Thanks so much (I think) for this tip! I too am “entertained” by the info available in SCOIR. I probably login to it more than my kid! My kid’s school doesn’t populate the data in the scattergram but it does show the #s of kids who also applied to other schools. Do you think this is an under-count because if a kid only applied to that one school there would be no “other schools” on the list? just curious and thanks again!
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Yes. All the numbers are underestimated since it is hard to imagine all of the kids who applied to college an also applied to b. But it is a good estimate, esp for the unpopular ones.
D24 just received her first acceptance (rolling admissions), and it came with scholarship money! It’s a school that she really likes, which now allows her to cut “safeties” from her RD list. 
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Yesterday D24 received her invitation to interview, which she scheduled for after the school musical (barely time to think until then). She knows that even well-qualified candidates have a low probability of admission (there are just so many of them). I’m very glad she built a well-balanced list, and she’d be excited to attend each school on it, but it’s still a wonderful thing to witness her increasing excitement about Duke. If she’s lucky enough to be accepted, I think she will have no regrets about other options she will be declining. I’m so pleased with her mindset in this whole process.
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Having started down this college path in 2020 (helped my twin nieces with their college process, so I can learn for DS2022), I thought I would be well-ahead of this.
We took DD2024 on many tours (to big brother’s list) over the last few years, but her list is non-STEM.
But here we are, November, and she’s still going to 3 more tours.
Hang in there!
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S24 is now thinking about applying to 1-2 UCs. Is there a decent GPA calculator online that would help determine what his GPA would be in the UC system?
This is the site I have seen people on here recommend for calculating the UC GPAs:
https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
No personal experience with it, though. From what I have read, you need to pay attention to the details, like “a-g courses” and make sure you don’t count out of state honors courses as honors, except in certain specific conditions.
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This is a good one and pretty accurate.
One thing I would add is the UC’s will give extra weight only for AP and may be IB if you are from out of state. You wont get extra for honors classes if you are OOS.
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Also if OOS pay attention to A-G course requirements especially the Visual/Performing arts year long course.
The UC’s consider all 3 UC GPA’s in their admission review. The Capped weighted UC GPA is statistically the most quoted. UCLA and Berkeley tend to emphasize the Uncapped weighted and Unweighted.
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Someone described this point in the process as the eye of the hurricane and it sort of feels that way.
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So true. Like, S24 is more than halfway between his 11/1 and 11/15 applications, and yet there is an eerie quiet . . . .
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Yes Agree. I think after 11/1 deadline he has lost some of the steam and yet to pick back the speed.
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Definitely eerie. Kids are working at a somewhat leisurely pace on UC and 12/1 stuff, but plan to finish that before the Thanksgiving break, during which they plan to complete all RD stuff. We fortunately get something silly like 11 days off…the entire week of Thanksgiving and then the M/Tu after. Theoretically plenty of time.
Theoretically.
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The UCs are a breed of their own. There are several people on CC that can help, you and your son, with the application. Make sure he is aware that there are four Personal Insight Questions and up to 20 Activities & Awards (with descriptions). The UCs evaluate those, along with UC GPA in the 13 criteria that they use for admission.
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It has felt calm here, too, since a fall sport ended and the common app/EA applications were finished. But this calm needs to end because the ED application is due on 11/15! Also, SAc24’s early round of applications has been relatively low on supplementals, so in some sense the work has only just begun.
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S24’s fall sports team made the state playoffs. So, yay, and, oh no.
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Still going strong with Fall sport here too. D24 is sooo ready to be done although would be very cool to cap things off going to State.
Thought D24 could finally sleep in tomorrow with no school (Saturdays she has 9am practices) but she has a college interview at 8:30am. Interviewer is on the East Coast (we are West Coast) and this was the latest time he proposed.
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It’s been calm here too. Except D24 decided to try out for her school play (first time interested in theater since 7th grade!) and I have a feeling she will be cast, so she’s really now just beginning a new and time-consuming extracurricular that will keep her busy for the next three months. She did mention maybe working on a few more RD apps over Thanksgiving break (she has the week off) but I’m not sure those will happen. The application momentum has all but stopped and her energy is elsewhere, but she’s so excited about this play that I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer about RD stuff.
ETA she just found out she was cast in the play! Exciting! My best guess now is that she’ll wait to see ED results mid-December before doing anything else with 5 remaining apps, unless very motivated over Thanksgiving break. I know this isn’t recommended, but she does have 2 EA and 1 RD already submitted, all likelies. As for ED, still keeping fingers crossed here.
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S24 recevied admissions from Seton Hall Univeristy and Allegheny college today, as well as ASU. All three offered aid, but ASU gives the least. This is probably due to it being a public school, and he is OOS, so cost will be higher.
He stil has a few applications to go, mainly a few DC and VA schools, as well as in state UT Austin. But wife is anxious and just want to get it over with.
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We’re waiting on our ED decision mid December. Hopefully it’s a yes and no more official applications after that.
It would also save us about $800 in application fees because there are an additional 10 schools that’s on the RD list if ED doesnt work.
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