Well Crap...

[brenda]

Excellent news, LFD! Congrats to Luke. I bet he gets an acceptance letter to his first choice, too. Acceptance letters take longer to get than the other kind.

Phibes, your kiddo is going to be more sure of himself and ready to dig in for his next academic adventure. When I was teaching, older students were an absolute joy in class. I loved their focus and good attitude. Please keep us posted. I'm rooting for him.

[LuFins Dad]

Just heard back from his school of choice, Virginia Tech. Waitlisted... They’ve had 45,000 applications and it’s clogging their system.

The problem seems to be twofold. Waiving the SAT has caused a huge influx of new applications.

Second, since they are removing the SAT for consideration this year, they are just balancing academic scores with a socio-economic weighting system for the district. A 4.0 in Fairfax and Loudoun is worth a 3.0 from less prosperous communities.

Kind of makes me happy that he was waitlisted and we can focus in on CNU. Everything I am reading tells me Virginia Tech and other mega-schools are going to be a clusterfvck this year.

[brenda]

This is when college admissions department starts missing the SAT.

[Copper]

CNU is a good place.

But, if he goes there, you will learn to hate I-95.

[LuFins Dad]

By the way, the previous high was last year at 31K, and the average for 2010-2018 was about 25K. They’ve almost doubled their applicants in two years of COVID.

[Horace]

@lufins-dad said in Well Crap...:

By the way, the previous high was last year at 31K, and the average for 2010-2018 was about 25K. They’ve almost doubled their applicants in two years of COVID.

Is that all told, with books and room and board?

[Copper]

@horace said in Well Crap...:

@lufins-dad said in Well Crap...:

By the way, the previous high was last year at 31K, and the average for 2010-2018 was about 25K. They’ve almost doubled their applicants in two years of COVID.

Is that all told, with books and room and board?

That's the number of applicants - not tuition.

[Horace]

@copper said in Well Crap...:

@horace said in Well Crap...:

@lufins-dad said in Well Crap...:

By the way, the previous high was last year at 31K, and the average for 2010-2018 was about 25K. They’ve almost doubled their applicants in two years of COVID.

Is that all told, with books and room and board?

That's the number of applicants - not tuition.

Ah. I looked up the university and it said that the tuition per year was right around that area.

[jon-nyc]

@copper said in Well Crap...:

CNU is a good place.

But, if he goes there, you will learn to hate I-95 even more.

FIFY. He lives in NoVa. No way he doesn’t already hate it.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Well Crap...:

@copper said in Well Crap...:

CNU is a good place.

But, if he goes there, you will learn to hate I-95 even more.

FIFY. He lives in NoVa. No way he doesn’t already hate it.

That’s the beauty of my job. If I’m going down for a weekend visit, I can leave on Thursday, drive out Annapolis and visit 1-2 schools in the morning, go to Salisbury University in the afternoon, stay overnight in Cape Charles, then take the Bay Bridge Tunnel over to Norfolk.

A beautiful and productive trip.

If I don’t have the option, I’ll probably take James Madison HWY past Colonial Beach. If it’s going to be a 5 hour trip, I would prefer a 5 hour beautiful drive than 3.5 hours driving on 95 and 1.5 hours stuck in a traffic jam.

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in Well Crap...:

@copper said in Well Crap...:

CNU is a good place.

But, if he goes there, you will learn to hate I-95 even more.

FIFY. He lives in NoVa. No way he doesn’t already hate it.

Anyone who has ever driven that road hates it.