@homerdog have you looked at Chapman or the Clairemont Colleges? Pitzer is the easiest to get into of the latter.
This is unconscionable, somebody has to hold ACT accountable. I never thought I would say this, but I think CB handled this much better. And how about that nonsensical âqueuing systemâ when they open up at 10? Really ACT? UghâŠ
I have a good friend who has a D at Scripps. Sheâs the opposite of our D is just about every way. Highly intellectual - wants to chit chat about long dead languages, etc. 
I just donât see D fitting at Scripps and definitely not Pitzer. Pomona is an impossible get from here. I guess CMC would be the best fit of the 5Cs I know they are all highly connected and kids can take class at all colleges and eat at their cafeterias and use their amenities. It is beautiful. Even CMC, though, has more of a business angle than D would want. And it would be a huge reach.
Occidental has come up a few times. I could pitch it to her as warm CA life and a place Obama spent some time. 
Iâll ask my CA friends about Chapman. Thx!
Waited to log on to ACT until 10, because, you know, they said they will unlock it at 10. I try it about 30 seconds early just to see what it says. I get put in line. I wonder how long the line has been open. Sure would have been nice to know that 10 really meant 9, or 6, or whenever I needed to log on to actually have a shot.
Right now it says over an hour wait. I have to leave in an hour. Maybe I will still be in line when I get back.
I hate ACT and hope they fail.
Our sonâs ACT for this summer was cancelled but he did not get the email about auto-rescheduling. We were on the site 20 minutes early and estimated wait time is âmore than an hourâ. Bets on how long the wait will be?
@dadof4kids my first weight time updated dropped 10 minutes so you might want to stay on. I agree not fair to start taking people in line before 10.
must be tired because I keep misspelling things this morning. apologies.
I have seen several people on twitter and in articles defending the importance of SAT/ACT.
Ironically every single one of them makes their living off of test prep or a testing company.
The funniest/saddest are from the test prep people. They give an impassioned plea that this is the great equalizer that allows kids from all backgrounds to have a chance. Then they go back to marketing to mostly upperclass white people and tell them that they can boost their score several points, effectively making them look better by comparison than they really are.
It really is an either/or proposition. Either test prep works, and it benefits families of means, or it doesnât and testing is a level playing field, and benefits kids without. Itâs a zero sum game. X% of kids will get each score on a score normalized test. If you claim you can effectively boost kids scores if their parents are able to pay, then you are actually taking seats away from kids without that advantage.
Iâm down to 50 minutes. Itâs like they know when I am leaving and are trying to ensure I will be on the road when I get to the front of the line.
OK,Iâll move on. Iâm really turning into a grumpy old man. Not sure when that happened.
I just moved about 35 minutes in 20 in case that helps. Good luck! Iâm hoping to see that we still have our spot an hour away for September but I know they wiped some confirmed reservations.
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D was poised to sign on to ACT at opening bell and was immediately placed in queue with an hour wait. It is ticking down though, so hoping thatâs a good sign. It just jumped from 50 to 44 minutes. ??
@homerdog have you considered Holy Cross? Stunning campus and great school spirit. We unexpectedly loved it. Itâs roughly 3,100+, so slightly larger than many of the NESCACs. Fordham was another surprise and also on Dâs list of safeties.
I had the ACT site up an hour early (Iâm on EST and forgot it opened at 11am CT). I refreshed the window at maybe 10:58 and got a â2 minutes until liveâ type screen with a countdown. At exactly 11am it switched to the queue screen and said my wait was about 10 minutes. It ended up only being about 5 minutes though, and then the process was fairly easy since all S21âs info had been migrated over. I was able to register for an October test, at a high school an hour away. My guess is that schools will be closed by mid-fall so the test will probably not happen anyway. But, we had to give it a last ditch effort, in case the closer September test is canceled.
@Solstice155 i donât know why it seems that many of Dâs options are Catholic or Jesuit! Lol. Why does midsized, school spirit always seem like itâs elite with super low acceptance rates (Vandy, Duke, NU etc) or Jesuit. Just an observation but interesting nonetheless.
I will look at both. She has two friends in the Ailey program at Fordham but, if D went there, sheâd be on the other campus. She does love NY but Iâll have to see how urban that campus feels. I know itâs not in Manhattan.
So, even though I knew that the site will not be online till 10:00, I tried to login around 9:52, and they redirected me to this Queue-it website. I knew there would be paranoid parents like me who would do the same 
. At 10:00 I was in the queue for 6min and got to log in and was able to change her July 18th to September 13th. To my surprise, we were able to find a center within 25 miles. Now letâs just hope that the test will actually happen. :neutral:
I will say that the queue time seems to be ticking down just slightly faster than expected, which in my opinion is what it should do.
Clearly that is third party software since it isnât jacked up this morning.
14 minutes nowâŠ
Took about 45 minutes when I started at around 56. At the last minute or so I it kept delaying about 4 minutes. The Sept and Oct tests I booked an hour away last week are still there, so grateful though they could easily be cancelled. No new test sites available near us. Decided by December results will be done with apps so not signing up for that. I hustled to log off.
@homerdog I always hear that Fordham feels much less urban than everyone thinks (Rose Hill).
Weâre in the camp of having mostly safeties and matches. D still tormenting herself looking for reaches. I think sheâs almost decided on Bucknell and Boston College. BC mostly because sheâs heard great things about Boston and lots of kids seem to love it. LOL Bucknell we both really loved when we toured a couple weeks ago, even though smaller than she thinks she wants. I told her weâll eat 1 app fee for a reach. She doesnât want to visit unless she gets in and itâs affordable (highly doubtful on both counts!) so sheâs not disappointed in the likely case it doesnât work out.
The ACT site is unfair. Clearly, it put people in the queue before 10am. So, if you were on the site at say 8 and left it open, youâd be first. I went on the site like 20 min early, just to see when it was opening, so left it up while I did other things. At 10 am, 20 min wait, and then all sites already filled for Sept in our area. S signed up for Oct, then i thought, whatâs the closest drivable OOS location? Where we ski! He put in that zip and it brought up a sept location in state (but a couple/few hrs away). So, took that one too. Depending on where/how he decides to apply, and Julyâs score, weâll figure out what to do.
@Homerdog We know a few girls at Scripps who are fun, and not the Intellectual stay up all night talking about life type. It was one of the few visits we did and itâs beautiful!! And, with all the other kids around, very diverse. It might be a safety from where you are, donât know. Oxy has more of the SJW rep here, though itâs sonewhat balanced with the athletes. Both give merit!
Got signed up with no problems when I got on. It looked similar to what I saw that first afternoon it was open. Probably more than 1/2 of the sites around here full, but options were available.
Currently the school is planning on testing Sept 22. I could have signed her up there for Sept 12. Instead I did Sept 19 a few hours away, but we have a good place to stay the night before that is only 15 minutes from the test. My thought is she can prep once for the 2 tests only 3 days apart.
And hopefully on Wednesday she will get what she needs from the July test and I will drop the Sept one anyway. But since 1/2 filled up even before the hype, I was concerned that in 2 days nothing would be open.
I still hate ACT.