Stuff like this really turns my stomach. It just seems so greedy and gross. Getting to see the acceptances just pile up in a folder? What is this a game where you’re earning badges? A process that allows/encourages this illogical, selfish behavior (and media that reward it by publishing these same stories year after year) needs to be reformed; she can only attend one school.

Lord, 14 apps nearly killed us. 40?!?! I think I’d rather have another unmedicated birth! 😂

The valedictorian of a local public high school (a large, in-state U of M feeder) with a 36 and 4.0 UW GPA was rejected, not even waitlisted at U of Michigan. Very tough year!

Okay, all of DDs admissions results are all in. The decisions by the ‘highly rejective’ schools lived up to their name! Accepted— Boston College, Emory University Waitlisted— U Michigan Denied— Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Yale, Duke I guess 2/8 isn’t a bad success rate— 25%! She is still waiting for the results of the competitive, full-tuition scholarship for which she interviewed this week at another school (hopefully it will be in by Monday and then it’s decision time). If she had to pick one today, it would be one of her safeties. Go figure! Will update when she makes a final decision. Thanks for hearing me out, sharing your stories, and for commiserating through this really wacky admissions cycle. I am so, so happy it’s over and very grateful that my fourth and final kid is super average and will likely apply to just local/in-state safeties.

Congratulations! 🎊

Good that the door is still open, at least partly!

That’s terrific!! We just got one where the NPC totally oversold it…(like total cost +$20k from what we were expecting). Oh well, moving on…

Thanks for the detailed update; excited to hear her final decision!

Surprisingly, yes, they do reject some applicants. Allegedly there were 83k applicants, and they admitted roughly 16k for an acceptance rate of about 19%. Applications have gone up from 55k pre-pandemic to this year’s 83k— about 50% increase! (These are numbers A/Os used in info sessions etc; actual data for this class hasn’t been released to my knowledge). The size of the W/L makes no sense though; it’s largely a soft-reject for the qualified but not chosen kids.

And the roller coaster ride continues! DD was waitlisted (soft reject as last year only 68 made it in from waitlist of 13K!) by Michigan, our in-state flagship. I just have no words. Well, I have words— they just aren’t fit to write on a public forum! So maddening. So I guess she’s now 1/2 of her 8 RD’s. Never more grateful for the safeties we already have in our pocket!

DD was accepted to Boston College today. So far she’s 1/1 of the /8 RD apps we were still waiting on. Feeling very grateful tonight.

We had this same issue; I think the problem is that what might have been a target for my kid a few years ago (pre-pandemic) is now a reach because of drastically lower acceptance rates in the post-Covid, TO world. Our own state flagship falls into this category— it has become a reach for everyone.

It’s everything! She hasn’t appeared stressed ONCE throughout this whole process. That’s partly due to the calm, plucky personality she inherited from my husband, but also because she feels great about at least one financial/admissions safety!

Sounds like you all have a great attitude and a good plan. My DD will get the first of her regular decisions tonight (with seven more to follow). I’m totally preparing myself for a bunch of no’s/waitlists; and honestly she’s getting increasingly excited about one of her safeties which we’ll visit tomorrow for the first time (in an official capacity— she’ll been there a few times for sporting events, etc). Not sure if we’re ready to ‘buy the sweatshirt’, but she’s getting close!

Doesn’t it feel great to have a decision made?! I’m just a little envious! Congratulations to your daughter & you.

That’s great! Congratulations to her and to you, mama!

Wow, congrats for being *close* to a decision!

Oh, hang in there. She’s applying to direct-admit nursing right? The programs have all gotten crazy selective and competitive. I’m hoping for at least one admit for her today!

DD is awaiting 8 decisions that should all be in 3/31-4/1. It’s been a LOOOONG application cycle; hers were mostly submitted by mid-September with one late add on. Thankfully, she has two very attractive, affordable options already and she’ll attend admitted student events for each on 3/25 & 3/26. My hope is that she’ll be so excited by one or both that regardless of the RD outcomes, she’ll walk away happy. Good luck to everyone awaiting decisions and congratulations to those of you who have already been admitted and chosen your schools!

Quoting myself to say that DD ended up LOVING the Sociology course from ASU and is sad it’s over. She found it easy, but very engaging. She learned a lot and looks forward to taking more sociology courses during college, if they fit into her schedule.

I’m not familiar with any of those instructors. Sorry!

Sticker price doesn’t tell you much. You’ll need to start running Net Price Calculators for all the schools you’re considering. You’ll have to guesstimate gpa and test scores (a good guage is to look up the NPR that your son has scored on his early tests— my kids typically end up at the 95-99th percentile, so I started there when running NPC). All schools have NPC, just Google school name + net price calculator to find them.

I responded on your other thread, but I’ll weigh-in here, too. We’ve had great success with Wilson Hill Academy math (Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and AP Stats) and with Blue Tent math and science courses (Honors Pre Calc and Calc AB; Honors Bio and AP Bio). If you look at any of those courses and are interested, lmk teacher options and I’ll give you our assessment of them.

No advice on schools to look at, but I’m hopping on here to tell you that I think prepping and aiming for a high SAT/ACT score seems like a good plan in your situation. There is definitely a you-don’t-need-to-validate-your-homeschool-transcript bias present on this board (really just one or two persistent voices 😉), but if that doesn’t resonate with you, feel free to ignore it and go with your gut. I think your student who has a history of testing well sounds like one who can benefit from test prep and the resulting high score that he may achieve. My current HS senior was a very strong tester in her early years, invested a good amount of time over the summer before junior year prepping for the ACT, and ended up with a 34. Together with the other components of her application (essays, LOR, EC, transcript), this score has opened doors that might not have otherwise been available to her. Since he is relatively stronger in reading/writing than math, you might research the differences between the SAT and ACT and consider whether he may do better on one than the other before beginning to prep. Best wishes on your search!

My DD is in Becka Hilton’s inaugural AP Bio course at Blue Tent this year. It is well-organized and her instruction is clear and concise. There is a weekly live component, but my DD is in a 25-30 hour/week pre-professional ballet training program, so she has opted out of the live class and just watches the recordings at 2x speed. I think for most of the year, the class has taken her about 3-5 hours per week, but it has inched-up recently to more like 6-9 hours depending on the week. For context, she is a fast, efficient 12th grader with Physics/Chem/Honors Bio already under her belt. She’s had no difficulty maintaining a high A and feels well-prepared going into the AP exam this May, although obviously time will tell if she scores well! She really loves Blue Tent’s platform and all the teachers she’s had there have been excellent. DD is simultaneously taking Connie’s Bio & O Chem course.