<p>So tell us, what are you going to suggest to your son that he do?</p>
<p>Soze, you came here seeking advice, yes.</p>
<p>But you also came here to vent about a situation that is upsetting you. </p>
<p>Threads can go sour when those two things – seeking practical advice and venting – get mixed up with each other. </p>
<p>I’ve had this happen to me. I’ve started threads asking for advice when part of me also wanted to complain about whatever the situation was. And I got a mixture of responses because some people were reacting to my practical questions while others were reacting to the emotional content of my posts.</p>
<p>I hope that being able to talk about the situation has helped you feel less frustrated. And as you said, you have indeed received some good advice. I hope there has been something here you can use.</p>
<p>What i wanted was suggestions, which I got.
What I’m going to suggest he do is get all his RD apps in and then in January if he gets rejected or
deferred from Syracuse, see if he can “upgrade” one of these after the fact to ED II.</p>
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<p>I believe my suggestion is different because I did not suggest altering the SU application ( i. e. changing the status to RD).</p>
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<p>That sounds like a well-thought-out plan.</p>
<p>Swimkidsdad-I know. Your option would entail leaving Syracuse as EDI and applying to another school by the 1/1 ED II deadline correct? Then calling Syracuse and guidance counselor right when both schools opened. I didn’t mean my comment as an attack on you. </p>
<p>Soze I’m glad you have found an option. I don’t like being rude but I hope you can understand the frustration of people trying to help you.</p>
<p>Sounds like a plan, soze. Let us know how it turns out.</p>
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<p>Yes, please do. We know how important this is to you, and we’d like to hear how the situation gets resolved. </p>
<p>Also, in this crazy year, there are probably a lot of students whose applications have been messed up in similar ways because of Common App problems, and those families might benefit from your family’s experience.</p>
<p>Update:
OP checking in here.
Today he received word he was accepted.
Granted this is a very good end result, but I do have to say that they apparently have a very cavalier attitude when it comes to ED notification. There are kids who found out today (January 7th) that they were either deferred or rejected and this is totally unacceptiable for an ED I applicant.</p>
<p>I’m totally convinced that since they added the ED II round, they wanted to see if they got some better candidates before comitting to the ED I applicants. Again, this is unfair as ED I applicants should NOT have to compete with ED II applicants and as I’ve said before, they pretty much stole these kid’s ED II options away from them.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the support and advice in this thread and best of luck to those of you still “in process.”</p>
<p>Perhaps it is a warning for students intending to apply ED-1 but counting on being able to apply ED-2 to check very carefully on the ED-1 school’s promised notification date to make sure that it is before any relevant ED-2 deadlines.</p>
<p>OP - thanks for your update. Glad it ended well for your son.</p>
<p>ucbalumnus:
Well, to recap in this case it would not have mattered as:
- The website says that “ED 1 candidates are typically notified prior to January 1st.”
- The AD said (in person, at an info session) that he’d be notified “by Christmas.”</p>
<p>Obviously neither turned out to be true.</p>
<p>Soze - thanks for the update. I’m glad it turned out well although I too would have concerns.</p>
<p>“Typically” is not a guarantee, and verbal promises are more likely to be unreliable.</p>
<p>Congrats on the acceptance. Where I am, we had a number of kids who applied RD to an EDII school, had the interview later with an alumnus (per the school’s website arranging it), fell it love with the school, and called up the admissions officer to say they desired to convert RD to EDII. Officer said, fine, happy to do so.</p>
<p>Really, no biggie.</p>
<p>Congratulations! He got his “early January” ED I acceptance.</p>
<p>Congrats soze and thanks for the update.</p>
<p>soze, if it will make you feel better, now that your son is accepted you might want to write to the Syracuse admissions office and tell them how you felt about the whole business. It may be a one time fluke - they got behind this year because of all the problems with the Common Application, or it may be that they never even considered that what they are doing makes it difficult for a kid to move on, or it may be you are right and they really were looking to see what the EDII kids look like. (I don’t think this likely from other admissions blogs I have read, I get the impression the admissions offices are perpetually behind schedule and living on donuts for the last week or two before decisions go out.) Anyway I bet writing to them will make you feel better.</p>
<p>I’m glad your son got good news.</p>
<p>Congrats on the good news, OP! Thanks for the update.</p>
<p>The college selection process with three parties - student, parent, and college, and all the dynamics, contingencies, time-energy-money expended, mixed priorities…my recommendation to OP is to not try to ‘fix’ this situation with the University. Why go in as a ‘complainer’? Yes it was an important ‘right’ that for whatever reason created a lot of family anxiety for several weeks, and not wanting to lose an opportunity with another school if not accepted at ED school. As a parent, you have your job; your student has his/her job; the college has its job. The college is going to ‘fix’ their own priorities - if what they are doing hurts their enrollment goals, they will work to fix. Try not let this situation overshadow the college experience; revisit all the great things that will have the college be a great experience and great academic place for your student and keep on the positive track. Make it feel like you hit the lottery! Our stress was having our daughter maximize scholarship opportunity at her 1st choice school (UA, studying civil engineering) by moving her ACT score to 30 - and after lots of work and focus, achieved it on the last chance the school would take (Dec). We know she will be a successful student (she is a top student at her prep school with 3 years of AP courses). Enjoy life!</p>