@MACmiracle We are in the same boat. I feel guilty encouraging D to apply to some of these honors/scholarships, but D still isn’t close to being sure about school/major. I can’t get too upset, I spent four years telling everyone I was going to UT and then actually visited overnight fall of my senior year. I sent out twelve applications the next week.
Ha ha @ollie113, my son also spent all of freshman year convinced he would go to UT and in the end he didn’t even bother to apply despite being auto-admit.
@MinnieFan I made mine this week too. Can always cancel them but I figured it was a smart move
I’m waiting on the McDermott results before making hotel reservations, since the McDermott scholars have different move in I think. I’ve seen multiple posts from finalists who have already been notified starting Monday even though the website indicates that today is the notification date…consensus seems to be that anyone who hasn’t heard already has not been chosen as a finalist. So S is expecting a rejection later today, which means I can plan for orientation and move in.
Thanks for the feedback @burghdad and @ollie113.
We’ll see what happens. I’m ready to drive if she signs up, but I won’t sign her up for the admitted student’s day. That seems reasonable, right?
I feels like there is a fine line between encouragement and nagging. D feels like it’s nagging when I remind her of deadlines while I think I’m being helpful.
There is a weekend coming up when three colleges are having admitted student days and I just found out D has an overnight planning session for an annual EC event the same weekend. That just happens to be the weekend right after our new service puppy comes. And I have other kids making requests for that time, like can I pick up the friend who lives six hours away so she can stay for the week. ~X(
UT is killing me today…they started releasing admissions decisions last night and DD’s portal is still showing In Review. 6 months they’ve had her completed app. HS was supposed to release new class rank and GPA today too and that has not updated either, so to keep myself entertained…
We need to do an Odds check in again!
- Texas A&M- 95%
- Clemson 5% (pending)
- UT - .05 % (pending)
- Dream School that shall not be named- 2% (pending Mid March if she holds out that long)
Good luck to your D, @labegg!
Add me to the list of parents who booked a bunch of hotels due to this thread! We now have reservations for move-in day/weekend and Family Weekend at the 4 schools I think are possibilities where hotels may be a challenge. I decided not to book in the largest cities where hotel stock shouldn’t be affected by these events, but I might end up doing it after all. Thank goodness for refundable reservations, and thanks for the heads’ up from parents in the know.
FSU came out of nowhere. We were at 5% a few months ago with UMiami and Oklahoma split pretty even. Between Oklahoma’s NM package going down and UMiami delaying their EA decision along one her schoolmates with significantly lesser stats, hardly any rigor in his schedule and not National Merit getting an invite to Scholarship weekend and she didn’t…FSU picked an opportune time to try and woo her.
UMiami 60%
FSU 35%
OU 5% (if we win the lottery)
We keep hoping there is a second round of invites like last year for UMiami Scholarship weekend and she gets one.
This entire process reminds me of a country song…
So, my hands are sweaty and my knees are weak
I can’t eat and I can’t sleep
It’s turning me every way but loose
It sounds like loves got a hold of you, sounds like loves got a hold of you
Only it isn’t love that’s got a hold of me…
Ugh…and my DS says he doesn’t want to talk about college…he’s waiting for a reach in March, and I want to get our ducks in a row for that unlikely outcome…with the options we have
@ChattaChia I hear you. I just want to know where she is going and how much it is going to cost us. Hanging out until late March for what can only be described as long shots is difficult. Plus although she is realistic enough to realize the 7-10% acceptance rates make it highly unlikely that she gets in… I don’t want to be the one who is telling her negative things about her chances…
Now I have that song in my head @ChattaChia 
@flsoccermom22 I hear great things about FSU. It’s very high on my S20’s list.
Congrats, @labegg, it sounds like the decision process is just about done! <:-P
Odds here have shifted dramatically since last time I posted them! I really thought it was going to UBC. D did, too! But once she started digging into degree requirements and how much flexibility she would have, McGill made a whole lot more sense for her. Plus they gave her a quick decision, and gave her money. Love the school that loves you back.
McGill 93%
UBC 5%
USC, Trinity 2%
I concur with “Love the school that loves you back.”
DD odds by my reckoning are:
USC 40% (Presidential invite with NMF already giving the 50% …FA still needed as pricey)
Barnard 25% (assuming getting in and adequate FA) DD wants to go to NYC so this will be her likely choice…
UTD 25% (Only one affordable so far)
One of her five lottery schools 10% (the hour and half interview pushes this group up a bit HYSCB)
FA will be a big decider for our family as we still have two younger kids we are paying private tuition for.
Enjoying the updated odds, and the illustrative lessons they bring us.
Well I wan’t going to submit the FAFSFA, but since she didn’t get any merit and everyone just kept saying to do it, I did it. Maybe by some miracle she will get something.
I looked up booking rooms for move in, but we are only 2.5 hours away so not sure we will really stay overnight anyway. Then I looked up room for Cheer tryouts weekend this april and they were booked or really high (probably something else going on that weekend). So I checked out airbnb and there are some great deals that look really nice. I’m a little intrigued and we might just try it.
Do you guys think there is any hope for me to get into a college? I have a 3.3 UW and 3.7 Weighted with a 1150 SAT (i know it is low)
I haven’t posted in a bit but I do read everyday! I saw a few of you have final decisions! And a few more a inches away from that moment. Congrats! I think we are probably a month or two away from that around here. I really long for that to be done with so we can just move on with the other moving parts going on in our lives. Too many spinning plates at the moment. It would be nice if I could take one of them off the table. But this one’s not my call, so I do my best to keep that plate spinning in her corner, not mine. Except of course when I am needed for travel arrangements!
All this talk of securing rooms for fall got me super nervous, because I have barely managed to book the visit trips for the spring! I’m not sure that’s a plate I can spin right now. None of her schools are rural so I don’t think I have to be too worried, but yikes… brings me back to the odds. I never truly play the odds here because I’m just too superstitious. Even now that (nearly) all of her acceptances are in, I’m worried I’ll jinx it since we haven’t done visits to ANY of the schools that are finalists for her yet. ~X( Yeah, that’s how 180 things are around here. Everything is going to come down to these spring visits.
I do have an idea where things stand for her though. I think she’s 60-70% on what I call our “dark horse” candidate. We’re visiting later this month, with an overnight, and if it goes well she may be done. BUT, she is still nervous about being too far from home so I give 25-35% to the TX schools she recently applied to. If she likes them when we visit in March, she may feel comfortable avoiding the distance with school #1. Final option is the only one still standing where she and I thought she might go 6 months ago. I would have put this school at #2 back then, easily. Now it’s a distant #4, but still in contention, I give it 5% odds at this point.
Odds game update, though still much in flux:
Miami-Fla: 33% (co-top choice, money should work out if get some music merit on top of academic but still has to be admitted to music school)
Furman: 33% (loves everything about it, money still a bit short though)
USCal: 10% (will be NMF Presidential with half–tuition if admitted to music school, but needs more $$)
Loyola-NO: 5% (likes it except local and needs to be almost free to entice him)
FSU-5% (will be easily affordable but needs admit to competitive music school and he does not know much about it yet)
UNC-5% (auditioned for large music scholarship and would go in a heartbeat if he got it, but only 4 given out and 2 usually go to in state applicants)
Field-9% (Trinity, USCarolina, Fordham)
D was accepted to UMiami (FL) with $20K per year Presidential. It hasn’t really been on her radar, since we haven’t visited, & sorry to say even such a great award doesn’t bring it into range. I was hoping she’d get offered full tuition there. Ah well, we’re off to see UCF in a couple weeks & now we can visit a theme park on our free day instead of driving 4 hours each way to Miami. It’s still awfully nice to see her recognized at UM & will make her feel good.
DD was CAPPED for UT . “Coordinated Admissions Program” is an alternative admissions path where you attend a branch campus for 1 year and then can transfer in for UT, if you maintain a 3.2 GPA. UT only guarantees admission to the College of Liberal Arts. It is not an option that DD is interested in pursuing. This decision was no surprise. DD is well outside (14%) of the 7% auto admit cut off and really, for her school, no one with over a 10%/11% class rank makes the cut. It is essentially our first denial!