Parents of the HS Class of 2025 (Part 1)

U of Rochester decisions are out!

C25 got in, and got a decent merit offer, though not enough of one to keep them on the list.

So now we’re down to two possibles left on the list. (And the last rumor I heard was that Syracuse will drop on the 21st, which means we should hopefully know enough for the kid to make a decision in one week.)

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Congrats on the acceptance anyway!!
Getting close to a decision is great. The long and winding road is almost done!

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MIT!!! S25 just got accepted! Would love to hear from those who know about the school, area, etc.

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No on MIT for my S25. We knew it was a pretty long shot, but it is still disappointing of course. Only decision we are waiting on now is Rice, which I think is still at least 2 weeks away.

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Today D25 had off of school. She opened a new bank account that has a branch in the college town. We also booked an air bnb for move in and parent’s weekends. Her grad announcements also arrived in the mail today. It’s getting real!

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Congrats! Such a tough admit!

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My daughter had her interview for the competitive scholarship and does not think it went well. She also got waitlisted at U of Miami, but she had already decided against it so is unbothered.

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Syracuse is often Fridays, so 21st and 28th makes sense! The last few cycles they have not been all on the same day. Good luck! :orange_heart::blue_heart:

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C25 will be fine–has a ridiculously generous full ride from C’s nearby safety, so this is the epitome of a first-world problem. But C would prefer to go away to school if possible, and tonight makes for a rocky 0-3 start (no waitlists) with selective schools. Panic is too strong a word . . . but C is a bit rattled. We knew C’s SAT (790V, 720M) might be a bit low for the Chicagos of the world, but figured the other stats–4.0 UW, 5.0 W; 8 APs (mostly 5s, others 4) and 8 college classes at the 1000-3000 level (all As), valedictorian of C’s small urban public school, student council present, solo art show, etc.–might help compensate. (PS No declared major yet, as C is a liberal-arts kid to the core.) I’m advising C to sit tight and trust the process, there are so many accomplished kids out there, you’ve bought fifteen more lottery tickets . . . but admissions these days are a brave new world for us. Is it really this brutal? (Good luck to all–it’s harrowing to watch one’s child navigate this thicket.)

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Super random question - my older son is going to be doing a summer internship in Cranberry Township, PA this summer. He needs to find his own summer housing. He left last night for an eight week study abroad program and is kind of stressed about timing (not just because the program will keep them busy, but he’s also trying to organize a senior project from abroad, and the two professors and other two students have been hard to organize… and now he’s many many timezones away) so I’m trying to help him.

I’ve seen people say “look for housing at a nearby college”. Well, the closest college we’ve found that has summer housing is Carnegie Mellon - it’s not out of the ballpark expensive, but it’s likely at least a 45-50 min hour drive each way, and he’d rather not have to do that if he can avoid it.

There’s some corporate housing in Cranberry Twp, but it’s more expensive than he really wants. He’d prefer to have a two bedroom and a roommate (that’s what he did last summer) both to reduce the cost but also to maybe cook together and meal prep together to make it more fun. But he doesn’t know how to find a random roommate - no one else from his school will be in that area, the company doesn’t provide contact information for other summer interns so he can’t reach out, and it’s hard to tell if anything or anyone you meet online is real or a scammer.

He wouldn’t mind staying in a bedroom of a place where someone is looking to rent out a room - as long as he could use the kitchen. We’ve checked like travelling nurse websites and found a few things, and one may work.

We haven’t seen any Air BnBs or VRBOs that are remotely close.

Anyone have a suggestion for some other way we can look for a furnished place to stay or a way to try to fill a room that someone might have available or a way to find a prospective roommate?

so impressive! congrats to you all.

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Has he reached out yet to the company HR to see if they have any suggestions?

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What about posting on or looking at community college boards? There may be students looking to sublet their apartments for the summer?

Yeah, they were lame. They gave him some corporate housing info that was all for companies that only have housing in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh isn’t great for him as it’s just farther away than he wants (and expensive to garage the car that he’ll need to drive to work.) They pretty much said you’re on your own. It surprises me, because it seemed like they bring a lot of summer interns on, and those students all need some place to live, so you’d think they’d have some kind of suggestion.

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That’s a good idea. I’ll have to see what I can track down in terms of community colleges in the area. That feels a little more tailored and less likely to lead to weird internet creepers.

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BTW, is this unusual? During her scholarship interview, they asked my daughter about being ready to commit and/or other schools.

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There are also long term hotels. Probably expensive but you may be able to negotiate with his internship if he can’t find anything else. And it’s kind of a rural area right? So maybe more reasonable.

I know that I read on other scholarship threads that prospective students had been asked this question. So I don’t think it was TOO outside the norm, but it would like have made my child uncomfortable.

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Also we did practice interview questions and answers but not the ones they asked her. Sigh.

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I’m sure she did fine! It’s scary when it’s not what you practiced, but I’m sure she just sounded more genuine. :slight_smile:

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