@petrichor11 - Why keep secrets. My son applied to Harvard and has not received any emails for his interviews yet. We are happy to report that his SATs finally made it. Expecting a deferral on Dec 15 - Last year Harvard only rejected 10% of EAs, deferred 75%, and accepted 16.5% - yes I know that is not 100% but I am rounding. If they do it the same way this year, most of CC will get a deferral.
I figure, what differences does it make if we tell which Ivies? Harvard at this house.
Congratulations to your daughter, @lvmjac1 !
regarding the CSS profile, my accountant said ādonāt bother, no college will give you any money for needāā¦and we really donāt make a ton of money. So, now Iām confused. I go on the Net Price calculators and itās trueā¦they say we have a gapā¦but the colleges donāt seem to be the ones to āhelpāā¦soā¦is it really worth it to do it?
anyone know anything about site called fastweb scholarships? is it for real or a scam?
Thanks @Sophomore1 and @drmom123 I would fill it out because I do not think completing it can hurt you. It may or may not help but I do not think it can make things worse.
So much good news today-congrats everyone!
drmom-fastweb is a real scholarship search site. Dās school has always suggested it as one way to find possible scholarships. There are scholarships for everything from being left-handed to red-haired. They may not make up a large deficit, but they are real.
LK-do you mean the Oct. 14 SAT? The counselor at Dās school was told by the SAT people to start looking tomorrow and if scores are not there, it means that student was misentered or something along those lines. D mentioned that at least two kids at her school were listed as the wrong genderā¦as of today D could log in, but had no score reported from Oct. 14.
No new acceptances here yet. Ugh, the waiting! But tonight was parent/student/teacher conference and everyone had nothing but high praise for D. Her grades are on track and sheās well ahead of most of the class in filling out apps and has the only acceptance so far. The teachers are impressed with how sheās encouraging and inspiring the other kids.And of COURSE she found something new to sign up for! She has the next two days off, and will finish her remaining applications except for the hopefully unneeded in-state safeties. And hopefully clean her roomā¦
@sseamom - No I meant the SAT score that we sent into the EA school. They were pending for quite awhile and we ordered them before the Nov 1 deadline. The CB sent them out today. My son texted me today with an images of the schoolās portal with them listed as received. One less thing to worry about.
@LKNomad @Suzima - good luck!! I think youāre brave, so weāll go next. My DS is applying to Princeton. No word yet of any kind of interview (though allegedly others have heard). Apparently there are not a ton of rejections from Pās SCEA, mostly deferrals.
Now that I have lost the distraction of DSās fall sport I am impatient for this process to move forward. DS has cancelled his campus visit for Friday. He does not feel he can afford the time away from class. We have one scheduled for another school in a couple of weeks that cannot be rescheduled so I will just have to be patient until then. There are some things I can do this weekend (banks close to campus research, proofing last two schools in his CA, etc.) but I might have to do some Christmas shopping to fill the time not spent at a game or campus this weekend. *-
@Cheeringsection Clemson game is televised on Saturday
My D is applying to U Penn, Cornell, Duke (which is as admissions competitive as an IVY), UNC Chapel Hill and UVA(which for OOS students are just as competitive) so she definitely has her high reaches. But she also has many low reaches, safe and target schools that she really likes and she feels she would be happy at. U Penn and Duke hail the top spot on her list. She also absolutely loves UNC Chapel Hill and UVA. Cornell is an excellent school and a contender but because it is more of a small town environment (less appealing to her) and the students have more of a competitive nature (which is not the environment she would prefer) its there but hanging loosely. Most of her others, she will most probably get into but her final thoughts about each will depends if she gets into their honors program and the package that comes (or doesnāt come) along with the acceptance.
DD did not apply to any IVY in the early round. Since she is looking to major in engineering / CS majority of IVYs are not well known for those majors. The applied to two super reaches for everyone schools and one that is a low match, but might be a possibility if she gets a full ride since this is a good school at the great location. She will be applying to IVYs RD depending on how her EA will turn out. She will be applying to our local IVY like, since this is her dream schools and she was too scared to apply REA.
My D was too scared to be committed to any school ED (or even REA) so she only did EA to most of her schools and will do RD to her remaining schools (U Penn, Cornell, Duke Wash U and GW).
Shout out to the Clemson Tigers for now being #1!!!
My DD also did not apply ED, and hesitated (i.e. ultimately did not) apply REA.
One question mark for her is how much of a āPre-professionalā aspect engineering programs have taken. DD would like to consider sciences and engineering, but also get a liberal humanistic foundation and is a bit spooked by how Engineering schools are cordoned off and segregated. She is not ready to commit, and may as a result major in a science rather than including engineering on the palette.
It seems a bit sad that schools are forcing this decision at such a young age, and also telegraphing that engineers are not all-around humanists. That cuts both ways, in discouraging an engineering education for people like her, and in casting a stigma on those who do choose an undergraduate engineering school.
@Mysonsdad DD asked her GC about score choice for UCs and she said yes, score choice is allowed for subject tests. This is what we are going to do. It is a shame that they cannot articulate it better what they want.
It is true that engineering is an all encompassing major in most schools. Many schools now require a foreign language but not for engineering majorsā¦LOLā¦which works for my S since he is not good in languages. He knows all the words and tensesā¦just do not ask him to string a sentence together (verbally or written) with any fluency. So for him that methodology works but for someone like my D (who is very much like your D @ItsJustSchool) who does very well across a wide range of subjects. Her interests and inclinations range from Sciences to Foreign Languages to Classic Literature to Creative Writing to Physics to Psychology and even to Biomedical Engineering. She also would not want to be boxed in with the strict engineering curriculum right off the bat. That being said my S did not start off in engineering but transferred into it his second year and is a bit behind in some classes because of the dedicated curriculum track typical for engineering majors. But he is thrilled at the fact that he isnāt held to some of the standards of other majors (like the foreign language requirement). My D and I visited U Penn earlier in the week and they stress that you can take classes across all schools (even Wharton) and across all majors. They even give the flexibility and apparently help the student (to keep them in line to graduate in 4 years) in creating their own major. That was a big plus to my D and she really liked all the flexibility in majors, minors, dual degrees, etc.
All of the schools we talked to with S14 that offered engineering majors mentioned there was little wiggle room around strict accreditation requirements for engineering degrees. So Iām thinking it isnāt the schools that are driving the lack of flexibility, it is ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.).
@Ballerina2016: Excuse me, but how can one score choice a subject test? Seems impossible. Are you saying that among the many sittings for one particular subject test, only the highest score for that test will be used, though the college has had access to all of the other sittings?
@Waiting2exhale Many colleges allow score choice for subject test since they are not required for admission. Some do not. UC is the one I could not figure out since the website is not saying yes or no. They do not require subject tests, they only recommend them.
And yes. If you took Math 2 twice, you can only report your highest score if score choice for subject tests is allowed.
Ballerina2016 - reread your comment and realize I understood āscore choice,ā as āsuper score.ā My bad. Excuse.