<p>Anyone hear from Ithaca yet? My S applied 9/26 and still hasn’t received any communication re: a login or anything.</p>
<p>Got an e-mail from Ithaca yesterday stating they have not begun to download common app information. They said to create a MyIthaca account and keep checking it. I did this and I can see my son’s SAT’s were received, but all the application stuff is still missing. They also said they would send confirmation by postal mail, and that they would have everything completed by the deadlines. I think many schools are having issues with the changes to the common app.</p>
<p>Got two nice emails re:they received my daughter’s prescreens but can review them until she hits the send button on her CA which she can’t do until her English teacher reviews the latest draft of her CA essay which she handed in 2 weeks ago. Teachers aren’t getting the whole need to submit CA ASAP so auditions can be scheduled/prescreens can be reviewed!</p>
<p>They haven’t started downloading common app info? WOW! I guess I’ll just keep obessively checking myithaca while my daughter is at school. :)</p>
<p>Thanks MTMommaJAA! I will create an account for my S to see if I can find anything.</p>
<p>The MyIthaca account is critical. It will become your main source of info going through their process. It’s a blessing and a curse because you can follow along and see who has been accepted as it happens.
It’s shockingly transparent and can drive you crazy but it’s so helpful.</p>
<p>Don’t expect myIthaca to be up-to-the-minute accurate. For example, last year the accounts didn’t show that kids had already auditioned until fairly close to decision time, which happened in waves. My son auditioned on December 1st, but his account said that his audition was incomplete until the very end of February, and his acceptance came on March 5th (literally at 12:30 in the morning, by the way). Seems like the theory (at last among CC moms!) was that when the audition was no longer marked incomplete, it meant they had sent the results to the admissions office and a final decision was imminent. Also, md311mt is so, so right about that myIthaca account–you and your kid will check it compulsively (that’s how we knew my son’s acceptance came in the middle of the night) but it was helpful, and at least we had a glimmering of what was going on!</p>
<p>Re: the CA essay still in an English teacher’s hands–if your daughter has gone to the English teacher and directly said “this is my deadline” and still not received final corrections, you may just want to go over it with her yourself so she can upload it to Ithaca. Teachers are up to the eyebrows right now with recommendations…and schools are asking us to turn them in early because of how much trouble the guidance offices are having with the Common App on their end of things! Sigh… Good luck! The audition will be the big thing with Ithaca. :)</p>
<p>Times 3 is right about that final “audition received” piece of the puzzle.
Once it shows that the audition is received, you will either get the coveted yellow bar that says accepted under your name, or you will mysteriously be deleted from MyIthaca.
Some people weren’t deleted immediately but when your audition moves to the received column a decision is coming. If you don’t want everyone to know who you are pick a user name carefully.
Ah memories. Good Luck everyone.
The program at Ithaca is incredible. My son has never been happier.</p>
<p>Times3, good advice on the CA essay. D has tried to speed her English teacher along but I might have to give it a look soon. This English teacher is amazing when it comes to editing suggestions so D wants to wait but also prefers the 12/7 audition date so she might give up and let me look at it if it goes past next week.
Can you set up the MyIthaca before submitting the CA or will D get an id number for it after she submits? Good advice on the less easy to figure out user name. Right now my D just uses variations of her own name for logins</p>
<p>md311mt is right…myIthaca is invaluable, but very, very transparent. Which can be a good thing or a bad thing. For us it was a good thing…I was not allowed to open my D’s mail when she was in school (obviously), but when she got that huge envelope from Ithaca, I texted her to tell her an envelope had arrived, and she logged onto her myIthaca account from school and found out she had been accepted! It was the happiest day of her life. The urban myth re: “if your account on myIthaca disappears, you did not get in” really does appear to be true, or at least it was through last year. In fact, there is a thread on here somewhere about myths at all the schools which may be useful to bump.</p>
<p>So, yes, everyone can tell whether you have been accepted or rejected to Ithaca, so if you want to keep that info private, pick an obscure username, and don’t submit a photo.</p>
<p>Confused how myIthaca is transparent where you can see other students? I can only see my son’s account.</p>
<p>IC Peers. It gets quite scary. Use with caution. Good luck.</p>
<p>Yes. IC Peers tells all. Well, mostly all. Under interests if theatre arts, music is listed that person has applied for MT. MY Ithaca will start to grow once people realize they have to sign up for an account. Last year the theatre arts group swelled to over 900 at one point. Then it started to slowly decline. Down to maybe 200 or less as decisions were made. Eventually the only people left had yellow bars under their name and were accepted into a theatre department major. ie: tech, mt, acting etc. At that point you can check the profiles and see who was accepted into which major.
Again, if the interest area says theatre arts, music that person is in for MT.</p>
<p>Yes, and just to clarify–as long as your application is active, you can keep an IC Peers account (at least that’s what seemed to happen). If a student was not accepted, they disappeared from the system; if a student was accepted but then officially declined the acceptance, IC Peers was also deactivated. This made it impossible to keep an eye on which kids were attending–no more stalking allowed! ;)</p>
<p>OMIGOSH! Everyone can see each other?!!! That’s kinda creepy. Times3, you’re right about it not being up to the minute because last I checked, none of her info looked to be there.</p>
<p>Okay, so IC peers is like an account within and account? I’m fascinated and freaked out all at once!</p>
<p>Well, it looks like Ithaca may have caught on to the “stalkers”. I can’t see IC Peers from the MyIthaca account page, and everything I search on for it say “after” you’ve been accepted you will be able to acess IC Peers. Probably better for me…that would just give me one more thing to keep checking! LOL</p>
<p>That’s actually a very good thing. It was a lot of added stress and there really were some privacy issues in that system. The kids signed up voluntarily but I doubt if anyone realized what was going to happen. Watching them drop like flies mid-March was pretty painful.</p>