<p>Tulare, congratulations to your S on all those nice acceptances!</p>
<p>We’re still waiting for Hofstra, other people are reporting seeing acceptances online and supposedly EA decisions were mailed on Saturday, but S’s status on their “portal” is still “under review.” I’m wondering if that means he’s been deferred to RD. If so, that is not good news for him because things aren’t getting any better in math and I’m starting to think he will have to drop the class.</p>
<p>simpkin - we’ve been told that if you applied EA1 to RWU, you hear by Dec. 15.</p>
<p>We did visit, and it is a beautiful campus. Right on the water, with kayaks available to use for the few weeks it’s not freezing!! The dorm options were great, especially after freshman year - very community feel. Even though it’s so small for a university, it has separate buildings for the different schools. DD is interested in business, and it has a nice business building.</p>
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<p>Correct. It’s a high school data thing.</p>
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<p>I feel you…substitute “World of Warcraft” for “xbox” and we’d be speaking of the same kid :)</p>
<p>This one is called The Gap Year Advantage by Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson. My library - probably yours too - can get most any book I want within a couple of days from other libraries, so when i hear about something here or wherever I request it. If it’s amazing, I buy it.</p>
<p>I borrowed a copy of the Palladino book I read about here, I have Colleges that Change Lives, and a year ago I bought Paying for College Without Going Broke - all very useful so far.</p>
<p>Tulare, congrats!</p>
<p>We heard from one more - Adrian in Michigan. It came in the mail, in a tube with rubber stoppers at the ends. I assume "no"s don’t get fancy packaging but you never know. He opened it when he got home from school and it was “yes” number 2 :)</p>
<p>A photo here:</p>
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<p>My son has heard from five schools. He has acceptances to Ohio University, West Virginia (and letters every day from WVU!), East Carolina, and regional campuses of Penn State and Pitt. He is waiting to hear from what he thinks is his first choice: James Madison, but that will be a while.</p>
<p>Congrats MD Mom! Ohio University is one I’ve been researching.</p>
<p>Love the Adrian College tube! Congrats ohiobassmom and son! Thanks for the name of the book; I will keep that in mind. </p>
<p>My son was definitely deferred by Hofstra. Their portal now says: “In order to make a decision regarding your admission, we are requesting that you submit the following additional information: Mid Year Grades.” I haven’t told him yet. I have mixed feelings. Of course I want him to have what he wants, but OTOH I would much rather send him to a smaller college or one not in Long Island. So it may be for the best. And it would be nice if this gives him the kick in the butt he needs to get his act together.</p>
<p>simpkin it may be as you say, that the deferral will lead to a different (better?) choice in spring?</p>
<p>My S finally finished his apps - YAY!!! I can stop nagging now and that is awesome. It’s exam week here then after Friday he’s off for more than 2 weeks.</p>
<p>Now he can focus on his audition prep (4 of those in Jan/Feb) and a strong finish to his first semester, hopefully :)</p>
<p>Oh man. My S finished his common app and submitted it to 4 colleges without showing it to me first. I was OK with that, sort of, though if he’d asked I’d have looked them over with him. I’ve been trying to back off of him and the process. But I know, mostly from CC, that the CA can do weird things and it’s best to preview.</p>
<p>Well…I went in today to print the apps he submitted for our records and found several errors. His 9th grade sister has a PhD. His ACT dates and scores are wrong. He left out a couple of ECs. He misspelled “roll” as “role” in “merit roll”. His dad’s address is incorrect.</p>
<p>Argh! When I showed him, he was mortified, and I was, despite my best intentions, basically telling him “I told you so, you rushed”. I feel terrible because HE feels terrible.</p>
<p>There’s no way to fix them in the app so I suggested he give the 4 college admissions offices a call and see if he can snail mail corrected versions. Some of it is minor, and some of it is probably irrelevant - for instance official ACT scores were sent to these schools so whatever’s on his app isn’t what they’ll use, I assume.</p>
<p>But some of it just makes me cringe…it looks like he rushed it and of course, that’s what he did.</p>
<p>Hopefully he can fix it, and I can be supportive instead of angry :(</p>
<p>Ooooh, I would be angry too, ohiobassmom! At least they are minor errors. My son applied to Drexel on his own, using Drexel’s online app. I never proofread it or anything – I was happy he had decided to manage some of this process by himself – well, I decided to check on his status a few weeks later and it turned out Drexel didn’t have the application – apparently he never hit “submit” on the final page!</p>
<p>My son put that he graduated in 2010 in his haste. It happens.</p>
<p>Thanks for the support. I transitioned into “turn this into an opportunity to contact all of your admissions reps” and that is what he did. Even scheduled an interview for next week and he’ll bring the corrections then. To me the most egregious error is “merit role”, because he CAN spell, but whaddarayagonnado :)</p>
<p>On the bright side, he received a letter from Adrian College yesterday (he was accepted last week) saying he has been awarded a Dean’s Scholarship in he amount of $36,00 - $9,000 per year. Woohoo - that’s before financial aid! Adrian is a college we added in part because he’s a better applicant there, stat-wise, and we hoped that would translate into a good FA package. Seems like it might work out that way…we’ll see…</p>
<p>I notice the board crashed yesterday for awhile…hope that means lots of good news on EA/EDs for our kids!</p>
<p>Yay, my son got an acceptance letter from Roger Williams today. He is happy about this one because “it’s bigger [than the LACs that accepted him] but not Kansas-big.” I think it’s all over between him and Kansas. The funny thing is that I’ve really warmed up to Kansas, thanks to their frequent charming emails that always end, “Rock Chalk!” and their videos of good-looking midwestern kids doing wholesome things like sledding. :)</p>
<p>He’s waiting for decisions from Drexel, Plattsburgh, and Ithaca. The first is unlikely and IMO not a good fit, not sure about the other two. </p>
<p>Weirdly, today he also received a rejection letter from SUNY Oneonta. This is weird because he decided he didn’t want to apply and never fully submitted the application. I don’t think he actually submitted the supplement. I know they didn’t get his rec letters. But I guess since he paid the application fee and self-reported his grades and scores, they had enough to go on. The letter specifically said the rejection was due to his academic record and that they would consider him as a transfer student after a successful year at another college. So that was sort of interesting.</p>
<p>Congrats simpkin S!</p>
<p>simpkin - My DD got accepted to Roger Williams yesterday, too!! Nice scholarship to boot. Is RWU a school he’s really considering? It’s one of the 3 my DD has been accepted to so far, while waiting on 2 others. She really likes all the schools she’s applied to, so would be very happy there. Did you visit there? We thought it was beautiful!</p>
<p>Congratulations on the new acceptances!</p>
<p>We visited RWU a few years ago and also thought is was a beautiful campus!</p>
<p>Congratulations newtothismom!</p>
<p>RWU is a serious contender here for its size alone – with ~4000 students it is a nice compromise, bigger than the LACs but still a reasonably small college. His other options at this point are LACs with ~1500 students and the U of Kansas with 20,000 students. I think he has come around to the opinion that 20,000 is too big (for him).</p>
<p>We did not visit RWU but will definitely go to accepted students day.</p>
<p>Our personal experience with a pretty small school:</p>
<p>My son is currently at a very small school. I had concerns about one being limited regarding majors/classes, outgrowing a small environment, and going to school with the same small student body for four years. He is now into his sophomore year and I know he made a good decision. I do wish he had more majors to select from, but he absolutely does not miss a greater selection. He takes advantage of so many opportunities that he would never had in a large school.</p>
<p>That’s my hope for my D, northeastmom. She’s the type that (currently) can get a little intimidated by very large class sizes; she and I feel she will contribute and join more in a smaller environment.</p>
<p>Parent of a college freshman here. I wanted to pop on to update you all on my son’s first semester at a small college that has turned out to be a very good fit for him. This son is my youngest of three kids and by the time we started his college search process I had figured out a few things. By far, realizing what he wanted in a college was the most important. His two biggest priorities were strength of major and project based learning. He also wanted a co-op experience and a college where sports was not emphasized. We were able to get three out of the four at Champlain college, but not the co-op. He’s hoping to get summer jobs/internships that will take the place.</p>
<p>I am very glad that he chose a college that was a match and not a reach for him. What he’s found out is that the core classes are fairly interesting but not challenging, but the technical classes in his major are challenging and appealing. He finished his first semester with a 3.86 GPA - Higher then he had in HS, even with some weighted classes. He’s had to work hard, but it was do-able. </p>
<p>All three of my kids attended small colleges and that worked for them. My older two did study abroads’ for a semester and one did a student teaching semester that took her off campus. Those off-campus experiences helped keep college interesting. I do think the limited majors is a negative and probably not the best for a very undecided student. However, a student that is on the shy side and who is not used to advocating for themselves could be lost at a large college. This could be unique to my kids colleges, but with them, they had to meet with their adviser before they picked their next semester classes to make sure they met the graduation requirements and were what they wanted.</p>
<p>Newtothismom, my son has never been in a class of more than 25 students. </p>
<p>When I speak about opportunities that my son takes advantage of in this small school, I am talking about opportunities both in and out of the classroom. My son has had experiences in his first 1.5 years that I know he would not have had in a large school, not even as a senior. Newtothismom, I will send a PM to you.</p>
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