Posted by antigua on April 13, 2006, at 11:35:34
I have a son who is a senior in high school. He's a 4.0 student, with 8 AP classes in his career; perfect SAT score; significant community service work over the past three summers; and a host of worthwhile extracuriccular (sp?) activities. His school and our family developed the list of schools for him to apply to--and when we saw the school's list, we asked if they were sure, was it reasonable to expect that he would get in? They said absolutely yes. My husband and I added the state school just in case.
Well guess what? He was rejected at most of the schools and wait-listed at two (one of which is his first choice, but it's going to be tough). He got into the honors program at our state school (which is really very good, but he doesn't want to go there--but he will if he doesn't have a choice).
I'm mad and heartbroken. Watching this kid open five rejection letters in one day would break any mother's heart. I'm mad at the school for not suggesting more lower tiered schools, but they said last year he would have gotten into all of his choices. Well, this isn't last year and they made a big mistake.
We're scrambling and working on his two wait-listed schools, but I feel very badly for my son. He's actually taking it better than we are, but it's still a roller coaster.
Moral of the story: no matter what you're told, make sure you apply across the board (even though we did think we had reach, acceptable, and lower level schools).
one sad mother, who knows it doesn't really matter where he ends up, he will thrive,
antigua
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