<p>@BobbyCT, do not lose sleep over SAT scores:</p>
<p>[Alfred</a> University : Admissions : Class Profile](<a href=“http://WWW.Alfred.edu/admissions/class_profile.cfm]Alfred”>http://WWW.Alfred.edu/admissions/class_profile.cfm)</p>
<p>Note about 25% are from out of state, AU wants more students from outside NY. :)</p>
<p>@SLUMOM-Thanks. My daughter always surprises me so you never know what to expect. I am organizing my April trip to colleges and have Alfred, St. Bonaventure and Ithaca on that portion of the trip. I also will visit University of Scranton, Susquehanna and St. Josephs in Philadelphia later that week. D wants to add UMaine to the list but that will need to wait for a later trip. That girl is going to exhaust me out.</p>
<p>I have a funny story about Ithaca, H took D2 on a trip, Ithaca was the last stop, she hated it after the first hour, they left and visited Howe Caverns on the way home. H was a geology major at BC. D2 went to St Lawrence and majored in geology. There are rocks all over the house.</p>
<p>Sorry about Denver Coral-- I talked to them this morning and our FA package should be out Friday. It is delayed due to an inconsistancy in the IDOC, which was corrected last week. But I think ours will be the same as yours, so I am not getting my hopes up.
I ran the NPC on LMU again and it does not look great either-- </p>
<p>Hope you get something Friday or Saturday from Chapman. I have to keep thinking that wherever they end up it will be great.</p>
<p>New boyfriend-- sounds like my oldest. Good luck with that-- sounds like his plans are very uncertain, which could work in your favor.</p>
<p>S is on his way back-- a 26 hour bus ride from Disneyland home. Should be back tonight between 8 pm and midnight</p>
<p>Thanks, nyer and Jane. The parents on this thread always make me feel better, even if it’s not directly related to college admissions.</p>
<p>He’s been evaluated 3 times for ADD (by private psychologists twice and school once), and all three times it has come back definitively “no”. APD shares many common symptoms with ADD, but the last psychologist (the one who finally figured out to send him to an audiologist) said that his tests show a remarkable degree of concentration and staying on task. I wish APD was more understood. The school system is willing to accommodate him with an FM system, but he used that last year and hated it. He also completes written tests on time, so it was decided not to do extended test taking times. His teachers have been very helpful with preferential seating.</p>
<p>Anyway, today he ASKED me to sit down with him every afternoon next quarter and help him get organized. I think that’s huge, and I’m all over it. Turns out he’s pretty upset by his grades too.</p>
<p>I’ll keep you posted!</p>
<p>Mamaduck,
My D had a disastrous sophomore year - that’s why we are here on the 3.0/3.3 thread :)</p>
<p>She was doing fine until she was rewarded with a new laptop for good freshman grades. From that point on it was Tumblr, Facebook, whatever… she lost all focus. And, she had her first AP class that was killing her.</p>
<p>We made a rule that she had to sit out at the Dining Room table without any electronics and do homework in front of us for 1 hour/day at a set time. That turned into screaming and meltdown almost every day - either she “didn’t have any homework” or “she needed to do something on the computer for her work”. Tough, read a book at the table.</p>
<p>In order to offset the animosity and stress, we had to bite the bullet and pay for a private tutor. We picked her weakest subject (Math) and tutor came twice a week at the dining room table. That forced her to be on time and keep her butt at the table focused on Math for at least twice a week. It was not cheap, and the sophomore year was still a slight disaster.</p>
<p>S had a disastrous freshman year. It was a combination of being on a sports team so he missed a lot of school, then having swine flu, so missed more school, being in a group of friends whose top priority was not academics and not keeping track of assignments. Things would be done but not turned in-- found at the bottom of his backpack weeks later.</p>
<p>We too got a tutor (for French-- a subject I could not help with at all) plus I checked his online grades to make sure things were turned in. It took a lot of work (read nagging) to get him back on track, but he did way better sophomore year and continued to do well through the rest of HS. Part of it may be that he matured along the way</p>
<p>I agree that turning off computer, cell phone, etc can make a huge difference</p>
<p>I’m new on this thread but glad I have found it. I never thought of my kid as anything but the best. I’ve been lurking on cc for 4 months I saw stats for the kids who were EA and I wondered if it was my fault for not pushing her more. My DD is in the 3.0 3.3 GPA and this month is tough–I will not post stats on those threads because my DD reads and I would hate to have someone who doesn’t know her tell her to <em>give up</em>. That already happened and I wanted to jump through the computer screen and dump an Icee on his head. </p>
<p>There are a range of emotions going on in our home with upcoming letters and no matter what, “in” or “out” I am proud of what my daughter accomplished. A lot of kids have hardships many which many parents can’t comprehend because there are distinct advantages for raising children with both parents to help out–Lord knows me being the solo chief cook and bottle washer, in grad school and caring for an aging parent has been hard through the HS years for D. In either case, I don’t feel like a complete failure here and looks like this thread is free from Sikorsky Black Hawks in action 
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<p>I think when my DD goes off to college I will watch Toy Story 3 and tear up and cry. I may have to buy a Woody doll to keep me company while she is away.</p>
<p>Toy Story 3–saddest movie ever. I bawled my eyes out. Welcome Learned Hand. I seldom look at other threads besides the “B” student ones. We’re the ones with our feet on the ground. Your D will turn out great–she’s a survivor.</p>
<p>Welcome LearnedHand! The first time I saw Toy Story 3, I cried because of Andy leaving Woody with the little girl. The second time I saw it, I started crying before that scene even started, and it was because Andy goes away to college. I have twins and they’re both going to be gone - neither one wants to stay in-state. Thank goodness for texting and Facetime.</p>
<p>Welcome LearnedHand. The people on this thread are amazing and, obviously, so are all their children!</p>
<p>Thanks to all for the warm welcome. It’s nice to see a supportive forum of cc…after reading Urbandictionary.com’s definition of cc, I felt that we are not alone. Maybe one of you posted the definition :-)</p>
<p>I remember blubbering during a Toy Story movie when Andy goes to college. Is that TS3? Ugh-SO sad! I think DD was in middle school and the event was distant at the time, but I could still relate, dreading. </p>
<p>But, like DS, by the time it was time for DD to leave, I was remarkably ok. Well, I was sad after she left and breaking into sobs daily (to be honest) UNTIL Thanksgiving, when she came home for five days. After that, no more tears! DS is VERY high maintenance. I love her, but still. Like, hurricane high maintenance.</p>
<p>DS: get me a box and we’ll pack him up today. I’m over the homework fights, the attendance fights, the lateness fights and the “how you respond to me in front of your friends” fights. Done. Not exactly TS3…</p>
<p>Welcome LearnedHand-- I only regularly read this thread and the specific college threads my kids are looking at or attend. </p>
<p>S accepted at LMU (where he was deferred Christmas Eve) He got back from his 26 hour bus ride and I told him there was a big envelope that might be good news. He opened it and looked happier than I had seen him in weeks. No FA info included-- it said online that it would all be available on April 1st. So I guess we wait</p>
<p>I am now trying to decide if we should go back for a second visit there since we are visiting U Redlands again and they are fairly close. I booked Southwest so I think I can change the reservations. I asked S if he thought that would be a good idea and he said yes for sure-- so I guess I need to look into that. It would involve me driving around LA which is freaking me out-- I have lived in Idaho too long. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone waiting to hear news this week</p>
<p>Congrats Idahomom! May the $$ come your way!</p>
<p>Thanks mamaduck! Hoping for $$ for all our kids – don’t the FA offices realize what great kids we have? They should!</p>
<p>I am actually feeling a little sad about DS turning down the schools that have been very nice and helpful and that did give him nice FA packages.</p>
<p>I felt the same sadness turning down schools where I had invested research and visits. I loved something about all of them, and wish she could have gone to all of them. Progressive college, sort of like a progressive dinner - one semester here, one there …</p>
<p>love the progressive college idea! DS has some great acceptances and it’s going to be really hard to to choose and said to say “good bye” to some of them.</p>
<p>Saying no, thanks to these schools really is hard! If you follow the rule “Don’t apply to any school you wouldn’t want to go to,” it means ALL these schools had something to offer your kid! </p>
<p>My son did get a nice note from the head of admissions at a school he recently let know he would not be attending. They thanked him for letting them know, said it would create a spot for another kid, and basically said, “Keep us in mind if things don’t work out at the school you attend in the fall.” That was so thoughtful and reassuring, I thought, if my son needs to think about transferring in the future. On the form my son sent in, where it asked where he was planning to attend he just wrote the name of his top 3 colleges at this point.</p>
<p>Just this week I encouraged my D to decline some of her safeties - all CSUs in California and Northern Arizona U. I wanted to make sure that we open up slots for someone who really wants to go there. Those colleges you just ‘decline’ on the website.</p>
<p>I will be drafting a withdrawal letter to UofDen for my D to review/revise and sign because I feel that they could improve some things for their future applicants (like updating the NPC!!).</p>
<p>Still no mail here :(, it’s not looking good for dream school.</p>