C26 has applied to 2 rolling and 4 EA.
Rolling: ASU and Pitt - accepted at both, which takes a lot of pressure off, especially given a relatively short list of schools.
EA in rough order of preference: Boulder (current top choice and the only one we’ve managed to visit by this stage), UIUC, UIC, UMN-TC. UIC decision should be out by mid-December and the rest are due around end-January.
Applications were mostly in by the end of the first week of October, though the teacher rec letter for those schools that use it only got uploaded/sent yesterday.
Will reassess options after all decisions are in and decide which admitted student days to attend - at this stage don’t see the value in visiting until we know where else they get in. I suspect UMN will drop off the list as they have competitive secondary admission to the major and the Pitt acceptance already means there is a school (pending visit) that they are excited about that won’t have that stress.