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Have you finished college applications yet?
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Anonymous
| Where are you in the college application process? Some families have already finished. |
Anonymous
| Are you kidding? My daughter is a sr. and is just finally figuring out what type of school she wants to attend. She's done a draft of the common - draft of the essay - and seems to be ahead of many of her peers. If she was applying early decision, she'd be just about done. |
Anonymous
| There was an article either in the Post or the NY Times recently that said that it just doesn't matter if you get your application in first or just before deadline, as long as you make it by deadline. They don't even start looking at the app until after deadline. Spend that time perfecting the application. |
Anonymous
| Not even close. Still figuring out the list and which school to apply to ED. She's done a draft of the common app and essay but certainly not even close to polished yet. Hasn't started on any supplemental questions. Still has another round of standardized testing to do. Still has to go back to a couple of schools to interview. Even ED apps aren't due for 2 more months - and as a pp pointed out unless it is rolling admissions, which none of the schools my dd is applying to have, there is no benefit to getting it in early. No one at my dds school seems to have finished. |
Anonymous
| Believe me: while it's nice to be finished with a lot of the work of the application before school begins, it doesn't matter when you submit the application, so long as you make the deadline. My Harvard application was postmarkd just a day before the deadline after I had had to get an extra copy because I messed up the typing of my essays (this was in the early '80s!). Now I interview for Harvard and I can assure you that, unless a school has rolling admissions, getting your apllication in the day before the deadline is as good as getting it in early. |
Anonymous
| OP here. I never thought it mattered when you got it in - as long as you beat the deadline. I was just surprised to hear from some families that they have already wrapped it up. Completed essays, recommendations, etc. |
Anonymous
| The only advantage I can see is that if some of these kids wrote their essays over the summer (which they must have done, to have finished by now), then they did so with fewer distractions. They weren't writing the essay and studying for semester finals at the same time. |
Anonymous
| There are various summer programs out there where you write your essays and work on the common app with help from the "instructors". Maybe the kids you know went to one of those programs? |
Anonymous
| Thankfully . . . yes, but we may send a few more during fourth and fifth grade if she doesn't get early acceptance to her dream school. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| Drafts only. |
Anonymous
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Do schools look at the average of three scores or is each score scrutinized individually?
Is 600, 650, 700 better/worse/doesn't matter when compared with 650, 650, 650? |
Anonymous
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I'm sorry but "have you finished college applications yet? "
How about, "has your teen finished his or her applications yet?" This shouldn't be about you ... Give your teens some responsibility in the matter and ownership of the process. |
Anonymous
| Oh, come on. Yes, yes, we all agree. You don't have to be so preachy about it. |
Anonymous
| 2 done and sent over the weekend! Several more to go. |