<p>Gwen - If you did not try to make any choices, it sends every score on the list so far by default including ones that are not graded. Infact, collegeboard will allow you to see what was received by a school.</p>
<p>Go to collegeboard, click on SAT home, login. On the left side you will see SAT scores as a button. When you click it, you should see options that say sent to. when you click the recipients, you should logon again and it takes you to registration page. If you click on understand your performance, it takes you to breakdown of your score, which has a button saying your score recipients.</p>
<p>I have nt figured out a shorter way to get to it!</p>
<p>Chiming in a little late on yesteday’s SAT debrief … </p>
<p>D2012 came home from the SAT (Reasoning) with a sore throat, but upbeat. She liked the essay prompt. She just had time to relax a bit over lunch, and get showered and dressed (gorgeous in a drape-y turquoise dress and silver 3" heels ), before going over to help setup for the JCL awards banquet. The Latin teacher always throws an after-banquet swim party at her house, which is the high-point of my D’s social calendar. D reports the home-baked cookies were “even better than last year!”</p>
<p>This morning she slept in, cleaned up her room (without being reminded!), and is now back to beavering away. Eight more days of school here. Lots of projects to finish and studying for finals.</p>
<p>Now for another SAT score choice question, for those who’ve been through this before, or just understand it better… Only one of D’s schools asks for SAT IIs,and D took them in US History and English Lit, for that school. Her US History score was excellent but her English Lit score was mediocre compared to her very high CR and W scores on the SAT I. Is it worth just sending that one US history score to schools that didn’t ask for it? Or would that just call attention to the fact that she must have taken other SAT IIs that she didn’t do as well on? </p>
<p>Or is this the kind of question that reveals a desperate case of OCD and nothing more?</p>
<p>Mom60 - hope your daughter is feeling better. What a lousy thing to happen.
Texaspg…we actually went for a scheduled visit. They could not find our S scheduled so he filled out the paperwork. As we went to the “holding pen” we noticed that they had the names and towns of everyone that was attending the visit. Our son was there but our town was misspelled. And then upon our return home,we had cards, thsnks for visiting. And a couple of weeks later we started getting mail as if we had never been there. Go figure. It is such a waste of money.</p>
<p>Gwen - If you want to provide one where none are needed, there is no issue with that, if it backs her interests, i.e., liberal arts major. I believe in giving more information than necessary as long as it does nt put you at a disadvantage, if that makes sense…</p>
<p>Such an emotional day! Last day of recital which was fabulous but I was crying quietly when the seniors did their goodbye dance and after when the teacher was introducing them/saying goodbye on the stage. The poor teacher was crying so hard she could barely speak. </p>
<p>My daughter will be a senior next year, and do a goodbye dance and I will probably cry my eyes out. Congrats to all the beautiful dancers today! </p>
<p>And I was reminded that grace exists in wobbly piroettes, bent leg leaps and forgotten steps. The people behind me have a little girl and they enjoyed everything so much and saw no mistakes or imperfections, just amazing girls brave enough to get on stage, smile and sparkle.</p>
<p>I am going to take a cue from these folks and stop thinking perfection means everything because it absolutely does not.</p>
<p>I love caring teachers. Nowadays the teachers I meet just punch in and punch out like robots, they don’t care about us. </p>
<p>SN: I just had my first creepy customer. He wrote on a napkin his name and phone number and said that I was cute and should call him. He gave it to a coworker to give to me. My boss and coworkers thought it was hilarious. Apparently, it happens all the time. I wish I didn’t have to wear a name tag</p>
<p>I’ve been taking D to all her friends openhouses this weekend. It feels really strange because before she took a year off to study abroad after sophomore year she was in the class of "11. Now she isn’t even in the class of "12 because she accepted the UWC scholarship and has two more year of IB starting this fall. So we were visiting all her hometown friends, seeing their photos and hearing about where they’re heading in the fall. D says she won’t even want an openhouse because none of her fellow graduates will be local and her old friends will be half way through college. Oh well, we’re planning a farewell party for her in August.</p>
<p>Mom60, I am so sorry your daughter came down with the flu during the SAT. I hope she feels better soon.</p>
<p>CPU how about a “camp name” Girl Scouts use them, mostly so strangers won’t know the girls real names. Of course, most of our town knows D by her camp name, so it’s a little pointless…but a fake name might give you a sense of privacy.</p>
<p>Daughter has given up on math. She’s about 3 problem sets behind and didn’t do the Regents Review homework (NYS) due today. This week is the last week of classes before Regents (she has 3 over 2 weeks) so I suggested that she speak to the math teacher (who adores her from stage crew and her older sister) and tell him she is just having a really hard time with it all and could she hand everything in by next Monday. Even if she loses credit for everything being late at least she’ll show effort which will count for something. She’s so convinced she is going to fail the Regents (which she won’t, she’s only having trouble with Trig not Algebra so it’s highly unlikely she’ll fail) and have to take it again in August she’s just given up. She’s gone from a 90 to an 88 to an 85 on her report card so she’ll probably pass but still, a little effort please?! Oh well, I’m pretty sure she’ll still get into a college that she’ll love so…</p>
<p>I went to a presentation by Northwestern last night. </p>
<p>The adcom is truly a great presenter and quite funny. There was power outage for the entire presentation in the hotel and we only had lights (no AC, no projector) and the guy could just talk with no notes, no slides etc.</p>
<p>He mentioned that one of the things they are looking for lately with the explosion of applicants (11k in 94 to 31k this year) is what he termed motivation. So they are trying to identify people who they think will show up if admitted as long as they are qualified.</p>
<p>He attributed some of the ways they see motivation - applying ED (the highest level), showing up for a presentation when they are in town (he gave the example of someone in Chicago having no record of ever visiting NU but applying as a big no no), contacting the adcoms to ask questions, showing interest in their departments by asking them to be put in touch with professors with specific questions etc.</p>
<p>He also mentioned their yield numbers are going up which means they may lower the number admitted because they want a class of 2000 and last couple of years they exceeded 2100 and it causes capacity problems on campus and also a strain on AID funding.</p>
<p>Hang in there Amtc. My DS12 and DD13 take Alg2/trig honors and their teacher has convinced them that they will all FAIL the regents. It is freaking my DD13 out and DS12 has become totally unmotivated. I think because it is a new regents test, the teachers are unsure of how it will go. The Alg2/Trig regents has only been given twice and it has a 65% pass rate. That is pretty low. We have told my DD that it is next to impossible to have an A in the class and fail the regents. If she does, there is something wrong with the teacher and her teacher is one of the best math teachers in the school. I wish all three of them an easy test!</p>
<p>Texas – D’s school has always had very good results at NWU – and for many kids it was seen as a pretty safe bet for the average student at this far from average school – until this year. What the head college counsellor told parents is that the greater exposure from the common app (and the national promotion that’s gone along with it) is making NWU a more national draw instead of a primarily regional draw, and with the national pool, they’ve gotten more selective. IOW, historical admissions stats no longer predict admissions success for this class.</p>
<p>(As for the college email, D tells me that she never checks the “send me information” box, ever, even when it would be good for her like at ARML this year. So I’m 99% sure that the increase in email is very specifically because we sent out scores with the May exam.)</p>
<p>AMTC-- I’m so sorry about your D’s math woes. It seems late in the game to do anything about it, though. Can you convince her to talk to her teacher? How did she fall so far behind? Gulp.</p>
<p>IJustDrive, that means that the CB has sent out the May scores and you’ve got responses from targeted Us. I thought we won’t get any responses until July/August.</p>
<p>amtc and geogirl - That’s all bull …my S got a mid 80 last yr on both the Alg II & trig class and Regents … and Math is his weakest subject. Hang in there.</p>
<p>amtc- I feel for you!
texpg- even though Northwestern is “too large” for DS, it keeps popping up on his radar, so we are visiting the campus this week once school is out. One of his friends from hs is attending next fall (much to the surprise of the gc). He was a top 10 kid with better than average SAT scores, so DS might give it a shot. Since we live less than 1 hour away, guess we better chow the love.</p>
), before going over to help setup for the JCL awards banquet. The Latin teacher always throws an after-banquet swim party at her house, which is the high-point of my D’s social calendar. D reports the home-baked cookies were “even better than last year!”</p>