I agree with @traveler98. If S18 is lucky enough to have multiple acceptances, we would take the time to do additional visits and probably hold on to 2-3 until the end to make sure it is his #1 choice. This is a big decision for them. I can see that we might decline his super-safety if he has other choices but even that will make me nervous. LOL I am already worried that he will start to coast for the rest of senior year once he has acceptances and if he fails something could get an acceptance revoked.
I happen to agree…we won’t decline her top 2 or 3 offers until she has an opportunity to revisit each campus and hopefully meet with faculty or sit in on a class. Honestly, everything really depends on merit packages at this point so unless her #1 choice comes through with the perfect merit, then we’ll have to wait on the rest.
I have planned large expenses coming up after Thanksgiving ( buying a car) and beginning of the new year, which will lower my asset (saving) by $20,000; should I wait until then to finish my FAFSA and CSS? I’m done with both but hasn’t submitted because I wanted to lower the parent assets part as much as I can…
Last apps submitted! Now just a couple loose threads (and all those scholarship apps). But hopefully one of these twelve schools (actually, hopefully more than one!) wants him to study at their school.
We are in the “keeping our options open” camp. I don’t envision declining anything before May 1st. D will likely have a few acceptances as she’s got 7 safety/match schools on her list of 12. We’ll weigh the whole package (honors, cost) then do one last go-see to the ones still on the list before she decides.
Ahhhh, I imagine decision time will be just as fraught around here as essay time has been! :-S I don’t think we’ll be declining any school until she’s made her final decision and I expect that to come at the end of April, but she could surprise me. She has already asked if she’ll be able to visit before making her decision, as some of her schools she has never seen, and so yes, we will be doing visits to any and all schools still in contention, and preferably with an overnight, even though I have heard mixed things about their value. I think for my D, a night on campus is going to be pretty important if we can make it happen.
I only wish we were in your position @RoonilWazlib99 ! I know she has her common app done and ready to hit submit, but I also know she has 5 schools just sitting there, unsubmitted. Not sure what the hold up is, and I’m trying to be good and keep my lip zipped so I won’t be asking. :-< I think she’s holding off a few more days because she’s worried she’ll hit submit and then the next day is when her English teacher will hand back her common app essay that she turned in last month. She doesn’t want to see his comments after she can’t do anything about it! But she’s also pretty convinced he’s not handing them back anytime soon. So… :-??
By 11/15, we’ll be done and in waiting mode. I’m hoping that’s a much better place to be, but I think you hit the nail on the head @birdie3 it really feels like being caught in a terrible paradox, wanting to stop time and hold onto them a little longer, let them enjoy their senior year a bit more, and at the same time just wanting time to speed up so we can know already!! :!! It kinda makes my head spin sometimes.
From my experience last year, no need really to wish for time to speed up. It was do that on its own. Enjoy every minute of it because it flies by way too fast. Or at least it did for me.
Yes, D is in her third year of college already, S only has 3/4 of senior year of HS left, my baby is in middle school.
@JerseyParents I choked up! Thanks for sharing :)]
So we received a merit notification from Pitt. D received the Cathedral of Learning Prestige Scholarship. Covers tuition for all four years if you maintain a 3.0. So exciting for her to be recognized for her hard work.
@zomaya99 Woohoo!!! >:D<
Omg @zomaya99 that is fantastic news. Congratulations!
@zomaya99 was it a letter? We are anxious to hear from Pitt on merit. Daughters top choice.
@zomaya99 , congratulations to your D! What are her stats? Very great to know that this early.
Thanks so much all. Really took us by surprise. It came in a letter today. Stats are GPA 3.9/4.3, 32 ACT top 5% of class, and we are URM if it matters. We live in a highly, highly competitive urban area. I could write a book about it. She also has some very unique extracurriculars. Just grateful that she was recognized in this way. Pitt is a great school.
congratulations to your D @zomaya99. Good luck to your D @AmyBeth68 . Hope she receives good news soon.
Such great news, and a fantastic school, @zomaya99. And also happy to know the Pitt merit has started. Hoping for many more happy merit awards for CC friends! Not expecting much from Pitt for my D because we are in state. But she’s also been accepted and was invited to apply for the Physician Assistant GAP. Join us on the Pitt thread - they’d be thrilled to hear your news. No one else has posted about merit there.
Great news, @zomaya99! Really exciting!
For our DS16, he planned to make his final decision after attending the accepted student days at the 3 colleges that accepted him. We were pretty sure he’d pick the one he ended up going to, but thought this was a good approach so that he could visit for a longer period of time and learn more about the colleges and get a feel for the atmosphere. Then, the first accepted student day happened to be for his top choice, and he decided to make his commitment while we were there (they were encouraging it with free t-shirts and photos with the school mascot), so the end of that visit was an exciting time for all of us. When we got home he contacted the other 2 schools to decline the acceptance offers.
For DD18, she’s pretty set on her top choice if she gets in since she’s toured it multiple times, but we might still encourage her to wait until the accepted student days.
Brief talk tonight with DD to discuss necessity of filling FASA/CSS with some of the schools that did not fit on her original FAFSA submission. She has officially axed 7 school from the ridiculously long list of 17. She claims to have no intention of attending 7 schools that she originally insisted needed to be included. Ok, admittedly one of them was a mom’s choice that she wasn’t too keen on to begin with and one of them Dad has axed because he says “just no”, after HE did some further research and thought on it. If you add to those 7 the 3 schools, still on her list, that I am convinced she has a snowballs chance of being admitted too, and voila, that is a total of 10 schools gone!
What a difference 3 months makes!
Someone asked her last weekend where she wants to go…without skipping a beat, she said Clemson (fingers crossed).