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sad update
Just in: Rejected from Northwestern. She says she is fine, via text message. I was getting my nails done and couldn't talk on the phone. The reality of all this is hitting ME now. My heart is breaking for her right now because neither of us think she'll get into Columbia and Brown is extremely unlikely too. It would blow me away if she did get into Brown. That leaves Barnard, her true dream school and I'm not feeling at all confident about that right now. I know her test scores were low (for these kinds of schools) and that probably eliminated her from all of her top choices. She doesn't test well. She's a slow test taker. I will put on my happy face for her later. I talked with her some about how cool the neighborhood around DePaul is and how much we enjoyed hanging around there with the cool restaurants and shops. I talked up the advantages of still being one of the top students at a school rather than being among the cream of the crop. We talked about the awesome internship possibilities that exist in Chicago too.
College confidential's discussion board has crashed and has been down for a couple hours now. She tried to look on there to see if the international students who applied to Barnard got their emails yet. When they get their emails, then the snail mail acceptances have been sent to those here. Express mail large envelope for accepted.. regular mail, small envelope for rejected, so we'll know by the envelope.
There's just this problem that you want your kids to live their dream and it is heartbreaking when you realize that they might not be able to and some of the reason for that is that you simply can't afford to help them do it (in the case of American).
So for tonight, I'm going to be heartbroken for her, while she's not here to see it. Tomorrow I'll put on my optimistic face. And, until we hear from Barnard, I'll be doing a lot of praying. Please let my little girl live her dream...
Accepted:
University of Michigan- signed up for the Residential College program, waiting for financial aid package still
DePaul- Accepted- $52K scholarship over 4 years, brings the cost down to the cost of U of M, accepted to their honors program, financial aid package is pretty reasonable.. nothing out of pocket, about $51K in loans (yeah, that's reasonable compared to the next one and is about 1/4th of the total cost for four years)
American University- Financial aid package leaves more than $20K up to us and includes about $20K in loans, only $1700 of that is federal subsidized loans. I have no idea how in this world I would come up with $20K a year and that breaks my heart because, of the schools she has to choose from right now, this is her top choice.
Waitlisted:
Wellesley
Rejected:
Washington U.- St. Louis
Northwestern
Waiting to hear from:
Barnard
Brown
Columbia
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