The Ivy League does not appear to be in our future. Yesterday, all eight Ivies issued their decisions, and the decisions were universally negative regarding my son. Three (Yale, Dartmouth and Cornell) have placed him on their wait lists - meaning that if some of their accepted students decline the invitations, additional slots will be opened and awarded to a lucky few, but the chances are slim. The other five schools issued outright declines.
Yale accepted 7 percent of the students who applied. An additional 3 percent made the wait list... so Joey was THAT close to being admitted. %@$#!
NYU also announced yesterday and accepted him. We, however, have already rejected NYU in light of the three Virginia schools that took him. To be honest, I don't really know why Joey applied. I don't like NYC and don't want him to go to school there. (I'd have made an exception if the school had been Columbia, but that's not happening.)
It's going to boil down to the University of Virginia versus the College of William & Mary. They're both excellent schools. By total coincidence, they both have ties to Thomas Jefferson. I like that. William & Mary is the school Jefferson attended. (And James Comey did too, btw.) UVA is the school Jefferson founded. They are two of the eight original "Public Ivies" in the nation (the others being the campuses of the University of California, Miami University, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Vermont.)
Making a decision will still be tough, but it will be worlds easier than it was 24 hours ago. Based on the images below, you can probably guess which one I'm leaning toward.
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