Congratulations @petrichor11 and D!!!
@BeeDAre Yes, it’s her first choice. She has two other applications not yet heard from (as well as two acceptances) but she’s withdrawn both.
Awesome @petrichor11 !! Congratulations!
My son finished his first semester with 6 A’s and 1 B. Hopefully that will be enough to move him from deferred to accepted college at his top choice. I mentioned before that he is a recruited athlete for that college. He received a deferred letter in December with a handwritten note requesting his first semester grades. Hopefully this will be enough for them to make a decision. Regardless of what happens, I am so proud of him. He has worked so hard this school year. He has managed all of this while working (three days a week) and playing soccer. Hope all of his hard work pays off…
@petrichor11 How exciting!
Congrats to your daughter @petrichor11!
Eckerd is one of two schools my daughter is still waiting to hear from (Her application has been complete for about 3-4 weeks). I’m guessing that they only notify by regular mail? Here in the DC area, we’ve received mail once in the last week because of the snow! If my D gets in and wants to go, we may need to add a 4th cat to our current feline population in the near future - she would need one that can be trained to walk on a leash!
She told me yesterday that she thinks her top choices are Eckerd and Colorado State (which accepted her today!) so maybe we won’t be making a trek to Minneapolis to visit UMN after all (I have to say I would rather go visit St. Petersburg at this point). She has some misgivings that she should keep Indiana and Minnesota in the running because they are better schools, but she absolutely loved the Fort Collins campus and the vibe at that school, and I think she would thrive at a small school like Eckerd. We were in St. Petersburg last summer, but we didn’t get to visit Eckerd then.
@petrichor11 and @eh1234 and everyone else whose child will attend a CTCL school: http://ctcl.org/ctcl-scholarship/
a new scholarship has been announced. If you have any questions about Eckerd, feel free to PM me. My 2 children went to Eckerd.
@ECmotherx2 Awesome, thank you! I just forwarded it to my daughter.
@eh1234 I think it took us just bout 3.5 weeks to hear from Eckerd once her transcript got sent (there was a delay at the school’s end on that). We don’t have any USPS impairments though, other than a carrier who only thinks we need mail three days a week.
D16 received a deferred EA to regular decision letter from Ithaca today…they have requested a mid-term report/transcripts. They said they would let her know as soon as they receive the report but it could take as long as April 15. Not sure that is going to provide them any significant information. D16’s grades stayed the same essentially. HS just released updated GPAs and class rank today. She is up a smidge. Her GPA went from 4.67 to 4.68 (weighted) and her class rank went from 105/577 to 102/576. If she is anything it is consistent, her highest GPA ever was at the end of freshman year when it was a 4.7. I would have thought her consistency would have been obvious from her transcript. I am guessing that the request for mid-term report is a red herring and she will be denied in the end. Which is weird to me because I certainly thought Ithaca was a solid match for her stats.
Deferrals annoy me so much. I think I have said it before but IMO it is like saying “Yeah your cute and cool and I could to date you, but hang on a minute and let me see if anyone better comes along, if not, we can totally date!”. Pretty sure D16 will make a decision before Ithaca gets around to giving her their final decision. Just waiting on Marquette to give her a final decision on accepting her to their BS/DPT program (and they promise to let her know by mid-February) and she says that she will be ready to make a decision.
@labegg weird thing happened with S and Ithaca, too. He’d applied EA II, and for 7 weeks, the portal said the app was complete. He even wrote to make sure, and got the “all’s good.” Then a few days before the RD deadline, which is the same date for announcing EA II decisions, they emailed to tell him that his app was incomplete, thinking he was an int’l student (which he isn’t), and asking for lots more info – some of which was irrelevant to him; some of which they should have had already because it was sent (and if they didn’t get it, they should have indicated it earlier); and some of which seemed unnecessary (like your D’s mid-term report). They said that if they received it all by Feb 1, his app would be complete for the RD deadline! What the heck?!?
He’d already heard from other schools, so he just said “oh well, guess Ithaca’s out, then.” It looked interesting and a good solid high match or even a safety for his stats, and if he’d gotten in, it would have definitely been on the table. But there ya go.
We’ve used the exact same metaphor for deferrals. And, considering a girl actually once said this to S, it doesn’t sit really well. I’m almost positive one of S’s deferrals is now off the table unless zombies eat all the rest of his schools.
Super happy that D16’s final decision came in today. Technically she still has that EA deferral from Ithaca outstanding, but I don’t think she will be waiting to hear back from them at this point. She was accepted for Marquette’s direct entry BS/DPT program. The letter said they had 900 applications for 62 spots. So proud of her!
Marquette is fab! She’s going to love it. Brava! 
That’s awesome, @labegg! Congratulations!
Congratulations @labegg!
My D16’s final decision arrived today - accepted at Eckerd College with $19,000 Trustee scholarship that would make this her cheapest option (she doesn’t even meet the stated GPA requirement for that award, but I won’t complain).
We haven’t visited yet, so I guess I’ll have to torture the family with a trip to St. Petersburg in February. The horror! Eckerd was already her second favorite on paper (next to Colorado State), so I guess she will be choosing between the beauty of the beach or the beauty of the mountains. I went to Penn State and State College seems like an armpit by comparison. Lucky D!
@eh1234 - Congrats on the final decision arriving. That is some choice beach or mountains! (I’d pick mountains!)
Congratulations! Eckerd is an awesome school, @eh1234. The more I look at it the better I like it.
It’s very different to CSU, though: not just weather and geography, but size, school culture…is she overall more of a big research uni or smaller and more personalized LAC kid? We had to weigh D’s chances of being completely overwhelmed and lost freshman year v potentially being bored as a college senior. In her case, the LAC won (pet friendly dorms and a winter term class taught by Elie Wiesel were also pluses), but for her brother, it would have gone the other way. Good luck to her as she makes her decision!
Thanks for the congrats!
@petrichor11 I honestly don’t know which kind of kid my D is! I think she would benefit from the LAC experience and be more engaged in her classes, but I don’t think that means she can’t succeed at a place like CSU. Despite having about 22K students, the school didn’t feel big at all and the campus was pretty compact. We have some family in Boulder and Colorado is a favorite place of hers. She got into some schools that are quite a bit larger than CSU and those seem to have dropped off the list (like Minnesota - she just couldn’t see herself waiting for a shuttle to the St. Paul campus when it’s 2 degrees outside).
I’m trying to decided whether to send her to Eckerd’s first admitted students session on 3/13 or whether to try to get her down there earlier so she has a better shot at the housing she wants at CSU if she decides to go there. So glad it’s almost over!
Our S’s final application decision came in the mail today, and we were excited to see that he was accepted at his reach school, so 3 for 3! He didn’t seem that interested, I think because he likes the first one that accepted him the best out of the 3. There are pros and cons to each of the 3. The reach school has a very strong CS program and is ranked pretty well nationally, whereas the one our S likes has good regional rankings but nothing spectacular. The reach school has a higher percentage of commuter students, and ones who go home on the weekends, which he doesn’t seem to like. But, the one he likes is in a small town that has a fair amount of crime (although I consistently hear the campus is very safe).
One concern I have is that the first two schools acceptances are contingent on successful completion of HS, whereas the reach school letter says it’s contingent on him maintaining good grades. His 12th grade GPA has gone down quite a bit from 11th grade, because he signed up for 3 AP classes that are too tough for him, and his dual enrollment college grades don’t go into his HS GPA even though both were good. Since he has to decide by May 1st, I’m worried he might decide to go with the reach school only to find they decide to rescind his acceptance if his final HS transcript isn’t as good as the one he submitted this fall :(. I also think he might struggle at the reach school since he’s not a motivated student, as much as we’ve encouraged him to be one. Ugh…
For kids who typically have a B average, with a few C’s and A’s that balance out, is it better for them to go to a lower-tier school that might not be viewed as highly by employers but that they’ll probably do okay in for grades, or to go to a reach school that is recognized by local employers as a strong program but that they might struggle, or worse, fail out? My thoughts are to have him start at the lower-tier school, then if proves himself and wants to transfer, he could shift to what is currently a reach school. Any of the rest of you struggling with this?