Wow! I am lurking in this site primarily for a younger S who’ll likely need it in few years. Will definitely save this page! Thank You for all the hard work!
@eandesmom thanks SO much for putting all that together! It looks beautiful and is easy to read which is no small feat for so much information!
Hey @eandesmom : big congrats on the big award at Allegheny! <:-P iirc, that is your first college acceptance with a COA under $40k. Woot! Though I think I also read that your son took the latest UVM info package up to his room to read - Yay that your son is so invested in one of the choices! CoyoteSon is playing his preferences too close to his chest - Won’t get invested in schools until they have accepted him, so we have a long wait yet.
Also @eandesmom - just Wow on the huge work posting our group list, and your mastery of CC’s formatting with bolds, underlines, italics, and even colors! :-c >:D<
@cameo43 - big congrats on D’s acceptance to WPI, especially as that was her favorite school! =D> and condolences to @snoozin on the deferral. CoyoteSon definitely enjoyed the techy/nerdy vibe he found when we visited, and we both loved the hands-on, project based approach, but it would have been hard to claim to plan to major in history at a true E-school!
@klinska - Congrats on your D’s admission to American, and fingers crossed that FA info is still “in the mail”.
@MSU88CHEng - Congrats to your son on both MSU and SUNY Albany.
@tacocat333 - Congrats to your son on Pitt!! And Case! And UMW, with its wonderfull in-Stare prices!
@kt1969 - Congrats on L&C and Wohoo on Goucher - CoyoteSon has no interest in West Coast, but we did visit Goucher, and it has a really warm vibe - I especially liked their new President, who gave a lecture to us as prospectives last year. Plus, I distinctly remember how all the profs are encouraged to bring their dogs to school for de-stressing sessions for students during exams week
3:-O
More congrats to @makatarinasmom on Kalamazoo and @CAtransplant for Redlands and Catholic U and @smakl70 for Wisconsin, and to every wonderful parent with such good news on this list.
Just repeating TacoCat’s #goearlyaction tag – we’re so well informed and prepared to have acceptances in the bag before the (potential) stings of rejections may come our kids’ way during RD round.
@snoozin - so glad you are sharing your fantastic journey through Germany with us!
Thank you all for sharing the ups and downs (especially the StrugglingSons in Calc support group – feeling sympathy for all your kids with Calc homework packages over the break; very fortunate that CoyoteSon has no such package, though I think the shock of going back to work after a full 2 weeks off will be greater.)
PS - I loved Rogue One, which everyone should see cause Star Wars is just part of the American culture now…but if you like sci-fi: go see “Passengers” - wow! Great movie!!!
I want to encourage everyone to update general acceptance here as well
It’s a simple copy paste. 2 posts. One by student and one by school. I think it’s helpful for the larger CC audience to see all our wonderful schools show up on the big list too!
Thank you for the great work. It’s really nice to see all the acceptances coming in. I have seen a number of schools that I have checked into, though techson has not opted to apply to any more.
However, I calculated the COA as $50,805 and the NPC said S17 would get a $9500 grant and 5,500 in loans. This is without reference to the possible talent scholarship. Please note that we do not intend to take any loans and if we can’t do it with what we have, he’ll be going to a different school.
@techmom99 I just pulled COA off of the college data admissions info. You likely have more accurate numbers, I always use what folks give me if they have it so I will update it, and update your NPC predictions to show it. I don’t tend to count loans as any kind of FA or merit offer personally…though if you have to, subsidized are certainly better!
Eandesmom, great job on the list. A couple of things on my S. He was deferred to regular decision at Furman, not accepted. And for all the public schools where he was accepted (or deferred), all are out-of-state for him. If some thumbnail stats are useful, he has a 3.2 GPA, a 25 ACT, 4 APs, and very good ECs. Thanks.
Question: when you guys are saying how many APs your child has, are you just counting Sophomore and Junior year and if it’s a year long class you call it one? what if it is a semester-long class, still call it one? Just wondering!
I didn’t list AP’s, but my son has taken AP Psych and is currently taking APES and AP US Govt. I would guess that people are listing all AP’s taken, regardless of grade level and not necessarily distinguishing between semester and year long courses.
Thanks @eandesmom. Great summary!
@CAtransplant I agree with @techmom99 re counting APs.
CAtransplant, in my case, I count it based on the duration of the course itself. In other words, AP Lit was a year-long course, so it counts as one. Same for AP Statistics – a year-long course, so one AP. If the AP course is only for one semester, like AP Microeconomics, then that counts as one as well. So, it’s whatever the course duration is, in my book. But others may view it differently. (And I also count what he is taking for senior year, as it generally is revealed to the colleges.)
@eandesmom fantastic job on the readability and concise nature of the college acceptances. I really want to check out some more schools but I know son won’t even consider it and he has some good options.
FYI - son was not ED for Carthage. I believe they are rolling admissions.
Congrats everyone on all the new acceptances (I can’t keep up).
@eandesmom Nicely done! and congrats to everyone too 
@techmom99 and @lakeviking I’ve made those changes in the master doc (and fixed your user name, lakeviking, opps!).
The edits will show up at the next posting. I don’t expect much additions the remainder of this week so am thinking it will be the following weekend that I update it again.
Regarding AP’s, I think of it as how long the course is as well. In our case they’ve all been year long courses and I count each as 1.
Wonderful job on the list, @eandesmom ! Our group’s B+ kids are doing great things and going great places. I’ll get my act together one of these days and send you TacoSon’s.
I’ve been internally debating convincing TacoSon to put in a last-minute application application to William & Mary (due Jan 1). I’ve been so heartened by all of our kids’ successes and I guess I need to scratch an itch that is asking whether I underestimated my kid’s potential. His HS is a pretty intense place and early on I was very discouraged that counseling seemed to put all its focus onto the tippity top kids. W&M is on CommonApp and he could reuse an essay for the second prompt. It would be a pretty big reach but I thought Case was as well. So I’m pondering. (He is fine with submitting an application but isn’t all that interested in being accepted.)
@smakl70 - let me know what your son (and you) think of Carthage. That is one of my daughters backups and she just got a scholarship interview invite to go there.
@tacocat333 I hear you there (underestimating potential). I’d love to do the same but financially there isn’t one that makes sense to go for so I have to tuck that away. There isn’t one though that S is dying over (about not applying to) so it’s my issue, not his. LOL. And it’s not an issue really but makes me a bit sad
@sirpher1 We toured Carthage last spring and son liked the campus. He went to a Nike track camp there last summer also and we knew then he’d either fall in love or decide he hated it. It’s been one of his top choices ever since. The campus is gorgeous but they only offer B.A.'s and son is leaning towards C.S. so that concerns me. Obviously if he gets one of these interview scholarships that puts things in a whole new light. What other schools is your daughter looking at?