An update on the college applications
When this blog started, I envisioned posting personal experiences as we went through the application process with my son. I kind of forgot about the fact that at 18 he's old enough to object to invasions of his privacy, so during the busiest part of the process, I've posted almost nothing. Here's a lite version, though.
Right now is the time when different colleges' deadlines are upon us. The deadline for the UC system and the smart deadline for the CSU system was Nov. 30, though some CSUs continue to accept applications (I wouldn't recommend pushing it). In our case we have applied to four CSUs and two other colleges: Oberlin Conservatory (application deadline Dec. 1) and Purchase College-State University of New York (application deadline today). My son is looking at jazz trumpet programs and made his picks accordingly. We did not do college visits except within California, but he did his research other than that.
He has considered others and still mentions Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., as a possibility. Since it doesn't seem to be a serious candidate, I'm not even sure if he's checked the deadline and am not worrying about it if it's past. Lawrence appears to be the world's whitest college, which is just a weird environment for an urban kid.
As some readers may have noticed, the economy is having a little trouble lately. This will have an impact on our situation — on what choices he can afford to make and possibly on the outcome of his applications. "There is no such thing as need-blind admissions," college admissions expert Peter Van Buskirk said in a presentation at my kids' school last year. Of course a slight silver lining is that for any applicant who gets rejected everywhere and winds up at City College, it could easily be due to the economic downturn, and who's to know?
My e-mail inbox and my son's are revealing an interesting aspect of this process. We both get e-mail after e-mail from some colleges urging him to apply and making offers like "waived admission fee" and "no essay required." I didn't even know till after the fact that my son had applied to University of the Pacific on this basis (great jazz school in a pathetic place — poor beaten-down Stockton, the nation's foreclosure capital). (It's also in the $50,000 range.)
I'm assuming these colleges are both trying to drum up some hot applicants and also trying to increase their applicant pool to artificially raise their rating on the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. When this process is done I intend to do some research on what's going on with that, but not while we're still in it. Some of the colleges sending those e-mails are Fordham, Rensselaer, and the University of Montana. I'll go through them and list more later. This does not mean my son is guaranteed acceptance at any of them.
Right now is the time when different colleges' deadlines are upon us. The deadline for the UC system and the smart deadline for the CSU system was Nov. 30, though some CSUs continue to accept applications (I wouldn't recommend pushing it). In our case we have applied to four CSUs and two other colleges: Oberlin Conservatory (application deadline Dec. 1) and Purchase College-State University of New York (application deadline today). My son is looking at jazz trumpet programs and made his picks accordingly. We did not do college visits except within California, but he did his research other than that.
He has considered others and still mentions Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., as a possibility. Since it doesn't seem to be a serious candidate, I'm not even sure if he's checked the deadline and am not worrying about it if it's past. Lawrence appears to be the world's whitest college, which is just a weird environment for an urban kid.
As some readers may have noticed, the economy is having a little trouble lately. This will have an impact on our situation — on what choices he can afford to make and possibly on the outcome of his applications. "There is no such thing as need-blind admissions," college admissions expert Peter Van Buskirk said in a presentation at my kids' school last year. Of course a slight silver lining is that for any applicant who gets rejected everywhere and winds up at City College, it could easily be due to the economic downturn, and who's to know?
My e-mail inbox and my son's are revealing an interesting aspect of this process. We both get e-mail after e-mail from some colleges urging him to apply and making offers like "waived admission fee" and "no essay required." I didn't even know till after the fact that my son had applied to University of the Pacific on this basis (great jazz school in a pathetic place — poor beaten-down Stockton, the nation's foreclosure capital). (It's also in the $50,000 range.)
I'm assuming these colleges are both trying to drum up some hot applicants and also trying to increase their applicant pool to artificially raise their rating on the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. When this process is done I intend to do some research on what's going on with that, but not while we're still in it. Some of the colleges sending those e-mails are Fordham, Rensselaer, and the University of Montana. I'll go through them and list more later. This does not mean my son is guaranteed acceptance at any of them.
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