Stanford or Harvard?
Um, you gotta get in to both first before we should think through this dilemma. Selective schools pick you, you don’t pick the school (for most of us). There’s always an exception to every rule, of course.
^ “But MIT’s really my first choice.”
I want to live with my significant other and attend a school I can’t afford. Who will give me thousands (and thousands) of dollars so I can do that? If nobody will give me money, can I lie about having attended that other school (who I still owe) and start over somewhere else so I can pursue my lifelong dream of teaching other people’s children?
Ivy League schools are vying to have my child attend. They are emailing me to ask if she plans to apply. Vanderbilt asked my child to take a tour because her SAT scores are crazy high.
@GnocchiB Equally irritating is when those same people later claim their child was rejected because they were unhooked.
I was up at 3 am and started a very important thread. It’s now 4 am, and there have been no replies. BUMP!!! BUMP !!! BUMP!!!.
Should I even bother applying to top schools? Followed by near perfect stats and EC’s. Humble brags!!
Asking for ideas for essays without researching other threads on this topic, or researching online all the advice served up already on this topic.
Can you calculate my GPA for me?
UCB and UCLA are matches and safeties for me.
I don’t know about safeties, but UCB and UCLA are matched for some students.
^Like ivy’s and other elite college admissions, you need more than top scores and GPA. No, UCB and UCLA are considered reaches for all.
Where people don’t know…but have an anecdote to point to as “proof.” Sigh.
^^^^^ You might be surprised, but this statement is not true. For students with multiple acceptances to Ivy League schools and S and M those two schools are matches.
For their more popular engineering majors, they should be considered reaches for all. But for their Colleges of Letters and Science, there are some applicants who can probably consider them to be high match or low reach. https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/freshman-admissions-summary indicates that UCB and UCLA recently had 42% and 54% admit rates for frosh applicants with UC-weighted-capped GPA >= 4.20.
But UCB and UCLA are holistic, and for the stratospheric numbers of applicants, a 46% reject rate is daunting, it’s tens of thousands. That’s not what makes a safety.
Not so much annoying as deeply concerning are threads by students whose financial aid packages aren’t enough to cover the costs of the school they want to attend. Their families don’t have the (5-figure) balance and can’t borrow it, but they seem intent on enrolling anyway with the vague hope that everything will work out.
It appears from other threads that some schools actually allow that to happen and bill the student at the end of the year. The student can’t pay so they can’t enroll the following year. They can’t get their transcripts until they pay, so they can’t transfer either. A Pell eligible student who owes 3-6 times what they earn in a year isn’t going back to school anytime soon.
@bjkmom , that is toooo funny!
At 230 pages, no doubt there have been repeats of annoying threads, but I have seen a few of these recently:
“I sent in my final transcript/other important document three weeks late! I am freaking out!! Will I get rescinded?!?!?!?” Why, yes, yes you might be rescinded. Which part of “deadline” did you not understand?
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