@socaldad2002, that makes me feel better, thanks! A few of the opportunities our GC posted actually sounded pretty interesting, though D could not fit it into her schedule. One scholarship I forwarded to my friend whose son is interested in aviation (he’s in a different school same district, but his GC hasn’t informed them of it.
And both recommendations have finally been uploaded, yeah!!
We don’t have Naviance but in general there is no communication from guidance to parents about anything.
@typiCAmom, that’s great!
Anybody else find this, in today’s email from CB, kind of hilarious? “Follow your child’s 11th-grade action plan
Before winter break, make sure you and your child have reviewed their PSAT/NMSQT® scores.” :)) Oh, good idea. Not one of us has been thinking about that!
I love reading about all your kids! Thanks for the support in listening to me and my oldest. I’m so proud. His grades suck, obviously, from being out most of last year, but this year is all better.
I didn’t even open that CB email!
I don’t think DS20 signed up for emails/mailings. He sees no purpose in it, so right now all we’ve gotten is CB emails and a couple mailings from schools he’s shown an interest in.
@HarrietMWelsch, thank you! D gave me access to her application (because I was stressing over the recs), and I just realized she must have changed her essays after NSLI denial - just like for NSLI essays, her original ones were very funny, witty, a bit weird, I loved them! When she showed her NSLI essays to others, so, one person thought her humor was a bit too sarcastic and thus risky. So I guess she attributed her rejection to humor in her essays and decided to remove it from essays for the other program 
@typiCAmom what other programs is she applying for?
Regarding Naviance, we have it but it is a resource for students to use, not the school. The school doesn’t post any data on it, send messages through it or use it for LOR. Students can do college search and view scattergrams but any data is self reported by the students. The school does, however receive stats from Naviance after students graduate and are in college I think that might be why the school pays for it.
@lkg4answers, she has also applied for Bronfman (summer in Israel), will apply for TASP, and also may apply to CByX (year in Germany), though deadline is fast approaching, and I’m not sure she is working on her essays - NSLI-Y rejection took a lot of wind out of her sails :(. It will be all right though 
The new Nintendo Switch game is the focus today. No mentioning about psat scores…
ACT today. Good times, they keep a-rolling…
My S was registered for the ACT today, and he was prepped and ready, but his test site cancelled it because of the weather forecast, which turned out to be completely wrong. It’s dry as a bone out there. We don’t know the rescheduled date yet, but I’m not optimistic about it jiving with S’s schedule. Pretty frustrated over here.
oh dear ShrimpBurrito. That’s very very frustrating i’m guessing. Will it be soon do you think?
We specifically chose this date so we can get back scattered-S20’s complete results to go over.
@bgbg4us Good luck to your S today.
I really don’t know when the rescheduled test will be. If it’s next Sat, S can’t do it. I doubt they will schedule it over the holidays, then S’s January is packed with his EC commitments. As of now it looks like S could do the Feb 9 test date, but we know he can’t do April. He needs to nail that Feb test. Unless it’s cancelled because of “weather,” of course.
D just walked out the door to take the ACT, crossing my fingers she improves her math score and will be done. I guess we will know by the end of the month.
I do feel really bad about all of the prep and testing our kids have to do nowadays with PSAT, ACT/SAT, AP exams, and subject tests. On top of studying for midterms and other classroom tests.
I just hope they are able to just enjoy being a HS kid now and again…
Ugh, @ShrimpBurrito - sorry about that! GL to your kids, @socaldad2002, @bgbg4us, & @bigmacbeth!
And I definitely agree with that hope, @socaldad2002.
@whataboutcollege, that release is definitely helping in my house, too! Funny if they’re playing each other and we just don’t know it.
DS '20 also on the ACT test train today. He didn’t want to prepare since his older siblings did not. They did fine; we’ll see about DS '20.
He said that he took a practice on a snow day that we had. I asked him what he scored and he said “85%” so I remain a tad skeptical.
On more positive notes, he recovered his college board account so he can check PSAT score next week. Also, he got his first D1 recruiting contact so he is motivated to finish the semester strong.
Good luck to everyone’s kids! I have a feeling we as parents worry about results way more than our kids do. And in the end all these tests may not even matter
Just went to Stanford’s REA thread and looked at stellar stats of all the kids who were rejected. So happy I didn’t fall into the trap of talking it up to D to make it her dream school (it’s still my dream school for her since she’d be close to home with higher chances of staying in the area after graduation)!
GL to your S too, @Dave_N (and I like your avatar).
@typiCAmom, I know what you mean about not talking up a (possibly ideal) school too much. S2 has his eye on a school that I feel is almost certainly not realistic for him. (For anyone, it’s one of those schools our GC calls “lottery ticket” schools - as in, your stats/application may be good enough to buy you a lottery ticket, but you’re still up against a the laughable odds that their ghastly-low acceptance rate offers.) He has legit reasons to love it, but I spend a lot of time biting my tongue and hoping he falls in love elsewhere.
Good luck to all those taking the ACT today! @ShrimpBurrito what a pain, I’m so sorry you have to go through that - doesn’t seem fair!
My concern about a “dream school” is the cost. We make too much but too little to pay for a private no merit aid school. The UCs are huge but are so much more affordable for a Californian.
@lkg4answers unless UCLA is their “dream school”! At least for my D this is one of her top choice colleges.