S25 was called to the office along with two other students and told he made semifinalist. They are taking pictures tomorrow to post on social media. I am excited for him and grateful that we can get his applications in now!
Last year, there was a week where students who applied to the NC public schools through the College Foundation of North Carolina website had the application fee waived. I don’t know if you need to be a North Carolina resident, but I thought it worthwhile to put it out there for this audience.
I found this info for fall 2024 applications:
"College Application Week is from October 21 to 27, 2024. During this week, many North Carolina colleges and universities waive their application fees. "
Our school doesn’t offer this either. They are prepping the students by offering quality education, which I recognize is a privilege. But that is not to say that my kids didn’t take advantage of excellent (free and accessible to all) Khan Academy test prep.
D25 hasn’t been officially notified yet of NMSF but I talked to her principal, and it seems he’s planning a social media post about it. I hope they tell her the day before they do the pictures so she can prepare. lol
She got voted onto Homecoming court today. I’m sure she is over the moon especially since she doesn’t think anyone likes her in her class. The rest of the school will vote for King/Queen at some point.
Agreed. To clarify, our local high school does virtually no college prep, no test prep, and no college search guidance. Their college model seems to be to funnel the college bound kids into the local community college, which is fine, but it’s not for everyone.
I’m going to die of old age before my kid applies EA. My gut reaction is to do a countdown for her (“only X more weeks to apply!”), but my gut reactions have been painfully wrong the past 6 months for our relationship, so I’m going to keep my mouth shut. For now.
Here is the list of participating colleges for NC’s College Application Week. The big guys are unfortunately not included. Some do require NC residency to honor the waiver. This will help us with my daughter’s other in-state applications.
Thanks for digging up this list! I had thought that NC State and UNC Chapel Hill were included in the fee waiver last year, but I guess not. Clearly, my memory is unreliable …
Most of D’s friends are in the top 1-3% of their class and only 1 is applying to competitive schools for musical theatre or vocal performance like Juilliard and NYU. The rest are planning on attending Rowan and the #2 in the class is intent on going to Messiah. Most of the parents expect their kids to come home some weekends, meet up for lunch/dinner and maybe attend a high school football game or two. My D can’t wait to leave her home town and would only watch the thanksgiving day football game if it’s local that year. She’s not applying to any academic reaches but does have to audition. These aren’t the most competitive music programs but not guaranteed either. She’s been working on her essay and hopefully will have something ready to be edited this week. I really want to get these apps submitted and auditions scheduled asap.
S’s AP Lit class has finishing their Common App essay as the first assignment. Since S’s is complete and has already started submitting it to a few EA schools, they got permission to work on a supplemental essay that has a topic that can be tweaked for other schools! That might knock 6-7 supplements out of the way which is HUGE. [Insert GIF of someone breathing a sigh of relief.]
Well, S25 is done with most of his essays. He just needs to put his film portfolio together, he thought he had something, but he was just selected to be a director for his film class project that will be done before applications are due, so he’s holding off on submitting his applications until this is done b/c this will be the only time he’s gotten to direct a decent sized project, and he thinks if it turns out good will help him.
His overall application list is pretty thin. It’s pretty hard to tell what is a safety with film programs because they all have limited admits. He’s pretty sure George Mason will be a likely (it seems like a two step process - where you get admitted to the school, which will be a safety for him, and then you apply to the film program). So he’s doing just Virginia schools and a couple of California schools (LMU being a top choice - although he knows that finances may make that not feasible).
We are in a similar boat with an art portfolio. We were able to submit to a few safeties that don’t accept or need one, but everything else will have to wait until the portfolio is done.
It really is a different world than other majors. I also have no way of judging what’s worth it or not, from a financial perspective. We basically told him to limit his choices to the cost of in-state tuition in VA. The only exception being LMU b/c my sister lives next to campus and has offered to let him stay there, which will help a lot.