Hi - Can I just say this is a whole new world for me…I don’t know anyone who has already applied and heard from schools! Is it a southern and midwest thing? There really don’t seem to be many early action/rolling admission schools in the northeast, and we’re only looking at schools here. My Ds applied ED and now I’m just trying to survive until December 15th.
A million congrats to people who already have acceptances.
At our school (competitive Boston suburb) 90% of the seniors had at least one EA or ED school. There are a lot of both in the northeast. A few years ago that number was 50%.
Rolling admissions schools are the ones where you hear back two weeks to a month after you apply, and apps are taken anytime between late August and the end of June, usually, at these schools.
My D’s three schools were all rolling admissions, and that’s why she’s heard back from all three already.
I just feel for those applying RD to schools that don’t get back to you until after March 1. That would be tortuous. Unless you just knew you were being admitted… but many of the schools with set deadlines are not auto-admit either.
Also - I think many Midwestern kids apply to the Big Ten schools and most of those are state schools. Some, like U of Iowa, for one, have rolling admissions. IU may have, too, I don’t remember… I think UIUC sends out admissions letters after a certain date, but not sure…
But the regional public schools where many, many kids in the Midwest end up, are almost all rolling…
Just signed up D for a tour of SIU-Carbondale on Monday. We have a funeral to go to nearby, on Sunday, so will be in the area.
This is the only school where she’s applied and been admitted, but has never seen the campus.
My D has applied to almost all rolling admissions schools, though she applied to most EA. So far in her class she’s got the most completed apps and the only acceptance, but she isn’t a typical kid. Her older sister grew up in New England and applied to some schools with rolling admissions in New England states, so they exist and kids do apply. But maybe they’re not the type of schools your D is looking at.
Southern kid here, one rolling admission in so far (Florida Gulf Coast). She has four others she’s waiting to hear from, and I think of those only one is rolling. So we wait, fingers crossed.
We’re about 20 min west of Boston. I love the idea of applying early and getting some acceptances under your belt! Maybe it’s a coincidence that my kids just weren’t interested in anything that had EA.
Congrats @petrichor11
Well, we took D to visit SIU-Carbondale on Monday (off school that day). She applied and was admitted but has never seen the campus.
Lovely campus, beautiful part of the state, state parks all around. Carbondale is a nice little town, lots and lots of restaurants, cafes…
We got a pleasant surprise at the visit with the AdCom. D will be getting a merit scholarship for 6k/yr. That is around half of in-state tuition and fees. Yay! And - she qualifies for a scholarship weekend event in winter, where she can compete for more merit money, from 8500/yr to a full ride. I don’t see her getting a full tuition or full ride, because of her grades, and honestly - we are happy about the 6k! I figured they’d give her 2-4k, maybe.
Also turned out they recalculated her 3.39 uw GPA/4.3 weighted to a 3.5 on their scale. I don’t know how that works, but we didn’t question it! We did remind AdCom, at first, that D has only a 3.3-4 uw, and she said, Oh we recalculated, with ours it’s a 3.5. Okay, then!
Best part is - D also really liked the campus. She says it’s definitely in the running with Ohio and Ball State.
She was also invited to Honors College, and she’s going to check that out online, and explore the SIU website a little further…
Don’t know if she’ll apply to any more schools at this point. She seems pleased so far with the three choices she has.
I reminded her today, though, that she needs to get some apps in by Nov.15 and Dec.1, if she still wants to apply to those…
And congrats, @petrichor11 !
Thanks, and to you as well!
The first quarter grades have been entered. My son ended up with 6 A’s and a B. He is working hard this year. He is juggling school, work and club soccer. He is a recruited athlete. The school wants his first quarter grades. Now we will patiently wait on a decision(ED). He made the improvements that directly said he would need to make. Hopefully, everything will go through. The entire process is very stressful…
Good luck to your son@allboyz . I agree is very stressful.
(my bad, was trying to search discussion, please ignore comment)
@allboyz, congrats to your son on his excellent grades so far, despite his busy schedule!
D told me last night that a couple of her friends at school are giving her a hard time for wanting to go to SIU-Carbondale instead of UIUC (University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign) which is our flagship. The latter is HUGE, and honestly, selective enough where I’m not convinced she’d be admitted, even with her ACT score. She may squeeze in near the bottom middle of the class…
It doesn’t matter, anyway, she never wanted to go there. She’s seen the campus twice, and both times she said, No, too big…
Anyway, it’s just annoying. I told her to ignore them, and she needs to be where it’s best for HER, and where she is most comfortable, and they can go where they are comfortable.
Anyone else’s kids getting flak like this from classmates or others? It really irks me she’s getting this judgment from her peers.
@BeeDAre, one of my Ds is applying to a women’s college, and is getting flak for that, and it’s also a school with a relatively high acceptance rate, and she’s hearing about that too. Not mean flak per se, just puzzlement. Most of this is from kids (and parents) who are looking at big & pretty competitive schools, and she wants NO part of a big school.
It creates a bit of a divide when they’re talking sometimes, but they have to go where they’d thrive. I’m a bit stressed about it, but the best we can do is reassure them that they have to do what’s best for themselves, not their friends.
Not really, but that’s probably because less than half the graduating classes at our high school attend college, and of those, most go to either the local community college, or occasionally, nearby state directional. Even the val/sal generally only get as far as the state flagship.
And it’s not for lack of intelligence or ability, it’s just the small town mentality. Stay here, stay put, marry your high school sweetheart and have babies.
Our D has had several people mentioning that she is applying to places beneath her ability. Her number 1 choice is Ohio U. because it fits what she wants better than other higher ranked schools. I have never visited the SIU campus but I’m familiar with the area as my brother used to live near Carbondale. It strikes me as a much more interesting area than Champaign/Urbana and frankly pretty similar to SE Ohio. We typically just address the comments by indicating that she likes the size, the area and the programming better than schools that are perhaps better known. I think it’s great that students have schools they like and they are accepted to rather than a reach school they dream of.
D is not getting flack from other kids, in fact, they’re pretty supportive, but we get lots of comments, depending on who we’re talking to. D is applying mostly to HBCU’s, so there’s the “less than” comments. We address those by pointing out successful grads of these schools. Some are not very selective, but offer huge merit packages to successful kids like her, so when they start in about names and selectiveness, we mention the cost factor. Even one of the smaller packages will make any of these schools cheaper than the in-state publics unless she lives at home and commutes. We also get “why a BLACK college, she’s half white…” We answer with a blank stare. And lastly we get “JUST a teacher? But she’s so SMART!” Um, yes. You’d prefer a poor student teaching your kids?
At school and her church and the money organizations she works with, she’s found nothing but support.