<p>Yep, most of us are now doing the waiting game. DS has 4 EA applications and 2 rolling admits, so I'll cross my fingers that I can submit my first admittance post in the next month.</p>
<p>Tick tock!</p>
<p>But remember, lots of us still have applications due 1/1 or 1/2 so it'll be a different kind of Christmas with that hanging over our heads (she says as DS stretches out the app due 11/30 over this entire Thanksgiving weekend...and still hasn't submitted!) Trying to still smile and keep things in perspective, tho!</p>
<p>Hello - I am just joining you. Been hanging out on Visual Arts major board along with a few boards pertaining to specific colleges.
Dd has filled out & submitted 9 applications. Heard back from 2 - She was accepted to Eastern Carolina and Mount Olive. yea - at lease she is in somewhere!). Her passion is photography so she wants a school that hs a great photo program along with a liberal arts curriculum. </p>
<p>She is holding out for her #1 choice whichis such a stretch. We will hear within 2 weeks and it is binding so if by some chance she gets in, she will go there.
Has also aplied to several art schools in NYC. Anxious to hear about those too since she spent two summers in Manhatten attending pre-college programs and loved it!</p>
<p>We have had the same stress as all of you. I have pushed and nagged to the point where we have hated each other for a bit. But now we are waiting along with all of you. </p>
<p>Here is a question I have been thinking about: Do you think that average kids ever get into schools who are known for being selective? In other words, have you ever known anyone with an average GPA to get into a school who is known for only taking the cream of the crop?</p>
<p>^^^ don't know any personally, but if you read enough posts on CC, it does happen! DS has one huge reach on his list that would not have been there if the application required any additional essays, but we thought what the heck and shelled out the $60.</p>
<p>lindab Welcome and yess it does happen. I keep reminding myself of the kid who posted last spring tha he go into Stanford with a 1900. </p>
<p>mominva keep your chin up. I am sure that by now he has pushed "submit" right?? My two have a 1/1 deadline as well but they may decide they are done before then. </p>
<p>Like your S cpeltz that last one is a reach but dang if it isn't my number one choice for twinE. fingers crossed for all of us!</p>
<p>Now that most of the apps are done and we're just waiting, I feel even more excited for those of you whose kids have acceptances. It really is a whole new chapter for us as parents. DH says I have a rude awakening ahead of me when I can't research colleges any more. Know of any juniors with disinterested parents? :)</p>
<p>MominVirginia: I'm a Berkeley grad myself, and my husband a grad of UCLA. It is always so odd to us that both our D's are not interested at all in attending either of the fine universities their parents attended. Both are hell bent on going back east.... But I guess it is a good thing to live somewhere else in your life. I never did. California all the way.</p>
<p>Right now, though, we are waiting for the EA decision from Emerson. My D auditioned a week ago, and felt it went really well. She definitely has the grades (plus) and the SAT scores they are looking for. But 400 kids for 50 spots. Ugh. So things are tense around our house. The rest of her schools are RD. Dec. 15th can't come soon enough around here.</p>
<p>Ok, D sent in first RD app last night ( of course the one with no extra essay!) Was hoping not to pay anything else until ED came out, but the complete standstill was killing me!! So decided to send out ones that will have interviews, as the earlier the better in that case.</p>
<p>Only 6 more to do, one being due DEC 15th.</p>
<p>Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend! D is finally done with her season so she will be getting those apps done in the next two weeks, that stress fracture she has been struggling with finally let go on her, so NO sports for six weeks, she will have the time to get everything done.</p>
<p>I read some crazy horror stories on CC from last year of systems getting hung up on those 12/31 and 1/1 deadline dates, so try to give at least a week time cushion....</p>
<p>cpeltz - I hear you, I am doing some secret researching for the 8th grader already (need good schools with womens ice hockey teams!)</p>
<p>Ok I have a quick question. D has been accepted to a few schools already but she came to me over the weekend and wants to switch her major from Hospitality to Accounting. Seems there were some CPAs who came into her Accounting class and really laid into them what a great field it is. D is very good in Math so I can definately see her doing this.</p>
<p>Now, my question is, how does she go about getting her major changed to Accounting AFTER she's been accepted? Should she do it now or wait until orientation?</p>
<p>JSM, I would let it ride for now. She may change her mind again as many students do at least once during undergrad. Colleges expect that the average 17 year old is a little vague about their life plan. Unless there is a reason for her to notify the schools now, I wouldn't bother. First year is spent largely on GEs anyway and when she is assigned an advisor she can discuss the change with her/him when they meet in the fall.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks historymom. I didn't know what to do first. D checked and all but one school that she applied to has Accounting. In fact, the one school tht is #1 on her list has a 5-year master's plan in accounting.</p>
<p>4giggles, good for her--it's so hard to work on RD apps when your heart is set on an ED school. JSM, agree with Historymom--if we all had a dollar for every kid in college who changed their major at least once, we'd retire the national debt!</p>
<p>In other "mom is mental" news, S completed one more Dec. 1 application last night (due today). I guess I totally stressed the poor kid out, but he actually performs very well under pressure..... And now I will leave him alone until 12/15.......really, I promise!!!</p>
<p>Dec 15 will be a big day in our house too! D decided at (almost) the last minute to apply ED to her first choice. She's got 2 rolling acceptances in hand and work on her RD apps has come to a complete standstill. I've come to peace with the hiatus. It gives her time to focus on school work and me time to relax and stop nagging :)</p>
<p>Well, that's it. After all the pushing, writing, revising, sending, emailing, requesting, D completed all nine applications the day before Thanksgiving. She had until January 15 for the last of them, but she really wanted to get them all done, and she did.</p>
<p>It's so hard to believe we're at this point and, I confess, a bit hard to let go of the process. Maybe we should find ONE more school?? (DD quietly prepares to sabotage mother's computer.....)</p>
<p>Z - my DH almost grabbed the computer off my lap yesterday when I mentioned yet another school we might consider! My DS would have grabbed AND thrown it if he had heard!</p>
<p>Yeah, I kind of thought that's what would happen..... </p>
<p>Okay, I guess we'll just call it a wrap, and start waiting out the EA notifications ... then the loooooong wait for RD acceptances (we hope!).</p>
<p>Z- I am so very jealous!! all done! What i would not give for that.</p>
<p>We pushed -- and DD pushed. Three EA and scholars program deadlines on 11/1 were the hardest to meet. Once she got those in, I said she could have a break til Thanksgiving. Our school doesn't have class Thanksgiving week, so I knew there'd be some time, and she spent M-T-W doing nothing but apps. I think she was so sick of writing and rewriting essays that she was determined she would not have these hanging over her head at Christmas break, since she already gave up all of Thanksgiving to them! </p>
<p>The whole process meant some stressful weekends, staying home from scheduled activities, blocking internet access for her, a rant or two, and some tears. I think she knew we were on her side the whole way, but it was a push. She's very glad to be done!</p>
<p>The process sucks but the results are sweet and ultimately they are ,hopefully, appreciated. All of us are on the same page in the respect that we want our kids to have choices. It's why we drag them to visits, coach them on interview questions and nag them to get their crud together in time for ED and EA decisions. Now the wait for the RD decisions will be a pain but with the knowledge that there are some acceptances in their back pockets will surely make it less painful and increase our kids' appreciation of our efforts on their behalf.</p>
<p>::To Nags,and helicoptors and the kids they love! Cheers::</p>