@TVBingeWatcher2 Quick thinking on the rubber band. Did you come up with that strategy on your own or have you done that before with missed meds?
@TVBingeWatcher2 good luck to your daughter today.
@TVBingeWatcher2 , Good luck to your daughter!
@1Lotus , we used this method alot before meds were started in elementary school with mixed results. The problem, her mind will be off in left field for who knows how long before she realizes it. Hopefully that will not the the case today.
Anyone else finding it hard to say the list is final? Itās starting to become real to D. She was looking at her list and said wow Iāll be at one of these schools in less than a year. With S19, he was also done early with apps and started freaking out in late Nov that this was his one and only application season for college. Thought he should just start applying places like crazy. I know weāve been very deliberate about Dās list but now sheās getting emails from so many colleges. There must have been some big buy of names from College Board or something because these emails have picked up considerably in the last week. And Iām like - Hey how about X school? Or Y school? Lol.
Itās hard to close the door and say enough is enough!
Opposite issue here. We are at 13 schools and the biggest lottery ticket/scholarship schools have a bunch of short answer Qs that have not been worked at yetā¦ Iād like to get the list down to 10 but weāve only seen 4 on her list so sheās having a hard time taking ones off sight unseen.
I am so pleasantly surprised and impressed by ASU. My daughter applied to ASU this past Tuesday around 5PM CST, She just checked the portal and we have a decision, āADMITTEDā. She said, āOK, come what may, I have two good universities I can attend ASU and UA (Bama)ā.
Now to the next steps, ASU Barrett Honors application, UT, and TAMU going out on Monday and couple of reaches in October. Phewā¦ so relieved to have a couple of Ws. Hopefully we will be done by end of October. Still have a few supplemental essays for the reaches that she is working on.
@TVBingeWatcher2 Iām hoping the rubber band trick works out for your D. Your story makes me think I should keep one dose of the ADHD meds in the car (S21 has ADHD). I know my stomach would drop in that moment of realization.
@homerdog I can completely see that happeningā¦I donāt think it will with my S21, but I imagine the same with my D23. And most of your Dās schools donāt have EA, right ? So she wonāt get many results early enough to give her some peace of mind ?
@inthegarden I am glad your D has found a school you both feel is a strong fit, both culturally and academically. The fact that she has the ability to go ED and to do so at a school she really feels good about and has seen is amazing, this year in particular. It has taken me many years to see various things in my life in perspective and to really understand more about myself through them. I think itās a lot to ask of most 17 year olds going through 2020 life. I happen to believe that it will be the rare kid whose COVID summer experiences and authentic introspection make a significant difference in college acceptances. I think that given your D has a strong chance of actually getting her SAT in (given the way her school is planning to do it) and improving her math score significantly (based on her practice tests), that her time this summer was well spent given the options. It seems it would be wise to be prepared for the question about how she spent her summer for her interview(s), but beyond that, her application is what it is based on everything she did pre-covid and who she is at this stage of her life. Onward.
@nichols51 She has four EAs. Santa Clara, Denver, and LMU send decisions in Dec and Richmond in January. No rolling decisions for her though. S19 only had one EA and that decision didnāt come until late Jan. It was a long time to wait.
My suggestions for D include schools that were on her list at some point, never visited, and were dropped because of heresay about vibe - places like Washington and Lee and Furman maybe being too conservative. Then, places like Middlebury because it fits almost everything but itās cold (but Colgate is cold and itās a big hit with her!) And, if sheās ok with the weather at Colgate and Bates then why not Lafayette? And Syracuse? Well, she thinks she might be interested in communication and THAT school has the big school spirit she thinks would be funā¦but cold.
And then I feel ridiculous because sheās already got 13 on the list. There are three that were the original three that still remain favorites and she would likely go to one of those if she gets in. Itās just FOMO I guess and all of the unknowns with this weird application season.
@homerdog ,I hear you and it is so difficult not to look at them. Most of the emails she is getting now are either far reaches (Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, MIT etc.) or colleges that do not have highly ranked programs in her choice of major. She just wants to apply to only one far reach because its in town. The rest of them I am not sure she wants to be in a pressure cooker so far away from home. So we decided that we are going to ignore the new emails. That said, it is still difficult to totally ignore them 
The recyclable bin has been fed more frequently in recent weeks for sure.
And, āDeleteā and āunsubscribeā have been heavily used this week in our house in relation to the significant uptick in schools emailing S21 with more āvirtual infoā sessions available, etc.
Many of these are schools that were on his list prior to recent ātrimmingā ā¦but just as many are ones heās never considered.
@TVBingeWatcher2 Good luck to your daughter today. ACT gave my D a spot in the next state 6 hours away as tests were cancelled for us. For the EA schools she is sticking with her 34. Is this score for the T20s this year? I also would appreciate recommendations for schools focussing on research in the west coast. Thanks
Yes, the mail and emails has definitely picked up. S21 even got a package from a school he never heard of with of with socks and stickers.
@LollieW Concrats to your S! Weāve never visited U of A or ASU, though lots of kids from our state go there. Can you give any insight on the differences between the two? Our older S applied to both as safeties, but I donāt want to waste $ on apps. It looks like U of A would be less expensive, though ASU has Barrett.
@AlmostThere2018 Our kids were going to apply to CU Boulder, which would be more expensive for us OOS, than ASU and U of A. I know thereās been discussion about it being a party school. As a Coloradoian (sp?), are the kids you know who go there the less academic ones? Is that why UNM, ASU, U of A?
Thanks!
Only apps sent in by S/D thus far were to UNM, because they did it as a Senior class. All they needed to do on their own was put something in their account to have the transcript sent. So, D got an acceptance letter very quickly; S didnāt do whatever he was supposed to do, so he didnāt get an admission letter. S got lots of ribbing from D about how he couldnāt even get into UNM (they basically take everyone)!
@worriedincal A 34 will clear the bar anywhere, unless (perhaps) there is one outlier sub score that is much lower than the others. So if your kid wants to major in engineering and the math sub score is a 28, that might be cause for mild concern. Otherwise, Iād send.
@bingewatcher Good luck to your daughter! I hope she nails it!
@homerdog Dās list has been stable for awhile. She might add one more but thereās also a lot of online session fatigue at our house so she might be done with her 10 schools. I could see her at any one of them so I think itās a good list.
@havenoidea U of Utah is ranked the same as CU Boulder, has a good honors college and merit money for OOS that is much more generous than CU. I think an outdoorsy kid might like it. Less partying than CU too. I also know one kid who followed the money to U of AZ. I hear the new honors college is really nice and smaller than ASUās Barrett.
S21 list is pretty much set, he keeps adding and removing the same 2/3 schools. I think he will end up not applying to those. He seems to have lost some steam on the college apps now that school started.
@havenoidea ā I think you have me confused with @Lolliew? I was asked about CU Boulder but my S is not going to apply there, nor the other schools you mentioned, and I donāt know any kids at Boulder. 
@havenoidea I have been living in Boulder for 15 years and still donāt have a full read on CU. There are definitely parties - we have the Covid numbers here to prove it. The Greek system is somehow disaffiliatied from the university - no idea the history there, seems interesting. At the same time, many, many students (including highly academic ones) from our competitive high school go there and find their place. The engineering school is strong as are most of the sciences. And there is a honors program you could look into that I think may have its own housing that a couple neighbor kids have liked.
UC Boulder is doing a really poor job of containing the virus if thatās important to anyone.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/09/18/cu-boulder-darley-north-dorm-quarantine-space/
@TVBingeWatcher2, I feel for you and your daughter. We had the exact same thing happen, but with the SAT. If it helps, I think itās at least possible the adrenaline + preparation will get her most of the way there. S21 ended up doing pretty well on his, just not quite as well as his PSAT (with meds) had indicated he would do. (This was pre-Covid, so fortunately we were able to sign him up for another exam, and then he hit his target.) Forgetting their meds is such an ADD thing to do! It can be so frustrating and heartbreaking.