Parents of the HS Class of 2013

[GreekMana]

coralbrook-- DITTO, DITTO, DITTO x 2!!!!!

[lacrossemom]

Carolbrook-I am sorry
Octoberdans-wow! 5 acceptances

DD hit submit on 4 more applications including the SCEA one today. This brings her to 6 applications!

She also did rough drafts for 3 more colleges and hopefully will start on the last 2 tomorrow.

I finished the CSS profile for the SCEA school.

Hopefully I will not have to do anymore college stuff today and just finish editing on Monday.

[gunnerz]

How many colleges applying too? Why so many? Just curious.

[ugadog99]

Coral: I totally understand!! My D accomplished NOTHING on the college list yesterday. I finally just sat down, watched football and left her alone. I'm hoping she will be more productive today. We'll see...

Octoberdana: FIVE acceptances! Whoa.....congrats!

Another week begins, let's see what can be finished this time........

[SteveMA]

Last marching band competition yesterday and the kids went out with a HUGE BANG!!! They were pretty excited. Late night though. Having a hard time getting moving today .

DD got another acceptance yesterday so she is at 7 of 9, DS is at 7 of 10. All of them have merit awards, but we also targeted school so they would so no real surprises in there. The kids have some down time now so they will have to start working on scholarship apps .

[kelijake1987]

SteveMA,
Wow....congrats to the twins on the acceptances!!

[Vitrac]

Coral: Your d is probably sleeping like a baby while you are staring at the ceiling worrying about this all night.

Maybe the "working all day Saturday" instruction is just too wide open. How about sitting with her and discussing an opening paragraph to one essay and giving her an hour to complete it and hand it in to you. I find that smaller assignments are more workable and less overwhelming for a kid who is avoiding. Just a suggestion from one frustrated parent to another. I have also found that just being in the same room as my d helps. We are both on our respective computers and slowly, something gets accomplished. Starting is the hardest part.

Steve-Congrats to both your kids!

[Ama308]

Steve. You ROCK!!!! Congradts to the twins!!!!!

[89wahoo]

Homecoming was last night. D did get the first draft of her last EA essay done before everything started. Now she has a horrid head cold and feels like death but won't miss school tomorrow and wouldn't skip her game today. One more week and the quarter is over and apps will be in. I can't wait!

[mamabear1234]

octoberdana and others with acceptances - feel free to add yours to the official acceptance thread at the top of the Parents forum. I enjoy looking at others' successes, and hope to add my D's rolling school soon! (SteveMA - I know you are keeping them to yourself for now, but hope when your decisions are over you can add some!)

OK, I posted this at 8:38 PM!

[SteveMA]

gunnerz--our kids applied to a lot of schools because they were are looking for a lot of merit aid and wanted to increase their chances of pay little or nothing for college. Our DD is also a recruited athlete so she applied to the schools that interested her the most. They both applied to 2 very, very safety schools, the rest were all safety/matches meaning, they were not going to have issues getting into any of these schools, except for DS's HMFR (lottery school) because they all have pretty high acceptance rates and the kids come in at the top of the applicant pool. The very, very safety schools are also priced as such that we can afford them with just the merit options offered. There are a couple on each list that they would need additional awards from the school to attend.

[napalm2013]

For me, the past couple weeks have been: grades, college apps, sleep. Pick 2. After November 1st I'm not doing anything more on the college front until Thanksgiving break. I'll probably push everything (except a couple December deadlines) until Christmas break, just to see how EA shakes out. Hopefully the list will be cut down A LOT after EA because this is miserable. The spring better be more fun.

[Carla2012]

napalm2013 - I think you and my DD are in the same place. For her its always swim, grades, college apps, sleep - pick two. So for most of this year its been swim and college apps (no sleep, grades not so good), but now that she finished her ED app she is getting caught up on the other two. Well, actually - I didn't see much homework getting done this weekend - but she did sleep.
I am hoping after she gets caught up in school she will finish up her applications, but thanksgiving and winterbreak may definitely be busy with the remaining applications.
SteveMa- I think you have a great strategy and it seems to be working.
Coral & Ugadog - I hope today was more productive.
Everyone: May this week be better and less stressful than the last! Tomorrow's another monday!

[lacrossemom]

SteveMa, great job on merit awards!

[ugadog99]

Congrats, SteveMA!

Gunnerz, my D has applied to a LOT of colleges. She is a tech theatre kid. Those programs are very selective and accept only a handful of students each year. Not only does she have regular school applications, but the theatre departments all have their own requirements and all have an interview/portfolio review process. While she could have gotten away with fewer schools since she is tech and not performance, this while thing boils down to financial aid for us.

Today was a much better day. She got a good start on sprucing up the portfolio and will continue to work on it this week. Next weekend will be devoted to deciding which of her prompt books will go with her on interviews and getting them in tip top shape. I wouldn't stress so much if two of the most important schools weren't on the November interview schedule. She also got all of the essays in lieu of test scores for DePaul submitted. We still need to go back and get the rest of their materials in this week.