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outwest
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Posted: Sat Dec 29th, 2007 03:06 am |
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My D FINALLY hit 'submit' on her Grinnell application. She has made herself a schedule which gets all her applications in before she returns to school in a week. I am so relieved she got one more done. She has four or five more to go, but the common application is completely done and she just has the supplements to do.
Her final, final list ended up being:
Oberlin
Bryn Mawr
Grinnell
Occidental
Smith
Lewis and Clark EA (accepted with merit $)
Dickinson
Wellesley
She refused to apply to the UC's saying that if she didn't get in or couldn't afford them that she would go to a community college for two years first. Thank goodness she got into Lewis and Clark with merit. Now she can actually go AWAY to school. 
Did anyone elses kid wait until Winter break to finish them all up? I was going crazy with anxiety about her waiting to finish them. I don't know why. I guess it is a Mom thing. She insisted that she had to do her best on her current homework because the colleges look at this semesters grades before they make a decision. I guess she had a point.
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mackinaw
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Posted: Sat Dec 29th, 2007 03:17 am |
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What a fine, fine list, OW. Best of luck to her.
I think your daughter had the right idea focusing on first semester grades, and as long as she makes the deadlines (and had all the supporting documents lined up, i.e., transcripts, letters, test score reports), it won't matter that she finished at the last minute.
It's really great that she has the L&C in her pocket.
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orchestramom
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Posted: Sat Dec 29th, 2007 02:26 pm |
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Same boat here, thank goodness. Orchestragirl hit submit on her last one (Penn) on Thursday. She did the recording for her arts supplement Wednesday night, and the CDs with music resume are all going off in today's mail. Now she gets to relax, and H and I (mostly me ) get to work on Profile and FAFSA...Although she did observe that she's been pretty relaxed all along, except when my fretting made her stressed  !
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ellenrch
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Posted: Sat Dec 29th, 2007 04:20 pm |
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revkat
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Posted: Sat Dec 29th, 2007 06:24 pm |
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I think I'm going to start screaming soon. If I thought it would help, that is. The safety apps are all done, but she still has a design project to finish and supplements for three more. AAAARGH.
And while I can say, it's up to her and if she doesn't finish them she is making her own decision, I know the procrastination is fueled by fear of rejection. (which was made stronger by an EA deferral).
So back to cheerleading!
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riviera
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Posted: Sun Dec 30th, 2007 04:15 am |
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Outwest, your daughter has a great list, which I am sure will turn into many good options in April!
My son hit the last submit button last Saturday. He was really relieved to be finally done and free to enjoy his Christmas break. No more college essays, what a treat!
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Sun Dec 30th, 2007 08:31 pm |
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Outwest, Many of my students are finishing up their applications as we speak. It all gets done somehow.  Good luck to your daughter!
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HijinksAndSue
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Posted: Mon Dec 31st, 2007 04:33 pm |
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Did anyone elses kid wait until Winter break to finish them all up?
With two days left in winter break, hoping I will be able to answer "yes" by the end of tomorrow. Otherwise I might have to say that "mini-Jinks" (hee) will have waited until AFTER winter break to finish everything.
And she's only applying to four schools!!!
That said, this "vacation" she finished her common app (two of the four schools take it) and both of those two schools' supplemental essays, she finished her music supplemental CD of five original compositions (going to three of the schools) and her separate audition CD (only required by two of the schools, but she sent the three songs on it to the third school as a second supplemental since it's performance vs. composition).
The fourth school is actually the first school and that entire package was in by Labor Day and she interviewed/auditioned on Dec. 1 but has to wait until Jan. 31 to hear something. (Some EA, huh?)
What's left:
One school had a hard-copy additional supplemental FORM of which she has finished all but a 2-3 paragraph answer about her career plans which really should be easy for her but she's going to write it tomorrow and put it in the mail by the end of the day.
One school's finished app (not common app) with which she estimates she's 75-80 percent done.
THEN it's all over but the waiting and nailbiting. (Jan. 31 on her first choice, rolling on the one that's 80 percent done and then I THINK March 15 on the other two).
I also think one, maybe two of the schools are waiting on her GC app since her counselor has been on maternity leave and my DD didn't get a brag sheet to her temporary replacement because she has a hard time bragging about herself so she chose to wait till her regular counselor came back Jan. 2 since she knows her so well she can just write it up with no prompting and get in under the deadlines.
She also had homework to finish over break ... make-up work that fell by the wayside for a little bit but the teachers said anything sent in during vacation would count for credit so she too felt that was the most important thing to do because of the mid-year report.
In fact, yesterday was the first day she had NOTHING to do (between apps, homework and band practice/gigs). I rewarded her by not nagging about those few missing items.
Today she's back to five-hour rehearsal and then a New Year's Eve date.
Tomorrow I'm back to gentle nagging ...
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ellenrch
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Posted: Tue Jan 1st, 2008 01:42 pm |
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My son finally hit submit on the Common App for two schools yesterday afternoon, so after the long, drawn-out essay writing effort (capped by one tantrum yesterday morning), it's all over but the waiting. He's only applying to six places, and he's in at two already, so he's safe. One decision is due soon (maybe even this week), and three others come in March. I am more nervous than he is.
Anyone else applying to Boston University? In print preview, my son's answer to question 8 on the supplement showed up at the end under "supplemental essay," and question 8 was blank. He added a note in all caps so they'll see it--and the content is pretty obvious. (The word count was okay, so that wasn't the problem.) I told him to e-mail admissions tomorrow and let them know. Should we be concerned, or just expect that they'll flip back to the last page and see his note and the text?
Happy New Year! My H and I toasted 2008 as the year we'll send our only child out into the world. Application procrastination aside, we think he's turned out to be a wonderful kid.
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bumpyroad
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Posted: Wed Jan 2nd, 2008 11:59 pm |
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Bumpygirl hit her last submit last week on 9 apps last week. I shouldn't have fretted so much, I can realize now, but her approach to the process was paced a lot differently than mine would have been. On the other hand, it's important to remember how I did it at 17, which involved a lot more procrastination for only three schools.
She did do the classic thing after submitting the common app - two days later she woke up Mrs. B and me at midnight in despair, having found a minor typo on the common app essay. We groggily reassured her that it would be OK. Fortunately she then went to google, entered "common app essay typo", and the first thing that popped up was an article on msnbc.com about how it was a good thing to have a single mistake on your application, because it shows that you're human. So that crisis passed. Now, it's time to wait...
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HijinksAndSue
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Posted: Sat Jan 5th, 2008 10:52 pm |
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ALL DONE!!!!!!!
D hit submit on her last app today, yes, a few days after what we'd aimed for but she's been sick the last few days.
And all of her recs have been sent, all of her supplements have been sent, everything is present and accounted for on the common app pages (this last app was not common app).
So now it's all over but the waiting.
Her EA school will notify Jan. 31. The two common app schools notify in mid-March I think ... and the last one from today has rolling admissions BUT we're not sure if she has to audition or not. She sent an audition CD (two, actually) but was required to choose an audition date on the application as well and signed up for March 1 (which would be after she found out whether she got into her EA school). So I have no idea if that means that despite rolling admissions, she won't hear anything until after her audition date or if they'll sub in her audition CD.
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Consolation
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Posted: Mon Jan 7th, 2008 12:53 am |
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Only one left. I may yet survive.  And he has an alumni interview for that school (Georgetown) tomorrow. This time it's the classic coffee shop, so I don't have to worry about whether to let the chickens out. (Not that they would go out: they don't like snow, and we have a LOT of it right now.) All I have to do is find something to do with myself until they're done. (I guess I should leave completely, rather than just retire to a corner with a book? He can call me on his new cell phone when they're done.)
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