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Consolation
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Posted: Tue Feb 26th, 2008 03:07 am |
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Our school doesn't fill out midyear report forms from schools. They just send transcripts. They say they don't have enough time.
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outwest
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Posted: Tue Feb 26th, 2008 04:26 am |
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Now I'M sweating. But, I know I shouldn't be. My D put one stamp on each letter. Each letter contained exactly three pieces of paper: the two page midyear report from the Common App. and one transcript (single page). How could that possibly be more then one stamp? What the heck was in those envelopes that it made them more then one stamp?
Off to ask my D to check all her colleges again.
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Wed Feb 27th, 2008 03:48 am |
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Consolation wrote: Our school doesn't fill out midyear report forms from schools. They just send transcripts. They say they don't have enough time.
Most schools still require the signed mid-year report form to accompany the transcript, even if nothing has changed or nothing new is added.
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Wed Feb 27th, 2008 03:51 am |
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outwest wrote: Now I'M sweating. But, I know I shouldn't be. My D put one stamp on each letter. Each letter contained exactly three pieces of paper: the two page midyear report from the Common App. and one transcript (single page). How could that possibly be more then one stamp? What the heck was in those envelopes that it made them more then one stamp?
Off to ask my D to check all her colleges again.
We weighed several of the envelopes today. We put our transcripts in sealed envelopes before sending them in the main envelope. Our transcripts are two pages, and the mid-year report form is two pages. That is more than one stamp right there. Add a letter, plus whatever else cr*p kids put in the envelope (such as postage paid reply cards) and it came out to 97 cents in postage for large manila envelopes.Last edited on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 03:52 am by CarolynLawrence
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outwest
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Posted: Wed Feb 27th, 2008 04:42 am |
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Goodness! They used the big envelopes then. She just addressed standard sized ones. She checked all her schools. They have all received her midyear report- with one stamp. Phew.
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ellenrch
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Posted: Wed Feb 27th, 2008 01:10 pm |
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| We just survived the final glitch in my son's application process (the school never sent one item to one school, and I sure hope it didn't affect his application). I appreciate seeing the other side here, Carolyn. Our GC had never been a HS counselor until last year. She has excellent rapport with the students, but little administrative support. Other schools seem to use parent volunteers to help do the mailings. Carolyn, what do you think about this practice? Some people think it could pose confidentiality problems. Not me. I'd gladly look the other way if it meant getting students' materials processed on time.
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outwest
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Posted: Wed Feb 27th, 2008 04:28 pm |
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Our school counselors have nothing to do with sending out the transcript, mailing or anything like that. The registrar does it and she is in a totally separate location in a different part of the city. The high school office takes all the envelopes and forms. The counselor signs them and gives them to the counselor assistant. The counselor assistant takes them down to the registrar. I learned this when I called to ask for a copy of the school profile that they send with the transcripts (I was curious). When I drove down to the office building to pick it up the whole room looked like a very efficient machine. Neat stacks of transcripts and envelopes, a postal scale and several people were processing the midyear reports. They were checking each envelope for student, trancript and address with two people.
I called a couple weeks later to see what date the midyear reports were sent. The registrar looked it up on the computer and read off all my Ds schools and the date sent. I had the feeling the whole system was very efficient. Out of 7 schools she had not one glitch in any of them not receiving forms.
The only issue at all was that her semester doesn't end until mid January and a few schools sent out 'did not receive' notices before she was even done with her semester! As of yesterday, all schools had all items.
Will the wait ever, ever end? It is absolutely maddening. My mother said the other day, "When will she know! This is driving me crazy!" If it is driving her Grandmother crazy, imagine how my D feels. [4 1/2 weeks and counting].
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Fri Feb 29th, 2008 02:18 am |
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If only I HAD a counselor assistant. Gotta get me one of them. 
I had my first parent volunteer come in today, by the way. While I do have to be careful what I give her to work on for confidentiality reasons, she did a great job of organizing the zillions of hand outs I've put together since the beginning of the year. She is eager to come back (she's the parent of a junior who introduced herself during my Junior Parent College night earlier this month), and I think she can really help with things like phone calls, maintaining my scholarship book, and scheduling college rep visits (which by the way we have already started with our juniors!). So, fingers crossed that I don't scare her away because I am desperate for some help since I am technically only supposed to be in the office part-time. (HA!)
Last edited on Fri Feb 29th, 2008 02:22 am by CarolynLawrence
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