In my school, all college applications are due to College Placement today.
It probably explains yesterday’s less than stellar attendance, (along with Thanksgiving and step/mono which are making the rounds.)
That gives College Placement a solid month, once you remove Christmas vacation from the mix, to process somewhere between 8 and 12 apps for each of the 600 or so kids who will be submitting applications.
It probably doesn’t bode well for today’s PreCalc test, it’s a good thing I made it an easy one.
But, as of tomorrow, 600 kids can start breathing again. For better or for worse, their apps will be in.
At my D’s private school (probably only 125 or so seniors) they have a 2-week window to process the school-side documents (transcripts, LoRs, etc.)…I think it’s a smart thing for schools, especially bigger ones, to give themselves a cushion — helps avoid last minute rushing/errors/etc.
At our students’ school, students have to give a final list to their college counselor by a certain day, but their own apps aren’t due til each college’s own specific deadlines, allowing kids a chance to work right up until the deadline.
That’s crazy if you mean college apps have to be completed by today, not just a list of schools. Depending on one’s ED, EA, and rolling applications, a list can shift.
Is submitting transcripts and such really that onerous these days? The staff should have that stuff done for each senior class member and submitting is electronic these days for the most part.
@doschicos: TBH, I didn’t mind the policy. At a larger school especially. I can only imagine the chaos of having 500+ students descend on a CC office in the 2-3 days before a given application deadline date (not even taking in to consider that the high school might be on break when apps are due). That said, in the heat of the ED process, those 2 weeks felt like 2 years.
I think part of the 2-week window at 7D2’s school is that CC office (and not the kid) follows up with teachers on any outstanding LoRs…
I think a deadline is fine, @SevenDad, but not one that is at least 5.5 weeks away from most colleges’ RD deadlines.
I can see having such an early deadline for submission of a “final” list (one that can still be tweaked but will account for 95% of circumstances). The school office knows who the seniors are so having digital transcripts and teacher recs ready to go isn’t precluded by the student having completed his/her apps. At my kids’ school, lists were submitted through an online tool to manage the process (Naviance). Staff took care of their end uploading transcripts and recs. To submit to a particular school, it really wasn’t that cumbersome. I realize not all schools have the same resources but even more reason to streamline through an online process.
@doschicos: Daughter’s school also uses Naviance. I should review the emails they sent or just ask them why they have that 2-week policy. Again, I didn’t really mind…
ETA: I just reviewed one of the emails daughter’s CC office sent… I think the 2-week thing includes a review of all application sections (including the student-side stuff). Also, I think the 2-week window means they WILL have all supplemental materials in by the target deadline vs. you get your stuff in by Nov. 1 and we’ll get our stuff in when we get to it.