<p>To clarify, the “personal statement” is what most people and most admissions officers call “the common app essay”. For example, the admissions officers at the college where my daughter is going have a blog, on which they ask, “What is the most unique essay you have ever read?” and you can see from the answers that the admissions officers are describing the “personal statements”. The books about writing “essays” and the books with examples of “essays” are really referring to “personal statements”. In addition to this, there may be other “essays” in the common app and/or supplements, asking to describe the most meaningful EC, for example, or, for the supplements, asking “why this college”. This is usually a shorter narrative than the “personal statement”.
There is a whole section on cc, which I have never read, on “essays”: [College</a> Essays - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-essays/]College”>College Essays - College Confidential Forums)
If you look at the thread topics, you will see that people refer to them both as “essays” and “personal statements”.
No wonder people are confused about the college process with all of this lingo to master!</p>
<p>Besides the additional short essays that a number of schools add, like why this college or last year’s Tulane question on community service, a number of colleges (and last year, Elon, C of C, Maryland) provide their own unique essay prompts instead of the common app essay. They often come out in August or even before, so go online and get the subject prompt as early as possible.</p>
<p>For some you may be able to shoehorn in an already written Common App essay, but many have strict shorter word limits and you won’t be able to do that or will have to make major revisions.</p>
<p>[The</a> Pendulum - Lack of funding creates uncertainty about completion of Multi-Faith Center](<a href=“Informasi Seputar Pendidikan Dan Ilmu Pengetahuan”>Informasi Seputar Pendidikan Dan Ilmu Pengetahuan)</p>
<p>The idea was to build a new inter-faith building and then have the old building become exclusively for Hillel. Looking iffy.</p>
<p>^^ hi all…not hiding out, just out of the country till today…already spoke offline to some but congrats (publicly) to all the wonderful admissions and decisions news…</p>
<p>RVM: I found that article VERY surprising since the multi-faith center was mentioned a number of times at orientation (and the Hillel house mentioned a number of times at the get-together)…</p>
<p>they even mentioned the location of the new multi-faith center on the tours…</p>
<p>This is the first mention of a funding issue actually…</p>
<p>I saw that this morning, RVM, but hesitated to mention it. We’ll be down there on Friday (weather permitting) and I thought I’d ask Nancy on Friday evening. There was also the article about opposition to the new dining plan.</p>
<p>Aramark does the food service (poorly) at so many schools, ever since my first child applied to schools six years ago, I haven’t been able to figure out whether to protest every time I see it or or buy stock.</p>
<p>mhc: have a good trip!! I’m a little surprised about the Aramark complaints down there, actually…we found the food to be very good in the dining halls and the new plans resemble MANY other schools that we looked at (as well as where my older daughter attends)…</p>
<p>I think that whenever a school dining service tries to change what was apparently (according to the article) not thought of as broken, there are issues…given that our kids are new to the system, it’s hard to compare…</p>
<p>mhc - please do give us an update after you visit - on the Hillel house issue and everything else.</p>
<p>I think the article in the Pendulum is a fund raising appeal. It says they have 80% of funds raised. This article is a reminder that the campaign is still going. I don’t think that there is an issue of building the multi-faith center, it is an issue of getting the final funds.</p>
<p>I am sure through Hillel, Jewish parents will be getting their donation opportunity letter soon!</p>
<p>Too funny - you may have pegged that correctly! :)</p>
<p>Parents of seniors - any more results to share? Anyone torn between 2 or 3 schools?</p>
<p>Parent of juniors - how are those college visits going? Any schools you really liked or disliked?</p>
<p>SAT scores are in. S got the same in reading and went up 30 points each in math and writing. Not good enough. My gut was to switch over to the ACT earlier and not torture S with two months of tutoring the SAT, but of course the tutor who claims he tutors both tests, said that S would do better on the SAT. Bull------! I should have trusted my gut and saved time, money, disappointment and mental anguish. i was not very nice to the tutor in my email. do you think when i caught the tutor texting during the session that was an indicator that he was working with my S wrong? ugh. Parents should trust our guts, we know our kids best.</p>
<p>S took a a practice ACT from the REAL book and scored a 32 in reading and a 28 in the other subjects. Now i just hope he does that well on the test next week. If so, who cares about the SAT.</p>
<p>Did someone say you can report reading from one test and math from the other?</p>
<p>enough griping and moping…</p>
<p>On a happier note, S got a note today from Elon Aepi, that they are officially starting next week and looking for founding fathers!! They are calling themselves Achim, which means brotherhood.</p>
<p>Very exciting!</p>
<p>samtalya - you are referring to superscoring - and every college has a different policy. Some will clearly state it on their website - others - you have to ask. I know Elon superscores - so you do want to submit 2 or more test sittings if he has a higher math score on one test and a higher reading score on another. CofC wants to see all tests. Can’t recall JMU off the top of my head. Just one more thing to keep track of!</p>
<p>Great news about AEPi at Elon. We are hoping to meet someone from the new chapter when we are there.</p>
<p>RVM, I know about the super scoring of SATS. What about super scoring like reading from the SAT and math from the ACT? (Elon and C of C?)</p>
<p>^^hi Sam: yes, Elon will superscore across tests…so if you have a good math score, it will stick and if it’s higher than the ACT math, it will be sustituted into it…</p>
<p>Elon converts the ACT to SAT scores (not the other way around)…a 32 ACT score in math (for example) is about the equivalent of about a 680-700 so judge accordingly to compare to his SAT math score…when you have specific numbers (after the ACT) there are charts to cnvert the individual sections to compare</p>
<p>does the note from AEpi mean that it is a “go”?..it wasnt officially approved when we were there in March…</p>
<p>thanks rodney. just sent you a pm. from your mouth to g-d’s ears that S would get a 32 in math!!!</p>
<p>The note that S got was from the national organization of AEpi to potential founding fathers on campus. The guy from national will be on campus next week to meet with the group. sounds like it is official with a name and meetings.</p>
<p>Sam: you can assume a 32 in reading is a similar equivalent…</p>
<p>That’s great about AEpi national…I guess it’s official…let us know how many kids are involved…</p>
<p>You can google comparison charts for SAT/ ACT. The link below is from Collegeboard.
<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/act-sat-concordance-tables.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/act-sat-concordance-tables.pdf</a> </p>
<p>BTW S did about as he predicted. Adequate, not good enough for TAMU honors (which would allow priority registration) but within range to be doable. The honors program requires a 1250. Hopefully hitting review harder and experience will help. This was his first effort with some but not intense review so I’m just happy he didn’t bomb it altogether. He’s doing the ACT next weekend also so I guess after we get that result he will hit the review for the preferred test harder. At least I hope he does.</p>
<p>Samtalya - CofC states on their website that they want to see all tests. I can ask when we are there in April for more clarity on the superscoring issue, it looks like they do superscore the SAT, but not the ACT.</p>
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<p>I wanted to share this because while I assume and expect colleges with larger Jewish populations will he having a Seder, it is nice to see what is also taking place on campuses with smaller Jewish populations.</p>