The deadline for Lucas's last college application was yesterday. I helped brainstorm and edit his essays, so it's good to be done. Just for the latest round of schools, we had two for the common application, one for Cornell, three for Stanford, and two for Olin College. That is in addition to earlier ones for MIT, University of Washington, and Berkeley, although we used some of them at least twice.
Lucas's preference for colleges seems to go like this:
- MIT (understandable)
- Olin. It's an Engineering school, and their graduates get jobs or get into grad school
- Stanford, 'cause it's Stanford
- UW, because he can maybe graduate in two years
- Cornell
- Berkeley, because the area around campus isn't all that appealing
Not bad when an Ivy League school and Berkeley are your
last choices, although I think there is a non-zero chance that he will not get into any of them. If I had to guess, I think he will get into UW, won't get into MIT or Stanford, and will probably be admitted to a couple others. Olin, for example, has been practically begging him to apply, although they still may not accept him. None of these schools is really easy to get into.
Jackie and I prefer UW, because it may be the cheapest per year, and they will accept the college courses he has already taken, so he might start as a junior. However, they are all good choices.
So that is how I started my New Year. It's a very big thing to get done. Now we wait, until March 15.
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