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04-25-2008, 07:48 AM
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#361 | | Junior Member
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| We are finally done!
D will be attending NYU for Vocal Performance (Steinhardt) with merit aid-- talent grant was just awarded!!
She was accepted in 7 out of 7 schools and had a hard decision to make(especially since notification of her award from NYU was delayed). All of her awards were merit based.
Also accepted in:
Barnard
Brandeis ($15K Deans's Scholarship)
GW ($15K Presidential Scholarship + honors)
American ($22K Dean's and Music)
Muhlenberg ($19K in total awarded)
Binghamton
It was a long process with lots of auditons, etc.....but no complaints. She had great choices and great merit offers. Turning down Barnard and Brandeis were the hardest decisions to make, but she decided that the vocal opportunites at NYU were too good to pass up and she will try to double major or minor to supplement her BM degree with something in business, communications or English.
Good luck to everyone in their final days of decision making! | 
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04-25-2008, 07:52 AM
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#362 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Coastal village, Suffolk County, NY
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| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well done! (Lalalalal) I sang my congrats as is fitting.
Sniff, sniff, as a Barnard mom we're sad to lose her! | |
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04-25-2008, 02:45 PM
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#363 | | Junior Member
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| Mythmom...
D LOVED Barnard, but they could not tell us that D would get vocal lessons for sure even if she were a music major. Only 40 kids in both Barnard and Columbia can receive free vocal lessons per year in total. Since we would be paying sticker price for Barnard to begin with (ouch!!), there was no way possible that we could afford to supplement her education with $90/week vocal lessons. She is talented and probably had a good shot of getting these coveted lessons, but we couldn't take the chance. And singing is too important for her to give up. So when NYU came up with a merit based music scholarship, it seemed right. | |
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04-25-2008, 04:34 PM
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#364 | | Senior Member
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| I'm sure it is. Destiny has a strange way of making its wishes known. | |
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05-01-2008, 05:41 AM
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#365 | | Member
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| D1 now officially going to Harvard. Feels very good to have this decided one and for all. | |
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05-01-2008, 07:03 AM
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#366 | | Senior Member
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| mammall: Congratulations. I have been waiting for your announcement. Your D certainly had the full platter to choose from. Go Crimsons! | |
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05-01-2008, 10:07 AM
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#367 | | Member
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| I'm not really a "red" person but the Crimson is rather a nice burgundy wine shade - I'm drinking my morning coffee from a Crimson mug. | |
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05-01-2008, 10:12 AM
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#368 | | Member
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| Your family is most fortunate! Congrats!! | |
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05-02-2008, 07:07 AM
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| After a long, long week of list-compiling and gut-checking, a decision: Yale it is! First love wins. | |
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05-02-2008, 07:33 AM
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| wjb: Congrats! How wonderful! I'm sure people in the Vigil Lounge would love to hear it! | |
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05-02-2008, 08:27 AM
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| Thanks, mythmom. I just posted over there. | |
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05-02-2008, 08:47 AM
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| Mammall: Congratulations. You must be so proud! Crimson is my favorite color. I am envious! We had to settle here for orange and black. (just kidding about settling) | |
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Yesterday, 12:36 AM
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#373 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
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| Can you only post here for celebration after May Day? Can I issue a MayDay? if not, please send me to the appropriate bar.
No merit aid. Need based aid was a joke. FA - a long long way to run, as in a run-around.
Surly adcons' non answer replies to honest good faith questions (none showing a bit of the bite that is in this vent) AFTER we committed to pay them over a $100,000 is in-credible.
In the delusional EFC, F is for fiction, based on early 1990's tables, but the money we will be bleeding for four years will be real. Colleges increased tuition during the 90's and the aughts at a double digit clip, while my salary hardly went up during that time.
to me it smells like price gouging, frankly. they know that us conscientious caring parents, who have even videotaped their kids' births, will pay the egregiously strange and surreal sums so that their kids will have at least a shot at the shrinking global competitive economy. But at the same time, the kids, and us, the parents who have to meet the fictitious EFC (I am speaking of my wife and i in this celebratory thread), will be left in the end with the most avg debt in the history of the world.
This fear of competing in the world and the care we place on our kids support the price gouging and prevents us to 'vote with our feet' and to use market forces to change.
Please write to your representative to try to get some relief for the middle class so that higher education can be more sane for more people. We are zimbawe in the making, the fall of the american empire.
Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you like May 1st?
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