<p>H told D that if she got good drafts of a couple of college essays done, he’d take her to WalMart at midnight for the Black Friday sales. It’s an hour away, and he had already told her that she wouldn’t be driving tonight with the drunks and crazies out on the winding roads.</p>
<p>So she knuckled down and finished those drafts she’s been working on. </p>
<p>That will be it for the shopping this weekend.</p>
<p>On another note, she told her grandfather that she would be leaving for college next fall and wouldn’t be able to take a lot of “stuff” with her, so she didn’t have much on her xmas list. Practical child, although I think she’s also hoping for some cash.</p>
<p>Hello, All! Haven’t checked in for awhile but keeping up with the posts (well…one day behind).</p>
<p>Happy belated Thanksgiving! Hope everyone was blessed!</p>
<p>The turkey made my D content enough to let me talk her into applying to 3 more colleges :). she is applying to nursing and it is competitive, so my thought was that it was better to have options (hopefully). She does have two college acceptances to her safeties, so that’s good. </p>
<p>Thanks for all of your posts! They are so helpful. I cant wait until EA/ED acceptances come out and we share in the excitement! </p>
<p>fogfog–thoughts, hugs, and prayers are with you.</p>
<p>Hello all. This is my first post to this group and indeed, I’ve posted very little in the 3-4 years I’ve been lurking on CC. But my lurking has bordered on addiction and I’ve learned so much.</p>
<p>Right now, S14 is waiting for responses from ED school and two EAs. He has also submitted apps to two RD schools, early because of merit aid opportunities. His ED school is Ivy and is so much his first choice, he’s having trouble finishing up apps that are due by 12/31. So we are having a bit of push and pull around here. His heart isn’t in it to write more essays about why such and such school is the perfect fit for him, and I want him to have choices and think he should write these essays now and not wait till he’s feeling sad (because that’s the condition he’ll be under if he is rejected or deferred from ED school).
Hard to find the perfect balance!</p>
<p>NoCook- I think there is an advantage to having them at least list the things about the other schools that make them a good fit so they realize that the ONE school isn’t the be-all end-all option. Maybe you could encourage him to take the stance of- if the first choice school didn’t exist, what is it about the other schools that he thinks make them a good fit? </p>
<p>Unfortunately, my son didn’t discover which one he would have wanted to apply to ED until after the deadline so he didn’t apply ED. But hopefully, he will have enough options he likes that he won’t be too extremely disappointed if he doesn’t get in there since it is a lottery school.</p>
<p>NoCook my son was the same way, although hes completed his other apps, he is too hung up on the ED school and I’m afraid of the effect of a denial on him. </p>
<p>This morning I just started a casual conversation about the other schools on his list and discussed the unique qualities of each. I tried subtly to get him to imagine himself at the other schools.
Our next conversation will be about trying his best but being aware of the odds.</p>
<p>Excellent advice, Barnard and Overseas Moms! I think I will feel more comfortable if I know he’s thinking about his three remaining app schools as real possibilities. I like the ideas of him thinking about these schools as if the ED one didn’t exist and really imagining himself there. </p>
<p>I am ready for this to be over - tired of thinking about the what ifs and want to focus on the concrete!</p>
<p>We are 100% in the same boat No Cook. A while ago S told me that his 2nd choice would be " whatever school is easiest to transfer to his ED school too"!!! Trying desperately to keep him motivated to complete other apps and maintain a positive attitude. It surely does not help that ED results will come out a week before finals and crunch time before all other RD apps are due. I know that things usually all work out in the end, but I for one cannot wait for it to be all done - I want to return to being a regular Mom and not a nagging pest;)</p>
<p>Great day here! DS opened his first acceptance yesterday on his EA school (he got home late from work Wednesday so waited all day) with a very nice merit award!<br>
Great start to this part of the process and to the holidays! Took younger daughter shopping on her birthday today in Soho…so trendy and fun…kept far from the NJ malls!</p>
<p>First post to this thread, though I have spent a bit of time on the Financial Aid threads – oldest son just sent off his first two apps today!!! Finally! Rochester Early Notification was the important one – probable merit aid, decent financial aid on the calculator, and an academic match. Before that, he submitted a local private academic safety, “because it was free.” The free one was actually pretty nice because he got to try out the whole submit process without it being a risk. No ED apps due to wanting to evaluate financial aid. RD list has two Ivys (Penn, Cornell), two Ivy equivalents, a strong legacy, and a couple of academic matches with probably merit aid. One safety, both academic and financial, is our in-state public, and he’ll apply for honors (which ironically he is also a legacy of sorts for but not sure they care in honors).</p>
<p>Welcome NoCook & Daddio3 (and any other new posters that I’ve missed!)! And congrats to tpcrd66 for getting the first acceptance in hand! And to Daddio3 for getting the first two apps out!</p>
<p>Such a busy time of year. I don’t remember if I shared, but DS received #3 acceptance on Wednesday. It was a match school with a good chance at a decent scholarship - I’ll keep my fingers crossed! I really like this school - two hours from home, has a good program for DS’ major with good internship possibilities. </p>
<p>Getting closer to having all the paperwork in for his reach … that had an 11/1 deadline. The last thing missing is the humanities LOR. It should be on its way.</p>
<p>He’s received e-mails and/or snail mail from a couple of the other schools that they have everything they need for the EA process. We should be hearing from 3 more schools before Christmas. That leaves 2 for late January & April 1 announcements.</p>
<p>I just wish DS would get busy on the scholarship apps, because most of these schools will not be do-able without them! I’m wondering if he’s just waiting it out to see where he’s accepted first. By then, it will be too late for the scholarships! UGGGHHH! He was grumpy the other day asking if he could just have one day without talking about it. So I haven’t brought it up since. And I’ll try to do better about not pestering…but it’s got to get done! Time to go to the once a week meetings that some of you have posted about in the past - with a checklist and a to-do list for them to work on the rest of the week.</p>
<p>S2 got a nice post-Thanksgiving surprise today - acceptance to Tulane with a very nice $25K per year Distinguished Scholar award and invitation into Honor’s Program. Tulane is his brother’s alma mater for undergrad and S1 is also a 3Y Law School student there, so it is a meaningful first acceptance. It was a non-binding early action app. He is still waiting on his ED1 app to Claremont McKenna, but if he doesn’t get in there I think he would be very happy to attend Tulane. I feel really good about all his applications, I think he would do well at any of them!</p>
<p>Welcome NoCook! Welcome Daddio3! Great to have you aboard.
Congrats to tpcrd66! Congrats to DS of bradymom for another acceptance!</p>
<p>Our DS got 2 more essays written on this Black Friday. He submitted another app and is on pace to submit one more tomorrow. (Each has a Dec. 1 deadline).</p>
<p>I feel really thankful this year… Last ap was submitted Wed. D was able to do EA for most of the privates and California publics have to be complete by the 30th of Nov. Phew! Glad they’re done. All the safeties have already accepted her. Now we wait for the rest.good luck all!</p>
<p>Congrats to moonmaid’s S and tpcrd66’s S and anyone else who got the big fat envelope!</p>
<p>Our good news is we sold our house in a day over asking, all cash! S is kind of bummed we have to move out by Jan 31 but at least all his apps are in so I don’t feel guilty about disrupting this part of senior year.</p>
<p>D is home from Emory for the forseeable future. I keep saying one step back for two steps forward.</p>
<p>Hope everyone’s college kids have a safe journey back to school tomorrow.</p>
<p>Congratulations to those receiving acceptances already! </p>
<p>My S received his first acceptance – from UT-Austin, his safety, where he was an auto admit so it wasn’t really news. Still, since he would be happy to go there, it is comforting to have that in hand. There is a reasonably good chance he will end up there as his other applications are to three reaches and to two matches (low matches) that would need to provide significant merit money to make them more appealing than UT.</p>
<p>I’m starting to think the admissions folks at S’s real safety are just totally flaky. He’s been going back and forth with them for a couple weeks because they keep reminding him to apply when he has already. They say they have everything but the teacher recommendation and ACT scores, and his transcript, but the Common App says they have downloaded the teacher recommendation but not the school report. We sent the ACT scores Oct. 11 and emailed ACT about it and they said the school downloads the electronic ones, usually every two weeks so they should have them. The transcript goes through Parchment to the Common App and the other two schools he applied to EA got them. I think they gave him the list of stuff they have, not what they don’t have. In the meantime, CA still says they haven’t downloaded the school profile from the counselor. In all honesty, their disorganization is giving me a bad taste for the school in general and I don’t think S would actually end up going there anyway because he likes other schools a lot more and will probably get into those. I don’t think it’s worth continuing to try to figure out his application status with them.</p>
<p>I’m jealous to hear about families who are done with all their apps. We’re probably less than halfway (unless the ED comes through in a couple weeks). Did get our first acceptance the other day – to a nearby school where my son didn’t hasn’t even applied (and isn’t interested). Well, it is nice to be noticed.</p>
<p>In any case, it will be back to the essay grind as soon as the biology homework is mostly done.</p>
<p>DS is about halfway done with his essays, also.
He has turned in his EA and schools with scholarship deadlines. He still has to do several RD schools.
He found out that he made Coca-Cola Scholar semi-finalist. Now he has that essay to add to his ToDo list.</p>
<p>Waiting on ED result here too. REALLY tried to discourage ED app, but my S was insistent. We went through a very torturous ED process with DS 12 that I hate to think that we are back in this predicament again…waiting, waiting…sigh. One of the worst things about ED, is that if it’s a no go, it’s right before mid-terms AND the holidays, so can be pretty horrible…been there, done that:(. I think this S is okay with whatever the outcome is, but I would reeeeeallllyy like this whole crazy process to be over. </p>
<p>DS is sitting on 2 acceptances as of now…YAY!, except both are not exactly his top choices and hasn’t visited either. Still waiting on his ED app and 2 EA app’s which should all be in roughly 2 weeks. He just submitted his honors college app and essays today to one of his EA schools with a 12/1 deadline. Here’s to waiting, worrying, hoping, and plain ready to be done!!</p>