Class of 2022- High School Parents

[mefordis]

One thing I can tell you from both our experience, and our daughter's -- closer is good. You are going to want to visit, she is going to want to come home -- closer is good.

Our DD came home last weekend because she couldn't bear to wait until Spring Break, which starts March 5th. And for her birthday in late March, 4-5 of her friends since Kindergarten are driving up to UCF to visit her. I'm not a fan of staying home for college, but closer is good.

I hear you. I would love for her to be closer. However, ASU has offered her a scholarship that pays half her tuition. We'll have to see how the visits go and where she feels most comfortable. I love ASU's communications - they are very well organized and have sent us constant email reminders. I really like their portal, too.

 

[Kae]

My daughter just received her on campus housing assignment for fall. She is so disappointed! She is in an apartment with 5 other girls. All of the the other roommates are already 19 years old and returning students. All 5 of them are a friend group and requested to be roommates together.

My heart just sank when I saw that. My daughter is going alone and was really hoping that she would be put in a room with other new freshmen. I thought there was a very good chance of that since it is on campus housing.
The fact that they are already all a friend group and returning students makes it super hard and is not was she was envisioning. I'm so bummed! I just needed to vent this somewhere. I did call and the housing office was already closed. I'll call back tomorrow and try and request a room change, but it's probably not likely since they are already 100% full.
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My DD freshman roommates were sophomores and friends. She lives off-campus with 2 of them, Do I think she missed out on some of the freshman stuff a little bit but the spring semester was when covid hit so that changed a lot of things too. Our biggest problem is her roommates graduate this year so she had to find new ones.

 

[JaxDad]

I've got a 2021 high school graduate, but just decided to take a peek at this thread and wanted to say big congrats to your DS! My DS's school has a phenomenal, automatic-merit full ride scholarship (tuition/housing/stipends) for NMFs.

Congratulations to your son!

Thank you! Exciting times!

I’m the local president of an engineering professional society and had the pleasure of giving out some scholarships last week. There are certainly some outstanding young men and women out there! I would also like to put in a plug for UNF, which has hosted some of our events. It’s an excellent school which kind of flies under the radar.

 

[DawnM]

Son has received his acceptance to App State and is very happy. He only applied to 2 schools, App and NC State and hasn't heard back from NC State yet. But he thinks even if he gets in, he would prefer App.

He was wait listed for NC State. But he has committed to App.....so, App it is!

 

[Day-al]

He was wait listed for NC State. But he has committed to App.....so, App it is!

Congratulations!

 

[slo]

He was wait listed for NC State. But he has committed to App.....so, App it is!

Congratulations to your son!

 

[JaxDad]

He was wait listed for NC State. But he has committed to App.....so, App it is!

Congratulations! Maybe he’ll meet @RDM83’s daughter!

 

[clori]

My daughter isn't making any final decision until she hears from her last college in April but doesn't expec to both get in and afford to attend. I just found out a girl my daughter isn't a fan of also has two schools one of which is one of my dd's top 2. She really won't be thrilled if they end up at the same small school.

I'm a bit surprised incoming freshman have room assignments already. Often that happens in the summer. My oldest started out with sophomore standing due to dual enrollment credits and was placed with all freshman. After my older dd's experience my youngest wants to be relatively close. She did apply to one school out of state but has since lost interest in that school (not because it is out of state). Most of the other schools are about 30-45 minutes away. in terms of attending both of my kids knew before they started applying that we would use cost to rule out schools if needed. In our case there are some schools that are about $10,000 more than the others give or take so those schools are out. If one was really my dd's #1 choice I would find out about a financial aid appeal but this isn't the case.

 

[mefordis]

Is anyone else overwhelmed with all of the tasks they have to do? When I was in college I handled everything myself, but my daughter is up to her eyeballs in school work and mid terms.

We are 99% sure she is going to ASU, so I went into the portal today and have about 8 tasks that need to be completed. I did put down her $300 deposit so at least they know she plans on attending. She has to take a math test before they will let her schedule orientation and a meeting with her advisor. She can't take that test until next weekend because of school work. Meanwhile, people are already signing up for fall courses.

We visit the campus mid April and we have to find her an apartment at that time.

So much to do. Is anyone else overwhelmed?

 

[JimMIA]

Is anyone else overwhelmed with all of the tasks they have to do? When I was in college I handled everything myself, but my daughter is up to her eyeballs in school work and mid terms.

We are 99% sure she is going to ASU, so I went into the portal today and have about 8 tasks that need to be completed. I did put down her $300 deposit so at least they know she plans on attending. She has to take a math test before they will let her schedule orientation and a meeting with her advisor. She can't take that test until next weekend because of school work. Meanwhile, people are already signing up for fall courses.

We visit the campus mid April and we have to find her an apartment at that time.

So much to do. Is anyone else overwhelmed?

It IS a lot, no question about that. It's also a lot MORE than I ever had to go through getting ready for college. But part of the difference is that schools have so much more in the way of resources to help students. It will be hectic, but it will be fine.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Is anyone else overwhelmed with all of the tasks they have to do? When I was in college I handled everything myself, but my daughter is up to her eyeballs in school work and mid terms.

We are 99% sure she is going to ASU, so I went into the portal today and have about 8 tasks that need to be completed. I did put down her $300 deposit so at least they know she plans on attending. She has to take a math test before they will let her schedule orientation and a meeting with her advisor. She can't take that test until next weekend because of school work. Meanwhile, people are already signing up for fall courses.

We visit the campus mid April and we have to find her an apartment at that time.

So much to do. Is anyone else overwhelmed?

Yes! And it doesn’t sound like she has nearly as much to do as your daughter.

Thankfully her college doesn’t require a deposit to attend, but we’ll have to put one down on housing when she signs up in about a week. And thankfully they sign up all incoming freshman for their first semester of classes. At this moment I’m thankful for that!

But everything feels like it’s moving so fast and I worry we’re going to miss something.

 

[sam_gordon]

Still waiting on DS to decide on a school. Three are in the running, but two are at the top and he's having a hard time deciding.

 

[mefordis]

Anyone's senior driving them nuts??? It started to get better as a teenager but at 18 she's turned back into a baby. All she does nothing but complain and is completely stressed out with school work. Every day it's a flurry of texts with the world ending. I wonder how she's going to make it. I consider blocking her about 5x a day. I hate phones!

Anyone else or am I just incredibly unlucky?

 

[sam_gordon]

Still waiting on DS to decide on a school. Three are in the running, but two are at the top and he's having a hard time deciding.

DS made a decision and we paid the deposit yesterday. Asbury University, a small private school in Wilmore, KY, just outside of Lexington. Not my ideal, but probably the best choice all things considered.

 

[mefordis]

DS made a decision and we paid the deposit yesterday. Asbury University, a small private school in Wilmore, KY, just outside of Lexington. Not my ideal, but probably the best choice all things considered.

This is great news. Isn't it a relief to know where they are going finally?

 

[sam_gordon]

This is great news. Isn't it a relief to know where they are going finally?

Absolutely! I'm sure he's relieved too.

 

[JimMIA]

Anyone's senior driving them nuts??? It started to get better as a teenager but at 18 she's turned back into a baby. All she does nothing but complain and is completely stressed out with school work. Every day it's a flurry of texts with the world ending. I wonder how she's going to make it. I consider blocking her about 5x a day. I hate phones!

Anyone else or am I just incredibly unlucky?

It's a tough time, but pretty soon the graduation stuff will start happening, bringing happier times. Until about Spring semester of freshman year in college, that is!

 

[slo]

DS made a decision and we paid the deposit yesterday. Asbury University, a small private school in Wilmore, KY, just outside of Lexington. Not my ideal, but probably the best choice all things considered.

Congratulations to your DS
Very exciting times ahead.

 

[slo]

Anyone's senior driving them nuts??? It started to get better as a teenager but at 18 she's turned back into a baby. All she does nothing but complain and is completely stressed out with school work. Every day it's a flurry of texts with the world ending. I wonder how she's going to make it. I consider blocking her about 5x a day. I hate phones!

Anyone else or am I just incredibly unlucky?

She’s probably feeling that mix of stress, senioritis and that realization that HS is coming to and end and this is just how she deals with it. I hope things get better soon for both of you

As of now, my DD hasn’t had that moment because even after graduation she’s still going to have games. It’s gonna hit her like a ton of bricks when that last game is over. I’m anticipating a lot of tears from both of us.

 

[Day-al]

So my daughter found out she was waitlisted at UCF. And she is P.O.’d
Now, she has already made her decision to go elsewhere, she’s even paid her tuition and dorm deposit and found a roommate. But when she received the email from UCF, she couldn’t believe it. She has a “super 4.0” GPA, so higher than 4 bc of all of her AP classes. Also is NHS, and multi-sport athlete, hundreds of community service hours. She did not submit her SAT scores. She found out today that a girl in her class who does not take AP classes but does take honors classes was rejected by UCF, also didn’t submit SAT scores. That girl’s boyfriend also takes honors classes but has a worse GPA than her and does zero extracurriculars and he was accepted, but he submitted his dismal (in comparison) SAT scores. . It doesn’t really make sense (we are in a small town in Maine). I found it funny that my daughter was SO personally affronted by the waitlist. Ahh kids, what can you do?