<p>Keylimepie - If I were you I would gently insist on one rolling admission app. It is a HUGE stress relief to have one acceptance in your hand as you sit and wait for the Mar/April madness.</p>
<p>Can’t say enough about having a rolling admissions school or two on the list.</p>
<p>We may be one and done. S applied to UC (NOT the assorted UC schools everyone here thinks of…but University of Cincinnati!) and was admitted yesterday. Wanted a school with big time sports, loved the school after he visited and was the one application he willingly and enthusiastically completed by early October - even their brief, but school specific, essay. Was admitted within a week of his application being complete (UC doesn’t accept electronic transcripts and school reports…so after two weeks of our son’s daily checking to see if application was complete… it took a reminder to the GC office to get the paperwork in!)</p>
<p>When people asked, he said UC was his first choice. I encouraged him NOT to state a first choice, in case he didn’t get in…but he ignored my advice! Fortunately, the division he applied to had an acceptance rate above 75% He’s a B student with average test scores. He did not apply to one of UC’s more competitive programs…but, as a parent, it’s nice knowing they have some top rated programs and an honors college so that there will be intellectual diversity on the campus.</p>
<p>Older child was an academic superstar and attended HYPMS school. Process has been completely different for this child, but older child was admitted to EA school, so waiting until end of March to hear from the others wasn’t too stressful. Having this 2011 HS grad know he’s into school has lifted a huge weight from the rest of senior year! </p>
<p>We’re just trying to make sure he won’t have “buyers remorse” if he doesn’t complete a couple of other applications, but I’m not pushing it too hard. He’s completed basic application and we’ve sent scores to Pitt (school very similar to Univ of Cincinnati) as well as IU-Bloomington, Penn State, Michigan State and Univ of Minn as other big time sports schools. All are out of state and a slight reach – but students with similar stats from our East Coast HS have been admitted. Haven’t hit the “submit” button for any of these applications yet because, as a slight reach, would need to do an essay…which will be almost impossible to get done, now that he has his first choice admit.</p>
<p>Reviens,
I can relate, now that my S has his first choice admit plus schol it has been very hard for him to complete the main essay for the common ap. But, he finally did it yesterday. Although we all feel 95% he will choose his current admit and we have already deposited, he didn’t want to be in a position of “what if” come May 1. The great thing about a top state flagship though is that even if the major choice changes you are likely to be covered.</p>
<p>Raviens, Congratulation to you and your S on the UC acceptance! It’s wonderful to be accepted so early to your #1 school.</p>
<p>Kajon, I agree with you on the benefits of the rolling admission schools. But S does not succumb to my gentle insistence. He has several safety schools that he should have no problems getting into. And he would be happy at any of them. He just doesnt want to apply where he has no intention to matriculate and maybe take a spot from someone who would be happy there.</p>
<p>Ugh. D receives an email from her teacher who had not uploaded/completed the recommendation online. He asked her to give him hardcopy forms for the EA apps and said that he would figure out the online stuff when he has time. Really? Three weeks after she invited him?? D printed out the hard copy forms and took addressed envelopes in this morning.</p>
<p>She was very proactive last night - did a rewrite of her essay, finished up several of the other pending items. Now, the ball’s in my court - to review the essay! Once that’s done and finalized, she should be ready to hit the submit button (after reading each line through of course!) Thanks to the warnings here, we’ll try and do this sometime this week, preferably before the weekend!!</p>
<p>Reviens - congratulations on the acceptance.</p>
<p>Reviens: Congratulations! How wonderful for your son to already have an acceptance to his top choice. I tend to be cautious, so if he were my child, I’d try to encourage him to pick 2 of the other schools and send in applications.</p>
<p>My daughter has submitted 5 applications and now we’re in just checking to see if everything has been received. Of course, her ED school still hasn’t sent the confirmation email with the ID she needs to check on things! Another school says that they never received the ACT scores we requested weeks ago. Another one says that her transcript is missing, even though they sent a postcard back to her HS saying they received it. Oy!</p>
<p>^^ Oy! is how I feel right now too.</p>
<p>Huzzah to your son, Reviens!</p>
<p>Just went to the post office to mail a single page optional non-essay. I love how the automated postage machines allow you to send return receipt requested during all hours. This (and the signed ED agreement) were the two things that we had to send via snail mail. D1’s school will send transcripts and counselor recs by snail mail as well.</p>
<p>Pushing, gently or otherwise 
to apply to a rolling admissions school sadly doesn’t always produce the desired result. I’ve gotta say that otherwise D1 is being an absolute star. She’s organized,knows what deadlines are coming up, who she needs to remind to submit LORs, and what apps and essays she’ll be working on after Nov 1. </p>
<p>Has anyone ever heard of an alumni interviewer offering to come to the student’s house? The alum is older and successful. He also suggested meeting at a local restaurant. I told D1 that a neutral meeting spot would be better, since the focus will be on D1 with no diversions due to parents, sister, or dog. :)</p>
<p>My oldest’s first interview was at our house. We cleared out before he got there, and my son called when he was finished. In our case we live in a rural area, and the alum traveled a little over an hour to get here. He had a doctor appointment in the area so wanted to save us the trip of going to his town.</p>
<p>Yesterday I email S2’s GC office to make sure all the documents had gone out for an EA deadline. No response. Today I send another email and wait about 2 hours. No response. I telephoned and got all voice mails. Hmmmm. I called an acquaintance who works at the school. The person in the GC office responsible for sending out the information had a death in her family and will be out all week. I am sorry for her loss, but maybe the GC’s could cover some of the “administrative tasks” in her absence. I contact the principal since she wrote one of the LOR’s and she just emailed me back that one of the GC’s will postmark and mail my son’s documents. </p>
<p>I am glad it worked out for us, but who else’s stuff is sitting in the inbox? Grrrrrr.</p>
<p>I am sure they think I am a raving lunatic, but I will disappear from their lives in 7 short months.</p>
<p>Just recently joined CC and have only posted a few times. I tried to sift through this long thread and I read a couple of posts that stated it is best to go ahead and request all scores and transcripts be sent to the schools my S is applying to even though he has not yet completed the apps.</p>
<p>Is this correct? Should I do it now or wait until he submits the app with everything else so it all goes in one package?</p>
<p>Also, does anyone here have issues with their schools profile? Our school has a profile but it is inadequate I believe. It does not say that only one AP class is offered to under classmen and it does nopt give ranges of GPA’s or SAT /ACT scores. Has anyone suggested that the school add information to their profile?</p>
<p>I’m sorry since I’m sure some of this has been covered in other posts. any info on these topics would be helpful</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>spiceman - here is a link to a profile thread from a while back. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/527396-high-school-profile.html?highlight=profile[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/527396-high-school-profile.html?highlight=profile</a></p>
<p>And here is a link to what the U of Mich looks for in a high school profile:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.umich.edu/counselors/profile.php[/url]”>http://www.admissions.umich.edu/counselors/profile.php</a></p>
<p>What a nice 24 hour period we have had here. D submitted an application to an instate school (Texas) on Sunday night and she already received an acceptance notification today. Of course with the auto admit rule, we knew that would be the case and now the waiting begins for the Honors Programs, and that certainly will not be on the fast track.</p>
<p>As part of her supplement for the Honors App, they want an expanded resume. The original app just wanted you to type all the stuff in but of course you got like 40 characters to work your magic. How long is too long for an expanded resume? D has lots of music honors and awards (but is not pursuing music in college) and we are “trimmed” down at 4 pages. Is that too many?</p>
<p>AGGGGGHHH…and last but not least. Letters from the elementary school came home yesterday letting us know that there were 11 confirmed cases of head lice in the 2nd grade. My single digit midget is in 2nd grade and although she was found to be absent of head lice, it completely gives me the willies and I have torn my house apart, washed what is washable, washed everyone’s head with lice shampoo, and basically imprisoned every decorative pillow, stuffed animal and throw in my house in the big, black plastic bags. All the while proof reading above referenced resume and gently nudging D toward the Nov 1, stage 1 rolling admission deadline for her “dream program”.</p>
<p>^ college apps & head lice?! You’re a super mom!</p>
<p>Don’t know if she’s shooting for Plan II or other, but I thought the Plan II advice on the “expanded resume” was very helpful and is (hopefully) applicable in spirit to all Honors Programs.</p>
<p>[Plan</a> II Honors Program](<a href=“Plan II Honors Program | Liberal Arts | UT - Austin”>Plan II Honors Program | Liberal Arts | UT - Austin)</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Yikes, Head Lice…no fun. Last year when my D1 returned for Spring Semester one of the dorms had an outbreak of lice. It seems one of the girls in the dorm had a younger sibling and the girl got lice. My daughter was not happy but she did not get lice.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. I think that will help.</p>
<p>collegeshopping, I feel your pain! We never had head-lice, thank God, but every time I’d hear of it (or the current bedbug outbreak), it just gives me the creeps. We should NOT have to be dealing with such issues at the same time we are trying to help our kids get through the fall of senior year, for crying out loud!!!</p>
<p>Did I also mention that in the next 5 days there are four major band performance (all four being on the State Level) and a football game…oh joy oh fun!</p>
<p>^^ Yikes…lice^^ and I thought my day was a bit stressful…
If you are in a hot climate–your could put all of those black bags into your car and let them bake for the day…easier than a dryer…is what I have heard.</p>
<p>Well I guess after pressing submit for the PROFILE,
and sending some forms to the accountant </p>
<p>Just learned that any outside scholarship money merit aid our student is awarded </p>
<p>first goes to relieve student’s work study
then goes to relieve student’s summer job earnings expectation
then to reduce the school’s need based-scholarship…</p>
<p>Merit money in this case cannot be used to defray EFC, nor student’s asset allocation…</p>
<p>SO I have no clue how that works
Meaning for the COA which is tuition, room, board, books/personal, travel…
How does the work study get applied ? To Tuition/Room/Board?<br>
Or is work-study paid to the student as a salary and the student has to allocate it back to the college? I guess I need to call the FIn Aid office an ask how that is walked out…</p>
<p>Seems complicated…
Disappointed that the “parents EFC” is never reduced…just the student portion…So the parents are always on the hook and the merit the student earns does not defray the E.Family.C…
no stacking of the merit on top of the need-based aid…</p>
<p>I guess its because this school only gives need based aid, no merit aid…so they reduce the need aid by replacing it with the merit aid…
I think its a bit unfair for the kid’s merit aid to reduce the school’s scholarship part and never the EFC…</p>
<p>sigh, such is life and Fin Aid land…</p>
<p>Anyone else waiting for SAT results in the morning? Sort of nervous. You may recall that my son was sick in our hotel room the night before. It might be ugly when he logs in to collegeboard.com tomorrow morning.</p>