Yay!! D26 approached her choices for recommendations and both were an enthusiastic yes!!!
Correct me if I am wrong, but the next step is essentially putting their information in the common app when it opens so that I request is sent to them, correct? Obviously, she will also be in touch with them, giving them a brag sheet and what not.
I really really wish my daughterâs schoo did a common app workshop type of thing. We live in a pretty rural area and her school doesnât send a ton of kids to college at all let alone competitive schools. Those that do attend college, go to our state flagship, which is not a difficult school to get into. Not to knock the school, itâs an excellent school. But the application process is not difficult or competitive.
Her guidance counselor, Iâm sure, will assist her if necessary. But I do sometimes feel like we are kind of fumbling our way through things.
I wonder if they have these types of workshops online? Like put out by an organization or something? I wouldnât mind attending a webinar or something.
S26 is also a fan of the âstudy by osmosisâ approach. 
He has a couple sessions left with his tutor before the June 14 test but he isnât really putting in the time to practice the English section (where he needs to improve). Iâm going a little crazy watching him do everything but lock in for the ACT.
On a side, but related, note: Iâve started reading the âLet Them Theoryâ by Mel Robbins. Iâm not usually a self help book reader but i definitely need someone to beat that mantra into my head when it comes to S26!
Iâm sure they do. Iâm on a Facebook group for parents of kids with learning disabilities headed to college run by a consultant group, and they do free webinars etc sometimes. I canât imagine the app process differs much other than maybe a discussion of whether or not to disclose disabilities. I donât think weâre allowed to post âadvertisementsâ publicly but I can DM you the group name and you can see if it looks worthwhile.
I think the really high aiming kids at the school mostly have private consultants (I know our neighbor that sent 2 of their kids to Penn had them working with the kids since sophomore year..) so this is kind of aimed at ânormalâ college kids I think. It is newish - they didnât do it when D19 was there.
In other news, two people I know of have been diagnosed with Covid in the last couple of days, one someone who just traveled and the other a friendâs elderly parent (ended up in ER). Be careful out there, especially if youâre traveling.
Edit: friend thinks her parent caught it in church ..
A lot of folks on CC have already had kids go through the process and are happy to answer common app questions. 
There is even a subforum for those questions: Common and Coalition Application - College Confidential Forums
Hey donât knock it.
I, myself, am a big proponent of the âPictures, Charts and Bold Text Strategyâ for studying - spend 75% of study time skimming through that and I felt like I was on track. Helped me through 4 degrees at UIUC and UNC, so thereâs maybe some merit to alternate study strategies!
Muhlenberg looks like a real hidden gem! The NPC was great (if it ends up being accurate). The current students who have posted on CC seem really happy there.
That DOES sound like a busy summer but lots of really cool stuff!
Thatâs the plan in August! Weâve only been able to visit 2 of them â so itâs all very nebulous right now I think.
We arenât rural but pretty much the same thing - no common app help and most kids go to the state schools. We are lucky that one of my daughterâs teachers really helps the kids out a lot.
âLet Them Theoryâ seems to be popular. I just wanted to reserve it at my local library and even though they have a gazillion copies, they are all checked out. Iâm on the waitlist now 
Iâm usually more in the relaxed freerange parent category. But S26 definitely needs nagging since time for creating a college list is running out. My current mantra is âone step at a timeâ. For now we wait on what the June ACT brings and that will inform next steps.
Have you heard anything about what happens in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th year to the merit a student gets from Muhlenberg? I keep reading mixed reviews that merit decreases or the tuition increases and you end up paying more towards the end.
Many schools have tuition increases, and when merit is fixed (typical for most merit awards for incoming first year students), this is what will happen.
This is the case with D24âs college. The merit scholarship remains the same amt per year and does not increase if tuition goes up.
Depending on the school, there may be additional merit performance awards added by semester. My Eldest Daughter is at University of Texas Austin, out-of-state tuition started at just under $ 42,000 for her major in her first year It was just over $ 46,000 by third year amnd next year is projected at $ 48,700 her fourth year.
Fortunately, sheâs pretty set to graduate a semester early - giving her some additional funds to go towards grad school.
â and her academic performance has been excellent, such that sheâs received an academic merit award each semester which has more or less offset the annual tuition increases. So the net effect has been a freeze on her tuition - which I was not expecting.
Frustratingly, C26 just missed an A on one subject so junior year uw GPA is 3.75. (1st semester was 3.83 and I was hoping theyâd maintain that but oh well.) Overall is just under 3.4 and 10â12 (transcript has this for CA publics, obviously this currently only reflects 10-11) is 3.54. W a little higher for all. I hope colleges really do look at the upward trend. They will explain poor first year GPA and not fabulous 1st semester sophomore year in the additional information section of the common app. They have made CSF for 3 semesters now.
Maia is not easy to read for C26. Relatively low GPA + high SAT score is a lonely spot on the charts!!!
No -but that would be REALLY good to know! I imagine the tuition DOES increase -because most schools do that now. I guess it depends by about how much. Ah -and I see tamagotchi already chimed in!
My oldest fit this description with a 3.4 UW GPA and 1510 (one sitting no prep 790 Math). He has ADHD and is not a natural âpeople pleaserâ so he frequently (intentionally and unintentionally) failed to complete homework and rarely studied for exams. He was not motivated by good grades for the sake of his GPA â but could get motivated by the subject matter if it interested him. He ended up at Tulane, had a rough start for a variety of reasons, but ultimately graduated with a BS in Chem and a higher GPA than he had in high school.
Sounds very familiar - the failure to complete homework has improved significantly since freshman year but is still there (which is why missing that A was frustrating.. that would have made the difference).
What we think is the only reach has no-one on Maia who applied EA rejected with that SAT..but Iâm also not sure itâs enough people to really draw a conclusion, and of course we have no idea what majors they were applying to. (The two main schools of interest have highly competitive engineering admissions and pretty competitive business admissions but not so much for other majors.) I guess itâs just going to be a long wait and see process.
Good luck. I know it can be frustrating as a parent when a little effort would make all the difference. Mine would get a C in underwater basket weaving but set the curve in P-Chem.