<p>This is my second son to go through this process so I felt a "little" bit more comfortable this time around. BUT... as of yesterday Dec. 15, my son is the ONLY one of his large group of friends who has not heard from a single school! He applied to 10 schools! </p>
<p>Some of his friends who applied to the same schools have gotten acceptances, others who applied to the same schools, have not received word yet either. </p>
<p>This IS NOT the same experience I had with my older son and I'm officially worried. Middle son's SAT's weren't great, and guidance counselor assured him that that wasn't going to matter bc schools look at the whole student. I'm not so sure that is true. </p>
<p>The kids who are hearing right now are typically kids who applied either Early Admission or Early Decision. Did your son apply either of those routes? </p>
<p>Otherwise, most decisions are out sometime in March and you have til May 15 to decide. </p>
<p>Thanks for your quick response, Pizzagirl. He did, in fact, apply EA or Priority to the majority of the schools. Three schools want mid-year transcripts before making any decisions, and that’s part of their regular process, so I’m guessing he can’t expect to hear from them until early spring. </p>
<p>Do the schools send out acceptances in batches, do you know?</p>
<p>Did you check the dates that the college said the EA admissions would be released. Rolling admissions unis send out acceptances generally in batches, does he have a rolling admissions uni that list of 10?</p>
<p>Editing because I saw your later response. EA responses can be scattered. Sometimes they will admit their easy admits and those eligible for honors program first and maybe his SAT’s are keeping him from being an “instant in.” That doesn’t mean he’s not still an excellent candidate and will hear soon. Some will go through applications as they come in so those that came earlier will get earlier responses. Some schools do notify in batches. EA notification dates are usually more “you’ll hear by” as opposed to “you’ll hear this exact date.”</p>
<p>I know it’s got to be nerve-wracking but I would try to keep it at bay. Good-luck!</p>
<p>@turtletime, not the OP but my daughter is in a somewhat similar situation. She received acceptances with significant merit from her two safeties (very quickly) but she hasn’t heard back from her other EA schools. Does your post mean the longer we wait, the worse the news? (this is nerve-wracking)</p>
<p>Some schools send acceptances priority mail and rejections by regular mail. Many do indeed accept in batches and there is no way to read the tea leaves. Some EA applicants will get deferrals, because the schools want to see semester grades and not just the first quarter, especially for a slightly iffy applicant. Good luck to your kid!</p>
<p>My Ds high school uses Naviance and therefore all the transcripts are sent via this system by the GC. Either way, it needs to be an official transcript, so the GC still has to be the one to send it off to the admissions office.</p>
<p>I’m not sure it’s relevant to your particular situation, but if you google “colleges I can still apply to” or “colleges with late application deadlines” you’ll see some decent schools that almost never close their admission doors. By summer, you’ll see schools that still have openings. Happens every year. </p>
<p>You may also want to suggest that your daughter check her SPAM - one of my Ds acceptances was sitting there and she would have never noticed if her friend didn’t mention that she received an email from the school an hour before. It has been over a week and still no snail mail from either “virtual” acceptances that she received. (Probably due to the influx of Holiday cards and advertisements this time of year!)</p>
<p>^^Also there’s a potential quirk to gmail where sometimes email you expect to see in “Inbox” bypasses that to go to “All Mail.” My son almost missed an important notification because of that.</p>
<p>And sign into their websites with the ID they gave you. In two instances my S saw he was accepted once he signed in and acceptance email didn’t come til a week later and snail mail two weeks later!</p>