Mid winter trip to sunny Southern California from rainy and chill Seattle. I was really touched when Alaska gave me a piece of dark chocolate as an appreciation of me being a Gold member (Despite I was hiding in the back of Economy…:) )
One of my friend who is in the mudslide of college application for his son asked me how my son’s college application was in last year so I opened up my dusty old tracker file…
While I never counted the number of total applications filed, it was actually 26 stunningly- some might call my son and us crazy for doing this way but it was a strategically intended approach because of tons of uncertainties with his unique application profile ๐
At the end, it was all wrapped up as 6 Admits (including 2 guaranteed safeties), 4 Waitlists (3 Admits) and 16 Rejections across all 4 rounds with waitlist warrior activities lasted till end of May…so lots of joys, frustrations, and praying during 6 full months at family level ๐
Hope this was a one step forward experience for my young and stupid high schooler ๐
Finally we received the official documents in paper and A graduated successfully from Interlake High school. After the long journey of nationwide 20+ college applications with handfull tears and joys, A decided to go down to LA.
Thank you USC and few others for believing A’s potential and middle-finger you terrible schools who turned down on him ๐
This was truly a journey even for the families as well as student himself and hope everything turn out positively from now โค๏ธ
After going thru all these emotional roller coaster ride, I am realizing there were tons of emotional or any oyher supports we got as a family. So my humble thanks to all who cared and cheered for Andrew durung the journey. Everyone is happy except my wallet and savings ๐
As a stop to go back to airport, we stopped and visited Boston College which has a special meaning to me – Thank you again for believing A’s potential. The campus, buildings, town, staffs, and students were beautiful and I was having a hard time to hold myself from bowing my heads down to earth to this institution. Plus, now I don’t have any regrets on the deposit I blew up on here. BC deserves well enough to take my money although it was small ๐
The main reason we drove west to Syracuse was to check out Cornell at Ithaca which is 1 hour away from Syracuse ๐ Cornell was beautiful and classy as I imagined and I truly like the school sitting on a beautiful campus structure (I hate the statement, which NYU always uses, that the City is the campus … ๐ )
Also, as a not-well-prepared MBA applicant in 20 years ago, Cornell’s Johnson was my realistic & humble target school when I was preparing my MBA at then and it has remained as my mental debt that I didn’t choose to enroll after admitted. So this trip is my gentle payback after 20 years ๐ – although I think I somewhat paid back to Cornell with A’s admission result this year ๐
The true gem experience was checking out CALS Dairy Bar at CALS building in hot summer – one of the best ice creams I had in recent years ๐
Anyhow – it was a great and very informative visit and I wish Cornell’s path and my family’s path might cross again! Although I consider myself still a man of Blue blood, go Big Red!
Wondered around Seattle U’s campus for the first time in my almost two decades of life at Seattle ๐ cozy and nice campus but – as a parent who went thru crazy college application process – I wondered where this school has been during the crazy growth of UW and UW Bothell in last decade.
Maybe their lucrative environment -closest to downtown core and ability to target lots of part time post graduate students – might have produced relatively less focus on undergraduate programs.
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