S25 accepted at Trinity (CT) with merit. 
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Checking in with UC info. D25 applied to 4 UCs. She was accepted at Davis last week, and waitlisted at UCSB today. Waiting on UCLA (her No. # 1 choice) on Friday, then Berkeley Mar. 27. She concludes with USC April 1st, and Stanford early April.
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Same. I’m sort of more angry about the whole defer / reject. It’s like I feel like why not just reject outright? He has far better schools for engineering and he’ll shine brightly anywhere so eff them. He wanted it for the Catholic identity but I always felt like it was a negative for his goals (engineering and research) especially being in the middle of nowhere.
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D25 denied from UCSB, but we knew it was a reach.
D25’s very, very great stats friends were WL by UCSB. The UCs continue to be brutal.
The WL numbers are good though, so there is hope.
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It was the Catholic thing for us too.
I’m blaming my dad who was expelled from Notre Dame in the late 60s. That doesn’t count as a legacy btw! 
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According to their insta USC is releasing decisions 3/26
Also, my daughter went to Davis and loved it!
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Ok, thank you!
BTW, now she says she really doesn’t care about USC. 
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My dad was a huge ND fan too (never even went to college and was from Wisconsin) and my brother is too. I told him he’s no longer allowed to root for them lol
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Nope! Dead to us.
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When S25 got rejected from Chapel Hill he promptly removed his hoodie from the rotation and gave it to his cousin.
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Thank you for sharing this. My daughter is different in that she initially wanted small class sizes/prof interactions, but appears to be leaning toward a big state U because of dance. She does not appear to be overly concerned about class size anymore, as she’s in their honors program, which I’m sure will help, but it’s not the same as a smaller school. I needed to hear your story today.
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So in a weird twist of irony, S25 was just notified that he received a large alumni scholarship from a different Catholic college. I noted above that my dad was booted from Notre Dame in the 60s and this college took him in three years later after he served in Vietnam. I think that there is gorgeous kismet that this school gave S25 this big scholarship on the same night ND rejected him.
Weird right?
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Lehigh. And he was being recruited to row there and I just couldn’t visualize the uniforms. I was not sad for him to end up at WPI with their crimson and gray…
(Lehigh has many other great things going for it. It’s color scheme is not one of those things.)
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The class size and professor relationships are what surprised me the most. My daughter’s classes were much smaller than mine were at a school half the size. I had a class with 1,000 students (psych 101). The biggest my D every had was 300. And any class over 100 students had a 20 person dissertation class that went along with it. Even freshman year she had classes that only had 20-25 students. By senior year, she had classes with only 10.
Starting first semester freshman year she had weekly dinners with a professor assigned to her wing of the honors dorm (think Harry Potter house style), movie nights with the prof, hikes with profs and their kids, and she was on a first name basis with her dean. When I went for the honors ceremony her senior year, she had professors hugging her, stopping her in their college town to talk, and one who called me into his office to chat for over an hour while I was getting a tour of his lab.
All this to say, that a large school can still have those small classes and close professor interactions!
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I don’t blame her, Wegmans is the thing I miss MOST about living in Northern VA!
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This is a good start to the week!
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My daughter felt the same way!
Same here – our parallel journeys continue. I think this one stung a bit b/c it was the last one he was still kind of hoping might miraculously come through for him. We all knew Berkeley was a Hail Mary pass.
By dinner, he was back to feeling good about the rest of his options. So glad to be almost done with this phase!
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My nephew got rejected from all the mid tier UCs and got into Cal. You never know!
This was 2 years ago.
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My D25 finally made her decision and submitted her commitment to attend UMD over the weekend!
She initially applied to five nearby schools (Pitt, Temple, Delaware, UMBC, and UMD) with plans to follow a pre-vet path. Our goal was to keep her close to home and within a budget of $30K per year. She was accepted to all with honors, except UMBC, since she opted not to write the additional essays. Here are the merit scholarship offers she received:
- Pitt: $10K
- Temple: $20K
- Delaware: $16K
- UMBC: $7K
- UMD: $8K + $1.2K book allowance
In the end, she chose UMD based on affordability, proximity to home, its strong animal science program, and most importantly, that they have a farm with in-house animals.
I’m relieved that this stressful process is finally over, but I’ll still check in often because I can’t stay away from CC. Wishing the best of luck to all incoming Class of ‘29 students and their families!
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