Two pages of twin XL and mattress topper talk. We all dreamed of this day back in the fall didn’t we?
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Just venting here – but wrestler has homework due at midnight tonight! I am so tired of this school not letting these kids have lives. He only has 3 weeks to go and graduation is less than a month away. Enough already!
(Ok. I feel better now.)
Right there with you @wrestlersmom. There is no easing up on second semester seniors here.
Thankfully, I only have 15 more days to go! Unless if I submit my last set of work early, which I might try to do.
I keep getting emails from colleges about my D not depositing yet. sigh
@sbjdorlo - thanks for the encouragement!
Did you write and sign the appeal, or did your son send it? I drafted it for my son, but honestly, if they called him, he’d be like, uh, talk to my mom or dad.
Did everyone’s child notify the schools that they were not attending?
Had to for ED, and the one school kept sending things including a “congratulations new X College parents!” weeks after he notified admissions he would not attend. Even though he submitted a form to say he was not attending, he never got an email in response.
An admissions counselor from one college he withdrew his application from (before a decision was made) sent a VERY nice note congratulating him on his ED acceptance and wishing him luck at college. Very classy in my mind.
Yes, D notified every school, let them know she would not be attending, and thanked them all. She wanted to open up spots for kids on their wait lists.
Notifying the other schools is first on her to do after she deposits. I wil be standing over her to make sure she does it.
@rhandco Last year I submitted a financial aid appeal request to RPI on behalf of my son by email on 4/4. They responded with another $5K in merit aid three days later. My son was not involved. He didn’t end up going there, but if it had been me I might have decided differently. Good luck!
Yes, S notified all the schools he would not be attending. But he is still getting some emails from a couple that about things like Financial Aid awards that are not clearly mass mailings and that did not respond to his email. I had him email those again asking for confirmation.
Two years ago, my D sent an email to our state school saying she wasn’t attending and then after her freshman year at another school, she received a letter from our state school telling her how she wouldn’t be able to register for the upcoming semester because she hadn’t made satisfactory progress. Had to call them to straighten that out since we needed a transcript for a dual credit class she had taken as a high school student. Same state school is one that is still sending S award notifications even though he DID get a confirmation from them that they know he isn’t planning to attend. This is one of the reasons I am not a fan of the local state flagship.
S’15 withdrew his application at all schools he isn’t attending. All had the ability to simply “click” the option online. I know 1 school bothered him with about a 20 question “but why???” survey. But the others simply defaulted to a “thanks for applying, good luck” page. And despite taking this action, 1 school is still sending him FA and enrollment info in the mail.
I emailed someone in admissions at my second choice college that I had been corresponding with throughout the process and told them that I would not be attending. She said basically “thanks for letting me know, good luck” and she deactivated my account. I never heard anything more from them. OU, now that’s another story - and I didn’t even apply there!
D notified colleges as soon as she could, in the hope that her spot and the merit scholarship money could be re-allocated to another student who was waiting to hear back. I’m not sure if it works that way, but she didn’t waste any time, just in case it did.
It’s a good gesture and the responsible thing to do. But the money doesn’t flow back out to needy students in waiting. Unless maybe at the tippy top HMFR schools with significant wait lists.
We have a friend in college admissions; there are barely more than a couple or three dozen schools that yield more than 45% of accepted students. Your kiddo not going? is built into their equation.
We feel guilty about holding on to so many spots but with S wavering so much we haven’t notified many on his list yet. He has made a decision but doesn’t want it public until May 1st which suggests to me that he may change his mind!
Since D’s acceptances were in the early round, we felt that freeing up the money and the space could make a difference to someone in the regular decision round. If your son/daughter isn’t 100% sure of where they will go, though, I would keep those options open until a final decision is reached.
@rhandco, I wrote the appeals absolutely. No problem with any of the colleges.
Very stressed here.
S made his decision but he has one problem grade so I asked him to call the regional counselor to ensure it would not be a problem with his admission. He has a D in his first semester for Calc BC - it’s gone up a bit but not a whole lot.
The counselor said he would have to investigate and would get back to him on Monday. I thought this would be a standard question and I was surprised he didn’t have a more clearly defined answer for him. So now we’re back in limbo.
I’ve asked S to call all the other schools on his list in case there is a problem. Initially he only called one (one of the more selective schools) and they told him they would rather see him complete the more difficult course even with a bad grade rather than drop down so he assumed that would be true for all the schools (even though I told him not to assume and to call). The rest of his grades are consistent - just this one class is giving him a lot of problems.