered her acceptance into a program we did not even know about because of her essays. This shows excitement in my opinion. But just my point of view I understand we all are looking at this from different experiences and I love that about this thread because I learn a lot!
DD accepted to WashU yesterday but she will not be going as she didn’t receive scholarship there. Accepted to Emory with 20K scholarship and SMU provost scholarship which covers only near half but she says they are not enough to please her. As of now she still is debating Olemiss vs Belmont full ride. By the end of this month it may change, I am crossing my fingers for her.
Do any of you feel it will be worse if they get waitlisted than straight out rejected? I just want a final decision and know where he is going. Really hoping for some good news tomorrow!
Oh definitely if it is a place he is seriously considering @Momma2018
But for a longshot I’ll take the waitlist.
Seems backwards, but I hope for some ego-boost for him
To me, waitlisted is the same as rejected – my D has a couple nice options and so is not going to join a waitlist. But, it feels a lot better, so I’d prefer it.
I like the kind of excited where the school says you can attend for free with free housing and dining plan too. :). That’s my love language!
DD was accepted at Fordham today! I’m always up for a visit to the Big Apple.
Uchicago rejected. Swarthmore rejected. I apparently just don’t get this process at all. Sigh. Go Gators!
@NamePoster I’m sorry you didn’t get nicer news.
Go Gators!
D is still waiting for scholarship notification. I thought she got it today, but it was just departmental marketing. It was the first time ever that I saw an envelope from a college opened in our foyer, so I know she is anxious about it, too, even though she’s not saying much. Maybe we’ll hear something next week…
@glido Congratulations on Fordham!
Whew! That’s a wrap for us. S18 is 12 for 12. Eight private LACs and 4 GPA/test score only state safeties (overkill, I know, but I wanted him to have choices if the LACs didn’t work out).
He’s narrowed it down to 2. Has done admitted overnight at one and will do the other in mid-April. So, no final decision until then. I suppose I can let him turn down some of the schools now since he loved his first overnight experience. Normally, I would ask him to wait until he he has a final decision, but if he loved one school already, he has a place to go even if he hates the next overnight.
@glido, congratulations on Fordham. Fordham/Ailey was a no for our daughter. Luckily, we were at Rutgers for their Honor’s College program and she was even more in love with the dance BFA and really loved what the honor’s college had to offer. She is really feeling the love and I like that she loved the programming prior to getting the Fordham rejection. Only one more college to go, but I think Rutgers has moved to the top for now. Mason/Gross does not get to offer many scholarships or invites to the Honor’s College, so she is feeling good right now.
Just just got a phone call from DD . . . admitted to UCLA! (She has an NROTC scholarship at UCLA, so this could be it.) We might be getting off this roller-coaster! 8-}
I WANT OFF!!! :((