@melvin123, my kids are fine with texting me all day long, but they don’t like talking on the phone, either. I have to call a few times in a row to get them to answer.
At our school, they passed it out at the meeting where they described their common app process.
Hmmm. I wonder if, when this all blows over, I could ask to see the school report. All I’m finding is the state report card, which is probably not what we are talking about.
I’d imagine it’s public record maybe? Our school is small enough that I could go through the catalog and count up the AP classes myself, but I’m also curious how her schedule was “ranked.”
We are sitting and waiting on her more-or-less first choice to break radio silence. All we know is that they have everything. Interviews, if necessary, start in one month. Sigh.
@bearcatfan. The school report should be available, not that it always is (it is not publicly available for our school) Which is why I asked. I think I am a bit jealous of the transparency in the process. Finding out information from our school and GC has been like requesting an audience with the Great OZ himself!
@RoonilWazlib99 Thank you for the info on Washington. They must have recently added the bit about the autumn 2018 freshmen. Last time I had look it only said the stuff about the ID and we were begin to worry!
Re the level of stress… my D and all of her friends are under tremendous pressure. Her school is piling the work on at the same time the kids are all piled under with college stuff. Her school encourages kids to apply ED, so almost all of her classmates are taking days off of school to visit colleges on weekdays so they can sit in on some classes and see the school in action.
While you can’t slow down the learning that has to occur during this time, I am jealous of any of you whose children’s English class has them work on their essays for a project. I think it makes a lot of sense for 1st semester Senior year English to be a writing class (just don’t call it creative writing!
That’s weird, the last couple of sentences of my post didn’t show up. All I said is that this has become a painful lesson in time management for the kids and has highlighted for them the need to get things done in advance when they can. ---- summer essays anyone?
Ayi yi yi
Switching focus again…
Astro Physics was the goal, then it was Secondary Ed - English, possibly physics.
Last night when I got home DD informed me she is exploring Pathology as in Medical Examiner 8-X
@SnowflakeDogMom I think my D would be great in a medical profession, but she has vasovagal reactions and can get weird responses to blood draws. She doesn’t faint but she can turn gray and go blank after. So she does not want to be in a profession where she might have to stick or cut people, knowing the reaction when it’s done to her. But she says she’d have no problem if a person were dead. 8-X
Just for clarification, the school report I mentioned at #8213 is actually titled “School Profile.” It contains the following information: a blurb about the number of students and facility/accreditation/awards; a section about the class schedule and options (such as an optional zero period); graduation requirements; grading and ranking; honors and AP classes; the previous year’s average SAT and ACT scores; AP test results; GPA distribution for the previous year; number of NMSFs in previous years (none!); and the colleges attended by the last year’s class (very heavy on state schools . . . only 7 went to OOS privates out of almost 200 students). This is a large CA public high school.
It is my understanding that this is the document that is uploaded to the Common App by the high school counselor as a “School Report.”
@melvin123 - I agree! I am so jealous of those students who get to work on their essays as part of their English class. It’s like my daughter’s school pretends college application time doesn’t even exist. In addition to her regular English coursework, they have to write and defend a senior thesis. It’s insanity. Thankfully, my daughter can read like a madman. When my son gets to that stage it’s going to be a completely different animal.
@MACmiracle DD was commenting the same, she is fascinated by dead bodies and thinks pathology would be a great career choice but the aspect of med school is a bit daunting to her.
She’s not squeamish, she spent high school as an Athletic Trainer, she has seen compound fractures up close and in person along with lots of cuts, broken bones and puke but having to deal with live people may not be up her alley.
My D’s school is piling on the work, too. These poor students are under so much pressure with app deadlines, I wish the schools could at least wait until after Nov 15th to pummel them with work! 
Wasn’t the end goal to get them into college? I have no doubt D is prepared for college. She doesn’t need further “preparation” right now. She needs time to apply herself to her applications and last-look visits before making huge decisions.
On a completely unrelated topic, is there such a thing as having to pay taxes on your scholarships?? I just read something about this concept and my head isn’t wrapping around it.
Our school profile is also available online, I had to google it because they changed our school’s web site and now it’s hard to find anything. While I wa searching I came across the detailed graduation report of the the class of 2017
657 students 84% went on to four year colleges, 14% went to a 2 year college 2% other (12 students took gap years most traveling abroad a few internships, 5 went into the military, and the rest were listed misc. moved to CA to presue acting carreer, applied to international school, getting real estate license…) I was kind of surprised to find such detailed info!
This report also listed how amy students, applied, were accepted, and attended which colleges. Most went to UT and Texas A&M but a good many went out of state.
@Kayak24 I’m not an expert, but I believe you don’t have to pay taxes on the tuition and fees part of a scholarship but you do have to pay taxes on any amount that pays for room and board.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable will chime in.
@Kayak21 Taxes on scholarships make me crazy too. Scholarships for tuition, books and certain fees are not taxed but scholarships beyond that (those used for room and board, travel, other expenses) are not only taxable but are taxable at the parental tax rate even though the taxes are owed by the student! If your child goes OOS and is awarded a taxable scholarship they may have to file taxes in that state too.
@MACmiracle and @3scoutsmom , that is NUTS! I don’t even know how to figure it in the decision-making process. Full cost of attendance for a NMF Scholarship OOS is looking a little more costly than I was calculating, and “free” was the only reason D will even consider going so far away.
Next thing we know, they’ll count it as income on the following year’s financial aid formula (which will work against D20’s base year). :-??
But perhaps if the award is under $15k or so, no taxes are owed because the student’s income is too low for taxes? I guess I have a lot to learn.
@Kayak24 , It’s always good to compare net costs carefully, considering travel costs or any extra medical insurance if that’s necessary, as well as personal, invisible costs like the headaches (or joys) of travel, being away from family, more or less internship opportunities, etc.
With our plan, medical insurance for an out of state college will probably cost close to $2,000 a year.
And long drives are always a hassle with our younger kids, so I think of that as a cost, too, at least worth a thousand or so.
D likes a college that’s a good drive away, where I might have to get additional insurance, and is in a rural area that might make internships hard. I’ve been thinking about those things a lot even though the hard costs aren’t bad.
OMG never even thought about taxes on Scholarships.
I am still stressed that the GC hasn’t uploaded her form and transcript to common app yet. Deadlines are approaching. Ugh. I am giving her until Friday and then I will send an email. The request was sent to her the first week of Sept.
Yup, taxes are a thing but they didn’t end up to be as bad as I feared. My dd16 was awarded several small local scholarships and each one required that she provided her social security number.