Hello everyone! I’d really appreciate it if I could get your opinion on something. My counselor submitted my mid year report in February, but she submitted a provisional transcript as an official one was not available until last week. Should I have my counselor send the official one to Yale as well? My grades haven’t changed, and I’m not sure if it’d be useful so late in the admissions process. I also haven’t been contacted asking for one.
Don’t mind me, I’m just a visitor from the Brown university thread. grabs popcorn
@FukaEri nah I wouldn’t. It’s not gonna help anything, and it’s too late. Plus if your counselor sent it it is already considered pretty reliable. They will treat it as almost official
Finally had my interview last night. It went great, and he said he really liked me. He actually said he called admissions and they said they haven’t even started reading my app. kinda odd.
@gracie21 maybe they didn’t start reading bc they didn’t consider your application complete until the interview happened? Bc they knew you were going to have one, so they waited to read your file?
@gracein19 i guess so! trying not to get my hopes up but I’m glad that my interviewer liked me
Hi Everyone, I have been a silent part of this group and several others for quite a while now and want to say thanks so much for all of the information and supportive conversations. My daughter is going to hear from all of her top choices in the next couple of weeks and I am wondering about how to support her decision process. While she has done a significant amount of research on each school that she applied to, we were unable to visit a couple of her top choices and plan to visit if she gets in. Are any of you planning to visit the schools you are accepted to before you commit? or have you visited all of your top choices?
@AcademicMom1 , a number of schools host elaborate, multi-day events in April for admitted applicants. These events are designed to showcase the institution - having been sold on your daughter, the colleges now will seek to sell themselves to her. Your daughter will be invited to these events if she’s admitted to schools that host them, so you might want to plan accordingly. Yale’s event is called “Bulldog Days”; here’s the description of last year’s: http://yalecollege.yale.edu/new-students/welcome-yale/getting-started/bulldog-days
Thanks for the info @DeepBlue86. This is helpful.
I have an outside group chat with all the friends I made from the Harvard SCEA thread in December. It’s one of the best things that has ever happened to me 
@schroscat Haha sameeee Penn ED has a Facebook group chat that’s pretty awesome!
@VaishS I have neglected my irl friends for my CC friends. Oooooops.
@DeepBlue86 My daughter went through this process last year. Although she had seen most of the schools prior to acceptance, she had not looked at any of them with any serious thought because it was such a crap shoot as to whether or not she would even attend. She had her list of favorites with a long list of pros and cons going into her application process. She had a slightly different one after research during the wait. What I would suggest is to help your kid make that list of pros and cons. The pros will help sort out the acceptances, the cons will help heal the wounds of the ones that said no or offered less than enough aid. We also set a cost of what we would accept for tuition. Even if it were a yes, we agreed to consider other acceptances based on final cost/vs academic advantages of the school. Because we did this, as soon as she heard the yes from Yale and her financial package, she knew she where she was going. Yale had ended up on her top of the pile for many pro reasons over Harvard,Georgetown,Brown,Tufts and BC in that order. If she had not had a yes from Yale, her list would have just moved to the next best option. It also helped that she liked Georgetown before most of her list and she knew she was accepted there. That made Ivy day less critical. I hope this helps.
@Memmsmom - Can you list the reason/s that she put Yale over Harvard and/or Georgetown? This would certainly be helpful. Thanks.
Hey guys. I’ve been mostly lurking on the Brown thread since I submitted my RD apps in December and decided I wanted to join another conversation! It’s nice to have a company of equally stressed teens during the process.
24,486 minutes until 5 pm EST on March 31st!
@layla2016 OKAY…BUT I MAY BE GOING TO TURKEY NEXT WEEK, WHICH MEANS I’LL BE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY COME DECISIONS…oh my god
@schroscat oh no!!! (Turkey is amazing so I’m sure that’ll be fun, but bad timing) do you know how long you would be gone for? we do still have 17 days
@layla2016 My mom and I started randomly looking at tickets, and next week has relatively cheap tickets (~$900). We haven’t been able to see family in a while, and the only other time we can go is smack dab right when Ramazan starts; we are trying to avoid that. All I know is that if I do, in fact, go next week, I will be learning my decisions at midnight on March 5th.
@schroscat oh, I see. That’s a good price for tickets so it’s probably a good idea to take this opportunity. I’m guessing you meant April 5th, in which case, wow! That time will fly by though because you’ll be on vacation and catching up with family, although i don’t envy the extra wait