<p>RenMom:</p>
<p>Just wondering… Where is it on the website that the College Board shows “sent” scores as pending? I had some scores sent last week, but can’t find any information about their status.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!!!</p>
<p>Re sending scores, LOR’s etc: No ED here. My son’s school sends LORs and transcripts snail mail and require all requests to be made by Dec. 8. He requested all of his by Oct. 31, and the school did their part and sent them out to his list of schools. He has only submitted half of the applications. He has gotten emails from a few schools letting him know that they have parts of his required application materials but no application. Mr. PROcrastination hasn’t quite gotten all of those done. I’m just hoping that everything gets matched up in the end. He did hear from the first 2 schools that he applied to saying that they had everything that they needed. I felt good about that! I sent his scores to all of the schools after we got the results from the Oct. testing. At that point, we knew which of the scores we wanted to send, so I just sent all of them at the same time. They’re hanging around somewhere at some schools waiting to be matched up with an application. Let’s hope that happens!</p>
<p>camathmom, on CB go to your child’s sent score history page. Each school will be listed w/ the scores that were sent. Right under or by (can’t remember which) the name of the school it will say one of the following, as it does in our case: Score report was sent on ____. OR Score report pending. Truthfully, I was and am shocked by the “pending.” I paid for those reports on Nov 23 and here it is Dec 1 and they’re not yet sent! Since it’s electronic to all his schools but for two (info also on the CB website), I just thought they’d get electronically sent out right away. When I sent the scores for his early schools, they were sent the next day. I guess I fortuitously hit their outbound batch on the earlier round and didn’t in this round of scores :(</p>
<p>FlMathmom - We sent test scores to all schools in Oct, even the 3 schools with Jan 1 deadlines. We were told the school will start a file when they get the scores figuring the app is coming. S’s school has already sent out transcripts and LOR’s to all the schools also.</p>
<p>OK, i just went back onto CB website to double check. Here’s what I did and what I found:</p>
<p>go to your kid’s score report page and scroll down toward bottom. on right hand side you’ll see this link “My Score Send History.” It will take you to a page listing all the score reports you’ve sent to each school and right below the name of each you’ll see either of these: “The order placed on ______ is pending.” OR “We sent the following scores on ______.” </p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Renmom, thanks for the info— I found it! Did seem like it was a bit buried there in the website… My D’s scores paid for on 11/27 are also pending.</p>
<p>Congratulations holliesue and GKM!! Wonderful news!</p>
<p>And congrats to all those hitting submit buttons, whether your kid is finished, like Aniger’s S or just getting the first ones done, like Cooker. Its all good!</p>
<p>Madbean, your child’s task is daunting! I think the auditions might be easier. But ask me again in January.</p>
<p>Thanks holliesue for the reminder about privacy. I’m sure my D would cringe at some of the things I have shared here although I try and be circumspect. </p>
<p>And on that note, I am quite sure she wins the prize in procrastination but did get two more apps submitted in the last 24 hours, both rolling and one due today. Phew. She encountered the server slowdowns that occur when lots of people are submitting apps all at the same time and I am hoping that panicked feeling will spur her to get the rest in well before the deadlines. All tests were ordered a couple weeks ago and her LORs have all been submitted and as far as I can tell, the school is sending out the transcripts as deadlines come up so its all on her now.</p>
<p>Onward and upward!</p>
<p>Much congratulations, missypie. Oh, and tell your D to check out the Google G2. The iphone users at ShawD’s school are jealous. Data plan likely a lot cheaper than iphone.</p>
<p>Novelisto, at my D’s school, which has lots of boarders, they have a painfully elaborate process for getting the kids to visit colleges, write essays, apply. It’s a little annoying for the parents of kids who aren’t boarders, because the process is designed to a fair extent to happen without parental input (of necessity, I guess). Perhaps at your D’s school, that process is taking place.</p>
<p>Some kids, only apply to safeties. This may be true of ShawD, though I’m not sure about the second school. But, if done for the right reasons, it may be a good thing. If done because of a misinterpretation about the possibilities, there’s still time to correct the misinterpretation and act. And, as you point out, there’s a gap year. ShawSon didn’t take the SAT Reasoning test or ACT until the fall of the gap year and applied during his gap year. It all worked out. He got in to lots of good schools. But, I don’t see why she can’t complete applications to non-reaches. There’s still time. What’s Christmas vacation for anyway?</p>
<p>Oy! I am such a dunce, Congratulations to Missypie! I can barely remember my own name; please forgive me for messing up yours!</p>
<p>The SAT lag in reporting is outrageous. I ordered scores on 11/19-still pending. I didn’t rush them since they told me some schools don’t accept the rush delivery and I just didn’t have the time that day or the frame of mind to figure it out. Now the problem is one school required them by today or else no Merit consideration. Nice, huh? Well fortunately it was a school that is a safety and he really has no interest in attending. I called CB and pinned them down on the delivery dates of the other pending schools-I have another batch ordered on 11/22 that are-you guessed it-still pending but none of them are due before 1/1.</p>
<p>I think what I will do for the final order is rush everything-I only have one school left to send the regular SAT to and then we have the December Subject tests which I don’t believe are due by a specific date-but I better check that.</p>
<p>I’m working more from the ACT end of things, but I’d say their system is slowing down a bit, too. Many of the schools for which I requested scores on 11/18 don’t have them recorded as received; now, that could be just as much slowness on the school’s part as on the ACT’s. I’m just glad there’s time, and everywhere that needed them by today seems to have them.</p>
<p>Today I ordered SAT2s. None are required; one school that was on her list from the beginning and “recommends” them got the auto-report in June when she took them, and a new school also “recommends” them. She has one very nice score that we’re sending to the other more selective schools on her list, just as a bonus. So that’s that - I’m done! </p>
<p>While she has a long list of schools and the fees do add up, I did find myself thinking $10 isn’t such a bad price - although ACT charges that for EACH score, no bundles. We’ve only sent ACT a second time to one school, though.</p>
<p>Only one of her schools that I’m aware of charges extra for the audition, anyway!</p>
<p>Hi all, I’ve missed reading your goings-on over the past few days, but was swamped with work. Catching up on all your exciting news now is so fun.</p>
<p>Huge congrats to the recent acceptees…especially those who are officially DONE, decision-making and all (missypie, I’m so jealous!). I can’t even imagine what that feels like! </p>
<p>Amandak, from time to time, you just totally crack me up…did so again with the delightful label I can picture scrawled in red pen across your son’s file: “PROCRASTINATOR/NO APPENDIX!”. I think that says it all, in terms of potential college admin lurkers here and what they might learn about our kids.</p>
<p>I guess when I think about what most of us post here, I can’t get too worked up about privacy/identity concerns. I’m fiercely private about some things, but my kid’s scores, accomplishments, challenges, schools applied to/accepted at? Really? Those things just don’t feel particularly confidential or sensitive to me. I may be missing something here…</p>
<p>Emmybet, your past few posts have been very comforting and wise, as always. Thanks for sharing your kind, soothing spirit in these difficult times.</p>
<p>FLMM, strange as it seems, all those scores and LORs sent separately really do get matched up with the application. My much bigger concern would be the (holiday challenged) postal/delivery services. I think I’d send everything right now.</p>
<p>RenMom, wonderful of you to post exactly how to track the scores sent by CB. Ironically, though, this very morning, in a fit I can only describe as near-panic-attack, I out-of-the-blue became convinced I had forgotten to send the SAT scores to Nat’l Merit Corp, and that I would be personally responsible for my daughter remaining a NMSF, even though she and her school have done all their tasks to secure finalist status.</p>
<p>Seriously, for a moment it was like I couldn’t breathe. I was all over the CB website trying to prove to myself that I really HAD sent the scores, but I just couldn’t find the order history access.</p>
<p>By then, the breathing problem had reversed to the point of hyperventilating as I frantically tried to google the phone number for NM corp (the phone number that’s been posted on CC at least 72,000 times)…and I finally spoke to a real person(haltingly, though, like someone badly frightened and trying to explain the problem in a foreign language). She must’ve thought I was a real wacko…and I think I actually was.</p>
<p>She was very kind, checked their records, and assured me they had received the scores. I almost started crying! I’m quite short on sleep because of work deadlines, but still! </p>
<p>I will be really glad when this phase is over. I used to think of myself as a pretty calm, reasonable, and organized person. These days, my mental health and I walk a very fine line.</p>
<p>Emmybet, be glad your D’s auditions don’t cost extra! Ours don’t either, but boy am I racking up huge expenses in extra vocal coaching and rehearsal accompanist fees prior to the vocal auditions! Holy cow!</p>
<p>mosb - back in the day, I was one of those students who didn’t send her scores to the Nat. Merit Corporation. I didn’t know you were supposed to, and I was doing all the college stuff on my own so no one caught the mistake. It was a disappointment because I needed the scholarship $$!</p>
<p>This summer, I really did make a big mistake that caused one of those hyperventilating moments. We - well, I - had arranged six months earlier for my S to go to a summer language intensive program in Costa Rica. He was scheduled to leave on a midnight flight on a Saturday night. Early Friday morning, I got email saying that he could check in for his flight. I thought, how strange that you can check in more than 24 hours in advance now! Then I looked closely at the date. I had bought him a ticket for the wrong night - Friday night instead of Saturday night. I think I stopped breathing for awhile. Luckily, fifteen minutes and $250 later, I was able to get him a seat on the right flight. If the flight had been full, I think I would have run away from home at that point.</p>
<p>Calreader, I booked the wrong flight for my parents a couple of years ago. We were going to Florida and deciding between airlines and days and I had several windows open on the computer. When it came time to book, I went back to the wrong screen and booked the day before. That would have been costly because we were renting a house, they weren’t driving and it was a small airport so they would have had to not only reserve a hotel room for the night but rent a car to get to a hotel too. Yuck! Fortunately, I cried to the airline person on the phone and because it was within the 24 hours, she was able to change it with no charge. </p>
<p>This stress and trying to make sure all the t’s are crossed, the i’s dotted and the SAT scores sent is why I have twice now called the schools that we have not gotten an acknowledgment from and asked them if they got everything. So far, so good.</p>
<p>This process gets very stressful with all the little details to keep track of. </p>
<p>SlithelyT: I recommend sending your daughters scores now instead of waiting for the ED results. We already sent scores, transcripts and LORs to the schools my daughter will apply to if she doesn’t get into her ED school. She wanted to submit one that doesn’t have a supplement, but I refuse to pay the application fee if we don’t need to. We haven’t heard anything from either school, and she can’t check to make sure they received things until she actually applies. Hopefully everything will match up.</p>
<p>I got a little scare in the mail yesterday. My daughter got a thin envelope from a school she applid to EA. It seemed too early for a reply, but you never know. She opened it and it was a letter encouraging her to apply by the RA deadline and offering a fee waiver. I hope that’s a good sign. </p>
<p>Congrats to everyone whose kids are making progress on their apps. It’s going to be a long month.</p>
<p>Is anyone’s child applying to RSDI? My daughter’s art advisor conducts portfolio reviews for the school and we have learned some interesting things over the past couple weeks. The most important is that when the student submits the three drawings, they must FOLD them and put them in the envelope. If they try to send them in a tube or flat, they will be discounted (may not even be reviewed). The rational is that if a student can’t fold their sketches then they are too invested in the final outcome and not as invested inthe creative process. Who knew?</p>
<p>Hi All</p>
<p>Saw this item
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<p>something else to consider this season…</p>
<p>What a crazy week here
I totally lost it with younger kiddo and a science grade–kiddo is not doing daily reading and homework!! How many years does it take for a bright gifted kid to really care about their schoolwork enough to actively pursue excellence for the self fulfillment, pride of accomplishment etc!!!
I am not buying the “being in older successful sib’s shadow” …</p>
<p>Hi folks!</p>
<p>fog, I hear you about the younger sibling. I have no answers, but I will say that it took D2 more than half of HS to put all the pieces together. Some of it was the “shadow” but some of it was just who she is. I will say that in our case it was very important to put the person before the grades - she had to work it out on her own (within a reasonable set of expectations on our part). </p>
<p>I hope your younger child pulls it together quickly, but if not, the 3.X threads here are very helpful with perspective. Also, I recall that our D1 - quantitatively smart as a whip - knew full well that middle school grades never went on her record and played fast and loose with them. She snapped to attention as soon as HS started and they were “real.”</p>
<p>mosb - We have a hefty audition fee at the one school, but yes, no accompanists for this (we do for several singing and saxophone events she’s doing this year, though). I’m glad the costs get spread out piecemeal, because I really don’t want to think about the sum total - fees, coaches, flights, hotels, etc. </p>
<p>Aren’t we all drowning in details! Don’t roll your drawings? Holy cow. Would they really reject someone based on that? Or maybe on their end, it becomes so hard to figure out what app to reject that they have to winnow the group in these arbitrary ways? I’m a little suspicious that there’s really an ideological basis for this rule.</p>
<p>I keep saying I hope my kid can benefit from being winnowed IN because of her little hometown in an underrepresented state, so I guess maybe these little admissions quirks even out in the long run. We’d just all hate for our kids to be put quickly in the “no” stack for reasons like this. I know kids from overrepresented areas would like to be seen as individuals rather than “another violin-playing Jewish girl from the Boston suburbs.”</p>
<p>I have got to learn to nag better. I say a very reasonable “How about doing this” and I get a positive response. But I’m thinking, does she really sense the urgency? Is she just “yessing” me? So I start with the justifications, all very nice and cheerful … but I always say one too many, and get the inevitable “Mom, I KNOW.” When will I learn? I guess it was ever so with moms.</p>
<p>It’s hard to know it’s one too many unless you get the feedback :-). Unless they actually go beyond yessing to doing.</p>
<p>Right! And I figure I’m probably going to get as many "Mom, I KNOW"s as I gave - hmm, still give…uh-oh…</p>
<p>I consider a notch on my belt whenever I managed to rein myself in before “the feedback.” I must do it an OK amount of the time, because she is still talking to me!</p>