<p>...what to do between now and March 10th? </p>
<p>We intend to:
- send most recent grades to the interviewer when they come out at the end of the month </p>
<p>Any one else have thoughts/ideas on how they plan to maintain contact?</p>
<p>Today marks the end of the application process for my D. I am going to TRY to visit here less often. I look forward to hearing where everyone was accepted or other plans for next fall, especially Chaos, PorpoisePal, Creative1, Jonathan, Prettyckitty, Olivia, sabregurl (sp?) and FrancisOuimet.
Best wishes to everyone! Your passion is extraordinary!</p>
<p>Ah, yes, I submitted my applications today. But, there is no such thing as "wait" in my case, for I already know my fate. Maybe I'll get accepted in the next life. :D</p>
<p>Nevertheless, thank you for your interest. :)</p>
<p>What shall I do now? Perhaps I shall resume scheming my plan for world domination...</p>
<p>Positive thoughts, Chaos!! Your stats look good, now may the acceptance gods be kind to you...</p>
<p>Indeed, I am always guilty of extreme optimism. :)</p>
<p>Anyway, what is everyone planning to do now? I would imagine these forums would become less active, unless we have a sudden influx of boarding applicants to Andover (and other schools with the 31st deadline).</p>
<p>Yeah, good luck to all of you. You all seem to be very talented kids or teenagers..whatever makes you happy. :)</p>
<p>oh right Chaos. I'm on the merge of finishing things. I finally got my rec from my amazingly lazy english teacher...he's not busy at all and he took a month to give it back to me..</p>
<p>We're supposed to send updated grades at the end of the quarter/semester?</p>
<p>Tom -- You don't have to send your most recent grades unless the school asks for them. Some people send updated grades, new accomplishments, etc. to the interviewer to stay in touch.</p>
<p>I don't think you HAVE to but I figured if they're good e.g. all As, why not? Perhaps a way of keeping in front of the interviewer, therefore the adcom...(shrug)</p>
<p>Yeah, makes sense I guess. The only thing that I'm really worried about with my app is EC....</p>
<p>I will be sending in my final application tomorrow. I'm also giving the recommendation forms to my teachers tomorrow, so everything should be in by the end of the week. The deadline is the 25th and unfortunately I won't find out the decision until March 12. If I apply to Ashbury College, the application deadline is February 28, and decisions are on March 12.</p>
<p>My understanding is that the schools DO want to see your updated trascript (grades, classes, attendance, rank) from the end of the fall semester, even if the application was due before grades come out for many schools. Of course, if you are on trimesters, it is not an issue. </p>
<p>ALso, your teachers are supposed to send the recommendations in to the schools, not return them to you.</p>
<p>Well my school operates on a quarterly grading system. Do you think I'll need to send in grades from my newest report card (comes out in a couple of weeks), or will the one that the school already sent in from September to November be fine?</p>
<p>To be certain, you can contact your schools.</p>
<p>I have generally tried to stay out of discussions where it is just people guessing as to the answer (although on this board it seems like if enough people guess the same thing it starts to take on an aura of fact), but I have to wonder how much value there is to "staying in front" of the adcom at this point. Yes, if there is something very specific to add to the mix (new grades) it might make sense, but it seems to me the adcoms lives are going to be pretty busy the next few weeks. Probably much too busy to worry about much outside their core process of reviewing the mountains of paper in front of them. Think of it this way - there may be 53 days till March 10, but how many of them are working days? 37? Maybe a few more if they work some weekend days. Let's say a school has 1000 applications (which is probably low for the schools that are favorites of this board). Using 37 working days that is roughly 27 applications a day to process. Assuming an 8 hour work day that means roughly 3-1/3 applications an hour or approx. 18 minutes on average per application. Think of how much time was spent by each candidate putting that application together and how quickly it can happen or not. Yes, I am simplifying things a bit. I assume they split up the apps and there are initial screens done by individual adcoms where some names are easy admits (legacies, serious development candidates & recruited athletes that have probably already been identified in advance by combination of admission/development/athletics) and some names where it is an unfortunately quick decision not to admit, but even for candidates where more of a committee consensus is necessary there isn't a lot of time to consider and decide amongst a pool of very qualified applicants. It reminds me of when I used to run a group at Goldman Sachs. Every year we would get hundreds (across all of Goldman probably thousands) of college graduates applying to work there. The process by which people's resumes were selected for campus interviews, then got callbacks and then ultimately got offers was incredibly brief and subjective at each stage. It had to be just to get the process over while continuing to do business. These were people who had spent years crafting amazing resumes and at any point it could be over for the slightest thing.</p>
<p>Great post, Biffgnar!</p>
<p>Putting the math in there helps to make things real for those who have never experienced such a processing deadline.</p>
<p>I'm also pretty sure that schools will spell out on their applications and/or transcript requests whether they want or need a January update to the transcripts. If they do not request the update, there probably is no point in sending them yet another packet of paper, as your first marking period (1/2 way through first semester or end of first trimester) grades will give them enough of an idea of how you are doing to make a judgement on this year's coursework.</p>
<p>That being said, don't think that now is the time to slack off on your schoolwork. Many an accepted prep school candidate and many accepted college freshman discover a nasty REJECTION letter in the mail in June when they get final transcripts from schools showing a marked dropoff in grades late in the year. That kind of work attitude will get a student thrown out quicker than just about anything else.</p>
<p>So now that the applications are in.... Get that homework cranking!</p>
<p>Certainly valid points, biffgnar and goaliedad. I'm sure it is an incredibly time consuming undertaking for those involved in the decision-making. More proof that one should not judge their own worth by the types of letters received on March 10th.</p>
<p>No one is permitted to leave CC. I need a distraction for my maths homework. Please say on CC, I beg of you. :D</p>
<p>haha i second that. ^_^</p>
<p>btw prettyckitty r u british by any chance? :D "maths homework" that is certainly a very british way of talking.</p>