<p>@bigbossman1 - do you have retired exams? D will try another ACT in September and could use retired exams if you have a few. </p>
<p>Got it. Thank you. </p>
<p>Thanks again. Will check it out. </p>
<p>Good luck to those who will be taking the SAT tomorrow. Wishing good results. I can announce that my D is officially a Senior.
She has already started on the State flagship application. The common app essay is finished. This was their English final…yeah no nagging.
Hope everyone finishes Junior year strong and smiling.
We will attempt ACT studying this coming week. She promises to take a practice test today…believe it when I see it</p>
<p>Good luck to all SAT takers tomorrow! D will be taking the ACT next Saturday. Hopefully, she’ll see movement on her score (and hopefully, it’s upward movement).</p>
<p>Yeah, last day today here too. Thank God. One twin has all his grades in. Ended up with a sold semester (for him). Best one since freshman year. Other twin has two classes not in the system yet, and we need one of the two to go the right way for him to keep his 3.000. I think he’ll get one and not the other. Then we can relax. What’s done is done.</p>
<p>My 3.000 son’s ECs are spectacular - we are hoping they break a tie if a school puts him on the fence. But I know that most schools in our target range don’t even look at them, unfortunately.</p>
<p>@kmanshouse :-bd ; are they up for one more push on ACT or are they shooting for Sept date?
I look over bigbossman extra help you should too. It really made the English and Math understandable and these are the sections that you can really improve your score on </p>
<p>I’m going to have to give up CC for a while. I’ve become addicted to it and spend far too much time here. I’ve really enjoyed this thread in particular, since my son falls into this category. However, since he already knows where he wants to go to college, and that his stats are probably sufficient to get into the program he wants, it’s just a time-consuming (though quite enjoyable) hobby for me. Thanks to all for the support and encouragement of those of us with great kids with less-than-great stats.</p>
<p>Greetings!</p>
<p>I hang on the general thread but have caught up with this one since you guys got a shout out on that one to come on over here!</p>
<p>I really identify with so much I have read on this thread. We don’t qualify based on GPA but I very much can commiserate with you on the standard test scores.</p>
<p>I have been on the other side of the fence with my older son who was one of those who got high scores with very little effort. I credit him for having the good manners to not feel the need to advertise them though-he knew he was very fortunate and kept his mouth shut. </p>
<p>Now my little lady is struggling mightily with the tests although her testing history is within 10% of his. One of her biggest concerns is about how she will be viewed at school if her GPA isn’t “confirmed” by her test scores. I find that very disturbing as I told her she shouldn’t even be discussing her scores-seems like another thing that can now be thrown out there-does anyone believe in privacy about anything anymore?</p>
<p>I know she will be OK and I know all your kids will be OK because they have you in their corner! I understand the feelings you have expressed here and I would love to hang out with you! </p>
<p>It is very true that this stuff that is so upsetting right now won’t matter once they get away from the stifling atmosphere of HS-I feel much better about this process going through it a second time. I wish my daughter could be a competitive applicant at the schools that accepted my son but that isn’t realistic and I have to help her navigate that without her feeling like she is a failure-she isn’t and neither are your kids. It is so easy to fall into the conventional wisdom that says who is smart who is successful and who isn’t-and it’s also very damaging to our kids-because as we all know they are far more interested with what we do and how we act than with what we say.</p>
<p>She took the SAT yesterday with close to zero prep again. It is a long story and I won’t get into it but that is where we are right now. Her scores do not reflect her ability but there isn’t a thing I can to about it other than to make available to her the information and resources to help her improve them. Maybe she can’t improve them I have no idea but I have to force myself to stop trying to “help” her-my helping her has probably ended up hurting her as she already is so stressed out about the issue-so I do my very best to not talk about it! </p>
<p>That’s what I have CC for right? :)</p>
<p>Hello@pepper03 thanks for dropping in. I hang out on both forum but feel more comfortable on this one.<br>
It’s nice to have some who has gone though the process and has realistic expectations that they can be share in this group.
My D is out the GPA of this range but her colleges will be more on the B-B+ group range, @SlackerMomMD stated that the list was put together for fit with the first scores and if her D scores higher then it makes it more of a match not a reach.
This is were we are in the application process. Our list will only change if between now and September her intended major ( interest) change and she is willing to fill out more applications. Which I know won’t happen! 
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<p>Yes, I am a visitor from the other thread too. My D fits the profile of many students here testing-wise. Her GPA is a bit higher but only because she takes easy classes she can get A’s in. I feel guilty sometimes for not giving her a little nudge but she is just not an academic/intellectual kid at all, and sees school only as a means to an end. She is a dancer and that is her main passion–she pushes herself there.</p>
<p>We have the opposite problem of a lot of families right now–instead of a college list that is too long, ours is too short. It’s basically two schools–one she loves and one she likes. And the one she loves is the easier to get in. I don’t wish for the stress many people are going through but part of me is missing the “shopping around” that I got to do with my son.</p>
<p>hi @pepper03! @kidzncatz - just come back in the fall! Have a relaxing summer!</p>
<p>D is still in school - finals start this Friday. I try not to think about grades. Hoping for no C’s - this would be a first. “Upward trend” is our motto.</p>
<p>D said she created a profile on the common app. I thought they reset the common app in August. Would her profile be wiped out? If so, I tell her to hold off on that.</p>
<p>Greetings!! I read this thread all the time and was just encouraged and invited to post by Hoosier. My D15 daughter does not fit this groups profile, however I have another daughter who is currently a sophomore in college and is doing very well. She graduated HS two years ago and when she applied to schools she had a 3.4 GPA , a 24 on the ACT and an SAT score somewhere in the mid 1500’s ( three sections). The critical reading section of the SAT was very difficult for her, as D12 was never much of a reader. CR was her lowest section. She applied to 8 schools and got accepted to all 8 schools, with merit received from 2. She would have gotten merit from 3 if she filled out the paperwork, but she did not :-? </p>
<p>I come to offer support and to assure you that things work out even though the road to get there may be filled with stress. :-S LOL. </p>
<p>@SlackerMomMD have her hold off!!! They erase all information at the end of July. August 1 it goes live again then she can start. She can copy her information with a screen shot then she will have what she had already started on this application… She then needs to add that info into the new applications.</p>
<p>I have to be quiet right now because my dear D is doing one practice section timed…and per her only 1 today. At least it is a start.</p>
<p>That is a good strategy taking the first test scores and building a list from there-I like that!</p>
<p>@twogirls thanks for that info I have helped kids with this process with your daughters “stats” who have also done very well with admissions and even gotten merit aid so it does happen-it’s easy to forget when we hang out on CC that what people think are low scores are really not!</p>
<p>Yes Pepper you are right. CC would cringe at my older daughter’s " stats" but honestly I think she is " average." I would also like to point out that she took the SAT 2 times and her score remained the same. She took the ACT 2 times as well with the 24 being the higher score. After taking each test twice she flat out refused to ever test again. My daughter primarily received B’s and B+'s on her report card. She occasionally received an A ( yay) but typically this was balanced with a C ( oops). In any event she was and continues to be a solid B student. Nothing wrong with that. She loved sports- that was who she was. </p>
<p>Oh and I want to add that D12 took regular classes ( mostly). She had one college level elective her junior year and was one year ahead in math ( regular class, however). No AP or honors. </p>
<p>@sally305 I don’t see a short list as a problem! I felt guilty all the time about my son for not making him go to a more “rigorous” HS and felt I had somehow failed him. Crazy huh-my litmus test is now is my kid happy-at least for the most part? If the answer is yes then the rest is gravy! </p>
<p>I also want to add that D12 has a close friend who had a 3.2 GPA with test scores similar to my daughters. She had a lot of rejections only because most of her schools were huge reaches. She did, however, get wait listed to a reach school ( not as reachy as others) and eventually got off the wait list and now attends. Naviance had this particular school at a 3.7 with a 28 ACT. </p>
<p>^Very true. And the funny thing is–everyone in our family is 100% sure that my D will be the most successful financially of any of us. She has more common sense, street smarts and life skills than the rest of us altogether. 
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<p>Ha. My d13 is a 4.5/34 ACT kid and my ds15 is a 3.6/28ACT kid. My son said one time at the dinner table " my sister ( he used her name) is going to invent something really cool and I am going to sell it - and we are both going to be millionaires". We laughed because she could invent something and he could sell it! They will both be OK in the end. God gives everyone different talents! </p>