<p>DD is scheduled to take the PLAN in April (pre-ACT) so we will hopefully get a better idea of which test suits her. She had to do the PSAT without accomodations because her documentation wasn’t considered “enough” so she will be retesting this summer and hopefully she will get her accommodations next year.</p>
<p>Part of the problem was that she answered every single question on the PSAT. We had talked about skipping the ones she had no idea how to solve, but after years of being told to answer every question on our state assessments, she forgot and just kept filling in bubbles!</p>
<p>“I think I just googled need aware/sensitive schools and it came up … DS14 will not apply to any of these schools.”</p>
<p>Why is being need aware/sensitive relevant to an applicant? It doesn’t affect the quality or desirability of a school, and affects the admission chances of few, only those on the cusp. It can make a school more attractive to those with need, going hand-in-hand with meeting full need (giving fewer students more aid, rather than more students insufficient aid). It clearly makes a school more attractive to those without need!</p>
<p>Onesonmon - it sounds like your s is bouncing back quickly! That is all because of your parenting/advising. Kids take their cues from us and if they see that we can find the silver lining and move on to plan b, it makes it easier for them to, as well. Your son is lucky to have you!</p>
<p>Nyer- congrats on Tulane! This was originally one of my sons top choices but he didn’t apply. Even after they offered him a free, streamlined application. The reason is because of money. He has a 3.1 uw, 4.9 w (10 AP’s total) and a 1300 cr&m. We assumed that if he did manage to get in (big reach) that he wouldn’t be offered any scholarship $. Now I’m starting to worry that I should have pushed him harder to apply. Does anyone know about their merit aid? I don’t really qualify for FA (for the life of me, I can’t figure out why) and I can’t count on his dad to help with college expenses. For this reason, he only applied to one reach school and that is a state school with a very low price tag.</p>
<p>Leacoop–my son applied to Tulane knowing it was a reach, got accepted, but no $$ with stats somewhat similar to your son’s…so now I am questioning if I was wrong to urge him apply SCEA which meant he did not apply EA to other schools in which the $$ MIGHT have been better…</p>
<p>I think maze is right…we cannot be too hard ourselves. We truly are doing the best we can with the info we have at hand. I keep reminding myself that DS will end up at EXACTLY the place he is supposed to be, maybe in spite of me! ;)</p>
<p>Hello, I’ve decided to hop in on my son’s account and join in on the fun! He received a reply from uw madison today, postponed with offer for transfer… Not too shocking considering his stats, 3.3 gpa and 26 gpa. He’s not too concerned as it wasn’t his top choice and he knew it was a reach, but he is worried now that he won’t get into his top choice, minnesota twin-cities cla. Any experience with those two schools in here?</p>
<p>Hey Connorwisco, I’m an OOS 2012 graduate who applied to UMinnesota with a 30ACT and a 3.3W GPA, and was waitlisted then accepted a month later. I didn’t put any time into the essays (only applied because my dad suggested it), but did have fantastic extra curriculars. </p>
<p>Depending on how much you can afford, your son might want to look into CU-Boulder. I got in there, as did some very very average students from my school. They like OOS money, and Boulder is a great place to go to school.</p>
<p>Daughter deferred from her #1 (reach) today. She’s not that sad about it and she knows what she needs to do to make herself a better candidate in the Regular Decision round.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if there are statistics on percent admitted from deferrals at a college? Is it somewhere in the Common Data Set (I’ll go over and look)</p>
<p>Oh sorry, I applied to so many places that the only essays I remembered writing were to the places I actually wanted to go to, not the ones my parents forced me to apply to.</p>
<p>Understandable! Sadly cu-boulder is a little out of our price range. His sister just got out of law school with ~70000 in debt and he doesn’t want even close to that much debt.</p>
<p>This might be the Week of Deferrals for our kids…looks like my S will be deferred at Chapman, at least until his fall grades are sent. That’s what his online application status seems to indicate. My S won’t bother checking online, so I’m not going to tell him about…He’s very content with the snail mail letters.</p>
<p>This has been discussed many times before on CC.
The rate of course varies by school but is unfortunately AFAIK not in the CDS.
Though there is a question in the CDS about late responses to deferrals.</p>
<p>I have read in one of the admin guidebooks that it is, by average, very low … around five to seven percent, which makes sense. The list is used to “fill out” any gaps in the incoming freshmen class. It is not going to be a huge number.</p>
<p>I also think how many students the school defers matters too. Some schools defer everyone who isn’t rejected. My son’s ED school that he was rejected from rarely defers to RD. I’d think those deferrals have a much better chance at admittance than at the schools who defer everyone rather than reject them in the early round.</p>
<p>I’m getting the sense here that many of the parents have access to their kids’ school email accounts?</p>
<p>I have to ask my D each day if she has checked her accounts, as I don’t have access. She doesn’t want to give me access, and I am OK with giving her that privacy. Unless it has to do with money, then we can see that section of the account.</p>
<p>crizello–DD so kindly gave out MY email address to the PSAT and ACT people as well as used it for several applications because she thought I would want to see them–thanks. I do have access to her other email account. She has a gmail she uses for her “stuff” and one that is her “college” email (so does ds). I check those for them because they want me to.</p>
<p>Regarding the issue crizello raised about having access to our kid’s email: My son set up a special gmail email account for college stuff, but then set it up so it forwards everything to MY email. (He wanted to keep his high school account free from college spam, so he wouldn’t miss important emails from teachers. I do not have the password for his high school account, no sir-ee.) My role with his college stuff now is largely one of being the file clerk, and that includes sifting through the multitude of college-generated junk mail (delete!) for the gems from the colleges he has applied to. Those I forward to son’s high school email account. </p>
<p>He found it nearly impossible to “Unsubscribe” from a college’s email distribution once they had your address. Many schools he officially unsubscribed from over 3 months ago, but the emails keep coming. I simply delete, delete, delete.</p>
<p>This system has worked well for us. Every student has his own way of staying organized, I’m sure. My kid knows it would help if I acted as his college spam filter, leaving him to focus on school work.</p>
<p>Same here.
This was discussed in another thread recently.</p>
<p>Since I did all of the “logistical” work, I had access to the “college” account to schedule the college visits and so forth.
I have never used the account for any “substantive” communications.</p>
<p>I like the way many of you have set up the separate accounts. I had never thought about approaching it that way.</p>
<p>At the same time, both of my kids are very stingy about their privacy and so have not wanted to grant us access for these emails. As long as we trust them about most things, we haven’t really pushed the issue.</p>