<p>Wow, dnjsmom, HUGE congratulations to your son, and to you for continuing to believe in him!</p>
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use your end of the year paystub and estimate where you don’t have actual numbers. You can go back and change it if necessary later.</p>
<p>dnjs - congrats to your S!</p>
<p>Thanks for the fafsa info and congrats also to dnjs great news at UPENN.</p>
<p>My son was accepted ED to Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. The news totally made our Christmas!!! Now just waiting on merit money (fingers crossed)!</p>
<p>Congrats to all on the acceptances and good luck to those still waiting.</p>
<p>dnjsmom: Congratulations on your son’s acceptance to Penn. He will have an amazing experience there. My older daughter is a junior at Penn and she loves it.</p>
<p>My D2 was accepted to BU ED. We’ve sent in her deposit and she is a proud member of the Class of 2015.</p>
<p>My son has been accepted to:
Case Western Reserve(17.5k), Colorado School of Mines, Oklahoma State University(OOS tuition waived), Texas A&M, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute(10k), University of Tulsa</p>
<p>He is planning on majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Which one would you choose?</p>
<p>He says he has a number one and a number two choice and one of them is Rose. He will not tell us his other top choice… I sure hope Rose comes up with some good merit aid. We went there last weekend and we all thought it would be perfect for him.</p>
<p>dnjsmom88: CONGRATS to you and your son!!! I am so inspired by your story. I went to a high school in a bad area and when I wanted to apply to MIT, I was laughed at by my guidance counselor. Another counselor took me in and gave me hope. I didn’t make it to MIT, but he also gave me hope of going to other schools that are hard to get into, and I did. I am so glad to see your son reach for his dreams instead of letting anybody squash them. You did good mom!</p>
<p>Congrats on the Ivy! Your son now has a trump card to win any argument you guys have from now on haha. When my sister got into her top choice, she used it to get my parents to agree to a later curfew…I’m trying to negotiate the same :D</p>
<p>I applied to 13 schools, 6 of which were EA. I got into Emerson on the 15th (and I was expecting a deferral) - I’ve been smiling since. I have to hear back from a few more schools and we’ll see how FinAid works out but, as of now, I’m really happy.</p>
<p>Good luck and congrats to everyone else!</p>
<p>dnjsmom88 - Congrats on the UPenn acceptance. And congrats to everyone else on their acceptances. </p>
<p>Our son has only heard from one school so far which is one of his two in-state safety schools. He was accepted to Ohio State’s Honors College and is in competition for a President’s scholarship (full ride) but it is not his first choice. We will just have to wait until the RD date at the end of March and see which of the other 8 schools hopefully accept him.</p>
<p>If you don’t have all of your tax records, use what you have and estimate the balance of the figures for the early FAFSA. You can update the records later. Some of the select schools will want actual copies of your 2010 federal returns submitted through IDOC (?) (part of College Board). The strange thing about the 2/1 FAFSA deadline is I thought I read somewhere that FAFSA doesnt release the information forms to the colleges until 2/15. I think it might have been on Duke’s financial aid web page. Has anyone out there seen this or something similar?</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you! :)</p>
<p>Wow, how nice to find a place for celebrating.
Congratulations to everyone on your acceptances and scholarships - very impressive.
We, too, are happy to have the decision behind us… S was accepted to several schools, but when his first choice, ED Wake Forest acceptance came through we were finished! Plus, he has a four year ROTC scholarship there of which we are very proud (and nervous!). S says the best thing is having his decision before second semester so he can enjoy his last few months without the burden of worry -</p>
<p>It is a nice feeling to be able to relax a bit.</p>
<p>Scholarship letter from RIT arrived this weekend and we paid the deposit! Scholarship amount was more than I was expecting. S’s friend was also accepted to the same program, and he received a letter about the honors program, but so far no scholarship info. My S received the scholarship info, but not a letter about honors. Odd. I would think the two things go hand in hand.</p>
<p>My S has received a lot of interest from MIT, Wash U, CaseWestern to play football. He is a strong student (ACT 34, GPA 3.9) but is unsure of engineering vs. economics/business. He would like to continue to play FB. How much influence does the FB coach have at these schools regarding admissions?</p>
<p>tonkadad, you should start a new thread somewhere on that question. There is an athletic forum under college admissions I think. He shouldn’t need the football coach to help him get into Case, and I have no idea how influential a coach is at the other schools you mentioned.</p>
<p>tonkadad, Try this link:</p>
<p>[Athletic</a> Recruits - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/]Athletic”>Athletic Recruits - College Confidential Forums)</p>
<p>D accepted to:</p>
<p>Auburn University (Presidential and National Merit Scholarship)
Tulane University (Presidential Scholarship)
Spring Hill College (Scholarship (do not recall name))</p>
<p>She is still waiting to hear from 4 schools at normal time (all RD).</p>
<p>The Auburn scholarship is really nice (full tuition, housing, IT stipend, stipend towards study abroad and annual additional stipend of $1,000-$2,000).</p>
<p>So I have been a lurker here for many months. I have gotten many good ideas from the threads I followed- D was kind of apathetic about the whole application process and many posts gave me suggestions of good avenues for her to pursue. For the first time she came home excited from an interview two weeks ago, and it was a place that she had not originally considered (Siena College). She now got her accpetance letter, along with some merit aid, so she is pretty happy. She is waiting on some others, but will be happy if she ends up there. Thanks for all the support provided- and know there may be a lot of people reading what you post even if they don’t post themselves.</p>
<p>Son has gotten into all of his schools during these early rounds with a few accepts this month. Feeling pretty depressed about the upcoming April decisions as I see all of the huge application rates, so I think we are just going to focus on the ones he is in:
U of Miami
U of Illinois (top pick of all schools)
U of Pittsburgh
Purdue
Howard
Marquette
DePaul
Carthage</p>
<p>The other colleges would be nice, but I really doubt it due to the competition this year.</p>
<p>We are very pleased with his options and just waiting to hear about merit.</p>
<p>D1 applied ED to Univ.Puget Sound but with two for back up (just in case!) College of Wooster EA, Drew EA.</p>
<p>Was accepted with generous scholarships to all three for Merit (we don’t qualify for FA). </p>
<p>Very excited to be going to her first choice but would have been happy at any of them in the end. Learned a lot from CC although at first glance seemed geared for the tippy top kids but with time learned to weed out posts appropriate.</p>
<p>kinderny - my daughter is a senior at Siena and is dreading graduation. These last 4 years have been absolutely terrific. She could not have asked for a better school. The only downside is it a relativley small school. Once she changed her major, there was not a lot to pick from - though she prob would have ended up exactly where she is headed now at a larger school. Best of luck!</p>