<p>Sounds like a plan. Expect many PMs!</p>
<p>Love the plan for our final list. We’re not close yet. D has choices but she really has not fallen in love with one yet.</p>
<p>Ditto on plan for final list. We’re trying hard to stay out of D’s decision making process, she has great choices albeit with pros and cons to each one, and I am really curious to see where her thought process takes her.</p>
<p>Are you all getting emails and mail from schools that you have withdrawn from? I’m starting to get a little worried that maybe our withdrawals didn’t make it into their systems. Some have stopped, but others just keep on coming.
for example we sent a snail mail letter to Univ of Denver but I’m not sure it got updated into their system. Oh well, guess it will all work out when they don’t get the enrollment deposit by May 1st :)</p>
<p>coralbrook - yes, we are still receiving both email and snail mail, many from the same colleges which have already acknowledged DS’ withdrawals he sent last month. He’s been notified that he’s been accepted to colleges, and also received more grant and FA $$$ from some… kind of bittersweet. </p>
<p>Hard to imagine the workload and complexities this late in the cycle, especially with all the RD admits and FA packages going out, and deposits coming in.</p>
<p>My son didn’t fit into the GPA range, but, as an educational consultant and tutor, I have worked with many who do. I would encourage families not to limit their list of EC’s to just want the school sponsors. EC’s include jobs, hobbies, volunteer work in the community, church roles, obsessions, and family duties. Build those into your child’s EC Resume, and you’ll be surprised at how active they have been and how much more interesting they look. A kid who has a massive insect collection is interesting. A kid who is obsessed with vintage comic books and who write his own comics is as well. Provide samples! A kid who can make a meal for a family of 8 in half an hour and has done so much of his teenage life due to a parent’s work schedule definitely needs to highlight that. And, if she became an assistant manager at McDonalds within a week of being hired, list that. Be real, but be creative about identifying interesting things about your child. </p>
<p>Also, some kids who have encountered difficulties in life don’t want to mention them. This requires prudence but can benefit a child. Did the child take care of a grandparent one summer? Were they born with a foot deformity but learn to track wildlife through the woods for family sustenance hunting? Did they care for their three younger siblings every afternoon to save on day care throughout middle school? Just say it. </p>
<p>Even if the kid was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and never held a job, she may have things to highlight. Perhaps she put together an extensive family web site that linked several branches of the family and even discovered long lost relatives. Any kid who has a free summer before their senior year can create a fascinating profile for themselves just being dreaming up something worthwhile to do and then doing it. I spend a lot of my college consulting time helping kids create and execute things that connect their actual interests and skills in a way that produces an accomplishment that will make them stand out. Parents can do this too.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Not to come off as flippant, but what in the H3ll are you talking about silver spoons, cooking dinner & participating in ECs only offered in one’s school. Hon, I think you mistook CC for some other college prep board, because we as parents and students have this under control. </p>
<p>Silvers spoons. What the H#!!.</p>
<p>I’m just trying to wrap my brain around why you posted within a thread where ALL the students already completed the college application process and now hold a fist full of college acceptance letters for fall 2013 matriculation decisions. </p>
<p>Go back into your college consulting cave, ■■■■■. Almost every one of your 42 posts mentions college consulting in some way, form, or fashion.</p>
<p>We’re still not ready to make the final decision yet, but we’ve made progress this past weekend. I made a detailed spreadsheet highlighting various aspects of each of DD’s final four schools, from retention/graduation rates to academics offered to campus life to finances. Having the details side by side, in black and white was really helpful. As I was creating the spreadsheet, two clear-cut “winners” emerged in my mind, but I kept my opinions to myself. It took DD ten minutes of studying the spreadsheet for her to narrow down her choices to the same two schools! This weekend we’re scheduled to visit U. of West FL and next weekend, we’re off to Lycoming College. The final decision should be made by 4/19 - a little close for comfort, if you ask me, but not as late as her older brother’s decision to deposit at Case Western on April 30th eight years ago!</p>
<p>@terrific4, seems to me I always ended up driving down to our little post office on April 29th, with deposit check & form, for all four of my children. When I mailed our youngest’s I remember thinking “What a roller coaster ride this has been, but all done now.” :)</p>
<p>@BunHeadMom-Not sure what you are getting so worked up about but I found AlwaysNAdenture’s post to be helpful, not denigrating in any way. As the parent of a 2014 student that falls into this GPA range, this is the only thread that I can go to right now for any type of assistance or feedback. I appreciated that post and information.</p>
<p>I’m with BunHeadMom. I don’t understand what this post was in response to. There is a thread for this GPA range that focuses on the class of 2014 (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1469626-3-0-3-3-gpa-parents-hs-class-2014-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1469626-3-0-3-3-gpa-parents-hs-class-2014-a.html</a>). There’s one for 2015 as well (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1483143-3-0-3-3ish-gpa-parents-thread-2015-hs-graduation.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1483143-3-0-3-3ish-gpa-parents-thread-2015-hs-graduation.html</a>). I am baffled about why this advice might be useful to folks whose kids have already applied everywhere they are going to apply. I might not have gone so far as to call AlwaysNAdventure a ■■■■■, but I do think that the post is in the wrong thread (and also probably that AlwaysNAdventure is pimping their professional services).</p>
<p>@MirabileDictu-I appreciate that link. I had not seen it. Thank you.</p>
<p>It does seem like AlwaysNAdventure just posted in the wrong thread by mistake, giving them the benefit of the doubt. It’s just so far of fbase for what we the Parents in the title of this thread are concerned with right now.</p>
<p>MirabileDictu, thank you for “redirecting” him or her to the HS Class of 2014 and 2015 threads.</p>
<p>I found AlwaysNAdventure’s post to be quite informative and useful. Even more, I found the over the top response to it be quite entertaining. Its actually quite silly that she felt the need to defend her thread…as if they somehow she owned it and could speak for all those using it. If it was not useful then a better reaction would have been just to ignore it.</p>
<p>Bobby, agree. See you over at the '14ers.</p>
<p>The first edition of “Who’s Kid is Going Where”. </p>
<p>For those that missed it, I am compiling a list via PM so that the thread is not clogged up with long lists. This is where each child has decided to attend - not all acceptances. I went back several pages in addition to the PMs sent. I apologize if I missed anyone. Send me a PM if you’d like me to add your child on the next list. I’ll wait until a have a handful before adding on.</p>
<p>ConfusedMominMA’s S - UConn
HeavyLidded’s D - College of Wooster
Jane345’s K - University of Oregon
jkiwmom’s D - Warren Wilson
mamaduck’s D - Rochester Institute of Technology
mavitale’s S - Tulane
mazewanderer’s S - Ohio State
MyLB’s S - University of Montana
NPRMom’s S - Goucher
onesonmom’s S - University of Puget Sound
Rubytuesday2’s S - Franklin and Marshall (after a gap year)
stillnadine’s K - Guilford
USNChief’s S - University of Maine (Honors)</p>
<p>College of Wooster - HeavyLidded
Franklin and Marshall - Rubytuesday2
Goucher - NPRMom
Guilford - stillnadine
Ohio State - mazewanderer
Rochester Institute of Technology - mamaduck
Tulane - mavitale
UConn - ConfusedMominMA
University of Maine (Honors) - USNChief
University of Montana - MyLB
University of Oregon - Jane345
University of Puget Sound - onesonmom
Warren Wilson - jkiwmom</p>
<p>Thanks, mamaduck! It’s a list to be proud of! I’m hoping to be able to PM you soon, but my D has already missed her first self-imposed deadline for making her final decision (sigh).</p>
<p>mamaduck - your list list looks great! Thanks you so much for doing this. I am so proud of our children/now young adults!</p>
<p>I’m hoping we will have a decision soon also. I’ve tried to gently suggest that decision should be made by April 14th or she might miss out on the good dorm rooms! Not sure this is really true, but it sounded good.</p>
<p>Visited San Diego State today for a very long visit and ate in the student cafeteria. I subtly pointed out all the cute boys 
She actually loved it but is worried that she might slack off too much at such a large school.</p>
<p>Cal Lutheran (very different size and shape) on Saturday at Accepted Student Day and then she has to make a decision!</p>
<p>Her plan is to try to excel Freshman Year and re-apply to her dream school for Sophomore Transfer.</p>
<p>Thanks for doing this, mamaduck. Such an exciting time!!</p>