@carachel2 I think UTA has gotten better but yes there are still a bunch of commuters. I think you will find they same with UTD and even North Texas (Nephew went there). If they want more of a traditional college feel that you are back to UT, A&M, Rice, or TT in the state of Texas or at least my view
@CT1417 Texas A&M University
@ct1417 What does harsh about what they read mean exactly? I am trying to picture an interviewer being harsh about what kids say they read. Mocking bc the selections are Twilight equivalents or derogatory bc they don’t believe the kid that the kid was reading Wuthering Heights for pleasure reading?
buying things for dorms now
Nope. no way. too many variables not the least of which is a child who will adamantly want to pick each item out himself no matter how trivial and would think I am insane to do it now.
@dfbdfb Congratulations! Very exciting and even better that it’s a safety that is loved.
@HiToWaMom that’s frustrating on the “send all” if it doesn’t work in your favor. Lucky for him, it does. They are pretty marginal scores mind you but good enough to have him in the running at any school currently on his list and with slightly better odds for those that superscore. Which is 7 out of 13 right now so not bad. One choice that is higher on his list does not superscore but I think he’s pretty safe there regardless. I am only annoyed from a money standpoint as it’s the rescheduled June test. I guess for now I leave it be so I can reschedule it again…if he changes his mind.
@dfbdfb Great news of acceptance!! Congratulations!
Re: Wake interview—persistent and unyielding was the way it was described to me by friend’s son and another friend’s daughter.
The boy was a vet good student (now in Med school) but didn’t have a book list.
I sense the interviewers have checklist of questions.
Unrelated but son said that Yale interview was somewhat pro forms whereas CMU was more customized
@dfbdfb Congrats on your daughter’s acceptance!
We will be going through 2.5 weeks’ worth of held mail in a couple of days. What wondrous college spam awaits?
Just found out less than a week before school begins, that D17 did not get into one of her classes that she was most anticipating. Really? Some advance warning would have been nice. We have assurances that this will be straightened out in the next couple of days.
A FYI for those looking at scholarship GPA levels, and who haven’t had a kid in college recently. A college GPA is calculated very differently than a H.S. one. Our H.S. & most I know ignore the (+/-) levels. (As well as the admissions GPA’s) Honors classes are weighted. And a 3.5 GPA doesn’t seem that high.
But the GPA’s you get at university/college give different weights to (+/-) and calculate GPA on a scale that looks more like: A: 4.0 A- : 3.7, B+ 3.3 B:3.0 B- 2.7. Keep this in mind when your deciding how hard it would be to keep a scholarship.
@curiositycat333 Excellent point! I would argue that no matter how it’s calculated, anything higher than a 3.0 to maintain is extremely risky.
@curiositycat333 You described D17’s HS GPA calculation perfectly! 
@curiositycat333 Also, college GPAs are calculated by hours. A 3 hr class’s A will not bring up a 4 hr class’s C to a 3.0 bc GPA is calculated as (3x4)+ (4x2) all divided by 7= 2.86
Bed and Bath has a great order here pick up there service that works really well if your kid is going to a school not w/in driving distance. It was worth the extra cost to know what she (D15) wanted and chose was waiting for her at the store near her school. We will not be buying anything for S until he chooses a school (at the earliest). We need to know if we are driving or flying. I am not sure he will care about much except that his gaming computer gets to the school in one piece.
@curiositycat333, that is the GPA calcs at S’s HS.
Schedule issues resolved. Apparently they sign students up automatically for dual credit American Gov’t if they sign up for dual credit micro. I don’t understand that as a policy since the school doesn’t pay the course fee for students. Long story short, they are making a special exception for D since she’s a good student and fixing her schedule the way she wants, which now includes 2 online courses due to scheduling conflicts. The good student thing always works for her. She’s had at least one special exception every year. I’m glad they are accommodating.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek Another great point and I might add that the tougher classes are probably the ones with more hours.
@dfbdfb Congrats on the acceptence to the Kansas honors!!! Great Job!!! <:-P <:-P <:-P
Questions for interviews, don’t you have to submit an application and the wait for the school’s instruction on how to get interview scheduled?
I think I better stick to this little thread here. I had another post mysteriously disappear today on another thread. At least one. I believe I’m being watched… B-) Don’t mind me, I’ll be lurking over here.
@Tgirlfriend Have you considered University of Houston and their honors college? If so, could you please tell me why you are or are not interested (beside the fact that it’s in Houston). Its still on my son’s list because we have family nearby.
@curiositycat333 I had thought about posting something similar but the opposite. Our experience with HS in Iowa (mine, my husband’s, 2 for our C) is the opposite. A 90 is a lot different from a 98 when calculating GPA. When D14 went to Kansas State and told us any A was 4.0 and any B was 3.0 we thought she was very confused, poor thing.
Nope. She has to maintain a 3.5 GPA and finds it easy enough for her major. She adjusts based on her grades at mid-term. If she’s above 86, she’ll work hard to pull it up to at least 90. If she’s not, all she has to do is keep it above 80 to retain the B, which has never been a problem. Then she balances it out to ensure that no more than half are Bs.
Credit hours per class do weigh into that.
The things I would watch for when considering whether your C can maintain a specific GPA are:
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How GPA is actually calculated by your C’s faculty. (When I researched this to bolster my losing argument with D, I found some colleges allow the professor to decide which way they do it, even if they have a campus-wide standard. I have no idea how to find this out on a class by class or major by major basis.)
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Whether it’s cumulative. If your C earns a 3.8 first semester and a 3.2 second semester, do they look at the average for the year when determining renewal, or only the previous semester?
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Probation periods and what happens after that. What happens the first time they drop below the minimum GPA? If they don’t bring up the GPA for the next grading period, but do a period or two later, is the scholarship reinstated or is lost forever?
@gator88NE - I haven’t heard of the junior/senior’s not being able to switch at GT as long as the GPA is good. I am surprised that you heard there was any delay of graduation concerns. A lot of kids are in co-ops so they don’t graduate on time anyway.