<p>Just returned from wedding-land (my nephew’s second marriage). Lots of fun, and enough young people that D’11 and S’14 were happy. S told me one of his classmates got into Wake Forest. I told him Wake accepts apps after July 1. I also said some schools have rolling admissions. He’d never heard the term before. He asked if any of his schools had that. I said no, but then I realized maybe he thinks a deadline is the first day you can apply. So I told him “you know, even though the deadline is Nov 1 for a lot of your schools, you can get it in earlier, and you might hear earlier, so it’s like rolling admissions.”</p>
<p>This from the kid who hasn’t started his essay…</p>
<p>Way to go DS of Mayrjay60 - impressive! Our DS didn’t get too much done on the college app front this weekend. Homework and ECs are taking over. That’s why we encouraged him to get as much done as he could in August. He is taking a college visit trip at the end of the month. We’ll see how much interest that sparks.</p>
<p>We’ve had several schools ask us to self report classes and grades and gpa. I find it annoying and wonder why they do that since that would be so easy to make a mistake and transcripts are sent anyway.</p>
<p>Have you all run into many that require that?</p>
<p>So frustrated…Suggested to DS’14 that he find some other schools to apply to bc his current ACT score will not suffice for his current choice schools. His reply was, “I’m going to get higher. Stop bothering me about it.” </p>
<p>Will someone please help me out here? How is he going to get a higher ACT score with zero prep/studying? Is he just going to “will it”? I wish I had that ability!!!</p>
<p>I agree with the sentiment regarding grades, etc; son recently had interviews on 2 campuses with adreps who each asked point blank what DS’s SAT scores were. I found this perplexing given that: 1) they already should have the scores in a file somewhere according to the College Board. and 2) it seems to me that the interview should be about anything but this…it was asked at the beginning of the sit-down and was as if the reps wanted to know whether the interview held any hopes of an admission and wanted to cut to the chase.</p>
<p>We’ve ran into one school (UF) that’s requiring it. Putting it in place, this year, caused UF to delay opening admissions by a month (didn’t impact that deadline though…still Nov 1!). </p>
<p>I think they use a 3rd party to “process” the info (whatever that means) and supply it to the AO’s. I get the sense it’s saving the admissions group a lot of work, but it’s a pain to type all of that info and insure we don’t make any mistakes (that could cause an offer to be rescinded). But I guess that’s the point, the admissions office doesn’t want to deal with it.</p>
<p>I would expect it’s going to become more widely done…</p>
<p>Well we screwed up one app. It’s one that requires you put in the grades. She attended two different high school’s one for 9th and then 10th - 12th. When she first clicked on it for her school it asked for weighted and unweighted gpa, rank and grade distribution. It was unclear where to click out of that and as we looked at the options, it looked like that was all she needed so we clicked a done button. Up popped a - done with this school information click here and you can’t go back and edit. She was confident with that info so clicked yes.</p>
<p>Next school - she put in all that info and we looked at the buttons again and she clicked on another little button, and up popped another page to add all classes and grades. I don’t think we can fix the missing grades from the other school now.</p>
<p>So what do we do? Call the admissions office?</p>
<p>Ugh, debate today over sending FREE app to local LAC. S doesn’t want to go there, but it just a couple hours out of his life to fill out the app and schedule a visit.</p>
<p>Hello, I’m new to this epic thread and relatively new to CC. I have read some of the last few hundred posts in the thread, but that has me at least somewhat up-to-date on the application process for y’all. I am impressed, but also a bit intimidated, that so many of your seniors have already filled out apps, written essays, are RE-writing essays, etc.</p>
<p>My son, while a procrastinator, was very busy this summer with an internship, a two-week program at Yale, and writing his Extended Essay. I think most EEs are due later during senior year, but at his school the deadline for submitting them was today. It goes without saying that he worked throughout the summer on his EE, but still needed to burn the midnight oil all weekend to get it done for today. Anyway, that’s done, and I guess it was as good an excuse as any, but he hasn’t even read the prompts for the essays, much less begun to write one. </p>
<p>So, the good news is that he’s a good test taker, and did a “one and done” with his SAT I and SAT II. He has a short list of schools to apply to during the early rounds, he’s got great recommendations lined up, his GPA is pretty good (could be better), his ECs are also pretty good, but I have not figured out how to light a fire under him for the essays. All of his schools require at least a supplemental essay, and at least one doesn’t even use the Common App.</p>
<p>Any suggestions for firing up the boy? He’s not lazy at all, but he seems to think that he’ll bang out the essays sufficiently well to get into even his reaches. He seems to intellectually understand how selective the schools are, but he seems convinced that he will successfully land at one (damn you Naviance!).</p>
<p>@IxnayBob: You’re not alone – my D could be the twin to your S, complete with internship/Yale/EE. And she also isn’t anywhere yet on essays. But there really is a lot of time before application deadlines, and unless he is applying to state schools where housing or limited majors are a problem, it isn’t going to matter at all whether the applications go in during September or December (or even January, in many cases). If he has his letter writers lined up and his list put together, he is well ahead of 90% of seniors.</p>
<p>We had Open House at DS’ school tonight. A chance to follow his schedule and go to all the classes and visit with teachers. It was interesting to see the parent involvement (ie, attending the open house) in the different level of classes. DS is taking AP Physics and AP Calc BC. Those classes had a good number of parents present. He is also taking a regular (non AP/honors) World History class. Only two other parents besides myself attended that class. I think it shows either that the parents are more involved with advanced students’ education OR students are in advanced classes because parents are more involved. </p>
<p>I also imagined how bored he must be because of the extremely slow pace the regular History class is creeping along at. We are starting the 4th week of school and they are on Chapter TWO!!! In an AP class, they would be on at least Chapter 7 or 8 by now! I’m not complaining, though, because APUSH kicked his rear last year and he needed a break!</p>
<p>student4ever - have him sleep with the study guide under his pillow and maybe he’ll get it through osmosis! ;)</p>
<p>eyemamom - I’d think you could call the admission office. Maybe they can reset it for you to fill in the missing data, or give them the info so they can???</p>
<p>IxnayBob - There is plenty of time. You needn’t worry. If your DS is electing to apply to a school ED or EA, keep an eye on those deadlines. The prompts for the CA essay are not bad at all. He will find one he can write about. Also, just encourage him to open up the CA and start filling out the basics, he will soon realize it is not that daunting a task. The RD deadlines are in January. He should think about asking 2 teachers if they are willing to write recs for him. He doesn’t want to go to them at the last minute. Be respectful of their time. They are busy too.</p>
He asked the two teachers about recommendations last year. One, his science rec, was his EE mentor and they’ve worked closely (mostly via email) all summer. </p>
<p>The other teacher, his history LOR, unfortunately moved to another school, but has promised my son (and the GC) that he would give recommendations all the attention that he would have if he were still at the school. He sent my son an email saying that students like my son are why one goes into teaching rather than business, so I’m inclined to believe that he will do a good job. His is the less important of the recommendations (given my son’s intended major), and I guess that the GC will probably see them before submission, but it does make me nervous.</p>
<p>eyemamom – ugh! Sorry about that. I would definitely call the Admissions Office, explain what happened, and send a back up email that can be included in your child’s file. I’m sure it happens a lot.</p>
<p>student4ever – same here – S is taking ACT on Sept 21 and is very laid back about studying and prep. I think it’s either an act (no pun intended!) to cover how much they do care about raising their score and they know how important it is, or they think they’re Joe Cool and can breeze in without studying and ace it.</p>
<p>The second option is probably an urban (or in our case, suburban) legend – the kid who didn’t study and got a perfect score. I think that kid doesn’t exist. At least, I haven’t met him.</p>
<p>classof2015 - I think S is avoiding the ACT prep bc he realizes it is literally around the corner and he has done nothing all summer - so now he can blame the lack of an increased score on not prepping. </p>
<p>beadymom - I’m going to try the osmosis method tonight - hopefully that won’t “bother” S too much!! :)</p>
<p>We finally got notice that the state cutoff for NMF semifinalist jumped up 5 points so unfortunately go2girl was shut out. Surprisingly our small school (150 seniors) had 8 seminfinalists and I’m guessing as many commended scholars. </p>
<p>Still honing the list here. One, possibly two schools came off the list yesterday, so we may get down to twelve. Go2girl has promised to get some supplement essays written by Friday when we meet with her college counselor. I’m hoping she can knock some out this weekend before her school load increases. </p>
<p>Fortunately she only has one more subject test to study for and we will be done with standardized testing!</p>