YAY!!! Congratulations!
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Congrats to your son!! That first one is always such a relief! And the merit $$ is great too!
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Ugh- I am flying through ATL to South America leaving here Sunday afternoon. Praying no issues.
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My D26 got her last application in yesterday! Her ED was the last one yesterday. She applied to several EA schools by the Nov 1st deadline. So glad to have those out of the way! Now we wait. She got her first acceptance this week to Univ of Minn-Twin Cities. Nice to get that first one!
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Congratulations! Thatās wonderful!!
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So many things to celebrate! 
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Random question: I keep hearing on podcasts or other places that schools like Amherst have 1/2 the students are athletes and therefore ED doesnāt give nearly the bump it appears at schools like that. Of course very small liberal arts schools that field a full complement of teams will have more athletes. But, I always assumed that a substantial portion of those athletes are not recruited athletes who get an admissions bump. Am I wrong about that? Does practically the whole roster get admissions tags at small liberal arts colleges?
Congratulations! What a wonderful way to start of with an acceptance with a great Scholarship award!
This reminds me of us looking at elementary schools for our kid and rather than wanting to observe classes, we asked if we could sit for a 1/2 hour or so and watch afterschool program because of past experiences. āWe were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we know your teachers can teach, we what happens here for the several hours after that sheāll be here every day.ā They were not used to that.
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In my experience with small LACs, athletes are definitely recruited and many do receive preferred admission status. S23 was recruited by several schools for volleyball. One in particular was dragging their heels with admission and a tuition exchange decision (I worked for a college at the time). When S23 was offered a roster spot, we told the coach of our issue and the next day we had an acceptance and a tuition exchange offer. I know the same was the case at the college where I worked.
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Congratulations!!
Iām wondering if your school system might help figure this out. I just looked at an example at a popular-ish CA LAC on our Maia. Itās a fairly small sample but the only ED acceptances were bottom left outliers on the stats chart, implying they were recruited athletes (or otherwise hooked, but from our school the hooks will almost always be athletes). That said, the vast majority of RD results were admits too. If I were looking at that coming from our school and if I had in-range stats I might not bother with ED. (I tried to do it with Amherst but we only had 5 applicants over the last few years, 3 admitted, all RD and all in the higher stats range so I donāt think we can read anything into that.) That said, I strongly believe that you should only be EDing if it is a clear #1 choice and you know without doubt youād go there above all others, and if thatās the case I wouldnāt worry about whether ED really is a bump or not (thatās a strategy rather than a āloveā approach) because Iād want to give it my best shot and that would always be ED. Plus, you have the certainty before winter break one way or the other.
Thatās so wonderful! Congratulations!!
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D19 has asked me to read over her statement of purpose for grad school apps. I think it is intellectually way above my pay grade 
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I read this morning that the first set of cancellations for many airlines will not include international flights.
Chat GPTā¦ problem solved.
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ChatGPT saved me from send snarky emails this morning -so I consider it a win. 
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I know that athletes are recruited at these schools, Iām trying to figure out if it is all of them, or virtually all of them rather than some. Like, are the kids at the end of the bench or that are on the team but hardly or never actually dress for games all recruited except for a few outlier walk ons? Like, did they all get an admissions bump from a coach or only some fraction of them?
I should be clear that this is mainly something Iām curious about and not something I need help with re D26. She is not an athlete. She is not EDing anywhere. But, she is applying to LACs, which is what made me wonder if it is actually true that half the students at some of these schools are recruited athletes with an admissions bump. Iāve heard enough podcasts and things say this, but Iām skeptical that it is true. That like half of Amherst gets in because of coach spots. Hard to fathom that the preferential for athletes alone is that much of the class.
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I think the concern might be that if youāre connecting, the first leg delay may mean you missing the international one. Less of an issue if itās all booked on one ticket as then they will automatically reschedule you, but would still be annoying. Delayed on the way to vacation is always worse than on the way back!! (I donāt know if anyone remembers the huge snow in I think Dec 2012 that affected both US and Europe. Our flight from nyc to Amsterdam was late and we missed our connection. There had also been major issues in Europe so many, many flights were delayed. We met another delayed family in schipohl who had spent 3 days in Amsterdam (missed 3 days of the week-long vacation in the sun they had booked) trying to get a replacement flight - it was Xmas season so flights were all booked full.
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Ah, I misunderstood the thrust of your question.
Hmm.. I think there was a thread about this recently where someone looked at the numbers. Possibly it was the spin-off chat thread from the colleges that moved up/down thread?