IVY DAY

All my classmates are going crazy rn. The anxiety is killing them!
 
FYI…

Cornell website was crashing for a while, son had to try for over a half-hour to log in even though he was using their link.
 
Youngest kid's school got some good results yesterday. One kid was 3 for 3 with the Ivy League results. My kid was already locked to his dream school (Non-Ivy), but a few got waitlisted and hope for something to work out.
 
Holden100 said:
news.harvard.edu

College accepts 1,937 to Class of 2028 — Harvard Gazette

Admitted students hail from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 94 countries.
news.harvard.edu news.harvard.edu

This is interesting.
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Here is the quote that would draw interest from this forum:

"Twenty-one veterans were admitted to the Class of 2028, and 41 students have expressed interest in ROTC."

Code for we are getting GI Bill or ROTC money from 60+ kids.
 
I actually just thought it was nice they noted the numbers of veterans and ROTC kids admitted. Congrats and good luck to those headed to Harvard!
 
"expressed interest in ROTC" could also mean something as simple as checking a box on the Harvard application form, not necessarily having an ROTC scholarship and committed. Sometimes, those applications will ask what stuff/extracurriculars you might be interested in joining when you're at their school and list out some examples for you to check off.

40+ ROTC scholarship kids in a single class year is a lot for Harvard... They had literally 1 NROTC midshipman and maybe single-digits for AROTC and AFROTC cadets commission for my class year. Their ROTC is done through the unit hosted at MIT, so numbers tend to be a lot lower than at Cornell, Penn, Princeton, or Yale, who all host at least 1 ROTC unit on campus. Maybe some of those 40+ kids are cross-admits who will end up choosing another Ivy over Harvard, partly due to commuting for ROTC, among other reasons.
 
I'm not too surprised on the admitted veterans numbers. There's been a push among the top civilian schools to admit more untraditional applicants, to include veterans, but also others as well that chose a different path after high school before applying to colleges. See: Yale's Eli Whitney program as a great example of this. It's been quite successful.
 
We’re now beginning the process of negotiating financial aid awards from his accepted schools.

Ivy League schools require that you declare the scholarship; in my son’s case, he’s using it for the tuition and fees portion.

We are requesting reconsideration for the room and board portion of his original award.

Not getting our hopes up that we’ll be successful.

Anyone have any experience with this?
 
Ivy22 said:
I'm not too surprised on the admitted veterans numbers. There's been a push among the top civilian schools to admit more untraditional applicants, to include veterans, but also others as well that chose a different path after high school before applying to colleges. See: Yale's Eli Whitney program as a great example of this. It's been quite successful.
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One Veteran that comes to mind with his story is J.D. Vance who is a Senator from Ohio. He was an enlisted Marine that later went to Yale Law School. His memoir Hillbilly Elegy is a good read that may give some insight into today's political and cultural climate.
 
WT Door said:
One Veteran that comes to mind with his story is J.D. Vance who is a Senator from Ohio. He was an enlisted Marine that later went to Yale Law School. His memoir Hillbilly Elegy is a good read that may give some insight into today's political and cultural climate.
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I've read that book.

There's an even bigger push to admit veterans and active duty servicemembers into the top graduate and professional schools at these schools too. Also a trend of students in general spending a couple years after college to work a job and then going to get another degree. K-JD isn't as common as it used to be it seems like
 
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