What a busy week! With Parent Teacher Conferences, Cinderella Meets The Wolfman, and Early Action deadlines, I'm not complaining about the fact we have two four school day weeks coming up.
I understand the stress as our first round of deadlines approach - but here is some advice to help you make it through.
- Remember at almost every school (I'm looking at you University of Texas at Austin :/ ) they are flexible enough to operate so that the student's portion of the application is due by the deadline and school items and test scores (where required) can arrive a little bit later. Relax, your stuff will get there.
- How can you check if your transcript request has been processed? Log in to Naviance. If you see 'Initial Materials Submitted' that means it was sent.
- Many students just got their October SAT scores back. I had recommended that students pre-order their scores in order to speed up the process of their application becoming complete. In case you did not do that, I recommend you send the scores now. Log in to your College Board account to do this. I DO NOT recommend rushing your scores. A rushed score report will be mailed to a college on paper. The last thing colleges need right now is paper. Your score, sent the regular way, will go to the college on a disk and be uploaded. It will still take some time to get there, but it will be faster and more reliable than a rushed report. The regular method is also less expensive.
- About two or three weeks from now, call the schools you have applied to and ask about the 'status of your application.' That way you can confirm that your items have been received.
- For public schools, including SUNY and CUNY, I recommend applying by no later than Thanksgiving. Next Tuesday and the following Thursday when we have no school would be great days to spend working on filing applications.
-For younger students, Election Day and Veterans Day may be great days to take a college tour. Think about campuses in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC and Boston, as all could be places you could visit in one day.
Happy Halloween!
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