The Great Carpezio
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Feb 20, 2017 5:40:09 GMT
1990.
Two schools and both state colleges. Got into both
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Post by pierkiss on Feb 20, 2017 13:05:18 GMT
Applied to 3 in 1999. Got into 2 of the 3. Actually thrilled I didn't get in to the 3rd school as it wouldn't have been a good fit for me.  |
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Post by kels99 on Feb 20, 2017 15:57:46 GMT
I don't remember exactly, but at least 3 and all private. I really wanted to go to Stanford, but didn't apply and regret it. Not because I thought I would get in, but because I'll never know.
DD is a senior and applied to 7, 2 of which are Ivy League. She has the stats to get in, but we are assuming she won't get in because of the competition. She did get accepted to the other 5 (4 private, 1 public) and received fantastic financial aid from them all.
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Post by PNWMom on Feb 21, 2017 2:11:05 GMT
I graduated in 1995 and was from a household with a deaf/blind single parent of 4 kids (3 at home). So, we were poor. I applied to one school and that was it. There was no money to send applications off to random schools. I picked a small, private college (Linfield College in Oregon) and got a full-ride academic scholarship, as well as a few other grants and scholarships to cover books, etc. It never crossed my mind that I wouldn't get in wherever I wanted, so it was more a matter of figuring out where I actually wanted to go.
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Post by **Angie** on Feb 21, 2017 5:21:34 GMT
I applied to 3 - the one where my boyfriend was going, the one in my hometown because my grandma was sick, and the one I absolutely loved but had no chance of being able to afford, but wanted that acceptance letter from. I got the acceptance letter, my grandma said she'd disown me if I stayed, and I've been with my boyfriend (now married) since 1990.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 7:06:58 GMT
I graduated HS in 77....applied to 3 SUNY schools..got in all three and chose SUNY Geneseo.. I chose Potsdam and clarkston. Found out years later when my father died that I was accepted to both. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 7:09:03 GMT
I graduated HS in 77....applied to 3 SUNY schools..got in all three and chose SUNY Geneseo.. SUNY Geneseo was the only school out of the 4 I applied to in 1987 that didn't accept me. I ended up at SUNY Oswego and had a blast!!! This was the only college that I was waited listed for! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 7:23:34 GMT
I'll add these are the schools that give no merit scholarships: Yale Harvard U Penn Columbia MIT Cornell Georgetown Pomona Williams Amherst Haverford Wellesley Colgate Middlebury Bates Barnard Vassar Thomas Aquinas Holy Cross Connecticut College BUT - some of these school have become way more generous for middle income families than when I was a kid: Princeton - full ride (includes room&board) if your family makes less than $54,000; free tuition for families making less than $120,000 Full ride schools if family income less than $60,000: Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Duke, Harvard and Yale - full ride if less than $65,000 Stanford - full ride if less than $65,000, no tuition if less than $120,000 MIT - no tuition for families making less than $75,000 Dartmouth - no tuition for families making less than $100,000 My husband was offered a free ride at MIT for a doctorate in mechanical engineering. 2 if his friends got free rides for their master's in engineering |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 7:31:39 GMT
My daughter didn't appt to any schools, they found her. She was offered massive scholarships at five different schools.
But as a neighbor says, we have all ready for that scholarship. We have well over 60-70 thousand on her dance.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Feb 21, 2017 16:21:20 GMT
I'll add these are the schools that give no merit scholarships: Yale Harvard U Penn Columbia MIT Cornell Georgetown Pomona Williams Amherst Haverford Wellesley Colgate Middlebury Bates Barnard Vassar Thomas Aquinas Holy Cross Connecticut College BUT - some of these school have become way more generous for middle income families than when I was a kid: Princeton - full ride (includes room&board) if your family makes less than $54,000; free tuition for families making less than $120,000 Full ride schools if family income less than $60,000: Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Duke, Harvard and Yale - full ride if less than $65,000 Stanford - full ride if less than $65,000, no tuition if less than $120,000 MIT - no tuition for families making less than $75,000 Dartmouth - no tuition for families making less than $100,000 My husband was offered a free ride at MIT for a doctorate in mechanical engineering. 2 if his friends got free rides for their master's in engineering Advanced degrees are totally different. I should have specified no merit aid for undergraduate work. Many, many people I know received stipends for masters and PhDs -especially in engineering. There's also quite a few programs where you intern for a company or research lab during your advanced degree in exchange for at times very generous stipends - that's how my husband obtained his masters. |
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Post by Darcy Collins on Feb 21, 2017 16:23:03 GMT
My daughter didn't appt to any schools, they found her. She was offered massive scholarships at five different schools. But as a neighbor says, we have all ready for that scholarship. We have well over 60-70 thousand on her dance. Do you mind sharing which schools give scholarships for dance? I don't think my daughter will pursue past high school, but you never know where life will take you. |
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Post by buddysmom on Feb 22, 2017 0:38:14 GMT
I applied to two schools in 1975. After I applied I decided I definitely did not want to go to one of them (too cold). They required the ACT and I had only taken the SAT. They kept "reminding" me that I had to take the ACT to be considered. I ignored them and chose the southern school that was much warmer.  Then I received a letter from the other school that I was accepted--even though I did not take the "required" ACT. |
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