This year's applicants - please listen

sewbusy
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:17:35 +0000

I too, just came across this thread. Wish I had seen it earlier. We were devastated when our child was rejected from his SCEA ivy; no one can understand. But it may have been the best thing as it made us add a well thought out “safety” to his list and I think this thread will push us to do an official visit of that last school over President’s Day weekend. We were wondering if it was necessary, but now I fugure it might be worth 12 hours in the car and a hotel. He has an acceptance to one very unique small college already, but not sure if it’s right as it is so very different.
Today’s college admissions seems to be such a cruel joke for some of these top notch kids. How is it possible that a 2400 NMF, with national and international awards in mathematics and the humanities at the high school and college level, good ECs, well liked, etc kid can be in the position of being terrified that he’ll be rejected from both the top tier (for who knows what reasons) and the safety tier (because it’s seen by those schools as a safety which would hurt yield stats). Sometimes these kids seem to be between a rock and a hard place and it’s all a matter of pure chance.
Good luck to all during this stressful process, let’s hope it gets better in a few years after the “echo boomers” start to lessen in number. I have three more rounds to live through over the next four years!