@carolinamom2boys Personal attention is always nice. @4kids2graduate We even sent all the information needed for an appeal (latest test results,letter from audiologist) and I was still denied. Definitely a strange and shocking thing. Maybe it depends on the disability. Did your S11 take the SAT without accommodations? I didn’t take the ACT, they wouldn’t give me accommodations, I wouldn’t give them money
For those who have kids who applied to Cornell, it just showed up on our IDOC requests.
I’m trying to figure out if we really need to kill a forest sending in corrected CSS profile information. All the schools will get corrected FAFSA info and most of them want the Tax forms. Aren’t they smart enough to put it all together?
I was under the impression that if the info you upload is in IDOCs you do not also have to send in corrections. SO if it’s just estimated taxes to real taxes you don’t have to mail but anything else you do have to mail. @Mysonsdad I think you will have to call each school and see if they need the complete packet mailed in or just the pages with changes that apply to their school. I’m hoping by getting all my stuff in early if there is something wrong it will give them plenty of time to notify us.
@readingclaygirl Yes, S11 took the SAT without and the ACT with accommodations. He was so disgusted with SAT/CB that he used his ACT score only for college apps. He did not want to pay CB a dime to send test scores.
This is just one more example of the crazy, sometimes biased, unpredictability of this entire process!
I was just looking at a college’s website and here is what they said regarding sending corrected CSS Profiles
“Domestic Students
If you are simply trying to update your PROFILE with the information from your most recent tax return, there’s no reason to make a correction to your PROFILE. You should update your FAFSA instead, as you can make corrections online. We’ll be able to transfer the data from your FAFSA to your PROFILE on our end.”
It think I will call some colleges on Monday.
What do you put in the IDOC when it asks what college your kid goes to? I just put “still in high school” with the graduation date. Then on the verification form it asks about work and wants a W2, what if you kid doesn’t work?
@Mysonsdad I put unknown, undergrad, full-time, May 2020 for DS.
My son had/has a job so I don’t know about that part.
@palm715 You could start with The Big Test re SAT.
You guys with your accommodation stories are scaring me! DS20 has an IEP for his homeschool charter next week. Since we head to high school I was planning to bring up college board accommodations so we can get started first thing next year. His dysgraphia will require keyboarding for any AP essays and he will need extended time and a seperate location to test in due to ADHD. I have documentation for all this but I really have no idea how well the SpEd department at this charter is at asking for accommodations. We shall see. We will also have the problem of having to have him take the AP test at the local high school, with accommodations, as a homeschooler. So not looking forward to this.
@LKnomad The key is ensuring and documenting that your child needs and uses those accommodations each day to learn. It can’t be an accommodation just for the SAT/testing. Learn now as much as possible about requests for accommodations from the testing companies. Also, be prepared to find a testing site that will grant the accommation, if approved. We could find no SAT site that would let our child test there.
@dyiu13 DS has had an IEP with these accommodations for a long time. We also have an AT eval, weekly OT, and a long history of accomidations. The reality is, if he does not have these accommodations for an AP test, they won’t be able to grade the test. He cannot write. He might be able to get away without accomidations for the regular tests, but he won’t be able to have an AP essay test graded and we have documentation.
ETA: He also has accommodations for end of year testing as well.
Spent hours on the taxes yesterday. Close, but not done yet. I am still missing the same blasted statement that held up things last year, and the year before, and the year before that…, :!! ~X(
@LKnomad I believe part of the reason that S11 was denied accommodations through College Board (but I am just guessing) is that he was in 11th grade when we requested accommodations for the first time. By that time he had already taken the SAT once and one AP test. I will always wonder that if we had started the request for accommodations in the beginning of his high school career before taking any tests through CB, it would have gone through. Perhaps it would have been more likely.
S11 had IEPs then 504 plans through his school career that included extended time on tests, etc, but that documentation would not stand up on it’s own. Additional written information from the GC and specific statements from teachers (on the forms that CB has for this purpose!) was not good enough. CB required “outside” documentation that included at least one type of testing (from a list they have), so we had to find a psychologist to do that testing for us. It was expensive and time consuming.
Yes, start early! Research what documentation they need (especially from outside of school, ie: medical professionals, etc.), and provide more than the minimum they require.
Anyone doing anything special for the Super (aka Super Reach, lottery to put it in CC terms) Bowl today? S is having a party and we are expecting about 30 people in my house that holds 10 lol
@LKnomad I hope it goes well. Fingers crossed for your S20
We’re going to an annual SB party at our old neighbors house. There will probably be about 60 people there. They have 4 big TVs spread out throughout the house including 1 outside , lots of food, etc. Of course we’re pulling for the Panthers.( they’re owned by an alum from one of DS16s top choices) DH’s family are all Broncos fans, so I’m sure they’ll be some “friendly” trash talk on social media. Looking forward for a fun , low stress atmosphere to decompress from a busy weekend.
Hoping to start taxes today finally. Then FAFSA/CSS in next few days. Finally have necessary last minute forms to start taxes.
D14 forwarded email yesterday from her current college with reminder about IDOC information needed for this next school year for her. A quick, panicked look on her school’s website shows all her FA info is not due until May 15th. Whew! But did they really need to send that e-mail NOW when I was already feeling more than overwhelmed with all the financial stuff to do ASAP for S16?
Take a deep breath…one step at a time!
@readingclaygirl No real football fans in our house, but we do usually watch the SB and the commercials! Pizza and veggie tray is the extent of our special menu plans…maybe an ice cream break when I get totally overwhelmed with working on all the financial stuff.
^ I have the same complaint about all the colleges where they are fine with students enrolled filing their taxes later. I don’t understand why they force people to file the FAFSA/CSS and then also force people to get it validated by filing taxes and submit an idoc by 15th. They have far fewer people to deal with after admission and they can simply state their offers are contingent on verification of tax returns instead of trying to get paperwork form 20, 30, 40, 100,000 kids upfront.
I wish the financial aid applications and required documentation could just say:
income: gainfully employed in human service field (GREAT rewards, just not financially)
assets: able to pay bills with little left over
investments: spend any extra giving kids support and opportunity to follow their interests and pursuits
need: ALOT more than your NPC says
aid: enough that my child can choose you (and not have to cross you off list because it’s unaffordable)
additional: please reward us (rather than penalize us) for being financially responsible all these years and raising kids with great abilities, academic achievement, etc. that would be an asset to your school
Good luck to those trying to get accommodations on the SAT/ACT. We never got them, which I think is partly why D has low scores. Thank God her first choice school didn’t mind-- though unfortunately the state lottery-funded scholarship does, so she’s missing out on several thousand dollars.
No Superbowl plans. S has a gig in about an hour, D and Mr Petrichor are sick, and I am not a fan. Well, I like Superbowl parties, but not so much the actual game-- and with Typhoid Mary and her Dad at home, I figured I’d spare our friends the germs. Instead, I’m taking S to his gig, making chicken soup, and doing a bunch of cleaning. The house smells so strongly of bleach, onions, and garlic I’m thinking the germs may just give up in terror.