<p>Just wondering if we are behind or not. Has your DS/DD submitted all his/her college applications already? DS's school indicated that he might be behind. He has submitted 3 out of 10. I'm nervous of course that he may be behind, having spent hours and hours on each essay. The school says I need to push him now.</p>
<p>Son has sent 2. One rolling admission acceptance (W/ scholarship!) and one EA. He is awaiting decision on EA before hitting the send button for the other 6 schools, although
the applications and supplements are all completed.</p>
<p>I have twins.</p>
<p>D submitted ED app 1-2 weeks ago, S (also ED, different school) still on the brink of hitting the send button.</p>
<p>Nothing else completed.</p>
<p>It's like rolling a boulder uphill.</p>
<p>I don't know how teenagers are constructed in your neighborhood, but in mine having three applications done and in at this point would mark your child as a Type A champion. Plenty of kids have none submitted, especially boys. That doesn't mean you should get complacent, of course. Certainly the school should have everything it needs to send transcripts and a GC letter, and the teacher recommendations should have been requested and envelopes provided, etc. But it's not the worst tragedy in the world if your child is still working on some supplement or other the week after Christmas.</p>
<p>My older child was especially well organized, and at this point she had submitted three of the seven applications she would do (one rolling, one EA, one ED), and was almost ready to submit a fourth. She was working on the others (including 3-4 she wound up not submitting), and submitted three in early December after her EA/ED results came back. She was my hero -- apart from asking me to read her essays once, she required 0 parental involvement. If she hadn't needed our credit card to submit applications, we never would have known which schools she actually applied to, and when. </p>
<p>My younger child had submitted two of his seven (one rolling, one EA). He finished a third Thanksgiving weekend (11/30 deadline), two more before his exams started, and the last two got done after Christmas. He had also been "working" (sort of) on some others before an early acceptance knocked out his safeties. He did require some supervision to get him to pay attention long enough to complete each application.</p>
<p>My two favorite high school seniors this year are each working on 10-12 applications. One of them has submitted two, the other one -- all driven by specific deadlines (fee waiver, ED, had to submit before interview).</p>
<p>D2 is applying to 11 schools. She has submitted 6 so far. I think number 7 will likely go out today.</p>
<p>S applied to 3 schools: Washington State U, U of Idaho, and Northern Arizona U. His school said to get everything in before Thanksgiving.
He got admitted to all the schools he applied to. I think they all might have rolling admissions.
Good luck. Just keep the ball rolling!</p>
<p>Both my S's are in college now but they both had all theirs done by this time in their senior yr. and both had already been accepted to the schools they currently attend. I will say that all were state u's so the apps were not complicated and didn't involve mind bending essays. Also they didn't apply to many schools S1 did 3. S2 did 2. </p>
<p>S2's first choice was rolling admit. His stats were in the low range of the middle 50%. I have no proof but I feel applying very early in the game and showing interest gave him a boost.</p>
<p>Two of 7 are done here--only because they were EA/Rolling. With the remaining, I'd put money on my DS finishing them up the day before they're due, if not the final day. You're in good shape, especially if he's spending hours and hours on the essays. Don't make this worse than it has to be--it's not like they get extra credit for turning them in early! (unless it's EA, etc., obviously).</p>
<p>Unless your son was planning to apply EA/ED, then no, he's probably not behind. Most regular decision deadlines are somewhere between Jan. 1 and Feb. 1. What matters is him hitting the deadlines for his schools, not being on the same schedule as other kids.</p>
<p>My daughter has submitted a bunch of applications via the Common App, but hasn't finished the individual college supplements yet or gotten her teacher recommendation requests turned in. She's chipping away at it, but she's got so much homework for her AP classes right now that I hate to nag her too much.</p>
<p>Don't worry, va_catlover, at this time of QMP's senior year, only 1 of 8 applications had been submitted. The admissions season went fine. My main advice to others is: submit as many of the regular applications as possible before the SCEA/EA results come out.</p>
<p>All 6 are in, two EA, rest are rolling.</p>
<p>Son #3 has applied to two in-state schools, the flagship and a safety that he'd be very happy with. Accepted (rolling admissions) with invite to honors college and merit $$ to the safety, and will hear from flagship U in Feb.</p>
<p>I gently suggest that he look for more fits, and look at some of the schools that have sent him literature. This is a 2100+ kid, 4.0+ weighted GPA, nice EC's. Just not terribly motivated to look very widely. And I'm not pushing. If this is where he stops, he's going to a college he'll like.</p>
<p>10, 11 schools? God bless you. It would kill me... or him, or both.</p>
<p>teenager-all finished my 7 schools, just have to do two scholarship apps</p>
<p>90% of people i know have done about 3 at this point</p>
<p>DD has done 2 EA applications. One is for her first choice school. I'm trying to make her understand that she should do some other RD apps in case she doesn't get into school number one.
The thing to watch out for is that for RD apps due 1/1 they need counselor recs and teachers recs done soon!</p>
<p>LOL.
3 years ago, as a senior in HS, S had only completed one application before Christmas break. The one he had in the bag was a 'congratulations you are a preferred applicant, would you like to apply now with no fee or long essay required'. Took him about an hour and a half to complete. He didn't realize he could have saved it to work on later! Just filled it in, proof read it, and clicked submit.</p>
<p>To tell the truth, I thought it was weird that everyone else was trying to get everything sent in before Dec. 1. (Oh, he did get applications in on time to the other four schools, finished them in early January.)</p>
<p>Has your child finished submitting college apps?</p>
<p>Is it Christmas already?</p>
<p>DD is very busy with two theatrical productions, still has colleges to visit, decisions to make. All she's done to date is mess with the Common App a bit, secure teacher recs, and write two essays that still need some work. Applications aren't due till January, so she'll use December break for them (also, 4 wisdom teeth to be removed-- probably her least appealing December vacation ever). I think this is fine. There's no reason to sweat this process for months. If she can't get the essays written and the applications completed in a week of free time, she won't be able to cope with the work demands of college anyway. Of course, in her case we're talking about a moderate 5 or 6 applications.</p>
<p>lol, drb. It occurred to me after my last post that there is one type of application where it's advantageous to submit as soon as possible (i.e. now, if not before). That's for selective public universities with rolling admissions, such as the University of Michigan.</p>
<p>D's private school mandates that all college apps be completed by December 1 including transcript requests regardless of the actual school deadlines. I am so glad that the school is putting the pressure on her instead of me. She has her common app done, but needs to complete a lot of supplemental apps that involve lots of writing. So far, she is applying to 10 schools and has sent the apps and supplements to 6. She also is chipping away at the supplemental apps.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone, for the feedback. I see that I'm not alone! I think that the guidance counselor's statement may have had to do with getting the forms to her now rather than later, so we are going to work on that and let the apps get done with a bit less pressure.</p>
<p>P.S. It is Christmas in my neighborhood--already someone has decorated their yard. :)</p>