<p>I'm using my daughters account and was wondering if anyone has tips on how to deal with this.</p>
<p>My D2 will be a junior this fall. Due to my husband's job we spend half of the year in Manhattan (August-December) and half of the year in L.A. (late December-June). How will this affect her college admissions. At the moment she is in love with Columbia and would like to apply ED but she is just a junior and I am sure this will change. Do you recommend only dealing with one college counseling office or both? Both are private schools if that matters. I have a son who is a rising college sophomore but he went to boarding school so this was not an issue.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks for reminding me about that Youdon’tsay. I would imagine NY’s cutoff is lower than California’s extremely high cutoff, even if not by much. I imagine she will score close or above the cutoff just based on PSAT scores from last year (214). She has been working this summer on her score.</p>
<p>You’ll have to add up the pluses and minuses for her. Things like NMS, if there is interest in a state school in one of the states, are the counselors and teachers better at one school or the other. You can also do some colleges from one school and some for the other. IF she is applying early or for schools with 1/1 deadlines, most of the action will be during the first semester senior year, and it will be easier to handle things where she is. She can go face to face with counselors, teachers, etc. The ones who are there will get the most attention just for the virtue that they are physically there. But when she moves on to the other school, she can do another round of colleges with later deadlines.</p>
<p>So cptofthehouse, we should divide up the schools??? Do the northeast schools with our NY school and the CA schools at the CA school??? She’s really only interested in the Northeast and California so that makes a lot of sense. This seems much more simple than I originally thought. I’m just a frazzled mom who is freaking out about a year earlier than normal!</p>
<p>I don’t know, Keeponreading. I’m just spouting possibilities as they come to mind. I remember someone who had a parent in two states and she applied to schools claiming residency where it was beneficial to her, I remember.</p>
<p>Give some thought to which school/Guidance Counselor will be sending out her official transcripts, counselor recs and teacher recs. I am confused just thinking about it.</p>
<p>Just to correct an earlier misimpression, the cutoff for NMF is the same for NY and CA (218). I would certainly get both GC offices involved. It can’t hurt. Also, what is your state of record? Where do you declare your home state to be? I would think that will have an effect on the application.</p>
<p>She will have to have transcripts sent from both schools. We moved in the middle of one of my kids’ high school years. School 2 handled everything because he was there. But School 1 had to send out an official transcript to the colleges as well. </p>
<p>My neighbors moved overseas for their D’s senior year, and after much thought, she went with them. But her junior year school did all of the recommendations. The girl had to get all of the stuff during the spring of her junior year. It was put in her file and ready to go when she did her apps.</p>
<p>Hi, this is keeponreaching, not my mom now. I have an appointment set up just to discuss this situation with my NY school shortly after we go back. Hopefully we will be able to work something out. Unfortunately, the NM cutoff is the same. Bummer. </p>
<p>As for are our home state, do you mean where I call home or where my parents declare home on financial records? I wasn’t even born in CA or NY. I was born in London. (My dad is a market risk manager so we have moved A LOT. We have homes in both states… Thanks for all of the help so far.</p>
<p>Do you know of anyone on CC that may have gone through this before?</p>
<p>Which school will your diploma have on it? Most states use that as the determining factor for residency. Just because one parent lives in A and the other lives in B doesn’t mean you’ll get instate for both. My S spent 7-11 grade years in one state then we moved and he only spent 1/2 year at his new school. Guess what? The new school is where he’s a resident of.</p>
<p>I’m assuming I will graduate from the school in CA because that is where I will be in June. I will ask at my conference but I’m sure I will graduate from my CA school. Residency there would be great because I could get UC in-state tuition.</p>