<p>Applying EA/rolling is also nice because your apps are all done by the holiday break…while your friends are toiling over their essays and whatnot, you are just waiting on results :)</p>
<p>However, FAFSA (required for need-based financial aid) can’t be filed until January 1. You can ask your dad to get all his tax info so you can file the FAFSA using estimated (previous year) tax numbers, then update the FAFSA when taxes are filed (which you want to be ASAP after January). At some schools need-based aid is limited and is given out first come first serve by FAFSA file date.</p>
<p>If any of your schools need the Profile form (some schools require that as well as FAFSA), be ready for that too.</p>
<p>Some kids apply ED/EA and then WAIT and find out the results before sending out RD apps. </p>
<p>I was saying that if you do that, you may miss some of the merit scholarship deadlines at the RD schools…because many have a Dec 1st (or earlier ) deadline for scholarship consideration.</p>
<p>hey is it okay if i dont put sat subject tests on my initial app to schools that require them but i send them as soon as i get my scores because i’m taking both math level 2 and us history in november…?</p>
<p>That should be fine as long as the schools you are applying to early will accept November test scores for early applications. There may be a place to enter future planned test dates on some applications.</p>
<p>okay thanks. also it asks for SAT test dates… should i put every test date or just the test date where i had all of my best scores? because my last SAT had the highest scores in every section so i dont need to superscore from previous tests</p>
<p>Check each school’s policies on score choice. If they allow score choice, you’re fine just putting down the one that is better. If they don’t, they want to see all your scores.</p>
<p>That’s true^ so I should hold off a while on sending them… plus I’m doing common app so I’m assuming that it would say if one school had a different policy…</p>
<p>The common app is not going to tell you what your schools’ score choice policies are. The common app assumes you are going to fill in all your test dates so that all your schools will have whatever they need. If you want to “play games” and not fill in all your test dates, you need to manually make sure that that’s fine with all your schools. There may be check through the collegeboard site, or you can check each school’s website for their standardized test policies.</p>
<p>There’s a Top 10% “Scholarship” for every student that also has at least one dollar of need (for Texas Publics at least). I never caught this student’s approx. EFC, if that might be a possibility. It is a $2000 one time award. I don’t think it’s renewable. I think that’s the “grant” that UT referred to…</p>
<p>I’ll second that you have to check the colleges’ websites. There have been occasions where I found CB wasn’t totally in sync. But, you should be scouring those websites anyway, to glean what sorts of kids, what sorts of stregths and experiences, they like. And to see how they meet your academic needs.</p>
<p>Rice is one school we sometimes include in our informal list of “hard to predict” re admits. I’ve seen TX vals, with a good range of ECs and good essays, who didn’t get in. so, keep thinking through your options.</p>
<p>I googled “Rice University standardized test requirements” to find that page. A similar search for each of your colleges should yield similar information.</p>
<p>i was more so talking to debbie, but this is very interesting! thank you. so what if you’ve taken it more than three times? there’s only three blanks… also on the app it only has blanks for your best scores and if your best scores are only on the most recent test then they cant see your other scores…</p>
<p>if there’s only 3 blanks on the application, put your 3 best scores. But when you send your scores from collegeboard, you will not be allowed to use “score choice” and they will send all your scores.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you mean by " if your best scores are only on the most recent test then they cant see your other scores…"</p>
<p>The Top 10% Scholarship is given automatically by the state to every top 10% grad who has a documented $1 of need. Your EFC must be lower than the cost of attendance at the TX public you choose.</p>
<p>Oh, I just noticed there are certain majors required but there’s a lot to choose from. Is Pre-Med considered Science? My D was Chemistry so we got it. This is funded by the state legislature, so it could go away with budget cuts. OH, it seems to be renewable! That will be nice for us if we can keep it.</p>
<p>mathmom-" if your best scores are only on the most recent test then they cant see your other scores…" meaning there are only three blanks for scores(m, cr, and w; obviously) and beneath each asks for a date… well if i scored highest on all sections on my most recent test then the only scores that they would see on my app are from the most recent SAT</p>