<p>no love for safeties here either. Son’s set on the 'reaches for everyone" kind of schools.</p>
<p>SaintSaens, that’s really a pity. Are they going to be able to make things work so that you can make the EA deadline?</p>
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<p>Ah yes, that’s another classic line I’ve heard. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>puma12, you can always volunteer to help spiff up the school profile. My D1’s school profile was badly laid out and lacked some info that other schools provide, so I offered to reformat. If they agree, then you can make it a bit less terse at the same time.</p>
<p>Hi, puma. </p>
<p>If your son is applying to schools that use CA, it asks there if the rank is weighted or not.</p>
<p>SaintSaens - Don’t worry. I think that GC have those deadlines, so they don’t have to process 100+ apps on the last day possible.</p>
<p>“Love thy safety” is a great maxim, but in reality it can be quite difficult for some students, and I sympathize with them.<br>
Many students want a school where they can be “one of the crowd” and where their stats are similar to the other students’ For some high-stats students, there are no schools which meet this criteria and also have a high acceptance rate! Their safeties are fine schools, but may have a much different feel than their reach schools.
I do think that most kids do “love their safety” if it becomes their only choice, and once they get there they find ways to make it work and have a great experience.
Sometimes I feel like my daughters are so accustomed to “aiming high” that they don’t really know how to be strategic.</p>
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<p>Were you the one with the AP Chem links last year? Any intel on the AP Physics?</p>
<p>fog^2, Remind me what I did last year?</p>
<p>fog - My S took AP Physics last year. Anything specific you want me to ask him? </p>
<p>S had no school today (end of qtr). I made no overtures towards him re: working on apps. By early afternoon, he was insulted. Thought I didn’t care. He is as busy as can bee now. Hmmm.</p>
<p>FlMathMom - great strategy!! I should try that with D sometime!</p>
<p>Glad to know we are not the only ones in the “no safety” I love camp. Slithey - I tend to be a bit pessimistic and overly cautious, so I’ve heard the “you have no faith in me” line a few times. I hate to see them get disappointed - it hurts me when they are down - so I try to keep expectations low. S has tryouts next week for sports/musicals at school - already dreading the week! He made both last year and was thrilled, but I can still remember the previous year when he didn’t make both :(</p>
<p>Have a good weekend folks! It’s miserable and rainy out here - nice weather to cuddle up on the couch and watch tv/movie. Perhaps that is exactly what we will do tonight - just don’t think about apps!!</p>
<p>Anyone else have a gifted son whose social skills haven’t developed as quickly as his intellectual skills? Just had one of those moments that makes me laugh and love him at the same time.</p>
<p>He has a friend who is a girl who spends lots of time at our house but they are not BF and GF. They went to prom together last year. Sometime last fall, he asked her with a beautifully decorated cake that he made with the help of a great guy friend who should be on cake boss. She is very involved in band and choirs and the musical and he didn’t want anyone in that group to ask her first. So he asked in November for the May prom.</p>
<p>So today, I went with her mother to buy supplies for a knitting project she is helping me with. She said, “did you know my D1 and your S2 are going to prom together again?” I said, “No, but I’m glad to hear it. When did that happen?”</p>
<p>Story: On Tuesday, he was driving her home from school (as usual-with a stop a Sonic) and she was responding from him to my text on his phone. (Nice, he was not texting and driving.) Then he got a text from girl #2, asking him if he would go to prom with her. This occurred while girl #1 was holding his phone. (I have suspected for a long time that girl #2 has a crush on S2). Girl #1 says: do you want me to answer her? S2 says: umm, I kind of thought you and I might go to the prom together again. G#1: Do you want to go to the prom with me? S2: Do you want to go with me? G#1: If you want to go with me. S2: Okay. G#1: do you want me text G#2 back? S2: Sure. Tell her I am going to the prom with you but she can join our group for dinner. G#1: Okay but do I still get a cake like last year?</p>
<p>I am staying quiet about this knowledge and wondering when he plans to tell his dad and me that he has a prom date seven months in advance–again.</p>
<p>I just love that story. No Prom Drama (“prama”) in the spring; I cannot even imagine!</p>
<p>D is finishing last two apps this weekend; first interview (for a scholarship) on Sunday. I get to check all the websites to see if we need to do the dreaded Profile or FAFSA for merit aid. I was hoping to avoid them since we won’t get need aid (although it will HURT to send those tuition checks)! </p>
<p>Happy weekend to all.</p>
<p>Love the prom story. Last year my 2011 son told us on Monday that a girl had invited him to go to prom on Saturday. Wow! It was quite the effort to get him a tux etc. on time. We never got to see him with the girl until I finally saw the picture she put on Facebook. He’d never taken anyone out so I wasn’t sure whether he had made up the date or not. He said it was fun.</p>
<p>D2 didn’t get asked to prom today (her school has a banquet instead), but as student body president it’s her job to choose the location which she finalized today with the advisor who modeled how to inquire about a deal on the price and see the asked price reduced! Now if some boy will just bake a cake and ask her. I’m willing to wait six or seven months to see this happen! </p>
<p>Opening night for the fall play is two weeks away. D2’s at rehearsal tonight. Hope all of you with musicals and plays are savoring the moment.</p>
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<p>Auditions for the musical are next week and I really truly don’t think D is going to try out. It will break my heart to not have a kid in the musical, but the show is High School Musical and D just doesn’t feel is worth the late nights, loss of sleep, etc. I can’t really disagree with her, but I wanted one more show.</p>
<p>olderwisermom, your son’s social skills are light years ahead of my son’s! He went to the football game tonight for the first time ever. We were stunned. The seniors had a tailgate party before the game. He has never gone to a school dance and I expect that record to continue for the rest of senior year.</p>
<p>My soph D will try out for the musical here next week (Les Miz). She doesn’t have much of a chance of making it, but I think it is good for her to try.</p>
<p>Woo! D just submitted her ED application! So exciting! She will submit an EA app next week after she has an admissions interview.</p>
<p>amandakayak-- I had to do the same thing with my son three years ago. I set up the application accounts for him (none were on the common app) and even filled in some of the basic information. It gave him the boost he needed to get 'er done! And he did, and got into all of them. Good luck to yours!</p>
<p>oregonianmom - I am soo jealous! Son would LOVE to apply ED to his favorite school, but I am just too skittish about finances. Having the ED done will boost your D’s confidence, I’m sure - and relieve some of the stress, too!</p>
<p>Agree, we would do ED if it wasn’t for the finances. I’ve had to talk a few kids down from submitting ED. They are just not used to anything being really binding. That phrase, “meet your demonstrated need” should not mean meeting the needs by gapping with loans.</p>
<p>olderwisermom, sweet story.</p>
<p>It’s 8:07. I’m supposed to be researching which of our schools require FAFSA, which Profile, and which their own form (I know we have at least one of those)…then moving on to gathering and organizing tax stuff for 2010.</p>
<p>See me procrastinating? I’m catching up on CC instead…I’m as bad as the kids with unwritten essays!</p>
<p>I’m going to try to buckle down now…right after I make some coffee and open the mail that’s accumulated over the week. Oh, look! A new People magazine! And some other bright, shiny objects!</p>
<p>Will post progress report around noon. Keep your expectations low.</p>
<p>It’s all swimming in my head and I can’t seem to form a coherent thought to share. Every time I think we’ve crossed a bridge it seems something’s been dropped along the way…double back, go back and get it. How can we possible be moving forward if we’re always running back? I just want to go back to bed.</p>
<p>I hope everyone has some positive forward motion, both on Fin-Aid forms, and student essays, GC forms, and applications. I’m just praying that the football games the four ‘y chromosome’ units in my house want to see do not totally disrupt from everything that needs to get done. They were up and out at 6am this morning to either work or ECs, but it will be hard to motivate them when they come home. I said nothing about the school fb game last night. We lost the day off this week to a migraine - you can’t argue when they are sick…but still nothing is getting done. This weekend is catch up time. I hate to fuss and be the bad guy.</p>
<p>Okay, maybe I had more to say than I thought. I’m sorry. There have just been so many things this week that have needed to be ‘fixed’ that we thought were done. This is why I keep telling my son he has to move forward and allow for things beyond his control to pan out (like LORs getting where they need to, etc.). If he waits until the last minute there is no time to address that.</p>
<p>I will be so glad when all of these are submitted and we verify that all admissions departments have everything they need!! Waiting is hard, but not as hectic!</p>
<p>Peace.</p>
<p>Morning all. </p>
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<p>^ That made me laugh!</p>