CONGRATS @bearcatfan and @zomaya99!!! <:-P It’s so exciting to have so many early acceptances for our kids! :D/
Visiting schools after acceptance – We plan to make a plan later, once we know what’s in play. The schools D18 is applying to are all far from us and all are far from each other. Traveling to the midwest or east takes a whole travel day which would have to be a weekday for an accepted students weekend. So not sure. She has visited half of the schools already. We may plan a last-minute spring break trip to somewhere in April once we know what we need to know.
I was thinking over the weekend that everyone was so quiet…guess everyone made up for that today!
Re the acid attacks on the B.C. students…I feel so bad for those girls! I thought acid attacks are supposed to be very disfiguring? I pray that I’m wrong.
Re the GA Tech shooting…I read that the student who was shot had ASKED the campus cop to shoot him, and had at least a knife and maybe a gun on him, and the cop felt threatened. What a tragedy for everyone involved.
@labegg, I asked my D NOT to come onto CC. There are so many anxious posters, she didn’t need to see that from anyone else…she gets enough with me! 
@glido, thanks for the non-college news!
@bearcatfan I can’t believe your D gave you the log-in information. My D would never do that! And a BIG congratulations to your D! It sounds like she will have several nice options. That’s terrific that she’s had such good news so soon.
@zoomaya, Congratulations on the Pitt acceptance! How fabulous that your D can relax, now that she knows she has someplace that she’d enjoy going to.
Re visiting schools on accepted students day vs another day… well, we’ll have to see how many schools my D gets into. It’s kind of crazy that we have NO idea what the results will be. My D will be applying to 8 schools, she could get into all or just 1. April is a long way to wait…
@zoomaya congratulations! Pitt is one of my daughter’s top choices and she got her acceptance and honors college notification this week as well. My daughter wants an urban environment and felt right at home at Pitt. Good luck to your D on her other apps, hoping for more good news to follow :).
@bearcatfan Wow, congrats!!! That is amazing news. So great to see the acceptances rolling in. Your daughter can take some nice deep breaths now. As Zoomaya said, just having those under her belt is a big psychological boost.
My son doesn’t do CC or social media at all, says it’s too much drama, lol. Probably wise beyond his years.
Have any of you had your kiddos school sign them up for the ACT when they didn’t want to take it again? My sons school signed all seniors up to take it again in Oct. thing is, he’s taken it twice, and received the same composite. He has a much better chance of going down than up in score. Ugh, he’s not happy.
On another note, he did submit his 3 safeties and has actually worked on the CA. He’s stressing me out. On one hand, I know his dreams and I’m trying to help him succeed, on the other, I think, it’s cheaper if he attends a safety, so if he doesn’t follow through, oh well. He says “I have it under control” which is so frustrating!!!
I’m a planner, I NEED to plan.
Yay, on the acceptances!
D18 blew the freaking doors off the Sept ACT: 35 composite! Brought her Math score up 3 points to a 32, which was huge. The ACT website is acting screwy with an Oracle error message so the Science score is missing. Her Aug SAT score was about the same as last year (10 points lower, basically noise). It was a great score but I imagine she’s disappointed that it didn’t increase. What’s interesting is that her ACT was significantly better compared to the SAT even though she didn’t do any real prep for either. I think the SAT, in effect, served as “prep” for the ACT taken two weeks later.
She has so much potential its ridiculous. Just a little less procrastination and she would have no problem excelling at any college.
@LMHS73 My son is at WashU. Only one evening was something happening about 10 minutes from campus. It is an area that kids go to, but the school has been fantastic in keeping on top of the situation and notifying/advising students. I’ve been impressed.
Congratulations @droppedit !
@Hankster1361 that’s really useful info, thank you.
@ChattaChia, D’s school started administering a “mandatory” ACT last year. I really didn’t want D to have to take it again (she already had an excellent score) so I looked into it some more and it turned out that we just had to give her school a copy of her score report and she didn’t have to take it again. Might be worth a shot for you.
Congratulations on the great score @droppedit and fingers crossed for everyone else receiving scores today!
Catching up on this thread after a busy few days. Interesting discussion a few pages back on AP credit, and whether to take or not to take the class anyway once student has matriculated. I agree with the notion that the student should take any class that is difficult and fundamental to their major and course of study, regardless of whether they receive AP credit.
For DS, I am trying to convince him he will be wise to take general chemistry next year as a freshman regardless of his score on the exam next spring. Several good reasons, the main one being that it would be scary hard to start out in organic chem as a new freshman student, which is the big weed out course for pre med students. Would prefer to see him slow down and make sure he has mastered the prequisite courses first. Hopefully start out with a strong GPA. Good study for the MCAT. Plus both of his schools have a “community” of freshman students who are living close to each other and taking identical sequence of classes. I imagine this will help him find his tribe.
On the other hand, all his other AP and dual enrollment credit that meets gen ed requirements but none of his major classes are going to build on (English, mathematics, social sciences, etc.), I expect he will happily take the credit. He is anxious to move on and focus on higher level science courses.
Related question. There is a lot of focus on AP credit, but what about CLEP credit? I think it is also through the college board. Fan or not? Anyone planning to take CLEP exams to test out of any requirements? I never hear anyone mention CLEP on these boards. DS is considering taking the Spanish language exam. Any experience or thoughts on this?
@LOUKYDAD Very good question about CLEP- we are also wondering about how it is administered. We thought maybe it was at the college Itself? Or maybe there was a placement test. Or like you said maybe through college board? Our question was specific to a French because D18 chose not to take French AP class this year but has 3 years in high school and doesn’t necessarily want to take French 1 in college but does want to take French classes in college “for fun” (not related to her major or anything). Although she was considering a minor in French. We have relatives on both sides of our family that are French (grandma and great grandma born and raised) so she hears it a lot and it interested in the culture.
I seem to remember reading about @3scoutsmom’s D taking CLEP for German at OU.
You might ask her @LOUKYDAD
I am also interested in CLEP for Algebra I and II - one of the only math requirements in some of the nursing programs.
This has a lot of good info, including what colleges will offer credit for what scores:
@droppedit, composite score that is being displayed, is it composite without science score?
@ChattaChia Our school did that. Asked the guidance office, and they said to just not show up that day! Call in sick.
@sonoran I can tell from my S’s scores that the composite definitely includes the science.
@MACmiracle we are sort of in the same boat with DD’s ACT test score. I did not think it was possible for a subscore to fall as far as it did, WOW!
While DD’s overall composite stayed the same, she lost 6 points on the math subsection, which was already not great ! On the bright side, her english and science subscores stayed the same, solidly in the upper 20s. Weirdly, she popped her reading subscore up to a perfect 36. I am confident anyone looking at this score report will question such a wide spread between the top and bottom subscores. I think the english and science subscores are probably the most indicative of her abilities. I think only 2 or 3 of her schools superscore the ACT. These scores don’t pop the composite to make a difference, plus none of those schools are in her top 6. So, this test result was pretty much a wash.
I suppose I should not be surprised, when I did placement testing for college, my advisor was in shock at the discrepancy in my math and english scores. She said “There is no way you can be this good with English and this bad with math.” I guess the apple does not fall far from the tree!
Hoping everyone is happy with their result today!
Wait on taking CLEP exams until you know which college you are going to because they all have different rules. @BingeWatcher is right. My DD took the AP German exam and scored a 5 but and that placed her out of 2 basic German classes but taking the CLEP placed her out of a thrid German class.
You can find a CLEP test center here: https://clep.collegeboard.org/test-center-search
Most CC’s are test centers.
@sonoran – my guess, and it is only a guess, is that the numbers are correct. The Composite you see includes Science it’s just that the stupid server software is having trouble retrieving all the information from its database (hence, the “Oracle” error).