Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by MrCraig » Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:10 am

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I should also mention that the grades you have to have to get into colleges is insane these days. She was worried about not getting into UNC and some of her friends didn’t with weighted gpa of like 4.25

No way I could get into App out of high school right now.
I teach high school, and it's gotten insanely competitive insanely quickly. LOTS of seniors get disappointed every year because they think they can just breeze by on Bs and Cs, then college application time comes around and the only get accepted to community college.
One of my school's brightest seniors got wait-listed at UNC because it's so hard to get in as an out-of-state student.

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by AppSt94 » Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:16 am

Out of state applicants have a much tougher time gaining acceptance due to the limits set by the state on how many non residents you can admit. App’s limit is somewhere around 700.

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by fjblair » Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:28 am

Thoughts and prayers. I was accepted into UNC back in the day, but thankfully there was divine intervention and I went to ASU.

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by scatman77 » Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:31 am

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Thoughts and prayers. I was accepted into UNC back in the day, but thankfully there was divine intervention and I went to ASU.
I never applied there, never wanted to. If my grandmother knew I'd applied or even rooted for them she'd cut me out of the will forthwith!
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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by biggie » Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:36 am

MrCraig wrote:
Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:10 am
biggie wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:08 pm
I should also mention that the grades you have to have to get into colleges is insane these days. She was worried about not getting into UNC and some of her friends didn’t with weighted gpa of like 4.25

No way I could get into App out of high school right now.
I teach high school, and it's gotten insanely competitive insanely quickly. LOTS of seniors get disappointed every year because they think they can just breeze by on Bs and Cs, then college application time comes around and the only get accepted to community college.
One of my school's brightest seniors got wait-listed at UNC because it's so hard to get in as an out-of-state student.
Yeah my daughter was shocked to get into UT as their acceptance for OOS is very low.
App accepted her in 3 days, all the others were long waits (even ECU took forever).

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by biggie » Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:37 am

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Thoughts and prayers. I was accepted into UNC back in the day, but thankfully there was divine intervention and I went to ASU.
I got accepted by App in Oct and did nothing the rest of the senior year since I knew I'd go to App no matter what UNC said, got rejected by UNC in April.

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by biggie » Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:40 am

For those who may need it and not know it seems South Carolina public univs offer a $500 academic scholarship that if you get it as an OOS student you get in-state tuition. That is what my daughter was going to apply for but Clemson in-state is still more than UNC in-state.

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by app97 » Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:09 am

fjblair wrote:
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Thoughts and prayers. I was accepted into UNC back in the day, but thankfully there was divine intervention and I went to ASU.
My wife did as well, but she had App has her first choice for the teaching fellows scholarship. Her parents encouraged her to go to App on the full ride despite getting some money from UNC and other schools, and despite her dad and brother being UNC grads. She ended up loving Boone and the school, although she got out of fulltime teaching a few years after fulfilling the teaching fellows obligations when we started a family.

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Unread post by AppinVA » Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:17 am

I have two who were accepted to App as out-of-state students, but finances dictated that they made a plan B. One just got a deal that’s waaaay too good to pass up.
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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by appst89 » Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:22 am

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Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:17 am
I have two who were accepted to App as out-of-state students, but finances dictated that they made a plan B. One just got a deal that’s waaaay too good to pass up.
I paid out-of-state for my son and it was basically the same cost as in-state for Virginia Tech, and less than in-state for UVa.

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by AppSt94 » Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:24 am

My daughter lives in Florida and their in state is as much as NC out of state.

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Unread post by NattyBumppo'sRevenge » Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:25 am

I despise UNC but both my brothers, a cousin, a niece and a nephew went there. It sure made that 2019 win so much more fun. As long as neither take it too seriously, you can make it into a fun thing.

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Unread post by AppinVA » Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:38 am

appst89 wrote:
Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:22 am
AppinVA wrote:
Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:17 am
I have two who were accepted to App as out-of-state students, but finances dictated that they made a plan B. One just got a deal that’s waaaay too good to pass up.
I paid out-of-state for my son and it was basically the same cost as in-state for Virginia Tech, and less than in-state for UVa.
Yeah. In-state tuition for Virginia schools is ridiculous. Especially at UVA and Tech. There is no UVA system, so every public school basically operates independently.

Oh, and the great deal was not to JMU or ODU, though I could stomach the latter.
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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by biggie » Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:56 pm

NattyBumppo'sRevenge wrote:
Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:25 am
I despise UNC but both my brothers, a cousin, a niece and a nephew went there. It sure made that 2019 win so much more fun. As long as neither take it too seriously, you can make it into a fun thing.
My wife's step brother was at UNC during that year so it was fun for me as well. Her step sister graduates from UNC this May as well.

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by spacemonkey » Mon Feb 03, 2025 2:47 pm

There is little more enjoyable than to be at a carolina game when they are losing and watch their fans.

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by rbarthle17 » Mon Feb 03, 2025 2:47 pm

First off, congrats to your daughter!

While my oldest, a senior, has decided to go out of state I have two others that have their eyes firmly locked on UM (and they will have no issues with regards to grades getting in there, they got their mom's brain) there ain't much of an in-state discount there.

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by Saint3333 » Mon Feb 03, 2025 4:28 pm

Some interesting tidbits about App's enrollment:

- 21,570 students
- 91% undergrad
- 57% female
- 10.3% or 2,223 are out of state
- Top five states are SC, VA, GA, FL, TN
- over 6k are first generation students, a shocking number really
- 204 students are over 50, still a chance old timers

https://analytics.appstate.edu/enrollment

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Unread post by ncman071 » Mon Feb 03, 2025 5:02 pm

going to unc

my condolences...let me know if you need someone to talk to

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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by BambooRdApp » Mon Feb 03, 2025 5:04 pm

We communicated to our two daughters that you can attend any public university in state of North Carolina. If they elected private or out of state, the difference is on them... scholarships or loans...we thought that was reasonable
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Re: Good thoughts for others who's kids hurt them

Unread post by biggie » Mon Feb 03, 2025 5:29 pm

Saint3333 wrote:
Mon Feb 03, 2025 4:28 pm
Some interesting tidbits about App's enrollment:

- 21,570 students
- 91% undergrad
- 57% female
- 10.3% or 2,223 are out of state
- Top five states are SC, VA, GA, FL, TN
- over 6k are first generation students, a shocking number really
- 204 students are over 50, still a chance old timers

https://analytics.appstate.edu/enrollment
This reminds me of the FL people I knew at App that only had been up during summer prior to starting school. Had not prepped for winter at all.

Little shocked there is that many families that have 1st gen students.

And crap I'm getting close to that 50 mark but those are undergrad #s for over 50 I assume, I haven't seen to many in my grad classes that are over 50. I seem to be the oldest in most of my classes so far.

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