<p>Doesn’t the SAT do the thing where you upload a photo to print on your admissions ticket? I seem to remember that from the subject tests in June. I’d send along a school ID as belt and suspenders. </p>
<p>Can you tell I’m on the second kid? We haven’t even decided when to schedule the first assault on Mount SAT.</p>
<p>Mittentigger.</p>
<p>Everytime I type your name I think of kittens and Tigger and Winnie the Poo!</p>
<p>Take a look at KU (University of Kansas), yup, KANSAS. My D is as liberal as they come, and loved, loved, loved our visit to KU. The campus is beautiful, the city of Lawrence, KS is the 2nd most liberal town in America along with Berkeley, CA (1st), and Ann Harbor, MI (2nd). Look at the MHEC reciprocity pact with KU and see if any of the eligible majors work for your D. MN residents pay 150% of tuition with a 3.25 GPA (does not specify UW) and 24 ACT. The tuition is $13,837 per year for us, OR, she may qualify for the same tuition break in ANY major with a 3.5 GPA and 28 ACT.
[Costs</a> & Scholarships | Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.ku.edu/cs#NonresidentFreshmen]Costs”>http://admissions.ku.edu/cs#NonresidentFreshmen)</p>
<p>We may also look at the University of North Dakota. 60% of the student body is from out of state or country. The tuition there is about $8K per year with MN reciprocity. I recall the tuition, fees, room and board was about $4K more than tuition alone at the U of MN.</p>
<p>Yes we did that. so she has a “ticket” with her photo on it. That will do, I suppose?
“school ID”? She doesn’t have one.
D. is taking a subject test on Saturday.</p>
<p>Looks like they’re supposed to have an ID. </p>
<p>[Identification</a> requirements and policies](<a href=“The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board”>ID Requirements – SAT Suite | College Board)</p>
<p>SOG,</p>
<p>We need you to post more often, please!</p>
<p>On another note, BHG aced her precalc and adv. chemistry tests. Happy girl in the house tonight blaring music throughout the house as she studies, and I second guess the installation of our whole house surround sound system. </p>
<p>A happy kid= a happy mother. Now time for earplugs, a glass of wine and a good book.</p>
<p>mittentigger—you posted “I did not realize Cornell would feel so religious”. I couldn’t find BHM’s post that referenced Cornell so just had to ask if you were talking about Cornell College or Cornell University. Am guessing it was College, as the university had a smattering of every religion.</p>
<p>And, yes to the need for a photo ID to accompany the photo registration sheet. School ID, learner’s permit, driver’s license, and passport all worked. Good thing you people are on this as I am oddly off my game with this final SAT taken ten months after the last one.</p>
<p>Enjoying procrastinating with this group as the 2014 people have already filed applications and been accepted to colleges!</p>
<p>OK THank you! Will dig out her passport.</p>
<p>The rules on photo ID, phones, snacks etc vary from one testing center to another. D has taken SAT IIs at 3 different centers and at 2 they were ok with just the photo printout on the ticket while at another they did ask for photo ID (she had her school ID and her passport just in case). At one center they were ok with students bringing in phones as long as tthey didn’t take them out while at another they required them to check phones in at a specially designated table.</p>
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<p>Look. Just between you, me, and the internet, those folks are crazy. Unless the target school is rolling with a housing shortage, I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want your student to spend more time on the essays. We made DC#1 write and rewrite last year until he was ready to move out of the house immediately. But he seemed to think it was worth it when ED worked. </p>
<p>No one is “behind” yet. </p>
<p>[Video</a> – Bob Marley?“Three Little Birds” – National Geographic](<a href=“National Geographic”>National Geographic)</p>
<p>Agreeing with crepes above that conditions and enforcement of rules vary across testing sites. My son has taken all exams at his own HS so ID was never a big issue but he had it with him anyway. Phones were allowed in the testing room, but turned off. However, more than one student was discharged for turning on the phone during the break, so a gentle reminder to students that the phones must remain turned off for the entire duration of the test.</p>
<p>I vaguely recall wandering around an unfamiliar test site looking for a pay phone after deciding that sitting for two Achievement tests was really all that I was up for that day. And now they can’t leave their phones in their cars!!</p>
<p>You’re freaking me out, SOG - my kid is here in this room playing guitar and singing, and he’s played both a Cake song and Bob Marley song in the last 20 minutes.</p>
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<p>creeper…</p>
<p>SOG - thanks for the music suggestion - they are great on the 2013 thread, and just as good for 2015! </p>
<p>On a more serious note, just want to put in a vote for not listening to the A-list parents and the Wanna-be A-list parents. Some of them may know what they want - but if you listen to the litany of “selective”, “rigorous education”, “top notch facilities”, “school’s ranking”, “score cut off”, “highly competitive”, blah blah blah, it all sounds the same. </p>
<p>We sat down with DD’13, who has a solid commitment to academics, and talked about what she wanted to accomplish / experience, and what environment would give her the best chance to do that. The brand name question just didn’t come up - wasn’t part of her reason to want to spend 4 years in a place. After some research, but not an outrageous amount, she visited a grand total of two schools, in the same town, which gave her a good compare-and-contrast experience, and that was pretty much it. </p>
<p>We spent very little time worrying about scores -I did get her extra time on the SAT, which she really needed because of test anxiety - but other than that, just let the chips fall where they might. There was some method to the madness - a school that is heavily influenced by scores may be a school where your fellow students are more focused on measurement and achievement - rather than on process and improvement. We are big on process and improvement - seems like a much better road to mental health, and certainly gives you more reason to try again after failing the first time. </p>
<p>I don’t think it’s going to be as easy with DS '15, since he is less focused, and will probably cast a much wider net, but I hope we will eventually get to the same conversation as we had with his sister.</p>
<p>SOG—oh no, don’t get me wrong. I am not truly worried about him being behind as he has nothing due until Nov 1st and I sincerely doubt that any of the admission committees will be convened until the week after that, at the earliest. I can track of the admission reps’ travel schedules by their visits to our school’s college center. Almost no visits scheduled after Nov 1st so I expect they all return to their campuses the next week.</p>
<p>I was being glib but have never learned how to use emoticons or even how to quote others on CC. Would ask my boys for help but then they would learn how much time I am on here!</p>
<p>We will be pushing the envelope by waiting for the Oct 5th SAT results to file the CA, assuming the essays are ready by then. Will also take the risk that CB will get the scores to the schools on time if ordered by Oct 24th.</p>
<p>There are a lot of moving pieces to this process and I know that we will take every day allowed. Of course, we were w/o power the last weekend in Oct for the past two years here along the CT coast, so should not push our luck!</p>
<p>“You’re freaking me out, SOG - my kid is here in this room playing guitar and singing, and he’s played both a Cake song and Bob Marley song in the last 20 minutes.” </p>
<p>HA! Love this. Synchronicity? [The</a> Police-Synchronicity 1 and 2 - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>D is also taking the SAT on Saturday. Just to make sure it happened, I printed out the ticket today, so if nothing else, it’s sitting on the printer. I’ll buy pencils tomorrow. I think all of the pencils in the house have hard erasers at this point, and the erasers are important!</p>
<p>bunheadmom, Thank you again! You have been so helpful. I have never even used the bookmark feature on our computer. lol Ages ago, I used to use ‘favorites’ on an old computer, but that was just to be able to find websites again. I didn’t realize I could bookmark a specific post, or put them in folders. Ok, I know some of you MUST be rolling your eyes at me, lol, oh well. Now Bunheadmom, your post, explaining the process, is the first thing I have bookmarked, under my own ‘college’ file.</p>
<p>shoboemom–something even more cool…when my Mac’s hard drive failed and wasn’t exactly perfectly backed up…all of the bookmarks were saved in the cloud. Had to reset every other feature such as the look and features of the tool bar, font size, etc, but the bookmarks all magically restored.</p>
<p>If you use a Mac and create folders w/in email, best to do so ‘on the cloud’ as opposed to ‘on my Mac’ as the Cloud folders and their contents will also be saved. PSA after not having full back-up and suffering hard drive failure.</p>
<p>GPA, giggle. I can see the collective heads turn and stare reprovingly until those moms slink out of the stadium. I think you are not from the Midwest. H is from Europe and I have to explain over and over that ‘no, you can’t ask casual acquaintances how much they paid for their house, honey.’ Here at games we talk about very ordinary things. Lately it’s how to talk to our kids about making good decisions and supporting them in that. A couple weeks ago one of the guys got kicked off the team for drinking. He didn’t get an OWI as they call it in our state, but that was just a technicality, as when police came to take the kid asleep in back seat to emergency room, teammate was down the street, not driving just then. He got a ‘liquor violation.’ He’s in 11th grade, in S’s BC class, bright kid. His parents are beside themselves. A JV kid with him also got booted off. So yeah, plenty of stuff to talk at games. If not that, there is always dog talk. “How is Fluffy doing after his disk surgery. Wagging tail, great!”</p>
<p>I’m resigned to probability that S won’t make NMSF. Too bad. A couple of the schools I think are likely for him do give money for it. Twin Cities gives minimum $10K/yr. I really tried to sell D on that school, but she didn’t click with their oboe prof. They used to have 2, but the one I think would have been a good match for her retired not long ago. Then UW-Madison gives $7000 one time freshman award to instate kids. They don’t advertise it much. Not sure if MN kids are eligible or not. H and I are trying to think of a way to bribe S to prep for the reading section during the next 2 weeks. Not sure what would work. He has pretty exclusive use of one of our cars since H bikes everywhere. Has PT job so money of his own. Any suggestions? Should we offer to put any money saved via attaining NMF in a bank account for some future date? Don’t know how to present it.</p>
<p>And BHM, I need you to come to my house, now, and organize my life.</p>
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