@MACmiracle congrats! And i love your flying santa story!
My daughter would have been so embarrassed if her test score was announced. No one would have been surprised but she would have been embarrassed anyway. She was excited when she got her scores that she emailed the college advisor immediately but when she realized maybe they would want to do an announcement of some sort she told them not to say anything and they didn’t.
If someone asks she will tell them but she doesn’t advertise it. She has realized and embraced that there are certain situations (college coaches etc) where she needs to advertise it but otherwise it was just a test she took and she got lucky.
Lol, my kid was so impressed with her wonderously low ACT math subscore (19) on her last ACT, the sitting where where she also got the perfect reading score, she announced it in her AP Calc AB class and received a round of applause. By the next day most of her classmates knew. According to DD she was approached by several classmates who wanted to thank her for letting the pressure valve open and some even said they were happy to know they weren’t the only one to bomb a subsection. I guess the announcement happened when the teacher, who teaches a section and then as a means of reinforcement has the kids " re-teach" the section, asked DD to teach a section and trying to weasel out of it she said “you might want to rethink that, I jus got a 19 on my ACT math”, his response “no, because clearly you need to do more math!”
My son would have DIED if someone announced his ACT or SAT scores in a class let alone on the announcements or - OMG - on a school wide voicemail! I cannot imagine!
Too many high scores at the school anyway to pick out just one to highlight. They didn’t even announce the National Merit Semifinalists! I was actually a bit disappointed in that because it seems like something that should be celebrated. They had 18, though, so maybe just too many to announce?
I was also a first gen college student and did everything on my own. Signed up for SAT, subject tests, handwrote application, etc.
Never a dull moment in this process. Found out that the schools have not gotten FAFSA, submitted 12/12, nor CSS. CSS shows that form were uploaded and processed but they have not been received.
Actually this doesn’t make sense to me because Bard is a CSS school and we got a financial aid package which means they got the CSS. I don’t totally understand the IDOac, is that what it’s called, so maBard didn’t need those forms? At any rate I think I am stuck until I can make some calls on Monday. This is stressful
@swtaffy904 We had a similar issue. Every other school had received the CSS and IDOC materials except for one. In talking to a rep from that one school’s FA office, she said for whatever reason S’s SSN wasn’t listed on the documents that were missing, which I don’t understand because we entered it in the college board site and the SSN is on all the uploaded records. Any how, she said she would “manually pull them down,” and did whatever that is while I was on the phone with her. Took a few minutes but fixed the problem. Maybe you’ve got something similar going on? Maybe it’s there and just hasn’t automatically associated with your child’s account, so they have to do it manually?
@MACmiracle , Congratulations!! And I really enjoyed the Santa story too.
@ChattaChia , OMG!! My D would absolutely have a conniption if her score was announced!! She is in the group of kids where none (not one) of her friends knows her scores.
Congratulations to @Astro77 and others with recent acceptances! I haven’t checked in enough lately and only caught up on the last couple of pages just now. Good luck to those submitting apps and essays!
Many congrats to @MACmiracle and @Astro77 !
@Astro77 Congratulations on the Penn State acceptance. I hope some merit comes through.
Thanks!
@ChattaChia I think he should be proud. No doubt your school also shares outstanding athletic/musical/extracurricular achievement on the Sunday announcements, so why not the school’s first perfect ACT score? I just think it is kind of sad that our kids are conditioned to be embarrassed to have their intelligence and academic achievement noticed.
@MACmiracle
When you say “final scholarship offer” does that mean you were initially offered a lower one?
This could be a big week for D. Her semester grades are finalized tomorrow, so she can send them on to McGill. Many applicants are getting their acceptances soon after sending in these midterm grades. D should be accepted, but of course we will all feel better when it is official. This cold weather is making D long for Montreal (yes, really! :)) @-) ), and as she reads more about their Cognitive Science program, the more she’s leaning that way. Some of her friends from McGill Summer Academy are getting their acceptances. It’s very easy for D to visualize herself as a McGill student. I think her odds board is making a significant shift.
Ugh.
I was reviewing my Excel spreadsheet and realized we never sent highest ACT score to one college. Deadline is not yet here, so went on ACT site to send that and discovered that 2 other schools never got scores I thought were sent in late October!! What the…so now I re-sent those, but going to feel terrible if that negatively impacts kid. One of the schools he is already into, but hasn’t heard scholarship info yet. The other may have more negative impact but I’m crossing my fingers.
I’m excited to hear anything positive for anyone at this point. Go @ShrimpBurrito
I actually asked my kid what he was thinking the other day (!!) so here are our current odds:
20% USC (California)
20% Trinity
20% Minnesota (this one shocked me to be so high)
10% Vanderbilt (he will go like a shot if he gets in and gets money but…)
5% Miami U
25% The field
@Booajo, I would look up the admissions counselors for each school for your region and have your S email them and let them know about the additional score and tell them what the score was - composite and each subsection. D sent her app to her EA school and a few days later realized she hadn’t reported her AP scores on the common app so she sent her regional AO an email and included the scores. I totally understand your angst but I bet it will be OK.
@Booajo sorry to hear. This is the kind of thing that makes me think even when we think we’re done we cannot let our guard down.
Hey, all!
I’ve been lurking but not posting for awhile, so congrats to all of the acceptances and merit awards, and commiserations for those who are still waiting or got news they’d rather not have gotten.
Things are mostly boring on the college front over here. S is applying for one or two local scholarships besides the Elks MVS, but that’s about it. A funny story about the Elks… Unbeknownst to S, one of his classmates was researching that scholarship and ran across the 2018 thread I started. As he read it, he started thinking to himself, “Gee, that sounds like [S’s name].”
He mentioned it to S the next day at school, so S confirmed for him that yes, that was me posting. 
I’m pretty sure that kid also applied, and I’d be super surprised if he didn’t also advance, but they didn’t talk about things to that level of detail.
In some not so fun news, S was in a car accident over the break. He was in someone else’s car on an unfamiliar, rural road with a surprise 90 degree turn in it. The car left the road, went up sideways on a boulder and would have rolled if not for a smaller boulder supporting the car - and pinning the doors shut - on the downhill side. The boys had to climb out of the car through the passenger side and the doors were about 6 feet off the ground. Yikes!
S bruised his shin during the impact, and the driver sprained his ankle getting out of the car. The car was totaled, so the boys are pretty lucky. The driver, a super-responsible young man who graduated last year (his family has the other kitten), wasn’t speeding but the sharp turn caught him by surprise. They were following my DH, which is how we know they weren’t speeding. It was a low speed crash (30 MPH).
On top of that, my sister suffered a mild stroke a day or two after New Year’s while she was still visiting at my parents’ house. My younger sister. She’s only 45. That’s both terrifying and mind boggling. She has some weakness on one side, and is expected to make a full recovery.
Somebody please tell 2018 to go easy for awhile!
Wow, sorry about the crash and your sister! Not sure which is most upsetting!
@DiotimaDM wow, that’s all shocking news. I hope that good things can come out of both issues…maybe a future accident prevented for the boys, and a good change for your sister (whether healthier changes or putting her happiness first etc). Wishing them all the best!
Oh @DiotimaDM I’m so sorry for your son’s accident and your sister’s stroke. Sending lots of HUGS your way and hoping that 2018 gets a whole lot better for you all!