ALERT: Thread hijacking in progress!
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I have seen so many posts suggesting that admissions at UT Austin were wrong this year, the wrong people were admitted, that the admissions office made mistakes and would be reaching out to high-stats kids to let them know they actually did get into engineering, etc. There was an extraordinary increase in applications. There was not an extraordinary increase in spots for competitive programs. Those programs tend not to expand at all or in small increments. Click the links.
Click the link to the article.
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Iâm curious how the fact that a school does not have a holistic approach means it is therefore a very good school?
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That confused be as well, but I believe they meant to express admissions to these very good schools is âknownâ since they do not rely on holistic factors. I am happy do hear they were accepted. It seemed they were still waiting on a decision.
We are hoping @Nivo will share more, as the Canadian timeline seems muddled this year. We still have friends waiting to hear.
Didnât she ED2 to Wesleyan?
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I read it as a very good safety. So in a class with Alabama, Arizona and a few other well resourced publics with little concern for yield protection or missing some vague holistic criteria.
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S24 got his McGill acceptance early last week - about 10 days after heâd (finally) input his mid-year grades. He submitted his application in mid December.
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It looks like they are still waiting to hear from McGill. Given the broad changes in policy for international students in Canada and delayed notifications, one wonders how much of a âsafetyâ it actually is at this point.
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They are?
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My daughter would only buy water bottles from schools she visited. So far she is 2/2 on acceptances to water bottle schools with 1 RD waiting. She did not get water bottle at her #1 SCEA choice and got deferred which we are expecting to be a no.
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If it is helpful, D24 applied just before end of Decemeber(Jan 1 cutoff I believe) and she got her notifiication on like Jan 26. We were shocked at the speed.
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Congratulations! Best wishes to you, your son and your entire family. What a great news! Now @NiceUnparticularMan can add âfull ride frolicâ or maybe âscholarship sipperâ to his list of cocktailsâŠ
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Got an email this afternoon from Southwestern. A couple of interesting things:
- right now, Southwestern is NOT moving their âenroll by 5/1â deadline.
- they are also not moving their âsign up for June orientation by 6/1â deadline.
- theyâre offering up a interim financial aid award letter if you fill out their home-grown financial aid form on their student portal. And then theyâll send you the actual one once FAFSA sends your official data to them.
In other news, the âsign up for orientation!â emails continue every week now from UNM and NMSU and itâs getting pretty annoying. Including stuff in those emails like âDonât delay, so you can get better class times since youâll be at an earlier orientation!â
And then thereâs U of AâŠnone of their orientations are in person. Itâs all online. And honestly, that sucks.
Austin College & Centre College both do freshman orientation over a few days before classes officially start in the fall and they purposely set aside course spaces for all of the freshmen. Right now, D24 prefers this method.
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and donât get me started on how the priority housing enrollment starts before weâre even going to have a financial aid package from U of A. Iâm not plunking down an enrollment deposit (which is required in order for you to actually sign up for a dorm) at a school when we donât even have the financial aid award letter back from them! SHEESH!
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Iâm always trying to guess where your D24 is going to end up based on your posts. My guess today is Austin College. 
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No thread hi-jacking, D24 college final commitment will be reported, along with all the other schools she applied to, in the thread which contains the details of her journey, once an letters are in.
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Apologies⊠letters?
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Point of clarification. If a student receives an ED2 acceptance, there is a very short window during which that student needs to accept or decline. If accepted, the student MUST withdraw all other acceptances and pending applications.
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I think they meant acceptance letters. Although, wouldnât an athletic commitment be finalized by now - are there still some ED schools that havenât announced yet (assuming that a recruited athlete with support would need to apply ED2)/ And in the event of an ED2 acceptance you are supposed to pull the rest of your applications, so you wouldnât actually know where you got in.
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Maybe @Nivo could clarify what is their current situation. I believe I misunderstood their statement of âsecured admission.â
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We would have been way over 3000 comments by nowâŠ.
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