<p>Supermom: Congratulations on the Salisbury acceptance. Did you receive an envelope and/or e-mail acceptance? Did you apply early decision? My son has not heard yet from Salisbury and I am now wondering if all acceptances are mailed or you are just lucky to have heard early.</p>
<p>Anyone else on this thread received an acceptance from Salisbury? Thanks.</p>
<p>CHS2011 Mom, I could actually share your user name. You’re not in MD, are ya? Glad to hear that my angst helped inspire :-). 'Leastaways it’s good for SOMETHIN! OSU has an “insight resume?” The kid’s life story, wittily & pithily put in 100 words or less? Sounds brutal. It’s great that he’s getting started & you’ve got a visit planned. Keeping my fingers crossed for you!</p>
<p>mdcissp, I’m sure you’d NEVER suspect this from my restrained and nonchalant posts here, 
but I MIGHT be just a teensy bit obsessive about the whole college app thing – resulting in D turning in her Towson, Iowa & Salisbury apps in the beginning of September. We got a 9 x 12 white envelope w/her acceptance from Salisbury in early October. I note that their site DOES say however, that acceptances won’t go out until mid-December. So maybe it was just a fluke?</p>
<p>Just saying hi … I get sad when this thread slides back a few pages.</p>
<p>We’re doing OK here, just nail-biting until the Common App is off our plate. But soon. And I guess we’ll get a raw ACT score on Monday (it’s usually 2 weeks, right?). So we’ll order scores pretty soon, too, and my list will shrink immensely!</p>
<p>D in the meantime is doing fine. She’s handling schoolwork really quite admirably lately, and said last night how much she loves being a senior. I guess it’s been worth the climb.</p>
<p>About acceptances and the admissions process - try to remember that the bigger the school, the heavier their workload. We were very disappointed to hear the UMinn does not do “first-come, first-served” in processing applications, so our very early submission did nothing to keep us from having to wait until their promised answer date of 2/28. It just depends on who gets your file. I can kind of see it their way, but it’s frustrating from our end, for sure. I’m hoping at least one of the EA schools D applies to soon will have a quick turnaround, but since the “rolling” school didn’t come through the way we’d hoped, I can’t even be sure she’ll have an acceptance in hand before the holidays now. Ah, well.</p>
<p>Son decided to apply to a local State U that is both a financial and academic safety. It’s crazy, but even though I KNOW the CC mantra of love thy safety, we really had not found one that was really both. It just seemed smarter to visit colleges that were a few hours away when we had time and when we finally did visit the one college that I thought he would love (West Chester University of PA) he did not like it at all. I’ve heard too many stories of kids changing their minds first semester or financial problems like Dad’s losing their jobs, etc. I wanted just one college on the list that if all else failed, or even if he wants to take a class or two over the summer it would be an easier thing to do. And it’s a really nice college. You never know how this fall’s child will feel next May 1, right?</p>
<p>So true kathiep. We haven’t found a safety that D likes either. Visited Clark this past week and I guess this is going to be the safety school for her right now. Didn’t love it, but didn’t <em>hate</em> it either.</p>
<p>What is hardest is when the child does not like the school, but cannot decribe exactly why, which makes it hard to focus the search for the right school. </p>
<p>And then there are the dislikes tied to a tour guide being overdressed, a single spotting of a kid with a baackwards cap, etc.</p>
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EmmyBet, I completely agree with that. I kind of thought my son would end up at jr college, just because I didn’t see him making any effort to look at 4 year schools. Finally, he started the application process, and only chose schools that he was pretty much guaranteed to get into. So now he has applied to 6 schools and has 5 acceptances, still waiting on the last one. But each school is probably a good fit for him, and I have to say I am impressed at how he decided where to apply.</p>
<p>Yes, some of this is just teenage “I don’t wanna” that just needs pushing through. But knowing kids who were crossing t’s months ago and my D would rather work a little/play a little, I think it’s a real indicator. Time will tell and time will show. And if she is ready for the intensity more in a few years there are LOTS of intense grad schools! Or just life, for that matter.</p>
<p>Has anyone heard back from York College of Pa, West Chester University, Rider or Monmouth University? My DD got all her apps in early and now just sits and waits…</p>
<p>When we visited West Chester last month they said that it would likely take a little bit longer then you would expect. I bet they get more applications then most of our state schools. My oldest son applied and got accepted at York a few years ago and I seem to remember that was a pretty quick turn around. </p>
<p>Do you know that they have everything? I spent a little bit of time on the phone today calling my son’s potential college’s and was surprised to find out that three of them didn’t have one piece of the admissions paperwork. One was missing the SAT scores, one didn’t have the GC review - even though they had the rest of the paperwork and another didn’t show the HS transcript and I had a receipt from our HS showing it was sent 10 days ago.</p>
<p>Woo Hoo!!! DD got her first acceptance!! West Chester University of Pa!!</p>
<p>dkitty, Congratulations!!! Wishing your DD much more good news!</p>
<p>Congrats! Best of luck with the others, too!</p>
<p>dkitty…congrats to you and your D!</p>
<p>Glad I’m wrong - good news!!</p>
<p>dKitty - DS heard from York yesterday (acceptance) and had applied on 10/3. We were a little concerned because it was taking so long and his online app was showing transcripts not received for three weeks after mailing them. We finally broke down and emailed them asking if them to check if there was anything wrong with his app, and they wrote back 3 or 4 days later stating that they did have everything and his app was under committee review. I guess they just never updated his online app status. The whole thing took twice as long as I had expected - 4 weeks vs 2 weeks.</p>
<p>…and congrats to your D on West Chester’s acceptance!</p>
<p>It is a very hard process to navigate while staying calm–last year, my son and his best friend both applied ED to Susquehanna and my son heard a week before his friend, simply because he applied a few days earlier–what a week that was! </p>
<p>And the teacher who forgot to write his recommendation earned a special place in my heart</p>
<p>Congrats dkitty!</p>
<p>So here is our dilemma - D got accepted to her top choice school! But…
it’s OOS and not only did they increase the stats cut-off for some merit aid for 2011…she actually did worse on her ACT this time around and can’t take it again before merit cut-off.</p>
<p>She has gotten acceptances into others she will be satisfied with (still waiting on one…but it was the reach, so…), and even some good money at a couple out-of-states, but it sure is disappointing that unless a miracle happens after the fafsa, she won’t be at her top choice :-(</p>