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    How are your freshmen doing so far?

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    9 hours ago, readinmom said:

    Dd was having an amazing experience.   Lots of friends, joined a lot of groups.  Then, they had a week off between classes in October.  A group went out skating to celebrate, and dd fell and hurt her leg.  She was taken to ER, had to return to orthopedist a few days later to be casted for a fracture.  Turns out that her injury was quite severe and required reconstructive surgery.  I spent about 3 weeks in Indiana in a hotel room, caring for her post op until she was cleared for travel home.  As of today, she is still in a wheelchair, no weight bearing.  We get new x-rays at the end of December, hopefully be able to get up on crutches.  Her orthopedist predicts she might be weight bearing with walker/crutches by mid January.  Her goal is to be able to return for second semester if she receives medical clearance.  It's been very difficult for her.  She had a brief glimpse of how awesome college life can be, then poof, gone.  Now she is stuck at home with us.  🙄

    How heartbreaking (and expensive and disruptive). I’m so sorry. Hoping for a speedy recovery for her.

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    Watching from the sidelines - ds applying to grad school

    in The College Board

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    3 hours ago, Hoggirl said:

    Happy News!!  HE GOT IN!!!
    Thanks for giving me someplace to share.  

    Now we shall see if he decides to go.  

    Congratulations to him for his admission and to you for your restraint! ☺️ My oldest DD is just beginning to discuss graduate school. I’m following your lead and trying to be a sounding board without offering much advice; that doesn’t come naturally to me, but I’m getting better at it!

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    UAH admissions becoming adversarial toward homeschoolers

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    We encountered a couple of schools who wanted things submitted their way; we simply refused and just gave them what we gave everyone else. If they don’t want to look at my well-organized and professional documents for my high stats kid, too bad for them. It helps that none of these schools were especially attractive to my DD. I also didn’t answer any of the homeschool-specific questions on the Common App, instead redirecting them to my uploaded documents by saying ‘see course descriptions’ or ‘see school profile’.

    I’ll let you know how that worked for us at the end of this admissions cycle 😅. So far, she has been accepted everywhere (rolling admissions) with great merit scholarships; time will tell on the RD apps in at selective schools.

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    Great Courses Biology or really any Bio Reccomendation

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    I see it’s been mentioned upthread, but I’ll put in a BTDT plug for Blue Tent Bio in case you decide to outsource science. My DD took BT Honors Bio with Paine last year and is taking BT AP Bio with Hilton this year (after completing Clover Creek Physics in 9th and Clover Valley Chem in 10th and while concurrently taking Clover Valley Orgo Chem this year). The BT classes are well organized, high-quality instruction with a reasonable workload and level of difficulty. 

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    Test Optional, but Not Really

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    I suspect you might be right in some cases, but my feeling is that there is really no way to know. Test optional admissions/scholarships has made an already opaque process even less transparent. And I think there is going to be so much variability between schools that any generalizations are rendered even less likely to be accurate than usual. 

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    2022 Acceptances

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    Posted · Edited by fourisenough
    Updated with specific, secondary admit majors/programs where applicable

    Hi, thanks for starting this thread. DD has been accepted to all of her rolling admissions schools:

    University of Detroit Mercy (Accelerated 5-year PA)

    Butler University 

    Xavier University (Direct-admit Nursing)

    Loyola University Chicago 

    Michigan State University (Direct-admit Nursing)

    Seattle University (Direct-admit Nursing)

    She is awaiting 2 EA decisions (Deferred to RD by both) and 5 regular decisions. Exciting times! Actually, it sort of feels weird to be in this in-between stage; it seems like we should probably be doing something, but it’s a curiously quiet/slow time as far as my guidance counselor role! If invited, she’ll have a secondary application process for the specific program (accelerated PA) to which she has applied at one of the above admits. It will involve a day on campus with in-person interviews and essay writing. Fingers-crossed she gets invited!

    ETA: She received notice today that she’s invited to interview for the PA program!

    2nd ETA: Essay/Interview for accelerated PA program was held today virtually. DD said it was intense, but she felt good about it. Decisions should be released by mid-December. 

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    Who is ready to kick off college application season for Class of ‘22?

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    DD had her first (only?) interview yesterday. We Zoomed in the morning to do a mock interview and to check her set-up for lighting/clear background, etc. She felt confident going into it and terrific coming out of the interview! The alumna with whom she interviewed was warm, chatty, informative, and so interesting. If the purpose was to get the candidate excited about the school (and I really think that’s a big part of it), it worked!

    Now she said she hopes she’ll have more interviews because it was a good experience. But this is a weird kid who loves auditions (ballet) and standardized tests. She works well under pressure! 

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    why are ED acceptance rates higher than overall?

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    8 hours ago, AEC said:

    following up here....

    We did a round of on campus visits to other contenders (Michigan, UWMadison, UnivChicago) as well as NU. He loved NU the most, by far. I think he tried to make an honest effort to like UW best. Mom would probably prefer that, for geography and academic calendar reasons...but it wasn't all that close.  Campus, academics, location, handling of trangender student housing, etc all favored NU. He contacted the coordinator for the IntegratedScienceProgram major before we went, and they arranged for him to meet with a BioChem prof and then audit the ISP sophomore biochem class he was giving. It was ~20 students and he LOVED it.

    And so - he has just sent off the application for ED at Northwestern. The ISP major requires a separate application, due in a month, and it's also selective (among students who first get into NU). I think he has a decent chance there - his science and math backgrounds are pretty good - but who knows. He'll be thrilled to be 'just' a Chem major at NU as well, should be be allowed to do that.

     

    So, now we wait. (and he works on the ISP application. And scholarships). Thanks, everyone, for all your input.

     

     

     

    Congratulations on having made a decision on where to apply ED. All the best wishes to him! Keep us posted.

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    ACT prep in a hurry or apply for DE in a hurry?

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    I wouldn’t worry too much about any concerns over a major score improvement. I know, anecdotally, there have been some report their scores were challenged, but it doesn’t seem like it’s a problem that affects a statistically significant population of students.
     

    My DD raised her science sub-section score from a 25-30-35 over the course of three consecutive test sittings (September, October, December last year). No one batted an eye. That’s obviously also anecdotal, but proof that I have relevant personal experience. 
     

    I’d say prep however much you can in the next six weeks and test in December.

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    help me reevaluate foreign language goals/end point for ds14

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    I have a child with a similar learning profile. I plan to get 2 years of foreign language completed and call it good for her. It doesn’t play to her strengths and takes valuable time away from her area of interest and areas of need.
     

    I give you permission to call it done after this year. Short of highly selective schools (highly rejective?), I don’t think anything more than two years is expected.

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    Who is ready to kick off college application season for Class of ‘22?

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    1 hour ago, kokotg said:

    I finished the CSS a few days ago, and then found out that a couple of schools want us to also submit our actual tax forms and/or W2s. So not done yet! I have a nagging feeling that he needs One More School on his list, so he's taking a look at Peabody at Johns Hopkins now. The clarinet guy charges $175 for a sample lesson, so I hope Milo at the very least has an excellent lesson, even if he doesn't end up applying. We're trying to decide whether it makes sense to go see Vanderbilt in person pre-audition. It's only 4 hours away, but there's not a lot of time left before audition season. 

    I swear the work will never be finished!

    Holy expensive lesson; It had better be life-changing!

    I would definitely make time to visit if possible. DD is living 1,000 miles away from home and none of her schools (except our state flagship, which she knows well) are within easy visiting distance from either of us. We are not going to do any visits until April when she has offers/acceptances in hand. I think I am missing the visits more than she is since she doesn’t know any different!

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    English teacher recommendation letter

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    Ideally, these letters should come from outside teachers. Has your DD taken any outsourced classes with teachers who could write a LOR for her? I don’t think they want three from the same person. It would be more typical for a homeschooling parent to write the counselor letter, but have the other two written by others who know her well and have taught her or supervised her work somehow . 

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    Is easy local DE Calculus redo okay for future STEM student? Updated

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    8 hours ago, MamaSprout said:

    I’m OP.

    Kiddo has an A+ in her calc class and is seriously bored/ annoyed with her classmates. However, she does seem to be getting past her test anxiety, lol. It’s okay. It gives her time to work a job, do scholarship application and double down on her other classes.

    It should be an excellent review/reinforcement of concept, and, if all else fails, it might be a nice confidence boost!

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