<p>Youdon’tsay,</p>
<p>They DO say “Whoop!” </p>
<p>WHOOP!!!</p>
<p>Congratulations. Gig 'em!</p>
<p>Swizzle,</p>
<p>Well said - very well said! And it’s so good that you’re taking a moment to just absorb that. It will help later that you’ve already contemplated such things!</p>
<p>So, YDS…</p>
<p>Your S is still deciding? My D is for sure going to A&M. She’s got her acceptance, applied for housing and is very excited.</p>
<p>cromette - how great that your d knows where she wants to go and has been accepted!!! What a stress buster!!! Congrats to all getting acceptances. Hopefully GC will send transcripts tomorrow - LOR finally where it is suppose to be. So dd should have some acceptances (a couple of her safeties) in a month or so!</p>
<p>YDS- congrats to your son!</p>
<p>Ezilyamused- DD is part Choctaw on her dad’s side. The Choctaw Nation is awesome and so supportive of its members. </p>
<p>DD landed in NH around lunchtime. She and about 4 other fly-ins were the only ones there yet (others to arrive around dinner time). The group was able to wander about campus. They saw a farmers’ market that comes to campus every Wednesday, an art museum and the lounge has free hot chocolate and coffee. DD says all the kids are very nice so far.</p>
<p>I think that living in Texas and being adamant that my D “not live TOO far off”, and her being an engineering major narrowed her choices. Really when it came down to it - after we did process of elimination, A & M was the obvious choice. </p>
<p>It IS a stress buster! Good to have that out of the way.</p>
<p>YDS - Awesome!</p>
<p>Vent - How bad would it be if I just finished the Bama Honors application for DS? And how long would it take him to notice I did it? </p>
<p>He isn’t happy with his essay. Seriously, I don’t even think it matters so long as it is grammatically correct. Just cut and paste one of the multiple drafts! Thank goodness he applied to an early rolling admissions school in the first place. With his lack of hitting the send button, I’d be a wreck by 12/01 when most of his apps are due.</p>
<p>Off to child #3 now.</p>
<p>Longhaul,</p>
<p>LOL at your rant! Good luck!</p>
<p>Cromette, ds definitely is hoping to go further from home. His friend who also found out today is soooo excited. It’s her dream school, and she’s already been shopping for Aggie apparel! I love when kids are so happy with their choices – though I get the impression that this is her one and only. Ds probably won’t make a decision until April 28, like his brother. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Dragon, sounds like she’s having a great time!</p>
<p>Just wondering about the Bama scholarships. S received his acceptance with the first batch of acceptance, but he still has not gotten any word about a scholarship. He qualifies for the Presidential Scholarship. We keep getting stuff about applying for the Fellows Program, but no word on the Presidential Scholarship. </p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Okay, so do you all realize we average 3-4 pages in 24 hours!
a question: if DD took ACT(no studying AT ALL) for the first time in September and got a 28 composite (the low score was science and english), but she got a “total” 2080/1370 for SAT first sitting(and plans to take again in two weeks)—should she take the ACT again, or just concentrate on SAT? She plans to take two subject tests (she tested in Math I and Math II earlier this year, but some schools want “a different” subject) in November. When I look at the “comparison tables” of the SAT/ACT, it looks like she does overall better with the SAT. Anyone else have ideas or opinions?</p>
<p>Galaxyfigment: Did your S fill out both the regular application and the scholarship application? If he has, I would suggest calling admissions to double check that they have the scholarship application and that they have it correctly linked to his regular application, test scores, and transcript.</p>
<p>My D has done both of those but has not done the Honors College App yet. She did receive the Presidential scholarship offer and the UFE application invitation came last week.</p>
<p>Agh. I need some group therapy 
Another sleepless night… I want to give DD ownership of the process, and I don’t want to add to her anxiety about applications, schoool, etc. HOWEVER, I can’t sleep at night. She is applying to a lot of very selective schools. I worry that come April, she will be disappointed. I don’t think she is showing enough interest in some of the schools that are lower on her list.
After ED results in December, will it be too late to show interest (if she doesn’t get into her ED choice?).</p>
<p>I also worry that she is using the wrong criteria for her choice. She is still talking about the academic reputation and selectiveness of the schools. I keep telling her that they are all great schools and at this point she should be focusing on where she will be happy. I don’t think she really understands that as a criteria. She is so goal focused. She has been so number foucused for so long.</p>
<p>Drmom- I think you have a good plan with the SAT and SATII. Adding the ACT again will just overwhelm your D at this point. She is so close to a great SAT score with superscoring. She should then study for her SAT II - I think that those are really studyable. So many kids take them without preparing, so a little prep goes far on those tests.</p>
<p>Drmom - My suggestion is to stick with the SAT. Her 28 composite is equivalant to a 1250/1600 I think. So her SAT is much better. My son’s ACT with no prep was a 28 and pretty much on par with his second sitting SAT. I would have loved for him to try the ACT again with some prep. But he didn’t want any part of more testing.</p>
<p>Carla–don’t stress! It always makes me sad to hear of parents who are miserable through their kids’ senior years. The deal I have going with DS#3 is that he gets to put some schools on the application list but I do too. (I made a lot of suggestions with my older two also.) I haven’t gotten any pushback on this from any of them. That keeps everybody happy.</p>
<p>Carla2012…what’s her list? Has she been to see the campuses of all the schools? On paper and the web a lot of these schools seem awesome but the vibe may not be a good fit for her and the program she wants filled with overachieving kids that are not friendly…there is a big difference from a high school to a big competitive school…you go from Top Dog to little mouse and not all kids have the right personality to fit in…It’s not always about the numbers…ED is dangerous that way to…as long as she has spent a couple of days on the campus of where she is applying or has a really close friend there and knows the campus life well…she may be unhappy with her choice once she gets there…
But if she has visited and is firm in her convictions…then go with her decision…and Bite Your Tongue
and if ED doesn’t happen go visit safety schools durring XMas break…
A Plan B always helps…and You need your sleep :)</p>
<p>reeinaz and Carla: I appreciate your input. I am leaning that way as well. I just don’t know what DD will decide. I think taking too many tests…sometimes makes the stress worse, and the achievent also worse!<br>
Carla, My DD was in your DD position about 2 weeks ago. I sat down with her and said:" I cannot make this decision for you; and I know you dont want to listen to me; BUT, this is what I suggest–make a list of the schools in YOUR OWN rank order of which you’d like to get into. THEN, make a separate list of the schools in rank order of which you think you “need” to apply early to. Once you do that, I want you to look at that list and imagine (going down the list) you got into each one. How do you “FEEL”…" she did not tell me if she did that or not, but just 2 days ago she said “IF I applied early to XX college(super competetive) and I actually got in (which she qualified to say the only reason to apply early was to see if she’d get in), then I WOULD FEEL BAD, BECAUSE THERE ARE OTHER SCHOOLS THAT I WOULD WANT TO GO TO MORE”…she never showed me her lists…but I can’t help think she did make one, either in her head or somewhere…and it helped her. She now has a DIFFERENT kind of school, just as selective (but not as Peer-pressured) to apply early to. And, I get the feeling if she did not get into it, she understands the other choices better for herself and is not as anxious.</p>
<p>dr123…Great Great advise :)</p>
<p>did anyone’s kid take a Language with Listening? if so, what book/prep guide did you use?</p>
<p>I would second Dr.Mom’s advice as well, but I would add that you should sit down with D and see the results. That way you and D can sit down and figure out ‘internal deadlines’ for each application. When Step-D got her application list down to around 10, we sat down with our college counselor friend and we mapped out some internal deadlines for Step-D to meet, so that all of her applications were not ‘bunched together’ or done at the last minute. So far, so good. She has 2 acceptances, waiting on 3 answers, and working hard on the next application on the list. </p>
<p>We have found that understanding the deadlines and the admissions policies of each school and mapping out specific deadlines for each has reduced the stress on Step-D and has allowed her to focus on one application (or one ‘group’ of applications) at a time.</p>