@nichols51 – our school is looking at hybrid options as well as others. No word yet, but the sense is they are prioritizing f2f for elementary and maybe middle school which may leave high school hybrid or remote.
I used the same college analogy for my S – less time in school and more time at home getting your work done, just like college. He liked that.
Anyway you slice it, it’s just a mess. NJ said 100% remote is not an option so I don’t know what it’s going to look like. I’m soooooo glad I don’t have little ones!!!
July 15 for AP scores, I think.
I’m worrying because D has mostly OOS publics on her list - she wants bigger, rah rah spirit. I think Syracuse might be her only private on the list? Anyone know any larger (5k+ students) to look into??? Vanderbilt, ND etc… too reachy.
Yes, AP scores come out that week of July 15th, but the dates varies by state. We don’t get ours until July 17th. I think I saw a list of states and dates on Trevor Packer’s twitter, probably?
For parents that like to read about admissions - I just competed the 3 part series in the Daily Princeton student newspaper and recommend it. The series covers historical data and philosophy with a bit of investigative reporting. I believe if you google Daily Princeton and the writer Liam OConnor it should come up for access.
FYI, Dickinson College has scheduled a series of virtual talks and Q&A sessions with professors of various departments.
Some my D would have liked are are already full or already occurred but we watched one that featured profs from the anthropology/archeology/classics department. It was pretty great (imagine archaeological field school in Greece! ) and the profs’ enthusiasm was catching, even to my D, who doesn’t particularly like getting her hands dirty, and is thinking of majoring in history, not anthropology. I think it elevated her opinion of the school (SHHH, don’t tell her, but it’s high on my “mom’s favorite list” of schools where I think she has a good chance of admissions).
July 15th will be a big day here - AP scores and it’s the date our district says they’ll release plans for the school year.
D21 got her class rank today. UT Austin auto admits the top 6%. She’s 6.3%! It’s a small class (<200) so it’s a difference of ONE PERSON. Argh! She’s happy to be top 10% though, that gets her auto admit everywhere except Austin.
@mm5678 6.3% Ugh, that is rough!!!
We haven’t gotten official rank here yet or a report card for end of yr.
@mm5678 argh! Any chance they round down ? 
Our high school gave us a little more detail today about the plan for the Fall. We knew we would have to choose 100% f2f (for as long as the schools are open) or 100% remote for each kid. Today we learned that the remote students will be expected to be online at the same time as the f2f kids (first period starts at 7:00), there will be more synchronous online learning than there was in the Spring, and the grading will supposedly be the same remote and f2f (it was easier, I think, when they shifted to remote in the Spring). I’m going to ask them whether teachers’ classes will be split - 2nd period Pre Calculus with Mr. H, for example - will he have a full f2f classroom while another teacher does remote, or will Mr. H have a 60% full classroom, for example, and 40% of his students for that class online at the same time ?
Just a note to say that this thread has helped me anticipate questions to ask myself, S21 and his school once a formal plan for our district is released. (Only a draft plan has been shared so far with us.)
I would never have thought to ask if one has to commit to one of the options all year or not. B/c whereas S is thinking online is probably the better option right now, I think I’d be sick to my stomach if he was then stuck at home and f2f school resumed somehow in the spring but he wasn’t allowed to return.
But, I’m in Florida and we seem to attract a lot of folks who think wearing a mask is only to be “recommended” for schools and not required. Sigh.
@nichols51 only from 6.09% down. 
I know there are Tulane fans here. Raise your hands and give me the scoop! D21 spent today at info sessions and a live tour and she loved it! I think last year there was some histrionics around EA and maybe how there seemed to be less merit money being offered. I think EA kids were also getting emails asking if they wanted to switch to ED and parents were freaked out not knowing what to do about that.
Who has visited? Positives and negatives? D21 likes the size and the campus. Likes how it seems like kids seem down to earth and not too uppity like maybe a place like Wake? And I think she can dabble in some marketing classes while majoring in something liberal artsy like political science or psych.
@homerdog A friend of the family who graduated HS in 2019 applied and really liked the school but did not like the “switch to ED and we’ll admit you now” pressure. He ended up attending a state school with a strong honors program.
D’s June ACT was cancelled even though nearby towns still held it. She got notification too late to try to change the location. She got another email a few days ago about the July cancellation. Thankfully she was able to find a seat about 30 min from home.
DS received an email that he would get to take the ACT. We were surprised as we had been told about two weeks previously that the school principal had stated the school would not host the ACT and had sent an email to the ACT asking about it (and they never even replied to our email). Well after a week then we get the email that in fact our location has been cancelled.
He took the SAT at the beginning of 10th and scored 1550 with an 800 in math, but did not bother to do the writing as he took the SAT as part of his application to a different high school. He wanted the essay but we are pretty sure we are just going to give up and request a refund as we are tired of dealing with CB and ACT.
D19 and I visited it and loved it. Great campus, enthusiastic students, positive campus vibe, and New Orleans Is great. We got the feeling it is a work hard, play hard school and that there is not one type of student that goes there. Family friend who attends agrees and speaks highly of the academic experience thus far.
D19 applied early action and did get a 30k/yr academic scholarship. She Was considering Tulane when she was torn btwn neuroscience and architecture and Tulane has both. Really liked the archi program there!
The campus does not feel southern in the way that Wake feels southern in terms of student body (which D saw as a plus). Check out where the freshman are from on the IPEDS 2018 And I think it will show that. There is a sizable NJ/NY contingent.
Downside for D was no sports culture at Tulane, many freshman dorms were Being squeezed 3 to a room, a family friend who attended said food was not good. the one thing that put me off was the admissions people seemed downright giddy announcing their very low acceptance rate at our info session (we visited in March of her junior year when they had just completed app review/acceptances). I guess they are at least transparent about the strategy…very clearly trying to raise the school profile by encouraging apps with no app fee…giving big scholarships to high stats kids, and drive down acceptance rate while increasing their avg gpa/ACT/SAT stats in order to improve the school’s ranking and thus hopefully attract even more academic minded students. My daughter has friends who applied who were not admitted who went on to Penn and Univ of Chicago. Those friends were extremely qualified but did not visit. I think tulane considered that D visited a plus in evaluating her app, though of course that may not be the case this year. D could see herself there and it was definitely a contender had she not been admitted To her dream school.
@2ndthreekids would you mind sharing where your D ended up? Thanks for the review. You can PM me if you prefer. 
@homerdog have you looked at Rice for your D? One of S21 friends was accepted at Tulane and Rice and she chose Rice.
@Aguadecoco oooh good idea. Forgot about Rice. This poor child. I think she’s going to end up throwing a lot of apps out there.