<p>Nice to see I’m not alone. Good luck to all on the ACTs. My D takes it for the second time in June. No prep course, no practice. She will reap what she sows.</p>
<p>Hi. I am new to all of this and finally feel comfortable enough to post here. I will call this thread home. My son has a 3.0UW/3.3W GPA. He went on a college tour last year and found his reach school. Since then he has identified his match and safety. Besides those he will apply to about three more. He knows exactly what he wants to study and not many schools offer it so he is quite limited. First ACT was 18 (last year), next was 22 (this year). He will retake in June. What will pull him through is his whole package. When he realized what he wants to pursue he started doing things about it. He interns, he creates opportunities. That will be his saving grace when they look at his application. I wish all here the best of blessings.</p>
<p>Morning All</p>
<p>Our k2, like many student’s here is twice exceptional…with unique potential and the battles of learning challenges.<br>
The first SAT was higher in math and the other sections were lower. K2 gets accomodations for SAT and will take ACT with accomodations in June</p>
<p>Recently k2’s math grade in particular has been slipping…
and…prom has been the focus.</p>
<p>I am frustrated as you would expect…</p>
<p>sigh</p>
<p>@momofwon, I was a sociology major in Arts and Sciences, part of the Maxwell School.
I still get bombarded with mail from Syracuse, but they do not have my phone number so they cannot call me and ask me for a donation! I usually do not fill out any listings for SU’s Alumni Directory they publish from time to time, just as a way to protect my privacy and to avoid getting put on a bunch of mailing lists.</p>
<p>Thanks SLUMOM for the info on your major. My D is looking at several options including Fashion and Business Mgmt or Marketing. She’s thinking about a career using both–fashion representative for a product or line? Buyer for a dept store? etc. She has plenty of time to decide, but has narrowed college choices to schools that have fashion and business options.</p>
<p>Well, I had a first yesterday. It took 3 kids but I finally have one that fell in love with both a safety and likely match college. With my oldest son and daughter, they fell in love with their dream college early and would have been miserable anywhere else. They were both fortunate to have been accepted to their reach colleges. I guess third time is a charm.</p>
<p>We went out to visit some Ohio colleges, University of Cincinnati (my alma mater), Xavier, Miami and University of Dayton. Prior to the trip we assumed she would want to officially tour only Maimi (her brothers alma mater) and Dayton. After visiting all the campuses on our own Sunday, she immediately ruled out Xavier and, much to our surprise, Miami. She loved the new University of Cincinnati campus and wanted to go on a formal tour and information session. She also chose to do a formal tour and information session at Dayton. It was a great and unexpected long weekend. We assumed she would return more confused but instead returned very focused, energized and with a safety and match school that she would love. That has never happened before. We will continue to look at other colleges to make sure she does not find something else she likes more. Personally, I am not a fan of her going to my alma mater, Cincinnati so I would prefer she keep exploring.</p>
<p>If anyone had an interest in either Dayton, Marist or University of Cincinnati, I posted a visit report for each. Tomorrow is University of Rhode Island and on Friday and weekend we have University of Scranton, Susquehanna and St. Josephs in Philadelphia. Next weekend is University of Maine. Then I intend to take a long nap. I still need to find time for Alfred and St. Bonaventure, although it appears she really wants a larger school.</p>
<p>Thanks for the visit reports!</p>
<p>So nice to have 2 good options…congrats</p>
<p>BOBBYCT: Thanks for sharing your college tour thoughts/observations. It’s interesting hearing your child’s pros and cons. It’s such a personal decision and there’s no right or wrong–some kids just know “it feels right” and others love everything and can’t decide.</p>
<p>Glad to read visit reports.
So many schools’ reports are outdated…so new ones are helpful</p>
<p>How is scheduling for sr yr going? K2 hasnt started</p>
<p>Yikes! After five SAT tutoring sessions, my DS did a “practice” test. While I’m pleased he felt supremely confident, his scores did not match his self-assuredness. He has two sessions to go, and I hope something clicks. He is a twice exceptional kid who will receive time and a half for the test. Unfortunately, he rushed through with plenty of extra time. I don’t think it occurred to him to check over his answers. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, sigh!
Lucky for both of us, but mostly me, I am going out of town tomorrow and will be gone until Sunday. I think I would make the rest of his Spring vacation unpleasant. I know from experience that external pressure often doesn’t work well for DS. I am hoping he will take it upon himself to figure out what he needs to do to improve as I must sound like a broken record.</p>
<p>^ Entertainersmom</p>
<p>good luck with the tutor etc</p>
<p>we also have a twice exceptional…who gets accomodations…
and like yours the confidence vs the end product…uhhh not so much!</p>
<p>Just registered D for the June 1 SAT (her 2nd time taking the test). Whew–her HS and several surrounding schools were sold out. Luckily, there were a few seats left at a fairly close by HS. </p>
<p>Word to the wise–don’t wait until the last minute to register!</p>
<p>Hi, I’d love to join this thread!</p>
<p>My DS 14 has a 3.3 right now, but rising well - he finally “got it” sometime midway through Sophomore year and started working hard. He will probably pull a 3.7 or so Junior year, and may pull the overall up to 3.4 or even (gasp) a 3.5. Because he’s doing so well this year, next year he will take 2 or 3 AP classes next year and an honors French class. To date he has only taken “college prep extra” classes - above the basic tier, but not honors.</p>
<p>I’m typically ahead of time in most things… my family chides me for my promptness (we arrive at the airport 3 hours early, lol!). So, we started looking at colleges about a year ago. </p>
<p>DS just took a 2nd ACT test after about 12 hours of individual tutoring. We are waiting for the score… tick… tick… tick. His first test, with no prep, was a 25 composite. One of his practice tests after tutoring was a 31. I’m hoping he’ll come up with a 28 or so. We won’t talk about the SAT. Let’s just say that vocabulary isn’t his thing. </p>
<p>Great EC’s and leadership. He’s very well rounded and will pass any school’s “character test”. </p>
<p>The only thing he’s really ruled out are very large state schools. He has liked several of the Jesuit/Catholic schools, but this is not a requirement. I think he just likes the relatively “clean cut” atmosphere at these schools. Here are his current expected applications based on our visits so far:</p>
<p>Reach:
Boston College (really, really big reach! but he’s very involved in our Catholic church and youth group. We have connections. who knows?)
Northeastern
Purdue - large but, for some reason he liked it. </p>
<p>Match:
Loyola Maryland (his top choice right now)
Miami of Ohio (his #2 choice right now)
George Mason
Fairfield</p>
<p>Safeties:
U. of Dayton
High Point
St. Joseph’s</p>
<p>We’re hitting a college fair next week, and I’m wondering what everyone thinks of the following schools:</p>
<p>UNC Wilmington
Elon
Providence
Christopher Newport
Muhlenberg
Quinnipiac</p>
<p>He’s thinking of studying either Business or Physics/Engineering. His best subjects are math, history, psychology and physics (not so great at the other sciences, bio and chemistry).</p>
<p>Sorry for the long post but I look forward to communicating with you all as we go through this next, crazy year.</p>
<p>@kmurph22- Interesting mix of colleges. We just came back from visiting Dayton and Miami (my sons alma mater) and the gap between those two schools is starting to shrink. Dayton’s business program is quite good and their required GPA is rising. You might want to consider putting Dayton in the match category. We did after our visit.</p>
<p>We are attending the St. Joseph’s Open House on Sunday so I wil know a little more then. I really liked Muhlenberg but not a strong business program. (Dayton, Muhlenberg, St. Joseph’s and Clemson, by the way, are considered by many to be some of the friendliest colleges).</p>
<p>Hi Kmurph22 and welcome to the thread! We’re a diverse group made up of kids with high GPAs and low test scores, low GPAs and high test scores, or somewhere in between.</p>
<p>The 3.0 to 3.3 GPA is meant to be a guideline and not a hard and fast requirement. </p>
<p>I’m not familiar with most of the colleges you’re considering, because I’m out here in WA State, but we’re going to be vising Purdue in August, as it’s made Ds top 10 finalists list. Several weeks ago on Easter Sunday, G’ma brought over her '55 Boilermaker yearbook and we had fun seeing pix of my MIL in various club pictures (glee, sorority, art, etc.). Can’t wait to visit her Alpha Chi Omega sorority house and the music buildings that are still there. Back then, Purdue was 80% male! It’s still one has one of the highest male/female ratios (60% male) for a co-ed school, but definitely not 5 to 1 like 60 years ago!!!</p>
<p>Kmurph - welcome! I can’t help with your schools though… other than to say some kids from our school like Muhlenberg.</p>
<p>After pondering it a bit, I finally signed my guy up for the June SAT. We’ll see how it goes…</p>
<p>Hi all and thanks for the welcomes! </p>
<p>BobbyCT – I was very impressed with Dayton, more than I expected to be. I liked the flat tuition policy, they really seemed to be addressing parent’s financial concerns right up front. I felt they had a very organized and meaningful presentation. You’re right it’s between a match and safety for my son. Definitely got that ‘friendly’ feeling there, as well as at St. Joe’s. I would also add James Madison and Loyola to the ‘friendly’ college list, but that has so much to do with your tour guide and the students you come across.</p>
<p>momofwon - S really liked Purdue, which surprised me because it is very unlike most of the other schools he has felt comfortable at. I wouldn’t even have suggested taking him there, but he asked about it. As a midwestern transplant, I have always been familiar with Purdue and my aunt went there; she would have been class of '50 or so! It’s a great school and so well known for the technical fields. We had a unique experience there because we met up with the daughter of an old friend of mine, who is a freshman there, for a more informal tour after the formal one. She seemed to know everyone on campus so that made it feel smaller than it is. </p>
<p>I look forward to continuing our searches together! Today S and I brainstormed about an idea for his common app essay. It felt good to come up with a couple of decent ideas.</p>
<p>I should mention that we live in New Jersey, but S wants to go out of state to school. I’m fine with that too, I don’t really like it here much. But we do have a great school system, so I’m stuck until S2 gets out of high school in about 7 years.</p>
<p>Same here…once we started visiting colleges my D’s interest definately picked u</p>
<p>We had a long weekend, info session and tour of University of Scranton, Susquehanna Junior Open House and St. Joseph’s Open House. I am glad to say that the biggest problem is that my D loved every one. That has never happened in one trip before. Long but great weekend. I will put up visit reports for each.</p>
<p>One of the most interesting parts of the college search journey for me is learning where some of the 3,000 colleges D gets mailings from are located. </p>
<p>This weekend’s “Guess which state this school is in?” included Biola, Westmont, Concordia, Grinnell, College of Wooster. H, D, and I guessed wrong each time. Fascinating! Who knew there were so many colleges just in California–let alone the midwest and east coast!!!</p>
<p>Because D is focused on the Pac 12, Big 10, and a few NY schools, we haven’t been tuned into the myriad of so many attractive looking small schools. It’s been fun hearing about visits to all of the choices your kids are exploring.</p>