Sounds like something someone might say on Tinder!
D got her acceptance from U Delaware a couple days ago! Itâs in the running. Only applying to state schools that have food science.
Congratulations to everyone who received the wonderful acceptances this past week! Condolences to those who didnât get that good news. Weâve been there too with D14. But sheâs so happy where she is so I guess it all works out in the end.
Congratulations @cakeisgreat
Congrats @cakeisgreat
@carolinamom2boys @Suzima It is funny you should say that my DD thought the same thing when she was looking at the roommate profiles people wrote. It seemed like a dating website. I thought maybe we were just not too savvy about southern ways of speaking.
@cakeisgreat congrats!
@lvmjac1, Since my house is often such a mess that I suffer from âchaosâ (Canât Have Anyone Over Syndrome), I imagine Iâll also be totally on board with respecting my kidâs wishes if she doesnât want me in her dorm room. @2manybooks, Are you familiar with cartoonist Roz Chastâs hilarious riff on The Runaway Bunny? Google it for a laugh â I often threaten to follow my D to the ashram. And I donât know if youâre referring to NYC or elsewhere in the state, but it is a balmy 61 degrees here in the city today, in the middle of December!!
We are heading to a friendâs annual holiday party tonight, and I am excited because it looks like D is close to getting 3 more apps done today.
The waiting is just agonizing. Seems like my family has hit the âpause buttonâ. This is so stressful. I feel so sorry for high school kids. Thank God I went to college 30 years ago. Honestly, this has been the most trying situation⊠and I am not looking forward to doing it again with two more kids.
@cakeisgreat Congrats on Univ. of Delaware. I know two recent grads who loved it. One is my next door neighbor and other is still there getting a Masterâs degree.
@RyanG1207 Thanks for the cold remedy tip. I usually do great with taking Airborne at the beginning of a cold but since I just finished getting over a 9 day cold (ack!) I am ready to try something new the next time.
DS had two stretch reach schools that he still needed to complete apps for. One is an Ivy. His grades and scores are there but like everyone else, it is clearly a reach. He has now decided not to apply - the ED results of his classmates (one deferred and the rest denied from that school) got him to this decision. He feels they have better stats/ECs so it is not worth his time. He might be right but really, you never know. But I am accepting of his decision. Once he finishes this last app, heâll have to two high reaches, three safeties and five match schools. His match schools are all on the smaller side so Iâm not sure heâll get into all of them. My mantra is that I want him to have choices come the spring. Iâm sticking with that because it is going to be a long wait until March. Now if only he can rescue some of the grades that dropped this week.
Okay, so I have been having this conversation in a pm here on CC. At the end of last year S counselor told him he couldnât take AP Spanish IV because at his school only Native Speakers can take it. His option was to take Spanish IV, but then he wouldnât be Valedictorian and his schedule would not be as rigorous as it could be, so he took an Honors science class (in addition to an AP science class) instead. This will give him 6 years of science. So now he only has 3 years of foreign language and it looks like top colleges want 4 years. I have been reading here on CC mixed results about about how much this hurts his chances and on the internet it has been the same. Someone else I know told me that when schools are this competitive that having 3 years a lot if times gets you in the rejection pile. So my question is, has 3 years of foreign language hurt anyoneâs chances?
D had three years of high school languageâshe simply could not fit language into her schedule sophomore year. She did take language in middle school, though, so she took Spanish 2 as a freshman, Spanish 3 as a junior, and is taking IB SL Spanish as a senior. So three years didnât hurt my Dâs chances, but she did reach a terminal language course. (Had she taken Spanish as a sophomore, she would have only had three years anyway, because she would have taken SL Spanish as a junior since she has 4 HL classes already and she must have at least two SLs.) Just fyi, S13 also had language in middle school and he did take the SL Chinese course as a junior, so he also had only three years.
Bad school policy, imoâAP language classes should not be reserved for native speakers, though it can be difficult to get a 5 if you are not a native speaker. At the end of a studentâs senior year, however, it doesnât seem like a lower score would make much of a difference in his profile though he may not fill his college language requirement (if there is one) with a 3 or 4. Of course, not taking AP Spanish doesnât help to fulfill a language requirement either. I would ask your school to change this policy to help kids who come after your sonâmaybe that they can only take an AP language class if they are a native speaker or a senior? Is your sonâs high school that concerned about their aggregated AP scores?
@Mysonsdad, my S12 only had 3 years of Spanish at his HS, and it didnât hurt his chances at all at top schools. It seems like the college application process has become even more competitive in the last few years though, so I donât really know what kind of effect it would have now.
@Mysonsdad Is the policy in the school profile? If not, could the counselor mention it in her rec? IE, DS could not take AP Lang bc of school rule and elected to take extra science instead.
IMO, stupid policy.
Hi Everyone. Here to share.
S heard back from first selective school, Caltech ⊠no good news, a rejection 
Being the happy warrior that he is, S took it in good sports. For me, on the other hand, it felt it like a blow, at the very moment at least. Fortunately, the initial hit worn off and it doesnât look like big deal. Thatâs the whole point behind applying to multiple schools, some will be a Yes, others will be a No. We just have to stay positive and a Yes will come our way.
Congratulations to those with good news and positive thoughts to those with no-so-good news.
Iâm sorry for your disappointing news @kitttymom1102.
Sorry to hear the disappointing news @kittymom1102. If itâs any consolation double orange chicken with chow mien at Panda Express cheered S up.
@Mysonsdad my S16s school only has 3 years of language and no AP, although there has been a rare student that has taken AP Spanish (online? independent study?). My son inquired about that route and was told the same as yours - only take it if you are a native speaker.
I would think that if your son took the maximum language he could at his school because he didnât âqualifyâ for that 4th/AP yearâŠthat info could be provided to the college by your son and by the GC. Supposedly colleges do not hold it against a student if their school didnât offer something. It sounds as if he did not have the option at his school.
Also, if your son is going into a technical field, he also could justify the extra science rather than an extra year of languageâŠso if it helps for his intended major, then perhaps he could be âspinâ that way.
What a crazy world we live in if we have to sweat this type of detail. It really goes to show how absurd the college admissions process can be.
I believe that once S16 finishes his last application (hopefully in early January!) that it will have been the equivalent of running an ultra marathon x10! I think we will do the âvery nice, upscale dinner outâ to celebrate that milestone, no matter how the acceptances/rejections fall. He will have won the ultimate race just by the hard work he has put in during his school career and by âfinishingâ the applications! If so much has changed since my generation of college applicantsâŠcan you imagine what it will be like for our grandchildren?
First results from EA came in today. Not exactly what we were looking for. DD got deferred from Caltech. This is not her first choice, but since it is a first result she is really upset.
@Mysonsdad DD dropped her foreign language after 10th grade. She did 4 years Latin at her school but transcript will show only 3 years of language because transcript shows only 8-12th grade. Students take AP foreign language at 11th grade and if students like the foreign language, they move to post AP level foreign language for language driven students. But I heard many kids dropped foreign language at 11th. Our school sends large number of the students to top schools (for example19 students went to HYP out of 190 graduates last year) and 3 years of language seems OK.
So sorry for your daughter @Ballerina016
@Ballerina016 @kittymom1102 Sorry to hear deferral and rejection from Caltech. The first one is the hardest one but they will get back soon.
@cakeisgreat Congrats!!!