I think your daughter will wind up with great options, @infinityprep1234. As stressful as the process is, don’t worry too much. The college counselors are used to recommending good colleges with FA and merit based aid as many of their students need it, often their own and other faculty children as well.
There will be many colleges that would love to attract your daughter.
You’re a great parent @infinityprep1234 ! Best wishes to you and your D.
If I hadn’t mentioned this specifically on this thread before, I just finished reading the Frank Bruni book and encourage all parents of soon-to-be college applicants to read it. Best of luck in the coming year, all!
https://www.amazon.com/Where-You-Not-Who-Youll/dp/1455532681
@AppleNotFar all parents love their kids. By daughter choosing to go prep school route we have learned a lot. Daughter has made lot of friends and what we learned her happiness is more important to us than our own.
Daughter scored 15 As and 2A-, from 9th through 11th grade at a very competitive boarding school. Is this is a good score for any student? Or this is pretty common for all the kids. She took a challenging course load that involved 6 APs till now: AP BC calculus, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP CS, AP Foreign language, and AP English. Our second daughter has similar harder course load and grades as she only completed 10th grade with one APs.
That is definitely NOT “common for all the kids.”
Kudos to your hardworking DD!
As our kids are starting their senior years, I thought I’d share that ChoatieLT’s first event of his senior year is the Ring Ceremony. We are at West Point for the first time since Plebe year to witness the Firsties getting their class rings. The tradition is that, after the ceremony, the Firsties try to cross the yard to their waiting families without getting accosted by Plebes who will attempt to surround them and recite the “Ring Poop.” It’s the only time Plebes are allowed to haze Firsties and it’s rather comical (but try not to barf):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TNqu7eJhzM
Now I understand the term "ring knockers.”
Thank you for sharing the link ChoatieMom.
Hope ChoatieLT has a great senior year!
We still have another week at home before school starts.
Tomorrow DS goes in for another SAT subject test and he will be done testing wise. Now, about the Common App and the essays… we are still in the land of procrastiNation.
Our daughter met with her college counselor yesterday before returning to school. Her counselor had been on sabbatical for the past 6 months,so our daughter had been working with an interim advisor. To our surprise, she encouraged our daughter to add more highly selective schools to her list. Our daughter had only included a few as she had a hard time believing she would be a viable candidate - even though she is in top quintile for gpa, almost perfect ACT and good EC’ s. Obviously she isn’t getting her hopes up for admission yet, as we fully realize it is a crapshoot, but it was nice for her to feel that all her hard work has given her lots of options.
If her CC supports it and she is still applying to safety schools as well, why not?
Arrived at the bed and breakfast near school for the last Fall family weekend. Where did the time go?
Are we there yet? SmallFry is applying to a few EA schools due 11/1 - one reach, one possible, and one likely. Then one school (reach) ED due 11/15. One last 250 word short answer question left to do.
I remember when I was younger I used to play so much Tetris that sometimes when I went to bed I would close my eyes and all I could see was Tetris. Now when I close my eyes all I can see are scattergrams.
How’s everyone else doing? It’s been awfully quiet on this thread …
ChoatieLT has finished his grad school apps but is still trying to find time to take the GRE. Recent changes in requirements for his first-choice branch may (or may not) push grad school out into his service years rather than directly following WP graduation. Do we ever get to a point when our kids are not applying to schools?
Next event for him is Branch Night (Thanksgiving week) where he will hold his breath and shakily open the envelope to find out in which branch of the Army he will serve. This is way more nerve-wracking for him than grad school apps as it determines his Army career. Fingers crossed he gets his first or second choice and not a combat arms branch. (West Point announced last week that 75% of the class of 2019 will be forced into combat arms, up from 70% in recent years. Don’t get me started.)
Apology: For those new to this thread and scratching their heads at my posts, the old-timers here humor me and allow me to affiliate ChoatieKid’s college class of 2019 with the BS class of 2019 because I can’t seem to leave this forum and have nowhere else to go.
Best of luck to all in the BS class of 2019. Great job making it this far. Thanksgiving break can’t come soon enough.
DD is about to submit her SCEA application. She had been certain where she was going to apply ED, until her college counselor encouraged her to check out a few far reach schools that she hadn’t consideredi ilitially. After a few quick trips to visit the campuses, she had a clear cut first choice. She also decided late this summer that she would be applying as a different major then she had been intent on for the last year or so.
So, lots of changes going on over here. She feels confident with her application. She refuses to let me read final drafts as she “hates criticism” from me and wants to do it on her own. Of course, in her world doing it on her own means she has gotten feedback from her very knowledgeable college counselor, a former classmate who now attends the dream school and many favorite teachers- some alums of said school.
She knows it’s basically a lottery ticket she is playing with this school. The great news is she has a solid list of 10 schools or so that include all selectivity categories that she will be working on applications over the next month for.
Of course, she is exhausted and overwhelmed by senior fall as many of her classmates are. Once applications are submitted, it’s on to plan her gap year as she is 100% certain she wants to take one. As she will graduate at 16, she is tired of being the youngest and wants to start college on a level playing field.
Never, if they become teachers. 
DS says his new math teacher said that she has been in school for 23 years.
DS is likely to cut very close to 11:59PM on November 1st. Sigh.
He is working on 1 ED and 3 EA applications.
He has submitted 5 applications and was accepted by two. Yay!
My advice to Juniors - Apply to at least couple of rolling admission schools. Have an early acceptance to help relieve stress.
@payn4ward - congrats on the acceptances! I know you’ve gone through this before but for what it is worth you may want to aim for, say, 11:50 instead of 11:59. SmallFry told me that last year another kid at school waited until the last minute and the common app server crashed or froze and the kid missed the ED deadline. I’m hoping (fingers crossed) we are done before EvenSmallerFry goes trick-or-treating so I can celebrate with some candy…
Thank you @Frydaddy !
ED and EA apps are submitted 24 hours to spare! :-bd
I am rooting you all on with fingers crossed. Chimneykid2 was initially class of 2019 but is now 2020 which was a great decision for her. Chimneykid1 is a college junior this year. If you start counting from preschool applications, I will have completed or assisted in the completion of over 25 school applications over the past 18 years. Next year’s college applications may actually be the last round!
@ChoatieMom - has your son heard what his branch is yet? I was recently talking to someone who went to WP in the 60s who was under the impression the assignments happened already. what are the different branches now? It sounds like there used to only be one non-combat branch (intelligence).