@curiositycat333 My D applied to Cal Poly and I wasn’t aware they wanted APs at this stage - do you know is that for all majors or just certain ones? Thanks.
That’s progress @curiositycat333! He’ll get it done (but I’m sure you’ll end up with some gray hairs). I was annoyed at how hard it was to find the info on the scores that were sent–I, too, was clicking around for what seemed like forever before I stumbled on it.
@Queen’s Mom, congrats! You’re keeping us in suspense, though! Hope you get the green light to spill the beans on the name of the school soon, lol.
Good luck, much chocolate, and good wine (if you indulge) to those of you working toward 12/1 deadlines over Thanksgiving break. Can’t wait to celebrate with you when all that busines is in your rearview mirror!
It showed up on the portal about a week before I got a letter.
Brief update - my son got an acceptance letter from Towson Univ. So far, that is his #1 he says, although it is a bit close to home for him. I told him I would promise not to go anywhere near. LOL - we are headed to St. John’s UNiversity in Queens this weekend. I will report back if anyone has any interest. He has applied, but no word from them yet. Although the guidance counselor mixed up St John with another school initially. 
@CAtransplant I don’t know. It was in the instructions at then end after hitting accept. It might have only been for certain majors. I was surprised I didn’t think they cared about AP’s at all. I haven’t heard that any other schools wanted it. We only sent them to Cal Poly. I’ve tried looking around online and don’t see anything that refers to AP tests. Probably shouldn’t have sent them, but I swear we both read on the list of stuff to do after it was submitted that that AP tests needed to be sent. Odd since I didn’t think Cal Poly cared about AP scores at all.
@klinska Where did you find it on the SAT site. I’m stressing about this now. My kids now holding the password into the account close to his chest and I only had a few minutes to look around on it. I’m going to look around and see if the email about it being send got stuck in a spam filter.
@curiositycat333: Starting with the College Board home page, sign in with user name and password. On the next screen, click on My SAT on the left (under My Organizer). Then you’ll need to sign in again. Under My Test Scores, you’ll see the datesthat your S took the SAT along with scores, most recent first. In each box, there’s a link at the bottom that says “Understand Your Test Performance and See Sent Scores”. Click on that link in the first box. It will take you to your S’s most recent scores. Then click the link that says “View Details”. There will be a dark band at the top that Says “Score Report for SAT” (if he wrote the essay it will say “Score Report for SAT with Essay”), with the date of the test. Underneath will be the following links: Report Details, Essay Details (if your S did the essay), Skills Insight, and Score Sends. Click Score Sends and you will see all the schools for which you have ordered scores, with the date sent and the status. For sent scores the status should read “fulfilled”. You can also check the CA to see when test scores were downloaded by the school.
@klinks We got down to the “Understand your Test Performance & See Sent Scores” Didn’t look like it had the information we needed even if it directed us there and we gave up. I’ll try to get him to log in for me this afternoon so I can check, now that I know where to look.
Thanks!!!
Can’t check the CA since none of these are CA schools.
We got first quarter report cards yesterday. Some pleasant surprises and a not so pleasant one. More As in core subjects than last year, but Honors Physics did her in with a C+. Not exactly what we want to be sending to EA schools. D seems confident that she can pull that grade up for the semester grade. I hope she’s right.
OK. I have permission. The school is Whittier in California. It’s a lovely, small LAC, which was an academic safety and I’m hoping will be a financial safety with her stats.
@“Queen’s Mom” congrats!
1st quarter report cards. I have NO idea if we will recieve actual hard copies or not. The grades have been filling in online during the week and in the past, once in, rarely changed. If I assume our HS is following the same protocol as the other in our district (would seem we’d have to, same systems) then grades were “final” last night. I was a bit bummed earlier in the week as some grades that showed “up” in the gradebook factoring assignments by the last official date of the quarter weren’t reflected accurately in the quarter grades. It was both good and bad, a few up that weren’t in the gradebook and a few that should be up, but were not.
I just logged in. If it really is final now…I am thrilled! a A’s. 2 A-. 2 B+ and one B! Granted all the B’s are the AP classes (Calc AB, Lit and APES) but it’s a vast improvement over the 2 B-.
In theory only one school wants them but you never know, right?
@“Queen’s Mom” congrats!!!
@curiositycat333 I wouldn’t worry about sending the AP’s. We didn’t as we will strike some scores and send only good ones to wherever he matriculates. The common app lets you self report and his other app didn’t ask for scores on that (I don’t think). But if they are good scores it won’t hurt a thing.
I would definitely have him reset his portal info at UofO. You can call them and ask if they have the scores without it but he will need to be able to log in at some point and you don’t want to miss deadlines on those scores not being there.
Show of hands: Who else is spending the weekend/holiday week gently reminding their child to complete application or scholarship essays?
DS has 2 scholarship essays due by Dec 3. 1 is complete - the other (more lucrative of course) is not. The admissions rep is sending him weekly requests to get them in and another admission rep just sent him a scholarship portal login to start theirs. At least the second school is near the bottom of the list so I won’t nag about that one but the other school is one of his top choices and $$ IS a factor.
My hand is waving in the air @smakl70! :!! The next app to go out is his biggest reach and of course his top choice. He is squarely in the middle of their 25 to 75 range. Stress seems to slow him down so I may need to get creative to keep him moving towards submit. At this point I am not above financial incentives!!
Gotta love autocorrect. Should’ve been 2 A, 2 A-, 2 B+ and one B.
And yeah…holiday weekend. Not sure it will be considered gentle reminding. More like lock down.
3 applications, 5 supplements plus a music one that a recent application school just sent.
Fun times. Lol.
I’m waiving my hands (both of them) too as someone who will be reminding–okay really pushing–that essays get done over the holiday weekend. S17 has only 1 application in, and has several coming due in the next 2 weeks. Ugh!
From the UVM Admissions blog/twitter feed…aka don’t bother portal checking until 12/14 lol!
My application is in, when will I hear?
*This is, without a doubt, the most popular question this time of year from students who have already sent in their early action application. Since early September, students applying early action have been preparing and submitting their applications for admission. Nearly 12,000 students have submitted their early action application to UVM for the fall.
We notified our first group of early action applicants on November 10. Approximately 3,200 students received notification from us – we celebrated with them! Who received notification on this date? It was a group of students whose applications were complete, and whose applications made through our processing and review prior to November 10. There was not a system to this – and it also means that the remaining 8,800 early action applications remain under active consideration.
Our next decision notification will be on Wednesday, December 14. Students are notified on their application status portal (logging in using the “95” number that was sent in email soon after the application was received). Decisions are live there as of 5 pm ET on that day.*
Nope no nagging this weekend. (Next weekend big time.) S17 finished the Cal State Thursday. He has to complete University of California by the end of Thanksgiving weekend. That is my drop dead time, I’m not having him submit the last day.
@endesmom Not sure we were supposed to send AP’s or not. I didn’t think so but then we both read that they wanted them. IDK, I’m now confused and you can’t get that page back. The worst that can happen is they ignore them, right? I can’t find anything online. I didn’t think anyone wanted them except as self-reported. S has only take two, but both are 5’s so it’s in his favor if they look.
S17 did finally (on his own speed) check the UofO portal and it now say something noncommittal about application complete, processing. So I assume that the AP Test score issue has been resolved.
We got first quarter grades a week ago. We haven’t gotten paper grades since junior high. It’s all online these days. Grades were good in all classes except AP Physics which is only a C. English is an A. Econ a B+, AP CS a A+. If it were his semester grades he’d be looking at an improvement. Hopefully he can get that Physics grade up to at least a B by semester.
@curiositycat333 my S struggled with AP Physics first semester and really hunkered down with Kahn academy. What was hard for him is there really wasn’t “homework” so he had to do a lot outside of class on his own to get the concepts down. It really did make a difference in the class, he was able to pull of a B for 1st semester and an A- for 2nd. Sadly it didn’t quite translate over to the AP test itself but that is as much S’s poor test taking in general, as it is anything else.
That’s good that it appears U of O has everything. They are rolling so hopefully he will hear soon. I have to admit I was kind of hoping for at least one by Thanksgiving. Outside chance Western will show up (they started “printing” letters I know) but it is an outside chance.
It would appear we didn’t dig far enough on one of the music scholarships, I don’t think S can apply via video supplement for one of them after all so have to contact the school and schedule a live interview. I guess the good news is we realized it now (common app doesn’t show the parameters for who can do video or or not, it’s on the website) but it’s a little unfortunate as it’s going to mean 2 trips to the school. One for an interview early next month and then one for the scholarship audition in Feb. It is a bit annoying as they release EA decisions on 2/15…and the auditions are before that. I suppose that is deliberate but UGH!
The other annoying part is that another school just offered a new non major music scholarship but only offered it on campus regardless of where you live. In contacting them, they will take a recording (but didn’t specify what they really want) so we had hoped to hit both with the same video. Now I am not sure what we will do for the 2nd one, audio or video. Pita. He will review with his private lesson teacher this weekend.
D was sick all weekend which means we still have a few more applications to get to over Thanksgiving. Hopefully this will be the end of it, but I can see it dragging into the next weekend or two!
@eandesmom and @curiositycat333 My D is in the same boat for AP Physics, she has a C so far this semester, yikes. I have suggested Kahn academy and told her if she goes over to the tutoring center, I’m happy to pay for it. I hear most kids are having a tough time in that class. I don’t know, it’s especially tough on D since she’s always excelled in science and physics is what she wants to major in.
@Fishnline29 Hope your D feels better. We will be along side you. S17 has to get his UC Application done. (And I’m hoping but not pushing for his OSU one to be done as well.)
The problem for DS is it seems to be AP Physics is getting the short end of the stick & he hasn’t been doing all the work. He’s loving AP CS & spending most of his time on that class, and teaching hisself another computer language on the side. Not enough time doing the homework, which translates to not getting the grades on the test.
This is AP Physics 1 (year-course) in one semester so it’s very fast paced. He claims he doesn’t need a tutor, just to put more time into the class. Hopefully he can pull it up to at least a B by the end of semester.