I feel that my kids sort of resist the schools that I like too much.
Facts, figures, location, beautiful seasonal pictures of the campus…I just try to present some lesser known but great schools in a positive light. Affordability is very important to us.
My elder daughter finally told me “Enough with Vanderbilt and Nashville-I know you like it!” She had several great acceptances …but is a current senior at Vandy…
My D18 has told me to stop sending her emails with rankings, info, and pics of a few of my favorites…
She may end up at one of those!
@suzy100 Were you able to get through common app. S just started working on the App. Not sure when he’ll be done. Hope we can wrap up everything tonight
S18 just got a giant glossy book from Stanford in the mail yesterday. Really odd. First, it’s really late in the process. Second, does Stanford really need to market itself? Third, there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that he’d get in. Why on earth did they bother?
@ak200008, that would require my D to be home. ahem
I think it would be very interesting to be in one of those admission meetings. For example, my daughter’s school is kind of unusual because everyone takes the same classes all four years. She and another classmate (boy) both applied EA to a school. My daughter is NMSF, this other student is not. Probably similar GPA and EC involvement; my daughter has stronger test scores overall. She is a woman applying to engineering which isn’t incredibly impacted at this school; I think that would be in her benefit. He was accepted yesterday; she hasn’t heard anything. She visited the school and follow-up with emails, so she showed interest. I just find it puzzling what they are looking for when they determine who they will accept right away/defer/reject. This school isn’t her top choice, but we kind of plan on it as her most desirable safety school so hopefully she gets in.
@amominaz agree with you! My son found out yesterday two classmates with lower test scores/grades and who applied later, have heard they have been accepted. He was bummed as he hasn’t heard anything and had shown more interest and visited twice. I told him to be upset for the night and move on. It could be they take it in random groups and your daughter will hear in the next round…best of luck…and yes I would love to be a fly on the wall!
Can hardly believe it but think S18 is done for this round. One app was already done Oct 15, one Coalition one went in over the weekend. The Common App favorite went in last night (the one we hope actually went through because it was during all the glitches!). And two more went today by 7:30PM. No spinning wheels or blank webpages. To save time, and submit things earlier in the evening, he decided not to let us not proofread all their little school-specific extra short essays. Hope there are not too many typos! Hard to believe there’s a respite for now until the regular deadlines. And getting to bed before midnight! Good luck to everyone tonight and tomorrow!!
Apps done, FAFSA done, waiting until 11\1 deadline passes to do CSS.
Hey sports moms and dads out there…tonight was the final walk-off for my D18 :(. They lost in state semi-finals on penalty stroke…it was sad but now she can focus on her school work and activities (and calc!!!). I just can’t believe I’m finished with High School sports. Very bittersweet moment for sure!!!
Congrats to all who got their apps in for 11/1 and those that got acceptances and all the wonderful news on here. Also a very special thanks to all the parents that gave me awesome advice on my daughter’s Calculus BC struggles. XO
@AmyBeth68 ironically my daughter did poorly on a calc bc test today, so I may have to follow my own advice
Yahoo! 5 applications submitted! Amazing to think he may actually go to college! And one was an unexpected (to me) add on that is a fairly local choice (next state over–close for him!)
@amominaz - Same here! Our S18 is waiting to hear from a rolling admissions school. So far three of his classmates have been accepted and have sent in their commitment to attend. All of them have lower GPA/test scores/etc. He is concerned that because they have already accepted three kids and they have all confirmed their planned attendence, that he will be waitlisted or just denied admission because they have too many kids from his school already (it’s a smaller, out of state college).
That was the one true safety he had left after the application error. I’m holding out hope he hears soon.
@Kayak24 The FAFSA really wasn’t too bad. It’s more the prep work.
A piece of advice I got from that Facebook page is to make printouts or copies of all my accounts on the day I filed. Just in case you are selected for verification and need to prove you only had 24 cents in your checking account. Do NOT forget to include 529 accounts as parental assets, even accounts not meant for the child you are applying for. That is an easy slip.
Make sure your IDs are all set up, both for you and your child. It’s easy to do, but it might take a day or two to be verified. Here is where having the password for your kid’s email comes in handy … 
It’s up to you whether to use the DRT. I did not at first because it was working for my daughter but not for me. I went and made a correction using it and my EFC was the same. So I guess that means the information was correct. Some people were having issues with it importing the wrong information, especially if there was a retirement account rollover involved.
Once you do the FAFSA, order a (free) copy of your IRA tax transcript and account for both you and your child just in case you are selected for verification. One less piece of paper to chase in January.
I didn’t have to do the CSS.
Well D got the last early app in. I don’t know if there were glitches or spinning wheels because I went to bed! I know it was after midnight. Whew!
^^^^ Oops, I meant IRS tax transcript.
The DRT might help in that the school might not require transcripts if you use it. Because the info comes straight from the IRS.
It all worked great here.
But we hit a few snags with D’s FAFSA renewal because I thought the FSA ID passwords were good for 18 mos and we did her FAFSA last year in October. But when she signed in she had to make a new password so she was redirected to that page, then had to sign in again at the FAFSA.
Then when it came time for me to link tax return I had to put my FSA ID in and of course I had to make a new password too. So repeat the redirect again. And D had to sign in again to FAFSA after that. But other than that it went fine.
We tried to transfer info to S’s FAFSA, but that somehow didn’t work for us but I just re-entered stuff.
S had income from work.last year, he had no federal tax withheld and wasn’t required to file a tax return, but he did anyway so that we could link to DRT and he didn’t need a nonfiling verification letter from the IRS.
We had a nice quiet night. No musical practice so S and girlfriend handed out candy to the trick or treaters.
To those of you who had classmates be accepted but not your child, maybe they are reviewing their file for scholarships and/or Honors college, or applying to a different department/school, or just haven’t had their file looked at. Anyway, I hope they will hear soon!
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Thanks everyone for the kind words!!
I’m rooting for your kids to have their own tears of joy
D18 got two acceptances yesterday 
They were both safeties and expected but still exciting.
@mommdc The IDs expire?