Need help. S’s big Nov 1 deadlines are Ole Miss Barksdale Honors app and UIUC app. Both have essay roadblocks for him - started but not finished.
Any nuggets of inspiration that I could share with him to get him motivated about Barksdale and/or UIUC?
Thanks
@STEM2017 …have you shown him those “essays that worked?”
The story telling style of some of those really struck home and helped D just kind of tell a story as opposed to write an essay.
Which one is he stuck on?
The general essay: Discuss an important event in your life that changed or impacted you significantly. Explain how and why. (No more than 700 words. Your essay will be evaluated on a combination of style, grammar, imagination, and substance.)
THREE apps in! With 2 whole days to spare
I’ve partial to **Lato **lately.
Which @dfbdfb will not care for at all but for digital media, sanserif often works best, or at least has more consistent results.
Helicopter down. But probably not for the 2 weeks that has been requested
@carachel2 He’s got both essays well underway. He’s close. I may intervene but I hope that I won’t need to.
I was actually just looking for Barksdale or UIUC related nuggets. Anything about those two institutions that might inspire or motivate him. It’s a tall order I know, but the deadline is looming.
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@learnin ds is applying for ROTC scholarships as well. Are you just looking at Army or Navy/AF too?
Time to play!
This should be Baskerville (assuming it’s installed on your computer).
This will be Times New Roman. Hopefully one can see why, even though this one is the safer choice, I prefer the other.
And if you have way too much money, this one is Lexicon. Beautiful typeface if you’re seeing it, but as much as I love it I’m not about to drop $5,000 for access to it. I’m mainly doing this paragraph to see what the system defaults to when it doesn’t find the specified font.
EDIT: Apparently the system (wish I knew if it was server- or client-side) knows enough to recognize that Lexicon’s a serif font, and it appears to have substituted Times New Roman for it (for my screen, at least). Interesting…
@STEM2017 , DH got a PhD in engineering at UIUC. He did some post doc work at the Supercomputer center, which I believe was the start of Netscape. The real estate price there was doing well.
Of course, D is not applying there.
Panic moment…if a student is applying ED (not SCEA), can they also apply EA/rolling admission to other schools as long as they don’t commit? I know that if accepted to the ED school they must withdraw all other applications and commit to that school but is it unethical to put EA apps out there to get early results if the ED school doesn’t work out? I thought I completely understood this but after submitting one rolling decision and 2 EAs this weekend, I paused.
Help!
@BlueAFMom – your approach is 100% above board. If admitted to the ED school, student must attend, but EA apps can be submitted and processed at same time as ED school. And some of the EA schools will communicate their decision (and merit aid) before the ED school responds.
Not that you asked, but there is also something called ED II. So let’s just pretend that ED I is a rejection. Student can apply RD to however many schools he wants, and then ED II to one school. There are not that many schools that offer ED II, but there are some. A few of them will allow the applicant to convert his RD app to ED II by say Jan 15th. (The deadlines vary by school.)
It is courteous to reach out to the ED acceptances after being admitted ED to notify the EA schools that student will not be attending.
@CT1417 Thanks! I can sleep better tonight knowing I didn’t misinform D17 and have to back pedal. Whew!
@STEM2017 no real Inspiration or motivation. UIUC is not a big MAC school for sure. Is that anti-motivation perhaps? 
@BlueAFMom - FYI there actually are some schools where you cannot apply to them EA if you are also applying ED elsewhere. Notre Dame, Georgetown, BC and Villanova come to mind. They are not SCEA because they do allow you to apply EA elsewhere, just not ED. I guess they would be called Restrictive Early Action.
@Aida–I should have clarified that.
The ED school is generally not the one who imposes the limitations (except for a brief time this fall when Penn was trying to implement restrictive ED, a new twist!).
I haven’t looked at Villanova this year, but they had always offered just plain vanilla EA, unlike the others you mention who do offer REA.
So, @BlueAFMom, as long as the EA school is not one of the REA or SCEA schools, then all is well.
@CT1417 - Yes, Villanova has moved into the restrictive arena with this application cycle (along with moving to the National University Rankings category of US News & World Report.)
However, they word their restriction much differently than the others: “We respectfully request that you not apply to an Early Decision program elsewhere.”
@Aida – Interesting! MIT uses similar polite wording.
Villanova is an interesting case study. (For what, I am not quite sure, but worth figuring out how they accomplished the improvement in yield management.) I had pulled these figures for a friend last spring.
For years, they took a LOT of students off their WL each spring. The # enrolled off WL is listed below. First figure is # enrolled off WL, second figure is # of students who accepted a spot on the WL (so, more may have been offered a spot on WL).
Am not sure if they hired someone in yield management, but was surprised at the 15-16 figure, and this was before they won the national b-ball championship. I don’t think anyone moved off the WL this past spring.
Unlike NEU, who used the NMF scholarships, I don’t know what paths Nova pursued. Six to nine attend from our HS each year, often students who had been aiming higher, but as those who had hoped to attend Ivies enroll at BC, those shooting for BC end up at Nova…the entire trickle down. I digress…
2015-16 50/2239
2014-15 464/1943
2013-14 350/1962
2012-13 440/2232
2011-12 152/2272
Thanks for the info!
Two more days…and only one of the five essays/writing prompts is what either of us would consider complete. AGH!
Rewriting appears to be marking things worse. Yikes!
Cubs live another day.