<p>zoosermom, if you are an early riser, you could start checking at 5 a.m. EST. That’s been my experience as to when the scores are posted. (Don’t tell my kids!) ;)</p>
<p>My D sat in on three classes today at Harvard. She thought they were, respectively: very good, really good, and extremely good. We then went to an info session where they told us that this year the admit rate will be about 6%. I have already started the grieving process in anticipation of that rejection letter next year. </p>
<p>FAP, that is a super class rank and his college level math classes will certainly impress those that matter…and of course, all of us (who don’t matter!).</p>
<p>About HS grades, my D’s old school weighted AP and Honors classes equally (I think they were scored out of 5). The new schools weighs AP only, again scoring out of 5 for AP.</p>
<p>vp - a 6% admit rate! I’ll join you in the grieving process as it’s on my D’s list too.</p>
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<p>I know I’m impressed!</p>
<p>6%? Isn’t that about the chance of being struck by lightning while playing golf in Florida? It’s a joke. They have to reject tons of really qualified kids and I really don’t get why so many people want to go there when there are tons of colleges which are just as good.</p>
<p>Anyone who has a student applying to schools with a sub 10% acceptance rate should also buy at least one lottery ticket at the same time. :)</p>
<p>My DH gets contacted by the press periodically when the lottery amount gets high in CA. One time, to show what the odds were like, he said if you had bought one ticket a day since the time of Jesus, you’d still have only a 50% of winning the big one in all of that time.</p>
<p>FAP - That’s an awesome rank! I’m impressed. </p>
<p>I haven’t been around much recently, but am trying to keep up. Other than the new puppy and a 4-day vacation, one of my distractions is a crisis in my sister’s family. If you are led, please pray that my sister, BIL, and 2 nieces can find resolution and forgiveness so that they may return to a happy, peaceful family condition.</p>
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<p>Hey, you folks are my virtual people so yes, your impressions do matter. I’m happy to know there’s such a dedicated group of parents out there. People who really care.</p>
<p>It shows. Our country will be the better for it, and right now at this time of economic upheaval, it’s very important.</p>
<p>Anyone going on Spring Break College Visits? If so, where to? </p>
<p>(I apologize if this has already been talked about - I didn’t read the previous 277 pages!!)</p>
<p>We are visiting University of Illinois, Northwestern, and Wheaton. </p>
<p>Beth</p>
<p>Between March 28 and April 25, we will visit…
Franklin and Marshall
Bucknell
Dickinson
St. Mary’s of Maryland
Lafayette</p>
<p>Then nothing 'til our Southern Schools Road Trip in June.</p>
<p>We are going to Atlanta and have Agnes Scott, Georgia Tech and Emory on our list.</p>
<p>D has been getting excited about Agnes Scott lately. It does look nice and is a low match for her (I think-who knows anymore). Does anyone know anything about it. The other two are a lot easier to research.</p>
<p>Oh, and DougBetsy, my thoughts and prayers for your sister and her family. Maybe it will help to know that my H and I went through a very rough patch a few years ago, but thank, G-d, we have weathered it and our relationship is stronger for it.</p>
<p>We are going to Boston for part spring break but not looking at any schools! Visiting family, and S is not particularly interested in any of the Boston schools. We’re slackers, I know…</p>
<p>But we should definitely think about a short road trip in the few days that will be left.</p>
<p>We’re going to Pittsburgh for the first couple of days of spring break in April to see UPitt. We’re trying to convince S to also look at some LACs on the way back: Gettysburg, Franklin & Marshall, etc. So far, he’s not interested. </p>
<p>DougBetsy, my prayers are with your sister and her family. Like QM, my husband and I also went through a difficult period in our relationship a number of years ago, but our marriage is now better than it ever was before.</p>
<p>Too many varsity lacrosse games scheduled during our April break. Trying to squeeze in a trip to Northeastern and/or BC during one day, and maybe Williams on another, but on the off-days S2 has to be back for practice in the evening. Really wanted to take on overnight to Syracuse. Looks like that will be a summer trip (not the most realistic view of cold, dreary Syracuse, I know).</p>
<p>Morning All. Momof3sons got me laughing already with her 5 am parental score check. We’re heading South first in April: UVA, W&L, Duke, UNC and W&M then North one week later: Swathmore, U of Penn, Yale, Columbia. Split between two parents. How do I find the smlle button?</p>
<p>We’re taking a pre-Spring Break road trip at the end of next week to see Birmingham Southern & University of Alabama-Birmingham. Over Spring Break, we are scheduled to go see University of Georgia. I have a professional conference at the end of the week, but we may add another trip in there somewhere.</p>
<p>Daughter is going to see Colgate and Fairfield on her break, then the interviews at Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr are coming up pretty soon after.</p>
<p>I am also planning to schedule an Ohio trip sometime this summer for Case Western and whatever else is around there that D might agree to see. There will be some schools that D applies to which we will not be able to visit. If they become real contenders after acceptances, we will have to look at them then.</p>
<p>FindAPlace - can you please have your DH calculate the odds of my D getting admitted to H (or P) along with the odds of me winning the lottery? LOL Hey, she knows her chances of getting accepted to some of the schools on her list are extremely slim, but she also knows that if she doesn’t apply, she has no chance at all of being admitted, so she’s willing to give it a shot.</p>
<p>DougBetsy - sending my prayers over to your sister’s family and hoping for a good outcome. </p>
<p>How’s Batman doing? </p>
<p>Maybe we’ll run into each other at Lafayette this April. Not sure which day we’ll be there, but sometime during the week after Easter.</p>
<p>Archiemom - it’s so hard balancing the sports with everything else, isn’t it? My D will likely miss a game or two over her spring break while we’re visiting colleges. They coaches are pretty understanding, but they won’t be thrilled.</p>
<p>We’re going to be visiting U. Pittsburgh (booklady, our paths may cross), Kenyon, Indiana University - Bloomington, Oberlin and University of Rochester. At some point, maybe during the summer, we’ll hopefully get over to U. Maryland and/or Goucher.</p>
<p>DougBetsy, D and I recently visited Franklin & Marshall. It was kind of a spur-of-the-moment trip, as she happened to have a half day off of school and F&M isn’t too far away. D was impressed, F&M really exceeded her expectations. Enjoy your visit there. Hoping for a positive resolution for your sister and her family.</p>
<p>Good luck to all whose kids (or who, themselves) took the most recent SAT. D decided to pass on this sitting, but will be taking the subject tests in May and retaking the SAT I in June. Hopefully there won’t need to be any re-takes in the fall.</p>
<p>Queen’s Mom - has your D considered Denison at all? A few people were discussing it on the 09 thread, and I looked it up and it looks like a great school - maybe a safety for your D? I just thought of it because you mentioned going to Ohio to look at Case Western. </p>
<p>Zoosermom - curious to hear what you and your D think about Colgate. While you’e there, it might be worthwhile to check out Hamilton (not sure if they offer classics though).</p>