You heard directly from UNH? (not via Niche?) that is interesting…(assuming you mean hampshire, not haven).
Anyway, I don’t know anyone IRL that has acceptances form their schools in new england )(which I probably should have said instead of Northeast) unless through Niche - doesn’t mean they don’t have any, but not that I have heard. And it is definitely seems regional - south has a lot more rolling and quick turnarounds. Most people I know didn’t apply anywhere until mid-october.
My kid isn’t applying to super selective things, and none of their schools release before Dec, historically (or via their official comms as of now).
I was wondering the same thing about UNH. I had kiddo check his UNH portal yesterday but he said there’s been no change.
I think he’s checking his ED portal daily… and finally accepting that he is not likely to hear anything until December. Normally, I’d say yes please, universe! Give me more time before the chaos of Thanksgiving and the holidays and that annual feeling of being ten steps behind on the holiday prep, but right now, I’m all about getting to December!
fascinating! haven’t heard anyone around here getting notification yet! (though maybe just not people I know…). They may also have moved it up to align with niche. (In past I don’t think they accepted people until Dec).
It is my kid’s favorite “likely” and also got in (and completed whole admit process) via Niche. Decent chance they go there (regardless of other acceptances from traditional EA schools).
This may be a good time to pose this question: Given that the holidays are coming, along with all the get togethers with family and friends that entails, how are you (the collective “you” of this thread) thinking of handling (or suggesting how your kid(s) handle) the inevitable questions related to college?
For some, those discussions may come easily. For those stressing over pending ED decisions or the general unknown at this point, such discussions could be additional stressors.
Are you planning to address this with your kid before the get togethers start? If so, what would your approach be?
We’ve been telling people (who have already been asking if S25 has made a decision yet!) that we don’t expect him to make decision until early April, because he is waiting for all information to be available regarding admissions decisions and possible scholarships. Maybe he will decide earlier than that, but if we keep telling people he isn’t deciding until April, maybe they won’t ask us multiple times between then and now? It helps that he is not doing ED, so we are able to tell everyone that S25 has applied to a number of schools and needs to wait on information from all of them before he decides!
I am not looking forward to this, my kid is stressed and doesn’t really want to talk about it!
I think I am going to tell those I can, not to ask (unless kid brings it up) Otherwise will say has a couple of good options already (some direct admissions schools) and are waiting to see what else happens with Jan-released decisions before any final plan has been made.
Since this is our second go-round, my family mostly knows what to expect with timing of the decision. Regardless of when my son makes up his mind, we’ll be waiting until the last minute to commit. Enough people get additional merit offers late in the game that I don’t see any benefit to us from committing early (none of his schools have housing picks based on when you put down money - if they did, we might look at this differently).
Our bigger issue will be our family being dismissive or looking down on the schools he’s applying to. Some of them are really snooty. My mom is having a hard time with this, partly, I think, because she’s embarrassed to tell her sister and brother where S25 is looking/leaning. This has nothing to do with her, and isn’t a status symbol for her or anyone, but she’s still all “oh, why THAT school? How come he isn’t applying to more good schools?” I think she’s always enjoyed bragging on how smart and accomplished my kids are (not saying that they are anything particularly special, just that she brags on it) and now she’s feeling sheepish or something about his college choices.
Sigh. I love my mother, I really do. But this is a constant issue. I’m just doing my best to keep the somewhat snarky comments aimed at me and not my kid.
We have the opposite problem. My mom, who begged me to go to Queens College and live at home instead of attending the seven sisters’ school I did attend, is embarrassed to appear snooty to her friends. She keeps asking why S25 is applying to “fancy schools.” For her, ANY private or even OOS school is “fancy” or “ridiculous.” She doesn’t even like hearing about them.
In random vaguely related follow-on, my older son, a college junior at WPI, is maybe sort of kind of potentially dating a girl at a seven sisters school (Wellesley). My mom is THRILLED because she’s, clearly, a smart girl. Now, I’m sure she IS a smart girl, getting into Wellesley isn’t easy. But we literally know nothing about her and my mom has decided she’s amazing. Meanwhile, the only thing she’s had to say about one of S25s top choice schools, Clemson, is “oh, isn’t that where my sister’s friend K went to school? Do you think all the girls have problems like her?” (K had a serious alcohol and drug problem in high school, and terrible grades. So mom has now decided, based on 30 years ago sample size of one, that it’s a school for losers.)
Sigh. Sorry to take so much thread bandwidth. I clearly haven’t had enough coffee yet this morning to get to the point where none of this bugs me. Serenity now!
D25 had her first snafu. She thought a scholarship deadline was the 15th but turns out it was the 12th. She hadn’t even started her essay and got a text at about 7pm telling her that the application was due that night. She probably would have just skipped it but her counselor had already submitted her part. She managed to submit something, but I don’t expect her to win the scholarship. It’s a shame because she had a decent chance to win it. Oh well.
She’s down to just one more essay for a scholarship at one school. No school tomorrow so she should be able to knock that one out.
She’s still waiting on 2 decisions, 1 safety and 1 target/reach. She’ll know first week of December for the one but not until early January for the other. Should she be doing anything for the schools she’s still waiting on? Would it help her to contact the admissions rep with a random question just to keep her in the front of his mind?
S25 has finally decided to apply to more than one college (the one he was recruited for his sport). He submitted 2 additional applications last night to safeties and there are 2 more on the list. Phew, this should not be so hard. All are rolling admissions. Keeping fingers crossed we get at least one acceptance very soon to lift the spirits. S25 is afraid “no one will want him” because of his low GPA.
Really struggling to get my athletic recruit to apply to his safety as well. ED has been submitted but it is not 100% a sure thing. Safety application is due tomorrow — he just has to write one supplement!!! But can’t bring himself to do it. I know senioritis is starting to kick in because tasks are being put off until the absolute last moment and all of the sudden his alarm “isn’t going off” in the mornings. Ugh
First, I’m sorry to hear about the snafu, but you must be thrilled with how she handled it when she noticed the issue.
As to sending an email with the primary intent being to be memorable? If I were an admissions rep, I don’t think I would appreciate that. I would think that they have enough to do. Were it a legitimate question of specific interest to your daughter and she could not get the answer from a reasonable search, then yes, I think an email would be ok. However, I suspect that those instances are narrow.
Then again, I’m not an admissions rep. They may enjoy getting such emails.
One of my best friends read a book that shaped her philosophy on this. Their family held their cards incredibly close to their chest – opted not to discuss which schools they were considering, where their son was applying, where he got in, etc. Then they revealed his decision.
(To be clear, when I heard where he was planning to go, I was skeptical. I have a family member at that school and culturally it felt like a really odd fit for this kid that I’ve known for a long time. And I wondered – if his family had done a little more crowd-sourcing of college options, would they have landed somewhere that could have been a more natural fit? But also…maybe they’ll prove me wrong. Maybe preppy conservative fratty schools could use more west coast soft-spoken egalitarian environmentalist types! and vice versa.)