My D applied EA to a few schools with the deadline of 11/01//20.
She submitted the application, sent in SAT/ACT scores and had teacher LoR sent to colleges already. The only remaining items are official transcript, counselor LoR and school report , which in our case , handled by HS counselor. With 8 more days before the deadline, colleges have not received them yet.
Should I be worry? Should I reach out to HS counselor and ask for status and outlook ? or should I just leave it to the professional to do her job? I want to send an email to her but don’t want to pressure her or get her upset.
Have your student email the guidance counselor. If you are concerned about annoying this person, call the school and ask who you should talk to about this. In high schools of a certain size, someone other than the GC may be responsible for processing transcripts.
Thank you both for the advices. At my D’s HS, the counselors are tasks to send transcripts and reports. I talked to the counselor, who assigned to help my D this year 2 weeks ago and was told that they are working on sending the 11/01 EA batches out soon. Maybe they are working to send them out soon.
Re post #3, my daughter’s ED school had a formal deadline of 2 weeks after application date for school materials (but we know of a case they gave further leeway than that). So probably no need to panic. Your D can also contact the AO for her region to ask, if this information is not readily available on their website.
SO frustrating! I’m right there with you with feeling nervous about these issues. My sons were sent but still waiting on LOR. He requested in the summer but it seems his teachers wait until most requests are in and write them all at once.
Agree that the deadline is often just for the student app, the other things can come in later. We had a situation where our GC was out of town the entire week before EA deadlines, and she’s old school and didn’t do email. !!! (I’m not a helicopter but I emailed the school on that one). But upon double checking with the colleges, it was fine for the transcripts to come later.
Our school’s lead GC proactively emailed parents and students a few weeks ago to explain this to us: the GC deadlines are after the student deadlines so “please do not panic!” Reading between the lines: please do not call/email/drop-in on the GCs; they know what they are doing. Note: this is specific to our school. I understand many schools with overworked GCs may need a nudge from a helicopter parent.
Seems an odd way to do it - why purposely leave a pile of work to do all at once - unless his teachers only accept a few requests?
I think it depends on the school priorities. D19’s high school arguably fell into that category (4 counselors for over 1300 students), but the counseling office was exceptionally good at sending everything quickly once requested. They were also good at warning students/parents when their winter shutdown was to ensure requests were received in time.
I absolutely agree that it sounds odd. That was why he asked over the summer. We had discussions before he requested that it would be good to ask before they became overwhelmed with navigating school with covid. His two main recommenders made blanket statements to the students, in class, that they know many have applied EA or ED, and that they will be sitting down to complete them soon.
So far I have not nudged, my son has. But it is scary because if you nudge too much it may change your LOR.
I’m going to wait a couple more days before reaching out to HS counselor for status. The school uses Naviance to submit all paperwork to colleges so hopefully they will be able to send them quickly before the deadline.
My D’s high school uses Scoir. She had 3 applications due 10/15 and had her part completed in September. Even though she submitted the document request forms to her school in August, the documents provided by the school were uploaded across several days 10/15 - 10/19. They were marked as received timely on the college application portals.
