<p>yeah i suppose. but then again i worry alot. </p>
<p>hey has anyone else had problems w/ adcoms actually receiving ur entire app? for ex. for some frightening reason andover claims to be missing my canidate statement or something like that (!) but exeter says theyve gotten everything from me. oh and lawrenceville's login thingy said that im missing everything but the application fee, (AHHH), but how could that be if I sent in all my recs/essays/ in the same envelope as my app fee? </p>
<p>no seriously anyone else out there confused too? oh and hotchkiss, i havent gotten any sort of a response from them in regards to my app. >>.<<</p>
<p>Regarding Hotchkiss, that was the last school we got confirmation of application receipt from. Was just getting to the point that we were going to inquire, when we finally got the letter.</p>
<p>Exeter -- a few days slow in posting receipt of items on their LionLinks service, but very reasonable and they do have a notice posted about that.</p>
<p>Lawrenceville -- Incredibly slow getting items up on their web site. It goes in spurts, too. One day there's nothing. The next there's a whole bunch of stuff recorded as received (from different envelopes). Our stuff went in the first week of January (actually a minor mistake because there were some school academic awards that could have been tacked on...but hardly the stuff that the fate of an application hinges on).</p>
<p>Hotchkiss -- got a letter about a week ago saying the app is complete and -- best of all -- very good advice saying "Chill out! Enjoy your CURRENT school year for a while!" Prior to that, there was a letter confirming receipt of the payment and preliminary app. With Hotchkiss all application news comes by mail. They have a log-in, but my S says you can't tap into a database for application status or anything like that.</p>
<p>I believe I've gotten confirmation (all by mail, except Exeter, by email) of my entire application being recieved from every school I'm applying to. (Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, Concord, Groton, Milton, St. Paul's, and St. Mark's.)</p>
<p>"With Hotchkiss all application news comes by mail. They have a log-in, but my S says you can't tap into a database for application status or anything like that."</p>
<p>no.. i remember for my year, u can log in until march 10th...</p>
<p>and dont worry if you havent gotten confirmation..they said their office is completely swarmed this year with a huge increase in apps</p>
<p>Why did I only get one from Hill? It might be coming at this momment, but it's been really long. Now I'm getting anxious too! Concord has all of it, Loomis says they dont have my general application form, and I didn't hear anything from Peddie. And most strange of all, all of the schools are saying that they don't have my writing sample! Since I used the common app, the writing was INCLUDED in the questionnaire form so I stapled it to the back (I don't need the marked writing). So...I'm still waiting. I WANT RESPONSE</p>
<p>Sangzog -- Did you contact your schools to be certain that they accept all components of the common application? Some schools will only accept parts of it.</p>
<p>yeah seems like hotchkiss is pretty efficient idk. i called them up and they said that theyd gotten everything, wait for teh confirmation email/letter, according to the lady i spoke to. i emailed lawrenceville and got back a response asking me to be patient. (LOL) </p>
<p>this is weird tho, like its so easy to just make an assumption that ya, ill just sit back and relax til march 10th jsut cuz ive mailed everything in already, but its not like that i suppose? ahh lol sometimes i worry about like 'worst case scenario' where EVERYTHING gets lost in the mail or something, or the envelope ripped or something or another... lol</p>
<p>hey i'm new here! love the site, very helpful.
Yea, I have heard nothing from hotchkiss about completing my application so i called in. Exeter/Andover/Choate were pretty quick. I got a nice poster from Choate. St. Paul's was a little slow too, but finally recieved the completion letter. best of luck!</p>
<p>We found Andover to be very efficient, they seemed to get and post the info very quickly. Exeter had some lag time and we had a problem with the math recommendation, but we ended up having the teacher just fax a copy (Exeter was very understanding about things when I called with questions ). The Governer's Academy (Governor Dummer) NEVER got any of our application materials, so we ended up hand delivering a copy. ( they also did not receive the math rec, so we faxed them one too.) But everything is in now... phew!!! There must be many more kids applying, because I do not recall the schools having this kind of backlog of applications when my older son applied 4 years ago.</p>
<p>I loved Choate's poster! It's hanging on my wall. :)</p>
<p>Andover is extremely efficient; the most efficient school, probably. When they sent me my confirmation postcard, the date on the top said Feb. 2nd (one day after I turned it in!!)</p>
<p>Agree about Andover. My S got a letter in the mail yesterday alerting him to all the things he hadn't turned in (pretty much everything but fee, preliminary application, tour and interview). They encouraged him to get the rest of the information to them right away. He said he sent an e-mail saying he had decided not to apply.</p>
<p>Which raises a question that I had wondered about a while ago: Do prospective applicants owe the courtesy of affirmatively informing an Admissions Office that they've decided not to complete the application process?</p>
<p>I don't think so. In the case of Andover, I think a response is the polite thing. But certainly prior to the deadline, I wouldn't advise doing so. There's nothing to be gained and the schools don't extend candidates a candid assessment until their deadline. And it doesn't hurt to keep your options open...just in case.</p>
<p>There was one visit that was absolutely appalling and in that case I was tempted to contact the AdCom rep for the sole purpose of giving him a heads-up about what happened so that other applicants wouldn't have the same bad experience. Still, I decided against it, even in that clear cut case.</p>
<p>He went on the tour and just felt no connection to the place or the people. I think part of it is a function of his having interviewed the week before. So we went to the campus, took the tour and were on our own after that. We did visit a couple places afterwards, but there were no visits with teachers in the subjects that most interest him -- which turned out to be a major factor in how he ultimately connected to all the schools (i.e., the more faculty he met, the more impressed he tended to be). At Andover, he met nobody outside of the music dept. and that meeting wasn't all he had hoped it would be...again, probably because it was a Friday afternoon and the place seemed dead. Still, it was a sunny autumn afternoon with the leaves in full color -- like a viewbook picture. But after the tour it was as if everyone had disappeared from campus. All of these tours are so incredibly subjective. The biorhythms, horoscopes, karma fairies and kismet all need to converge...in some mystic alchemy that creates the "magic" that makes some schools seem special and others go "splat." Rationally, I know that Andover is a terrific school. But it didn't "click" with him for some inexplicable reason. And that meant it would have been low on his list of schools -- requiring an awesome revisit, I think. It seems silly. I had already paid the fee. He even had room to send his SSAT scores to Andover on the package deal I paid for. So, what, the school and teachers would have had to photocopy one additional set of recommendations? Maybe he would have messed around with adapting one of his essays for Andover? And then he'd have another application -- to a great school -- submitted. But it just didn't click. And we set the bar pretty high...he -- and we -- have to be totally awed by a school. And for some reason, to me, Andover just seemed so large, impersonal and hard to get my head around. Now, get this...he visited Exeter on a cold, rainy morning with barely time to grab breakfast and after arriving very late the night before -- and he loves the place, thinks the people were incredibly friendly, and even called it "quaint."</p>
<p>It's like love. There's no explanation for some couples and timing is everything. I half regret it myself...but he's so sure it wasn't worth completing the application, what would I do if he was accepted? Make him go?</p>