<p>Well, now that’s one I hadn’t thought of. He’s out until 2015!</p>
<p>fogfog, sorry about the bird. How did fogkid take it?</p>
<p>Some great places to stay in/around the campus–Comfort Suites in Carlisle is a few blocks from Dickinson and The Carlisle House (B&B) also within walking distance.</p>
<p>As far as language study, my DS14 is in French 4 right now and will not be taking 5/AP next year. Really no time, but also he doesn’t like the French teacher that much, and there’s only the one. I pushed him to take it this year. My DS11 only went through French 3 – he would have done another year but it conflicted with one of his science APs or something, so he dropped it.</p>
<p>I’m hoping this will help someone</p>
<p>Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Establishes New Scholarship Program</p>
<p>The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation in Lansdowne, Virginia, has announced the creation of a new scholarship program for graduating high school seniors.</p>
<p>Jack Kent Cooke Scholars will receive up to $30,000 a year for four years to attend an undergraduate institution, as well as college planning support and advice and networking opportunities from the foundation’s larger scholar community. Scholarships will be awarded to high-performing seniors who matriculate in the fall of 2014; have a GPA of 3.5 or above and an SAT score of 1200 or above or an ACT composite score of at least 26; and can demonstrate financial need.</p>
<p>Applications will be accepted from late August to early November 2013, with the inaugural cohort of forty scholars to be announced in February 2014.[Jack</a> Kent Cooke Foundation Establishes New Scholarship Program | PND | Foundation Center](<a href=“http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=414200005]Jack”>http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=414200005)
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Establishes New Scholarship Program | PND | Foundation Center
foundationcenter.org</p>
<p>Thank you for all of the Dickinson & Lehigh hotel suggestions.</p>
<p>Adding another child who will be dropping FL Sr year. He will have completed Spanish 4 by the end of this year, so I have told him he has my blessing to drop FL.</p>
<p>One more child, our D will drop French next year. She had tough time last semester. She will drop French next year, though she made progress this semester. She wants us to host an exchange student from France :)</p>
<p>Just a quick survey, how many colleges are your kids planning to apply next year? After listening to H’s company sponsored college coach counseling section, the presenter stressed that 10 is the max. I know that more is not more but D and I don’t know how to trim the list down to 10. D loved all the schools that we visited so far, well not all, UCSD was a big turn off (too big, full of big concrete buildings).</p>
<p>At D’s school this year, there are so many 2400s, 36s, 240s … At least 10 of the juniors will be off to early college at top schools in the fall of 2014. D also mentioned that many seniors got nothing but rejections despite great stats.</p>
<p>How many are on her list right now? Is this your first kid to go through the application process? My daughter applied to 13, but if I’d done a better job getting a better list of schools for her that she could actually get into (this was in my pre-CC days when I had the college wisdom of a newt), 7 or 8 would have been enough.</p>
<p>I have the opposite problem with S’11. He has five schools on his list and I feel like it needs some padding. I need another couple of Elons and an easier to get into Gettysburg.</p>
<p>DS’14 is still not into the college process. He had 10 colleges chosen due to a school assignment on researching colleges, but that list has changed, and will continue to do so. He has only visited one school so far and really has no interest in visiting at this point (total opposite of DS’12 who started visits as a h.s. freshman). It is difficult to say how many he will apply to bc he still has not taken an ACT/SAT to help guide him in his options. His choices so far are based on what he plans to major in and the fact that he knows he’s not a top student or test-taker.</p>
<p>DS’12 only applied to 6 schools! He was able to do this bc he was accepted to his EA school. Mind you he is not attending the EA school! If he had not gotten in EA then he would have applied to 12 or 13! So glad he got in!! :)</p>
<p>Yes, it is my first kid. I am aiming for 7-8 also. Her list at this time is mostly reaches and getting longer by the day. She will apply ED to Pomona. Her list includes Reed, UChicago, Carleton, Scripps, Lewis and Clark, WUSTL, Occidental, UCLA and many other LACs. As you can see, it is all over the places. She is an easy going kid, very quirky, an independent thinker and everyday is happy day kind of person. I thought she has great stats but after viewing so many posts on cc, I am not so sure.</p>
<p>Our K1 had apps ready for
Yale
MIT
BU
UVA
GWU
CMU
Columbia
U Del
Perdue
UF</p>
<p>–ALL were ready to GO/push send…all done with essays/supplements etc. </p>
<p>K1 applied to 3…Applied to Yale (SCEA), BU and UF
and got into 1st choice early with Yale.<br>
Got in and got scholly $ at BU, and got into UF.
So the rest of the apps never went out. Was nice to have them as backups though. Because several of those are schools with low admit rates, K1 had a few more than I think is normally necessary.</p>
<p>K2 will likely have no more than that # of apps ready to go.
Will apply early to first choice school and a safety etc …
If the #1 is the charm, K2 may not push Go/Send on the C.A. for the rest. The list is far from refined though the GC wants it to be trimmed down. The list has about 15-20 schools on it and K2 thinks 4-6 right now are definitely staying on the list for apps…
and I am sure we will add a few academic safeties. There are a few closer to home I want K2 to see. One is a bit reachy however lightening could strike. The school’s campus culture is a great fit. The downside is it is a bit of a “hot” school.</p>
<p>I actually enjoy this process because right now there isn’t any real pressure. Its after they press submit I will be worrying :)</p>
<p>My oldest applied to 3 and probably could have stuck with two. He wasn’t looking at competitive colleges (his stats were fine for what he wanted - roughly a 70% acceptance rate if I recall correctly), so we were mainly concerned with the finances.</p>
<p>Middle applied to 6 and could easily have just done 5 as the 6th school never really was in consideration. They just sent a free app and were well known for merit aid, etc, but really, they were on the wrong side of the Mississippi for us (still a good school, so I’m not going to “bash” them).</p>
<p>Youngest (my '14) is hopefully going to have at least 4 on his list - perhaps up to 6, perhaps down to 3. If he had his way right now, he’d just have 2, but I’m pretty sure he’s still looking.</p>
<p>I can’t fathom doing 10, but if you are really trying for those tippy top schools, it does make sense considering the odds. Fortunately, none of mine have wanted to join in that race.</p>
<p>I can’t fathom doing 10 either. May be my happy kid will narrow down the list herself after realizing how many essays she will need for all those schools. She is so exited about the whole process, it is hard to keep saying no. S16 on the other hand has the “any UC is fine” attitude.</p>
<p>Although alls well that ends well, I didn’t have as good of a plan as I should have for him. He had 4 schools he loved, then we stuck in 3 more that I assumed were safeties, but really weren’t. He ended up switching his ea app to ed2, got in and it was done. </p>
<p>I think for my D she will apply to 1 reach, 4 matches and 1 or 2 safeties. She really likes her one safety a lot more than the other, so I’m not sure if we should do it or not. </p>
<p>From my experience the applications and essays were a pain in the neck, especially when they weren’t common app. I made my son do one app a week and he was done by early November. </p>
<p>This year we’ll start even earlier and start on the common app when it’s released in August and get all apps out in September and October if possible. </p>
<p>Word of warning!! Once you hit save on that common app you cannot go back and change it - tick tock the app is locked. I discovered afterwards several errors went out on it. </p>
<p>I heard one person mention this - to me the most nerve wracking part was after the submit button was hit. It was out of our hands and we had to just sit and wait - not my strong suit. Other friends thought once they were out the stress was over. I had a few nights of heavy cocktails to deal with the stress. But on the other hand, I don’t think I ever felt as happy for my child as the day he was accepted. People gripe about the snail mail acceptances - it’s a glorious thing to see that big envelope.</p>
<p>My S has five on his list, four reaches and one safety, but it could go up to seven if he makes NMSF (he is on the bubble for that), as the two that would be added provide generous scholarships for that designation.</p>
<p>Some of the changes to common app for this year include differences in how edits are handled: <a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/CA4/AppMemo.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/CA4/AppMemo.pdf</a>. I believe it is still true that you cannot edit the version you have sent to a particular school after you submit. Can anyone confirm this?</p>
<p>I don’t know how many DS will have. D’11 applied to 7 on a continuum from high reach to safety. She would have applied to more, but receiving EA acceptances made her realize that she was not interested enough in the two schools whose applications she was finishing. S’14 has to figure out a few things about the type of school, and we need to see his next set of SAT scores, before we “finalize” over the summer.</p>
<p>“Finalize” is in quotes because I am sure it will change! But my goal for him is to apply to 3-8 schools. He won’t be scattering shot at tippy top schools, nor will he be comparing FA awards, so if he feels pretty good about a handful of matches/safeties that should do it.</p>
<p>Hi there everyone! Joining the party! I think I recall some of you from the HS Class of 2012 where I hung out a bit with regards to S1. I can see that there are some other Virginia folk on here! Last time round, turned out there was a parent from our high school and his kid was into theater as was my S. That was cool and weird all wrapped up together! I will be a little more careful what I say this time around!
S2 has take Latin since sixth grade and is taking AP Latin this year. He still likes it and still like his teacher who he has had for all these years! To bad he is not fluent! Ha!</p>
<p>I have no idea how many schools he will apply to - he won’t even make a list until this summer.</p>
<p>My DS has 4 he loves and another 3-4 he’d be okay with. I’d say those are all admissions matches; some of them are also financial safeties. His true safeties would be a couple instate non-flagship publics. Still on the fence about applying to Cornell, which would be our HMFR. </p>
<p>I broached the issue of safeties again with him today, and he repeated his deep seated desire to get out of Florida (doesn’t like the climate) so maybe that would be the prod he needs to research 4-season possibilities…:).</p>
<p>Usually I’m quite up on CC lingo, but I’ll admit that HMFR is a new one to me. Unfamiliar, I googled and up popped the 2013 parents thread. Interestingly enough the poster was explaining how they didn’t know the term so they went through many searches and finally searched that thread (genius). So that’s what I did. Oh my!! :o</p>