<p>our2girls–I had to get up really early this morning, I’m trying to come up with an answer to your scholarship question and I just can’t get the brain working. I don’t know how much schools really match offers from other schools. I think it really depends on your child and if they are really unique for the school in some way.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who’s children got apps in. It is a nice feeling, until you think about the waiting to hear back :D. </p>
<p>Not much new here. DD still hasn’t gotten any acceptances in the mail…</p>
<p>Jealous of all of those that have acceptances or have apps in.
Jr is working on finishing up his essays for his #1. He is applying SCEA…so no pressure
PRAYING that he can push the button by next weekend. I really don’t want to ruin my Birthday month agonizing over him missing the Nov 1st deadline.</p>
<p>It’s Homecoming week, which means spirit dress days, All-School Carnival on Thursday and a Rally on Friday. The best part is there is little to no HW :D</p>
<p>D14 is now FBO (Facebook Official) with her date/new BF. Not that I needed more stress in my life…</p>
<p>Jr keeps talking about taking a “Gap Year” if things don’t “work out” with any of his 3 schools left on “The List”.</p>
<p>SteveMA - have you called someone - anyone - about your D and why she hasn’t heard? Is she frustrated? I know you are…and I don’t blame you grrrrr</p>
<p>I finally called the GC yesterday–talked to the secretary. DD was to go in today and look into this–not sure when she got her appointment to do that-waiting for her to get home from school for an update. Surprisingly about 15 minutes after I talked to the office, all of the statuses changed on her Naviance and on the Common App. DS’s, however, have not changed yet (for his common app ones). Once I talk to DD, we will see where we need to go from here. I am guessing that the schools now have her transcripts since they mysteriously got sent yesterday and updated after I called even though they have been telling DD they sent them all 2 weeks ago…</p>
<p>our2girls - those are great questions. I know of a boy (last years Val.) who got a full tuition scholarship offer to U of Mich (the same scholarship my son is being considered for this year) and (according to other parents) used that as leverage to get a full ride at Mich. State. Supposedly he told the MSU counselor, while on a hs visit, his U of M offer and if she wanted him at MSU, she would have to do better. Not sure if the story is true or not, but the scholarship info all is. I don’t think I would have the guts to do that!</p>
<p>Hi everyone! Congratulations on the acceptances, and on the app submissions! No apps in here because no finished essays. And no LORs in.</p>
<p>Having no control over that, I started th Profile today, and then realized that all my financials are on my laptop that died last week! So I need to deal with fixing that, or retrieving data at least. </p>
<p>SteveMA, sounds like the secretary was the only one who knew how to push the right buttons…hope you get some quick answers. If you register for the CSSProfile, you input all the schools you’re applying and it will tell you what you need (different s@hools ask different questions.) If the schools dont show up in the searches, then you dont need the PROFILE for them.</p>
<p>Hang in there everyone… and let’s all try to enjoy this time with our kids still home…as much as possible! ;)</p>
<p>Mommydearest & YDS; Don’t be afraid of Rice because it is in Houston! I know as a parent who doesn’t live there that it may sound kind of scary, but it’s not. All students get something calls Passport Houston (I think that’s the name) and the students can take public transit for free with free entry to museums and I think discounted tickets at theaters and concerts. If you kid isn’t a savy city person, then I would tell them to stay away from the public busses, but the light rail is great! It passes right in front of Rice and goes to the museum district and the theater district. Rice can come across as kind of nerdy, so I can see how some kids don’t love it. It also isn’t a big 10 school with tons of athletic support, so if that’s high on your list, Rice won’t rank very well.</p>
<p>Thanks all for the CSS Profile reminder. After seeing your discussion I went to the websites and sure enough, one of S’13s EA schools wants the CSS Profile submitted by 11/1. The others later, but I would have missed it for sure.</p>
<p>S’13 is plugging away at his apps - 11 in all (casting a wide net). He’s hit the button for all his EA or early deadline in-state schools. Now he can start the supplements for the rest of the RD schools. It feels like a good pace and will get him done with plenty of time to spare (fingers-crossed).</p>
<p>anniezz–good info about the CSS profile. I didn’t know it existed. I don’t think the secretary did anything. I think the GC checked her account after we called. According to the several conversations with the secretary she can’t do anything about the apps/transcripts and the GC has to do that. DD got the same story today “sometimes it takes a while to show up”. Conferences are next week. If DS’s are “showing up” by then, we will have a nice face to face talk. DD didn’t ask why all of the sudden her transcripts were “showing up” after I called though.</p>
<p>DS just hit send on school #3. Says essays are getting easier to write. </p>
<p>Now if we could get the school moving on the transcripts. Sons counselor popped her head in homeroom this morning to advise that “they are not ready to be sent yet”…What!
Apparently they need to be updated with senior course load. He was told to voice his complaints to the secretary who seemingly is slacking. I thought updating transcripts would be the guidance counselors responsibilty.</p>
<p>Yep, we’re in the same boat with no transcripts being sent. GC says she’s waiting on teachers to submit their recs to her before she writes her rec, and then she will send them all together. Apparently, one teacher is holding everything up - I think S2 needs to ask a different teacher. And, of course, GC told S2 “Your first deadline isn’t until Nov 1 so why the rush?” Just impatient, I guess!</p>
<p>We are having melt down and teenage angst over the personal statement!!! You would think he is an award winning writer with the way he is refusing to change anything!!! I guess DH is going to have to get involved. This won’t be fun. He is stubbornly insisting on writing about “reading.” It’s a great essay, but you can’t major in “reading!” Am I overreacting? I’ve told him a million times that he can use if for some of the supplemental essays but to no avail.</p>
<p>Working on CSS Profile here this week. Goal is to ensure DD is 100% sure on SCEA by next week before we finish profile and also send ACT scores.</p>
<p>Nice to see all of the activity everyone is doing on finishing apps.</p>
<p>OK, I’m in the same place as GreekMana tonight. Its not a happy place - its full of tears and emotion. And while I am happy for everyone who has acceptances and applications and scholarships, I feel like I’m in some alternate universe of applications. DD is still trying to decide where she wants to apply, and has not completed anything. Which is unbelievable since this same girl was finished with her standardized testing in October of junior year!</p>
<p>With D2 I had to WALK AWAY. She’s a brilliant writer - I’m not kidding. But she needed guidance on her essays that she absolutely didn’t want. We came to an impasse, I told her to not send anything and print them out if she was happy with them. I waited 2 days and let our argument “sink in”, then I redlined her essays, put my arms around her and told her how much I loved her and reminded her that once the essays were submitted, there was no turning back, and asked her to please take them to her English teacher who understands what the essays are supposed to accomplish and is ALSO a brilliant writer (and my daughter LOVES her). We agreed let her teacher look at my marks and make the final cut. By that time, some of the emotion had been diluted - and I liked the final version and so did she.</p>
<p>I am in the “essay” boat too. I think S3’s problem is that he is all over the place, he is into so many things (sailing, running, tennis, journalism, academics, student government, Youth & Government, and has dabbled in broadcasting and drama). One minute he wants to be a politician or a lawyer, the next he wants to major in Physics or math, the next he wants to be a a stand-up comedian or sports announcer. So what do you write the essay about? He basically doesn’t know who he is or what his goals and aspirations are. Which is what the essay is asking. I understand the problem because I wouldn’t know what to do if I were him either. I think he is a cool guy (of course I am completely biased), but how do we get that out in a 500 word essay?</p>
<p>Help. Does anyone know if you are signed up for a SAT subject test, but you don’t actually go and take it, will they still forward all of your previous scores to the four colleges that you have listed? The aftermath of the meltdown!.. TIA.</p>
<p>Meltdown at our house tonight too.
Too much stress - I pushed D to send something with her top choices and she lost it - She just looked at me and asked me where she was applying. Pushback from me, to try and get her to identify where she is applying/ if she is happy with her list, and that led to the meltdown - stress about apps, stress about getting in, stress about what we can afford… And apparently she isn’t liking any of her safeties today. Not good. I’m hoping that tomorrow night will be a little better and may lead to some positive movement, if she’ll accept some reassurance from me, while not just handing it over to me…
I wish that I could take away all the stress.</p>
grrrrr</p>