@CT1417, @payn4ward, @2muchquan, @Ynotgo Yes, incremental improvements definitely make sense! I guess we will have a better feel for it once S chooses a prompt. My gut says 3 or 4 and more likely 3. Of course if the kid hits “send” on all 5 CA schools at the same time…there will not be the chance for improvement.
We are only waiting on AP results. The ACT was rescheduled thanks to the fracture.
I have a fracture update!
Short cast as of yesterday. AND he passed the pre-calc final and maintained his classroom grade without any slippage so really that’s about the best scenario we could have hoped for, far better result than he expected and thank goodness the teacher graded on a curve. I am not sure if he has math today, I’ll be interested to hear the results of the curve and overall class performance.
He is going to have the cast on for one extra week by choice. He has a camp that starts on the 26th and it would have been a bit less than 2 if we pulled it off before camp. He figures he is safer with it on. I didn’t even have to suggest it! He will be attempting to play the trombone today so that should be interesting. He is desperate to get back to lessons which means he will have to play at graduation. He may have struck a deal though where he only has to play for the walk in and then can work the rest of the event (and get paid). Enterprising if nothing else that one.
We are also waiting for results. Since the CB says that the scores are being released to colleges on June 14, I’ve logged into DS’s NCAA Eligibility account a couple of times to see if they’ve shown up there yet, but no luck.
:-w
Rising senior class rank was released. D didn’t move up as much as we thought she would. Lots of clumping around her GPA and the competition is so stiff! She’s not happy, but I am. Top 2% at a competitive high school with a most rigorous schedule is nothing to sneeze at.
@itsgettingreal17 , wait, wait, wait, she is at top 2% and she wanted to move up? There is not much space to move up!!! That is a great rank! I’m glad my D’s school stop ranking a few years ago.
Ah, glad to know there’s a name for what H and D17 suffer from: Resting Murder Face! (And yeah, even though she’s a girl, it’s definitely RMF for D, not RBF!
Our list is down to 14 schools, two of which are free apps. It’s a bit on the long side, but I don’t feel it’s worth the effort at this point to trim any further. With this list there should only be six supplemental essays, which is better than I’m hearing from a lot of posters. I’m guessing this may be because there are a lot of techy schools on the list. I applied to GT EA and got in, so never had to write a college essay – bwahahahaha!
We’ll be visiting five schools, so it’s possible more will fall off that way, though I have pretty high hopes for four of them.
@itsgettingreal17 - congratulations on top 2% achievement. Our school stopped ranking 2 years back due to same reason. Lot of kids with good grades and even one B brings rank down.
@jeepgirl Over the next two days, @greeny8 D16 is going through UF’s preview(orientation). Parents can also go through it (it’s optional), but on a separate “track”. They don’t want us old folks getting in the way and interfering with the kids orientation…but they do want to give us LOTS of presentations on how to pay the bills
I think I spent much of Day 2 skipping out on my sessions, after I found a nice comfy chair in the Reitz Union…I REALLY don’t need another tour of campus or downtown Gainesville. I-)
@CaucAsianDad I’ll send good thoughts your way that it goes your way. It’s so big here, I felt completely lost. When the parents were released for the night, I couldn’t even find the parking lot where my car was! They had pretty good presentations, but I was sitting in the same room for too long. And after eating there, my daughter said she will be the opposite of freshman 15. We are food snobs and the food was quote mediocre. So happy to be in my hotel room.
@Gator88NE happy to hear you know the drill. I was debating on skipping the morning stuff because they repeat it in the afternoon. I think I’ll sleep in.
When my D16 checked into her temporary dorm for the night, she found a box of raspberries full of mold. It was a lovely welcome to dorm life :))
I have a brief college visit report for Univ. Texas Dallas. S and H had the tour today. The report is from H’s POV. S is busy now playing games, so couldn’t talk to me.
The campus is new, very modern looking, and clean. Apparently it used to be pretty sterile, but a few years back a benefactor donated 35 mil to “beauty” the school, so now there are gardens, etc. H said they did a good job. It is a big campus, so lots of walking. There are about 14K undergrads and another 7K grad students. It is kind of a commuter college with 60% of students (freshmen I believe?) living on campus and 40% living home. There are students from ~100 countries, but H said the majority of the kids on the tour were from Texas. Probably skews Texas for UGs. H said the dorms were new and different than any he’s seen. They all were suites with three kids to a suite, each in their own room. You walk into a small common room, and to one side there is a hall. The 3 bedrooms are side-by-side down one side of the hall. On the other side of the hall is the shower room, 3 sinks lined up in the hall in a recess, and the toilet room. He didn’t say anything about the bedroom size. There are apartments for upper classmen. S did not get to talk with the CS department because they had a new student orientation today, but did meet with the honors college. There is a GPA requirement for honors…3.5 I think. The honors college has a honors floor in the dorm, and some specific classes for the honors diploma, but again, H didn’t go into details. It is probably on the website. I also didn’t get any info on the food quality, maybe because the campus foodservice is closed because school is out??
Overall, S wasn’t as thrilled with Texas as Arizona (probably too humid), but he did like the school enough to keep it on his list. It is probably tied with Western WA, but below ASU and Cal Poly. Tomorrow they visit OU via a tour set up through the National Merit office.
@rolshan Welcome! Slowly we are making progress on the list. Originally there were 14 schools. I thought we had it down to 12 but then over the weekend my son nonchalantly told us he was applying to 8. I told him he needed to apply to 10 and he said that he felt comfortable applying to 2 safeties, 2 target and 2 reach and that he said 8 to compromise since he wants 6 and I want 10. I really thought we were at 12 schools. He told me to make a list of the schools I felt strongly that he should apply to and he would do the same; any schools on both lists would be the schools he applied to. We made our lists and I came up with my top 10 and he had 11! He asked what the other schools were that had me thinking there were 12 and I told him the one school I thought he’d apply to that didn’t make his list. He said maybe I’ll toss that one in too. Right now, we are solidly at 11.
DS’s quest for research internship finally over! He was offered research lab internship @ an UC Genomics lab. Now hard part begins i.e. commuting 35 miles one way and work 8:30-5:00 M-F
So what is on your rising seniors to do list this summer as far as college is concerned? Writing essays,figuring out where to apply (how many schools are your kids applying to and honestly, can you afford every one of them?), what are the top scholarship sites to check out that actually get some kind of results? Any help is appreciated. In search of a school for electrical engineering that is affordable, preferably in the Northeast down to VA.
Welcome to the new posters for this thread, and good thoughts to those waiting on test scores. We’ll be waiting a while – September for NMSF.
@mtrosemom Thanks for the visit recap! I’m anxious to hear comparisons between UT Dallas and OU. We’ve seen Oklahoma but not Dallas. The NM staff at OU is great.
So far, DS has advanced to thinking about essay prompts. Still no formal list. Sigh. I may have to take some days off work to sit with him and really hash this thing out.
I’m also thinking that we should develop an express custom pants business for all these hard to fit kids!
He asked what the other schools were that had me thinking there were 12 and I told him the one school I thought he’d apply to that didn’t make his list. He said maybe I’ll toss that one in too. Right now, we are solidly at 11.