<p>DougBetsy, I agree with the suggestions to contact your school’s guidance office and see if they can possibly provide you with some kind of listing.</p>
<p>The year-end edition of our HS’s student newspaper–which is handed out immediately following the senior awards assembly–contains a listing of the graduating seniors and the colleges that they are going to. (It also contains all of the summer reading assignments for English & Social Studies classes.) However, it’s student-supplied info, which not everyone bothers to submit, but at least it give some kind of idea where different kids are going, which is fun to read. Normally, a significant majority of the kids go to in-state public universities and I can only imagine that that percentage has probably increased.</p>
<p>jackief - update on '10 son (per your inquiry on the '12 thread). </p>
<p>He finished school last week with all A’s for the semester ~ he made it through the first 3 years with only one B (by one point on the fall final and a very unreasonable teacher). He took the ACT twice and SAT once and is satisfied with his scores. He is very busy this summer (mission trip to Montana reservation, an Engineering exploratory camp, and Accounting exploratory camp, Boys State, spending time with his Little Brother (Big Brother/Big Sisters program) summer reading and assignments for AP Physics, AP English, and AP Euro, marching band starting at the beginning of August).</p>
<p>I think he has settled on applying to the state flagship universities in the region - U of Minnesota (first choice & dad’s alma mater), U of Iowa (mom’s alma mater), U of Nebraska, U of Wisconsin. He is hoping to be accepted to an honors program. We are full pay and just can’t bring ourselves to drop $50k + a year for a top-tier university for undergraduate school. </p>
<p>Hopefully he will have a few minutes to enjoy his friends and relax this summer, but it isn’t looking that way right now.</p>
<p>Sorry I haven’t been posting recently - I am on CC daily and enjoy reading what everyone else has to say. It sounds like everyone is doing great and getting ready for Senior year.</p>
<p>sounds like he is having a great year mom2010grad, don’t be a stranger We need the post counts! lol</p>
<p>wow on the Harvard app, way to begin June. My D is going to maybe do some drafts of the “why college X” questions and maybe a draft of a Chicago essay when their questions come out.</p>
<p>mom2010grad - D received that packet from Harvard yesterday! I was more excited about it than she was…lol. But I think WUSTL opened up the application season back in February or March, first with their online app, and a few weeks later with the paper version. And D got one from Boston College last week. Not sure whether any others have arrived.</p>
<p>D’s school newspaper also publishes a list of students and their colleges/after graduation plans. </p>
<p>Speaking of school newspapers, I was just wondering if any of your kids’ high schools publish an online edition? D’s school doesn’t, but I think parents would appreciate an online edition since many students don’t bring home copies for their parents to read.</p>
<p>jackief - good idea to get started on the “why college X” essays. Will have to have D check the old apps to see how long they’re supposed to be for her schools. Something tells me most of the schools D is applying to will want one of those.</p>
<p>how many kids do you think harvard bothers to send an app to?
i mean, i know those mailings are generally crap
but would the harvard one mean a little bit more than the Ohio State one …
or is that just wishful thinking
(i’m not dumb and actually think it means i’ll get in, but is it at least a good omen?)</p>
<p>rocket6louise - I was wondering why they bother to send them out randomly (without any expressed interest). If someone wants to go to Harvard I imagine they would figure out where to find the application. I’m not sure if they think people will just fill it out because they happen to receive it in the mail (thereby keeping their accepted and admitted statistics more desirable). My son has never expressed an interest and the application showed up in the mail out of the blue.</p>
<p>mom2010grad - I’m sure that’s exactly why they sent them out (so that people who received it will just fill it out/think they have a chance since they received it). I’m glad you mentioned receiving it though, because we visited last summer, and couldn’t remember whether they’d had D sign in on arrival. I think they did, but she didn’t have to fill out an information card. </p>
<p>rocket6louise - why not consider it a good omen? But really, I think they send out a lot of those applications.</p>
<p>Harvard is no different than any other school in this regard. They want to pump up applications so they can boast how selective they are. They’ve got the money to allow them to send out a ton of these applications packages, and so they do. They don’t send them to just everyone. They buy lists from the College Board of HS juniors who score above certain cut-offs on the PSAT and/or SAT (though I’m pretty sure they don’t see your actual score without your permission). Then they mail out the package to everyone on that list. It doesn’t mean they’ve taken a special interest in you, except insofar as you’re one of probably 50,000 or more students in a pool they’re encouraging to apply, with the expectation that nearly 30,000 actually will apply, of whom about 2,100 will be admitted, of whom about 1,600 will accept their offer of admission. But at this stage it’s OK to feel flattered that you’re one of the 50,000 to be invited to apply.</p>
<p>Honestly, the most exciting thing about getting that Harvard packet yesterday was getting a copy of the Common App to look at from now to July 1st.</p>
<p>Awww! We had thunder bumpers here (with precious little rain) which must have scared the dickens out of our two dogs. My neighbor called to say he found them in the unfenced front yard, having escaped from the back by ripping the bottom part of the wood gate off! </p>
<p>Our beautiful jacaranda trees in the area are finally fading. They are usually in their glory in May for the USC graduation but are pretty spent by the time our HS (and UCLA) graduation roll around in mid-late June. Too bad. There is a whole block of them near the HS so maybe a few are still okay for prom pictures this week.</p>
<p>teenage cliche-- i agree with you about having a hard copy of the common app, at least.
And Rocketlouise, I told my daughter that Harvard liked her enough to kill trees for her. (or at least part of a tree.)</p>
<p>FAP – We have a dog who is similarly freaked out by thunder, etc. She broke through our invisible fence, ran two miles down the road (and through major intersections) before getting hit by a car. This is a dog that never even goes near the line --we have to carry her out of the yard to take her on a walk. The only thing we can figure is that she slipped out of the house when DH was leaving for work, he never saw her, I wasn’t home, and she was so freaked that she tried to escape the rain. </p>
<p>Glad your neighbors saw your dogs before they took off and they got home safely. I have never cried as hard in my life as I did the weekend of the accident. Happily, after some very serious injuries, our dog has recovered beautifully and is now at about 95% of her usual self. Howver, she is still paranoid about storms. She piddled on DH’s dirty dress shirts while trying to hide in his closet last night. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>…it was just curiosity. I have no desire to go to harvard or any top 30 school to be quite honest. I’ve gotten a bajillion mailings all from places i’ve never heard of and didn’t ask for anything from
meanwhile the three schools i want to apply to and have requested info have sent me nothing</p>
We need the post counts! lol</p>