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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blair mom poster here. I know that folks assume that Covid instruction wasn't all "that" during the Zoom year. But - at least for mine - she managed to end the year taking a UMD mutivariable calculus exam and score an A on it so that if she were to go to UMD, she would be able to start there at a higher level and not retake the class. So, it's not like the teens sat around doing nothing...

I agree with the other poster that I think the LAC's don't necessarily understand the Blair magnet program or believe that the students there could actually want them as a first choice (which mine did).

And she certainly was on camera communicating during her ASL class :-)![/quote]
If it is her first choice, why didn’t she apply ED? Isn’t ED a strong indicator of first choice?[/quote]

I agree with this. She should’ve figured out which school was her first choice.  [/quote]

I'm the other Blair parent, and we can't afford ED. Even w/ NPC, there were too many variables with home value (Brown dropped this when it was too late for us). Also, we need to compare FA. So, ED was not an option. On the bright side, everything she's gotten so far has been on the lower end of the NPC calculations.

Here's hoping for at least to more to Brown from Blair![/quote]

That doesn’t make sense. You can run the NPC before applying and also back out of ED if you can’t afford it. [/quote]

It does. They could challenge our home value. She actually got into Brown, and the numbers were very different from npc (they revised their FA criteria). But, many of the schools were vastly different from npc (most in a good way). Would they have offered the same ED?  We have complicated income with lots of self employment,  and then there is the home value. We also need to compare FA.

It's not that simple for some of us.[/quote]

If they don't match what you produced on the NPC you're let out of the ED agreement.  Even if it's a dispute over a home value etc.  But if the problem is not that you can't afford x school, you just don't want to afford it if y school comes in with a better offer then you shouldn't apply.  It's really not that complicated. (I'm a doughnut hole family with one parent self-employed and an additional side business so I know what you're saying, but disputes around what you present as your financial needs would let you off the ED hook--it's just that you would have to say "no" to that school before knowing what other schools offer--which is different than saying 'no' to a school because you truly can't afford it).[/quote]

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