All done! - early round

[Anonymous]

Just wanted to vent. The process is so much easier than I've thought. No stress!

ED school supplemental is the most difficult. They are using a new prompt this year, took DC some time (eight drafts!) to hammer it down last night. I read it after submission, it's great.

Three EA schools. Done.

Party for two nights this weekend.

Hopefully DC doesn't need RD applications.

[Anonymous]

Troll. Obviously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Troll. Obviously.

Yep so annoying

[Anonymous]

I will share the opposite perspective.

Getting ED done was REALLY hard for DC. Somehow it was just more work than anyone expected (the EC descriptions, supplementals, proofreading.)

DC did the ED app first and then three EAs. In retrospect, we should have encouraged them to do it in the opposite order. EA apps were less pressure/lower stakes than the ED app, and therefore a good way to get the ball rolling. We’ll probably try that approach for DC2 in a few years.

Meanwhile our school (not DC area) requires kids to get their RD apps in the first week of Dec (!) so the school’s guidance department has time to “process” their part before winter break. Makes no sense to me - how hard can it be? But that’s public school for you.

So DC has a month to do all the other supplementals. Hopefully there are a bunch they can reuse. Good times ….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will share the opposite perspective.

Getting ED done was REALLY hard for DC. Somehow it was just more work than anyone expected (the EC descriptions, supplementals, proofreading.)

DC did the ED app first and then three EAs. In retrospect, we should have encouraged them to do it in the opposite order. EA apps were less pressure/lower stakes than the ED app, and therefore a good way to get the ball rolling. We’ll probably try that approach for DC2 in a few years.

Meanwhile our school (not DC area) requires kids to get their RD apps in the first week of Dec (!) so the school’s guidance department has time to “process” their part before winter break. Makes no sense to me - how hard can it be? But that’s public school for you.

So DC has a month to do all the other supplementals. Hopefully there are a bunch they can reuse. Good times ….

Great times...sigh...

[Anonymous]

DC started early in the summer, in August, to get personal statement done. Finished ED supplementals in September, then began writing EA essays.

Took a turn, DC changed ED school. So the EA ones were done before the new ED school.

[Anonymous]

Of course 3 EAs is easy.

[Anonymous]

My kid finished all EAs last week. Already got one acceptance. It took a while for the transcripts to get out, so we are still waiting for the others, but should know soon. Huge weight lifted.

[Anonymous]

15 done here!!
YAHOO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course 3 EAs is easy.

Not if they include Michigan and Wisconsin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15 done here!!
YAHOO

Congrats to your DC!!! 🎉

[Anonymous]

13 EAs done with one more to just hit submit when she comes home from school today. She also has one acceptance already from applying rolling. Phew! Boy, it was stressful. Thank God it's done!

[Anonymous]

It's easy to do most EAs through the common app once you get the main essay complete. DS got his done in September and has two offers with merit scholarship. The earlier you get the applications in, the more of a chance at merit scholarship you have.

[Anonymous]

Twins -- 11 in for one. 5 for the other. RD to start soon. What an tedious process -- the elements with my kids was fine. It was tracking who wants official scores, who want STARS, who wants scores after submitting in their own portal. Has high school sent transcript. Have references been sent (not all), have extra transcripts been paid for, and on and on. The "streamlined" College App feels anything but.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just wanted to vent. The process is so much easier than I've thought. No stress!

ED school supplemental is the most difficult. They are using a new prompt this year, took DC some time (eight drafts!) to hammer it down last night. I read it after submission, it's great.

Three EA schools. Done.

Party for two nights this weekend.

Hopefully DC doesn't need RD applications.

This is not a vent.