<p>x. Apply to more than one safety. They may be the only schools where you’re admitted and you’ll still have a choice. (Plus, you may do far better at one than the other financially.)</p>
<p>If your child loves a safety best and chooses it in spite of acceptance into a more prestigeous campus…be happy for them even if you feel it is “less” of a school than you hoped for them.</p>
<p>Don’t assume that just because your high school record wasn’t stellar and that your SAT score was average (not cc average) that your college opportunities are doomed. There are lots of schools out there for the non-stars that offer great opportunities. Find one (or several), visit and get excited about it and disregard the naysayers.</p>
<p>Check at LEAST 3 times to see if your guidance counselor and secretary sent all of the forms to your schools.</p>
<p>financial aid deadlines- don’t forget about them </p>
<p>before you apply to any college, ask yourself "why in the world should I spend +$100 in fees to apply to this college and what the heck am I going to do there if I get in?)</p>
<p>Know schools that do not require standardized testing. The list is growing: [Optional</a> List | FairTest](<a href=“http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional]Optional”>ACT/SAT Optional List for Fall 2025 - Fairtest)</p>
<p>Had I known my daughter would apply to and be accepted to non-SAT colleges I would not have put any of us through the madness. I would go so far as to say boycott them. (I’m not a typical CC parent!)</p>
<p>Make [Education</a> Conservancy](<a href=“CollegeNET | Admissions, Scheduling & Virtual Classroom Software”>http://www.educationconservancy.org/) your friend.</p>
<p>Don’t count on loans or home equity given the current economy. Reasons should be obvious to all who have been following the fallout/ripple effect of the credit crunch.</p>
<p>There are Facebook groups for all rising college first year’s. Once yours makes a final decision s/he may join the “2012” group. My dd has already made over 25 “friends” and they IM, call and Facebook like crazy!</p>
<p>Prepare to work with your child (usually a daughter in this case…) to feather the nest: get room dimensions and plan for a nice rug, curtains and linens (this from a sad rising empty nester!)</p>
<p>Best feeling as this has wound down and dd is thrilled w/ her choice? Deleting all college bookmarks, recycling the catalogs, getting every single thing not related to dd’s college search process out of the house!</p>
<p>Put the decal on the cars. Your son or daughter will be so proud!</p>
<p>As my d has traveled down the road of college search, applications, and acceptance letters, I am amazed at how fluid the process is, right up until the end. Last September, she was totally into MICA and Ringling. She applied to these schools and also applied to SAIC and VCUarts. By Christmas, the applications had all been mailed, and what was she hopefully looking for in the mailbox? Acceptance letters from SAIC and VCUarts!! She was really lucky…she’s been accepted at all four schools. But I still can’t believe that in that short amount of time the “favorite school” list has been completely turned upside down. Who knows what it will look like next month when she has to make a final decision!</p>
<h1>(I don’t know) If you’re an international student asking for aid, even an International Olympiad ranking, perfect GPA and a myriad leadership positions don’t guarentee you a spot at a top school.</h1>
<p>^ Note: ‘Myriad’ is an adjective, not a noun :)</p>
<p>Unless I’m mistaken, gouchicago used it as an adjective.</p>
<p>But it can also be a noun. Merriam Webster says: “Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it.”</p>
<p>Obviously I’m not including the “entries here” but they are easy to find online. Sorry to be critical; I just wanted to give myriad its due. Now back to the topic at hand.</p>
<p>It’s funny how many people have mistaken ideas about the usage of the term “myriad.” I’ve studied Greek before, so I wonder where English teachers get the idea that English writers can’t use a Greek loan word according to English patterns of usage, just as Greek writers have used loan words from other languages according to native language patterns.</p>
<p>You may actually want to consider alphabetizing the list of schools when ordering scores to be sent from Collegeboard (the four free ones or later on). An article a couple of years ago seemed to say that schools can actually draw conclusions about your favorite school from this list. We sent to each school separately just to be safe.</p>
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<p>The article is flat wrong. I have asked College Board about this. College Board does not give out ANY individual’s listing of other colleges to which scores are sent to any college. All colleges that desire the service do receive, in aggregate form, a listing of other colleges to which that college’s group of applicants sent scores, but at the individual level the college has no idea, from College Board information, where else the applicant is applying. </p>
<p>(I also don’t worry about this issue at all.)</p>
<p>tokenadult, ^^ Well, I hope you are right or at least I hope it’s not true, anymore. I didn’t worry about it too much either, but it was easy enough to order that way, so we did. Here’s the article - still timely and accurate in profiling the many ways in which colleges can and do engage in enrollment management strategy:</p>
<p>[The</a> Best Class Money Can Buy](<a href=“The Best Class Money Can Buy - The Atlantic”>The Best Class Money Can Buy - The Atlantic)</p>
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<p>hi roshke,</p>
<p>I would amend your posting to state that </p>
<p>You may actually want to consider alphabetizing the list of schools when filling out the FAFSA, where FA offices can see what other schools you are applying to and may speculate as to whether or not their school is your first choice.</p>
<p>Oh, yes, the source who requested anonymity–perhaps because he was making it up. It looks like the journalist should have backed up his source’s speculation with a better explanation of what the source was claiming as a basis of knowledge, especially because the following paragraph quotes a named source who says </p>
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<p>That suggests that colleges would NOT want to do what the anonymous source claims they do, because doing that would be counterproductive, and all but impossible to keep secret.</p>
<p>Question along the same lines: Veterans, how would you suggest applicants fill in the, “Where else are you applying” question? I would like to know how this should be handled on the application, and during an interview.</p>
<p>You do not have to list or disclose each and every school your child is applying to. I would suggest listing “peer schools” or schools that head to head compete or overlap with other for the same pool of students.</p>
<p>My son just answered the question and listed everywhere he applied. I don’t know what to recommend to others. I told him everything I had read about listing this or that and then he just did what he wanted.</p>
<p>My older son wrote in his state school first (most kids apply to an instate), and then he wrote that he was not sure yet (he applied everywhere very early senior year) and added one or two “peer schools”. I really don’t like this question at all. </p>
<p>Thanks, NSM, and bethievt. Anyone else have suggestions for this question?</p>
<p>I have a FAQ about questions on where else an applicant is applying: </p>
<p>You could quote chapter and verse from the Statement of Principles of Good Practice of the National Association for College Admission Counseling:</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/NR/rdonlyres/9A4F9961-8991-455D-89B4-AE3B9AF2EFE8/0/SPGP.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nacacnet.org/NR/rdonlyres/9A4F9961-8991-455D-89B4-AE3B9AF2EFE8/0/SPGP.pdf</a> </p>
<p>and once you have done that, you could say, based on whatever is the truth, “Not wanting this to be construed as a statement of my order of preference, I am applying to”</p>
<p>a) “other colleges that appear to offer some of the same features as your college”</p>
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<p>b) “a varied list of colleges to ensure that I carefully consider what is the best fit between me and each college”</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>c) “small liberal arts colleges with a focus on undergraduate teaching” (or whatever summary characteristic applies to all colleges on your list)</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>d) “a list of colleges developed according to policies of my high school counseling office”</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>e) “[actual list] but this list should not be taken to be in preference order”</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>f) “a list of colleges that I would rather not mention here, so that we take extra care to follow NACAC principles of good practice.”</p>
<p>Your own creativity can probably come up with some more choices. I do NOT see this question on many of the college application forms I have downloaded from the Web this year.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/NR/rdonlyres/9A4F9961-8991-455D-89B4-AE3B9AF2EFE8/0/SPGP.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nacacnet.org/NR/rdonlyres/9A4F9961-8991-455D-89B4-AE3B9AF2EFE8/0/SPGP.pdf</a> </p>
<p>One student mentioned that a college that he was applying to online allowed only fifty characters in its online form for listing other colleges that he was applying to. That would allow for lots of fun possibilities, such as </p>
<p>Q: To what other colleges are you applying? </p>
<p>A: [in online form:] I am applying to other colleges that share some of the great characteristics of your college, for example </p>
<p>;)</p>