<p>Congratulations Simpkin!
This is wonderful news–McDaniel seems a great fit (whether he knows it yet or not)!
You may need to help him deal with some peers who have not heard of it.
I am hoping that thier Accepted Students Day goes ideally in every respect (you are owed that, after the Susquehanna debacle). </p>
<p>I think RVM gave you excellent advice on the other front.</p>
<p>Thank you! Yes, McDaniel seems like a perfect fit for him academically – nurturing environment, no falling through the cracks unnoticed, etc. Whether he sees it that way is another issue. I don’t know if the small-school resistance is a whim like “I won’t go to a college next to a lake” or a serious thing to him. My husband says not to talk to him at all about this until we see what other acceptances come in, and then we will strategize. I tend to talk at my son too much and it creates a lot of resistance.</p>
<p>Thanks RVM – I am going to call the guidance counselor on Monday but I don’t want him to drop the class. He really should be able to pass. His senior year has been really trying (for me).</p>
<p>Simpkin -</p>
<p>My D is at Plattsburgh and loves it. It was honestly her absolute last choice but she was offered merit money and a school scholarship. She has gotten scholarship money every year. She got into Oneonta and did not apply to Oswego. Plattsburgh, by the way, is near Lake Champlain. It’s a beautiful area of NYS and if your son likes winter, he should enjoy it there. </p>
<p>I live near Hofstra. Many of the kids I know who go there either are afraid to be too far from home or have parents who are afraid to have them too far from home. The surrounding area is not that great and it’s known as a big party school. My D’s friend went there (his dad had passed away and as the only son, he did not want to be too far from his mom). He hates it so much he dropped out and is transferring next semester.</p>
<p>Another friend of hers is at Temple and loves it. My D did not want to be in a city so even though Temple looked nice and had what she wanted, she didn’t apply.</p>
<p>Congrats on the acceptances and good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks Joan! He has an application in to Plattsburgh but I don’t think we will hear anything for a while. Should have a decision from Hofstra soon; I just hope he will be able to keep an open mind about other colleges if he gets accepted there. I don’t love the location or the party-school reputation and I’ve read several posts on this forum from kids hoping to transfer out.</p>
<p>Jkwimom … “SUNY Purchase (good for art program and under 30K OOS) -she crossed this one off immediately.” Can I ask why she crossed this one off? My DD is applying (if she ever gets her portfolio done). We haven’t visited yet but she loves what she’s seen online and on youtube. What put your daughter off?</p>
<p>Congrats to Simpkin’s Son!</p>
<p>COngrats Simp!! Glad to hear about McDaniel - as a long time Marylander, now souther PA’er, I am very familiar with the school. ALthough not as good as my alma mater (JK :-)), Washington College - it is a great school. COUld not even convince DD to apply - again too close. Ah well.</p>
<p>Thank you! As of now he has acceptances from all four LACs where he applied: McDaniel, Lycoming, Albright and Hartwick (with merit $). He got deferred by UVM. Waiting to hear from Hofstra (end of next week), Roger Williams and Ithaca. Oh and Plattsburgh, though I don’t see that as very likely. </p>
<p>The math class is still an issue. He doesn’t need it for graduation, but I would still like him to get his act together and pass. If he’s still failing at mid-year, I will have to call the colleges that accepted him, and I really don’t want to have to do that.</p>
<p>Washington College was on my list of possibles but we never got there. I have this horrible nagging feeling that I’ve missed something. I even dreamed last night that someone told me about the perfect medium-sized college located in a city and welcoming to B- students, and I woke up in sort of a panic: what was the name of that college? is it too late to apply? So this obsession is even invading my sleep . . . . sigh . . . .</p>
<p>simpkin - we’re waiting to hear from Roger Williams, too. This week received acceptances to Quinnipiac (with big scholarship) and Endicott College. Congrats on the LAC acceptances!</p>
<p>Simpkin, sleep better–you have missed nothing; shown the patience of a saint and have achieved a bunch of good options already!</p>
<p>Newtothis–congrats!</p>
<p>Congratulations on Quinnipiac and Endicott! Quinnipiac was another one on the list that we never got to.</p>
<p>Did you visit RWU? We never did; the GC suggested it, and the size is what S says he wants. Do you know when they notify about acceptances?</p>
<p>Thanks again for all your kind words, yabeyabe2; I truly appreciate them. My kid will tell you I definitely do not have the patience of a saint, LOL.</p>
<p>I love this thread 
Do most of us here have boys, I wonder? I have a D who is in 9th grade, she’s a straight A, so far. Totally different kid. She’ll have her own challenges when we start the college search, but I doubt her gpa will be one of them.</p>
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<p>Ours reports the semester grades to colleges - in January. So he’s having a chance to pull up a couple of less than stellar first quarter grades. Fingers crossed.</p>
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<p>Also my son’s situation, it’s tricky. He’s just UNDER a 3.0 (2.96 - our school does not weight but he has 2 APs every year)) with comp ACT of 28 (never studied or prepared in any way, which is pretty typical…). A family friend is in admissions at a good LAC and says his test scores are higher than the gpa would suggest. I honestly don’t know if that’s better or worse than a high gpa with lower scores. Some kids don’t test well, some don’t do class work well. To some it probably suggests “bright but lazy” but to some it might suggest “harder classes/school, smart kid”. </p>
<p>Naviance has helped a lot, placing him on the scatter plots has been a good guide.</p>
<p>We will need significant aid. So his list in many ways reflects that. He’s got the non-essay apps in, the others done except fine-tuning on his essay…his deadline for that is next Tuesday, so hopefully this round of app-stuff can end soon. The essay has dragged on for two months, I’m so tired of nagging about it.</p>
<p>He’s applied to 4 jazz studies programs - conservatories. </p>
<p>**Bowling Green<a href=“got%20into%20the%20U%20already%20-%20yay%20rolling%20admissions!,%20auditions%20in%20Jan%20for%20the%20program”>/B</a>
**Capital <a href=“waiting%20on%20college%20accept%20first,%20then%20audition”>/B</a>
**Duquesne <a href=“college%20accept%20then%20audition”>/B</a>
**CCM <a href=“audition%20-%20CCM%20can%20then%20accept%20him%20or%20deny%20him%20to%20the%20conservatory%20but%20accept%20him%20to%20the%20U”>/B</a>.</p>
<p>In all of these cases, if he doesn’t get into the jazz program, he doesn’t really want to go.</p>
<p>These LACs have good music programs and in Denison’s case, a jazz major, the others don’t have that major but do have ensembles he can join. They got on the list because they’re really good LACs that may be able to offer the FA we need.</p>
<p>**Denison <a href=“reachy%20but%20likes%20our%20HS”>/B</a>
**Berea <a href=“very%20reachy%20but%20if%20he%20gets%20in,%20100%%20FA”>/B</a>
Wittenberg
**DePauw <a href=“a%20little%20reachy”>/B</a></p>
<p>…and maybe</p>
<p>Allegheny
Beloit</p>
<p>Financial and academic safety is OSU - our regional campus. He’d live at home. I just got a book from the library on Gap Year programs, so that’s the last resort :)</p>
<p>I can’t see him doing well at a large U, and the only ones he’s applying to are ones where he’d be in a smaller conservatory within the U. My own personal first choice for him would probably be Denison, for him right now it is Capital-CCM-Denison.</p>
<p>We won’t be able to make decisions until we have FA which won’t be until April. Also he has 4 auditions in Jan-Feb to get ready for, so he has a long haul ahead, and me, a long wait…</p>
<p>Congratulations on the Bowling Green acceptance, and good luck to him with those auditions!</p>
<p>How does one get access to Naviance? Through the high school? Ours still sends out paper transcripts etc. so they may not be technologically advanced enough for Naviance. I see so many references to it and it seems like a great tool.</p>
<p>What is the name of your book on gap year programs? Sometimes I think this would be a good idea for my kid, but only if he had something to do and somewhere to go. His idea of a gap year would probably involve a lot of xbox. (He’s in that “bright but lazy” category.)</p>
<p>On all of the threads like this I have seen on CC, girls are seldom mentioned, except as in “unlike my A student daughter…” Those girls who are mentioned tend to be more B+/A- students–as well as much likely to be described int erms of “Why will he work so much harder to find video game cheat codes than to get A’s?”</p>
<p>It is one of the 2 great gender mysteries of CC–the other being why so few dads post</p>
<p>Oh yes, the A student daughter, I have one of those. All I really did to help her with her college search was drive her around to visit the colleges she wanted to see, and hand her my credit card so she could pay for applications. She kept track of all deadlines, getting paperwork together for the GC, everything. I had so idea how much work it was till I started helping my son!</p>
<p>Achem…my class of 2015 D was a (barely) 3.0 kid…she always knew she was “special”…haha</p>
<p>simkin, Our school only got Naviance at the end of last school year so I was not able to use it for my now College freshman son. However, I was able to log on as a guest to a few other schools Naviance sites that had that access. The stats were not as good as if they had been for my son’s school but I thought it was better then nothing. I liked the schools that have a large student body and were in Pennsylvania. I figured they would be the most accurate.</p>
<p>This thread is VERY old but some of the links still work <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/115922-if-your-school-guidance-has-naviance-please-give-me-code.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/115922-if-your-school-guidance-has-naviance-please-give-me-code.html</a> perhaps other posters will give you links for their schools sites if they have guest access.</p>
<p>Ooh, cool, thank you. I will try that later when I have some time.</p>
<p>We’re on a surprisingly positive roll at our house. S has received 4 answers, with all 4 answers being yes (Kansas U, U of Missouri, U of Arizona and most surprisingly Michigan State). Still three more to go, but S is actually scrambling to see if there’s a new “reach” school he can still apply to as we thought that would be MSU. He’s OOS for all of them, so maybe that has something to do with the success rate so far. Still waiting for U of Oregon, Colorado U and U of Iowa.</p>
<p>^wow! That’s going to be a difficult decision :). I don’t blame him for scrambling to add in a reach school —he IS on a roll!</p>