5 applications done and ready to call it quits?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I opened this ready to say that 5 schools is fine, but if she's applying to auditioned based programs, then being green on Naviance, or having a high predicted acceptance rate on College Vine is meaningless. It will all come down to what they think of her talent. Auditioned programs are very hard to predict.

Does she have a non-auditioned safety?

Her academic safeties are both auditions-based and artistically selective. But fortunately she’s been artistically accepted to one of them (JMU) and she’ll know about the other safety in two weeks.

Her remaining schools audition for talent scholarships, not acceptance to the major.

She’s burned out because for all of these arts programs, it’s a three-part process involving acceptance to the school, admission to the program, and application for honors and/or a talent scholarship. Each stage requires something new of her.

I think giving her time to rest is a great idea, as much as I’d prefer for her to bang them out and be done, that feels inhumane right now.

The extra honors work is no joke. My kid submitted several and has one more pending for VT.

Sounds like she is doing well and earned a reprieve!

[Anonymous]

OP, I wouldn’t worry about submitting many more. Maybe one or two just for peace of mind. The kids submitting 20 apps are not as focused as your kid. They’re chasing prestige or merit (or both) and playing the odds. The shotgun approach won’t serve your kid, who knows what she wants and probably has fewer options that meet all her criteria. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no need to decide to be done with RD apps just yet - they're not due for two more months. I would suggest a break for a few weeks, even till the start of winter break. Then look at the supplements for the remaining RDs and see if they'd be easy to do by tweaking supplements that are already written. Another spurt of energy is needed, but now seems like it's not the time to be pushing. Take a break.

Sound advice. No need to make an absolute decision in a moment of exhaustion. Regroup and discuss at the end of Thanksgiving break.

[Anonymous]

If she has a place at JMU and she'd be happy to go there, I don't understand the need for more applications to go out. Just see how the existing ones shake out and compare the costs / advantages of each acceptance as they land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she has a place at JMU and she'd be happy to go there, I don't understand the need for more applications to go out. Just see how the existing ones shake out and compare the costs / advantages of each acceptance as they land.

Well in fairness, she hasn't been accepted to the university yet, only the arts program. Naviance, CollegeVine, and CDS shows JMU as a safety, but I'm not counting on anything until she has an acceptance in hand.

[Anonymous]

OP here. One of DD’s two safeties fell through, and without an acceptance in hand from JMU yet, she decided to add two more schools. Would you consider schools with overall acceptance rates of 40-45% but CollegeVine predictions of 78-85% targets or safeties? One requires a scholarship audition and the other is generous with merit aid.

She’s holding on to one more far reach application in case she feels inspired over the Christmas Break. No audition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. One of DD’s two safeties fell through, and without an acceptance in hand from JMU yet, she decided to add two more schools. Would you consider schools with overall acceptance rates of 40-45% but CollegeVine predictions of 78-85% targets or safeties? One requires a scholarship audition and the other is generous with merit aid.

She’s holding on to one more far reach application in case she feels inspired over the Christmas Break. No audition.

I'd want to know more about why the safety fell through, because that might make me more cautious and likely to call something a target rather than a safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. One of DD’s two safeties fell through, and without an acceptance in hand from JMU yet, she decided to add two more schools. Would you consider schools with overall acceptance rates of 40-45% but CollegeVine predictions of 78-85% targets or safeties? One requires a scholarship audition and the other is generous with merit aid.

She’s holding on to one more far reach application in case she feels inspired over the Christmas Break. No audition.

I'd want to know more about why the safety fell through, because that might make me more cautious and likely to call something a target rather than a safety.

The safety fell through because she wasn’t accepted to the very selective arts program. I’m confident she’ll get into the university - probably with merit - but she won’t go if she can’t pursue her art in a serious way. She learned at the audition that there are no options for non majors and that wasn’t clear before. So in the end, it wasn’t a safety at all. JMU has accepted her artistically pending university admission.

All the others schools she’s applied to have artistic opportunities for non majors, or non audition majors/minors, so I’m not worried about that. Paying for them is another story, and we’re chasing merit, but that’s the case everywhere but UMD.

[Anonymous]

I think we’ve talked here before. The multi tier acceptance for arts programs are so, so stressful.

Did she apply to a non audition program? I’d try to have one of those that also should be a fairly easy academic admit.

Best to your daughter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we’ve talked here before. The multi tier acceptance for arts programs are so, so stressful.

Did she apply to a non audition program? I’d try to have one of those that also should be a fairly easy academic admit.

Best to your daughter.

Thanks! Yes, the rest are no-audition arts admits. Of her (now) seven applications in, only two were audition for arts admission. She has two auditions for merit, and three that consider arts supplements but don’t require auditions for arts admission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we’ve talked here before. The multi tier acceptance for arts programs are so, so stressful.

Did she apply to a non audition program? I’d try to have one of those that also should be a fairly easy academic admit.

Best to your daughter.

Thanks! Yes, the rest are no-audition arts admits. Of her (now) seven applications in, only two were audition for arts admission. She has two auditions for merit, and three that consider arts supplements but don’t require auditions for arts admission.

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