S20 got acceptances to Arizona and Washington State today! Those are his top two. He loved UA when we visited, and we are going to WSU next week. UA gave him the $15k scholarship we expected. WSU gave him $7k on the WUE - last year it would have been $10k but they made it GPA-dependent and he’s in the lower tier. So they aren’t too far apart cost-wise, although we think he’d have a great shot at getting Arizona residency. I think the deciding factor might end up being climate 
Hi, mom of a D20 who has a current unweighted gpa of 3.24, not great but she had a hard freshmen year as she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at the end of 8th grade and was still in treatment her first semester, she has not taken the SAT or ACT yet she was scheduled to last spring but unfortunately her grandfather passed away the week she was scheduled to so we elected to have her reschedule so October 6th is her first crack at the SAT her PSAT score was an 1100 and she’s been studying really hard so hoping for a higher score.
She is a hopeful English major (creative writing), she’s taken 3 AP classes and a few honors, she’s a varsity cheerleader (4 yrs), runs track, member of the newspaper, interact club and foreign language club.
She has a current list of 10 schools that she really likes all are OOS, she was accepted today to Ball State University who allows you to apply test optional so she’s very excited that she got her first acceptance letter.
D finished her common app today, submitted to a couple of schools that don’t require recommendations or essays, and was invited for an audition at Dominican at the end of the month. She’ll have two major auditions in that one week in CA and then dancewave in NY the weekend after we come home from CA.
Well S20 has all but decided to go to community college (Diablo Valley College) after high school. So we are now researching about the school (it is one of the better community colleges in CA and sends a lot of transfer students to UC Berkeley, UC Davis, other UCs and CSUs). He can TAG to UC Davis from DVC which would be cool, since he doesn’t have the stats to get in there as a freshman.
It will save us a ton of money which is great, but I’m definitely a little sad that he doesn’t want the 4 year away from home experience (I believe much of that is due to the girlfriend who is a year behind him in school).
He will still apply to 4 Cal States that are about 1-2 hours away as well as Saint Mary’s College (which he can commute to). I want him to have those options just in case his relationship ends before spring and he suddenly decides he wants to go away.
We have told him that we support him either way, and that this is his first real adult type decision.
@Indymom20 Congrats on the acceptance!
@milgymfam Good luck to her!
@thedreamydaisy I totally understand where you are coming from, but as you said, it saves a lot of money, and in the end it’s the final degree that counts. My nephew went to CC his first two years to be with his gf even though he says he just didn’t know where he wanted to go. He’s now a senior at NJIT and doing real well. He’s commuting, but he also only has classes one day a week so there’s no reason to live on campus. Everyone needs to find their own path, and your son will find his.
@Johnny523 thanks for your words - I think I needed to hear them today 
He isn’t totally sure of a major yet, so this route will help him figure that out while he gets his general ed stuff done.
That made me smile. Big!
DS got his first acceptance letter yesterday—-Mississippi State University. We knew he would get in there but it is still exciting for him to have that official letter. He applied to two other schools but they are not guaranteed even though nothing really is these days. All applications are out of state. He is taking classes at community college this year and has told us that he may want to stay at community college and transfer. I wanted him to apply to a couple of more match schools but he said he is totally content with the 3 he applied to knowing he has the option to go to community college and transfer if it heart it set on a particular college including our state flagship which he knows he would not get in.
@affirm Early acceptances are nice - congrats to him!
CC can give you a really sense of what you “should do”, and one of the things is applying to a bucket load of schools. If there are only three schools he wants to apply to, that’s totally fine. My S20 applied to five and that was overkill for him. Per my post yesterday, he was accepted at his top two yesterday, and they were pretty much safeties for him. So don’t worry if yours only applied to three, especially if he’s looking at the CC-transfer option. It sounds like he’s on top of things. Good luck to him!
Our first deadline of 10/15 is looming. DS has GOT to finish is Common App essay. I would love to have them all submitted by 10.15. The one with the earliest deadline may be a reach for him, and it is in our home town so he isn’t really excited about applying to that one, but he will.
At this point we are applying to 5 schools, all EA, (1 safety, 3 matches and 1 reach). We have visited all of these schools (except the one here in town NCSU, but he will attend an open house in Oct) and have some return visits planned.
He also applied and was excepted to 1 small private with some $$ that he really isn’t serious about at this time. If he starts getting any denials or waitlisted we will add some other schools. He is confident, which is great(!) but I am a worry wart!
My D19 applied to two schools - both rolling - and heard back by early September. One was her first choice so there was no need to apply anywhere else.
Do what’s best for your kid and don’t worry about keeping up with the CC Jones’.
My D is also not thrilled with applying to multiple schools. Her #1 choice has an 80% acceptance rate, she is applying ED, she doesn’t understand the need to apply to ANY MORE schools. I just can’t help thinking “but what if”? I have gotten her to add a couple EA schools that don’t require any additional work on her part (no extra essays, no new audition music) but sheesh. I guess she’s pretty confident or just not amenable to doing an ounce of extra work. (Strongly suspect the latter! And this is why I am on this thread! HAHAHA)
Officially joining the group here. I’m not new to this college admissions process. But I’m new to my current scenario. I’m trying to guide two very different kids to find their best situations. Twins. One B+ ave, one much higher. B+ twin is fairly motivated to get her apps done. Twin with better grades is in total procrastination mode. She wants to go to a school who has a 57% admittance rate. Although I think her stats match the averages, I do believe that she has to have a good essay to be admitted. She’s not wanting to work on that at all. So my mind naturally shifts to what her backup plan might be. The problem is that she does not have a solid in-state backup interest. Plenty of options. But right now she thinks her backup is a private, which even with merit will most likely be priced out, or at least unrealistic.
I started early encouraging them to get apps submitted, since there are two. Tons of work, especially with any scholarship apps that need submitted. And we are all tired. Already. They simply do not want to hear me ask what they are working on next. Anyone else already experiencing application fatigue?
@momofmanytoo Welcome, and I feel ya. I can’t image dealing with two at the same time!
My son and I had a huge blow out Sunday, I asked him to write one of the small essays (why our school?) and told him once that was done we can edit it for the other schools, thinking this would be a good first step. He worked on it, but when read it last night it was so half baked that I was furious with him. It was not my finest moment but I am really freaking out about this deadline, I just want them done!!!
I don’t know about the rest of you but I don’t even check the main class of 2020 thread anymore. I am much happier here on this thread.
I don’t know if I’ve ever posted on this thread before, but boy can I relate to the stress of getting those essays done and the half baked ones. He’s done with the apps, it’s the scholarship ones that are just not happening. I think he’s just burnt out and ready to be done. I told him “Just get this one done tonight”. He opened it up and it had 5 essay questions. He’s like, “Nope. That one is going to have to wait”. That was 2 weeks ago…
@ITBgirl I’m also done checking the other thread My S20 has one essay to write for one app (Saint Mary’s College of California) and he is really dragging his feet on getting it done. His other 4 schools are all Cal State schools which don’t need an essay. But since he has pretty much decided to do community college for 2 years, he has no sense of urgency at all. I just want him to at least have some other options come next spring in case he decides he wants more than the cc option.
@ITBgirl Seriously, SAME! We did get one community scholarship application submitted. But that was the straw that broke the camel’s back! It’s honestly just such a change for me since my oldest child (now out of college) was so utterly compliant. I was spoiled. I’ve got one kid mostly done, except for some scholarship apps later. The other kid, who has better stats, is hitting the breaks. She has her Common App essay to do and she’s basically home free, to no avail. She also has had some great backup plan acceptances that have came in with generous money. But literally I will show her the mail and she will say, “I don’t really care about that right now.”. Gen Z is killing me, you guys!
“Procrastination mode”- some kids do this when they’re stressed. My D20 definitely does this. And I have to back way off. If I care too much, she is more stressed. Mostly I remind about deadlines and how much progress is the goal this week. With my older kids, getting another trusted adult- teacher, guidance counselor to read essays - helped.
Since it’s ED, you can wait and then if she doesn’t get in, she still has plenty of time to apply to other schools. My son kept saying he needed to apply to his safety school (Northern Colorado) and I told him there was no point in spending the money until he started getting some rejections. He got accepted to Arizona and WSU last week, so he understands my point now 
They always listen better to people who are not their parents.