High School Class of 2011/College Class of 2015

[SlitheyTove]

fogfog, since your kid is an athlete and (I presume) not pursuing ED/EA, this wouldn't apply to him...but I've heard that for ED especially a kid should really aim to retest early (meaning during junior year) to get scores in range if that's what's needed. I don't see why your GC would send ACT AND SAT scores if one is better than the other. Why give the admissions people any negative info if you don't have to?

kumitedad, Pomona et al seems a little too close to home, maybe an hour's drive. But I am keeping my mouth shut. D1 has long been interested in Pitzer, the Pomona interest is recent and dates from a rep visiting her school. Very much a reach.

[fogfog]

Hi SlT

That is a good point. He might take the SAT in March because he may take 4 sub tests and would need both May and June dates. If not, he'd use either May or June for the SAT and take 3.

He plans to apply ED/EA ...would the Oct date be too late?

I hear as an athlete--that he needs to apply EA/ED to his top picks (his file would have to be sent early for a pre-read anyway--so it would have the Jr yr completed and so on--Real recruiting talks can begin July 1) IS that correct?

[SlitheyTove]

fog^2, I've reached the limit of my knowledge base--asking me about athletic recruiting is going to be like asking your son about the merits of women's colleges You should post up a new thread on the main board to draw more information. But when you say he's applying ED/EA to his top picks, does ED work differently for athletic recruits than for civilians? Or is it the same rule of just 1 ED?

[fogfog]

Hi SL/T
ED works the same for athletes as no athlete apps...I just meant he will in all likelyhood apply some type of early-___ app somewhere--
In as much as he hasn't gotten down to a short list yet I don't know which type of process he'd be navigating.
He has nice grades, nice ECs, sport, etc...but as a Jr its far too early to tell what is in the mix until the end of the yr grades and how class standing, and SATs etc go.


Is an Cot date too late for the early-__types of apps. I was under the vague impression Oct was as late as you can push it--Nov dates don't make it in time--right?

[entomom]

fogfog,
Have you checked out the Recruited Athletes subforum under College Admissions?

[fogfog]

Anyone else read the ED/RD results threads with interest? Interesting reading to see which candidates were deferred, and what admits feel was their strong suit in the process. etc

[entomom]

For D1 I used to keep stats and results on specific demographic groups at certain schools. But that was before CC got big and it was a more managable task.

[mamom]

fog, yes I am following with interest. I am culling out all the information that may help S figure out where to apply. I will say my list is already very long, with a surprising number of "dark horses". If a school looks like it will offer great merit aid to my S it makes the list, although S has made me delete a couple.

[kumitedad]

mamom, Depending on your S's interests, there are some nice LAC in the Pacific Northwest that have nice merit aid. Schools like Linfield, Whitworth, and Lewis and Clark.

fogfog, That sounds like good information to glean. What I hate are the "chance me" posts were the kids are so overqualified it depresses me.

[SDMomof3]

What I hate are the "chance me" posts were the kids are so overqualified it depresses me.

You mean you don't have a child with a 4.0 UW GPA (5.0 W), 14 APs (but 5s on only 13 of them), a 2370 SAT (but retaking) who speaks three languages fluently, is 1st chair flute in the all-state orchestra, president of their class, founder of a charity that raised $100,000 last year, plays 3 varsity sports, published their first novel at 15, is an Intel finalist and made the US Chemistry Olympiad team?

Yeah, me neither.

[arisamp]

Good one SDMomof3! I often wonder how these kids manage to accomplish all that they list - and the cynic in me wonders if they did indeed do all of it. I've heard of girls being Girl Scouts (but never attending meetings and the like) - just to pad the resume. Why, oh why?

Anyway, SAT is tomorrow at our house. Despite strong nudges (almost shoves!), no big plans to stay in and study! Too late for that I guess! D has piano this evening and then will be relaxing (she even has a movie she wants to watch!). Here's hoping everything goes well -I'd like her to be one and done...but don't know if that's going to happen.

[arisamp]

Forgot to add - good luck to all the SAT takers out there.

[missypie]

Two nights ago, D stayed up all night to finish an APUSH project. I didn't give her grief, but I thought to myself that she must have made a huge mistake and put off things until the last minute. Turns out, most of the class - even the super-diligent, always study, no ECs kids - stayed up all night to finish. Something is wrong with an assignment when virtually the entire class has to pull an all-nighter to finish.

[FlMathMom]

Son's school uses block scheduling so that each class is twice as long but you only have each class every other day. More efficient b/c start up time and end of class time plus hallway time cut in half. Much easier to plan homework and studying because he is rarely surprised by something being due the next day.

[missypie]

We have the same thing, but this project must have been just overhwelmingly huge.