As an aspect to consider, Vanderbilt placed 14th nationally in a WalletHub analysis when considered by selectivity. A deferral there would not seem to indicate that your daughter won’t be admitted to other highly selective schools (depending on those to which she applied).
St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico or in Annapolis, Maryland.
Students can switch from one campus to the other.
Rolling admissions so can apply for this year.
Some of the Pacific Northwest LACs were accepting applications late for last year so might be still accepting them now if interested. Lewis and Clark, Willamette and U of Puget Sound are a few.
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Also agree that Agnes Scott is a great option, and she could take courses at some other Atlanta schools. The list that comes out in the spring with openings can be found here:
Student - National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC)
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Well all of this handwringing for nothing it seems. She decided to wait out EA admissions and reevaluate. The previous post was written during a time of extreme anxiety and we were trying to come up with options for her because she was doubting herself, seeing her peers confident about their majors and applying for those. She decided to wait out her admissions cycle with the schools she has applied to and then to matriculate to one of them and transfer if needed. She calmed down and remembered that we agreed on a. Final list of schools that she felt she would be happy at, after visiting. She does want to go back and visit a few of them to make a decision. I appreciate all of your input and apologize for your work answering last minute jitters questions. Also, some of those replies identifies schools we never considered. We have a son coming up in a couple of years and I am so grateful to be able to add these to the list. There is a lot of pressure on kids to apply to “known” Schools and her counselors never mentioned some of the ones you have all alerted me to. Again - thank you!
To update after explaining all of that and to share her final list. She relaxed a lot after that U of Richmond acceptance. ugh I’m embarrassed but thank you again
Vanderbilt - deferred, submitted LOCI with additional teacher rec from
Classical philosophy independent study
Vermont - OOS EA - admitted, honors college, $25k/year
UGA - OOS EA - admittwd, waiting on honors
College
Richmond - EA - admitted
UVA - OOS EA - admitted
Waiting:
Georgetown
Emory
Colgate
Middlebury
Tufts
BC
Wake
Penn
Columbia
(Many of which are high reaches, but she is excited about Richmond and UVA so it’s all good now)
Thanks again!!
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Pitt is a really great option for my next three kids that NEVER came up with her guidance counselor. I’m really not sure why - it seems like such a great place, with happy students, which is a priority to us as parents. Thank you for pushing it to me. I’m truly grateful bc it was never on the radar
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Doesn’t look like she applied to Pitt…did she?
Congratulations on her current acceptances. Great options already!
Lots and lots of schools do not require applicants to chose a major whan they apply, nor do they accept into the major. Neither of my kids schools (10 for one, 16 for the other, most were small to medium universities and some were LACs) required picking a major. They had to select a school (Arts&Sci vs Engineering), but not a major. Most have them declare a major by the end of sophomore year, so lots of time to explore. Everyone comes in undecided no matter what areas they clicked, though undecided in the Engineering schools has a more set group of classes than undecided Arts&Sciences. They had to click areas of interest on the app, OR “undecided” , but no commitment to a major going in. So are you saying she had to apply to a certain major and will only be admitted to that major for all the schools on her list? If so—once she knows her acceptances she should investigate which schools allow changing majors easily.
Univ of Richmond is a great school.
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As your daughter probably knows, Georgetown, Emory, and Wake have very strong policy debate teams that she could join. There seem to be a couple of debaters at BC that have competed to some extent this year but I am not sure whether it is an organized program. I don’t think the other schools on her list are presently competing in policy although plenty have other forms of debate available.
Glad to be of service. Just spent the weekend there with my recent Pitt grad.
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She did not. But it is now on the visit list for her brother 
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Admitted to Emory as a scholars finalist. Over the moon! Just keeping you updated for fun because you guys indulged our unnecessary panic
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Congrats to your D, and thanks so much for keeping us updated!
It’s also good for future students/families who start panicking after apps are submitted and are second-guessing things to see a thread where things end up working out.
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Updating. Maybe will be helpful to future applicants but also it all seems very random
Accepted today to UGA honors with one Georgia scholarship and full tuition waiver
She’s so flattered but also surprised seeing kids that didn’t get in. It all feels so arbitrary. I know it isn’t but I would love to be a fly on the wall…
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Full tuition - of full OOS waiver? Either way - congrats
It’s an oos waiver for tuition and a small stipend - only 50 kids got it so she’s shocked
Update - waitlisted at middlebury. Not surprised
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Foundation Fellows ?
UGa waiver for full OOS tuition ? Or just waiver of the OOS premium ?
Hopefully your daughter will continue with debate throughout college. If so, Emory & Dartmouth are outstanding options to consider.
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I’m not sure on the exact wording of her uga scholarship because I am out of town. Will look tomorrow
It’s a waiver of the difference between oos and is tuition and a 1500$ scholarship on top
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