@Jlong1220, the email was sent on Jan 22. Perhaps your daughter deleted it before reading it, like you mentioned. They said they sent it to all applicants. Also, it was on the applicant portal a few days before the email came out. But, it was an optional essay. Your daughters stats are great, so she still has a good chance of getting in. Here is what the email said:
Thank you for submitting your application to Grinnell College! This time of year we are busy reading applications to learn more about the talented and diverse students who are considering joining us in the fall.
We are often curious why students choose to apply to some colleges and not others, so we are giving all of our applicants the optional opportunity to briefly tell us why they chose to apply to Grinnell.
We know that you are busy; we do not intend for this to be an additional essay. No formal structure or formatting is expected. To help emphasize that point we are limiting your response to no more than 100 words.
If you choose to submit a response, you must do so through your applicant status page no later than Monday, January 29, 2018. After you log in to your account, you will find a link to submit your response in the Forms section under your application checklist.
Curious â for folks who got their admission decision late last week â had you already submitted a mid-year report? My daughterâs semester was prolonged for a week b/c of snow closings in Jan. and she basically couldnât order a mid-year report from her school until last week. Long story short she finally got the request submitted to the transcript person on Friday of last week. Just wondering if some schools do it automatically and/or students were able to request it earlier and maybe thatâs one reason their good news was released early! Or, maybe Grinnell wasnât even looking at mid-years for the lucky and talented admits â who knows?
@AlmostThere2018 My school had the same thing with snow days and midterms! My counselor was only able to send out my midterms on Thursday/Friday and my Grinnell portal shows the midyear report as received on 2/10, that Saturday.
I was accepted, even though Iâm assuming they didnât see my midyear report (but I also think my counselor sent them my 1st quarter grades, if that makes a difference).
They requested it but our semester grades were not final until today believe it or not. So either they accepted her without seeing it or they called her school.
@sanjosedad I think otterma already covered flights pretty well, but either Des Moines or Cedar Rapids will work - Grinnell is pretty much in the middle of these two. Des Moines is slightly closer by 20-30 min, and will likely have better flight offerings, but if you find something better through Cedar Rapids the drive really isnât much longer that way.
Has anyone done the drive from Minneapolis? We will be there for an audition Saturday. Iâm not one for long road trips and this would be 4 hours down and back. Just wondering what the drive is like.
@veryapparent as long as the weather is good this should be a pretty easy drive. I-35 to I-80 in Des Moines. Grinnell College is a couple of miles off of I-80.
Fingers crossed for good weather then! Changed flights so we can make the trip down from Minneapolis! Hope to meet some other potential Grinnell parents at the event!
D18 is excited about her first solo travel experience :D/ Woop! So even though I would have loved to tag along, I will wait to hear all about it. She received some information about the visit and it mentions they donât pay for checked bags, but I could swear I read somewhere they need to bring a sleeping bag and recommend a pad. I canât find it now, so maybe it was in the snail mail?
I called and my D is on waiting list for overnight. We were advised to bring sleeping bag just in case. We wonât be able to easily carry one as we are traveling with a cello, school books and two suitcases. My plan is to hit a Walmart or target and get a cheap one if she gets the spot then donate it somewhere. Probably cheaper than paying baggage fees. Might be hard for solo traveler to make this happen. But I think the reimbursement would cover baggage fee as long as it was within limit. Iâd call though and check.
My daughter is also on the waiting list. I am flying with her and we are going a day early. I have a hotel for two nights. I think I might just have her use the extra bedding from the hotel if she gets an overnight, so we donât have to schlep it on the plane. Then I will return it to the hotel in the morning. Thatâs the plan for now, but it might change.
My D is also on waitlist for overnight. We two are travelling to be there. But they never mentioned about bringing in any sleeping bag or so! I would call them tomorrow and try to verify it. If that happens, we have to buy it in Walmart superstore, few blocks from the school.
@Meddy , @sanjosedad , @Veryapparent , when I called and found out my daughter was on the wait list, they told me that if she does get an overnight, she will want a pillow, sleeping bag and maybe a pad. They also told me that my daughter might not find out until she gets there if she will get to stay in the dorm. She is third on the wait list. Like I said, I donât want to schlep all the stuff if we donât have to, so, if she doesnât find out until we get there, she will most likely use stuff from the hotel.
