Congrats @Undercovermom1 on the honors invitation and scholarship offer.
@Undercovermom1 We had very similar mail this week. Big thick envelope from EA school Admissions office and even hand stamped. I totally freaked out but then noticed it was addressed to D17. Sigh! 2 more long weeks to go!
@Undercovermom1 Congrats on the acceptance and merit award and yeah, a poster??? Do they really think these things will impress?
@Undercovermom1: congrats on the acceptance! And you can always burn the poster ceremonially if your DD gets the wrong answer from that school!
Wow, EA acceptances! Congratulations! S still has about three weeks to wait before his are supposed to come out. Longer than that for Selective Out of State Public Uni, which notifies in January
@Undercovermom1 Congrats!!!
I canāt believe the first result will come out in 2 1/2 weeks. We donāt have a high expectations but it will push D16 to write RD school appsā¦
Thanks @EastGrad !
Congrats @Undercovermom1! Just focus on the acceptance. You will be very grateful to have already received it if the EA school news is not as hoped.
Good luck to all in completing your holiday shopping. Yes, that does need doing as well. :!!
Last applications are in! āOurā wide net is fully cast, lol. There is a smaller scholarship app left to complete. D16 saw the topic (another āWhy This Program?ā in 500 words) and said, āThatās just mean.ā Made me laugh. She is so over these essays.
Can I just sayā¦
Three envelopes from 3 different schools. Real mail - 1 thick. Not a single acceptance or denial! Letters thanking her for visiting &/or interviewing & saying they hope she applies - blah, blah, blah. She did APPLY! EA to one! Just tell her if she got inā¦
OK rant off.
Wow, there is so much excitement going on here. Huge Kudos to everyone who is hearing great news and whose kids are done or nearly done with this process. Iāve been reading, but not much to say. D has 3 apps in. The last one she told me was done last week and just needed to āread it over onceā before she sends it. She spent 8 hours on that one yesterday. At least its in. Notes for a few more essays have been jotted down. Hubby and I had bets on how down to the wire she was going to be. Apparently he wins. Wow.
We went through this last year with S and I really thought I had a great handle on the whole process. With his learning issues, everything took 3 times longer. I thought nothing could be worse than that. Nah. Meet busier than humanly possible procrastinator. Definitely giving me a run for my money.
With 4 weeks left in the game, School work, ECās, the holidays, and apps, she is really going to either have to pare down her list or buckle down and write some essays. Iām in a mild to moderate panic that if the EC school comes back in the negative its going to be tough to finish anything after that.
Thanks for letting me rant. Iām just getting a little nervous over here.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
@MuggleMom Iām feeling your pain here. DS16 has 1 more honors essay, and 2 more scholarship essays to write before Dec 1, then 2 more additional department and 1 honors essay to complete before the middle of Dec. So much going on.
Last app sent last night. This one was her super reach. Iām happy she got it done. And before December!!
Hang in there @mugglemom!
Congrats on being done @Booajo !
One more honors application awaits my DSās attention while he sleepsā¦
I-)
@GoodGrief16 ā Thatās absolutely huge. Congrats to her. I predict that she will catch a lot of fish in that wide net.
@MuggleMom ā This is good practice for next year. S14 goes back to school on Sunday, and in the next two weeks he has two āprojectsā and one paper to do, and then four finals in five days (including a Saturday final). He has gone on and on that this is simply not do-able. You daughter will go to college with the confidence that she has done un-do-able things the prior December.
@carolinamom2boys ā You do appreciate that today is Saturday, and that Dec 1 is Tuesday, yes?
To all with rolling and EA acceptances in the bank, fantastic!! Itās heartening for the kids to know that somebody wants them, even if itās not (yet) their first choice school. As some have figured out, applying EA puts you on the list for even more mailings and solicitations. I guess theyāre appealing to the applicantās desire to simply be done with it, i.e., to the temptation of simply going with the EA school, and not bother with any other apps. Whatās funny (and potentially cruel) is when the EA schools send out that stuff even before the decision is out. Talk about hedging oneās bets . .
Today brings back memories of two years ago. We set a somewhat arbitrary deadline of the Saturday of T-giving weekend for S14 to complete all of his applications. His GPA was not exactly one of his strong points, and he needed the apps out of the way so he could put together a good senior-year first-semester transcript. As Iāve posted here before, itās notable that the last application that he completed (on that Sat night) with much begging, pleading, yelling, bribing, etc. over the course of the day, an application that he thought was unnecessary, was his Emory application. He ended up there, and itās been a very good āfitā. May not have happened if heād been left to his own devices. So, based on our experience, itās worth that final push to get all of the intended apps in. Life may look different in April than it looks today.
S16 is all-in on his ED application. Hasnāt even looked at another application or essay question. The snafu with his SAT scores has been resolved by his college counselorās emailing a screen shot of his scores to the admissions office. As best I can tell the scores from the CB never got there. So that app is finally complete (more than a month after ordering the scores from the CB). Heāll get a decision on Dec 15, two and a half weeks from now.
Fingers crossed for everyone whoās waiting for decisions in December. Fingers will be crossed later for everyone who has to wait until March.
@AsleepAtTheWheel I am glad you got the score situation resolved. We had Nov scores sent and I am pretty sure those were the ones the college eventually got. I do not believe the CB ever sent the other scores because they only arrived two days after the Nov scores were sent, after repeated assurances about the October scores didnāt actually result in the scores showing up. Good luck on the ED decision!
@AsleepAtTheWheel, thanks for the confidence! Weāll see. So far sheās been turned down for every outside scholarship, which is actually a helpful reality check going into the process. An almost perfect SAT score and 4.0 is in no way a golden ticket 
At this point she has several acceptances (rolling and non-selective) and of those, we know at least two have programs/atmospheres she likes well enough, and will be reasonably affordable (assuming NMF comes through.)
Iām really looking forward to the Big Reveal at the end of all this!
@AsleepAtTheWheel Believe it or not, I am oriented to the date today.( not always the case, but today I am) His essays are in the works, and will get done on time. If not, heāll have to make piece with his outcomes. Time will tell.
Whew! UC apps are in (working on those essays took so much of ddās time). She was marked as ELC (we already knew she qualified for state path)ā¦so although she does not have any decisions yet, we know she will at least get in to UC Merced (I assume that is still the ELC/Statewide path guaranteed UC). Itās not on her list but it should alleviate some of that weird stress she has about getting rejected everywhere. Lol.
@CAMidwestMom ā When I finally reached someone in the admissions office who knew her way around she quickly āfoundā the scores that the college counselor had sent. She entered them on my sonās admission portal as āreceivedā while I was still on the phone, so we had some sort of (documented) record that his application was complete.
She added that missing SAT scores were a problem for a lot of applicants. Note that this conversation occurred the day before all ED apps needed to be complete. Iām thinking, what about all those other kids? Whoās arguing their case?
A lesson from this story: No matter how much the admissions offices say that they want to hear from the kids, not the parents, I think that it would have been hard for a kid to resolve this problem. It took multiple phone calls. With swim practice before school and with the time zone difference making it too late to call after school it wouldāve been impossible for my son to call and hold that often over two school days. It also required adult-level insistence/persistence to finally get to the right person, get that right person to find the scores, update the portal, etc. My son is uber-independent and quite resourceful but Iām not sure he couldāve pulled that off.
@GoodGrief16 ā Iām not familiar with the criteria used by outside scholarships, but methinks that it does not have a lot of correlation with college acceptances. She has a TON going for her. Truly the complete package. Youāll have lots of good news. That said, sheās probably not going to be accepted everywhere (althoā she might), and those negative decisions now really do serve as some preparation for rejections (donāt believe in euphemisms here) that may arrive in March.
@carolinamom2boys ā Yeah, I figured as much.
When heās done he should hire himself out to ghost-write essays for other kids. Heās probably gotten pretty good by now.
More nostalgia for us this Thanksgiving: S14 brought homework back here from college to do over the long weekend. Hasnāt done as much of it as heād intended. So I keep reminding him that it might be a good idea to work. He tells me that
(a) āIāve got it covered.ā
(b) āStop telling me what to do.ā
Just like old times!!
@AsleepAtTheWheel Imagine if he applied to more than 5 schools. I know heāll finish his last Honors essay as that school is quickly rising to the top with each passing day.