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Re: Big news! 

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (2)
Thu, 25 Feb 21 6:03 PM | 71 view(s)
Boardmark this board | 6th Edition Pope Board 		Msg. 13220 of 60008
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Re: “UC San Diego”Joey received his formal acceptance from U.C. San Diego yesterday, with the school's official offer: Free tuition + $27,000. Unlike Wisconsin's offer, no work is involved. Awesome, right? Naw, there's a catch - a big one. UCSD's offer is for just one year. Thereafter, something else would need to be negotiated.

I know better than to tell my son what to do. He'll figure out for himself that Wisconsin's offer is far superior to UCSD's. He has to work for the $22,000 Wisconsin will pay him each year, but it's teaching, which he enjoys and finds de-stressing.

Of the seven applications Joey submitted, he's had 2 offers, 1 rejection. 4 are still pending. I've told Joey that my hunch is that they'll be rejections. I think that the schools that really want a student likely let that student know quickly. The others hold off on saying anything, effectively putting the applicant on 'wait' lists. As we saw in 2017, being on a wait list doesn't usually work out. We'll see, though. That's only my WAG.

Joey's roommate and best friend (who I call the math genius) has been accepted for a 1-year Masters degree in England. He's going to take it, deferring Arizona's Ph.D. offer. Several of his applications are still pending, so Arizona's not locked in. I have a feeling that he'll be in greater demand from other schools next year when he has a Masters degree from Cambridge in tow.

Those two have proven to be an impressive pair, and they've helped each other tremendously. In a way it's a shame that they're going separate directions.








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Re: Big news!
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 16 Feb 21 2:24 AM 		Msg. 12838 of 60008

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Re: “He'll listen to what UCSD has to say, but I don't think it will make the kind of offer it would take to swing him to their school. If it even makes him an offer. It very well may not. Acceptances at that level are very hard to come by.”Joey just had his interview with UC San Diego and . . . they want him! He doesn't yet know what their offer will be. In fact, until he receives a letter from them tomorrow, San Diego is officially only a "maybe."

Joey's roommate, the math genius who Joey says is the best at UVA, received a "yes" as well - from Arizona. I have no details on that.
The roommate applied to seventeen schools and, last I heard, had been turned down by seven.

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