To the moms of daughters looking for money. My DD is a D1 rower at a state university. She walked on to the team Freshman year and got a phone call from her coach the following summer letting her know that she was given a 30% scholarship. My daughter happened to row in high school but the #1 and #2 recruits (with 100% scholarship) were swimmers and basketball players for most of high school. If your daughter is tall (5’7" and above) and has some athletic experience you may want to look into it. It’s a Title IX sport and is usually very well funded. Not everyone gets money but if your DD is already athletically driven it might be a good fit.
The sport is a 3 season sport, long races in the fall, winter training, and sprints in the spring. DD has 2-3 practices per day all year long and is up and on the water at 5am everyday. But for the right kid it’s an amazing experience. Three of the girls on the team are/were pre med. The rest have demanding majors in engineering, education, PT.
The coach at a school my son is interested in just confirmed he received the package of transcript/act score/sr schedule.
So now we just wait I guess. The suspense!! I guess the info is with admissions so hopefully we’ll know something next week or so. I’m not really worried about it, academically he’s qualified to get in. I’m just curious to see if he’s eligible for any merit $$ and if the coach will guarantee him a roster spot. My son would probably feel really proud if he gets an offer and it would be a big relief. He has a group of friends that are getting recruited for different sports right now, so I guess it’s exciting at school right now. Most of the kids need to decide pretty soon.
School news: son17 likes all of his classes and says he should do well this year. The only class he is a bit nervous about is pre-calc. He said his teacher is a nice guy but not a great teacher. He’ll have to just stay on top of it.
There is a college planning night at school next week, so I’ll be going to that. The seniors have guidance counselor workshops all week so they are trying to get the kids off to the right start. I like that.
@longwood, Oops, I guess I’m not caught up enough. Sorry. I do know that many schools offer very nice scholarships to kids with high SAT or ACT scores. Alabama comes to mind. Good luck to your S!
@mtrosemom No worries, he knew that he wouldn’t be close enough to NMSF and is relieved not to have to do anymore testing! We live in a high cutoff state. Might be commended, but we will have to see. Focusing on essays, finishing research stuff, and finalizing his college list now. He just asked about adding another school to his list last night.
@4beardolls congrats!!! The one school/app we had like that, S has now rejected the school. Kind of a bummer, it would be nice to have an easy app and an immediate response.
Just got back from Senior Parents night. It was like the Cliff’s Notes to War and Peace. Yes, good overview but wow you could drive a truck through the stuff he missed (like why EA is important for consideration for merit scholarships-totally didn’t mention that). They’re doing another one for financial aid, but it’s not until October 18. A lot of the EA deadlines are October 15. Oopsie on them.
However I know know how to order and send transcripts, so that’s good
@itsgettingreal17 I stumbled across the IU Arabic announcement when reading about their Chinese Flagship (covering bases since D started Chinese at the U this week and may be speaking Chinese full-time next year ). I don’t think D has emailed their contact yet—we just finished a very late dinner oops. Why do you say Iu-B is isolated? Is it like Ole Miss isolated? I think Bloomington is larger than Oxford. Is that correct?
(I just checked to see if there is an Apple Store in Bloomington (no). Apparently that’s one of D’s “signs of civilization” :)) She had a problem with her laptop this summer and was aghast to discover that the nearest was in another state.)
@Mom2aphysicsgeek@itsgettingreal17 I believe that 400 (??) are invited to the Banneker-Key weekend, and that the 250 who do not make the cut receive an amount close to half-tuition ($12K? For oos). The highest regular merit scholarship amount is $12K.
Yesterday or the day before (it all blends together), someone mentioned that their kid received an invite/emal after adding a school to the Common App. Please forgive me; I’m too tired to go searching. Two nights ago D added IU-B to her Common App listing. She hadn’t asked for info or anything before then. Today she received 2 emails from IU, one general-ish and one inviting her to a meet-the-rep shindig somewhat local (1.5 hr w traffic) in a few weeks! So D signed up right away. Good sign, I think
@WhereIsMyKindle You are correct about the B-K. 400 are invited, 150 get full rides, the rest get something.
I have never been to Bloomington, but I hear its very isolated.
Re: Common App - yes, many schools contact students after they get notified that the student is applying. D gets lots of please finish your app emails. lol
So D is working on the UGA app, which just opened today. They are a tad obsessed with AP/IB courses.
@carachel2 - TAMU is in the list but they are changing admission process for Engineering school (CS is part of it). 10% is auto admit but no guarantee for CS
@STEM2017 Can you post a link to the new thread you are starting?
SAT Reminder: today is the last day to sign up for the Oct 1 SAT/ SAT subject tests without paying a late fee.
We had college night with CC and these were the take-awaysr:
Parents are responsible for running the Net Price Calculator, paying for application fees and being supportive.
Students are responsible for meeting with CC weekly, requesting transcripts, requesting LOR, drafting essays for review by the CC team, meeting deadlines.
A conference room has been designated for college application workshops / group sessions in case the kids just want the comfort of others kids around while they fill in their apps. Transcript request forms provided Students told the can email the cc team day or night and can stop by college counselors offices during any free period.
Ended with this advice to parents: now that the kids are seniors, everywhere they go the first question they are asked is “where are you thinking of going to college?” They advised the kids to have a canned reply “applying to schools in the northeast, applying to schools on the west coast, I’m waiting until May 1 to make a big disclosure of my plans”. Said they should have this reply ready for those they don’t want to share specifics with and if it’s a canned reply, it will come out naturally. Second component to the advice was that these kids can’t have every minute of their day be absorbed with college apps and that we (the parents) should not be mentioning college every day. Too stressful. Once a week was the recommendation and for no more than 1 hour which should be a scheduled discussion. Kids were told if they weren’t a full participant in the 1 hour, all bets were off and they should expect to be nagged if they can’t be responsible enough to handle a weekly meeting for progress updates.
@ACT2017 …yes, the new admissions at TAMU sound dismal and huge and not anything D wanted a part of. What have you found at NCSU as far as merit to keep costs down? We dug deep there into their website and did not find anything encouraging regarding generous merit.
Reading @motherofdragons description made me chuckle but also reminded me of one other point at college night. CCs said that ED requires a signed agreement by student, family and cc. They said they will not sign any ED agreement without a meeting with the family and the purpose of the meeting will be to make sure the student understands there is no turning back, that the family has run the net price calculator and is aware of what their EFC is and states they are able/ willing to pay the EFC. They said that if the family is hoping for scholarship money, they would most likely recommend not applying ED to a school because the student is not going to be given the opportunity to see which is the best merit aid package. They also said that once the ED agreement is signed, no transcripts or LOR are submitted through naviance to any other college. They said it is uncommon for kids at the school to apply ED.
@carachel2 That is bc there isn’t. The main scholarship they have is the Parks and it is crazy competitive. It is for really, really high stat kids who have had a HUGE impact on their community. Other than that, I think they have small $5000 scholarships that are awarded more generously.
@carachel2 You probably found the Park Scholarship ($25K/yr for $100K/ 4 yrs) but I think they are limited. They also offer the Goodnight scholarship for $19,500/yr renewable for 4 yrs but this scholarship is limited to NC residents. I don’t think Park is limited to NC residents but I’m not sure.
Park is not limited. I believe there are quite a few offered per year. So yes, it’s very competitive. There’s a poster on CC that had both of her kids win it.
@paveyourpath …ah, yes, that is what I’m remembering now. Those bios remind me of the UT “40 Acres Scholars.” As much as we want to live in NC I don’t think we would ever bank on big merit there!
