In case anyone on this forum needs reminding: You are all exceptional parents, offering support and love that many kids never experience. These fabulous acceptances and scholarships are in no small part due to your involvement and commitment to your children.
Well done, parents!
Admitted Students Day is for admitted students, not Undecided Day or RD Admitted Day. Lots of students attend even though they 100% know they will be attending. You should go and eyeball away!!
Twokidstogo Many many top students do not get invited to scholarship events, you must be so proud of your daughter for getting invited to two!! Sounds like they are fighting for the opportunity to be her #1. I hope she can look at it as her opportunity to interview those schools and get to know them better.
For our instate flagship and safety, my son is going to admitted student day with his friends. Itās only an hour away, and we already know alot about it and it will be our pick if it comes down to it, so I figured itāll be fun for him to go alone.
That said, if/when he gets accepted OOS, we will attend, especially if we are comparing other schools that are far from us- so much we can guide him about that a typical teen wouldnāt think about.
Seriously feeling like we need a Pepe talk tho-Really hope we get some schools to consider! My son chose 1 safety and the rest are some version of a hard target or reach. Heās a high stat kid but so far weāve only gotten a rejection and a deferral. Really hoping we have atleast a couple of schools we can visit.
Busy weekend here while I was away! Congrats to all on acceptances and scholarship invites ā¦ and congrats to all of us for staying the course and surviving(-ish).
D24 and I visited St. Olaf on Friday. Iāll post more detail in the Colleges that Moved Up/Down thread, but in short it was a great visit. I went in knowing I loved it, and she walked away loving it. So all in all a win. She got top merit and based on their published numbers, I think need-based we will get a full ride, or very close.
In any event, this was a safety for her that our CC pushed her to apply to, and she is now glad she did. She has one school she is very happy with and we can afford, so everything else that comes in now is just cake.
Try living in DC! We literally donāt have a state school. Every state school is out of state.
Such a great feeling. I know we say this all the time, but I feel like devoting serious effort to making this happen earlier rather than later should be a top priority. Then also applying elsewhere as desired, but having a plan where some combination of applications is likely to produce this result on the early side is such a great way to make sure a kid actually has a good senior year.
I know a lot of kids do this but I definitely feel like it is missing an opportunity to at least feel better even if the final choice is still the state flagship.
So, any chance a late application or two somewhere would appeal? For high stats kids this can still mean things like big merit offers and such from really interesting colleges. And again, even if the choice ends up the same in the end, just having the opportunity to consider something like that can be nice. And you never know . . . .
We had this same situation last year with ED Lafayette. I thought for sure my S would be invited to the scholarship weekend, and he wasnāt. First I thought it might be because of applying ED, but his friend with a very similar resume and application, test score, gpa etc, was accepted RD and also not invited to it. So then I wondered if there could be an (unstated) need based portion to it or itās given mainly to attract strong URM applicants (these kids are both white). Heās met some of the winners now, and that might be what it is. Or else, neither of them was in their top tier of applicants as we thought they were. That could be it too. Lots of stellar kids out there! He did appeal for merit and he was awarded a smaller merit amount, which we so appreciate. Maybe that would be worth a try at Wake, but I am not familiar with Wake.
We are going with our D24 to her ED-admitted acceptance students day. The main reason is that her coach wants the committed class to attend that weekend to get to know each other. We figure it may be a good way to meet some of the other athleteās families.
Definitely was a weird weekend. D24 is in-state NC, and NC State and UNC Chapel Hill released EA results, so it was a frenzy of instagram posts etc. as she watched what was happening to her friends and classmates (she was not really in the game since she was already rejected from her 1st choice major back in December by NC State, and didnāt apply to Chapel Hill since it doesnāt have her major). The flood of rejections and deferrals for students I know would be good fits was really disheartening to me. Where the heck are they going to end up? Thankfully D24 was able to talk to more people today at school and some of her friends did get acceptances at Chapel Hill or NC Stateā¦not the total bloodbath it seemed over the weekend. Georgia Tech still 0 for whatever on acceptances in her peer group.
At the same time all that was going on, she was out of state at a merit scholarship competition weekend, and had a great time. She can really see herself there.
On Sunday she was at a fundraiser lunch and someone overheard her and her friend talking about collegesā¦turned out his co-worker went to the school she was just at for the merit weekend, and he loved his time there. A random positive plug for the school from hundreds of miles away!
Out of 9 applications, D24 is still waiting on 3 decisions (including Virginia Tech, which has an EA decision date later than Clemsonās RD date!) Rejected at 2 places, and waiting on additional critical information (honors/scholarships) at the 4 places she has been accepted.
I have not made any plans for spring break or revisits/admitted student days and it could possibly be as late as April before she receives the last of the necessary info. Not the way I like to roll, but D24 has done everything she needs to do and we just have to see how it unfolds.
As I understand it, Wake does not give out much in merit aid beyond the full scholarships. Their website says less than 3% of FY applicants receive merit scholarships.
We are also planning on attending revisit day with D24, but they still havenāt announced the dates. I find it to be incredibly frustrating since we will have to fly in, and D24 will have to fly in on her own, from boarding school. So two separate flights, hotel, rental car etcā¦it would be nice to make those plans sooner rather than later!! Also hoping revisit day is not Boston marathon weekend (surely the Boston schools know better than to do that??) as our dog sitter runs the boston marathon every year. 
Boston resident here @cityran - which school is it? happy to help figure out timing!
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Rice is amazing! Our son graduated last May, and it was the perfect choice for him. Houston is beautiful in the spring.
As a Houstonian, uhā¦ ok. I live not far from Rice and yes, that is probably as good as it gets. The wasteland of strip malls as you come in from the airport on I45ā¦ not so much.
First timer here. Do most schools send out final financial packages shortly after they receive the FAFSA?
@juststaycool did note Houston is beautiful in the spring, and on the spring days we visited Rice, the weather could not have been more perfect - and we did not venture far from the Museum district/ Rice village area, and it was all very very nice and left a good impression!
But no, Houston is not traditionally on the list of āAmericaās most Beautiful Citiesā - especially if you go in August!
Yes, the museum district, rice village, river oaks, montrose, and their adjacent neighborhoods are what I was referring to when I said this. I love it! The art and the food in Houston is amazing!