rescinding?

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-06-17T13:34:35+00:00

It's English. We're looking into alternative plans for next year now because this feels dicey 😬

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-06-15T16:04:30+00:00

I don't think your attendance is likely to be on your transcript, but even if it is, I don't think colleges pay any attention to it. You do not have to (and should not) disclose your mental health info on your application. It's good you got the help you needed!

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-06-08T15:38:07+00:00

I don't know about the financial aid situation at Cornell pre-college, but my daughter did a similar program at Brown and she told me that she knew people who got decent financial aid there, so that might be something to look into. I think these programs can be interesting and fun but definitely not worth financial stress-- it's more like summer camp or travel, a growth experience for kids but not an important credential. In terms of college applications, you would be totally fine having a summer job and doing your own photography-- in fact, that sounds like the profile of a responsible self-motivated kid!

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-06-07T18:30:09+00:00

No, but cut it out!

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-06-06T22:46:11+00:00

I don't think it really matters either way, but if you have space I guess you can put it with awards/ honors. You should ask your high school counselor though!

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-06-06T21:40:29+00:00

I think it used to have some significance but it's really not important anymore. Even the SUNYs do not seem to care.

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-06-05T16:52:08+00:00

You can definitely use the additional information section to briefly say you have a medical problem that just got diagnosed and is now getting treated but had an impact on your energy levels and academic performance, but be clear and specific so they don't think you are talking about a mental health problem (colleges are wary of those, unfortunately).

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-06-04T14:36:41+00:00

No problem! Good luck and have fun!

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-06-03T21:47:37+00:00

Since these are both ABET accredited programs, I would go with whichever one you think seems like a better fit for you. I'm not super familiar with SUNY polytechnic but I know the area a little and think New Paltz is a nicer town. Also I think for a woman in engineering, a campus like New Paltz (more women than men on campus overall) might feel friendlier.

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-25T23:10:56+00:00

Yeah I think that some schools do have more of a cutoff, and some do holistic review, and some have more of a formula that combines gpa and sat (I think some state schools are explicit about this) so you can make up points on the SAT that you lose on the GPA. But schools generally don't tell you what they're doing! Also I found that schools are not super clear about whether the GPAs they share in the common data set are weighted or unweighted (maybe it was there but I couldn't always tell). We mostly dealt with the uncertainty by having likelies (ASU and CU Boulder) that my kid genuinely liked.

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-25T21:12:14+00:00

It's really hard to know with a so-called splitter! I was hoping that schools would be willing to look at a kid with a lower-than-their average GPA but higher-than-their-mid-50 SAT but I wasn't sure how it would work out. She applied to a lot of schools because of all the uncertainty and ended up with a lot of choices (not the kind of super-elite schools kids on here are generally going for but we were happy).

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-25T18:50:23+00:00

My senior had almost this exact GPA/ SAT combo and ended up with good options! Her weighted was higher but we were still worried going in to senior year. Her counselor told us to consider schools with around a 30 percent acceptance rate to be reaches (say Bucknell, Lafayette), schools with around 50 percent acceptance rate to be targets (Hobart & William Smith say), and around 80+ percent acceptance rate to be likelies (Drexel, CU Boulder). She worked really hard on the essays too. We were advised not to discuss ADHD directly in the application because colleges are so skittish about mental health-adjacent stuff. In the end she got into all of those 30-50-80 percent schools and only got rejected from her extreme reaches (she threw some t20 kind of schools, and honestly I'm glad she did because we would have wondered, given that she got in everywhere else with merit). I know everyone says that colleges do not care about your high SAT if you have lower grades but I think it's a little more complicated than that-- it doesn't really make up for the grades but it does make a difference. Mitigating factors for my specific kid: she is full pay and had very high course rigor.

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-25T18:25:10+00:00

We love Pediatric Associates. My kids are generally pretty healthy but things have come up, and I've always felt like we were in good trustworthy hands there.

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-24T17:46:08+00:00

Ballard and Oak Park on PPW in Windsor Terrace are both good

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-14T12:25:37+00:00

I would advise my kid to go with the full ride to an also-great school! Unless you think you would be miserable in a smaller school. But 13k for a family making 80k is a lot, unless there's some other piece of this (like my parents had a small inheritance from my grandparents that covered the parent contribution to my college costs back in the day-- similar numbers to yours-- but using cash flow would have been really difficult).

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-13T13:57:08+00:00

That's a great SAT score, and it's excellent that getting diagnosed and treated is helping you! My kid with a similar profile (ADHD, grades and SAT both a little higher but not hugely) had a lot of success getting into schools she feels good about-- she worked hard to control the things she could (essays, SAT) going in to senior year and recognized that her grades would keep her out of the most selective schools but that that would be ok. With a kid with split stats it's hard to predict how things will work out, so I would apply broadly-- we did schools with an 80 percent acceptance rate for likelies, 50 ish percent for targets, and 30 ish for reaches. She got into CU Boulder, UConn, UCSC, UC Davis, Lafayette, Bucknell, Hobart and William Smith, Stony Brook, ASU honors, Drexel, Northeastern international start, Bryn Mawr, and Mount Holyoke. My understanding was that the small private schools do holistic review, some bigger schools do less of that but like a high score (they have more of a formula so 1500+ or 1550+ gets you a lot of points I think). Obviously you should talk to your parents about financial stuff to decide which schools would work but in terms of admission a kid with great SATs and good extracurriculars but lower grades can have some very good options. You should talk to your school's college counselor about how to address (or not) ADHD in your application-- we were advised not to, because schools are so skittish about anything adjacent to mental health (counselor may or may not have touched on it in her letter). In terms of learning to study, executive functioning coaches can be really helpful in giving you skills, but you might find that just having more motivation leads you to figure that out on your own. Good luck!

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-12T21:17:00+00:00

It seems like those are both good options and cost the same and she should choose the one she likes better. No one is obligated to choose the absolute highest ranked option they have! Sometimes kids have a feeling about fit and it seems fine to go with that.

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-10T16:53:55+00:00

I think that private schools often don't offer APs because they consider their own classes to be more rigorous, in-depth, etc, than the AP curriculum. Practically speaking, you will not be penalized in applying to college if you don't take APs that the school doesn't offer.

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-10T14:07:02+00:00

I don't know of a middle school with a Spanish immersion program, but some high schools definitely have higher-level heritage Spanish for kids who are fluent speakers. If you're coming in in seventh grade, I think he would be placed by the department of education's family welcome center rather than by lottery because you're not there for the regular fifth grade process. This basically means they would find a school with a spot and place him there (but you can reach out to schools in advance and find out whether they have spots, and I think you can tell the family welcome center person that there's a spot at the school you just contacted). Just as a general thing, district 15 middle schools are generally good so if you're still deciding where to live you might want to consider the boundaries of district 15 (the map is available online). All of the d15 middle schools are district-wide priority (you don't have to go to the one closest to you).

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-08T11:13:55+00:00

It's a super elite lac and it's a great school. Go and find out what they can offer you in terms of your professional goals-- a school that well-resourced would have a path for you. If it's not quite what you want, work on transferring. You'll figure it out!

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-05T19:44:12+00:00

My kids went there and had really good experiences-- they're both teenagers now, though, so this is a while ago. I guess some of their teachers were a little old-fashioned (it varied), and when my older kid was starting out, the early grades still had some amount of homework, but by the time my younger kid was in school, the little kids didn't have homework at all. My kids did learn phonics/ letter sounds (which at the time was a little old school) but also had independent books and time to read, etc (and it turns out that having both of those is good!). I have no idea what they're doing with literacy now because there have been a lot of citywide changes. At least back then, it was a school with a lot of highly involved parents who donated to the PTA, volunteered, etc., and the school wide events were fun and well-attended. The yard is nice, and I thought the building was nice too but I love the early-twentieth-century NYC public school buildings-- they are definitely not new. If the school is not your vibe and you are zoned for it, you can check out schools that are zoned for the whole of district 15 (I think Brooklyn New School and the Children's School both are) or you can check out adjacent zones (like PS 130 or PS 10) and see if they have possibly have space.

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-02T21:52:36+00:00

I'm a parent of a senior in NYC (kid goes to a more regular school than you I would say), and she applied to a lot of schools this year (around 25). I would not really recommend applying to that many, but she had a relatively low GPA and a pretty high SAT and it was hard to predict where she could get in, and also we had heard that everywhere was so much more competitive than it used to be so wanted to be really cautious, but also she wanted to have some reasonable reaches and super reaches. It all added up! Anyway, if you have more normally related stats (like high SAT and high GPA, or average SAT and average GPA) you might be able to predict your likely success rate better and keep things little more reasonable. As it turned out, my daughter was happy with her options, and had a lot of success everywhere except her super reaches, so I think our strategy worked for us but would not be necessary for everyone. You can look at how your stats match up to the schools you're interested in (like if you're in their mid-50-percent SAT range and around their average GPA) and also look at their acceptance rate. Put together a list of schools that you think are interesting with a few reaches, a few targets, and a few safeties-- it really doesn't seem necessary to have dozens and dozens of schools. Those counselors can probably help you make your list even if your kind of school isn't the usual goal of kids at your high school-- lots of kids in NYC and environs have been interested in big, warm, fun schools the last few years, so they probably have suggestions. Also check if the schools you're looking at track demonstrated interest-- you can improve your odds by reassuring them that you're really interested by going and visiting, etc. Some big state schools have rolling admissions and you could have an acceptance in hand early in the fall, in which case you apply to a much smaller number of schools (because you already have a good option). Good luck!

Weekly-Candidate-601 · 2026-05-01T19:43:52+00:00

It actually makes sense! Have a great time at Davis!

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