Hopefully a kid who is choosing between full ride offers will also take the time to decline the offers from the other schools and free up merit money and spots for other candidates who would be thrilled to get them.
He might be a good candidate for Xavier in NOLA.
He picked a fullride at Dillard.
Sounds like a good deal to me. Good for him.
In addition he has a Go Fund Me page to pay for his education.
If he has a full ride, and the university is in his home area. Will the go fund me $ be used for books?
He’ll probably knock out his undergraduate degree and use the money for grad school. I haven’t seen his Go fund me page so that is only a guess.
Anyone who applies to 80 colleges isn’t planning his future education so much as he is playing some sort of game.
High school junior here with a question.
What exactly is the black common application ? Is it used instead of the normal common application for black students? Is it used by select schools that catur to black students? Is it easier to fill out?
Do you have a link?
It’s for lesser known HBCUs. It’s in addition to the Common app.
Very quick and easy search pulled up this http://commonblackcollegeapp.com/
So glad to know about this HBCU common app. I have students who would be interested in it.
These stories are becoming a normal occurrence as I have found a new one in USA Today.
Speechless…
Note that they’re both lower income, high potential kids attending schools where there’s a big “college going” push. Basically, they’re ambitious and diligent and while the push results in their classmates applying to 4-5 colleges, it means they get a lot more done in that “college” period than the others. In some states, like California, North Carolina, or Texas, there’s one “state” application one can use, which makes things easier, especially for all universities that are basically automatic admissions if you meet a GPA*test index score.
It’s different from upper middle class shotgunning the Ivies and applying to every top school under the sun because they can.
…and this is where SCEA and ED help prevent this.
Many of the classmates likely applied to more than 4-5. I’m sure they aren’t the only 2 students who used the CBCA application to apply to 53 HBCU colleges simultaneously for $35. And the first kid attended a HS, with a policy of “encouraging students to fill out at least one college application a day.”
To be fair, I counted the BCA as one.
Some kids good off instead of filling out apps. Sometimes they meet with guidance counselor. Etc. Often they take several days.
I’m sorry, but applying to over 140 colleges is not “getting a lot done”, it’s pure shotgunning. There’s no way on this green earth she properly researched all those schools. Most of her applications were a waste of her and the college’s time. According to the article she spent only $135 on applications, meaning she got a whole lot of waivers to schools she was never going to attend.
And in both cases they picked a college right in their backyard.