<p>Rockvillemom - Thanks!</p>
<p>Back from three days of meetings at my headquarters office. (I telework from two states away.) Our son just went to his online admissions account for his extreme reach and found all the required boxes checked! So good to know that all the paperwork is in and processed–especially after some of the horror stories here!</p>
<p>He’s now working on an essay for a local scholarship. The prompt is to name the three biggest challenges for public education in the future and how public education has prepared his generation to face them. He just came up from the basement to ask if he can say that public education might have prepared HIM to face future challenges because he took four years of upper level math, but that if the rest of his generation only has to take three years of HS math, they may not be able to meet the challenges. Since the US math deficiency has been in the news lately, I told him to write his heart out!</p>
<p>Emmybet - What a relief. Happy dance in your house. </p>
<p>Omom - You can change the Profile once it is submitted, but it has to be done by hand on paper and sent directly to each school. The instructions lay out the details. Each time you send it to a new school you can change it. </p>
<p>I had to submit it to 2 schools this month, but two other schools can wait til Jan once I have more solid 2010 tax #s. The second set of schools will get version 2. If the #s on version 2 vary significantly from version 1 then I will mail the colleges who got version 1 an update.</p>
<p>AP scores - My S sent them from the CB because they tell a good story and support his other scores and his grades not because they were requested. Right/wrong?? Who knows?</p>
<p>Yay Emmybet! It is a big weight off the kids shoulders getting a few apps. under their belts.</p>
<p>Emmybet-congratulations! you must be so relieved.
D did not end up doing her last supplement as she was in the middle of breaking up with her bf today. Very traumatic for her to do as she hated to hurt him, but the relationship was just not what she wanted.</p>
<p>hollie - my deepest sympathies, empathies. It is hard. My Ds have been the “dumper” in a few relationships, which took a lot of strength and self-awareness. And people tend to ignore (or even criticize) the one who cuts things off, not understanding that it hurts, too. I hope it works out OK.</p>
<p>Thanks for the nice words, folks. Any advice about the ACT score/deadline (whether to quick send the old score or wait for the official new score)? </p>
<p>I wrote an e-mail to the school to see what they want. It’s possible that the teacher/GC recs won’t get there by Monday, either. Don’t people say that when the school wants a “completed application” by a certain EA deadline they really mean what’s in the student’s control? Or are some schools stricter than that? At least I have a couple of days before the 15th to order the ACT if I have to.</p>
<p>I guess we’ll just see. I do think from looking at the websites of the schools she submitted to that she will get some “earlier” answers from a couple of them- and she’s well before their 12/1 EA deadlines, but they don’t promise we’ll hear before January. But maybe we’ll have happy holidays here.</p>
<p>sorry EB…no words of wisdom on the ACT score issue and timing of the recs. I think it probably varies school to school on what is a completed app!
Good luck.
and thanks for your empathy for my D…it was very very hard for her to do, but she came to understand that she could not pretend to feelings that she didn’t have.</p>
<p>@emmybet: you should be okay submitting the November scores. You are correct that the schools generally expect the applicant’s portion to be complete by the deadline. Usually the school states which test deadline is the last they will accept for an EA/ED deadline. If a given school states that they accept November scores for consideration, then proceed with that. If they say that the last acceptable date is October, then you are faced with submitting her earlier score and letting them know that a later, better score is on the way.</p>
<p>Emmybet: I’m not sure about the ACT score timing. Do you know when the new score will be available? You might want to call the schools in question today to ask what to do. I would hate for your daughter to miss the EA deadline if the schools want the scores by 11/15. In that case, it would be best to spend the money and send the old scores now, and then send the Nov scores when they’re available. They all say that they will use the best scores, but at least her application will be complete on time. In terms of the recommendations, you should be okay as long as they are postmarked by the 15th. I’m glad your daughter is making progress.</p>
<p>Thank you! I do have an e-mail in to the one college, and I alerted the teacher and GC. I don’t think Thursday p.m.-Monday p.m. is horrible pressure for them, and it’s all electronic. I’ll call the college today if I don’t hear from them this morning. I don’t mind sending the old score, but it would be good to know, because the new one would make a huge difference. There’s the whole “first impression is hard to shake” idea, you know?</p>
<p>hollie, that’s exactly the words my D used when she broke up with her BF - can’t force feelings she doesn’t have. It’s rough, though. No one wants to hurt someone. My older D always said she was glad she got a little bit of everything in HS - one relationship where they both lost interest, one where she got dumped, and one where she broke it off. She found out what they all feel like. This D has never been dumped herself (although she’s had several unrequited crushes - it’s not like she’s a supermodel or anything, just the “luck” of the draw). I don’t wish it on her, but we all know it’s bound to happen sometime … As I was saying before, I hope your D is prepared for people not to be very sympathetic toward her. My kids have said they don’t understand why people don’t think the “dumper” is hurting, too. A lot of kids treat them like they’re an unfeeling block of ice, and it’s very lonely. Or worse, the dumpee’s friends take it upon themselves to “get back” at the girl who “broke his heart.” We went through all of this. I hope your D has it better.</p>
<p>Emmybet, congrats to your D on getting those Apps in! It is giant step.</p>
<p>For those of you who are completing the CSS Profile, is that because your S or D is applying ED somewhere? I wouldn’t need it if my D is only applying EA, correct?</p>
<p>I’m loving the stories about meals w/ profs. Definitely a huge benefit of a smaller school. I didn’t encounter anything of the sort until I was in law school. Went out for chinese w/ a group of law students and professors. One male professor decided we should all read our fortunes aloud, followed by the phrase “… in bed.” Can you say awkward?</p>
<p>KathieP, how many reaches is not really answerable question. My son’s list has tons of reaches which is one reason his list is so long. Getting into one of the reach schools is a high priority for us and due to the lottery element to admission in these, I do think you need many. I know others believe in having 2-3 reaches only. One problem is that at a certain student level all schools are technically reaches due to low admissions statistics. I certainly wouldn’t discourage a kid from adding a third reach school.</p>
<p>EmmyBet, I decided to be pro-active with my son’s Colleges and just called them one after another and asked if they had everything. I would just call the colleges about the scores because like others have said, it seems to be up to the individual colleges about what they deem to be a “complete” application for the deadline. It brought me some relief knowing where he stood.</p>
<p>I would make my son call or email the schools himself and ask.</p>
<p>I think it makes absolutely no difference who calls. The person that answers the phone is not going to be an admissions rep, it will be a student who works in the admissions office. They’re going to enter the name into the database and pull up the info. I would rather my son spend his time doing his schoolwork and have me play secretary.</p>
<p>Angier, good point. My husband asked this morning if son’s reluctance to apply was because he didn’t want to get a rejection or if he didn’t think he would attend. I thought that was a great question and am planning to pass that on to son this afternoon. He has two good acceptances so far so it seems that a rejection from a reach school should not be too hard to bear and an acceptance would be pretty cool - IF he thinks he would want to attend.</p>
<p>do you think any of the schools my DD has applied to will let us know sooner rather than later? Her ED says letters will go out Dec 15th and the 3 EA’S say nothing (that I can find!) about when they will inform…As you can tell, patience is NOT a virtue I have! I just want something from one of them…is that too much to ask?!
For what it’s worth…
ED - Univ of Puget Sound
EA - College of Wooster,St Josephs and Drew.</p>
<p>I guess it’s just time to hunker down with coffee and cookies…anyone want to join me??</p>
<p>A big night in the household last night. Got the application out to NSLI-Y, a youth international exchange/language immersion program for next summer. S2 wants to go learn Arabic, so he would spend the summer in Egypt or Morocco. We made it under the wire with 3 whole hours to spare. </p>
<p>He also got an email for the interview for his #1/EA school. Fortunately between scholarships, summer programs, and other schools, he has already done 8 interviews. So the panic factor may be minimized.</p>
<p>It’s not about who answers the phone - it’s about responsibility and learning how to navigate in the real world. I’m not going to college with him and he will have to take care of his own mundane tasks and study when he is there. </p>
<p>I’m sure most kids waste more time doing nothing each day then the time it would take to call the schools and get the answers.</p>
<p>Regarding the number of reaches, it really does vary by kid/family situation and goals.</p>
<p>We have no reaches. None. I guess you could say Lawrence is a match…she’ll certainly be accepted to the Uni and probably has something like a 50/50 chance for the Conservatory. All the others truly are safeties, as defined by her chances of being accepted. But these are the schools she likes very much and we want high merit aid, so…though it sounds crazy…in our case it’s Reaches-0, Matches-1, Safeties-5. How weird is that (on paper)? Yet for us, it makes perfect sense.</p>
<p>Happy64, yes, I would love to join you for coffee and cookies. Just as soon as I finish up these M&Ms.</p>
<p>It’s looking like it’s going to be one of those days.</p>
<p>Anyone want cocktails at 5? I have some really good stuffed mushrooms in the freezer…I could take them out to defrost???</p>