<p>Marite, Thank you that helps. There are so many pcs. to this for each student, and I think it is totally amazing the hs and the colleges can keep up with all of the various paperwork.</p>
<p>We sent one card with each piece that went separately. On the back, the card to go with the hs transcript had check-off boxes for </p>
<p>HS Profile
HS Transcript
GC Rec</p>
<p>If the guidance office was also sending the Teacher Rec's, I would include check-off boxes for those, too. </p>
<p>We had a space for the admissions people to fill in materials still needed, and a brief thank-you. Sometimes, the boxes were carefully checked, other times there was just a date stamp.</p>
<p>If the school did not e-mail my son that the application was complete (in a reasonable about of time), he or I called. </p>
<p>The one time he didn't include a card, the university lost the transcript. The incomplete application was noted on the college website, but no proactive notification. This was an early action application, and the school seems to have been flooded. It was also my husband's place of employment, so he had a weekly jaunt to admissions until it was all straightened out!</p>
<p>That thundering sound you hear is the standing ovation all of us parents want to give your D!!! WOW!! what an organized young lady.</p>
<p>One other tip:</p>
<p>Make sure that your student writes his/her name, SS # and/or DOB on EVERY piece of paper, not just the front page. It makes it easier to track pieces of the application, especially if some pages are torn off by mistake.</p>
<p>Another tip I FEDEXed everything that I sent went to each college. It was expensive but there was a tracking number and signature for all my documents. One school lost the package that was sent from my high school, with the transcript, recommendations, school blurb etc. the college notified us by email 2 weeks before the decision date. We still don't know if it was the college's fault or the high schools. But the high school just uses us mail, not certified, no receipt request. After that my mom would pick up anything from the school and fedex it. Also I gave my teacher advisor a big bouquet of flowers and a generous book store gift card as a thank you.</p>
<p>Along with sending postcards like ohio_mom described with all my applications, I also included a checklist for my guidance couselor whenever he was filling out forms or mailing in papers. He was handling applications for 300+ students so remembering everything I told him would have been next to impossible and some applicaitions have specific instructions that they want followed. On the checklist I would include a list of everything that needed to go in the package as well as any notes (ie. make sure papers are in a certain order, or make two copies of your recommendation letter etc) and a postmark-by date in bold on top of the page.</p>
<p>This may be a question for another thread but how on earth can counselors possibly handle 300+ applications???? at my school all the senior teachers handle the applications for their "homeroom" seniors. So each teacher may have between 5 and 20 applications. How do these counselors even know all those kids? How can they advise them? How can they answer questions for 300 parents?</p>
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<p>The simple answer is...they can't. Regarding processing applications...our GCs have lots of kids but they also have several secretaries who process applications and a registrar who deals with all issues regarding transcripts and letters of recommendation.</p>