Great news @dfbdfb! That must feel wonderful!
So sorry @momcatof4 - that stinks!
Awesome night for your S @homerdog!
S19 was accepted to Oxford College/Emory and waitlisted at Emory College.
Congratulations @elena13 !!
Awesome @elena13 Congrats!!
@momcatof4 so sorry for the waitlist. Congrats @dfbdfb and @elena13
Quite the night @homerdog congrats!
How nice to have a decision @dfbdfb hopefully we’ll all be there in the next couple weeks!
Sorry about the waitlist @momcatof4 and @elena13 but congrats on the acceptance
Thanks for the kind words @momzilla2D and @MWolf UCSD is a great school! Her final selection is going to be a hard one.
Congratulations on today’s news-@dfbdfb @elena13 and @homerdog , I apologize if I’ve left someone out, it got busy here! So nice to get acceptances and make decisions!
@momcatof4 sorry about the WL. Hopefully she is fully recovered and has other good options.
All the talk is making me curious to go check Naviance again. I know most kids stay instate or attend one of the neighboring states. That’s very interesting about HS relationships with schools. We attended the evening presentation for one AO rep who came pretty far to visit but he did not go if during the day. His school is a block semester system so he hates to miss class.
At this point, I’m just ready to be done! We did tons of research, which I will miss, but there is just so much to consider and stress over.
Wow! I knew hearing about all the acceptances would be fun! Congrats ‘19’s!
I wasn’t prepared for how the deny’s and waitlists would feel, especially since the process is so drawn out. Even though you know there’s going to be good news, too, the waiting has to be so tough. My S24 is in the musical Shrek and if anyone knows it, Fiona is stuck in a tower, waiting for her knight for 8,423 days. She goes a little crazy and when she sings the line, “the waiting, the waiting, the waiting!!” I always think of this college process.
@dfbdfb , congrats on Mississippi State! How did your daughter decide? I think she had 3 that were at the top, and I remember that she’s the type to be happy wherever she lands . . . Was she thinking about an area of academic interest/research? Or did she end up going with the best mascot? (We’re big dog people—the reason my D19 checked out UConn even though she wanted a small, warm school 
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Our 3 year numbers. Solid but not earth shattering semi diverse public HS in a well regarded district in the PNW. S19’s friend group is applying to a number of selective schools but they are in the minority. Most kids stay in state and are quite happy to do so, either public or private.
13.71% Asian, 0.35 %Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, 7.21% Black, 55.9% Caucasian, 11.17% Hispanic, 11.45% Multi, 0.21% Native American
Harvard 0/9
Stanford 2/36 (both athletes, but both with the stats, great kids)
Princeton 1/9
Columbia 0/15
Yale 0/12
MIT 0/7
UPenn 2/11
Brown 1/10
Dartmouth 0/5
Cornell 2/13
Chicago 3/12
Grinnell 1/1
US Coast Guard Academy 1/2
US Military Academy West Point 1/2
14/144 or a 10% acceptance rate. Not horrible. Only the Stanford kids are athletes. Really have no idea if any are URM’s or legacies (nor do I care) but I do know most on the list that are attending. I suppose one might be a URM but he’s definitely there on his own merit.
Popular In State
University of Washington 134/329
Other Popular out of state
USC 7/35
UCLA 2/34
UCB 3/41
Cal Poly 18/32
Hey @dfbdfb , congrats!! Miss St is a cool place. I went there once for a football game. That’s going to be a very unique experience for her coming from AK. Different kind of vibe there probably. Nice people in that area and very relaxed kind of pace. Well if she hates cold she better learn to enjoy living in humid subtropical region!!
@momcatof4 bummer about the WL, hopefully she shakes that one off fast and moves on.
@elena13 congrats to your son at Oxford College, great news. I’ve also been to Emory a few times, my best friend went there, he is very succesful. It’s a nice place for sure. It’s interesting that you apply to both Oxford and Emory at the same time? That’s how that works? I’ve never looked into it and always assumed Oxford was one of the schools kids were placed in when they apply to Emory. But I guess not? I do not have a lot of knowledge of Emory other than I know it’s an excellent school with convenient access to Atlanta.
@homerdog congrats on 2 more solid choices for your son. Those are both excellent schools, can’t go wrong with either of those. He must be happy, he has a solid warm weather school to choose from now.
@ifer67 good luck making a final decision and moving onward!
Congrats on the acceptances and @momcatof4, I’m hopeful for her last set of schools!
@elena13 - Random, I only just learned of Oxford. I pass on opportunities to my scouts, and an Arabic Language Immersion held there came on my radar. That program looks awesome btw. I think we have overlap, so hopeful this next week is a good one for your son!!!.
Congrats to all on the acceptances! For those with disappointing news, hang in there! I was there with D17 and it’s tough but your kids will move on and accepted student days are great at helping them move on. It’s such a different vibe to visit when the school wants you and is trying to court you, instead of the other way around.
@3SailAway, she’s a budding industrial engineer, so she—who, I’ll note, up to this point had liked the college spreadsheet I’d made, and expressed appreciation for it, but had never used it—pulled together a bunch of quantitative and qualitative data from the spreadsheet and beyond, assigned everything on the list an insanely complicated mathematical value and weight, and then jiggered her formula so that her three finalists tied.
She then went with the school that had industrial engineering faculty doing research in the specialties she finds most attractive.
@dfbdfb I love how she jiggered her formula so her top 3 tied!
@liska21, I know, right? It makes me think that she’s uniquely well-suited for her intended major and following career. 
@dfbdfb – I remember making my own scoring spreadsheet to decide where I wanted to apply… but don’t remember rejiggering the formula after seeing the results. (But I probably did, tbh.)
@RightCoaster Thanks! Re: Oxford/Emory - you can apply to either or both schools, and just like every other place, it seems like both schools are getting more and more competitive. Since S has applied to some universities similar to Emory as well as several LACs, this option seems like a great mix of both. He would get the small classes and extra attention from professors the first two years and then move closer to the city to finish out on Emory’s campus.
@peachActuary73 - Thanks! Best of luck to your D as well!
Ugh. I’ve read through the past 24hrs worth of comments and I’m left with a feeling best described as…resigned yuck. With or without Naviance there are some who will believe stereotypes regarding athletes, URMs, and equating “smartness” with standardized test scores. Why? because it confirms an existing bias. And unfortunately their kids head off to university and are the same ones who make assumptions about others because it makes them feel better about not getting into “x” school & wonder why athletes, URMs, anyone who is offended by their comments…avoid them. Sad to see that this cycle just keeps repeating itself. I’m not even going to share which school my athlete, URM, ####/## test score son, chose because some would make assumptions because undoubtably it may be a school that their own kid did not get into.
@SJ2727 I’ve shared before…I only got in because I was from a high school in Southern California. My admissions interview (on campus) went like this: “I’ve never seen such a big difference between a math and a verbal score.” I’m thinking oh no. “Oh wait, you are a Region 5!” My response: Yes I am!
I had no idea what Region 5 meant but I could tell it was a good thing. 