@kt1969 fyi, I just got an email from UVM saying they’d received his app and that they’d emailed him his portal info. And that basically I need to make sure he doesn’t lose it lol. However they haven’t emailed him anything yet (and I know his email is in their correct as he did get the common app submittal confirmation lol).
Anyway, to answer your questions this is what the email to me said.
*Our goal is to process supporting materials (transcripts, letters of recommendation, test scores) within three business days after they arrive. However, it may take up to five business days after the application deadline for supporting documents to show up as received on the application status page. *
Sounds totally over the top to me @stlarenas. $12,535 for books & supplies? Is a typo possible? A comma in the wrong place maybe? $4,739 for travel expenses for a car ride - not. Maybe they are estimating high for travel from the coasts? When we do our financial math we use $6k flat for all of the above (we are staying local). Sheesh, maybe call and ask? I would. That’s ~$90k over 4 years. Something doesn’t seem right to me.
For you UVM people they will announce their first EA decisions at Nov 10th if I remember right.
My son has had his app in for a while, so that may be his 1st acceptance. That would be cool.
Not Colorado College, Cornell College in Iowa (which the poster said was like Colorado College in that it has a block system). All the ‘CC’ getting confusing.
I know kids who have gone to Colorado College and loved it, but it is not for me. We all form our opinions by the few interactions we have with students and alums from a school, and I’ve found those I’ve interacted with to be ‘entitled.’
I was at a hockey game there once (when they played at the Broadmoor, so more ‘entitled’). I was sitting with the Wisconsin fans (almost all alums and adults, not many students) when the CC students kept walking by with a Bucky doll hanging from a hockey stick. About the third time they came by teasing the Wis fans, someone stood up, cut Bucky free, and toss him up to others to hide (“Free Bucky”). The CC students were stunned. They said “give it back.” Give what back? What are you talking about? They got an usher or cop or something. Again we said, “we don’t know what you are talking about, we are watching hockey.” That’s the impression I have of Colorado College, that they couldn’t negotiate the return of their doll. And they couldn’t take it when their joke was turned on them.
I admit my preference for big schools with lots of choices. If you pick a school like Cornell college or Colorado college with a block system, or a very small school, you have to make sure you really like it because if you don’t you are sort of stuck. When touring schools, I always felt so claustrophobic at the smaller schools, but my kids liked them so I trudged along.
My two middle sons took gap years. One spent some time in Europe and then helped out with a younger scout who was homebound for emotional reasons. My son would go to their house every day, get the boy out of bed, make sure he showered and ate, walked him around outside and supervised when the teachers came. He went to a state school the next year. The boy is now a senior applying to college.
The next one took a gap year, ran the regional scouting group and joined the volunteer fire department. He is now at the local cc. S17 wants the gap year and hopes to work with a friend of H’s who owns a movie company. I honestly don’t have a problem with that, but I really wish that he would apply and defer, rather than not applying at all because once you are graduated, the school forgets about you and it’s difficult to get things from them.
The drama club advisor is a special ed teacher but my son has never had her. She has known him since he was in diapers because my D (who just turned 25) was in drama club beginning in 6th grade. I am hoping that she can portray him in a way that demonstrates his ability to multitask, empathize, work well with others and be part of a team. For what he wants to do, those skills are better than the ability to do calculus.
On your end, congrats on the EA submissions. I hope that your son winds up at the best school for him.
@techmom99 I agree, I think a gap year with a planned deferral would be a win win in your situation.
@STEM2017 I suspect you will hear 11/10. Later applicants like my S will likely be in the 12/10 batch, they show 2 notification dates. Given that they are saying it could take 5 days for materials to be processed that would give them what, 4 to read the app? I suppose it’s possible but I really doubt we will hear that early. Nice at it might be (well nice if it was the answer we want lol) I do not expect it.
@stlarenas , I don’t want to discourage anyone from applying to Colorado College. I just wanted to warn all to prepare your kids. The student could do everything in their control, but the family may just not fit in with Colorado College budget. It was rough on as at the time, but easier than schools that did accept my son and were so far out of our budget that it was impossible.
@eandesmom I know it can take a while for things to show up, but the HS sent the info on 10/17. Of course she didn’t submit her app until 10/28, so maybe it’s a matching issue. I would be shocked if she was in the first group of notification, unless she was an obvious no, which of course I’m hoping she isn’t!
@kt1969 I suspect it’s a matching issue. I don’t think Vermont creates a full file until the app is in and then starts matching. So 5 business days would probably put you out until Friday before it would be worth calling
I am finding it odd that they emailed me to tell me they sent S his portal info but… No such email.
I have a similar issue with Ithaca. S has not yet applied but has a portal. It shows one test score instead of 2 and doesn’t show the transcript which was sent on the 20th.il telling you for these December dates I want them in sooner! I don’t like not being able to check and see if a file is complete will after the due date.
Sooo…D texted me this afternoon to say that she was ready to hit submit on all but 2 of her applications. I was all, “What??” Just reviewed her apps and we’re going to go ahead and submit 8 (will be 9 once she makes some additions to her ED application to American). She’s doing Wooster, UVM, and Susquehanna EA, and since Denison, Lawrence, and Allegheny were free apps we went ahead and submitted those, too (RD). UMass has always been a definite, so she submitted that one, too (RD). Still left to apply are the RD apps that cost money and are lowish in preference: Goucher, St. Lawrence, and Temple. Siena will be done by 11/15 in order to get priority review (and free app).
I’m feeling a little whiplash right now–after yesterday this was the last thing I was expecting. Thanks for all the encouraging words this morning–I guess I had been lucky up to now and really hadn’t seen that side of my D, so when she stormed off yesterday I was completely freaked out.
I hear you, I’ve not been in a rush to submit the ones that cost money lol. I’d love to get Allegheny in since it’s free as well as Goucher with the waiver but someone has some supplements to start and/or finish.
Yeah, how did you get a waiver, @eandesmom? The EA schools D pulled the trigger on are ones she could see herself at or were free to apply. Goucher looks good on paper but is still pretty much an unknown at this point (no visit or local info session or interview). It could fall off the list before this whole thing is over.
@klinska Congrats on getting those apps in. My experience was nearly the same. D dragged her feet and refused to talk to me and then one day last week she just decided the CA essay was good to go. She sat down to submit one app (I think to get me off her back) and before I knew it she had hit the submit button on 5 more! I think that this is just so overwhelming for them it takes a while for them to process it all. But once they finally feel ok with it, everything sort of all happens at once.
We only have a few more left on the list and my nagging has stopped completely. If she wants the apps to go, they will.
