<p>Andrew Sullivan wrote about the “likely” letter in his book “CrazyU” about his own son’s journey through the admission process. UVA is the xHMFR my DS is contemplating for RD…but he is very realistic about chances.</p>
<p>Thanks Confetti for sharing my memory lane of app completion without mistakes. I don’t think I did your light trick, but rather used a ruler to compare the typing on the blank page to the form rectangle, or folded the paper just above the practice line and compared to see if it would fit before typing on the precious form. We should make each dd and ds do this in August, then no one would have been complaining about word processing out their essays. ;)</p>
<p>jennieling: Congrats to your ds! Amherst was one of the four colleges I applied to years ago, so it must have impressed me also (for their science program). I won’t be any use, however, as I did not attend.</p>
<p>Oh how wonderful Dragonflygarden! What a great birthday :D. S13’s bday is the last week of March, so he could theoretically get a good present too… huh. That’s an upside to waiting that long, I guess.</p>
<p>Thanks for the well-wishes, meeting this morning went well and we’ll be able to enjoy the break :).</p>
<p>Does anyone here have insight into what a good supplementary rec does or highlights? I know that the consensus is add something that the teacher recs don’t, but I haven’t read my teacher recs so I’m a bit stuck.</p>
<p>Home with my youngest, who is feeling rotten. Watching Titanic. The kids love it. I find it immensely disturbing, and that never lessens no matter how many times I see it…</p>
<p>russ: Examples: a supplementary might be from an employer who could talk about your dependability or skill with customers, a coach could talk about perseverance, a mentor could talk about years dedicated to an EC or service. If your teachers cannot talk about a key aspect to you, it may benefit to add a non-classroom perspective. Not necessary for many students, but for others it gives the colleges a unique insight. Good luck!</p>
<p>Wahoo: I always got annoyed at the end until Mythbusters showed how hard it would be to get both on the door. And that necklace would not have ended up where it did had it been mine. :D</p>
<p>Russgenious - maybe a rec from someone outside of school? An employer or outside coach or pastor or someone not involved in the academic side, or school sports/activity side. Basically you want someone who can shed more light about who YOU are that didn’t come out in the essays (because there is only do much you can do in the alloted amounts with certain topics) or in your grades, scores, and “school qualities”, the latter 3 of which are familiar to your teachers and counselor. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>my3gr8boyz - I actually used to play soccer but I stopped a few years ago. I do not know swizzle but I guess I should if we might be classmates! </p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the congratulations! and congrats on all of the acceptances!
Good luck to those who haven’t heard yet!</p>
<p>Longhaul - keeping my fingers crossed for tonight! Have I ever mentioned that I love your username? :)</p>
<p>By the way, we’ve looked into CC (Coll. College!) a bit. Does you son love the Block concept? It seems like a great idea,but I’m having trouble selling DS14 on it. Hopefully we’ll have an “in” to let us know what it’s really like!</p>
<p>Many, many congratulations are due on this thread! Well done, class of 2013! And as for the deferrals, big hugs and keep the faith. There are so many great schools out there and I am a big believer in kids being able to thrive in a myriad of places. After all, they didn’t check out every possible high school- they went to the one they went to, made themselves happy, did well and thrived. The same should be true of college as well! </p>
<p>D13 is having some friends over tonight to celebrate Christmas break. They are having chicken nuggets from Chickfila, snacks, cookies and popcorn while watching Robin Hood- Men in Tights and exchanging gifts. D knit dolls for each of her friends with a special little “wink” on each one that is an inside joke for each person. Very cute and took her over two months to do. 
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<p>She was accepted at C A S E last week. She got a scholarship but it is still outside of what we told her we would fund (and yes, we have that convo ahead of time!) So if she ultimately decides to go there, she will have to put some skin in the game herself. Next on the list will be W O O S T E R. She has two supplements and one scholarship app due in January but I told her I want them all done and in by January 1.</p>
<p>Big hugs to all of you.</p>
<p>I think my S is about to learn an important lesson. He got a letter from his admissions rep at on of his schools that said his application has to go to committe for review. He stood up this AR twice! I don’t think she will be fighting or him in committee :/</p>
<p>Hi everyone, congratulations to all that got acceptances and good luck to all that are waiting. DS (I only have 1 child) wants to be a math major and go to med school. Applied early action to Princeton and got deferred - now working on the apps to Brown, Duke, Emory, SUNY Geneseo, College of Wooster and University of Rochester. Great stats (2300 SAT, 99.9 GPA, class rank 4/164), rigorous high school classes, only so-so EC’s. Princeton was definitely first choice but he’s happy with the rest of his list. Prefers a traditional campus and not too large (number of students, not campus). We only managed to visit Princeton and Brown but hope to make more visits. Loved Princeton’s campus, felt Brown was too urban but said the “people seemed awesome.”</p>
<p>NY Times The Choice blog has some EA/ED numbers.
<a href=“Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com;
<p>more great news came for me today! Lesley called and told me I was accepted with their largest merit scholarship. I love Emerson but I really need the money that Lesley offered. The choice is getting much harder to make. Anyone else have kids in a similar boat?</p>
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<p>Thanks and congrats to you on Chicago.</p>
<p>Does anyone have experience with last minute submissions on Common App? All the emails that my sons have received reminding them of the Jan. 1 deadline say, do NOT wait until the last minute, we cannot be held responsible for technical difficulties. So my question is, does Common App have a history of crashing on heavy load deadline dates? If it were up to me, all those apps would have been done by August! But alas this is not my process.</p>
<p>Deferred at Colorado College :(</p>
<p>Going to be a long holiday break since he has so many apps to get done.</p>
<p>I have no advice as to what he should send. Nothing changed - his current grades reflect all others, no new standardized tests or ECs.</p>
<p>@my3gr8boyz - DS LOVES the Block Plan idea. He is ADD and hypo focuses, so the block plan basically is exactly the way he works. And my username, well, I started on here for my niece and I have 3 kids, the youngest is HS 2018. So, yup, I am here for the long haul.</p>
<p>Good afternoon!</p>
<p>DS has a half day tomorrow and then Winter break. The college kids are home and their “alternate” sleeping schedules are getting on my nerves a bit.</p>
<p>Congratulations to increased test scores, awards, acceptances and everything else!</p>
<p>Greek: I don’t know about the Common Ap, but the University of California application has a long history of computer problems on the last day.</p>
<p>Anyone else’s kid changing? I don’t know if it is because he is a late-bloomer, or taking different classes or what but DS is changing a lot. I really like the guy he is becoming but he is different from who he was this summer which is changing how we view a couple of schools for him. It will be interesting to see who he is in April.</p>
<p>Late breaking news! DS was accepted to San Diego State! This is his first acceptance and his sister’s alma mater. But, a safety on his list. Nice to know he has somewhere to go!!! Go Aztecs!</p>
<p>Sorry about the deferral Longhaul.</p>
<p>Congratulation on the new “fat envelopes” received today </p>
<p>Longhaul – Sending Pixie Dust for your Deferral that they wake up and accept you guys in the next round.</p>
<p>Lilkickester9 – while we are expecting multiple scholarship offers, none of the schools we have applied to will offer the big scholarships until at least February, most will be March.</p>