<p>9 applications, nothing lost. One didn’t update their system when they received the transcript, but found it when D called.</p>
<p>9 apps nothing lost.</p>
<p>10 apps–nothing got lost even at the big state universities.</p>
<p>DD applied to 12 schools knock on wood nothing lost! Although one did say my CSS was incomplete but not the others…strange</p>
<p>11 Apps. One school (Princeton) lost some stuff. Not bad.</p>
<p>7 apps, one October SAT-II report sent by College Board was lost – but it didn’t really matter at that school, as they are SAT-II optional. GC came to the rescue and saved me paying CB another $9 by faxed a score card with CB labels of the SAT-II scores. No worries. DS’s school is large with an overworked guidance office – we were VERY happy at how smoothly things went on their end. Even the supplemental recs that were sent separately all made it to their destinations.</p>
<p>Considering all the pieces of paper involved even in online applications, it’s amazing everything wound up where it belonged.</p>
<p>question, of those that had stuff “lost” do you have more common or more unusual names?</p>
<p>Our name is unusual. But something that occurs to me is that students on CC probably tend to apply to schools that get a high number of applications, so we may constitute a skewed sample.</p>
<p>Our hs guidance office has a very streamlined and efficient college application system which normally turns around applications submitted by student in 24 hours. They only ask that the student supply them with a copy of the application they sent for their file, a checklist of things they need to send out and a self-addressed envelope so they do not have to take the time to look the proper address up. They also have the original teacher recommendations in each senior folder so they can choose the ones that they will copy and include in their submittal.</p>
<p>If any applications are incomplete, late or sent to the wrong address it is almost always the student fault.</p>
<p>The only thing they do not do is compile a history of college acceptances using tools like the Naviance scattergrams. They merely post a list/number of acceptances</p>
<p>Not so much lost as misdirected … for our son’s school’s. We discoverd due to an ACT snafu that his two different test date scores were opened as separate files. Apparently, one was under his SS#, and the other was an ACT ID#. According to ACT, this happens ocassionally. We had to call the admissions offices of all schools and request that the files be manually connected. One school actually figured it out on their own and had already corrected the problem. Same thing ocurred with collegeboard after he’d chosen his school. His soph/jr AP’s went as one file, his senior AP’s as another file. Again … things had to be resent from collegeboard to correct the error. With D we’ll watch out for this thing very, very carefully.</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>My son’s AP scores were screwed up because Mathson wrote down the wrong birthday one year! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I heard a story last year about a college that lost ALL the apps from the second half of the alphabet, a long time ago. The envelopes slipped behind a tall filing cabinet! That was back in the day before electronic submissions. I wonder if less is lost now that there is less paper? Or more is lost because of computers’ crashing, and the like.</p>
<p>11 applications last year, nothing lost :).</p>
<p>DS applied to 6 schools… nothing missing at any of them. (Kudos to the overworked Guidance counselor & guidance secretary at our large public hs).</p>
<p>Oops… I just remembered. One school claimed they did not have his SAT score. Turns out DS took my advice and didn’t put his SS# on the SAT form, and that’s how this school was linking the scores to the applications. He emailed the school and they realized they did have the scores after all.</p>
<p>And we do not know if anything was lost! A LOT of pieces were missing for more than a month, but were finally found couple weeks ago. I am really worried about teacher’s recs. Most schools would go ahead with any one or two of the three sent. And two of DD’s recs are more important than the third (she chose not to talk about these things in her app counting on the letters). She tried to E-mail about it - one school agreed to check, and indeed one rec was missing. Couple schools refused to check individual recs. I am now debating whether to convince DD to E-mail the remaining schools regarding these apps (maybe they will be more willing to check now, when all materials are soreted), but she is already sick and tired of these “incomplete application” games.</p>
<p>14 applications to 12 colleges from two kids. Nothing lost as far as I know.</p>
<p>Pomona College and Harvey Mudd both lost things for my son’s applications. Including SAT scores, Teachers Recommendations, and even the payment check. Then they didn’t tell him that they had lost these things until a week before the final deadline, which made it difficult to round everything up a second time to resubmit. The original applications had been sent to them both a couple of months earlier, and all that time they never said a word about anything being missing. Neither of them apologized, either, even though it was their mishandling that caused the missing info. When my son saw how incompetent their admissions offices were, he gladly rejected their offers of admission.</p>
<p>1 application; 1 item lost. We bumped into the person sending that item at the post office and watched her mail it!</p>
<p>5 apps, 1 transcript lost</p>
<p>Also, one scholarship sent letter saying everything was in, then 2 weeks later sent letter saying they didn’t have transcript and a personal statement which was submitted online, and which we could see was currently on the site.</p>
<p>11 apps; one school lost stuff, but it was a real puzzler: they lost half the stuff sent in the same envelope with the half they had - go figure!</p>