<p>Thanks, @jennie11, @dyiu13 & @suzy100 - appreciate the feedback. I will give them a call first thing on Monday - hopefully the office is still staffed reasonably, esp. with the holiday next week. I’m anxious to have this resolved so we can move on to the next task at hand.</p>
<p>ILMom, now you have me wondering about one of my son’s schools. They said they’d be sending out scholarship info later in November, but here we are and we haven’t gotten the info yet. I wonder if I should call, too. Can’t hurt I guess.</p>
<p>My son did receive some potential good news today that we had never heard of before.</p>
<p>Apparently, there are special Corporate NM Scholarships, and we were notified that my son is in the competition for one of those though my dh’s company. This was unexpected, but we’re delighted. Now we have until Dec. 18th to fill out the app. I have to do a lot since I’m the homeschool parent, but my son has to decide which teacher will write his recommendation. This will be a tough call.</p>
<p>How many colleges did your darling seniors apply to? And how many applications do you still have to complete? Which one was the biggest pain to complete?</p>
<p>This is exhausting. We only have two applications to go out of seven schools, and one of them still hasn’t sent my daughter a password. All of the others gave her a password and let her start applying right away. The University of Colorado doesn’t let you just apply. She has to wait for an email from them to get access to the application system. Grrr.</p>
<p>We also added an extra college that we didn’t plan for, when they sent my daughter an amazing scholarship offer last week. It wasn’t on our list, and the scholarship amount may be negated by increased travel costs, but it works as a backup for our backups. Plus they guaranteed notification of acceptance or non-acceptance within 2 weeks, and a positive response early would take some of the pressure off to know that SOMEONE wants her. For this school, I think she’s pretty much a lock to get in.</p>
<p>It’s the only school we expect to hear a response from before March or April at the earliest.</p>
<p>All of the schools she applied to were major public universities, so merit scholarships for a B student are few and far between.</p>
<p>Of the seven schools - U Washington, Washington State, U Idaho, Oregon State, U Colorado, U California San Diego and U Montana - the application process I hated the most was UCSD. They asked for a lot of odd details on classes that no other schools asked for that DD and I spent hours working on. Like class codes. We spent a lot of time with me sitting there reading off codes from the school website or handbook. It wasn’t on her transcripts.</p>
<p>We abandoned the USNA application process because my darling girl has virtually no chance of passing the physical fitness test by the date they require it be passed.</p>
<p>D is applying to as many as 11 schools. She is done with 5, 2 more are about ready to go, one is due no later than 12/15 for scholarship purposes, and the other 4 are RD schools. All but our state flagship are private, common app schools. Two or three schools may fall off the list if she gets into her EA schools with enough merit to make them feasible. She has pretty much done the apps on her own and gotten them in before the deadlines, so I haven’t been all that stressed. I will be anxiously awaiting the merit aid letters to see if we can afford any of the schools she may be admitted to. If those don’t pan out in December, the app to the state school (only non CA school) will have to be done.</p>
<p>Wow, @LadyArwyn 7 unique applications is a lot! My kiddo had one non-common app application and it was enough PITA that I’d hate to do 2 or 3, let alone 7! My hat is off to your daughter!</p>
<p>BHG reduced her list from 15 down to 12 applications–all submitted, even for RD. She applied at two publics, and already accepted to both. She applied EA to 5 where acceptance rates are as much as 50% higher than RD. The remaining 5 schools BHG applied RD, as acceptance rate was higher for RD applicants over the past admission cycles vs. EA applicants or the schools only offered ED/RD. We’ll find out mid-December to Early January on EA applications. </p>
<p>16! A lot, but all are there for good reasons. All common app except one, I think 9-10 have supplements of some kind. She’s got 7 left, all RD schools she won’t hear from until March-April. </p>
<p>Believe it or not, my son has 18 on the list. </p>
<p>However, five are Cal State with no essay and one easy app goes to all five schools. Three are UCs and one app goes to three schools. Three were basically name, transcripts and SAT score-nothing else. One was that plus an essay that has been used before. The rest are Common App schools-two EA (one essay each). One more has just one essay, but he recycled that from an EA school. Those were all fairly painless once the last essay was figured out from a recycled essay.</p>
<p>So that leaves the three reachy-reach schools with a number of essays. This vacation week he’ll do one school with the most essays. That leaves just two schools for the month of December-I think that’s totally doable. Then he just has essays for one school’s scholarship app due Jan 7th. It’s actually been easier than I thought.</p>
<p>He may even add a school or two at the end of December if he decides to apply to some private Christian schools.</p>
<p>I never thought we’d be at this place since he was so resistant in the beginning. I think success begats success.</p>
<p>D is applying to five, 4 of which are complete with 3 acceptances. The last one is due 12/1, a CA school which she is dragging her feet on because of the blasted essay. She struggles in writing to begin with, and having to write basically about yourself, she just isn’t in to it. It’s high on her list but probably will not be where she ultimately attends.</p>
<p>@sbjdorlo - sounds like you and I are in the same boat with the lack of scholarship notifications - I think our respective schools will be getting phone calls from us on Monday!</p>
<p>D has applied to 9 thus far, most on the Common App with some requiring an additional essay. 3 are safeties - she wants to have choices if those become the best options. A number of the schools are “matches” but in actuality are reaches because she is seeking merit aid. She’s got some more scholarship essays to write, and then if she has anything left in her she will apply to some reachy reaches.</p>
<p>7 apps for my D, none on CA. One required no essay, but the others required between 1 and 3 essays each. All apps are submitted, 1 acceptance, and waiting to hear back from the others. </p>
<p>^^^All apps submitted… More beautiful words were never said! Congrats and good luck. 
^^^</p>
<p>Feeling relieved tonite! D applied to 9 and 3 scholarship programs (each requiring multiple essays) so far. 2 more apps to go plus 3 more scholarship essays. Feeling happy b/c we just got back from visiting a school that my daughter considered a “safety” and where she has a full scholarship offer… and she liked it!!! Yeah!!! Now we feel like she can finish the remaining apps, then sit back and see what happens with the all of the others without freaking out b/c we now know that she will be able to go somewhere that she likes! YEAH!</p>
<p>D has 11 possible apps on the list still. 2.5 have been submitted (still have the separate music school app to go on one of those - thus the .5). One was on the school website, one was Common App, and one was ApplyTx. 3 more plus the music school app are due by Dec. 1. Two are on the Common App, the other one is a unique online app. D has submitted 3 out of 6 prescreen auditions. She’ll do the other 3 tomorrow. They’re pretty straightforward now that the files are on the computer and ready to upload. I’m hoping that even the schools with slightly later deadlines can be done soon. I think the hardest part so far has been the 3 essays for the Common App school (1 main plus 2 supplemental).</p>
<p>I absolutely love that most of the schools on the list have automatic consideration for the school’s scholarships. There are a couple schools that require an additional scholarship app. D also has 2 outside scholarship deadlines coming up in the next few weeks. </p>
<p>I must say as painful as it has seemed at times (think dental work proportions here), I am pleased that d is making the progress she’s making. I probably sound like a broken record, but the real work will come in Jan/Feb for auditions.</p>
<p>D is applying to 12 (though it may drop to 11. It’s already dropped from 14). All but one are on the Common App, but all have supplemental essays, some of them substantial. Five are submitted, perhaps 6 by the time we go to bed tonight.</p>
<p>20! Lots of applications for lots of reasons. (Let the judging begin.) S has completed 17 plus a major scholarship application, and there have been so many essays…so only 3 applications left, but so many more scholarship essays yet to write.</p>
<p>MIT is the most challenging, and will be the last one he submits. They are not on the CA and the application is extensive. You truly have to want to apply there, which I don’t think is a bad thing.</p>
<p>So far 3 admits from the 3 rolling admission schools.
SCEA in 3 weeks or so!
2 EA that don’t notify until the end of January
And then the long, long wait for the 14 others…</p>
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<li> He’s been accepted to 4 so far, and we’ve heard on merit from 3 of those.</li>
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<p>Started with 15 (looking for $$), have applied to 11 with 1 more possibly this week, but that one is super high reach and may not happen. 6 were CA schools, one no essay, but some had 2 or 3 supplemental essays.
Accepted to 4 rolling so far, still waiting on merit. Won’t know until March the final results.
@planner03, no judging here as the initial list was 22! S1 applied to MIT and those essays were brutal for him.</p>
<p>My daughter is only applying to 3. I would actually like for her to branch out and add a few more schools to her list, but she’s always had a laser focus on what she wants, and these schools are it. She’s been admitted to 2 of them and still needs to finish the app for the 3rd.</p>
<p>Wow, I am so impressed with the kids of this group! My kiddo only applied to 9, 8 were CA, all w supplements - but those essays pale in comparison to entering all that tedious info in drop down menus! There were far more curses and tears about the forms than the essays. She is done. I tried to bring up the idea of putting in a couple more apps and was quickly shut down on that idea. She has instead devised her back up plan – If she doesn’t get in anywhere, she will spend a gap year watching HGTV then study interior design and/or realty. Once she came up with that plan, my suggestions for additional applications fell on deaf ears.
No rolling on her list, we wait for EA notification in December, expecting no good news, and then nothing until after the spring equinox. :)</p>