<p>Yes, booklady-absolutely. My eyes were crossing looking at them.</p>
<p>Queenâs Mom - I think D received mail from most of those schools last week (Seton Hall, Siena, etc.), and I think I posted about the open house invitation for Loyola Maryland yesterday. </p>
<p>northeastmom - Siena is definitely a Catholic College in upstate NY. My friendâs S goes there and absolutely loves it.</p>
<p>Iâm not really reading it either. There has to be something compelling in the first couple of sentences, or Iâm passing. Carletonâs mass mailing was catchy because it specifically mentioned in the first paragraph dsâs likely NHRP status and that the school gives $2k a year for that.</p>
<p>Yes, I know Siena is a good school. The person that I know has a relative who teaches there and she wanted her kids to apply, but they did not want to go there.</p>
<p>Here are more that we got: College of St. Rose, Fordham, Wesley College (never heard of it), Champlain, Hartwick, New England College, and Gettysburg. </p>
<p>The ones listed above were our latest batch.</p>
<p>Youdonâtsay, Dâs best friend from high school goes to Carleton and loves it. Sheâs a very outdoorsy girl, is majoring in Geology (one of their strengths) and finds the kids quirky and fun. It is really, really cold up there, though!</p>
<p>Yes, we got Gettysburg too. There were really too many to actually remember. I think we got Union College (Upstate NY I think) too. Know nothing about that one either.</p>
<p>D is really sticking to her ânothing with cold weather unless itâs in NYCâ stance. I really think sheâs avoiding dealing with the whole college thing.</p>
<p>Dâs about to up the spam filter - bombarded by college of zero interest. The service that manages this is mucking up the job. PSAT intended major was Engineering. So why all the mail from LAC? She just deletes it all at this point. Same with US mail.</p>
<p>These college are wasting their/parents money.</p>
<p>Booklady, the snowy pics are intimidating to this Texan: [Carleton</a> College: Cowling Arboretum: Carleton College Cowling Arboretum](<a href=âhttp://apps.carleton.edu/campus/arb/]Carletonâ>http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/arb/)</p>
<p>But the kids look totally fun: [About</a> CANOE](<a href=âhttp://orgs.carleton.edu/CANOE/about.html]Aboutâ>http://orgs.carleton.edu/CANOE/about.html)</p>
<p>Again, however, note the snow in secretary and gear manager pics. BRRRRR!</p>
<p>Okay I pulled out the dedicated college box just to see what came, and there are many more than I mentioned: Lesley, Central Pennsylvania College (never heard of it), St. Peters, Long Island U., Rider, Southern New Hampshire U (never heard of it), Arcadia, Albright, Ursinus, and Castleton, plus all of the ones listed above.</p>
<p>zoosermom,
CWU and Oberlin are about 45 minutes apart. Of course, if you drive (as a fellow NYâer) like me, that distance could be shortened. :D</p>
<p>As for those asking about AP scores, a score of 3 is equated to a grade of âCâ in a college course, a 4 is a âB,â and a â5â is an A. Colleges rarely grant credit or advanced standing for a score of 3, and a number of colleges will recognize scores of 4 or 5.</p>
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So, what 20 minutes? (He he!) Seriously, that sounds pretty do-able.</p>
<p>Iâm an infrequent poster but occasionally look at this thread because my younger son is a 2010 kid. The floodgates finally opened yesterday regarding mail â 19 colleges. I wonât remember them all, but they included Swarthmore, Williams, Beloit, TCU, Ithaca, NYU, Creighton, Franklin W. Olin, Drake and Rensselaer. My wife and I were duly impressed. Our son, as usual, was totally uninterested. As with all previous mail, it sits unopened (or at least unread â occasionally my wife slits an envelope and peeks inside) on the dining room table. We also segregate all e-mails received from colleges to a dedicated mailbox for him. He hasnât looked at it.</p>
<p>Our son is a very bright kid and we have tried talking to him about how important it is that we get the process moving (especially in light of financial uncertainties) but a three minute conversation about college seems to be his limit.</p>
<p>Any ideas for how we can get him a little more engaged?</p>
<p>MilwDad, my kid is not exactly doing âcollege researchâ, but has been willing to talk about it and visit some schools. I have noticed that some parents get their kids kids interested through a passion (ie: take him to a college football/basketball game and tour before the game). I know some other of my sonâs friends became more interested after a granparent took them to tour to schools within a couple of hours of our home. Having a friend with them made the difference.</p>
<p>S2 has been getting about ten envelopes a day lately. Lots of LACs and some of the other usual suspects. Good for DH to see that there are plenty of fine schools who find S2 a desirable prospect!</p>
<p>What seems to get S2 motivated about colleges is to actually go visit a few. It gets him thinking about what he does/doesnât like, and then he comes back and toodles around on the websites looking for more. If you donât have a list yet, MilwDad, try to visit schools within a short drive (large, small, urban, rural) just to get the flavor of different options. From there your S may develop some opinions. Sometimes kids just assume theyâre going to attend a nearby public and all is well, so they never get stressed out about a search.</p>
<p>S1 was highly motivated for his college selection process and devoted tons of time to it. He had some very specific considerations that made his options a bit more limited. The process is not happening the same way with S2, but heâs a different kid and is not looking for the same things in a college, which gives him more good choices.</p>
<p>I was 4 pages behind when I got a chance to read this today! We are not getting much college mail, I donât want to feel unloved, but D isnât looking at it much anyway. We did get the Dennison pencil, she wasnât impressed. I remember thinking about Dennison last year when we got some stuff for them talking about their merit aid. Also on Kenyon, D was interested in them for a while because they had quirky mailings. They were on the list because of the mailings and that a teacher she likes went there. She does get flooded in her college email acct with tons of mail she doesnât read.</p>
<p>Thanks to all who share my pain across cyberspace over the dropping of AP classes at our HS next year. Iâm told itâs all a numbers game but sometimes it just doesnât compute.</p>
<p>Let me see if I can answer all the questions.</p>
<p>Pass rate: This means scoring a 3 or higher on the AP exam. So a pass rate of 15% for an AP class isnât great, especially when the national average pass rate is 55%. This was our HS for AP Chem. In most other areas, they were within +/- 5% of the national average, except for Macro Econ (exceeded by 21%) US History (exceeded by 35%) and Studio Art (exceeded by 37% but then we have AVPA (Audio, Visual & Performing Arts) Academy and a major motion picture studio in town.)</p>
<p>Relation of AP classes to budget cuts: Class size reduction is going to be thrown under the bus in CA so this severely impacts lightly enrolled AP classes. This is what Iâm told, yet when I point out with their own numbers that AP Chem has 21 students this year and AP Bio has only 10 (as does AP Physics), so why is it that AP Bio is the only remaining AP science class? No one has an answer for me. It does appear that the AP Bio teacher is most successful is getting students to pass the AP exam so ⊠Go with your strength?</p>
<p>All I know is that 17 AP classes are offered in the current year. The four being dropped for next year are AP French, AP Calc BC, AP Physics and AP Chemistry. </p>
<p>Weâll work it out somehow for our S. He already maxed out on science credits. He may just double down on math next year and take MV Calc on line plus AP Stats. However, I know plenty of families with rising sophomores and juniors and they arenât liking how this picture looks.</p>
<p>zm,
Weâre actually going to be in the Cleveland area for a family function later in March, so we are going to zip over to visit Oberlin. Itâs actually about 35 miles from CWU, so your estimate of about 20 minutes seems about rightâŠ</p>
<p>In todayâs mail: Utica College, St. Johnâs U, College of St. Rose (another mailing), and Monmouth College.</p>
<p>Todayâs mail bonanza-Chicago, CalTech, Macalaster, College of St. Rose, Colgate, Skidmore, Richmond-quite the spread, donât ya think?</p>