01.20.08

Last night in our house

Posted in COLLEGE, The nuts and bolts of it at 10:46 am by Meg

Boy has a bad habit of not opening mail that isn’t connected to family or his hobbies. The mail gets dumped on the edge of our fireplace (it’s raised off the floor) unopened.

So, I’m trying to do some picking up and collecting college stuff into the folder we set up and I ask for the acceptance stuff from IU (Bloomington - we are in Indiana, so it is our state university). “What?”

He had received an email from them telling him that they were accepting him for next year, so he NEVER opened the offer!

It turned out he had both a letter from IU and their incoming freshman packet - unopened.

The freshman packet included the expected acceptance, but surprise, surprise - they were offering him a 4 yr. - $8,000 per year (which is about in-state tuition) merit scholarship!

The letter was an invitation to join their honors college and an application to apply for special honor scholarships (with a due date of Feb. 2).

Am I a little frustrated?

Anyway, for anyone still trying to wrap their brain around ‘doing’ high school. I want to make clear that he received these offers based on SAT scores (he missed Indiana merit semi-finalist status by one point on the PSAT), 2 AP scores, and a thorough description of what he did for each high school course. He had only 3 ‘graded’ courses on his transcript - two of them were with a local homeschool group (while we were in NM for that one year) that paid people to teach classes and the other was driver ed. Everything else was listed pass/fail.

Permalink