@picklesarenice My dd’s essay scores on the new SAT are low, too. She is an excellent writer, so she is just going forward with ignoring the scores.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek I feel so sorry for your DD. That is really hard. Where are you located? My DD will be 15 hours away at most of her choices. She thinks she will be fine, I think she will be homesick!
D started her PITT app. She sent her transcript electrically. It didn’t cost anything.
We’ve gotten confirmation that it was downloaded but the academic record show 0% complete.
I remember helping with S’14 SRAR for UoI. What a pain.
As long as sending a transcript is an option, I will always do so. I know it is not an option everywhere.
@srk2017, PITT does not require SAT II scores. If they are good, you could consider sending them for scholarship consideration.
@picklesarenice, sounds like you have an ACT kids rather than an SAT kid. A 34 is great and a score many of us drool over. Also sounds like she scored high enough to confirm NM if she is in the running. I would forego even sending the SAT and go with the awesome ACT score. FWIW, my S is an ok writer. Not bad, but not great (he totally leans STEM and has always has an issue w/run on sentences.) He scored a 6/6/6 on the SAT writing. His writing and language subscore was a 31. Not great compared to his math and reading. He was the same in the old SAT and the ACT too. He just is not as interested in language arts as other subjects.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek @lovethebard I wonder what they mean by “consider” a certain percent of income. Our (FAFSA) EFC for D was about 40% of our income her 1st year. S’s estimated '17-18 EFC is sometimes higher, even after claiming two kids in school that year, so doubled it would be over 70% of our income for both kids.
why is casewestern called fancypants school?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/20/fancypants-college-in-cleveland-offers-safe-space-for-students-traumatized-by-republican-convention/
It is in our list 
@Dave_N I was told Pitt accepts the transcript but prefers the SRAR.
D’s essay scores were low-ish and she is an excellent writer, but not as excellent writing under time pressures. I have a friend that graded ACT and SAT essays this year and she explained to me why the scores were so low. D wasn’t going to retake just for the essays. Most of her colleges aren’t considering it.
Mine got a 1390 with a 5/5/6
It is baffling how they are scoring/concording it.
Case is probably called “fancypants” because it is private and expensive.
Only on CC is a 1390 a bad score, right?
Case is probably called “fancypants” because it is private and expensive.
@itsgettingreal17, yep. You’re hanging out with a bunch of overachievers.
I guess fancypants is term being used by liberal sites today in reference to GOP convention. it appears most private schools have $60K tag now, not just ivies.
Um, no @srk2017 - that would be a term that a conservative site used to describe an institute of higher education (I would be hard-pressed to imagine that a liberal site would refer to a university as a “fancy pants school.”) Republicans are the ones that seem to have a disdain for intellectual elitism.
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@itsgettingreal17 Yes, heard same thing about SRAR being preferred over transcripts. Otherwise there is no way I would have spent all that time!
ETA: Looking back at your post, did you say you used course catalog descriptions? I also heard you were to match exactly what the transcript said, but spell out abbreviations.
@2muchquan Generally speaking, I made it match. But for 1 particular class, AP Psych, I just put AP Psych because the title on the transcript wouldn’t make sense. Our school codes 1 semester differently for some strange reason.
@2muchquan Do you mean to say you have to type everything in? 
Cal State application is all SRAR. They don’t accept transcripts unless you are essentially accepted. But when I helped DD fill it out, most of her classes were available as popup menu choices. Although I assume that is because her H.S. was an instate school & it might be more of pain if one was from an out of state school.
@Dave_N Did you hear somewhere that your transcript would magically pre-fill your SRAR for Pitt? I don’t think that’s the case, since the online entry is for self-reporting.
@mtrosemom Since I started this question. S17 took the May SAT got a 1520 (770 M, 750 WR) and 38 for W but a 6/5/6 on the essay. Excellent score on the multiple choice part, and I guess the essay isn’t so bad. He isn’t so much a bad writer as he is a very inconsistent one.