@hadmeathello …regarding jobs and high school.
D stopped her main EC after sophomore year. If she had done something like band, I don’t think she could’ve also worked. Band is about 15-20 hrs down here and I assume it is in other states too. IDK when they would work!
No, dd would not accept a WL spot. She needs large merit $$. That means being a top desired student. If she was WzL, obviously she wasn’t near the top of their applicant pool.
@hadmeathello, there is still time!
My D was very busy with EC and school and I didn’t want her to get a job for the longest time. But she had an opportunity in the spring of senior year, and she put her foot down. The employer was informed of her theatre schedule and so on, and willing to work around her schedule. So she worked there until she started college.
My S also wanted a job. I said not during the week. He works about 12 hrs on the weekend, and makes a couple hundred dollars a month.
waitlist - I remember @lindagaf 's great waitlist saga. Her D was deciding between two schools and had accepted waitlist positions for a few more. Got off one waitlist (with some merit even!) but decided not to accept. She decided on Kenyon after much deliberation. And then well into the summer was offered a WL position from Bates and decided to go there instead. In real time, it was very exciting to follow! Only when she set foot on campus were we confident that the story was over.
^^That was one of the best threads ever. Epic.
I have no idea how we’ll feel about waitlisting. We’ll torch that bridge when we come to it.
No waitlists in D’s future! She’s all about the bottom line price (no need-based aid).
I have to admit I’m liking our FB page for this thread. It works differently than here, so I am able to keep up with both. Plus, we get to complain more, lol.
@MotherOfDragons I agree but I keep having to check who is who.
Agreed, the “last chance to apply!” emails are ridiculous.
Stress: S17 is stressed. Not sure how this happened because the whole plan was coming together quite well. At least I thought so. He has 5 apps submitted. Maybe some of it has to do with the what I imagine is a stressful vibe at school at this time. He’s stressing over finishing with strong grades because of the mid-year transcript going to schools but his grades look great so he just needs to hang in another couple of weeks and he’s talking craziness about just wanting to get accepted to college. I thought we were going to enjoy a relaxing two weeks and then submit #6 which is due Dec 1 and then get the remaining 4 done by Dec 1 and be done. Has not been a relaxing couple of days and he had his last app submitted 3 days ago! He is fight something off so I can only hope he pulls it together by Saturday to take SAT subj tests.
Case Western not giving up. They win the stalker award this year.
To clarify my response to waitlisting – D2 would accept a waitlist position at UMD because she already has guaranteed tuition remission there, so financially it would still be in the running.
DD would accept a waitlist spot but definetly put a deposit down while she waited.
QOTD - No skin in the game for DD here. She has worked her butt off for the last 3+ years and it is our pleasure to pay for college.
Wait list: It will be S17s decision but my instinct is no. We haven’t discussed what would happen if he were wait listed but given how much he wants this process to be over so he can go back to enjoying senior year, I think he will happily pick from one of the schools that accept him.
Love the we’ll torch that bridge when we get to it from @motherofdragons.
No waitlists for D. Big Mac or bust!
S17 waited until we got home to open his big envelope and it was an acceptance and a presidential scholarship from Tulane! So happy for him.
But now wondering if he should convert his Rice ED application to a RD since he has an acceptance in hand from a good school that he likes with a very attractive merit scholarship. Rice is still his first choice, but there’s not a big admissions bump between ED and RD and if he waits then he can return to schools to make sure that he is making the right choice and weigh any scholarship options as well. Does anyone know of someone who has tried to convert an ED app to RD early in the process? Would that hurt your admissions chances?
@pittsburghscribe Congrats on Tulane!!
@pittsburghscribe – First, CONGRATS!!!
To your question: would you be full pay at Rice, and if so, are you comfortable with the $100K difference (or whatever the # works out to be). If not, I would pull the ED.
$$ differential might not be that high b/c I think Tulane is on the very high side, IIRC, and I don’t know Rice’s COA. Also, travel cost differentials, if appropriate.
I do not know of anyone who has converted ED to RD at Rice, but better to do that than to be admitted and then turn down Rice’s offer due to finances.
@STEM2017 – Case sends these very distinctive mailers, two per day, a couple of times per week, plus the emails, so yes, they win! Cornell is a close second in this house, but Case wins for the targeted mailings and Cornell’s emails are coming from five or six different places.
No waitlist for us either.
QOTD: We will be from full pay at state school to “mostly pay” at expensive privates for D17. If she goes to an expensive private which offers no merit, she will take out the Stafford loans to at least kick that part down the road. She will also contribute a few thousand a year from her summer job. If she goes to state school or receives merit that makes the COA on par with state school, we won’t expect her to take the loans.
QOTD2: I think D17 would accept a spot on the WL from one of her top schools, but try to move on and not get hopes up, as the odds are even slimmer getting off the wait list than they were to get admitted in the first place.
Stress? Well… she missed the EA deadline for state school because her CA essay just isn’t finished. Had a big meltdown over the weekend about it too. 
On the plus side, the experience of actually blowing the deadline did result in her actually putting in some honest work on it for the first time in weeks. She knows what she has to do, but actually getting her to sit and do it has been like pulling teeth. She’s interviewing at her planned ED school on Friday morning. If that isn’t enough to inspire her at this point, I’m not sure what’s going to happen.
@pittsburghscribe Congrats on the Tulane scholarship!