<p>Congrats tennismom!</p>
<p>collegeshopping - maybe now they have the essay score in and it bumped the composite. In any case, good news!</p>
<p>S made nice progress over the weekend. Submitted his EA and 1 RD apps, finished his NMF app and one scholarship application. Another RD app is almost ready, we just need to print it and review before submitting, but it has to wait. Very busy with hw right now.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your encouraging words. My school does everything early so my EA deadline is this Friday! I wanted to apply early to UMich to make it a safety but don’t see that happening now. My teachers won’t write my recommendation letters till I finish my essays so EA is not gonna happen anymore. I also plan to apply Rolling to UPitt, hopefully I can get that done soon.</p>
<p>momofsongbird, I have people visiting for the next two weeks so I highly doubt I can get started sometime before Oct 15, especially since I have SAT this Saturday but I will try, maybe on Wed or something.</p>
<p>camathmom and pepper - tell them they’re not alone! I’ve not studied much for my SATs either and the practice tests don’t sound very promising, but there’s still time so fingers crossed. I’m doing IB and almost drowning in the amount of work I have.</p>
<p>Congrats tennismom! Wake Forest is such a good school. I can just imagine how amazing that feels.</p>
<p>Great job S2 of Tennismom!! Time to drop that backpack on the ground.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the Congratulations. You guys make me smile.</p>
<p>Yay tennismom!</p>
<p>Thanks Putturani-nice to get a perspective from “the other side”.</p>
<p>S is off tonight to the HS practicing for the big Senior event which is held the end of November-is that great timing or what! It seems to be taking more time than his college work-well I think it has-but part of me thinks they need the relief.</p>
<p>I like what I think BI wrote-a McAnswer about our kids-they’re just good kids! Easy to forget when I get caught up in all these deadlines-</p>
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<p>yup, up til 11:30 helping with corrections on an AP Physics test and up at 4:30 this morning. No I didn’t do it for him, but gave him appropriate pushes in the right direction when needed. Sometimes, I think he just gets overwhelmed and can’t get going.</p>
<p>D2 having a fun Senior year!! Mom of D2 frustrated and exhausted!! D2 has started her apps and some of her essays but her life just seems to get in the way. Homecoming was this past weekend and she was busy preparing for homecoming all week and weekend. On top of that she had a XC meet out of town on Saturday. Guess who was the lucky person to drive 3 hours to the meet watch for 35 minutes and then rush to get back into the car and drive 3 hours back home! I was hoping she would spend some time working on her college apps and essays on Sunday but she needed to study with friends. I am frustrated and tired of the procrastination!! Oh well, just needed to vent. Hopefully, she will get on it this week. If i say anything to her about working on the apps she just tells me not to worry and she has it all figured out:)</p>
<p>Congratulations to tennismom and tenniskid!</p>
<p>TessaR, as the mother of a fellow fun-loving, busy procrastinator, I feel your pain.</p>
<p>Congrats to your S, tennismom! Does he want to play football at WF?</p>
<p>Right there with you. It’s tech week for the play, and I have pledged to myself to say not one single word about college, the ACTs, or anything else. She can have her fun for now; really we’re all excited about it.</p>
<p>My college D is terribly anxious already about what she will do all year. Frankly although I commend her for working on it and trying to get something in place, I’m also reminding her to enjoy college while it lasts. After much agonizing, she has decided to take a “frivolous” trip with her college EC in January - I’m glad, because as she says, it’s her last chance.</p>
<p>This D also made me crazy as a HS senior being slow with essays and apps - she’s the one who applied only to her ED school and would not even look at the other apps until the day after she heard back from them in December. When I asked if she really thought this was wise (her safety had a rep of filling up with early rolling admits in the fall) she’d say, “Then I’ll take a gap year.” As it was, she did get accepted, but she was ready to take the consequences of her choice. She wanted to do it her way. Yeow, that’s rough on parents.</p>
<p>It’s the HS senior thing … and somehow thousands of kids manage to make it work out eventually. Good thing we all have each other!</p>
<p>I’m just happy because 2011 son hit “submit” on his Purdue application today. Scholarship essay was finally done and pretty good, I think. Hopefully good enough to get him a little money. IU was such an essay app that I did it for him. No essay since there is guaranteed merit aid based on grades and scores. Now we’ll see if he’ll fill out the Common App for a couple more schools…Submitted 2012 daughter and 2014 son’s summer study abroad scholarship apps this week, too. Glad to have that done.</p>
<p>Apollo 6: our 2011 son hit “submit” on the Purdue application yesterday. We are OOS but he is very interested in the engineering program–and should qualify for in-state tuition based on his ACT scores. One more application to go–just need the IB Language Arts teacher to finish her review of the essays. Then we will be done with applications and can move on to scholarships.</p>
<p>Our community’s oldest and most prestigious senior recognition program has an app due Nov. 1 (but Oct. 18 to the GC.) They select 10 boys and 10 girls from the two counties based on grades, ECs, community service and teacher recs. The students then participate in a community project, take tours of location landmarks, get some etiquette education–and learn to ballroom dance for the final cotillion. Each student is guaranteed $1,000; top boy and girl get $2,000 each. Not a ton of money, but a nice tradition established by some wealthy families a long time ago. And a big deal in our little corner of the world.</p>
<p>ahhhh…the SUBMIT button…so close…yet so far away…</p>
<p>^^^Amen!^^^</p>
<p>Congrats tennismom! How exciting!</p>
<p>One of the things that really caught D’s attention about one of the 6 colleges on her list was a student interview in one of the college books (Insider’s Guide?) saying that they’re all procrastinators and it’s a real bonding experience. She really lit up; more people like her! Nice school - can’t say I’m as thrilled about the procrastination thing. I share the group excitement about the SUBMIT button concept…</p>
<p>hi guys, haven’t written in for a few days. first of all, congrats to all who are receiving good news! </p>
<p>swamped here w/ client work as well as the kids’ stuff. like many of you, i’m hitting my wall. i feel exhausted and live w/ a constant low level agitation all because of this process. </p>
<p>we keep hitting snafus. S got a copy of his transcript which he needed to sign off on and it had 4 errors. in the end he had to write a letter re: the problem and meet w/ 3 people! others problems too but i won’t mention them here. he submitted his first app last fri to a safety rolling school but we noticed that while his GC submitted her rec, his teachers haven’t submitted theirs. they agreed last april to write the letters, he sent them his early school list the first full week of school but apparently they haven’t written them yet. the problem: this university brings your file to committee as soon as they receive the required elements of the app and the teachers’ recs are not required. the main reason he is applying is for full merit aid. could really use those recs! </p>
<p>meanwhile, he hasn’t been able to work on applications AT ALL the last two weeks because he’s buried in school work – 3 essays due each week, exams, AP computer projects, etc., studying for the SAT II math 2 and fencing; life for him is so unbalanced. thank god he just about finished one of his EA and his ED apps (just has to shorten his activity sheet) before school began in earnest. but another of his top choices is also EA, has 3 essays of which he’s only written a very rough draft of the longest. don’t know if he will make the deadline. it will be what it will be, and that’s that. i’ve told him to do the best he can this long weekend but if the app isn’t up to snuff for him, he’s better off sending it RD but perfected.</p>
<p>as far as number of schools on his list: currently 14 but 4 have supplements w/out essays. i’ve had him prioritize the list so that his apps w/ essays are done according to his level of interest in the school. if he doesn’t get to some at the end of the list, it won’t be the end of the world since his safety app is the only one already submitted and his favorites will be covered.</p>
<p>i see the light at the end of this long tunnel which our family entered the summer before junior year. yet right now it feels like we’re in a bottleneck. sort of like there must be a lot of rubbing necking ahead of us and we’re stuck. he has so much to do, so little time free to do it. it’s not even a matter of procrastination. there simply isn’t time available.</p>
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<p>That is why it is so scary when kids wait until Christmas break to dash off their applications last minute, even if they are applying to only safeties. There are computer glitches, glitches in some of the schools’ online app forms, transcript problems, rec letter problems, etc etc.</p>
<p>"he sent them his early school list the first full week of school but apparently they haven’t written them yet. "</p>
<p>Did he give them a list or provide them with addressed, stamped envelopes and a form…or at least a sheet of paper with his name, HS Name, and college name? At our HS, we are asked to provide the teachers with addressed, stamped envelopes and forms. I know people who add a stampled post card addressed to the student with a check off…something like "School X has received a recommendation form for you from Teacher Y on [fill in the date].</p>
<p>If people don’t mind, could we list errors found in transcripts so others might know what to watch out for?</p>
<p>I got my sons yesterday. It looked correct. I am usually pretty keen on details, however I would hate to see something later. </p>
<p>Exceptionally rough draft of one of the more important essays last night made it’s way to me. He said it started as an outline but kind of turned into a draft. I loved where he was going with it. The tone, the feeling, it was all totally ‘him’. A part of him I know very well, but even most of his close friends don’t see. It was quirky without being contrived. I hope he doesn’t ‘over-edit’ to the point that this original vibe is lost. I think it’s an important side of him.</p>
<p>2boysima: his school has its own school list form (it includes all salient info, including not just the colleges deadlines but also the dates you would like your LOR submitted, so i.e. for his ED/EA he requested mid-oct submission and for his rolling, last week of sept) that you give to the teachers. All the teachers submit their letters online. he noticed last night that his GC submitted her rec but the teachers had received their online invite from him but hadn’t submitted anything yet. since they are doing this online, he won’t require a return post card; he can track everything for all his schools online.</p>