<p>My brother was married (the first time) at Sinai Temple.</p>
<p>socaldad42, yes, we should do the list. Someone who is good with formatting should start us off.</p>
<p>Pkd wonder if my Grandfather officiated…He retired in the late 70s I believe…</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone for the good wishes for my D at Oxford/Emory. Has anyone else noticed how early Rosh Hashanah is this year? They’ll have to figure out services right after they arrive on campus.</p>
<p>I know, the timing for Rosh Hashanah is tough this year. It’s the first day of classes for my D.</p>
<p>Congrats to Scoop85 and D!</p>
<p>I hadn’t noticed but that could be a good way for kids to get integrated into Jewish community early in the year. On the other hand missing days of class at the get go can be tough!</p>
<p>Congrats to all of you on the recent decisions. Perhaps if we don’t have an organizer this year one person can start with where their kid/kids are going and folks can add to it with where their kids are. As Socal mentioned it is fun to see where everyone is going and hard to keep track without a list.</p>
<p>I’m back after an absence due to the general craziness called “life” as well as my not being able to access CC from my iphone. I’ve been reading up a bit and wanted to congratulate all the folks on here for their kids acceptances and decisions. I can’t believe next year it will be our turn!</p>
<p>D just got her ACT scores today and did much better than we had hoped! Now I feel like it is “back to the drawing board” in terms of researching and looking at schools and I’m feeling overwhelmed! Did this happen to any of you? She has a 3.5 UW (and looks like that is what she’ll continue to have this year) and she scored a 31 composite. She will still need learning support so I have to keep that in mind when considering schools. She’s looking for large, rah-rah and not too many New Yorkers. We are open to suggestions! TIA</p>
<p>Congrats NYMom3Kids on your daughter’s outstanding score! Hard to think of too many large rah-rah schools for excellent students without a lot of New Yorkers – Michigan is certainly one of the best, but there are tons of New Yorkers in Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>UVA perhaps?</p>
<p>NYMom - just as a starting list - how about Delaware, Maryland, Penn State, and Indiana University? Michigan and UVA might be viable reaches. You’ll want to check on learning support at all of these schools.</p>
<p>I’d also look at the SALT program at the University of Arizona.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.salt.arizona.edu/about/history-salt[/url]”>http://www.salt.arizona.edu/about/history-salt</a></p>
<p>HouTxMom, I’m sorry I forgot to respond to your PM, but I’m so happy your daughter chose Oxford. I love the school, and hopefully she will too. The classes are academically rigorous, professors truly care about their students, and my (extremely intelligent) peers are from all over the world. Oh and the huge Jewish population doesn’t hurt either.</p>
<p>Anyways, NYMom3Kids if you want a big rah rah school with few NYers look into University of Oregon. I’ve been to the campus twice, once to tour and once when I drove up to Portland after hs graduation. It seemed like just about everyone was wearing green and yellow. I also talked to a former Jewish teammate who goes there and she said that the Hillel is fantastic. The main issue is getting there. Eugene is about two hours away from Portland, and thus the airport. My brother will probably go there.</p>
<p>Other schools you might be interested in are Ohio State, CU Boulder, UF (big reach), FSU, and University of Washington. I don’t know about their LD support.</p>
<p>Thanks scoop85, we are all on cloud 9 here today! Great suggestions, Rockvillemom. We have actually already looked at Delaware (she didn’t love it) and U of A and the SALT program is definitely a contender for us. We went to look and loved just about everything about it. Penn State and Indiana are on our radar and we will research them more. She’s not keen on Maryland because it is super popular where we live. I will also look at UVA more, but I’m thinking that would be a big reach with her gpa. Am I wrong? Also thinking about Miami, USC and UCSB. Any thoughts on those? The schools don’t have to have a big team for her to be happy. I think she just means she wants an active social life and perhaps Greek Life.</p>
<p>whenhen, Thanks for all the suggestions. D prefers warmer climate over cold, so if she’s going to go that far it would have to be for a school in Arizona or California. I am going to look at Ohio U though as that school’s name has been coming up a lot lately.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>Warning, this post rambles but hopefully answers at least some questions:</p>
<p>One of my best friends from home attends UCSB, my cousin goes to SBCC (the community college adjacent to it), and I’ve been there a few times. It has an extremely well deserved reputation as a party school though there are certainly things to do for people that don’t want to just party the entire weekend. </p>
<p>Despite its party reputation, greek life doesn’t dominate. Though it’s still quite active and from what I gather, most people in the system seem to like it, it’s certainly not as pervasive as say, USC.</p>
<p>The area around the campus is gorgeous. Obviously there’s a great beach right by the school and mountains surrounding it, but because Isla Vista is almost 100% college students, most of the local stores cater almost exclusively to them. </p>
<p>Unless she’s a science major the classes aren’t overly rigorous or at least that’s what I’ve observed when I compare my friend’s workload with my own. Be warned that if she hasn’t taken and passed at least four AP classes, it might be difficult to get classes if she’s in a popular major. I know my friend had that issue and my cousin told me the same thing happened to his UCSB friends their freshman year (after, they got most of the classes they wanted).</p>
<p>Though your daughter posted a major improvement, USC is still a major reach because of the GPA and low acceptance rate. I’d still apply, simply because it seems to fit all of your daughter’s criteria, and as much as it pains this die hard UCLA fan to admit, it’s a great school.</p>
<p>I also wouldn’t be terribly concerned that your daughter will go to school with others from her state. After all, almost every school she’s considering has well over 10,000 people so and most of those, with the exception of the privates, will be from in state, as in not New York.</p>
<p>Does your daughter know what she wants to major in? If she has no interest in a humanities field, she should look into Cal Poly SLO as it’s very similar in many regards to UCSB, but it’s much less expensive and has a “hands on philosophy”. It emphasizes more practicality rather than theory which may be better for some fields than others. Within California, SLO has an outstanding reputation.</p>
<p>Chapman too may be worth a look. Greek life seems strong, and it has a fairly active Jewish community</p>
<p>Thanks, whenhen! I appreciate the insight into UCSB. She will have only taken 2 AP courses upon graduation, so thanks for the heads up on that as well. As for majors, she is all over the map at this point - education, film, PR, hospitality, math, advertising art and some others. She enjoys science, especially biology but has no interest in healthcare at this point. She is a creative type and has amazing people skills so I really see her in a career that requires those two things.</p>
<p>My son is going to be a freshman at UMiami this Fall. It has a great Hillel and it is a medium size private school with great school spirit and serious academics. Health Sciences, Business, Communications and Engineering are some of their main schools but they have lots of majors to choose from. Miami is set on ACT scores; a minimum of 28 and most have higher than B average ( according to advisor only 150 students were accepted with lower ACTs and mainly were kids with higher GPAs or athletes). They would accept a lower GPA if SAT II ( optional) and ACT scores are high.</p>
<p>How much weight do you all give to the stats on CollegeBoard.org? I checked UMiami’s apply section and it said that 77% of admitted freshman had a 3.75 or higher. Even with an ACT score of 31, it would seem to be that she has an iffy chance of getting in with her 3.5 unweighted, 3.7 weighted GPA. Can someone enlighten me a bit?</p>
<p>Ok, I’ll start:</p>
<p>pkdof13: S Wheaton (MA), D Wellesley</p>
<p>Wellesley: pkdof13’s D
Wheaton (MA): pkdof13’s S</p>
<p>NYmom3kids–cannot answer your question about how much credit to give to CB, but can pass along Miami’s admit stats from our school’s Naviance. Almost half have been accepted, with nearly twice as many early as regular. (Don’t know if ED or EA as our data points are not flagged that way.) The five year average accepted stats are 3.6, 1990 & 28. I feel that the school is trending so it will be interesting to see if there is much change when the 2008 data is replaced by 2013.</p>
<p>The GPA is weighted but our school does not have terrible grade inflation. Val generally has a 4.25 or so. Does your school offer the use of Naviance? While not a guarantee, I find it a useful tool.</p>
<p>I think a 3.6 and a 28 should do it. I’ve heard that they want to raise the cut off to 29,next year but it will depend on the yield of this year. I know they had a 48 % increase in applications but the yield is the important number. My daughter is applying this year so I am paying close attention to those numbers too.</p>
<p>I actually delved into the UMiami website a bit and found that they have no learning center, primarily just peer tutoring and the learning specialist consults are limited to 8 per semester. D needs help with time management and organization as well as some tutoring. Don’t think Miami is going to be a great fit.</p>
<p>CT1417 I am beginning to use Naviance a bit. Our school does not do any tutorials for it so I feel like I am just fumbling around. Anyone have any good articles about how best to use it?</p>
<p>NYMOM—haven’t seen any articles about Naviance use, and our school did not offer tutorials either. Perhaps I have spent too much time on it as it now seems like second nature.</p>
<p>Has your D identified schools as ones she is considering? Once she adds schools to that list, “Compare Me” is a useful feature. (Assuming you have your own log-in ID, you can also add schools and they will be flagged as added by parent. GC’s additions will be ID’d as added by GC.)</p>
<p>I also will look at overlaps as you can see how many who applied to school A also apply to school B. Simply knowing the overlap will not tell you if school B offers the same program as school A, but it is a starting point. </p>
<p>I also find the college map feature interesting, but not particularly useful. Just toggle around and you will learn its functions. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks, pkdof13!</p>
<p>LuvMomN8ur: D Juniata College ¶
pkdof13: S Wheaton (MA), D Wellesley</p>
<p>Juniata: LuvMomN8ur’s D
Wellesley: pkdof13’s D
Wheaton (MA): pkdof13’s S </p>
<p>No disrespect, just alphabetical…:)</p>