<p>Re:Seton Hall, it’s only 1200 (cr+m) with not less than 550 in either section.
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<p>Ugh. Yes. I meant 1200 for Seton Hall, (600 on each section.) Somehow I morphed that into 1600. Between that and turning your Son into a daughter earlier, I quit! LOL</p>
<p>Okay, today I realized how jaded I’ve become after reading CC for a couple years and having kids apply for selective scholarships for high school programs two years in a row. I read the descriptions of the 40 State Academic All-Stars in our local newspaper today and said, “so what” about nearly all the descriptions. Most of their accomplishments were a dime a dozen in my mind. Nine of them claim to be going to HYPS, eight were undecided and eleven plan to attend one of our state flagships. These are supposed to be the top students in our state. I was not impressed.</p>
<p>Haha Apollo6. I sadly had that response (internally of course) when my son announced how awesome it was that he scored higher than 85% of everyone else in the country!! on his first SAT. Pre-CC, I thought 85% was pretty awesome too. Lol. Luckily, it’s easy for me to remember that it really is pretty awesome once I log off :)</p>
<p>Cappex is basically Naviance but for the “general public”. You also end up getting a lot of emails about colleges so sign up with a little used email if you don’t want those flooding your email box. I’m guessing it is somewhat of a competing site to CC so I don’t know if it is ok to post a link or not. They have all the same scattergram information you see on Naviance which is very helpful.</p>
<p>Apollo6, LOL - it’s true, you’ve spent too much time here with all of us!</p>
<p>reeinaz, I think it’s pretty awesome that your DS scored higher than 85% of the kids in the entire country. :)</p>
<p>I just told my DD that she can consider Seton Hall as her in-state safety if they still have that program in 2013 - thanks for the tip!</p>
<p>I thought everyone might get a laugh reading one of my 1st grade sons paper about his Spring Break. Spelling and capitalization are his.</p>
<p>I had to go to ohio and pittsberg. So my borther could see colgises. First I went to cleevland ohio. I wesnt to a houtell that had a pole and a poll tabble and poll. I went to a zoo. I saur lions and tigers. One of the clgis my brother went to was Kase Western. Then I went to pittsberg when I was going to the nasnl avary there. Was a lot of tafic because the pireits had a opening game. Now my least fravit baseball team is The pirits. When I got to the noshnl avary I saur a parit. My fravrit part was when I got to feed the birds fish and worms. Then I went home. I thallt that I must of spent at least 7 hours in the car.</p>
<p>Does this count as his first college essay? I’m sure his writing will improve a lot in the next 10 years.</p>
<p>Mom24, that is a keeper! So funny.</p>
<p>Apollo, I remember thinking how bright my ds1 was until I volunteered in his kindergarten classroom and saw these little girls reading circles around him. cc has the same effect.</p>
<p>Anyone have info on GW?</p>
<p>Seton Hall - Just looked it up and in addition to SAT scores you have to be in top 10% of graduating class for tuition deal.</p>
<p>Class rank is going to throw a big wrench into college search.</p>
<p>Youdon"tsay - Thanks and I still volunteer in a kindergarten class and the girls are still running circles around the boys. The boys who are the best readers are also the ones who can’t sit still and can’t speak below a scream, reminds me a lot of home.</p>
<p>Ok. Did anyone watch Modern Family tonight? The oldest daughter was waitlisted at Univ of Oregon after receiving 4 rejections. I admit that I teared up when she “confessed” all the previous rejections to her mom.</p>
<p>Mom24boys, maybe your 1st grader will have an awesome contribution to the stupidest reason your kid didn’t apply thread. “Didn’t apply to Case Western because of bad traffic 10 years ago” :)</p>
<p>I spent 2 years at Seton Hall in the 80’s & transferred. Past few years here on CC I’ve heard of them significantly gapping students who had substantial need. I’m not in NJ anymore, but their reputation has been that it is a school where average students whose parents have $$$ go. I think their initiative to bring tuition down to Rutgers in state levels is promising and leads me to believe that the administration is shaking things up. The neighborhood around it used to be upper class (my mom nannied there when she first emigrated) but it has gotten quite rough. Make sure you do your homework & visit. I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer, but I have a very strong (and admittedly old & personal) reaction to that school ;)</p>
<p>Youdon’tsay, my oldest is graduating from GW’s Elliott School in May. What do you want to know? She has been very happy there, I have posted on the GW forum about the internships she has had, she ended up double majoring in IA/econ and accepted a job offer in November.</p>
<p>Congrats, mamabear! I’m particularly curious about the consortium and whether kids actually do it.</p>
<p>Well, I’m not aware of the consortium, would that be with other colleges in the area? She never had need of it, plenty of classes at GW to fill her schedule. More classes than she could fit into her 4 years (well 3.5 with study abroad).</p>
<p>Yeah, the rep said there’s an agreement among 11 colleges in the area to allow each other to take classes. I love that idea, like the Claremont consoritum we saw in February. But, because I’d never heard of it, I wondered how utilized it was …</p>
<p>Mom24boys: I loved your son’s essay! It’s so cute what is important to them at that age! </p>
<p>It’s interesting to hear about all these east and west coast colleges. Here in TX, I bet 90% of the students stay in state, with a handful going to Oklahoma or Arkansas. The only exceptions at our school are usually one or two URMs that go to Ivies and the Mormon kids who go to BYU. D’s class (2010) had several very talented theatre kids who got good scholarships to OOS/private schools, but that was unusual.</p>
<p>Well, I had “the talk” with my DD last night. The money talk. I’ve been upfront with her all along that we would need fin aid or scholarship if she wanted go out of state, and that there were no guarantees that a school would be affordable, but last night I gave her the specifics. I crunched all the numbers this past week and I gave her an exact figure that I can pay. (well, pretty exact.) I told her that based on my research it’s entirely possible that she’ll qualify for sufficient FA or scholarships to make many LACs possible, but that there are no guarantees and that she has to be open to several choices and not fall in love with one school to the detriment of others. She knows that she will need to take out stafford loans, or cover that cost with outside scholarships or employment savings.
She wasn’t thrilled, but she is a great kid, and she understands. She said - "ok, that’s enough, let’s talk about something else now. " And we watched Modern Family!</p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I’m hoping to get a chance to go back and catch up on the last two days but in the meantime I wanted to get some impressions back to you guys. Forgive typos, I’m typing on the iPad. </p>
<p>So first we went to Jun!ata. If go there, stay at the Fairfield Inn. Lovely new little hotel. The school is located in Huntingdon, PA. The town is small and gritty. Not awful but definitely gritty. There is a state penitintery and I think at least one other prison within a couple of miles of the school. Not much in terms of places to eat or things to do. The school itself did a great job of personalizing the visit. There were “a lot” of families there, about 20, and the receptionist seemed a little overwhelmed! We did the tour first. Oh my gosh, you guys are right, it is alredy blurring together. The dorm room was niceish- average size but it did have lots of storage. Several places to eat but the main dining hall didn’t have great hours- it is closed on Saturday Night and was open for lunch only for 2-3 hours. We did eat there after the tour. The food was okay, the views were magnificent! A big thing at Juniata is the POE- program of emphasis, where you kind of design your own combo of major/minor or you can use advisors’ help to create something of your own.</p>
<p>Other strengths: outdoor activities at a nearby lake, hiking in the mountains etc, lots of professor time and attention, small classes, generous with scholarship money. </p>
<p>Instead of an information session, my daughter’s admission counselor for her area met with her personally for over half an hour. This was somewhat unexpected and was her first “interview.” then I was called in to join them. It went very well and gave D some good experience without her worrying ahead of time b/c we didn’t know!</p>
<p>The school is on the list but not a top choice at this point. It would be a low match/ safety-ish school for her. </p>
<p>Btw, I took pics at most schools so if you need to see some bc you can’t get to a school, let me know.</p>
<p>Mom24boys, Loved it! I have six children with the oldest a college freshman and the youngest a 3rd grader. I do think the younger ones keep us grounded. Sitting on the couch with my youngest daughter and reading aloud always helps me leave the older kids’ issues behind. </p>
<p>Anniezz, Awesome job! I have never come right out and given my D13 specific figures but she knows our $ are limited. As long as Ole Miss remains a viable academic option for her, I won’t be worried.</p>
<p>RobD, Has your D heard back from any of the summer writing programs yet?</p>
<p>And what are the summer plans for the rest of the 2013 kids? My son still has no firm plans yet. He’s kinda looking for a job (says he wants one but isn’t really looking) and I would be fine with that. He had a couple of biology summer research opportunities fall through. He says he’s interested in biomed research but I don’t think he is at all…lol. I tried to convince him that that was why he was having such a hard time writing the application essays 
Now he’s into computer science and completed the application and essay for a week long program but never turned in his transcripts or LOR!! Well, I guess they must’ve liked his essay because they contacted his school who rushed out transcripts and a LOR. I told him that if he gets into the program he’d better write a million thank yous to everyone involved. And he still hasn’t completed the paperwork to take a summer class at the community college. I told him that if he doesn’t find something to do, he’ll be sitting at my job all summer shredding and making copies!</p>