Parents of the HS Class of 2017 (Part 1)

Parents of HS Class of 20xx
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No fee waivers here…or perhaps I should say, no fee waivers that I have noticed. Lots and lots of rubbish emails tot be deleted.

Was just in the college email account running a frantic search, attempting to find the confirmation for info sessions and interviews for trip I booked first week of August. Turns out that I verified availability of info sessions, bought airline tickets, but never returned to book the info sessions and tours. Fortunately, the first week of August must be slow as I was able to book everything tonight. Ready to stop touring colleges and must rally for the next round!

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No fee waivers here either. I keep opening all the mail from the schools she’s interested in but none yet.

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Info on CB’s plan/schedule (promise?) to release test scores.

I copied the relevant bit below. When my older son applied three years ago, we all caught a break with CB due to the CA disaster. Almost every college postponed their EA or ED app deadline by a week so there really was no need to pay for rush score reporting. CB was working like a charm back then.

I would be a bit concerned about relying on the new 26 day release schedule since they have not yet achieved that turnaround time with the March, May or June exams.

I wonder why they have to return to 39 day turnaround in Jan, March & June, and where did the May exam date go? (Not that it will matter to me ever again!)

FROM CB SITE:

https://www.collegeboard.org/membership/all-access/counseling-admissions-academic/sat-score-release-what-does-higher-ed-need-know
When will you release scores for future SAT administrations?

Fall 2016: Scores from the October, November and December 2016 SAT administrations will available within 26 days of test day.

Spring 2017: Scores from the January, March, and June 2017 tests will be available within 39 days of the administrations.

This schedule also applies to SAT Subject Tests.

We are committed to delivering scores as quickly as possible, and we will work to reduce score delivery times in the future.

Students taking the October administration will have scores back in time to make early action/decision and regular decision deadlines. We will share specific dates for October, November, December when they are available and after we share dates for the spring 2016 administrations.

How often will higher ed receive SAT scores from now on?

Our goal is to start sending scores on a daily basis again by this fall.

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SAT Scores - Hmm. I forgot to pay for that extra subject test, I hope they don’t cancel it if I don’t pay before they send out scores :-t

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@nw2this – I doubt they would cancel the test, or even withhold the score. Do they still mail out a paper bill that you have to remit via the US mail?

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@CT1417
Yes and I lost it. I wish I could just call in a cc #.

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Related to fee waivers… I noticed last year one of my FB friends who is alumni of our state flagship shared an event on FB…it was free application event with admission officers present to help through the application. She just shared this year event…so D will get that in by mid Sep. Just want to share to see if you can find similar events.

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We get to drive 7 hours to Pittsburgh to get a fee waiver. I thought it was a good deal.

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If you visit 4 Oregon private colleges next week you’ll get all your fees waived.

Too bad S will be at a summer program and dropped all of those schools from his list. It would have been worth the drive!

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@2muchquan – I finally found a really inexpensive flight so am flying instead of driving the seven hours to Pittsburg. There will be no avoiding the five & a half hour return from Rochester. I keep telling myself that if I am having this much trouble driving to any of these schools once, why is he applying to them?

I recall Tulane and Fordham not charging app fees last round, but perhaps they never do?

@nw2this – have you tried calling CB? I have not called them recently (as in, since the change to new exam format) but I have found them easier to deal with than any bank, insurance company or utility. (This is not a high bar…)

I couldn’t believe they required payment via the mail…

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@CT1417 I actually would prefer a 7 hour drive over a flight. Plus, we may do a visit or 2 on the way back (Ohio Six is going on, and we registered at Kenyon and Wooster…but I’ll see if D17 will allow me to hold her hostage an extra day).

Tulane is free again, as is CWRU and Rhodes I believe.

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@2muchquan – yes, I dread the entire airport experience and the traffic at any of the NYC airports makes any trip stressful, but I cannot sit in the car that long. Doing a NY-Chicago-Pittsburg-NY loop. (Ok–not really a loop…but better than getting in and out of the NY airports for two trips.)

We need a sub-board for fee waivers.

Never heard of Ohio Six. I don’t think we have anything in Ohio on the (incomplete and changing) list.

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@MichiganGeorgia

We keep getting mail (postcards & stuff) from University of Chicago. At least S17 isn’t the least bit interested and I just throw the things out. This started way back when the only test S17 took was the SAT Math II Subject test & did well on it.

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@CT1417 I’ll meet you at Starbucks when you get to Chicago. Bring boots, it’s been known to snow in July and August :D. Which school(s) are you visiting in Chi-town? UofC or NU?

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@eandsmom @snoozn

And the UC Essay is now an “Insight” essay as well, answer 4/8 questions in less than 350 words. Looks like DS does that, plus the Oregon State Insight essay, plus a more standard ‘college’ essay for UofO & University of Colorado. (And maybe other schools yet to be added.)

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@2muchquan —both, in the glutton for punishment category. I do not think either is a good fit for his academic interests, but am attempting to spread the net wide. He is annoyed by the UC essay prompts. If nothing else, UC interview can be practice for CMU interview.

Chicago’s weather would deter me, but so many of his schools are in snowy locations. I had no real opinion of winter until I spent four years in Ithaca.

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@CT1417 I was confused because I’d never heard of a UC interview thinking University of California, and then though OH… maybe you mean University of Chicago.

Very confusing what UC stands for… As since I referred to both in recent posts. :wink: But since I’m from California that’s the first thing that comes to mind. The acronym can UC can used to refer to quite a few schools.

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@2muchquan I actually went to FSC, which was 45 minutes from Rollins and they had a great water skiing team! I loved going there:)
@snoozn we are waiting as well for the SAT scores. My DD has done better on the ACT’s, so we aren’t hoping for anything great!

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@nw2this how did you get the free waiver for Clemson? No free ones for us:(

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JOTD A grasshopper walks into a bar. The bartender says: Hey, we’ve got a drink named after you! The grasshopper replies: Really? Why would anyone name a drink Bob?