@Muad_dib I’m always worried about their stability, but what about Sweet Briar? I will also suggest NC State- where every friend of D21’s wants to go, so they can be Vets.
@Momof3B That’s great progress! Sometimes getting started is the hardest part.
We have developments as well. A local friend was able to recommend a college counselor who came to meet with us today. We really like her, but more importantly D21 likes her and I know the CC will get D21 in gear.
D21 also emailed the school and was able to get into AP Bio without giving up AP Lit. She did drop AP Micro/Macro Econ, but was able to pick up AP Govt. Feeling good about classes now.
In person starts Thursday and these next two months are going to fly.
Have you looked into University of Delaware? They have both an animal science program and equestrian team.
@Muad_dib maybe look into Michigan State. A friend’s child is going there for vet studies and received significant out of state merit aid. I believe it was full tuition but not positive. I think they have an equestrian team as well.
@NurseNat – Welcome! The answer to your question is it can vary a lot. At my D’s selective LAC they will only take up to 4 courses (so that’d be 12 credits most places) and you have to have 5s on an the AP for most classes. I’m not sure how they handle CC credit for first years, tbh.
Public universities are often mandated to take many more credits by the their governing board. You can go to a college’s admissions website and usually there’s a section about AP/IB and dual enrollment credits that be be brought in.
I know @burghdad’s daughter will graduate Clemson in 3 years b/c she brought in so many credits. He might have some other insights.
@NurseNat You should be able to look at each school’s credit policy in their college catalog. D18 was full IB and had several AP courses and went to a public university. She lucked out and they allowed her to count all her credits because they came from different categories. I think she brought in 46 credit hours- she maxed out the IB and they still let her count the AP.
As @AlmostThere2018 has said- public universities are much more generous with giving credit.
College board is cancelling some centers for SAT and subject SATs. But till August 18th you have time to register with other centers. I did this for my D21 as her center got cancelled.
Some developments here to report…We found S21 a seat for the Aug 29 SAT about 50 minutes away…yay! (for now lol!). He set up his Common App account today, opened the apps and began filling out the basic information. He will be starting on short answer questions tomorrow. Expanded Resume done…Apply Texas and Common App Essay done…His college advisor has set up the order for which apps he’ll be submitting first…starting with OSU… It’s all happening so fast!
We still don’t have his schedule for school yet…I’m hearing it could
be Wednesday…school starts Aug 19!
CB doesn’t cancel centers (generally)…the sites themselves do.
For Chicagoland/northern Illinois test takers, when I looked this morning there were some ACT openings in Wisconsin for Sept dates, and Gary, IN for Oct dates.
I’d love to ask some AOs if they really expect kids to go to a different state to take a test. I want to know. Do they get that kids are doing that? Would they rather kids jump through these hoops so they can see a score? Can they respect that some families just aren’t interested in doing this? Do they need a score that badly that they want kids and families getting hotel rooms or getting up at 4:30 am to get to a site? (And don’t even get me started on the families who did this and the site was cancelled that day).
I would love to ask this too, I’m pretty sure the answers might vary at the institutional and individual level.
Some schools have made it pretty clear they want a test…by directly saying that, or by going test ‘flexible’ and allowing AP scores for example, or by limiting number of TO acceptances, or by not going test blind.
I mean really, if they didn’t want tests, wouldn’t they go test blind?
And don’t even get me started on the schools that say they are TO yet are requiring something else in lieu of a test, such as a graded paper.
Yes, our original testing location got cancelled because our school district pushed back in person learning until September. This new one I found is a school district about an hour away that so far is still starting school in person so I’m hoping they don’t cancel as well! There were only 2 other options that I was able to find a seat at and both of those were 2 hours away which I feel is too far to go.
Circling back several pages, D had an interview with Tulane this morning. She got through introductions before the connection froze. Grrr. Our wifi isn’t great and normally I would assume that’s the problem, although it has been working otherwise this morning, so maybe it wasn’t us. Who knows.
The good thing is that the interviewer sent her an email and offered to pick it up later this afternoon. So it sounds like that’s a better experience than at least one of you had with them.
I think she may ask them about submitting scores. She has a few questions in mind, and I don’t know what she will ask, it probably depends on how she feels the conversation is going. But she may say that she took it early, got a 32, and then had 3 tests canceled. What’s your advice on sending, retesting, etc?
If she asks and gets any useful info, I’ll pass it on. I’m hopeful she gets the interview done this afternoon. Tulane is pretty high on her list, and it’s just a weird year so I feel like anything helps.
@dadof4kids let us know how it goes!
Well, any reservations I had about S21 going TO are officially a non-issue. The Pitt app has been submitted. The rest of his schools are not ones we’re concerned about from a TO perspective so it is what it is now!
In other news, his (small, Catholic) school has decided to go with an “in-person five days or all remote” choice model. Our very large public school district is going with the exact same model so it wouldn’t be any different if he was at the public high school.
I’m assuming that this approach puts the liability on the parents as we are basically making the decision ourselves? If anyone gets sick from going to school, the school says “you could have gone remote.”
We are still talking it all over with S21.
The testing situation is bad, low income kids do not have resources to travel far from their home to take a test. Kids from TX can’t travel to another state as TX is huge so some people would have to drive long hrs to leave the state and most States have a 14 day quarantine for Texans.
I previously said schools should be test blind and stop the madness.
@InfiniteWaves When will you hear from Pitt?
@homerdog Apparently, they start reviewing in September and then students can expect to hear four to six weeks after that.
Yes, we have the same setup here (GA), and I see it the same way. A hybrid option would (1) force de-densification at a certain level, including on school buses because they’d be able to ensure no more than x% would be there on any given day and (2) allow more students access to in-person classes (as I think more parents would be comfortable with potentially choosing in-person if it were a hybrid schedule that meant the de-densification was controlled, not left up to parent choice). Instead, they’ve left it up to parents. In our case, we felt we had to go with remote given that choice. Our schools aren’t trying any sort of de-densifying on buses, and their lunchroom plan is not great. I know some kids need to be there more than mine (given lack of technology, support, etc. that some kids face at home…we’re in a Title I school), so I didn’t see it as a choice all about my kids and how they’d learn better. I saw it also as a choice about how to help mitigate community spread which helps us all in the long run and how to help de-densify the schools by keeping my kids home. We’re not in Paulding County, at least, which is all over the news (that crowded hallway photo), and we’re all starting the year remote where I am, though they are tentatively planning to shift to in-person for those who chose it in a few weeks.
My S was inputting more of the basic data in the common app yesterday.
Remind me – if you want to submit scores to some schools but not others, do you just remove the data from the testing section of the Common App for TO schools and then hit submit? Then, if there’s another school you later submit an app to where you DO want to self-report scores, you have to re-enter that data into the common app b4 submitting?
We didn’t do any TO with my older kid so new territory!
Same here @nichols51 . When we reviewed the “detailed plan” for five days in-person, it didn’t seem all that, well, detailed. There isn’t really a plan for the cafeteria. The plan for the hallways and classrooms is like “yeah, we’ll try to keep them apart.” At first, we thought that maybe because S21’s school is really small they could do it like this?
But then when we did the due diligence and learned that our large public school district is doing the same thing, we realized what’s going on. It’s all about liability. This way, nobody can complain or blame the schools for anything.
We’re in a pandemic. I get it. Hate that this is what it comes down to. But I get it.