<p>momofsongbird-ditto here. My d prefers me to deal with this stuff! I am trying to transition the responsibility to her this year as I am cognizant that I won’t be there to be her “administrator” in college!</p>
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<p>Another one here who knows the login better than the child. S is actually unhappy with the gmail account H set up for him because he thinks the email name H used is queer. “but son you could have set one up yourself and didn’t” Of course, “hotabsgoingtocollege” probably wouldn’t have been approved.</p>
<p>Discussion of S’s SAT2 results last night ended up with a discussion of college stuff (other than visits) that need to get done this summer. I told S he needed to get the brag sheets for the teachers writing his recs done and gave him a week. roll of the eyes. then I mentioned once the brag sheets are done I would like him to start working on his essay. “are you kidding me?” No son I am not. “but it will only take a few hours to do” No son it won’t. “what are you talking about?” Well S lets start with the big mismatch between grades and SAT. How this essay needs to knock their socks off. How writing it once won’t cut it. How about several rewrites. How about having someone (like your AP english teacher read it??? you know how I asked you to ask him before summer vacation if he would do this???) </p>
<p>can I roll my eyes now?</p>
<p>BTW SDMomof3, congrats to your S on his great scores.</p>
<p>I know my son’s account and I always check - he wd never remember and cd never be bothered! He only had one SATII in Chem and got 780 yahoo. Hope bodes well for AP results next week which I am a lot more nervous about!</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone and their kids on the great SAT scores. Extra congrats for those who are done with the testing.</p>
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<p>Ditto here as well. But I prefer to think of myself as my S’s “manager”. :)</p>
<p>Son’s summer has been less productive than I expected when it comes to colleges. He reworked his resume and has 2-3 small essay drafts - but still a lot to work on. Our GC asks for the Student and Parent questionnaire and we did not complete them before the end of the school year. That has to be done before school starts. The college list has about 7 schools that are there permanently and 4-5 that are added/removed from the list almost daily.</p>
<p>Waiting for his AP scores, but not anxiously, and that is surprising. Last year I paid to hear his scores over the phone, now I think They are what they are. He wont be retaking them anyway. </p>
<p>Happy summer to everybody! And TGIF!!</p>
<p>I am calling for AP results starting Monday! And my son really has done nothing re colleges yet - his list is very long and uncertain, have had a few conversations re essays and that’s it!</p>
<p>I set up both kids SAT/ACT accounts, have their Naviance passwords, and actually set up their gmail accounts. ShawSon, he of the rather severe dyslexia, was happy for me to check things for him. I got him a Blackberry when he went off to college as his school seemed to run on email (e.g., email at 10 suggesting that a group meet at 3, which you wouldn’t get unless he went back to the dorm or elsewhere to check email). But, he never wrote emails on the berry until this month, when emails from Europe are free (or very cheap) and calls are $2 per minute. ShawD is fine with me checking on that stuff as well. I also got them Google Voice numbers and other techno stuff. Let them focus on school work and friends and, later, college apps. I just gave ShawD my old Blackberry Curve and she is 9th heaven.</p>
<p>When are AP scores sent by mail?</p>
<p>Shawbridge
Like you-I admin/manage the junk mail, college board, test registrations etc. however
You have got it down–I am taking notes
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<p>Good question–when do those AP scores get mailed…I am wondering if I need to call for them–as our student is also talking to coaches–though they already have the transcripts, ACT score and SAT2s, resume etc…</p>
<p>Here is the AP link
<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;
<p>Our hs GCs required the questionaires etc back during the school year too–both the parent and student ones were handed in–and we recently sent updated resume with SAT scores released yesterday…</p>
<p>I hear from our hs gc that the common AP which isn’t available until August 1 or so–will delete the accounts --so if you have created one–you had better print out info you have been gathering as it will vanish…</p>
<p>Definitely the administrator in the process here; however, this year I must start passing the job to my S. He has watched me thru the ‘process’ for the last year. He will do some things the same way and will develop his own way for others. </p>
<p>At the beginning of the summer, he asked me to set up a calendar for ‘Mom’s college application school’. He has three - four weeks that he is not working or going to a class. I assigned each application two days to get drafted. In addition, he is the incoming Math Team President so I assigned us time to work on that and a bunch of other college and school items. </p>
<p>He likes seeing it laid out on an Outlook calendar. It is easy to amend if need be. He still finds it tough to create the calendar himself (we’ll work on that this year), but he’s great about following it.</p>
<p>Did any of your kids take language SAT2’s on June 5?
S should probably retake, but it would be good to have a frame of reference.</p>
<p>My Daughter has finished her visits and given us her top three choices: 1) Cornell ED (College of Human Ecology, Human Development) 2) University of Rochester 3) SUNY Geneseo. Cornell is a reach but what she wants. 1350 SAT’s, top 5% of class, excellent leadership & excellence in her EC’s, Great letters of Rec., I think she can show “fit” in her essay, BUT… low Math II subject test score (590) and only a 640 on SAT I math. She’s working on her essays. I’m pretty confident she’ll get into Geneseo & U of R and see her liking and being successful at either school.</p>
<p>My son has the option to pick up his school report card but says he’ll just wait till they mail it out. He said the results are the same whether he gets the info now or later, so he sees no rush. But what about the mom who is dying to know? (and no they won’t give the report cards to parents. They say if the kid doesn’t pick it up, they will mail it home.)</p>
<p>Well, she did check her scores finally, without any more prodding. She didn’t get a WOW score, but she did fine (probably better than fine, but I am getting jaded due to cc standards!). She was unhappy with her Math II scores. No decision yet on whether she’s going to retake. Left for Mexico this morning pretty happy - I told her to forget all about college stuff till she’s back next week. First order of business next week when she gets back is to go over the spreadsheet, analyze chances realistically and then set up visits/interviews with any remaining schools.</p>
<p>SDMom - I do have her account information - if she had not checked before she left for Mexico, I would have logged on to check. I was just giving her a chance to look at the scores first. Our school is not sending home report cards this year - we need to log on and check the grades. Was kind of interesting since I got to find out their grades before they did!!</p>
<p>We have a sort of an interesting dilemma with her scores. She took the SAT, SAT IIs (2 of them) and the ACT. Her ACT score is better (if only marginally!) than her SAT score. SAT IIs as I mentioned are good scores, but no 780/800 scores. Is she better off sending the ACT scores to the schools that accept these, without the SAT scores? Or should she go ahead and send all three in to all schools? I think more research is in store for me on this one.</p>
<p>I always advocate sending as many good scores as you have. The more info you provide to Admissions, the better picture they have of you. If they see that you are building on strengths, that is always good.</p>
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<p>S only took WH, Lit and Math 2. If you go here you can find percentile tables for previos tests that may give you an idea where your S’s scores stand.</p>
<p>[SAT</a> Data Tables](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research/sat/data-tables]SAT”>SAT Suite of Assessments - College Board Research)</p>
<p>S’s school posts everything online:homework, assignments, references,report cards, attendance, etc. Report cards are mailed home but only after they are posted online.</p>
<p>You can get AP scores by calling college board on July 1 (or often a few days before).</p>
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That makes sense, but consider this, though it may not be relevant for many people. </p>
<p>I posted this in the financial aid forum. My D is almost certainly assured of admission to her top-choice school. All her stats, ECs, “fit” are at the top of their applicant pool. So what we are focused on is not Admissions, but Merit Aid. We’re shooting for their top academic scholarship.</p>
<p>Requirements are ACT 33 or better OR SAT 2180 or better (plus about 5 other criteria that she well exceeds (except the scholarship interview, which won’t happen til next year, but she interviews very well and is passionate about the school).</p>
<p>So…her ACT score is 34. She beats the requirement of 33. But her SAT is 2170. Ten points under the 2180. My question was: Do we send JUST the ACT, since we know she’ll be admitted, and that score gets her into the pool for the merit scholarship we’re hoping for? Does it weaken things (scholarship-wise) if we also send the SAT, which is 10 points below the minimum?</p>
<p>So far I’ve had one reply from a mom who advised me NOT to send the SATs in this case. Her D had a very, very similar experience, and it kept her from being invited to interview for the scholarship (as best as mom could tell…everything else was good-to-go).</p>
<p>So in some cases, maybe it’s not always best to send everything. Even though, for this school, 2180 is a great score for Admission, it’s not the “super-great” for the top scholarship, and we do have the “super-great” in the ACT score.</p>