Here’s a new one for me since I don’t remember this with D16.
I’m getting a little worried. Was there a place on commonapp or Coalition to fill in ss#? S18 has now heard from 2 school(which already accepted him) that they don’t have that info. Have any of your kids had this issue? Could it have been a reason for deferral/rejections?
@cardinal2020mom I just logged into DD’s common app and her SSN is on there - you had to put it in if applying for federal financial aid.
What office is saying they don’t have it? Maybe they aren’t talking to each other?
You could log back in and make sure it’s there …under citizenship status.
@bearcatfan the FA offices of the schools. I’m going to have him check to see if he missed adding it.
@swtaffy904 I know how upsetting a discovery like that is …and to have it on top of all the stress and anxiety with your mom must be an incredible burden. I also know it seems like forever until you can call tomorrow but hang in there, positive thoughts and vibes and I will say a prayer you get the answer you seek.
@swtaffy904 - so sorry other this… Hope your mom is doing okay. Definitely call them ( and offer to send something to authenticate you family’s emergency.) Let us know how it goes.
I am a terrible poster, but I read daily and have enjoyed and mourned the highs and lows with all of you! @swtaffy904 - hope that your mom is on the mend and release yourself from any guilt feelings, etc. over the accidentally missed deadline. I’m hopeful that the school will understand and you are doing the best that you can!
We have booked our hotel reservations for move-in and parents weekend, but @2014novamom , how did you know how to go about booking Thanksgiving flights already? I called the school and spoke to someone that said “most professors” cancel Tuesday classes that week, but we wouldn’t know until my daughter receives her clas syllabi… Thanks for any insight!
@2018/2022mom I would not assume that any classes will be cancelled. You need to go with standard schedules.
I have booked us in for orientation May 31-June 1 (I say “us” because they actually do offer a separate parent program so H and I won’t just be wandering around on our own). I didn’t make a hotel reservation yet though. There are lots of hotels in the UTD area alone, but if necessary there’s also Dallas very close with many more hotels. There are many orientation dates as well, and likely plenty of students won’t even have graduated by May 31 so that session might not be too crowded.
I don’t think hotel rooms for August move-in will be a big deal for us either, especially because in a pinch we could just skip the hotel altogether and make the drive from home.
@traveler98 I thought NM kids at UTD had a special honors orientation in August and they do that instead of regular orientation. I’ll double check on this when we are there for the NM preview day on 2/19.
First Semester Grades in and with 5AP classes, college/scholarship applications and visits, softball and musical DD kept her 4.0 UW GPA intact. So proud.
She is still smarting from outright rejections from UVA and UNC but she is slowly getting over it. I had to remove them from my twitter following and CC bookmarks.
Update on our late form. I called Smith and explained the situation. She said since we had everything except that one form to get it in and we could still be considered. D’s financial aid award letter will likely come after everyone else gets theirs. I asked if she could still be considered for merit aid. She said that is handled in admissions office not financial aid office. So they aren’t even looking at the forms.
I am so grateful.
Thanks to everyone for the well wishes for my mom. Thankfully she is on the mend.
I had been joking I didn’t know what I would do with myself next year when D is gone, she is my only. Unfortunately I now realize I will be turning my attention in the other direction, my parents.
@2018/2022mom Syracuse gets the whole week off for Thanksgiving so we just booked her a flight leaving the Saturday prior. For my DS14 I always just booked him a flight home on Wednesday evening. I don’t think he ever had a full slate of classes cancelled on Wednesday and certainly never on Tuesday so Wednesday evening flights were always the safest.
@burghdad - reading your post, I was suddenly struck by the absurdity of a student with your D’s qualifications beging rejected from UVA and UNC. How did we get to this point?
Good question, @GertrudeMcFuzz 
Yes @traveler98, @3scoutsmom is right, at least that was our experience for DD16. She had honors orientation in August which I thought was so strange it was so late. I think it was the Wednesday through Friday right before classes started? We got an email about it telling us if we had already registered for a regular session (which we had) that we could change our registration to the honors session and they would refund us for the regular session or not charge us twice. I was worried about how she would register for classes with orientation in August but then we got emails about registering for classes and She ended up registering for classes I think in April. She just had to take the ALEKS math placement test first I think, even though she had AP calc already.
But I don’t know which of her benefits are CV and which are from National merit. Oh and we found that even though she was national merit and an honors kid (CV), being a national merit gave her the right to be in CV but she had to tell them that she wanted to be on CV, she wasn’t automatically in CV until she told them she wanted to be in CV. Registering early might be a benefit of CV not national merit, I don’t know which one it is since she has both. Registering early is such a huge benefit because those classes really do fill up fast!
Ah thanks for that @shelleee. I had seen the August CV orientation but thought it was in addition to regular orientation, because I figured there was no way they’d make them wait until August to schedule classes. I didn’t know CV could register even earlier than the regular orientation dates.
I did know that NMF have to email CV to be added to the honors program, and was planning to have S email them with a pic of his NMF letter whenever he receives it. Thanks for the reminder though!
@GetrudeMcFuzz @ShrimpBurrito She has no hooks and beyond that all I can think of is there is something flawed with her applications. Maybe they didn’t think the rigor was there with only 2 AP classes in Junior year; maybe they didn’t see “passion” as she applied as “undecided” major; maybe her essays were below average…I was never allowed to read them…Must have been truly holistic in a bad way for her…
My first thought was that these universities are simply receiving so many applications that they have the luxury of not accepting even tip-top students like your D. So I guess I’m wondering how we got to the point where students submit so many apps. We’re certainly not immune to it here - my D put in 9. In my day, I think I did 4 and that was looked at as a lot. Most of my peers applied to one of the UCs and maybe a CSU as a backup. And everyone got into the UC they applied to, or so it seemed!
@burghdad - how much does legacy count for UNC OOS applicants? One of our friend’s daughters got in and I didn’t think she is that strong of a student. I know she has taken AP courses but I think had as yet to pass any of the tests. I was quite surprised she was accepted. There is jut no rhyme or reason it seems.
Common App has certainly contributed to the increase in applications. It’s so much easier now than back in our day when we had to type each application laboriously. And submit different essays for each school.
As for how and why people get in, I just think about what Dean J of UVA Admissions had to say and that is, those of us on the outside cannot see what everyone has in their applications. We only know what we see from the outside. So the kid who may not have taken that many APs could also be a caregiver for an ill relative or is a world class fencer who doesn’t get accolades because their sport is esoteric and not part of school. Maybe they are doing research outside of school and getting co-author credits. We also don’t know what their letters of recommendation or essays look like. And we also don’t know what the college was looking for when they were trying to build their class.
My DD probably wasn’t the strongest candidate at Newhouse (less than 10% admission rate) but she had something they wanted, even if that was just our full pay tuition. Cynical? Yes, but perhaps realistic.