bgeig2
Congratulations! One of my regrets is not applying to Darden. I thought I wouldn’t get in but when I saw that I was waitlisted at Stanford and Booth while getting admitted into Columbia, Michigan and Yale, I should have applied.
Wow. You had quite a wide range of schools. Congrats!!!
I feel for Darden, it would likely be admitted with a scholarship of some size based on your other admit performance.
There is a very interesting phenomenon that happens every year and season- about a week ago, people were holding their fingers crossed to get an admitted, no matter anything else, they just wanted to get admitted.
They get admitted today.
About an hour or maybe a day after they get admitted, they calculate the amount of the student loan they have to borrow and the payment amount and they change their mind a little bit about getting admitted at any price, usually being a lot more open to trading off rank for dollars than they were just a few days ago.
This transformation happens every season and every year. It’s truly fascinating as I’ve tried to talk to people who are in the mindset of a week ago before the admission but it was not getting through 😂
PS. Not sure at what stage you’re in of that journey but it sounds you may be closer to the end of it than the beginning, so you are the wise one now.