The Wilson Acceptances (Sans Myself)
Tell me if you want to be added. Italics are where people will attend.
Gregory Tainter: Oregon State University, Washington University at St. Louis, Lehigh, Duke, Tufts, and the University of Pennsylvania
Maxwell: Princeton University
Kiva Oken: U of O, Occidental, Whitman, Carleton, Pomona
Jonathan Kadish: Pomona
Colin Corbett: St. Olaf, Rochester, Oberlin, U of O, Pomona
Rebecca Corbett: Whitman, Willamette, and University of Puget Sound, Occidental College
Kimberlee Pelster: The University of Chicago
Ted Sanders: Cornell, Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman, Northwestern, UCSD (full scholarship), Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins.
Beth Ford: NYU, University of Missouri
Emily Priebe: Northwestern University
Dare I predict that Jon, Kiva, and Colin all end up at Pomona? While I would be happy for them all, that would be a very strange mix of people to go to school together for 8 years straight... or in the case of Kiva and Jon 18 years straight.
I also got into Occidental. Not that anyone's counting. :) And just for the record, Carleton is a definite possibility. Our class is pretty freaking impressive though. 3 Pomonas? 2 PRINCETONS? Plus loads of other impressive schools. Sheesh.
Ted Sanders: Cornell, Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman, Northwestern, UCSD, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins.
What really adds to this is the quantity of brilliant students at Wilson who earned thousands of dollars in merit scholarships to great colleges across the nation. I consider these people to be just as much winners of the college admissions process (if not more so) than those of us who are going to some shnazzy college for over 100k. (Adam got it both ways). If all of our class were to have just gone for the the shnazziest colleges they could get into, this list would be overwhelmingly impressive. As it is, we are a class that has experienced an extraordinary amount of success in college admissions, on this list and beyond it.
That's a nice list for Mr. Sanders! Where is he planning on going? Actually I just asked him that today, and he said he didn't know. I'd say Cornell or Mudd, but if he went to Northwestern he could be a part of the load of us shipping off to Chicagoland.
I don't know. I think he's ruled out Northwestern (just not really his best fit) and Rose-Hulman though, and seriously considering all the rest. UCSD is on a full ride (for everything, tuition, room, books, lucky charms for breakfast every morning) so that's a real option.
Your year certainly did well for admissions, lots of big money and big names all around. Definitely hard to weigh the money issue and the prestige, going to UCSD (or, U Chicago, Adam) for free certainly would be awesome.
At one point I really wanted to go to Carnegie Mellon for ECE (not sure what Ted wants to do) since they have one of the best in the country for it. Then I didn't have enough money to go and now I'm heading back to a state school. How things change, huh?
Oh, and BFo also got into NYU, to add to the list.
I'm visiting Oberlin on the 16 & 17, and it's definitly a possibility.
And if you care, Beckis got accepted in Oxy, Whitman, Willamette, and UPS.
I think we all agree the US News college rankings suck, but Wilson students earned acceptance letters from 10 of their top 15 universities, with 7 different students getting into at least one of them (and this doesn't even include the liberal arts colleges). Plus, as far as I know, nobody even applied to Harvard or Columbia. Once again, I should continue to point out that big name colleges don't mean as much as people think they do, but still. For a public school in Oregon, this is really impressive.