See, at our house teacher workday just means FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CATCH UP ON YOUR ENGLISH HOMEWORK ALREADY. Sigh.
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It is WORK ON YOUR COMMON APP ESSAY AND SUPPLEMENTALS here - we haven’t even got main essay totally done (but close).
oh, and do your regular homework too!
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It’s like, are you TRYING to drive me insane? S25 had Friday off and today off. He really worked hard Friday, I’ll give him that. Did a ton. Had very very little left to do for the remaining three days. Saturday he planned a mostly all day event with some of the guys who live relatively close from his sleep-away summer camp. He only sees them every 3-4 months and really misses them, so I said ok, no problem, you worked your tail off on Friday, you earned this.
But the assumption was that he would do some work on Sunday, so that he’d have some time free today. That’s relevant because my college kid just got home late last night for fall break, and I was hoping to do some family stuff today (husband and I are off of work for Indigenous Peoples/Columbus Day). But the best laid plans… college kid slept until we woke him at 11:45, HS kid didn’t do the work he promised on Sunday so he’s working today. So now my “fun day off with family” is just me sitting at the kitchen table, hoping someone comes by to at least talk with me when they are ready for lunch. Bah.
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We checked the portal today and it is changed to “Decided” with a link to submit the enrollment deposit. No email, no acceptance letter, no confetti, but looks like they are in. Pretty anticlimactic!
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C25 went to talk to the teacher who hasn’t submitted their letter yet, apparently she has been out for a little while. I hope she is back soon.
Oh thanks for letting me know!!! I wonder if other stuff will come later? or one of the schools that send something in physical mail? (I think a few left do that, but probably not UNH as a big-ish school?)
My kid’s portal still says " Application Status | Awaiting Decision" but you have given me hope it is soon!!
I do feel like they are sometime:) pushing buttons!
I know will all get done but like pulling teeth sometimes:)
So–as an update on our C25 getting admitted, but only my wife and I getting the emails----C25 got her admitted student packet in the mail! They had no idea what a big envelope meant and it was killing us waiting for them to open it. Nice scholarship and enough DE & AP credit that it knocks out most of the gen ed requirement. Two rolling admits down, now on to the EAs.
Hope everyone is doing well!
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My D25 just averaged it out over the year.
My daughter squeezed this in at the end of the description section. “30hrs/wk in summer, 6hrs/wk school yr” or something similar. This is what her CCO advised. And for the hours per week metric she used the summer hours.
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Tillamook = cool name. But way too sweet for my taste.
I have a question–Does anyone send official AP scores for the application? I know some colleges want official SAT/ACT scores, but do they also want official AP Scores? I have had a hard time finding that answer.
Only send official AP scores if they specifically ask for them (and vanishingly few do). Self-reported AP scores suffice for nearly everybody at the application stage.
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Yeah, it showed up in one portal so we did it there and I was like, “crap, do we need to be doing that?” and Thanks!
Tillamook is a Native American tribe and the dairy was located in their region, very cool name! I like sweet ice cream 
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YES. The answer is yes. At least in our house. 
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Big excitement around here! The kiddo finally hit submit on his first EA app today! Woohoo! And he helped himself to ice cream unprompted! But alas, not Tillamook, which we also love. Just squeaked in on that deadline though, and goodness he held us to that 30 minute time limit for college discussion/app review that we put in the college discussion contract. I think my husband and I wasted at least 5 of those minutes “discussing” the difference between our rural delivery address and our actual legal address (those in rural areas may know what I mean). I am so relieved we are not alone with a slightly slower rate of app completion, but so far he seems to be able to pull things together pretty well. Getting that first one submitted is pretty exciting. The next month is going to be hectic as he finalizes two more EA apps and makes some big decisions about whether or not to apply ED to one of his top choices. He has at least one visit planned for the coming weeks, probably two depending on how things go between now and early November. Seems late, I know, but he’s been tweaking his list a bit as the process unfolds, and it’s meant having to adjust on the fly a bit more than what I’m used to.
So far things are going great at the new school. He’s managing the commute, although the first snow flew today (it won’t stick, but still), so now I get to start stressing about winter driving instead of just… driving. He loves his new team, and classes are good. Grading and the work load are definitely tougher, but not so much that he’s struggling.
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First, kudos to your son!
Second, re the rural address issue, when spouse and I lived in Vermont 25 years ago, our honest to god delivery address was
MidwestPack
Gee Hill Rd
2nd Opening in Rock Wall After Cow Mailbox
City, Vt Zipcode
The postal service, UPS and FedEx got that right every time. Never could manage the official address.
This was back when you had to actually order over a phone so you could request an oddball address like that. Not sure what an html order form would do with that.
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That’s why Alaska uses mile markers (to the tenth of a mile) for semi-rural addresses on the road system.
For the third of the state’s population that’s off the road system, it’s whatever works for that particular town. But some of those are small enough that you could probably just address your envelope
Name
City AK Zip
and it would get to the right person.
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Some pieces of information that I found interesting from a recent presentation by a Duke admissions officer that I attended:
- From the AO’s mouth, >70% of their applications come from students they consider academically fit for Duke. I know there have been discussions about how many distinct classes selective schools could fill and be satisfied with. I expected it would be high, but not that high.
- The AO made it very clear that students should only submit test scores if they are at or above the middle 50%. He specifically mentioned a 1490 (Duke’s range is 1510-1560) and said that while it is a good score, he would caution against submitting it because it is lower that the middle 50. He said this after acknowledging that Duke’s score range has risen 50 points since test optional, which I find to be somewhat hypocritical.
These are just some things I found interesting and thought people here might as well. I do at least think it is good Duke has made a pretty clear recommendation; submit test scores if over middle 50, don’t if below. I wish more schools would be clearer about what they want.
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