<p>northeastmom, my son also attends a very small high school. Where does your son go to college? (I could not see if you mentioned it in the last few pages.)</p>
<p>Snowdog, because it is such a small school, in order to protect my son’s privacy I don’t disclose that information.</p>
<p>Snowdog, what area of the country are looking for your son? My son is not on the west coast. I just looked at some of your prior posts and I am guessing that you might be on the west coast.</p>
<p>Hi northeast mom, we are actually in New England, my oldest is applying to 3 colleges in California though (loves the state and has close friends spread around there). I’m actually thinking about my younger child (9th grade). It is interesting how first time through this process as a parent is a learning experience. One thing I’ve found is that my current senior has ended up applying mostly to the schools we have visited - which means I had more influence than I expected. While my oldest wants a big school and that will be a good fit; my youngest will not be able to handle that at all and would be lost at a large school (in my opinion). So I am starting to put together a list of possibilities in my mind for him.</p>
<p>kathiep - My DD is also applying to Champlain. We were intrigued by it’s upside down curriculum, experiential learning, size, location, etc. The only knock we have against it right now is that they notify you of acceptances so late, compared to DD’s other schools. She already has 3 acceptances with merit money to school’s she’s interested in. And while she’s not ready to make a decision right now, not sure she can wait until mid March!!</p>
<p>newtothismom, I agree that the March acceptance date is a negative, but as long as you have a couple of other acceptances, it’s not too bad. Champlain was not a slam dunk and he re-visited Hartwick and Drexel before deciding.</p>
<p>Waiting for acceptances. Anyone have news to post?</p>
<p>My S is in to 3 schools so far (3 for 3), but none are a surprise.</p>
<p>Capital (auditions for conservatory next week, this was an academic accept)
Bowling Green (auditioned for music major last week, this was an academic accept)
Adrian College</p>
<p>8 to go. I’d say 4 of them are nail biters.</p>
<p>Thanks for upping this thread, I’d forgotten about it!</p>
<p>…and one more today, Wittenberg. Really cute packaging (I haven’t opened it) but look and see:</p>
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<p>Congratulations ohiobassmom!</p>
<p>My son received an acceptance from SUNY Plattsburgh a few days ago. So he has quite a few options now. I think the serious contenders are RWU and McDaniel. I would like him to visit Lycoming again, but he liked McDaniel better on the initial visit so doesn’t see why he should bother. He’s still waiting to hear from Ithaca, and he just put in an application to Pace.</p>
<p>So nice to have some good choices!</p>
<p>I think boys don’t like visits? Maybe I’m wrong…but my S feels “done” with that part. Odd perhaps, he’s willing to do overnights, but hates tours. I guess he gets a better feel staying with a student than he does on the official tour. And he finds the tours boring.</p>
<p>I’m kind of amazed that he’s so willing to commit to spending 12-24 hours with a student he doesn’t know at all, but then again this is a kid who walked up to kids on the playground from age 3 asking them if they wanted to play with him.</p>
<p>Hi All! I have been missing this thread, and apparently posting on the 3.0 2013 thread, thinking they were one and the same. Just wanted to check in with everyone and and ask how your kids are doing now that we’re in the home stretch.</p>
<p>I reported in a music thread, but not here, that S seems to be having a change of heart about a music major. As a result he dropped one school he applied to before the audition. It is a very good conservatory in a U that he’d never want to attend if not for the con. So the emphasis has switched over to the LACs on his list, it seems.</p>
<p>Semester grades came yesterday…just under 3.0 for the semester, with As in 3 music classes and drama (so do the math on the academic courses…ugh). I told him all semester that some of his colleges would look closely at these but he is either confident it won’t matter (because it’s pretty consistent with his HS transcript overall), or just doesn’t care enough to do more. Sigh.</p>
<p>He is into 6 of his 10 schools so far, with one deferral to RD. But the reachier ones are the later, not rolling, ones, and it all depends on FA an scholarship offers, so we are very much still in limbo.</p>
<p>I miss hearing from you guys too, what’s going on?</p>
<p>DD is 4 for 4: Endicott, Roger Williams, Quinnipiac and Bryant, with good merit aid at all. She’s dropped Endicott from consideration, and is trying to narrow it down to 2 for further visits (we’re from Texas, so can’t get back to them all)! she’s already stated she wants to go back to Bryant (they are really showing the love - they’ve invited her to a Celebration Scholarship dinner the night before admitted students day), and I think she’ll also pick Quinnipiac to re-visit (they are showing her the 2nd most love!) DH and I would support either school - whichever she feels is the best fit.</p>
<p>ohio - I see your postings on the parents '12 thread - I guess I missed seeing your S changed his mind about music. What are your feelings on that?</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t say he changed his mind, he always had LACs on his list that wouldn’t be places he’d get a BM. But it was a focus, one that’s taken a lot of his time as far as prepping for auditions, and close to half of his schools were chosen because of their music programs.</p>
<p>He may have come to realize that studying music wouldn’t mean playing what he wanted all day. It might mean really hard work, and not always studying what he wanted to study.</p>
<p>It also might be nerves from auditions - he has no feedback yet and he might be mentally reorienting himself in case of rejection. I’m not sure.</p>
<p>I do support the idea that he should choose a college where music is there but if he changes tracks, it doesn’t mean he has to change schools.</p>
<p>Sounds like D has some amazing options!</p>
<p>Posting on this thread for the first time. Son has a 3.0uw/3.56w, 27 ACT with honors and several APs. He’s a musician. So far, in at Fl State, Indiana-Bloomington and UMd-College Park. We’re surprised and happy about College Park. </p>
<p>ohiobassmom, I’m glad your son included options on his original list. My son wouldn’t include any BA in music schools and that left off a lot of liberal arts schools which was what we had hoped for him. Fortunately, the music schools even in large universities have a small community so that’s helpful.</p>
<p>2college, your S sounds a lot like mine. I am only familiar with Indiana of those you list but it’s hard to say he’d be in a bad place if he left the BM program there.</p>
<p>Yes, ohiobass, our kids have a lot in common. Indiana is not really affordable for us but both Md and Fl are. Son is a percussionist and Md’s faculty for percussion are the Natl Symphony Orchestra members (Indiana’s percussion head was at Maryland before going to Indiana) so, at this point, Maryland is the number 1 choice. Son has a bunch of auditions still to come so we’ll see how things pan out.</p>
<p>I look forward to following along :)</p>
<p>I am so happy to find this thread because I have a 2.9 GPA 10th grader, bright with ADD and dyslexia, far more interested in sports than schoolwork, not likely to have good SATs, doing school sports and some nice volunteering. A nice kid, but not much of a student, and not too concerned with becoming one. No particular career goals. Is there a reason that county college is not discussed more as the first place for kids like this to start? I wonder what I am missing. We are not in the position where money is no object. Statistically, his odds of marching through a degree in 8 semesters are slim. We would have to play our cards very well to stretch the budget to cover 8 semesters away in a dorm anywhere, and with his record, 8 semesters will probably not be enough, so he seems likely to run out of money before finishing a degree. If he starts at county, he can take as much time as he needs to find his major and work his way up to a full course load with success. We live in an affluent county with a well-regarded county college. Two thirds of entrants there do transfer to four year schools. County is academically beneath some high-achieving kids, perhaps (although I have a good friend who was Ivy material all along, went to County to save money, finished at an Ivy and did well). But is a strong county college somehow beneath a kid like this? I know he may feel it’s beneath him socially, but I’m not sure I sympathize with that. And I am concerned that if he goes off to a four year school populated with weak, disorganized students, many of whom are clearly going to end up being reverse transfers back to county colleges, it will not improve his odds of success. But if he finds out how to do college work, and finds a goal for himself before transferring out, he will join a class of others who have made it to junior level and it might go better. Again – so little is said about this option – what am I missing?</p>