@MichiganGeorgia that does seem extreme unless it’s a private school. Incredibly stupid of them and suspension warranted from what you describe but expulsion? I do understand no tolerance type rules but wow how heartbreaking all around. I hope they petition and the school reconsiders.
@jedwards70 The USC honors app is a doozy, which is why D left it for last. Honors essay topics are:
Thinking: Tell us about your intellectual life – What have you read? What do you read, watch, or listen to regularly or typically? What do you like to think about? What bothers you, intrigues you, or excites you? Who are you as a thinker, researcher, intellectual explorer? (500-1000 words)
Doing: Tell us about your engagement with family, friends, school, community, and/world. Are you a leader in any sense of the word? What have you accomplished and what do you hope to accomplish? Who are you as a person within a community? (500-1000 words)
I’m jealous that your son was able to get tickets to Adele! They sold out in every city within 5 hours of us within seconds (Ticketmaster scalpers!). A big group of friends and I all tried at 10:00 on the dot. Then there were the calls to friends in other parts of the country to try their cities with no luck. Very frustrating! We refuse to pay the ridiculous scalper prices. Instead, we’ll be having a “We couldn’t get Adele tickets” party instead with all of Adele’s CDs and lots of wine. :))
@rtidwell USC has everything but the actual app (SAT, transcript, LORs, school profile). D has finished all of the app but the two essays. So they do have a lot of information on her. I am fairly certain this is very targeted recruitment. They are holding it at one of the most expensive steakhouses in the metroplex. It will be interesting to see how many attend.
Is anyone else a little freaked out by the fact the once a student adds a college to his/her Common Application in progress the colleges know it? D didn’t submit any applications yet; she’s still just working on the essays. It’s kind of like when you were in junior high and had a secret crush on a girl/guy and your best friend goes and blabs to the person. I know this is modern technology at work, but to an older person like me it feels big brotherish.
Yeah, and then when theybremove them from the list, the email never stops.
Is the summer before freshman year starts still considered freshman year are you already considered a freshman by college standards for tracking volunteer time
@fun1234 Yes, freshman year begins the summer before, for the purposes of activities and volunteering (well, anything they want to list).
PSA of the Day: i know this applied to someone else here, but forgive me for not going back a bunch of pages to figure out who…
RE: naviance and LOR’s.
i KNEW it. if you arent seeing LOR’s that you know were done, seemingly they were lost during the enhancement and need to be re-requested. we know for a FACT we had one done–i could see it under the old naviance and we verified with guidance over the summer pre-enhancement.
and its gone.
she verified the re-requesting with both the guidance office and the teacher who did the original LOR.
so i highly suggest if you are still seeing 0 that you make your kid touch base with guidance and see what is going on…dont assume anything. it has absolutely zero to do with FERPA or any other things on your end–its on their side.
im beyond annoyed over the whole thing. my kid DID her part and was done in april but thanks to someones enhancements has to start from square one. and its freaking LATE in the game to start over.
/endrant
Wow, lots of posts on this thread and I certainly can’t keep up! 
But is interesting to read.
But I am happy that DD is making some progress. Last week, I was about sincerely ready to cry asking her to please complete unfinished application items (I wanted 2 things done, actually) and she did it! So now I feel better. I am sleeping better, haha. I guess I will back off for a few weeks,
APPLICATIONS SENT: 5 SCHOOLS
DD is only applying to one school that is “reachy” but that one is her favorite; and the rest are match out of state or safety in state, only 5 altogether right now. May add another 1 or 2 but not likely.
She finally finished editing the required essay and submitted the admissions app for her #1 school, and then she finished editing the parchment profile information and submitted all 5 transcript requests there. What a happy day that was! Unfortunately this favorite school is not rolling admissions, so she won’t hear back until February or March!
3 of the schools, with rolling admission and easy apps, have received her application and scores a few weeks ago, and had been waiting on the transcript. So I hope she will get some admission letters in the weeks to come! There will be some followup for scholarship and honors programs, but I don’t really want to think about that.
ACCEPTED: 1 Our local U has already accepted her based on her participation in their high school visitor program. Still will require scholarship essay and recommendations by December 1. There is time.
@2kidsinky That’s awesome to have applications already sent and an acceptance in hand.
@itsgettingreal17 – I did not know that USC had an honors app, and son intends to apply there for the Dec 1st deadline, so thanks for posting those questions. Oddly, I think he would love responding to those prompts, much more so than some of the others I have seen.
@CT1417 FYI the deadline for the honors app at USC is Nov 15th.
@Ynotgo Thanks. I’m sure I’ll get to see the application at least by the time I have to pay. We will be visiting UCSC in two weeks my plan is to talk about how he’s going to answer these questions sometime during that day, probably while driving. Driving has always made great time to discuss things, it’s the one thing I miss about not having to ferry him anywhere these days.
Umm no. It’s still only September. Some applications aren’t even open yet. Most seniors are only just getting started on their applications. I do understand your frustration @kac425, particularly as you are probably trying to get apps in soon & you thought you had it done. But it’s still early on the college application schedule.
It’s only on this board where I wonder how far behind we are. My S has no apps finished yet, but we have a reasonable plan. Our guidance office is only just getting ramped up. But the earliest deadline on our schedule are Nov. 1, CA state schools Nov 30th, and most other schools have either a end of Dec or Jan-15th deadline. Some deadlines are as late as somewhere in Feb. Yes students who are chasing money and/or ED applicants often have a Oct 15th need to get applications out ASAP. But those are the exceptions not the rule.
Posting this mostly to calm the fears of others like myself who’s kids haven’t submitted an application yet.
@jeepgirl --THANK YOU so much, as I did not know that. I suppose I should figure out what the honors app is…so off to troll the USC site. I had been focused on the Dec 1st deadline for the NMSF scholarship, but didn’t even know they had an honors program. (We are discussing Southern California and not S. Carolina, correct? I have made that mistake before when reading this thread.)
I discovered that they were offering interviews in NYC by toggling around their site.
^I have been talking about U South Carolina. Sorry!
We need a way to distinguish schools:
USC (California private)
U of SC (South Carolina)
@TheGFG Yup… just got a mailing with the college brochure from schools that would only know we were interested because S17 added them to the CA.
I think there is a confusion of the 2 USCs. Southern Cal doesn’t have an Honors College, correct? They have their CA with Supplements due 12/1 for merit consideration. I don’t know anything about little Carolina as we UNC-CH grads call it 
How about USC(S) and USC(W), South vs West
@curiositycat333, thank you for posting about timing on college applications! I’ve been lurking on this thread and was starting to get a bit freaked out. My son hasn’t even been to see all the colleges he plans to visit, hasn’t made any firm plans about which schools he’s actually going to apply to, and hasn’t decided yet if he’ll apply early anywhere and if so, where. He’s done a draft of the Common App essay, but I have no idea what kind of shape it’s in. He goes to a private school with a very strong college advising office, so I’m trying to stay as much out of the process as I can and let him run the show, with guidance from his counselor. I just drive him to the schools he wants to see (which I’m off to do later today, in fact).