Deferred to Regular Decision... now what?

ChuckleDoodle
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:43:47 +0000

Olymom

The “problem” with DS is that everything so far has fallen into his lap. He has had a job for the past two summers- working as an intern for a govenrment contractor and making above minimum wage pay. His friends are jealous of him because they have the “slinging hash” type jobs. He will have the same job next summer, so that’s not an issue.

On top of that he has been accepted into 4 colleges- 2 in state, 2 out of state. The in state are definate safeties, the OOS are almost safeties- they both have offered him merit money of 13k and 15K per year.

This has been an eye opener for him- “what, they didn’t love me?” One of the challenges has been that he has never had to study for anything before but now that attitude is not getting him the grades he once had.

We are doing our best to encourage him but we are also preparing for the worst. We are going back to visit the two schools where he has been accepted just so he can start thinking about his other options.

Sevmom He is going to ask his employer for a letter of recommendation. While he was working there last semester they tasked him to write a software program for their computers. He didn’t have any knowledge of this langauge before he was tasked, they handed him a book and told him to get started. He was able to write the program in 2 months. I’m hoping something like this might help sway the admissions board- along with better grades…

thanks for all your suggestions… he will end up where he’s supposed to be so I’m not too worried.