Lafayette announced that the students will be given the choice to return to campus for the spring semester or they can attend remotely. If they chose to attend remotely they will be given a 10% discount on Tuition. Also professors will have the discretion to decide whether the each class is live in classroom instruction or remote.
It depends on the offerings of your local community college and how specialized your degree is. The CC in my town is very good for the basics but they have no Engineering offerings and no specialized/advanced math beyond basic Calculus. As with many of our kids, my daughter has most gen ed out of the way already with AP classes and summer CC courses but would need to move to a different city with an Engineering heavy CC to make any progression towards transferring into an Engineering degree that could be completed in 2 years as a transfer. There is a CC about 45 minutes away that has more Engineering and math options but really itâs a 4 hour drive to the closest CC with the classes she would need to be on track to transfer with everything needed to finish in another 2 years. It makes it worse that she wants a specialized engineering path and not just mechanical engineering as well, and engineering generally starts with major targeted classes freshman year.
Iâm sure there are other specialized degree paths where you need more variety and specialized classes than your general ed, and basic science and maths to be on par with what is offered at a 4 year. Even the writing and gen ed classes are STEM and sometimes major specific at many universities.
CC is a great option for most but there certainly are majors that are much more efficient to complete at a 4 year.
Thanks. She wanted a long college list, and her agreeing to get things done over the summer was a condition of me giving an official thumbs-up to that. I sat her down in late April and made sure she realized how many supplemental essays were required. We looked at her summer schedule and her fall schedule, and knew the only way for her to tackle this with quality would be to work a little bit each week throughout the summer. If she had begun in September, her list would have been extremely short (or her essays would have been terrible).
Her D23 sister has a completely different personality. I can see her applying to ten schools at most (probably fewer) and only wanting to spend a month or so on the whole process, lol. She is a kid who does not like a lot of stress, while D21 absolutely thrives on stress.
@havenoidea , D21 sent in specific official SAT2 scores (and self-reported them on the Common App) but will not send in official AP scores until the end of the academic year after she has chosen where to attend (she self-reported specific scores on her application).
@NateandAllisMom Yes, you can submit without the LOCs as long as the LOCs were officially requested/assigned through the Common App. D21 submitted before a peer rec was submitted (but it had been officially requested/assigned). Once her friend sent in the peer rec, it showed as received through D21âs application portal.
Does anybody know how long it usually takes after you order SAT scores to be sent before they arrive?
I assumed it happened almost automatically, or within a day, and that they were sent electronically. Last night My D ordered scores to be sent to two schools and I noticed that itâs possible to order rushed scores that will arrive in 2-4 days! So that made me wonder what kind of a time-frame weâre looking at? Are they sending paper copies? Through the mail or through a courier? I donât get it.
@inthegarden It took about a week for schools to get the SAT scores. I think they mail a paper copy.
@JanieWalker @momtogkc Thank you. The GC said they would probably upload them the day before 11/1 and S is to send a reminder a week ahead. Makes me nervous though that none of the three have uploaded. 
Getting some more fee waivers in the email, though not places on Sâ list. They should really send a no essay invitation instead. Survey out saying less data available to schools since some kids didnât test.
@Aguadecoco, thanks, Iâm sure the mail is getting even more delayed as the election approaches! Good thing we ordered it almost two weeks before the deadline. I had no idea they sent paper copies in this day and age. Must be a headache filing that stuff in the admissions office, or however they put it together with the CA.
We took a little risk (on a safety school) - the app portal asked for Official ACT/SAT score report and my D just sent a screen shot of her scores from the ACT website (the screen shot included her name in the corner). We had no idea if it would work but she just got this back:
"We recently received your ACT score report. Thank you for sending your scores our way, and for your interest. We will automatically link your score(s) with your other materials â no need to request another score report, unless you decide to take the test at a later date. "
It seems to have worked! Nice option both for saving the money and for speeding up the process.
CA asks for all AP scores, including those D is taking this year. Sheâs planning to report her scores to date, but she needs to include AP classes she wonât have scores for until July 2021? Theyâre already on her transcript and the current year class list. (Am I overthinking or just obtuse?)
CA meaning California? Or Common App? The Common App doesnât ask for them - it just says you can report them if you like.
I think they actually generally send them electronically, but different colleges pull the data at different frequency intervals (that is what Iâve read). Some do it daily (so that once CB transmits it, the school gets it relatively quickly) and others just once a week. Some schools up their frequency as an application deadline approaches. I ordered scores from CB on Sept 29 to go to 4 different schools. According to the school portals (since S21 has now applied to all 4 of these schools), the time of receipt varies - one got them on Oct 7th and another on Oct 13 (the other 2 also got them but donât indicate the date).
@inthegarden I would bank on 1-2 weeks for SAT scores. They are sent electronically, but after College Board processes the order (as indicated in the studentâs College Board account, score send section) the college still needs to download them, which can take time, depending on how often the college does that.
@kbm770 AP scores are those you âwish to report.â I honestly think the future sittings have no bearing on anything, but I like the idea of including them merely for extra emphasis, as in, âlook at all these APs Iâm taking.â
@havenoidea Glad he liked Duke! Legacy + ED is a good place to be, if he decides to go for it. Check deadlines for the very competitive Roberston and Morehead Cain scholarships. Very long shots but full rides with lots of perks if he gets one.
Re SAT subject tests - if youâre sending his SAT I, it doesnât cost extra to include the SAT IIs. The default is that the CB sends all results for all tests unless you exercise score choice.
@inthegarden @nichols51 is correct - they go out on an automated schedule that varies according to school. It shouldnât take longer than a week for them to arrive at their destination. In some cases, it could be as little as a day or two.
The realization that 11/1 is practically around the corner has just sunk in so Iâm cautiously hopeful that some progress will happen this weekend!
Somebody upthread asked if the number of apps was up this year? My kidâs school counselor is trying to hold the line at 8-10 apps but I do know of some kids who are applying to 20-25 schools! I canât imagine. It would turn me completely gray by the end of the year.
Hi all !! Does anybody know if there are any Colleges that give merit for College Board National Recognition Rural and small town award for Psat score?
I kind of feel like that serves them right for still requiring test scores.
I wonât stress at all about those SAT reports then. Dâs ED school said that its OK if all outside material isnât received by the exact due date as long as the CA has been submitted by the student and materials come in soon afterward. Ordering SATs eleven days before the deadline seems reasonable to me, especially if the school is the party responsible for deciding how often to download them. Worse comes to worse, D can try to supplement with a screenshot report if they donât show up in the portal by Nov 1.
Oh, gosh, I just realized with a jolt (how could I forget!) this is my Dâs adoption anniversary. This is kind of personal but I wanted to share, because this feels like a community ?. We donât make a huge big deal of it, a party or anything like that, but itâs special for our family. We always do a little ceremonyâŠWe have a set of candles we use only for this purposeâŠthat we light one by one. First, birth parents, who had to make a hard decision under difficult circumstances but allowed us to have their/ourdaughter, using that lit candle for my Dâs, and hers for our candles. We brought back an assortment of small gifts from her birth region when we adopted her to give her each yearâŠmostly little symbolic craftsy thingsâŠlittle toys, a painted box, a paper kite, small bracelets and earrings. This year, since sheâs approaching her 18th birthday will be a little bigger: a traditional porcelain tea set made with clay from her region. I also brought out the baby clothes she wore when we met her. I donât think she has ever seen them yet.
So glad I didnât forget, in all this busynessâŠI would never have forgiven myself!
That sounds lovely! 
Nice save @inthegarden !
I think thatâs a really cool thing you do for her.