Congrats @labegg That’s great news!
Congrats to your D @labegg!
Wonderful news @labegg!
Congratulations, @labegg !
@Mysonsdad, you have my sympathies, truly. I’m sure it’ll come out fine in the end, though, even if it does seem like he’s trying to turn you prematurely grey.
I’ll add my congrats to everyone else! And @mysonsdad we too had a last minute snafu with an honors college application – can’t remember if I mentioned it here. Turns out they had a 6pm deadline when we assumed it was midnight. I didn’t catch that, but he was the one filling out the application and it was written all over the page he must have gone by more than once. He can still apply to this school rolling but he had been hoping for honors. They never responded to his mea culpa email so he probably won’t apply at all. Will he have learned his lesson? I doubt it 
When DD made her college list, the only one condition was not to choose ED worrying about if NPC and FA does not match. I just found this one… Not sure colleges are playing with ED or not but I didn’t want to take risk.
That would have been good to know for son now in college, but too late now. I started the appeal request and process, and the numbers moved a bit, but I suppose with the strength of his other acceptances, had he reached out and made the appeal, perhaps I would have been able to hear the decimal moving over.
Ah well. Live and learn.
l love coming to this board with all the exciting updates! Congrats to all! And @Mysonsdad , don’t worry too much. A friend of D’s had her financing fall through at the last minute last fall and called her second choice and not only did they allow her to enroll, they gave her even more money than in their original offer, and she is thriving there You never know.
And we have one last bit of good news for the day-after D and I got home from driving practice and Christmas shopping to find a letter waiting from one of the colleges she was already accepted to with news of a scholarship! The amount will be in a second letter, and she didn’t even apply for one. What a great day today!
Congrats @sseamom . Christmas has come early this year for your daughter.
Could someone please explain to me what does it mean when college considers geographical residence but not the state residency?
@Ballerina016 I think they consider midwest or mountain states type of consideration. It makes sense if a state population is relatively small and need to put together with other states. But my guess is California is large enough to be considered as one.
@Waiting2exhale After I ran NPC for all my DD’s match/reach schools, I found one school has pretty high EFC. It was a surprise for me because the school is need blind and says they match needs. I was hesitate to go with it or not but ultimately, I told DD to go ahead wishing she gets multiple acceptances. So at least we have some leverage to negotiate if necessary. All the processes look brutal… in the end.
@NYDad513: That really makes me wish I knew about such things then. For one of his university acceptances, where he was selected into the special program where he could “sample” between the colleges of the university, and not have to choose at the outset, we were most excited, for he could do both physics, theatre and voice - a dream situation for him. They sent someone else’s financials to us, evidently. We threw it in a drawer and did not even take it out until he’d already signed on to his ultimate choice.
He is really happy, and in a good place. I know this. And he is stretching and growing in ways that one hopes to see in one’s child. Still, when the other school realized their error and contacted us, we just let it rest. Had I understood these things I would have leaned on each of them, letting them know of the other’s offer.
Sounds like your daughter may have some truly amazing choices. May everything work in her favor.
@Waiting2exhale Wow. I hardly imagine what happened to your child. There are so many students applying and always possible mistake and students are the victims of the mistakes. Wish your son really flourish at his school. I always ridicule “after careful consideration” and our kids life cannot be presented as few pages of papers. There are much more and wish they carry on.
@ballerina016, I’m fairly certain that means that the student is considered as part of a regional pool rather than a specific state pool of students.
@waiting2exhale, I know these things work out the way they are supposed to, but that must have been quite disheartening.
@NYDad513, my experience with “full need met” with my older daughter taught me that the universities consider our need to be much lower than I do! 
Well, we are at the midway point now of what is likely to be my last year homeschooling (unless my social butterfly youngest daughter decides to return to my classroom, which seems unlikely. She is enjoying the much lower academic demands of our local middle school. I find myself somewhat concerned about the situation, but she IS my youngest and…well, it will be fine, I tell myself )I’ve been officially homeschooling since '99, and D16 did not even attend preschool, so it’s a pretty big deal to get to this point.
Like some others here, she has an EA decision coming in Wednesday, her first of the selective schools. I was not terribly concerned about how that would turn out (she has not been “in love” with any school in particular, and her college list is huge!), but now she says she actually cares about how the decision goes, so I’m suddenly apprehensive that she will be disappointed, which seems likely, given the odds. There are really no major pressures on her at this point, so I suppose a little minor depression can be weathered
I am just giving my best guess…but I think state residency is used for those states that admit a high number of instate students (ie: TX, NC, etc) or have a state mandate for a certain percentage of instate students. Therefore state residency is an important or very important consideration.
I think geographical residence means the school “considers” where you live in order to make sure they have geographical “diversity” in their mix of students. Many colleges boast that they have students from most or all 50 states…those colleges probably use “geographical residence” in making sure they have a good cross section of students from most (or all) areas of the country.
Thank you @NYDad513 @GoodGrief16 and @4kids2graduate I guess it is relevant for smaller states. I don’t think any selective school has shortage of students from California.
@GoodGrief16 Yeah… “Full need met” means what university think how much we need not we think how much we need. Anyway, the EFC difference between all the other school is less than 8k but one school is 30k higher than the second highest one. It seems they consider primary resident house as a asset and put into account while others don’t.
@Ballerina016 Geographical residence vs state residency I think pertains to private schools. Let’s take, for example, Vandy. They don’t give students from TN preference but will tend to spread out their selections for diversity. Vandy has most of their students from TN, not because they give state resident preference, but just because the smart kids in TN want to go there. I think IL is second most for Vandy. That tells me, all else being equal, they would pick someone from IA, AK, Guam, or Eritrea over someone from IL to diversify their class because they already get very exceptional IL students as it is.
Wow! Congratulations to all those with more choices and scholarships. Hugs to @mysonsdad and anyone else having a bumpy ride with this process. I hope there are lots more good news posts this week!
Stay on top of those scholarship dates. Anyone caught by the IU snafu of one date in emails from the school but another online where the application gets submitted? Somehow I think IU will be extending that deadline but I feel for the kids going through that stress and those taking the phone calls at IU from hopefuls, GCs and parents. NOT a festive situation for any of them.