I hope no one is doing any tours/Admitted Student Day tomorrow/Tuesday: Boston is basically shutting down:
- expecting 8 inches of snow in ?~10hours
- MIT announced
Snow Day tomorrow!
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School was cancelled here despite a weather forecast that looks like less snow than they originally anticipated.
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I miss snow so much. Maybe not the real honest to goodness months of mushy ick and endless shoveling, but is ONE day of gently falling snow while making cookies, watching movies, and drinking hot chocolate while looking out the window too much to ask? (The answer for this part of North Carolina is apparently yes for the past 5ish years).
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I grew up spending winter vacations repeatedly experiencing near-death-by-snowmobile, and very much miss it.
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How’s the weather looking next week? We are visiting Boston schools Monday and Tuesday next week. Hope we don’t get stuck somewhere.
It’s been 20+ years since I drove while snowing.
Looks like it will be cold but no snow expected then.
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I understood the post to being saying that a school like McGill is easier to predict the outcome due to it’s non-holistic approach…NOT that the non-holistic approach is what makes the school great, but rather, what makes the decision perhaps more predictable (since the school posts their cutoffs from the prior year which serve as a guide).
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Right there with you (also in NC).
We were in Chicago last week, and I was PREPARED. I went and bought warm boots and everything. And the weather was almost identical to NC’s – in the 40s, sunny. That was probably a good thing, but I was hoping for some wintery weather to give C24 a preview of what they might expect up north. Alas.
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Always bring an umbrella to make sure it won’t rain 
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I am VERY excited! My spouse and D24 are going to Minneapolis in two days for college visits. When I looked at live cameras over the past couple of days, the ground was green/brown. We’re in Georgia, and D24 has lived here her whole life. I was hoping for snow. Well, apparently the forecast changed, and on Wednesday night the city will get about 7/10 of an inch. Yippee! I’m so excited to see them in snow pictures!
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That’s how we roll. We call it the talisman.
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The Noreaster moved south, so not nearly as much snow in/around Boston as originally predicted. Not that I’d want to tour a school today, though, if you loved a school today you’d love it any day.
Yeah. We’re deep into the cold and gloomy phase of a Massachusetts winter. If you like it now, you are golden.
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It is worth noting that an ED acceptance (1 or 2) is a binding commitment, where the recipient is morally and ethically bound to withdraw their RD applications as soon as the ED offer is accepted. Application fees (sunk costs) and curiosity (of what might have been) no longer have relevance, and the RD round must be left to those who are still legitimately in the running and have the freedom to obtain a “clean” admissions decision (free of WL/melt/etc).
If someone who has an ED acceptance but leaves their RD applications active, they may hurt remaining RD applicants unfairly. It would also be extremely bad form for someone with an ED acceptance who waits and receives a RD acceptance to a more desirable school and reneges on the ED acceptance. There is a special place in hell for those who attempt these type of unethical/immoral behaviors.
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Not to mention also using an athletic hook for said ED acceptance, which would leave the coach with a roster hole.
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Did @NiVo confirm they received an acceptance? They have expressed a desire to help future readers so hopefully they will clarify seemingly conflicting statements.
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Meh, it isn’t ideal and does break a promise, but a special place in hell? Nope. Let’s save that imaginary punishment for something deserving.
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I’d put it in the “A Modest Proposal” category, a kind of poetic license. OTOH, if there really were a special place in hell, I would agree with you.
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Did you already hear from UofT St. George? S24 was accepted to McGill and UofT Mississauga but we are still waiting to hear from UofT St George.
