Same. She is going to school half days. Working the other half at her job (she gets school credit for it), going to dance practice, volunteering as youth coach (requires extra practices and attending games), she works pretty much every weekend as well. I honestly can’t remember the last day she did absolutely nothing and just relaxed. I figure I can take care of the junk emails and tell her when theres something important for her to read.
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I think the fact we are on this forum kind of speaks that we are all obsessive planners.
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Stop attacking me SomeGuy121! lol
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Also some of us might have gotten off of other social media to avoid election drama and this is now our primary online social hub. Not me of course; just some of us 
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Good think I nagged D25 today. She had to get a zoom interview scheduled before the end of the month for U of Tulsa! There was ONE day that worked for her!
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I cannot avoid it. We only have cable tv, no streaming services and oh my god the ads!
My SIL, who is a little kooky, went to vote early yesterday and called me before she left. She said she was voting early because she couldn’t stand the ads anymore. When I said “what?” She told me that once she voted the ads would stop because “they” would know she had voted. She really truly believes all kinds of bonkers things, so I don’t think she was joking.
If I could stop the ads by voting early I would’ve been in that polling place the second it opened!
And I just keep picturing SIL turning on the tv after she got home yesterday and being So Mad because the ads were still going…. 
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I just told D25 she has to write a 500 plus word essay for a scholarship. I got a bit of wide eyes but reminded her its not due until January. With lower gpa and TO she will only get 3500/yr from Central Mich so the essay could get her an additional 4k/yr. This would get total COA down to about 20k/yr which would be doable.
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Tonight I told S25 he had to do a three minute video presentation for a scholarship. Got the same wide eyes. He doesn’t have quite as long, it’s due late November sometime, but it’s for a big scholarship. It’s unlikely he’ll get it (they prefer in state students, which we are not) but not impossible.
As I told him, if you never try you never succeed, so just give it a try.
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Just got the same wide eyed look that is standard in teenagers because she applied to Ithaca today and they require an up to 2 minute video of why music ed in addition to the why music ed written supplement she submitted.
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I kind of don’t blame her, that is annoying!
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Same here about scholarship essays. I’m going to battle to get C25 to write essays about how they are a good leader, etc…but with up to $200k on hanging on these, you have to at least try. That said, I would have given those eyes myself at 17…I HATED writing essays…I was a science and math kid.
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Folks, should we submit SAT test-score of 1390 in few top colleges that we are contemplating or choose to apply without score. Pls let know your view.
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My eldest was an English and philosophy major and thought she was going to go to law school but instead got her MBA. Today she works in Investor Relations and both her skills as being an amazing writer and analytical/ business skills are combined. Sounds like she should study English and business
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It depends on the score range for each individual school. I believe the current wisdom is to submit if your score is above their 25th percentile. The score range can be found in Scoir (if you have it) or by googling the school name + CDS.
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If the school test optional and the score is below the 50th percentile, my child is not with a very similar score.
You can look at the schools’ Common Data Sets and see what percentage of students submit. The numbers are low for BU, Notheastern, like under 30%.
For selective schools, it seems like only kids who have something to highlight or are homeschooled are submitting.
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My take was if score is a bit above the 25th percentile. For a 1390, I would submit for all schools that have 25th percentile at 1360 and lower.
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We just visited Ithaca on Monday. Lovely! Good luck to your daughter. Seems like an awesome place to live and study, especially music!
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Got the latest SAT scores back. His third time. Lower on both areas, so he will submit his super score from first two attempts. I use college vine, and it seems he is best off applying with scores, even though he is below their average (but probably just above the school’s lower 25%). I just wonder if that will hurt his chances for merit.
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Collegevine seems to love scores but I’m not personally convinced. For some schools it seems to matter for merit but for others a lower score hurts merit.
There’s no clear answer here and my personality is not great with the vagueness! Drives me crazy.
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