<p>My D has been deferred by a couple of EA schools (Northeastern, Case Western). Both say something to the effect "we encourage you to send us mid-year reports and/or updated test scores" for the re-evaluation.</p>
<p>My question: do you HAVE to send the mid-year report? My D has been struggling in senior year, and her grades/gpa are well below what she had built up until junior year. Neither schools seems to explicitly say you HAVE to submit mid-year reports.</p>
<p>Is it better to NOT send the poor mid-year reports, or is it worse to not send anything?</p>
<p>Interesting that these schools say “encourage” – my gut feeling is that they did not feel that your daughter was a strong enough candidate for admissions at this time, and are hoping that her senior grades would improve or she would take the SAT or ACT again and have higher test scores, and then they would reconsider… Based on the info you have provided about her senior grades, I am guessing that their answer would not therefore change…</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s ever a case where it’s a good idea to not send whatever grades are available, even if those grades are not optimal. They pretty much always want to see them, and to not send them pretty much dooms you, as it says you really aren’t interested in us anymore.</p>
<p>Take your chances and send them, that way there’s at least a small shot at acceptance.</p>
<p>I agree with Momof2’s assessment that these schools are concerned about her academics and hinting she needs to particularly shore up that part of her application to be in a position for admission RD. At this point in the application season, all schools who have not already admitted her will want (a nice way of saying require) her fall grades. </p>
<p>In this case, I think she needs to send fall grades to Case and Northeastern to have a chance of admission RD. If there is any positive news to accompany them, send that as well (extracurricular successes or awards, for example). </p>
<p>Certainly it is possible she’ll be admitted despite her downward trend, but if she isn’t already accepted to a school where she’d be happy attending, it’s time to get working on more applications to lower match schools.</p>