Same situation. I’d be surprised (but pleasantly so of course) if they get any merit. I don’t think C26 would make honors college (again, sat is towards the upper end but gpa low) but they have no inclination to apply to honors colleges in general given the extra requirements, though it’s not clear to me what those are at Pitt.
Is anyone else feeling in kind of limbo now that early apps are in and it’s just a waiting game?C26 is not applying anywhere RD.
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No because the bulk of D26’s apps still need to be submitted for RD. We’re on a brief App break in our house due to EAs being done. Then it is back to the grind of supplemental essays next week. Lots of them to do still.
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Hahahaha. Still working on those PIQs… 
Also UBC and UW Seattle both have essays. Due soon.
She also has a few on her list for possible RD, but I don’t know which of those she’ll actually decide to apply to.
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C26 might have applied to UDub but it has secondary admission to major so it got axed (UMN was an easy app with no supplemental and a fee waiver so different considerations…maybe not the best reasons but, whatever). Unless something comes up for RD that C26 would prefer to Pitt they are done with apps.
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@ali-ice @anxiousmom711 @sbinaz Thank you! Yes, great to have that school in his back pocket and the merit money makes it even more tempting lol. He has to maintain a 3.2 GPA average and be enrolled for 15 credits per semester in order to keep the $$ every year. We just found out today that he’s one of a couple of accepted applicants who got in on this early round - decisions were not supposed to go out until December, so we were very surprised when we heard back so soon. We’ve been invited to a special accepted students day in 2 weeks!
On another note, S26’s marching band season is over! So bittersweet! Lots of tears last night at our Senior Night football game from all the marching band seniors who performed for the very last time, their show. @SpreadsheetMom you know how this is and know how I feel too!
On another note, how important are the senior mid-year grades for EA and Regular Decision? Does anyone know? S26 met his match this year. Junior year felt “easier” even with 4 AP classes. This year, with 6 AP classes and 1 virtual class (he’s taking a total of 8 classes this year - yes, his choice even after I pleaded not to do 6 AP classes), plus marching band, being editor-in-chief for his Lit Mag, and 3 other clubs…..he got a C+ on AP Statistics for the 1st quarter. He’s supposed to submit his 1st quarter grades for one EA school - a private school. Is he (as my son would say) “cooked?”
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That’s awesome they’re done with apps! Have you visited Pitt yet for Admitted Students Day?
This is us too! Brief break and back to the grind this weekend to chip away at the RD apps!
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My understanding is that this varies by college. Some won’t look at them at all during the process for either EA or RD, while others might ask to see them even for EA. I think most EA applications would not see them given decision timelines vs many schools’ dates of releasing them. I would assume that RD schools would mostly see them. Re the 1q grades, I can’t see that one sub-par grade in a heavy courseload would be a make or break for him.
No, we are booked for the Saturday of spring break. Hopefully there will be one or two other schools to visit too 
and I’d prefer to do them fairly close together (their top choices on paper usually have theirs around then), partly because I think some things might get forgotten and partly because there’s probably a natural tendency to weight recent experiences more highly. And because I’d like to try minimize flying back and forth across the country too!
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I can see how that varies by college. This is how S26 operates though - with marching band on top of his 1st quarter classes, his 1st quarter grades reflect the lowest out of the 4 quarters and somehow he brings all his grades up to all A’s by the end of the year. This 1 EA school that wants to see his 1st quarter grades is an outlier and the majority of his EA schools ask for the midyear grades.
I hope so! This is his first C+ on the report card, and he’s devastated. Thankfully, on this 2nd quarter, he will be assessed again on the same standards he got low grades on in the 1st quarter to help improve his overall grade for the semester. Hard lesson for S26.
So true! Sounds like a great plan! What’s nice about Pitt is that there’s no pressure to put in a housing deposit right away to get first dibs on the best housing. Their housing deposit is usually due early spring and there’s no first-come, first-serve basis when it comes to submitting your housing deposit.
If preference #1 holds their day same as last year it should be the following Saturday and we’ll probably dogleg to NYC in the interim days to visit D19 & other family. We have an office there I can work out of - I’ll probably have to do a couple of days of work that week.
Honors College at Pitt was just a check box on the application indicating interest in being considered.
Yes! I’m feeling in limbo too. My daughter finished all her applications and now we are kind of just waiting. She has some acceptances, but so far she has seemed kind of meh on them. I don’t know if she is going to be really excited about any acceptances. She may just be feeling like it’s getting real and ithe scariness of that is temperino her excitement. We are going to visit Pitt in a few weeks. I am hoping she will get excited about it then. And maybe when some other acceptances come through.
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Yep. ED1 app went in September 28, EA apps went in last before Halloween. Mid December seems so far away…
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My daughter is a recruited athlete and for highly selected schools, there were fully support spots, soft supported spots, preferred walk ons, and then people who get in on their own who aren’t “recruited”. Some schools, coaches have more pull than others.
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Yes, but there’s also a link on their portal now to explore applying. It seems that as long as it’s done by 1 Dec they’d still be able to apply though, as I said, they currently have no interest in doing so.
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Totally get it – tight hugs to you! It’s so bittersweet, especially when they’ve poured so much into it for years.
We already had senior night, but our band is performing their show this coming Friday for the last time. I’m already feeling it. One of the cheer moms texted me asking if I would help with the hot cocoa station for the kids, and I was like sure, but I WILL be watching the halftime show, lol! (Funny, haven’t talked to this mom in years, but her son was the drum major when my D26 was in 7th grade and a band rookie, and he was the nicest kid, and D26 was just in awe of him, lol. This year she had to text him to find out some silly band lore/history thing, and he was like, wait, what do you mean you’re a SENIOR? 
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The only thing mitigating the big feels is that my kiddo is jumping right into theatre with the next two shows, and I’m just as comfortable in that space because my D22 was a theatre kid. So I can push off the BIG mom meltdown until end of March. 
It’s all going way too quickly, though!
I don’t know the answer to your question about the one lower grade – but surely, with that rigorous a schedule plus marching band, schools understand. That sounds like a LOT.
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For sure! Could do more essays, but S26 is done, done, done and said, “I’ve already told them everything.” Will get some updates in December but waiting until February at least for all answers and merit. I am not patient. I did not learn patience with D22 either.
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