<p>Agree about the flagships and schools with money. My son will quite possibly be attending the 199th ranked national university, a state flagship. The facilities there are pretty good. Not as good as Big 10/12/ACC/etc schools, but pretty darn good. As you say, a baseline level is expected from a funding and facilities perspective. State flagships are actually in a better funded position than all but the most well endowed LACs. </p>
<p>This also applies to faculty, I expect the faculty to come from top PhD programs in their field.</p>
<p>Make sure and have your kids check their Facebook profile before they schedule an interview. IMO they should put them the strictest security level to revel as little as possible. I had to check my kids pages from someone’s computer AND account with whom they were NOT friends. I had two to compare, so I could tell the difference. You definitely don’t want the one that is wide open!!!</p>
<p>Wahoo, our D’s do sound very much alike and I think their #1 choices might be the same school;) I don’t think my D would change anything because her personality wouldn’t allow it, but what she has revealed to me means she probably shares your D’s feelings. She is very busy with her sport, music, and 5 AP’s, so hopefully she is too busy to spend to much time worrying about it.</p>
<p>D just got an e-mail from College Board - ‘It’s not too late to register for the Oct SAT (we’ve extended the late registration deadline!)’ ‘Strengthen your college applications!’ Obnoxious.</p>
<p>Another e-mail from an admissions rep who will be in town conducting interviews - unfortunately it is on the same night as an important section game and she won’t miss that. If she applies there she will have to request an alumni interview. She visited and liked the school last year, but it is not at the top of the list.</p>
<p>mamabear, did she ask to interview at another time? The ad rep might be accommodating and would show that your dd is really interested.</p>
<p>Thanks, Steve, for seeing my posts! I know I wrote a long, wise post yesterday, and it’s not there. I guess I never his submit, but that’s happened on this thread in particular more than once. Never a problem on other threads where I regularly post. Harumph.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the Additional Info section on the CA is part of the main application, or if it is specific to each individual college? TIA.</p>
<p>SteveMA: Wooo-Hoooo!!! Congrats on such great news!!</p>
<p>Greek: Had Jr take care of all of his “questionable” FB stuff last year. In the end, he had delete a few pics of him and some models at a swimwear photo-shoot, but that was about it. I monitor his postings and he is very good about deleting posts from friends that like to drop the “F-bomb” too much. </p>
<p>Mailings: I agree with ya’ll on this!!! Jr gets more mail than our entire street combined! Lots of “here is your code for your free app” and glossy picture books from really expensive schools type crap. Don’t they know that I need that money to get rid of all of the grey hair I am getting???</p>
<p>Are any of your kids trying to decide between their #1 and #2 based on what happens on Saturdays?? Jr told us that he was leaning more towards one school than another on Sat AM…then College Football started. (His #1 and #2 happened to be playing each other.) By the end of the night, he had flip-flopped back to his original line up of. Then, his track coach started talking to him about being a “preferred walk-on” at his #2. (Track Coaches S ran there.)</p>
<p>Walker…get the basement ready…I’ve got the Rum and I’m COMING DOWN!!!</p>
<p>Need help on supplemental LOR. Many schools are very wishy-washy about these and how to get them to them. If the Office of Admissions lists a Fax number, do you think it is ok to fax it? One school specifically said to fax.</p>
<p>MDmom: Funny, being from California, we watched the same game and those are both of our top schools too! ;-)</p>
<p>DS got a letter in the mail from MSU telling him if he applied before 10-5, they would let him know by 11-9. Guess they are trying to beat out the EA schools, lol! DS has already applied so no added stress. Too bad they still don’t have the transcripts requested 9-4, but supposedly they were sent on 9-13.</p>
<p>We were able to get a visit scheduled with UKy during our planned Thanksgiving vacation. Yay - I also needed to figure out how to see family in 3 different cities when there and celebrate DD’s 5th b-day. Looks like it may all work out! Really excited that the adm rep said he was also a NMS and went through the honors college ~ a lot of what we have questions about.</p>
<p>SteveMa ~ congratulations on the free tuition call!</p>
<p>Greekmana ~ we thought the add. info. went to everyone. DS is using it to explain (besides the fact that he couldn’t fit all of his siblings in the space they allowed) a special program that he went through that is on his transcript.</p>
<p>Greek: Good news is, they are both “Red” schools…I don’t look good in Blue
But seriously…would be happy if Jr was lucky enough to get into either one!!</p>
<p>Question, Dear Parents of 13ers (PO13Rs?),
D’s huge passion is art, and she has lots of great pieces in different media that we could use for the CA Arts Supplemental or to send to non-CA schools as a supplement to her app.
She is majoring in science, not art, but might minor in it if she can manage that with her pre-dentistry track. Her application is strong without the art stuff, but her art really shows a side of her that I treasure. She says not to send it, and it will mean a lot of time to compile the photos onto a CD, etc. </p>
<p>Ezily: Where is your DD applying?? I would think that if it is her passion, and she is talented, she may end up with some kind of scholarship $$.</p>
<p>MDMom: she’s applying to our 2 flagships, our in-state public LAC, U of Ark, Baylor, U of Tulsa, Austin College, Truman State, and a smaller in-state. She’s top 25% for all.</p>
<p>I hadn’t thought of scholarship money, although for art it would be outside her major.</p>
<p>We have very good friends that sent both of their girls to SMU. One majored in Biology and the other was also Bio but minored in Art. In any event, she was awarded a very nice Art scholarship for her work. I do believe she eventually switched to an Art major with a Bio minor…but I could be wrong.
Moral of the story…it doesn’t hurt to send it in because you never know :)</p>
<p>For anyone who has done this before (the app doesn’t go live until Oct. 1) am I correct that you don’t need LOR or transcripts? Does anyone bother to send LOR anyway to help their application? i.e. for Cal? TIA.</p>
<p>Greekman: No LOR, no transcripts. You report all of your grades on the application, and don’t send the transcripts until after you are accepted. If they don’t match, there is a good chance your admission will be revoked. No LOR, if I remember correctly they will not look at anything extra (Not a UC, but I know at Cal Poly SLO they have a wall where they put everything “extra” that is sent extra). Sometimes if you are borderline at some of the UC’s (I have heard it at Cal and UCLA) they have a “supplement” that they send you. That might include a LOR, but I am not sure.</p>
<p>Thank you tx5athome. I love that I am now Greekman! Some people think I spelled mama wrong. “Mana” in Greek is a cute, diminutive form of mom. But that Greek root word probably was NOT on the SAT!</p>
<p>Facebook- I had D’13 look that over/ clean it up a month or so ago. </p>
<p>Don’t forget to google your kids for other online references.</p>
<p>On a much sadder note- I asked DS’16 how his school day went. He said “terrible”. A girl (10th grader) in his German 2 class committed suicide over the weekend. He didn’t really know her but it is still quite a shock.</p>
I know I wrote a long, wise post yesterday, and it’s not there. I guess I never his submit, but that’s happened on this thread in particular more than once. Never a problem on other threads where I regularly post. Harumph.</p>