Timing of information on college applications

[womenfly]

My son is a current high school junior (in public school now, though he was at home through 8th grade).

He will be applying to colleges in the fall and wants to hit a couple of early deadlines (Oct 15 and Nov 1) for early action and scholarship consideration.

 

Some "honors and awards" (varsity letters, AP scholar status, etc) are anticipated during his senior year, but will not yet have actually been 'awarded'. Is there any way to capture such information on an application or resume' ?

 

Or does only information through junior year really get considered?

 

Thanks!

[Gwen in VA]

You can send additional info to the colleges, but mostly colleges make their decision based on the material they have on hand.

 

In the fall, no one else has their senior year awards either, so at least it is a level playing field!

 

Students who are applying EA and ED do need to be stronger than average, because the colleges are making acceptance decisions for those people based almost exclusively on three years' of achievements, not 3.5 years like the students who apply later in the year.

[Hoggirl]

We will likely have this same scenario with regard to my ds and attaining the rank of Eagle Scout. If he does decide to apply EA anywhere, I think he will likely put what he has accomplished thus far with regard to it along with something along the lines of, "Estimated completion date __________." I think this is a bit harder to do on APs. I mean, you really don't know what senior scores will be, right? He wouldn't have these even for RD, right? For athletics, seems like you could put something for an anticipated letter (especially if he has previously earned some) for his senior year..

[Caroline]

My son applied EA to his one and only college. (All eggs, one basket, but a pretty safe basket) He did have quite a few AP scores from previous years, but took 5 more exams this year. His transcripts did include those AP classes in progress, though. Well, only 4 of them because one he only took second semester. His essay did include that he would be on the varsity soccer team this year, even though he hadn't officially made the team at that point. But, he was a top 25 percentile student at the college, so I don't know if any of that made any difference. (And he got accepted.)

[Muttichen]

We try to have our kids complete everything (National AP scholar, some other national award, etc) by the end of junior year for that reason. This year my son was applying EA to Harvard and was named a Siemens finalist after the application was due but before the decisions were made. He just emailed them the extra information and we know they took it into account because an admissions officer emailed him back and forth about it. I don't think there's anything you can do about awards that won't be given until after decisions are made.

[womenfly]

Thanks, everyone, for the feedback so far.

I presume sending additional information on to colleges would be through the admissions officer/counselor - - another good reason to form some sort of relationship with that person during the application process!