Arrrggg! They changed the prompts

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<p>My S is applying to a school which requires two short answers of 250 words. He started the application and has been working on the short answers. After working on these questions and revising them, he went to submit the application tonight. Except the prompts have been changed! </p>

<p>He worked really hard on these questions, really thought about them and put a lot of effort. It’s hard to puts what you want in 250 words. Also this is my future engineer, he hates to write and it’s not easy for him.</p>

<p>He’s going to call the school tomorrow and see what he can do. I hope that they will let him submit the short answers that he has already written. If not, I guess that it’s back to the drawing board.</p>

<p>Thanks for letting me vent. I thought that we were having forward progress on these applications. This is very fustrating.</p>

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<p>Well, I will hop right on to my high horse with you! Was he working from the 2005 app? It seems kind of late to be changing the prompts in late October?!!?</p>

<p>Hope they tell him to send the original ones.</p>

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<p>He downloaded the application and the prompts on 9/4/05. He thought and I did too that the application on line in Sept would be the application for fall of 2006.</p>

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<p>Sheesh. I remember being frustrated when we couldn’t get Rice’s 2005 app in early summer, because they REQUIRED submission of part 1 before you could interview. We were travelling in mid-June. But they got the new app up just before we left in June. Sept. seems awfully late, but I confess I never tracked it for other schools.</p>

<p>No good deed (getting a head start) goes unpunished. Really unfortunate for your S.</p>

<p><em>climbs back onto high horse</em></p>

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<p>Just add the following line to the beginning of the essay he already wrote:</p>

<p>“Interesting question. On the other hand…”</p>

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<p>NJres: he he</p>

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<p>deb922, does the app he downloaded indicate it’s from Fall 2005 for the Class of 2010? If so, that should be quite the conversation with the school’s Admissions office. (You might have him take a close look tonight to be SURE whether it was somehow marked as this year’s app: would not be a great idea for him to call if there’s some indication that it was the Class of 2009 app that just hadn’t been updated yet by early Sept.)</p>

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<p>jmmom, funny wicked reference!</p>