They should!
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Yes, at UT Austin the admission rate into the university and your major for instate non-ranking students is in the single digits. Mostly, these are selective private school kids, as most public schools do rank and have auto-admit opportunities. At our HS, we have students who attend schools like Harvard, GaTech, and UC Berkeley but do not get into UT instate. If you do get auto-admitted, getting your major is not guaranteed, and most programs are highly competitive.
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We had that info for 2022 - in live time. Then the counselor turned it off for 2023. It was my daily morning routine to check it out.
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S24 got an unexpected exciting email today for a scholarship 3-day event for Wake Forest. He applied early for merit consideration, but he is actually a regular decision applicant so wasnāt on our radar and hasnāt been accepted yet. It says about half at the event will get one of the full-ride scholarships.
Donāt want to get too excited, heās advanced in a few but only gotten one so far. There a lot we love about the school, size, and focus. I wish it answered sooner as heād bow out of other he already received that is the following weekend.
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So happy to hear of the fabulous results for your kids! Congratulations to all.
We had an up-down Jan in our house. S24 got into Purdue FYE and got a fairly big national level recognition in the first two weeks. That was very exciting! But, yesterday was somewhat disappointingā¦Deferred from UMich and GT, accepted into UMD and NCSU. Grateful he has choices while he waits for RD results. But, the mom in me thinks he deserves the world for all the time and passion he has put into his academics and ecs. Itās sobering to realize the truly long odds at any of the top schools.
I expected UMich to be deferred as OOS but thought he had more of a shot at GT based on previous admits from our school. I know there are lots of extremely talented high stats kids in the same position and he is no more deserving than the other hardworking kids. S24 is thankfully not too upset and is genuinely excited about Purdue. 
the first visit in a few weeks goes well.
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We are very excited to have a great EA round. Accepted at UMD honors, McGill and U of Richmond w presidential scholarship and finalist for Richmond Scholars full scholarship. Also admitted RD to BC as Gabelli finalist. So greatful to put a side the sting of REA deferral and have some amazing offers and aid.
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Love to see the Yale deferral club finding some amazing news. We still love Yale though, sigh.
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I agree 100%. Makes preparing for likely denial much more manageable. We are stress free from here out. Ivies would be icing on cake. This community has been a tremendous resource to help stick to āthe planā
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I am happy to report my son got accepted to U Miami with free tuition Hammond scholarship and Foote Fellows honors. His room and board at UM will be paid by FL Bright Futures and National Merit Benacquisto scholarship. So it will be completely free for us. We are full pay family so it is a huge gift!
My son is still waiting for other acceptances but this offer will be hard to beat!
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Amazing
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Congratulations on the Wake Forest finalist for the full ride scholarships! D23 was in the same boat last year , and ended up winning a full COA! It is definitely an early acceptance, even if he doesnāt end up winning one. What a great school 
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Big congrats to her! Good to know, thank you! We thought maybe, but didnāt want to assume. Weāre very thankful and as full-pay this would be a major win to save college fund for med school. He loves their assured medicine program too!
Do you happen to recall when she found out? It says most are awarded at this event, does that mean we wonāt know until late spring?
Yes, we are full pay tooā¦and she was in the Harvard deferral club at the timeā¦ and hadnāt had any other decisions this time last year. Wake finalist was her first acceptance then she got into multiple top schools by the end. It is a long wait but I bet yours will have many options. iirc, 28 out of 50 some finalists get one of the full rides(includes all costs plus summer stipends, valued at $360k or something ridiculous), and usually 22-24 of the 28 accept it(they plan for that). Best of luck!
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These threads should be mandatory reading. You feel like your world is crashing down on the first early disappointment, but they all do seem to end up just fine. Thanks so much for replying, made us even more excited. Ironically when Iāve read your username I always assumed a couple of Duke kiddos. 
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Just looked, it came out March 1st last year. They tell them at finalist weekend approximately which day it will be announced. Also: they told them last year over 12.000 kids apply to Wake by the deadline to be considered, and from that they invite about 50 to be finalists. Huge congrats to your son, it is a big deal.
DH and I went to Duke, D21 applied Duke ED and was deferred then later accepted RD, D23 didnt ED anywhere because didnt have a favorite or even a solid top 3, so she just did the REA to one from her top group and other than UVa ea which isnt out until mid Feb, she waited for RD. Picked UPenn in the end(Duke was close but so were others and of course huge consideration of Wake). Wanted to chart her own path and not follow the family, and UPenn let her into a special engineering/science dual degree program which includes guaranteed generously-funded summer research. It all works out in the endā¦she is at one of the original top -5 she liked over others. I am an empty nester so i just follow you parents of class of 2024 because i remember how stressful it all was!
Agree reading other threads helpsāespecially the Can More Seniors give Actual Results thread(or whatever it is called)
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I donāt know if these types of programs are new*, but they became really persuasive for all three of my kids. Knowing you have a funded summer during college is a nice perk in your back pocket.
D20 and D23ās schools touted the availability of funding (competitive allocation process)ā¦S24ās offer letters from two of the three LACs he was accepted to this year guaranteed him summer funding.
*In the dark ages when I went to school, I wasnāt aware of anything like these kinds of programs.
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This is so interesting and wow on those numbers, amazed by 12,000! All schools on his list, lots of similarities.
You also paid $15k, not $90k - if your dark ages matched mine 
And the endowments today are enormous with huge stock returns.
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I wish that had been COA for my school, but it was pricey even back thenā¦tho more so now. Just waiting to see when it will break the six figure mark for yearly COA. 
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*I do feel like Iām in an entirely different application world here in CAā¦
Iām not sure if there is less pressure about safeties though, most high achieving kids want the same 4 UCs and 2-3 CSUs with <30% admission ratesā¦
People outside CA have no idea how bad it is here. In most states a student with a 4.0 and great test scores is almost certain to gain admission at the flagship state schools. In CA you can have a 4.2 and be rejected by all the UC schools except Merced and Riverside which are extremely unpopular due to location. SDSU even rejects 4.0s and that was and is still known as the party school!
The situaiton is so bad that the top destination for our large suburban public high school is Oregon, with significant numbers going to Washington and Arizona as well. Because UCLA gets 160,000 apps, and UCB is not far behind.
So yes, the pressure is much worse in California - because the # of UCs has not increased sufficient to match the population increase, and because the UCs rely almost 100% on grades. Many of us our angry because weāve paid high state income taxes for years, and we end up having to pay OOS or private tuition. And no, community college is not an option when your student has taken 6 APs, calculus and physics, etc.
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