Darn, you edited your post before I could make a smart aleck remark about a Banana acceptance.
=)) Darn auto correct
And I missed the editing window on the post above that. It’s my S’s GF.
Ok, I sent her an email with the yolasite links to the scholarships. Fingers crossed that I don’t get seriously yelled at for meddling.
Fingers crossed for you, @MotherOfDragons
Congrats on the early acceptances to UA! The scholarships really do seem like they’re pulling in some top notch kids, so it seems like Bama is doing something right. I do wish my D17 were interested in going a bit further afield, the Presidential is such a nice deal!
School starts for D17 tomorrow. Her draft CA essay is due on Thursday, and thankfully she’s pretty well on track with something I think is going to wind up being useful. [-O< What’s interesting is that she’s been helping a friend edit her essay, and that seems to have sparked D to get working on her own. We’re not anywhere near the submitting applications stage, but are definitely moving closer!
@MotherOfDragons, I hereby give you permission to try to save me more than $100, 000 in perpetuity,
We sat down over the weekend and got much of the non-essay parts of two apps completed. That seemed to spur some actual wor on the essays. Just the non-essay portions of the apps can take quite a while.
Well, I did it. I finally hit submit on all of my counselor info for the CA. Absolutely no way to change anything now!
Dd was about to submit her first app, but when she went to upload her essay, they had changed the prompt! She spent hours on that essay. I told her to email admissions and tell them she had created a document with the prompt c couple of weeks ago and wrote the essay, but that when she created the application to upload everything, the prompts had changed. I don’t think it will be a big deal bc the prompts have some overlap, but it is very frustrating for dd bc she worked so hard on that essay.
@whataboutcollege Nag away… With school just starting tomorrow, the kids will be surprised at how quickly things are going to move to get those EA apps in. S17 started school 3 weeks ago and with the overall excitement of senior year and starting new classes this week will fly by. Some EA apps are due Oct 15 and many by Nov 1. You mentioned that there are “tons of kids” and depending on the definition of tons, getting things done could take some time so you are right to want to understand what the process will be.
Well interview one is in the books! I wasn’t there, but it was short and hopefully sweet. My D brought a folder with a copy of her transcript and her activities resume but didn’t open it because “the girl before her didn’t have anything so she didn’t want to seem weird”. Oh and she forgot to mention that she plays 2 varsity sports #-o I’m pretty sure D didn’t volunteer up any information unless explicitly asked for…so we need to work on the fact it’s ok to brag a bit in an interview. She’s just such a quiet and insecure kid, so worried about calling attention to herself.
However, she came home emailed a request for another school’s interview and signed up for the Wake Forest skype interview. So that is success in my book!
Definitely gonna have to do some prepping before the WF one which I hear can be intense. But at this point I’m ok with her just being honest and herself, and if they don’t like her than the school probably isn’t the right one anyway.
We don’t have naviance here, but I am pretty sure we just send invites to the GC and teachers through the common app. I know my D did that last week and she got responses from them saying that they got the notification from the CA.
Love all the good news in this thread! I wish we could get an early app submitted but they will be working on essays in class in late sept /early October. So D probably won’t be ready to submit until the mid Oct fall break (still time for EA…just barely for a couple)
@Mom2aphysicsgeek That’s terrible! So sorry that happened. I remember one of the schools posting prompts earlier in the summer and then changing the prompt when it went “live”. I wonder why they would have suddenly changed the prompt. As if the process isn’t painful enough as it is.
@VickiSoCal Back in the day when my D12 did her applications. We didn’t have Naviance. (Our school added it at the end of that year.) Most of her schools that needed letters of rec, were through Common App. and the Common app basically handled it. The teachers upload their letters straight into Common App. For those that didn’t use common app, they were either emailed and a few were even snail mailed to the schools.
Chapman actually LOST my DD’s LOR’s, Honestly her teacher sent them at least 3 different times in different ways & then never got to the person in the right department. (And this particular teacher sends LOR’s to this school all the time. IDK?) It wasn’t high on DD’s list, and she got into one of her top schools, so we just decided to drop the whole issue when it wasn’t resolved.
Congtats to you @Mom2aphysicsgeek (my parts are still horribly rough) and hugs to your dd. I’ll have D double-check all the prompts asap!
@stlarenas My D is the same way: “but it’s bragging to talk about myself” My reply–not when it could cost you an amazing opportunity!
Dang it, @Mom2aphysicsgeek! Hope it turns out to be no big deal at all for your DD.
@MotherOfDragons Bravo to you for “meddling.” I feel that I am much more informed about the college process now thanks to this forum and to people like you. My first piece of advice to any rising junior, or their parent, is to focus on the PSAT. Like you, I’ve even sent out the yola link to a couple of parents. Most of them have NO idea. Parents just think its just a meaningless practice test to give kids an indication of their readiness for the real SAT. LOL! If only I had known the opportunities a good score could create.
I love your ** “preserving opportunities” ** phrase. I’m a big believer in that concept. I also believe in creating opportunities/options. That’s why my son has applied to 7 (easy application) schools at this point. Hopefully he will have created 4 or 5 options.
** Turn back time: ** I would have had him study for ACT and PSAT during the summer between sophomore and junior year. Most of the material is already in their heads. Hopefully do well and get both tests out of the way early in junior year. Oh well.
Today’s update from the GC’s office… Nothing is going out through Naviance from the GCs until they’ve (GCs) completed Naviance training. So looking like next Friday or early the following week. At least D will be completely done by then.
@MotherOfDragons Good for you! I wish someone had told me about the importance of PSAT. I didn’t find CC until after D2 had taken her test. Both girls were commended, but both were near the cutoff and with some studying… sigh
@curiositycat333 When D1 was applying, UMD lost her LOR – twice! It was a similar situation for her, though – by the point at which it had happened a second time, she had already decided on another school, so we let it go.
My D got another couple mailing from her favorite stalker school Carleton last weekend. So guess what @MotherOfDragons ? One of the mailing had instructions for making origami frogs out of unwanted college brochures. No plans to turn the frogs into an art project like you are doing, but I my D is considering building a frog army. (Better wait until after essays are done)
Also, on the other side of the card it mentioned NMSF. They mentioned they not could determine if my D was NMSF, but that it appeared she was close. She was not really close and was outside of the ranges published by the test prep sites, however her score was close to last year’s cut-off. This shows that Carleton, and all other colleges I presume, did not get enough information to determine top 1% by state but instead sent mailings based on last year’s cut-offs.
@MotherOfDragons I concur with all above. I had no idea about the importance of PSAT. I knew the SAT was changing and given all the study materials my S started prepping summer before sophomore and junior year and took the last SAT available and scored high enough that he may have made NMSF if he had taken the PSAT. Noone ever told us about all the schools that offer merit for making finalist.Back in the dark ages there was not much money available for it so we didn’t make S take it even though he had scored a 205 taking it cold his sophomore year. Oh well. The Presidential at Bama is awesome and he is excited about his opportunities there. But I make sure to tell everyone who could benefit from it.