College Applications...Let's Git-R-Done!

November 8th, 2007. There's been a flurry of high school transcript requests, teacher evalution forms, and college applications being handed out and/or submitted this past week. Although Elroy and Judy were both attentive over the summer, investigating colleges (online searches, perusing college guides, and a few trips to local colleges), completing several college essays, and studying to retake the SAT, it seems we've all taken our eye off the ball as the deadlines for getting all this information organized, deciding which colleges to apply to, and getting the applications submitted was fast approaching. So there's been a big push to just Git-R-Done! Admittedly, there is no excuse for being lacadasical, but the college application process is really way more difficult than it needs to be. Anyway, as of this week Judy has applied to Tufts University, Dickinson College, Gettysburg College, University of Maryland at College Park, Bates College, and Kalamazoo College. Elroy has applied to Goucher College, St. Marys College of Maryland, Earlham College, Ursinus, UMBC, and the Honors Program at Towson University.

Both did re-take the SAT in early October and increased their scores which are pretty impressive and should be competitive at most of the schools on their short lists....we'll see.