<p>CapeCodLady - I hope you are NOT literally holding your breath!</p>
<p>lol…naw, but close! ;)</p>
<p>Gweeta,
Deferrals are tough. Makes you question whether or not you made the right decision to apply? Sounds silly, but it’s hard not to attach emotion to it, when honestly, Early Action is for the schools to pick the cream of the crop, so to speak, and save the rest for Regular Decision. On the one hand, it shows your interest doing EA, but a deferral almost feels like a rejection that has to be defended in some way. Like you have a black mark on your folder and added scrutiny come Regular Decision time. It actually seemed like a good match school for my son, that’s why the deferral stung so much.
Goucher was on our original list, but last minute my son decided it would be too far. They have a good French program and Study Abroad.<br>
CCL</p>
<p>well…at least the math ACT score was higher (equivalent) than the PSAT…would have been hard for it to have been any lower…lol</p>
<p>Junior college night at her school last night; no revelations to report…in fact, my daughter commented that she didn’t hear anything she didn’t already know (from me)…even with three real college admissions officers in attendance…</p>
<p>btw, am I the only junior parent on the 3.0-3.3 thread?
it occurred to me that I might lose all of you guys next year…</p>
<p>CCL: a deferral for one “C”? ouch…one would imagine that kids with GPA’s in this range might(?) have a C on their transcripts?
my daughter’s are restricted to freshman year, but still?</p>
<p>I am sure many of us will still be around. I will be reading and hoping for all good things next year for your daughter!</p>
<p>My son’s a junior Rodney.</p>
<p>I think Early Action is a smart marketing move for Colleges. Once your kid get’s one you start thinking seriously about it and thinking seriously about a school for say three months instead of one month, can’t really hurt unless it’s a lousy school. </p>
<p>When my older son was a senior he applied to Roanoke early because the got a VIP application and it was free and easy. He found out soon that he was accepted and every couple of weeks (seemed like days) he would get an e-mail or a postcard or a phone call with a little bit more information, including financial incentives. By the time he heard from the rest of the colleges, Roanoke was at the top of the list partly because he felt he knew so much about it.</p>
<p>My S1 is a senior and I have learned so much from this thread! Without it, I don’t know where he would have ended up (or even IF). He gets a daily countdown to freshman orientation and I think we are now only 220 days away. Yikes!</p>
<p>My S2 is one of those gifted kids who could go to any college, but I tend to stay away from those threads because I like this group better!</p>
<p>Kajon- I admit my D’s grades (weighted )are a bit higher than this thread, but her personality is much more in tune with the kids in this thread (and mine with their parents), so I feel I get much better info by “lurking” here than on the threads with the more “typical CCers” (or at least the more vocal CCers!).</p>
<p>My son wants to drop one of his spring semester electives because he wants more free time. I’m pulling my hair out…can’t he just suck it up for one last semester? </p>
<p>Do you think it’s a big deal to drop an elective? I think it’s computer related. Do we have to let the colleges know?</p>
<p>Gweeta, congrats on Goucher and Juniata! i look forward to hearing who “wins” your son!</p>
<p>Rodney, if your daughter had a math teacher at any point she related to well, that would be my choice of tutor.</p>
<p>My S is a junior and we were starting to look at colleges to visit during Spring Break. I think he fits in this thread although he might have below a 3.0 if you don’t count football and choir. His PSAT was a 180 and he took the SAT this last Saturday. He didn’t study very much for the SAT and was expecting around an 1800. </p>
<p>I have an older D who went through very stressful college applications last year applying to the HYPS type schools. The story ended happily but I had many sleepless nights worrying about her getting rejected everywhere she applied. So I am actually feeling much more relaxed and optomistic about my S finding a good fit since he seems completely unaware of USNews rankings and such. And he already has a few local safety schools he says he would be happy going to. </p>
<p>Right now we are trying to decide where to go on a Spring Break visiting trip. I would appreciate it people more familar with these schools might tell me if they are realistic options. I don’t really to make a long trip to visit schools that are out of reach. The first Saturday of Spring Break we are going to a wedding in Dallas so I am planning to visit Austin College and maybe TCU. After that we can fly (on Southwest) or drive anywhere to visit. </p>
<p>In compiling a list of possible places to visit my son said he wanted warmer weather and small to medium size schools. He doesn’t really like big cities. S would like somewhere with a football team and choir. At first he was thinking about trying to get on a football team but now he says he is getting burned out on football. He would enjoy being in a choir but doesn’t want to major in music. He is thinking about majoring in education and possibly being a coach so I also looked for that. He is a sports fanatic and I think would make a good sportswriter or analyst. </p>
<p>What I am wondering about right now is how to take S’s personality quirks into account in looking at possible colleges. His main theme is resistance to change of any sort. He gets irritated and upset when anything changes from the daily schedule to moving furniture at our house. The good side of that is once he starts an activity (like sports or choir) he will keep participating forever and is very dependable. He is quiet and doesn’t take initiative or try for leadership positions. When we first started looking at colleges S said he wanted a college just like his high school (3,000 students, racially and financially mixed, everyone encouraged to be involved in an activity). He has done badly in math and science classes and does much better in classes where they do a lot of writing. As some of you mentioned before, memorization is difficult for him.</p>
<p>Here is the list I came up with using the College Board search feature: Clemson, Lindenwood, Jacksonville, California Lutheran, Campbell, Guilford, Tulsa, Austin College and TCU. I also have to put Texas Lutheran on the list because my parents reallly really want S to go there. It does meet all his criteria but they have mentioned it so many times S is tired of hearing about it. I hope we can go and visit though so he can decide for himself. Also, S has stated for several years that U of Miami (Florida) is his dream school. I think this is mostly based on him liking their football team. He has also mentioned moving to Florida because he thinks they have the best football teams on all levels. To me it would be a stretch for him to get accepted to Miami so I don’t know it it is worth visiting unless we can visit other schools nearby. </p>
<p>I am approaching the financial part with the idea that we will pay any amount. Our D is at a $50K/year school and we are paying the full amount. However, H has made a little noise about our son not being a serious student and it not being worth paying that much for him. I think we will have to sort that out down the road once we see what schools S applies to and what his attitude is. </p>
<p>One other criteria is that S would really like to take his dog along to college. I was thinking maybe his jr or sr year he could live in a house with other students and the dog. I don’t know if dogs are allowed in frat houses but the dog would really like that environment. </p>
<p>Sorry this got so long. I’m glad I found this thread. CC helped tons when my D was going through her college search but now with my S I feel like we are starting from the beginning again. </p>
<p>Thanks for any suggestions. </p>
<p>As to the person above with the child dropping an elective course - our high school doesn’t allow free periods unless it is the last period and the student signs out of school usually to go to a part-time job. My D left early senior year to go to a job and this worked out well.</p>
<p>I trust those who have 3.0-3.3 students will understand my excitement at my son’s 4.33 gpa for his 7th semester, thus continuing his now-three-semester upward trend and moving his gpa from a 3.27 to a 3.4! I am so proud of him for keeping his focus through midterm exams and giving himself the best possible shot at acceptance at the two schools who deferred him until receipt of his midterm grades. He’s in 4 AP’s and got A’s in the two AP’s that are the subjects he has specified as majors at each of the two schools. For gravy he also managed a student of the month award in one of those AP classes and a most improved award for the section he leads in one of his EC’s. Please forgive my immodesty–who else would “get it”? :)</p>
<p>dsulte- I am familiar with the Cal Lutheran campus as I used to live close to it. It’s a great area–safe, ideal climate, close to an excellent hospital (FWIW :)), close to the ocean. My only interaction with the campus was to go to a wonderful open air performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream many years ago.</p>
<p>^^COngrats!! is that 4.33 UW or weighted? if UW, that’s an amazing upward trend…even weighted, it sounds like he is well on his way!!</p>
<p>Yeah, weighted.</p>
<p>How could it be 4.33 UW?? If it’s above a 4.0 it’s weighted.</p>
<p>kathiep: some schools have different GPA scales especially on CC (some really weird ones actually)…</p>
<p>there are a couple I’ve seen here that are on a 5 point scale that have a 5.0 for an A or A+ in an AP course unweighted…
carry on…not for discussion in a 3.0-3.3 thread…sorry all!!</p>
<p>He got: A’s in APUSH and AP Physics
B+ in AP Lit
B in AP Calc AB
A’s in two unweighted classes</p>
<p>very sweet, schmoo…we are all rooting for him!!!</p>
<p>what school(s) was he deferred from? where is the best fit?</p>
<p>Schmoomcgoo - I will toast you with a glass of wine tonight! Wow!!! Could you share with us what your son did to earn such great grades?</p>
<p>dsultemeier - I had two learnings from our recent college searches. (we are under 3.0)</p>
<p>1)make sure your son applies to one or two safeties with rolling admissions. Do it as early as August so you have a good fall back and it removes some of YOUR stress. We had 2 acceptances in September - both Lutheran Colleges in the midwest.</p>
<p>2)If he is not the one initiating the visits then after you tour the colleges, let HIM be the one to initiate the dialogue. </p>
<p>Have you considered Rollins College in Florida?</p>
<p>UMich and Michigan State…and still waiting to hear from RPI, Syracuse, and RIT. In at Illinois Institute of Technology, CWRU, and (miraculously?) Purdue, Pitt, and Worcester Polytech.</p>