Yes, they need to read their student emails when in college, lots of important info being sent.
My D’s professors sent emails before classes started about what books they needed to buy.
@carolinamom2boys thanks! I am going to check out that thread. Let me know what you find out too when you do the mock interviews please! Have you generally found it helpful to go to the city of the interview a day ahead of the activities? we are travelling from out of state and I feel like we should leave a cushion of time in case.
" Anybody else have a kid that thinks the entire world should communicate by text? "
Yes. All three of them. My son, who is almost 31, only adopted email as a regular form of communication when he started his own business last year. It wasn’t long before that that one day he was complaining about getting ahold of his business partner and I asked if he’d left a voicemail. He looked at me with a look of almost confusion. His now 26 yo sister doesn’t use email either, and has the same view of actual phone calls, though she does call her dad and I-sometimes.
The youngest, the Class of 16 kid, is the only one who uses email with regularity. She has her “college email” address synced to her phone so she knows when once comes in. And she does email them when she has questions. Though sometimes I have to remind her-so she’ll do it right there in the car on the way to school.
Good luck to those kids with upcoming interviews!
@sseamom I’m pretty sure I’m the only one of the Student Council and NHS officers that actually you know checks their email, even though it is well known that’s how communication occurs. Like your D I send emails to my college with questions, and I have been known to actually call them as well!
I can relate to kids not wanting to send emails. I too use my admin ass…istant skills to “word them up” and then my D will come to review, edit and copy and paste into her email and send. I used to do that for my S14 as well but now he surprises me with very well worded emails to deal with many of his issues. Nearly everything he does with school revolves around emailing professors, emailing assignments in, etc. So getting used to and more proficient at emailing will most likely become their new normal once they are in college.
Regarding the student who said, “I’ll take the F.” Today in class I had work for my students to do, one of my students told me he wanted to study for a stats test the following period. I told him he wouldn’t get credit for the assignment and he told me, “I’ll take the L.” Of course, L meaning loss.
As for the “Where are you going to college?” Question, at my school we want kids to be thinking about college. Our school is known for sending kids to college. So as a reminder to kids and as a part of our culture we always ask kids about their college choices.
As for rejections, what stinks about a kid getting rejected from their EA/D school is that they don’t get the joy you see in kids who get accepted to their first choice, because now, there are so many schools that kids apply to, along with acceptances come rejections. What really is hard is S doesn’t want to talk about college now because he is worried about being shutout of them all.
On another note, an article from a website sent me something today about a student who got rejected from every college they applied to but in the end were very happy at where they ended up.
I am curious how it can go from reasonable to 7-9% unless it just went from 10% which sounds like a big number but not that far off from 7-9.
Having gone through this process 4 years ago and repeating it for a second kid I do feel a lot more uncertain about the outcomes at top schools. Despite older D getting several schools back then, I can tell you that it still bothers me when I remember the content of one of the other top school’s rejection letter. So the feeling of your kid being not considered good enough by a random school out there don’t go away. 
However, the outcomes of college education or what you get out of lottery school education vs your state flagship seem overrated if you go purely by how the kids turn out. The bright kids still get the same outcomes irrespective of the college they attend. I am seeing the peers who have gone to Rice or UT also do well there and moving on to bigger things. I tell my older D that the only reason we are paying through the nose for the education is so she will have great contacts 10-20 years down the road and not for the great education she is supposed to get. 
All you have to do is look at the faculty of the big name schools and you will notice that many of themhave degrees from state schools.
I also don’t think selling apps to google is what is needed although it might look that way. Unique apps work but institutional priorities remove a lot of seats from what is available to everyone. When you account for all the different goals of these schools, you are aiming to convince the adcoms to accept you into a small niche of your own (50% boys and girls, broken down further by percentages allocated to internationals (take out 10%), legacies (15%), athletes (10%), first in your family (15%), URMs (20%) and so on. Some of these overlap but I look at my D’s chance of being accepted in terms of about 20-30 seats possible for an Indian origin girl interested in STEM at an elite school. OTOH, I feel her opportunities will not be limited by the school she attends.
@CAmidwest that is exactly what I told my DS! The working world runs on e-mail so it is time he learned to both write and respond to them.
Finally, a long awaited acceptance is in! Our first totally viable option. Meets almost all criteria: out of state and far enough away from home, excellent programs, and affordable. Not a total slam dunk, but whew!
That is a good feeling for sure! Congrats @crowlady!
Congratulations @crowlady ! That first affordable options really takes the pressure off.
Great news @crowlady
Super Congrats @crowlady! That is a great feeling!
Congrats to your daughter @crowlady .
@Themommymommy The interview at Wofford was only 45 minutes away so we went that morning, but our next one is 3 1/2 hrs away, so we’ll go down the night before. I’ll pass along any tidbits I learn next week.
@crowlady congrats!
@Mysonsdad hang in there. Your son sounds like he has so much going for him. I know it feels like the shut out is inevitable on the dark days. Believe me I felt that way with my son’s dental applications. But you only need one!
@carolinamom2boys thanks so much. I just have made a round of reservations for flights hotels cars. I hope even if the interview doesn’t go perfectly it will be fun for her. It has to be warmer than it is here right now. It has finally warmed up to -3 with a -12 windchill here.
Whoa! You guys have been moving fast. Catch-up comments:
@Undercovermom1 CSS - “how much can your parents pay” - blood… sweat… tears… you know, the usual.
@frenchtoastlover welcome, but your name makes me hungry. If we get a @crispysideofbacon & @frenchpresscoffee, I will forever crave breakfast.
@carolinamom2boys @lvmjac1 & any other Clemson fans, bummer. I was cheering on your behalf. On the upside, how adorable was the freshman, walk-on receiver? I LOVE a Cinderella story.
@MuggleMom I think I know what school you are talking about & to add to the pain will maybe, hopefully (?) be the candidates weekend. It’s like a STEM version of The Bachelor and a lot of kids will be going home without a rose. Stop kissing us Bachelor if you are just going to break our heart!!
Overall, I’m worried about my attitude when the rejections roll in. My children’s pain is my pain, but unfortunately, that doesn’t always make me more kindhearted and consoling. I think it will be more like two women with the worst case of PMS ever. I should probably apologize to my D now, before it hits the fan.
@sseamom “I’m going to see a light and assume it’s a train coming at us.” My ah-ha and take a deep breath moment of the day. Thank you.
@Cheeringsection that is a great attitude about colleges considering who needs them the most so it is not a rejection but an affirmation that something else would be more successful for everyone involved. Thanks for that.
@CAMidwestMom @lvmjac1 and others picking a bouquet of fear flowers from the garden of anxiety, I’m sorry and can empathize. I wish I had useful advice, but all I can offer is a virtual hug.
@petrichor11 @crowlady congrats! Everybody get up, it’s time for the happy dance!
OMG this idiotic verification thing goes on and on…
As you may remember, my son was randomly chosen for UC verification. They asked him to verify his participation in a science fair that he wrote about in his personal statement, but the essay was actually about doing the project and being excluded from the fair, because if the contents of his project.
Well he sent a letter pointing out the parts of his essay where he specifically stated he didn’t participate in the fair, he included a link to the blog post that his aunt made when his project was excluded, he included a link to the blog post where his aunt asked for volunteers to take his survey. Basically he showed that his personal statement really happened.
Today he got an email stating that this was not enough. They want to see the actual survey that he did for his project. There was a link on one of the pages that was removed because the survey was complete and taking more responses would cost money. They seem to be focused on that link. This was years ago!!! But by coincidence, I still have the survey in my Survey Monkey account. I have the results, because I never bothered to delete them. So he plans to make a bunch of screen shots and will send them.
This whole thing is just stupid.
Wow @LKnomad that’s unbelievable!!!
That is Twilight Zone-level stupidity, @LKnomad