College Update – January 2013
by Joanna Schultz, Director of College Counseling
For the 44 members of the Ellis class of 2013, the first part of the college process is almost over. The vast majority of applications have been submitted – 302 in total, or an average of 6.4 per student – and 33 seniors have been admitted to at least one college or university. Twelve Ellis students have decided where they will matriculate in the fall of 2013. For the other 32, the next few months is a seemingly endless waiting game. A few decisions will trickle in this winter, but the majority of colleges will report in late March/early April. By May 1, all the seniors will have a home for the next four years of their lives.
For the 44 members of the Ellis class of 2013, the first part of the college process is almost over. The vast majority of applications have been submitted – 302 in total, or an average of 6.4 per student – and 33 seniors have been admitted to at least one college or university. Twelve Ellis students have decided where they will matriculate in the fall of 2013. For the other 32, the next few months is a seemingly endless waiting game. A few decisions will trickle in this winter, but the majority of colleges will report in late March/early April. By May 1, all the seniors will have a home for the next four years of their lives.
This is the year of Early Decision applications. Under Early Decision programs, a student applies to one college and commits to attending that college should she be admitted. It is becoming clearer and clearer that Early Decision applications to most schools give applicants an edge over those who apply in the regular pool. Conventional wisdom is that a student should only apply Early Decision if she is sure that she has found the “perfect” college for her, but we’re beginning to think that if a student is sure she’d be happy at a school, even if she doesn’t have a clear #1 choice, she should go ahead. Ellis saw 17 seniors apply through Early Decision programs, a higher percentage than in previous years, and more than half were accepted. Nine seniors are already sporting the sweatshirts of the college in which they will matriculate in nine or ten months: Dickinson, Carleton, Drexel, Bucknell, Washington University, Bates, Wesleyan, and Vanderbilt.
Ellis seniors have been admitted to many other colleges under “rolling admissions” plans, ones which act on applications as they are submitted rather than waiting until they have all the submitted applications gathered. Most of these admissions are to state universities: The University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, University of Colorado, George Mason University, Indiana University, and Kent State. Six students have been admitted to engineering programs so far, including one who earned a guaranteed spot in Pitt’s graduate school of engineering. We have three recruited athletes–a tennis player, a rower, and a field hockey player–set to continue their athletic careers.
And , as usual, we have a number of students poised on the threshold of a wide variety of pursuits: bio-medical engineering, archaeology, medicine, fashion design, illustration, musical theater, political activism, and many more. They won’t make their college decisions until May, but in the meantime, they are enjoying their last semester as Ellis students, as the leaders of the school community they’ve called home for four, eight, or thirteen years! It’s a special time.
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Ellis seniors have been admitted to many other colleges under “rolling admissions” plans, ones which act on applications as they are submitted rather than waiting until they have all the submitted applications gathered. Most of these admissions are to state universities: The University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, University of Colorado, George Mason University, Indiana University, and Kent State. Six students have been admitted to engineering programs so far, including one who earned a guaranteed spot in Pitt’s graduate school of engineering. We have three recruited athletes–a tennis player, a rower, and a field hockey player–set to continue their athletic careers.
And , as usual, we have a number of students poised on the threshold of a wide variety of pursuits: bio-medical engineering, archaeology, medicine, fashion design, illustration, musical theater, political activism, and many more. They won’t make their college decisions until May, but in the meantime, they are enjoying their last semester as Ellis students, as the leaders of the school community they’ve called home for four, eight, or thirteen years! It’s a special time.
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