<p>Hi everyone! Long time lurker here, ds is a junior at IU Bloomington, and dd is a senior high school … 2 different kids. Our strategy was to apply early, and happy to report she has gotten some acceptances already. Her stats fit this thread, GPA is 3.3 with ACT composite 21, superscore 23. Yes, horrible! Did even worse on SAT! Has lots of trouble taking these standardized tests. She doesn’t work too hard in school unfortunately, but has to live with her grades and decisions. Happy to say she has gotten into the following so far:
Oregon state, Washington state, indiana U Bloomington, waiting to hear from ASU and Quinnipiac University (ct). Not the hardest schools to get into, but i feel it would be better for her to go to a safety school as opposed to a reach school. She worked hard getting these apps done, essays written and feels happy that these schools are on rolling admissions. Hang in there everyone…those apps will be done soon and we can all celebrate our kids choices.</p>
<p>Congrats cooker! Welcome fran and congrats, too! </p>
<p>We were off for elections yesterday, so my D spent the time working on the prompt books. She met with the director of the local theatre company on Monday. He gave her some great advice, and she spent the day following that advice. She has one more prompt book to complete then it’s on to her super reach school over the weekend.</p>
<p>ugadog - I do not envy the process that kids who have to audition/submit portfolios go through. Or their parents 
In general, how soon after accademic acceptances do you know about acceptance to the programs?</p>
<p>congrats fran! that’s a nice list.</p>
<p>mamaduck and jkiwmom - thanks for the reassurance. Her mistakes were some typos, which thanks to you two I’m now OK with, but also some statements about finding out about a school through their mailings when in fact they were CTCL schools that she researched, and leaving off years of diversity club and foster care volunteering. Aaaargh.</p>
<p>We’re proud of her English ACT score for sure. I let DD’s counselor talk her out of the SAT. She took the PSAT when she was 13 and that was it. I’m inspired by mamaduck’s offspring’s performance to try the SAT anyway, so now she’s registered for the December test (don’t worry, I won’t throw you under the bus mamaduck).
She’s less than thrilled with me about it, but hopefully she’ll put that aside and do her best and maybe surprise herself and her GC. I hope one sitting won’t hurt her if it doesn’t go well. If it will I’ll just eat the cost and she won’t take it.</p>
<p>Speaking of possibly bad moves, am I the only one with a kid applying to 20+ schools?</p>
<p>cbreeze, I think my D had about 15 schools on her list. She had a very real fear of not being accepted anywhere and applying to many schools was her response.
She received an acceptance letter on Saturday and by Monday her list had been cut almost in half. I had an idea this is how things would go, but I kept my mouth shut and let her make the cuts on her own. </p>
<p>Congrats to Cooker…oh, to be done with this process so early…only in my dreams. LOL</p>
<p>We have one more rolling admissions application outstanding and then we wait until December with more applications to go out after first semester grades are posted.</p>
<p>cbreeze, the ACT was the unusual one in our area. Everyone takes the SAT, few take the ACT. We had heard that many kids do better on one test than the other. </p>
<p>I think I’d die doing 20+ schools. We’re doing 7. I think she’ll get into all of them, but will not get the money at all.</p>
<p>Ree, it just varies with the schools. Most of them want to see all of their applicants and the materials before making any decisions. So, that means for the bulk of her schools we won’t know until very late March or April one way or the other. Most auditions begin mid November and run through mid to late March. </p>
<p>There is one exception, and that is to her super, super reach school. (Although, really for performing arts, all the auditioned schools are reaches.) Carnegie Mellon offers ED for its technical theatre applicants. My D has applied ED to CMU. We are supposed to hear something by mid December, but we won’t see a financial package until late February. So…the auditions will continue for her until that time. I know what the financial aid should look like, but if it is far, far off from what I’ve been told then we may have to look elsewhere. All that boils down to is we have to keep traveling and interviewing. </p>
<p>She has 15 schools on her list!! The performing arts process is so different from regular admissions. Because the schools are so selective, you have to have more applications going out. For us, it all boils down to money, too. I’m going to break the bank before this is all completed!</p>
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<p>S made some errors and omissions on his first CA schools too. He emailed corrections/additions to the admissions officer in charge of his region. Your D can probably do the same.</p>
<p>OHMomof2 - I can’t believe I didn’t think of that, thank you!</p>
<p>D is in a mood, with a deadline this week. I’ll recommend emailing additional info and then let it go.</p>
<p>I’d say most CTCL schools will print that email and put it in her admissions folder. Good luck :)</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who has received good news! That’s great! </p>
<p>I can relate to the “in a mood” statement. DS is “in a mood” as well. He thought he was done, at least until all the EA decisions come in. But-- he decided to apply to Johnston Program at Redlands, which is great except there are 7 more questions to answer. Their EA deadline is Nov 15th so I am thinking these questions are due the 15th as well. They can’t be submitted through Common App so he needs to type them up and mail them I guess.</p>
<p>Won’t be a fun weekend around my house!!</p>
<p>Question: does anyone purchase gifts for their child’s guidance counselor? Now that she is finished writing his lor’s, not before - dot want it to seem like a bribe- I want to give her something to say thank you. She has gone above and beyond with s and I want to say thank you. I just wasn’t sure if/what is appropriate. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Leacoop, I think a nice letter of thanks would be appropriate at the end of the process. I think it would be very much appreciated.</p>
<p>My S made a large batch of brownies (after apps were all in) for his GC and the teachers who wrote him LORs.</p>
<p>The Duckling needs to graduate. Now.</p>
<p>Drum roll, bugle horn…my daughter has submitted her COMMON APPLICATION!!! I absolutely loved her essays too, so feeling especially good about what she’s submitted. Her counselor has still not sent her transcript, but she’ll talk to him again tomorrow at school (he promised her it would be done by the deadline this Thurs. --school sends them as edocs). </p>
<p>Now we wait! Dec. 1 the Early Decision notifications are mailed.</p>
<p>@mamaduck, I know! lol!</p>
<p>Congrats, jkiwmom! Is she still hoping for Warren Wilson?</p>
<p>Congrats jkiwmom. My son’s counselor sent everything on his EA date of 11/1 even though he had his application and requests in since early October. He should be hearing back from his first school towards the end ofthe week. I’m going crazy waiting. He couldn’t care less.</p>
<p>I think we all need to take up knitting. I am the tiniest bit restless. All apps were out the door the weekend before Sandy. My DS could not care less either. Some schools were rolling; the notification date I’m aware of is December 15th (except those in Feb/Mar). Seems like most seniors I know have an admission or two. I want to be on that boat!</p>
<p>Even though my d got several apps in during October, nothing was submitted from the school until I contacted the head of guidance of Friday. Then it took about 20 minutes. Wish I had done that a few weeks ago. So, I also had hoped she would have heard on a rolling admission by now but I’m sure it will be a wait since the transcripts and LOR’s just got sent. Sure would be nice to have an acceptance in the back pocket already!</p>
<p>Mama Duck - I am with you. I vowed to my husband I won’t even check college grades online bc I am sooooo over this! He doesn’t believe me.</p>