This year's applicants - please listen

marny1
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:29:22 +0000

Yeah- but you’ll be paying dear “Great Uncle Ted” $100,000 +. Not the other way around. That is unless you really do have a rich great uncle.
I agree with you Atlanta mom- I think kids in NY and their parents used to take it way more personal. We’ve seen wonderful-terrific kids being passed over for years. I think more of us are thinking “out of the box” and have looked at schools outside the northeast region. Schools like Tulane, Emory, and U. Michigan have become extremely popular on LI. As they too become harder to get into, there will be a new list of “potential safety” schools cropping up on everyone’s list. As an example- for the solid NY student, U Maryland and Delaware were high on everyone’s list. As those schools got harder to get into, more kids look at U. Conn and U of Pittsburg. There are plenty of wonderful schools out there, but sometimes you have to look a little harder to find the right ones. I am pretty much done with this process- so I wish all the newcomers well. And please- do a great Rolling Admission School. It really makes everthing so much easier when you have an acceptance early on in the process.