<p>We are in NY and the boarding school is in Mass. She absolutely loves it!! Since day one and there has never been a day when she thought otherwise. Very lucky.</p>
<p>I wasnât nervous until reading you guysâ posts. I guess I will wake up at 6:30CST tomorrow morning to look at DSâs SAT score. Do we sign into College Board website to view it? Maybe we should all do a virtual hand-holding and log in at the same time? :)</p>
<p>Agentninetynine: I suspect weâll hear the reaction after D checks scores later tonight⊠Our Seattle area school district has mid-winter break tomorrow, Fri, and Monday. Iâm sure a lot of kids will be going skiing. Weâre off to Sunriver, OR tomorrow. Visited OSU and U of O last year. D LOVED Corvallis, but wasnât crazy about Eugene.</p>
<p>Yes 4beardolls, we will all meet her in the am!</p>
<p>The Dec SAT scores were released on Dec 20th. My son had no ideaâŠdid not give it a thought. Of course I logged in at 6:30 am on the 20th and was thrilled with the increase in his scores, but didnât tell him. I wrote the scores on a note and wrapped them in a box for Christmas morning. He still wasnât sure what to make of the scrap of paper because the actual scores were almost identical to a practice test he had taken. </p>
<p>I know that it is not just a boy-girls difference but I still couldnât believe that he never thought of it. I think there will be much more awareness of the Jan scores among Jrs in our HS b/c Guidance suggests that all Jrs take the Jan test as their first sitting. </p>
<p>Good luck to all of you and your children!</p>
<p>CT1417, that was such a cute way to let your son know about his score!</p>
<p>I donât really know when the school gets the results. Iâm guessing theyâre mailed, so not same day. He sees his GC almost every day so she would probably tell him if she gets them and they are good. (She also knows better to tell him mid-day if they are disappointing.) She did email me that my Sâ11 made NMSF before she even told him (same day). 
Sheâs really nice and knows my Sâ14 very well, but she isnât all that strong on the college counseling. Still when a college that offers engineering comes to visit, she tells him to go to the visit and gets him a pass to get out of class for it. I know sheâll write my DS a good letter of recommendation, but I may take a page from Anjinâs book and help her out. Iâd have to frame it differently though, since I know she <em>does</em> know most of the things Iâd say. So Iâd have to put it more as âhere are some things I think are worth mentioningâŠâ</p>
<p>Thanks 4bearâit was killing me to keep it a secret but since Christmas with teens involves so few secrets, that aspect was fun.</p>
<p>mathmomâdoes the HS even receive notice of the SAT score? I know the PSATs and all NMSF information is sent to the school, but I didnât know if the SAT scores are sent. Perhaps there is something to check on the CB registration?</p>
<p>DS also signed up for classes today. He didnât tell me but his Engineering teacher did at parent open house tonight </p>
<p>He signed up for AP Bio, AP chem, AP Calc BC, Honors English 12, Psychology (counts as his 3rd social studies required for graduation), and Engineering 2. Chances of that all working seem slim to nil to me, but the only saving grace is that Calc BC will have to be online or independent study which means it can go anywhere, which gives him one degree of flexibility. I think it will be a long time until we find out what fits, but Iâll be doing the dance with you Blue :)</p>
<p>CT, the HS does get notified of the SAT scores â they have to put the school CEEB code on their answer sheet. But unlike the PSAT, they arenât gatekeepers, they just also get a copy.</p>
<p>@mathmomvt- You know, if you have a really good relationship with the GC, you might even get a peak before its sent out. You see, even the most well-intentioned GC can write words or phrases which are red flags to an admission officer. The concepts that want to leap off the page are that your child has a âlove of learning.â This is probably the single most important Admission Officers want to see. Everyone knows about leadership, etc, but the âlove of learningâ trumps all the rest. So in your letter, since you have a good rapport with the GC, you could even say that one thing you would like to convey to the colleges is your son/daughterâs is âlove of learning,â and then cite examples.</p>
<p>Nervously awaiting SAT scores here as well. Iâm sure Iâll wake up in the middle of the night and check the scores. If theyâre good, at breakfast Iâll casually mention to dd, âDonât scores come out today? You should check.â If not, I wonât mention it until after school!</p>
<p>agentninetynine: DS, now a freshman in college, applied to most of those schools, along with many others. He had top grades and scores and he knew he needed merit money. We really liked Whitman, but their merit money was the lowest of all ten schools he applied to, by far. Even schools that were much more competitive (Grinnell and Colorado College) gave him way more money. Some of that may be due to the fact that he was more geographically desirable at those schools, while Whitman has lots of NW kids applying. We even appealed the award, but no dice. </p>
<p>Five hours to goâŠ</p>
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Seems like it would be inappropriate to ask though. </p>
<p>For DSâ11 the two teachers he asked did give him a copy of the letters they wrote, but the GC did not offer it.</p>
<p>@mathmomvt - Youâd be surprised. If they have a nice relationship, and your s/d is one of his stars, they still sometimes offer. And as far as it being inappropriate, consider this. The GC is not really writing his own personal opinion of a student. To the contrary. The GS is synthesizing what he knows about the student from the transcript, reports, teacher reports, extracurriculars, and all information which is otherwise all accessible by you. It is not so much a judgmental assessment of your D, as much as it is a compilation of what you already know. The bottom line is, he has the responsibility of getting it right, and you have the responsibility to make sure he gets it right.</p>
<p>The other recs can be a crap shoot. But the GC rec should not be. :-)</p>
<p>Anyway, I shall now try to get some sleep. See you early in the morning! And one last time, GOOD LUCK!</p>
<p>Beadymom - I donât know what size of liberal arts school you are looking for, but Duke is a good one that has engineering AND liberal arts. They are considered 2 separate schools as far as admissions go, but the students are together on campus, in fact, all the freshman are housed together on East Campus. My older son chose Duke to get the engineering (From the Pratt School of Engineering), as well as the flexibility and a larger variety of people (at Trinity School of Arts and Sciences), than he would at a purely technological school. They also have the 4+1 masters program there, which I think is really nice. A GREAT liberal arts program called FOCUS, and a wonderful community outreach/study abroad program called Duke Engage. This is a unique feature to Duke (well, not entirely unique) where engineerng students, even with their heavy course load, have the opportunity to go abroad. Or perhaps thinking of law school? (probably not, but I thought Iâd mention it because this is really cool, too, they have a 3 years plus one summer JD and Masters combo = 3 degrees in 7 years! I sound like a walking advertisement! I should be walking backwards and pointing out the architecture of the beautiful Duke Chapel on your left! :D</p>
<p>OK. Now everyone may commence talking about SAT scores! 
Results in 4 1/2 hours! Bummer that my son was too sick on SAT day to take them 
Iâll be missing out on the fun of this go around.</p>
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<p>No SAT party at 5:30 folks. :(</p>
<p>Geez! They couldnât have done these maintenance things Wednesday morning or waited until Friday?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, d/t the blizzard, schools have been closed all week. Winter break that was scheduled for next week has just been canceled so the college tour that was scheduled for next week may be canceled. The colleges on the list were UNH/Dartmouth, MIT/BC/WPI & Brown. Not sure if the trip will happen or not as the after school program is trying to figure it all out. I have heard from very good sources that the reason for canceling winter break is b/c CMT & CAPT testing begins in early March and they donât want to lose 2 weeks of instructional time.</p>
<p>My feeling is this, 2 weeks probably wonât make much difference anyways⊠and the juniors donât take these tests so they will be shuffled around to the cafeteria/auditorium watching movies all week and doing busy work. It will be a waste of time. Also, teachers will probably NOT be around and so the schools will be filled with substitute teachers. </p>
<p>Oy ve!!</p>
<p>I thought the maintenance was over @ CB! Not on CC⊠CC should be ashamed of itself. LOL</p>
<p>âŠso here we areâŠ</p>
<p>Scores are in!!! Daughter did well!!! Time to sleep!!!</p>
<p>GM Anjin,</p>
<p>It looks like we are the only ones here⊠such an exciting morning! I wish dd was awaiting scoresâŠ</p>
<p>and thanks for the heads up re: private/boarding schools college counseling info. I have been on a bit of a tangent going to all of the websites looking at their info. So interesting how HW has the best info by far. </p>
<p>CC will be down from 5a to 7a So Good luck to everyone⊠I feel like a new baby is on its way!!!</p>