@mom2aphysicsgeek I learned today from S17 that he is receiving duplicate emails. When S17 took the SAT in 7th grade he provided his personal email account. According to CB, they wipe out those accounts. When S17 was taking the PSAT in 10th grade, I created the college email address so that all anything related to college, CB or ACT would go to that account. Today my son received an email from a school he applied to this weekend. He said CB must have linked his old email account to his common app. Weird thing is you can’t see this other email account anywhere on CB or CA.
@paveyourpath & @Mom2aphysicsgeek – cue The Twilight Zone music (or something spooky!)…I am sure that our very competent and techie children could explain this, but I do not like my ever-expanding digital footprint.
On a somewhat related note…
To those who already filed the UMD-CP app: has anyone successfully applied w/o providing student’s SSN. See my digital footprint comment above.
And did anyone leave academic honors off the Activities and Awards resume? (My comment from a few pages back)
@MotherOfDragons Our letter was from a midwesterner, IL. I guess Rocky mountains are close enough to midwest. =))
Their personalization was cute.
Congrats @carachel2 on the Purdue acceptance! And congrats to everybody else who is making progress on applications, is scoring goals in soccer, or is madly recycling essays.
@hadmeathello - who is keeping the quan JOTD tradition alive and well 
- regarding essays, my favorite is still the first one that she wrote. My second favorite is the last one that she wrote. Our school’s GC’s both formerly worked in college admissions and we have been trusting their judgement about whether they are good to go. D’s schedule is also too tight for her to have the luxury of second guessing. She had an absolutely miserable cold that dragged on for the better part of a week and that set back progress on scholarship essays. Happily, she finally seems to be on the mend.
I feel badly for kids who are at schools where gaming the ranking is so pervasive. I once read here on CC of a student who was penalized for taking music instead of a free study period and I had to scratch my head and wonder. How does that make any sort of sense? D’s school neither ranks nor weights GPA, thank goodness.
One LOR reached a college. Yeah!
Still waiting for 2nd teacher and GC letter. :!!
I am in The Twilight Zone too.
Case decided to match the old email DS used for 9th grade PSAT. I changed CB email to new college gmail before sending test scores. I signed up his tour and interview with the new email, but the confirmation came to the old email address! S checks both emails so it is not a big problem, but still annoying.
So far Case is the only one doing “email matching.”
I expect Case emails will continue even after we hit submit tonight.
Apologies on behalf of my alma mater ^:)^ ^:)^
OK—frustration on UMD app.
Ready to hit submit and enter my CC #, but MD app will not all submission due to both missing SSN and recommenders…but our Naviance lists teacher recommenders for UMD. Their blasted proprietary online app seems to want to send emails to teachers for LORs.
Better wander over to the MD forum…
OK, we have a quickie too. So, working on submitting last EA app. It is not a CA app, but proprietary school app. They want an uploaded essay (I feel like this has been discussed in the past!) in a Word or PDF format. So, question: ragged right, or justified?
ETA: Ragged-right. My D acted like I was an idiot. It’s MLA or something…
@hadmeathello – I tried to log back into the UMD app so that I can see what my son did, but I must not have logged out, and it is not allowing me back in.
Whatever she does, I would suggest PDF over Word due to formatting variations across platforms.
@hadmeathello I find ragged right easier to read, FWIW, and agree with @CT1417 that PDF format is preferable to word.
Thanks for the quick responses! D said ragged-right is proper. What do I know? I’m an engineer.
@hadmeathello & @mamaedefamilia – so interesting, as I am used to align left!
Editing—just to make sure I am clear on this…so then every sentence would start at a different indent on the right, but would be flush against the left margin?
Oh, never mind…I found a sample; we are saying the same thing. GOOD NIGHT!
@carachel2 Congratulations to your D on her Purdue acceptance! <:-P
@hadmeathello I like justified. What do I know. I am a scientist =))
I’m signing off for the night, $125 poorer. At least Case was freeeeeee. 
ETA: Thanks everyone weighing on the gaming EC. We put it in as 5th Activity. He did a gaming club at school too and as I said 2nd place player in the state for a particular game.
4 applications are in tonight, including lottery school (aka Ivy). $125 poorer here also, One fees waiver, one freebie, so not bad.
@hadmeathello Justified. My D disagrees. What are they teaching these kids at school these days?! :))
PDF over Word if you can do it. If you submit Word, make sure to submit a clean new Word document. Word documents often carry with them "history, revisions, tracking and you don’t want to be sending the school old versions. I don’t write enough Word documents to remember the best way to handle this. You can always make a new document and copy and paste it in. Or I think Word has added something with Save As, that strips the only revisions away.
@hadmeathello I don’t regret having DD get here applications in early. She is a strong writer to begin with, so more time to write would have just caused more frustration for me. I wanted all of D’s applications in by the end of August and she did it, thank god! I know my child so well and not having any pressure on the college front right now, is the right thing for her.
@carachel2 Congrats on Purdue!
Very happy to join the club of applications submitted. EA to U Mich sent on Sunday. One that requires no supplemental essays to the CA and that DD had a fee waiver for yesterday. DD is focusing now on her SCEA. She has been given feedback to rewrite the large supplemental essay needed.
Thank goodness for spreadsheets. Make that 7 scholarship applications to go. Both D and I forgot one of them.
Congrats to all the apps going in, and JOTD:
Admin Officer #1: OK, so we’re down to the last two applicants, #321 and #345, one of whom will complete our Class of 2021!
Admin Officer #2: Yep! So exciting! This is going to be a very difficult decision, I’m afraid. They are such great students, and so similar! Great GPA and test scores, ECs, Their ZeeMee pages are great, and neither of them used the Additional Info section in the Common App!
Admin Officer #1: Well, that may be true, but did you see that #345’s essay was formatted with a ragged-right margin?
Admin Officer #2: OMG, you’re right! Screw that! Welcome #321 to the Class of 2021! Roll XYZ!!