This year's applicants - please listen

seiclan
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:33:20 +0000

I am so glad that this thread was bumped up for our reread. Because of Andi’s warning, my D applied and had two safety acceptances in hand when she received her rejection letter from Emory (the school of her dreams). I cannot tell you how many people on the Emory website had commented afterwards that it must have been something that she had done or not done to deserve a rejection (not even a deferral). Three other people on CC with almost comparable stats to my daughter were admitted to the school. It happens. It happened. We go from there. She was admitted last weekend to U of Florida. It does not have the academic prestige or US News ranking that Emory has but it is a good school, with a solid business program, a 5 hour drive from our home, and at least 25% of the undergraduate population are top students (very bright, high rank, National Merit types). The bottom line is there is no ONE school that is the school for anyone.
“There are no answers, there are only choices.”