College Acceptance Thread '12 - Page 15

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On April 05 2012 09:58 yyz wrote:
Accepted:

University of Maryland: College Park + Honors College
University of Kansas + Honors program
University of Oregon + Honors College

Waitlisted:

University of Virginia
University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill

glhf to everyone waiting on a college to reply!

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On March 29 2012 12:44 babylon wrote:

Depends on what he's interested in. Not to mention, UMich is a v. good research university, and if he's proactive, it doesn't matter which one he goes to, because he'll pretty much have the same opportunities in most fields. (Key word being "proactive.") Not to mention, if he's transferring, you've got to keep in mind that UChicago really doesn't accept much transfer credit; at the most, he'll get out of the math, science, and language parts of the Core (not difficult, you can do that with AP credit even), and he'll get elective credits (again, also accessible through AP credit), but he'll still have to take the big three (HUM, SOSC, and Civ), which easily takes two years to complete if you're rushing and three years for most students. And then he has to fulfill his major requirements, and who knows what credits transfer for that. All in all, there's a reason why a lot of transfers have to stay for the full four years at UChicago. Even for regular students, graduating in three years is pretty uncommon.

Also, UChicago's financial aid ... well, it could be way worse, but it could also be way better given how much tuition fucking costs. They even raised it last year, the fucking bastards, and are raising it again next year.

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On April 05 2012 11:22 LosingID8 wrote:
it seems like a strange financial strategy to apply to a bunch of flagship state schools. why not apply to some private schools in a similar tier to the state schools that admitted you to their honors programs and get some serious merit money?

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On April 05 2012 11:44 yyz wrote:


I live in Kansas, so KU was a fallback. But as for applying to private colleges, that actually costs considerably more than the out of state tuition for the other flagship schools I applied to. I have family ties to all of those schools but Oregon, so these weren't random.

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On April 05 2012 12:10 LosingID8 wrote:

private schools cost more on paper but if you are admitted to a reasonably high ranking private with a decent endowment, most will make it affordable enough via grants and scholarships that the price will be comparable to attending a public univ.

Yea, for exanple williams averages 45k financial aid grant/loan/scholorship per student. If youte good enough to get in they'll help you out.

i chose to attend USC (private school) for undergrad over my in-state public, the University of Washington, in part because the cost came out to only about 2k more per year for USC.

the reason why i am telling you (and any other prospective high school student) is that i worked as a college counselor at a private tutoring center for about a year and almost every student and parent had the misconception that private schools were only for rich kids, and that state schools were all affordable. i don't know how many times i had to explain to them how that is mostly only true for in-state public schools, and that in most cases private schools are more affordable or at least comparable to OOS publics.

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On April 05 2012 13:35 Froadac wrote:
Going to UCSD/UC Davis this weekend on their respective admitted student days to make a decision. UCSB still possible but not likely.

Anybody else going?

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On April 05 2012 12:54 mrgoochio wrote:
transfer student from CC, haven't received any letters yet lol

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On April 05 2012 12:54 mrgoochio wrote:
transfer student from CC, haven't received any letters yet lol

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On April 05 2012 14:30 nohbrows wrote:


Going down to UCSD for Triton Day!

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On April 10 2012 06:50 Avtonikov wrote:


Didn't get to go, how was it?

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