S24 submitted the two schools that are due on 11/15 yesterday. Next on to CA schools. The target for him to submit next Monday 11/20. I had asked him to finish by the thanksgiving weekend but he wants to finish sooner if possible so he can relax during the break. So let’s see how things go.
I hope he is done with the apps so he can go back to focusing on school and enjoy his final few months at high school.
RE: IDOC : It is all uploaded; it just has not processed. Finally spoke with a live person after 1hr 15 min of hold time. They said it can take 3-10 business days to process and I was on (Business) Day 9 of waiting for processing (live person looking at docs). He said he was going to look at my account anyway, and (it took forever to get to this point for some reason) just as he was getting S24’s info, his line cut off. My phone showed the call still going, and it went to their survey afterwards. No idea what happened. From the interaction I had, I don’t have a lot of faith in the IDOC people…but hopefully it will be processed.
UC app is 85% done here. Struggling to add more colleges to the list other than their top 3 choices. We do have an auto admit backup but I’m not sure they would attend over a community college.
D24 might be the only kid in her class not applying to our state flagship, deadline tomorrow. My husband and sister-in- law are alums (BS and masters), my father in law taught there for more than half his career (dept chair, etc). I’m having a little FOMO right now for her. But she doesn’t want a huge school and majors are so significantly capacity constrained and it is 6 miles from our house and she wants to be further from home. Deep breaths today but the FOMO is real.
I’m feeling you here.
We’re having the same issue with IDOC - we submitted a week ago and still not processed. And I have not been able to get through to The College Board. I was on hold for 95 minutes and line just died. Currently on hold again (for last half hour) and their chat function isn’t working. I just emailed the financial aid office at his ED school to ensure they’re aware of the issues on IDOC’s end. Hopefully IDOC gets this fixed soon.
This sounds like my son. Never disagrees, always says yes. 
and then does something else.
Is it Univ of Washington? If it makes you feel better, neither D22 or D24 applied. They had zero desire to go so close to home with a huge number of kids from their high school and where it would be difficult to switch majors (if they even got their desired majors initially).
Would this be UDub? My S24 was interested in the strong CS program they have, but the OOS admit rate for the Allen School is 2%!
Yes. Thanks, it helps to know it’s not a match/backup or even dream school for everyone. I think there must be more than a few of us out there 
You guessed it! So much for my anonymity 
and yes, very difficult admit for OOS to CS and engineering. Still tough for instate applicants too.
FWIW, the IDOC rep (who was not overly professional nor overly in a hurry to solve the problem) said that the IDOC page has incorrect processing time (Claims 3-5 days); It can take up to 10 business days - so while I uploaded on Nov. 2, not all of my docs have been processed (all uploaded materials with the exception of tax returns have been “processed”). Hopefully it processes - if it doesn’t show by tomorrow I will settle in for a long wait time - the frustrating thing is, he asked me if the phone I called from was a good callback number in case we were disconnected - lo and behold, we were disconnected, but no callback!
We were in the same situation. Even though it said not to upload again, I uploaded the files with different names and finally the new and the old files got processed. But remember to change the file name to some other name if you want to reupload.
So…guess what this idiot did…I mistakenly sent our css profile to a school that only requires it for international applicants 
Do I bother to reach out to the school and ask them to disregard? Or will they just ignore it once they see in her application that she’s a domestic applicant? Or…do I just live with the knowledge that I just showed our financial hand and hope for the best?
I really doubt they will do anything with it. But if you want to contact their financial aid office I am sure that would be fine too.
I don’t think it matters.
If they don’t require CSS from domestic applicants they’re not going to spend time on it.
Do nothing.
You don’t have to do anything! It will be completely disregarded. To the extent the school uses an enrollment management tool to determine how much aid to give, it will do so based on information it pulls according to the algorithm. The algorithm will not take into account extraneous information (like an unrequested CSS profile). Unless this is a very small school and/or financial aid is actually decided by a person, I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
I know most people won’t be making final college decisions for a few months, but here is a thing I learned today you might want to consider. 
If your child is going to start with a decent amount of credit for typical freshman classes (either actual credit or just placing out of intro courses), do they get to register earlier (eg with the sophomore class)?
S23’s school (WPI) has too few sections compared to the number of people who want to take the classes required for his major (he is Data Science but his classes are pretty much all CS & math). They also have a strong, fairly flexible humanities requirement, but not enough sections of the music courses which are what most student want to do their concentration in.
S23 placed out of about 3/4 of the typical freshman classes. However WPI doesn’t bump him to an earlier registration time with the prior credits. He was able to get classes for 1st semester even though they weren’t all his first choice. Now all the classes he needs are either music classes for his HU concentration or sophomore level math and CS classes. But by the time he got his registration slot, they were all closed (not even full and he could go on the waitlist, the waitlists were full too) because they are primarily sophomore classes, and the sophomores had filled them up.
He is now stuck in a position where he can’t really make much progress on his degree for a whole semester. 
He needs a bunch of sophomore level classes that are pre-reqs for upper level classes, but can’t get them until (hopefully!!) next year.
Anyway, once you get around to comparing schools and thinking about pros and cons, keep that in mind!
I know this is true at BU. It also gets you priority for housing. I think it’s a fairly common thing at larger schools.
IMO priority registration is one of the main advantages of honors colleges. Some schools give athletes priority as well.