<p>Well! How nice. I go away for a little enrichment trip with S2 (we were racing to see who could call out the French and Estonian names of all the produce at the grocery store first - can you imagine, some idiot rolled his eyes at us? clearly he followed the wrong Pathway, or do I mean Pathmark), and come to find there are people AGREEING WITH ME on this thread, which is nice, because I am always right.</p>
<p>Lindz, your PM box is full. Either that or I can’t be bothered to try again. Can you just list all the adcoms’ names here, in alphabetical order, in tiers? You know, ranked? </p>
<p>Garland, thank you, S1 was surprisingly quick to offer to do that himself. I don’t understand what the spray paint is all about, or why he left the house in a black hoodie, but isn’t it sweet that he wants to help his little brother?</p>
<p>Can anyone chance my son for T.I.T.S.? He’s very brilliant even though his GPA of 2.35 doesn’t tell the whole story. And he fell asleep halfway through his SAT test, so his score of 480/500/470 really isn’t a true measure of his incredible test-taking ability. Should he apply ED or RD? And we’re middle-income ($250K/year) so what are the chances of financial aid?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance - people on this thread are so helpful!</p>
<p>STOP!!! Tears are rolling down my cheeks and my stomach ACHES from laughing so hard!!! My 1st grader just yelled, “What’s so damn funny?” Where do I begin?!</p>
<p>I have another question. S2’s Kindergarten doesn’t weight grades and doesn’t rank. Can someone help me convert his grades so I can post his GPA and preen? </p>
<p>Do you think “works and plays well with others” and “sometimes needs to be reminded to wipe his nose” works out to about a 3.7, or are we really looking at a 3.85 here? I mean, we’re going to do a lot of nose-wiping drills, so I’m hopeful that by the end of the year, that one will actually look a lot better.</p>
<p>"Do you think “works and plays well with others” and “sometimes needs to be reminded to wipe his nose” works out to about a 3.7, or are we really looking at a 3.85 here? "</p>
<p>You know, I’m really not sure about that. I think they really look at the “girls have cooties” factor in terms of weighting.</p>
<p>Does he need to fill out an actual Harvard application? I assume not."</p>
<p>No, of course not. My husband’s in the State Pen, which if reversed is Penn State, which is the same thing as Penn, so clearly my children are Ivy legacies.</p>
<p>Harriet, about that trip to the grocery store. The Estonian’s okay, but the French? That’s so, je ne sais quoi, Passe? What first grader doesn’t know French?</p>
<p>This thread is killing my productivity today! I haven’t been able to spend any time at all “fine-tuning” DS’ stellar essays or making demands of middle-school child’s teachers and coaches. My rotors are going to freeze in the off position!</p>
<p>French was a review for the AP, garland, dacord?</p>
<p>We did Languages of the Indigenous Peoples flash cards on the way home! It was so much fun, or as the Inuit say - well, surely I don’t need to tell you that.</p>
<p>where did you find the Language flash cards–I’ve been searching for them–the only set we don’t have. Did you say fun??? I have to pay my 6 yr old to do flash cards. (must be the finance seminar he sat in on with me, that child is such a sponge.)</p>
<p>Harriet still ranking the adcoms–but promise to send.</p>
<p>“Dear Mom, we are so happy to learn that your little Johnny might not want to attend our fine educational instution. We are sending him a $1000 unenrollment fee and hoping that he accepts this fine offer, so we can offer his spot to the highly-prized tuba soloist whom we somehow missed during our frenetic reading of the applications and placed onto our bloated waitlist.”</p>
<p>Brilliant! Perhaps colleges could just go ahead and bump accepted students to another college, the same way airlines bump passengers to flights.</p>
<p>My S is a rising senior at an elite private high school. By the time he graduates, he will have taken 14 AP’s in school, and will have self-studied for a dozen others. (By the way, does he have to self-report all his scores or does he need to have them sent by the CollegeBoard?) He is starting to fill out the applications for all the Ivy League schools. There are six, right? Colombia, Penn State, Haverford, Dartmoth, Princetown and Stamford? He has a 4.5 GPA, out of 4.0, and 2380 on his SAT’s. (One sitting, should he retake to raise score?)
He is the President of NHS, in the marching band, has played j.v. soccer for two years but he quit because of the coach. He took a trip to Nicaragua to fulfill his 20 hour community service requirement-teaching local children to read “Horton Hears a Who.” His father and I think he has enough safety schools listed above, but his GC, who doesn’t know a d*mn thing, disagrees, and is putting all sorts of stress on my kid. Should I go over her head to the Superintendent?</p>
<p>no, you don’t understand he is sooo gifted he is already building his financial portfolio and says the flash cards are so 1990’s – he is too cute I know. </p>
<p>S1 was not as expressive–but he’s pre med at H all the way so that won’t really matter–and the brain chip we implanted in 1st grade worked out grade as he got perfect SAT/ACT/AP–</p>
<p>DS, a Kindergartener at our local magnet school, has been doing some research with a prof at the local college (totally his idea, BTW; he has a passion for science) for a project for his school’s science fair.</p>
<p>Anyway, last night when I picked him up he had some exciting news.</p>
<p>He has just found A CURE FOR COOTIES!!</p>
<p>I’m sure with this is what he will need to get into First Grade, and, dare I hope, Harvard?</p>
<p>I know even kids with excellent stats etc. get turned away, but, c’mon, a cure for cooties should get him in, right? He has perfect grades, and scores in the 100 percentile on his standardized tests.</p>
<p>mathmom, Hahvahd is soooo overrated. Yule is vastly superior in every way: there is no crime, chocolate ice cream flows freely in all the fountains, and no student has ever been less than completely happy and fulfilled at every moment of their undergraduate lives there. Plus, blue is a much more intellectual color than crimson. And every Yulie gets either a $250K per year (plus bonus) I-banking job, is a Rhodes or Marshall Scholar, or becomes Secy. of State immediately upon graduation. There is just no comparison between those two schools.</p>