What is happening. Where should I go

DadTwoGirls
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:23:58 +0000

Yida79:

I get admitted to Kenyon college with 44k scholarship per year, Denison with 60k per year, UToronto with 25k per yer, bard with 30k per year, and also Northeastern, Rutgers, OSU, UCI, UPitt.

I would forget about the waitlists and the rejections. They don’t matter.

You have some great acceptances. All of these schools are very good, although how well known they are in China may vary.

The University of Toronto is one that I am particularly familiar with, since I am originally from Canada. It is very good in general, and very good for environmental sciences. U.Toronto is also well known worldwide (including in the US). I have known students who got a bachelor’s degree from Toronto and then did graduate work (either master’s degree or PhD or both) at top universities in the US, including Stanford and Princeton. Toronto is large and is very academically demanding. Admissions there is largely stats-based, and given your excellent stats I am not surprised that you were accepted. I am surprised that you were offered merit aid (which is rare as far as I know). I do not know anything specifically about film at U.Toronto. I am wondering if U.Toronto has any relationship with the National Film Board of Canada, which is excellent.

Kenyon college has less than 2,000 undergraduate students. Toronto has more like 40,000 undergraduate students (although I think that this includes all three campuses). They are quite different at least in size.

Northeastern University is also very good. One daughter was accepted there but it was over budget for us (she went elsewhere, did very well, and switched to a major that Northeastern does not happen to offer, so it worked out well). Rutgers is very good. I know multiple people who graduated from Rutgers and did very well. Ohio State is very good. U.C.Irvine is very good. U.Pitt is very good.

You have a long list of very good acceptances. You can only attend one university at a time.

Forget about the schools where you were rejected. They do not matter. You have a choice to make from among many very good acceptances.