<p>While Harriet and Lindz have been busily working on their post counts here, I have taken the high road and been doing something a bit more useful. I’ve been over in the “what are my chances?” section advising young minds.</p>
<p>You see, I (actually my cleaning lady) can throw out one to two encouraging thoughts/snide comments per minute, and I don’t pay her overtime, so I’ll probably be a senior member within a few hours.</p>
<p>Ah, the prestige…</p>
<p>Just to keep ahead of sherpa in the post count, I would like to point out that in post #268, I obviously meant MY DD, not mafool’s. Sheesh.</p>
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<p>Is anyone besides me frustrated with the entitlement mentality that seems prevalent regarding discount coupons? BB&B prints those coupons for those families who can’t afford to pay full price for twin XL sheets, yet some parents think that just because they’ve saved up for years for stuff like featherbeds and memory foam mattress toppers, they should be allowed to use the coupons, too! </p>
<p>I think this is outrageous. They should count their blessings that they can afford nice sheets. What about the low income folks who live paycheck to paycheck? Those 20% off coupons should be reserved solely for them! </p>
<p>Who says kids need tier one sheets, anyway? Studies have shown that people who sleep on tier one sheets are no more successful when they wake up in the morning than those who sleep on tier two sheets.</p>
<p>Actually, sherpa, most of those “chance me” threads you (and your cleaning lady) (and the horse you rode in on) have been posting on were created by me. Nice try, though.</p>
<p>patsmom, if you would yell more, your points would be more convincing. In the meantime, I’m reworking my rankings to include PhD production by sheet tier.</p>
<p>Harriet, could you also cross reference by thread count and sateen vs. jacquard?</p>
<p>Are you creating a spread sheet or a scattergram? Both would be very helpful.</p>
<p>Hugs.</p>
<p>My final rankings will be sorted by fabric (cotton, longstaple cotton, Egyptian cotton, etc.), thread count, weave (e.g., jacquard, sateen, t-shirt), color (stock or custom?), monogram (machine or by hand?), and designer label. For those of you who are wondering, LL Bean and Holiday Inn are not designers.</p>
<p>I’ve had to do away with the peer assessment, for obvious reasons. </p>
<p>Once I finish you can plug the scattergrams into your own Naviance program, unless you want to provide me with your child’s password, so I can point and laugh, I mean, produce a scattergram including all of our data.</p>
<p>umm Harriet–size–how about size–lets not pretend it doesn’t matter</p>
<p>my son, the valedictorian athlete, is so tall that if he’s not on an XL he gets a poor sleep and we know how that affects cognitive functioning–</p>
<p>Harriet, D wants pink sheets with green flowers to match her future college’s colors, but I do not have access to Naviance 
Where do they stand in term of rankings? I would not want a low-ranked sheet for my little princess who worked her tail off to get into such a prestigious school!</p>
<p>DS and and a few other kindergarten classmates were over the house this afternoon and decided to form a club in the basement. It was just what I was waiting for, since I was worried he wouldn’t have any leadership to put down on his apps. Sure enough, he’s going to be president, and his best friend vice-president. And I think they want a few more of his friends to be in the club, too. I heard that, while being part of a club is great and all, creating your own club shows the leadership that those top schools are looking for.</p>
<p>What was even more impressive was they made their own club house/fort in the basement from some old furniture, sofa cushions and blankets. It just goes to show that it’s all about what you can do with the resources available to you.</p>
<p>However, I am very concerned because they have a strict ‘no girls allowed’ policy in this club. I tried to talk him out of it but he didn’t budge. </p>
<p>Does this kill his chances? Maybe we shouldn’t even mention the club on the apps, but I would hate to lose this example of leadership.</p>
<p>has he hung out with H’s ex prez</p>
<p>tHe’ll need to finesse this one. You should definitely engage the services of one of the better college placement companies. If they don’t charge at least $275/hour, you 're just wasting your time. YMMV. (in other words: yeah, right, dream on)</p>
<p>Hi, I’m a reporter doing an article on helicopter parents, I was told this place was full of them. Get back to work!</p>
<p>I realize that this is not a meta-question (see thread title), but no one’s stuck with meta-ANYTHING, except the OP and a few overly punctilious early posters, whose UserNames I can’t be bothered to look up.</p>
<p>Anyway, I read in The Ethicist’s Column in last Sunday’s New York Times that it’s possible to adjust the pitch in CD recordings (to be submitted with apps to Vocal Performance programs), so that it appears that the singer hit a note he/she didn’t hit. </p>
<p>. . . and I thought, this could be DD2’s big opportunity to be admitted to a program in Musical Theater. Normally, those programs are SO COMPETITIVE. DD2 hasn’t had a singing part since she was asked to just whisper during the school’s Winter Solstice Festival, in 3rd grade. I guess her pitch is not too accurate. But now that doesn’t seem to be a barrier. If it’s possible to adjust the pitches of one or two notes, why not adjust all of them? The volume wouldn’t need to be adjusted–it’s definitely high enough! That has never been a problem for DD2!!</p>
<p>If the CD is good enough, do you think DD2 would be at a disadvantage if she has had no singing or speaking parts in productions since 5th grade? She has, however, stolen the show in many “coveted roles as living scenery,” as she puts it (you know: trees, flowers, rocks).</p>
<p>Also, could someone please post a list of Musical Theater programs that have no live auditions? Preferably ranked by SAT/ACT score ranges, % of binge drinkers, and thread-counts of the sheets in the res halls? Thnx!!!</p>
<p>My children only sleep on sheets with thread counts higher than their SAT CR scores…
I thought First Tier was the top bunk, and Second Tier the bottom bunk…</p>
<p>[i}]hat was even more impressive was they made their own club house/fort in the basement from some old furniture, sofa cushions and blankets. It just goes to show that it’s all about what you can do with the resources available to you.*</p>
<p>But what was the thread count on the sheets and blankets they used to make the fort?</p>
<p>Can someone explain to me how the international dateline thing works?</p>
<p>We have to let UTasmania know by May 1 and D is still undecided, wanting to wait until the last possible moment.</p>
<p>To cover all bases, we could either phone, email, or messenger out the reply card/confirmation, but we’re a tad befuddled by this dateline thingey. Or we could do all three.</p>
<p>If we send the messenger from east to west, is it yesterday today and today tommorow? If Fedex goes from west to east is the converse true? We’re SO confused. </p>
<p>Also, if we do it by phone, fax or email is the day and time calculated from the sender’s end or the college end time zone? If we call from here April 31st, what day and time is actually in Hobart? We want to get the best phone rate and still make the deadline.</p>
<p>bumping my #297 for a quick answer. We tried calling Hobart, but the phone recording said call back during business hours.</p>
<p>We still can’t figure it out.</p>
<p>10 characters</p>
<p>We come here for support, and get nothing. Thanks a BUNCH, people!</p>