<p>A few pages back someone (MOSB?, BI?) mentioned that it was difficult to find the Score History page on the College Board Site (go to My Organizer, My Tests, Send Tests and then look on the bottom right). The CB site has a survey asking for comments and recommendations on its site. I only filled out the comment section saying that they should make it easy to find the Score History. Perhaps if they receive the same message from many of us, they will change the site.</p>
<p>They have determined she has a kidney infection and a Vitamin D deficiency (not severe…but enough to warrant treatment). NO GLUTEN sensitivity!! Yeah! So hopefully after this round of meds, all will be normal. But talking about my kiddo that is all relative…haha.</p>
<p>That’s good news. I recently read that most people of northern European descent cannot properly digest gluten. Some believe that gluten causes a world of problems (the immune system attacks the gluten) even if it doesn’t rise to actual celiac disease. I’m considering trying to go without gluten, but am going to wait until after the holidays.</p>
<p>CShopping - Glad to hear you finally got your answers. Seems like they are fixable problems.</p>
<p>I had a severe Vit D deficiency which was easily remedied by taking 50,000 units of Vit D for 3 months. Now I take 1,000 daily. Mine was due to lack of exposure to sunlight (in FL???). I have to stay out of the sun to avoid recurrence of skin cancer. If it ain’t one thing, it’s another.</p>
<p>missypie – Start reading labels now. My husband is GF and we have found it in all sorts of things you wouldn’t think had it. Beware of ‘Modified Food Starch’ because there is no requirement to say what that is, exactly. Could be corn-based, could be wheat-based, it’s sort of whatever was cheapest the week they made the food. Even very, very careful GF people get a certain amount every day just from cross contamination. If you have mysterious stomach-aches, and all the cheery little side-effects of gastric trouble, going GF (or mostly) might help. Adding pro-biotics is a good addition to a GF diet.</p>
<p>collegeshopping – Glad that they have an answer for you and your D! I hope she feels 100% by Christmas.</p>
<p>Can somebody walk me quickly through what it is Naviance is supposed to do? (That sounds like a commercial…“Ask your Doctor if Naviance is right for you!”)</p>
<p>To the Moms and Dads out there with essay questions, this page from UT’s Plan II program info page has GREAT essay tips. The program is known for admitting great writers so I would think these tips would help almost anyone.</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>^^^this will take you directly to essay help page.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the well wishes. And Novelisto…I know people talk about Naviance here, but frankly I have no idea what it is (beside a software program) and what its real purpose is…lol.</p>
<p>I think I know the answer to this question, but maybe not. So I looking for help.</p>
<p>Our son has been accepted to our instate flagship in the Honors College. It is his second choice (and has the proper nuclear reactor requirement–in fact the largest university reactor in the country.) By virtue of his ACT score, he will be a candidate for the competitive largest incoming freshman merit scholarship ($10,000–no full rides in our state). And a candiddate for a research fellows program for freshmen and sophomores that pays a $2500 per year stipend. The school gives only 10 of the scholarships and 20 of the research grants.</p>
<p>(Disclaimer: I’m about to post his scores and hope I don’t sound like the “Chance Me” posts that I detest!) We have not sent his SAT scores there because his ACT is slightly better (33 vs. 2110/1410 M+CR). Nor have we sent his SAT II scores because they are not required. But his ACT II scores are 780 in Math and 760 in Chemistry. I think those could help in the competitive process that happens next semester.</p>
<p>Given the frustration of many of you with CB, should we go ahead and send those scores now?</p>
<p>Novelisto–Naviance graphs acceptances, denials and deferrals for students from a particular high school at various colleges, using standardized test scores on one axis and GPA on the other. </p>
<p>I think smaller schools tend not to use it because of cost and privacy concerns. However, a poster on CC posted a link to publicly available (no password) Naviance results. I couldn’t find it by searching, so perhaps someone else can provide it.</p>
<p>olderwisermom,
BTDT advice – I would send them the scores. They are very strong, and when it comes to consideration for merit awards and opportunities like you’ve described, can be the tipping point. You don’t have to rush them. If your S has to complete any other supplemental essays or applications for the scholarship, have him include a note providing his scores and mention that he has requested an official copy of his SAT-II scores be sent to the school. That way the school has a heads up, and if the scores don’t get matched up to his folder, he has still provided the info.</p>
<p>A couple of S1 & S2’s schools didn’t require SAT-II scores but we sent them anyway. Have reason to believe it helped in at least one instance.</p>
<p>College that’s great news! Phew!</p>
<p>Older if you want to send the scores I would do it right now and allow a month! I was so ticked about their attitude a few weeks ago that I wouldn’t give them one extra cent to rush the scores-plus I didn’t feel like calling each school to see if they even accept rush scores-some do, some only accept the regular batch-I mean it just gets me riled up to think about! I regret letting my righteous indignation get in the way of doing what I should have done since it did cost us an opportunity at one school.</p>
<p>Anyway, if you need them before a month you will have to put a rush order on them and pay an additional $29-but it still takes several days to process them. Just make sure the school you are sending them to accepts them that way.</p>
<p>Good luck with the scholarship!</p>
<p>Naviance has the scattergram mentioned if there are enough datapoints (not to give away privacy) - ours has data from 2003-2010 plotted, gives avg. SAT and GPA of accepted students plotted and the student’s own scores plotted. Since it is specific to the experiences of kids from your HS applying, it is sooooo much more of an indicator of whether it’s a safety or not. Also gives data pts (GPA/SAT) for applied and accepted for EA/ED and RD broken out (so you can see if RA gives you any advantage). Ours tracks the schools ds is applying to, whether app was submitted and whether GC submitted his paperwork/transcript. It also gives a “application overlap” function which shows “students who applied to X (one of the colleges on your kids list) usually applied to college Y” and gives the % overlap of that - e.g. 90% of those who applied to Yale also applied to Harvard, 60% to Upenn… I would have been really lost without it.</p>
<p>Sorry - that was for Novelisto.</p>
<p>OWM - My son is one of those lucky kids who does well on standardized tests so he sent his ACT, SAT & SAT II scores to every school whether they asked for them or not. He also included his AP scores in his apps. I felt that all the scores together told a story and supported each other. IMO more positive info can’t hurt. Your son’s SAT II scores are fantastic. I would send them.</p>
<p>Trying to keep up with the conversation, but didn’t have enough time to participate.</p>
<p>Here is the link to Naviance discussion:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/245650-naviance-4.html?highlight=naviance[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/245650-naviance-4.html?highlight=naviance</a></p>
<p>OWM: Send 'em all.</p>
<p>CShopping - Thank goodness you finally have an answer! She will probably feel much better in a few days.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the Naviance replies…I have a feeling it would just drive me crazy (or crazier!) It’s hard enough trying to figure out what’s good for your kid without the relentless comparisons to other children.</p>
<p>Oooommmmm…</p>
<p>collegeshopping–hoping the right meds will do the trick and D will be fine in no time.</p>
<p>re: med techs and radiologists not telling patient (or parents) what they see. I have willed myself to be patient and zen. I’m not sure it would be helpful for someone other than the patient’s doc to tell her/him it looks like, for example, cancer (g-d forbid!) or other serious or scary sounding diagnosis. They have no training to present such news, no way to offer info on follow up treatment, no further answers to the worried patient and might even be wrong not knowing the full context of the test. I’m in a phase of trying to be grateful rather than anxious. Om. (heh)</p>
<p>re: naviance–it’s owned and operated by Common App, I believe. Our school is using it this year to upload teacher recs to the Common App, and I notice some other universities are downloading those LORs from the naviance system too. Probably a sign of the future since my S1 3 years ago had to give stamped envelopes to his recommenders.</p>
<p>re: sending scores. I really trust our GCs who are really connected (all have previously worked as admissions directors at Us like Columbia, Stanford, USC, Brown, etc) and they strongly strongly advise our kids to send all scores. They tell us the universities have a vested interest in taking the strongest score in each subject area and are not picking through multiple sittings of tests to find some fly poop to ding a student. My own addendum to this advice would be not to send an entire sitting that had no top score on a section. Nor to send a low SAT II score if it was retaken at another sitting with a higher score.</p>
<p>QUOTE OF THE DAY
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<p>I can’t stop laughing. I’d make my son apply to any school that had that in their literature.</p>
<p>OWM - I agree with the others, send them all now. They are great scores and can do nothing but help. It killed me to pay for them but I sent both SAT and ACT scores to all of S’s schools because he did very well on both and I wanted schools to see that he has potential despite his GPA. Of course it could backfire and they will read it as a kid who can but doesn’t, which is exactly right.</p>
<p>CS- glad your D has a diagnose. Hope she recovers quickly.</p>