@DiotimaDM wow that’s a lot to deal with! I’m so sorry. I find the kid driving thing terrifying. They’re so inexperienced.
And I’m so sorry about your sister’s strike, but I’m glad she is expected to make a full recovery. My husband, who is only 50 and who is very active and fit, had emergency heart surgery this summer so I understand how shocking that sort of thing is.
I hope the rest of 2018 brings better times!
@DiotimaDM , I’m sorry.
Just for future readers, how many applications did you put in? Last year I was always wondering how many applications should be made and asked several parents.
DD submitted ten and has one more with a latter deadline she may do.
Ten schools is all FAFSA allows - although there areworkaround for more that 10.
Oh my goodness @DiotimaDM! I am glad to hear every is exoected to make a full recovery!
@sekere62 Seven here. D’s HS will support no more than eight college applications.
DD2018 - applied to 17 (far too many IMO), DD2016 - applied to 12 (still too many, IMO). Hindsight tells me not more than 10 would have been ideal for our family and it fits within FAFSA. Should have stuck to my guns with DD2018. I had originally targeted 10 but there always seemed to be an excuse to add another, she wasn’t auto admit, there was a fee waiver, its close to home and the list just grows and grows, lol.
@DiatomaDM I’m so sorry but glad they are ok. Very scary.
A professional college coach/counselor that I met with suggested at least 4 and no more than 10, with a range of safety, match, and reach.
@sekere62 both DD16 and DS18 are one and done and expect the same for DS20. DD16 accepted near full ride OOS and DS18 will be full ride in state.
S18 applied to 7
Thanks, everyone!
S only applied to two schools.
We toured four, and planned to tour 3-5 more, but he liked two of the first four so well that he went two-and-done. Would have been one and done, but I insisted on the second one so he’d have a back up even though both were financial and auto-admit safeties.
DD applied to 9. Only one with low admit rates so technically a reach although numbers are in range.
S18 applied to 12. I think we will trim it down for S20, based on what we’ve learned this go 'round.
DD submitted 7 - we actually visited them. That probably could have been trimmed to 5, but no harm done to cast her net a bit wider than it needed to be.
D18 applied to 8 schools-3 safety, 2 match, 3 reach (financial/admit or both $-). She visited 10 or 12 schools either formally or drive by. She had 2 more on her list that were dropped because she liked the schools she was already admitted to better, so why potentially take a spot you don’t want? I hope that D21 will have 6-8.
Originally planned to do 10, dropped one. Only 5 are turned in though. There are drafts of the other 4, but they aren’t due for another week! The one that was dropped isn’t even due until Feb 15.
S18 applied to 12. I would say two safeties, five reaches, and the rest matches or reachy matches. He is applying directly to engineering programs at a lot, so while some of his schools might seem like safeties to others, their engineering programs are top notch and quite difficult to get into.
He visited 7 of the 12 he applied to (plus MANY more visits to schools he was able to knock off his list). If he gets in to all five that he didn’t visit, he will go visit if they are still high on the list.
Schools visited:
Georgia Tech
Virginia Tech
Duke
Johns Hopkins
UVA
Purdue
University of Michigan
University of Wisconsin
University of Washington
Northwestern
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
MIT
Stanford
Gonzaga
Schools applied:
Georgia Tech
Stanford
University of Michigan
University of Wisconsin
University of Washington
MIT
Virginia Tech
Dartmouth
Colorado School of Mines
UCSD
UC Berkeley
Cal Poly SLO
@toast18 D would have received less with her previous SAT score. When the new score was released, we asked for it to be taken into account for merit even though she had already been admitted.
S18 applied to 4. Visited 2 so far. We’ll visit a 3rd this coming weekend.
@DiotimaDM - so sorry to hear about your son’s accident and your sister’s stroke. Glad to hear the S is OK and that your sister has a good chance of full recovery.
Wishing only good things for you and your family for the rest of 2018!!
Visited
William and Mary
Georgetown
Duke
UNC
UVA
Villanova
Lehigh
Oberlin
Delaware
Notre Dame
Michigan
Brown
Princeton
Vanderbilt
Applied
Delaware (admitted)
Clemson (admitted)
Princeton scea (deferred)
UVA EA
UNC EA
Brown RD
Vanderbilt RD