<p>@GertrudeMcFuzz Absolutely. And you have to send it to all the schools when you don’t even know if the kid is accepted. AND you have to do everything twice when you have two kids. Why can’t these be “family forms” that apply to all kids in the family? Deadlines are much later for existing students though, thank goodness. </p>
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My adjective of choice would be ‘offensive’.</p>
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Credit all goes to Moonmaid, who shared the website - so appreciated!</p>
<p>@Moonmaid - Was on collegegreenlight dot com from about 3-5am this morning inputting my D’14’s data. So encouraging to see all the scholarship matches pop up. Now to get my D’14 on it - looks like that may be the only way most of her schools will be do-able. Am very thankful for the peace-of-mind that D’14’s UA Presidential Scholarship and in-state UVA acceptance brings.</p>
<p>@Overtheedge - Congrats to your D on her Sewanee acceptance! Sending wishes for great merit aid and scholarships your way.</p>
<p>Congrats to overthredge D on Sewanee admit…cool school!</p>
<p>Congrats on all admits! The superbowl is on but I’m not really into it. I suppose the bright side of not getting financial aid is not having to fill out those forms! Especially since we don’t really submit taxes until November - lol </p>
<p>I’m now printing out the requirements for the top contenders. I wish every college would print the 4 year schedule - makes it much easier than having to piece everything together. I’m also checking out rate my professor to see if any particular school looks dramatically better or worse than another. </p>
<p>Thank you Moonmaid for the original post and to all for your good wishes! Not sure which is more boring- filing out this Profile or the Super Bowl. Maybe I will start on the scholarship search. D just finished her final app yesterday so I may wait a day or two before I tell her she has to write more essays:). </p>
<p>Voice is gone. “Feast Mode” 18th birthday party was a smashing success. Very memorable day here in Seattle 
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<p>I’m a Manning-hater, so anybody who beat him is on my side. Go Seattle!</p>
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<p>I recommend that everyone check their local high schools for the local scholarships. Our S-2011 applied for several including a blanket application for numerous scholarships offered throughout our county and he was awarded two of them. They are both renewable at the rate of $1,000 per year. $8,000 in local scholarships is nothing to sneeze at.</p>
<p>AvonHSDad: I agree about local scholarships. Son '14 stopped into the college/career office Friday and got a half dozen or so apps. Many for $1000 or more. We plan to sit and look at all of them, so we can check deadlines and requirements – several need teacher recs. Glad that many do not require financial info. While he receives full tuition from his school, he still pays room, board, fees and books. We’ll help with some items, but it would be nice if he got some additional monies to pay for other things. One of his friends received a $5K scholarship last year, and it’s renewal. Son '14 would love that! Several departments in his school also give smaller scholarships, which would be nice.</p>
<p>We also have a local community foundation that offers a wide variety of scholarships, most ranging from $500 to $1,000. They typically require a unique essay and one or two teacher recommendations. Some are need-based, others are not. Unfortunately, most are not renewable. The guidance office should be making students aware of these if your community also offers something similar.</p>
<p>AvonHSDad - Wow, congratulations to your S’11! Love the idea of a blanket scholarship application form. Will have to take another look at S’14 and D’14’s local hs listings today.</p>
<p>Good morning, 2014 parents!</p>
<p>I have a quick question this morning.</p>
<p>Are your children sending thank-you notes or thank-you emails to interviewers? Does this answer to this vary on how/where the interview was conducted? </p>
<p>One of the interviews my DC had was a huge, group interview event where the applicants never had the name of who would be interviewing them until they walked into the interview room. A business card was never offered during the interview. The interview did tell DC she would contact her in late March to find out the decision she received and DC does claim to have offered a verbal thank you at the end of the interview.</p>
<p>Another interview was done at a coffee shop. For this one, DC does have an email address for the interviewer although DC thinks it would seem weird to send an email expressing thanks yet again when thankfulness for the interview was already expressed at the interview.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>DS sends a thank-you e-mail only if the e-mail address was already available to him before the interview. In other words, he never asked for it at the interview.
My thinking is that the interviewers don’t expect it particularly if they don’t offer their contact information. DS does it out of curtsey.
I have heard that most students do not send a thank-you card/e-mail. </p>
<p>My kids sent email thank you’s for interviews. </p>
<p>My son did not have alum interviews, so this reply will not be helpful for the current question. He did, however, interview on-campus at five or six schools last summer and fall. He sent written thank you notes to those interviewers, even though some of them were the college’s own rising seniors employed by Admissions for the summer. I have no idea if any of it mattered, or if the notes were added to his file or went to the garbage. If left to his own devices, he would have emailed his thanks. </p>
<p>I agree with @4beardolls comment.</p>
<p>DS has done a variety of things…nice handwritten notes to interviewers on campus…one even on a funny card (it seemed to suit the individual and feeling from the session), brief emails to others, and even no further contact with a couple (for various reasons…no address, young student presently attending the school but home on winter break which son said would have felt awkward)…since I know my S will comply to do them, I let him take the lead…no pressure from parents other than to raise the question of whether he wants to send one, and if he wants to write, then getting the paper supplies to him…</p>
<p>Community Scholarships are well worth exploring. S11 obtained about $5000 from several local organizations without too much stress. S14 has been even more ambitious. He has applied for around 15 so far. A boy in S11’s class got over $25,000 from local scholarships. He was featured in the newspaper. Not surprisingly, he was a business major- had that entrepreneurial spirit.</p>
<p>@minnymom, wow, your S14 already applied to 15 scholarships? Are most community scholarships deadlines still open? Just wonder if DS is too late. Now, getting him to apply is another story. I think he is done with essays [-( </p>