<p>So many unknowns. Coulda been the essays. Or maybe they had too many males already. Don’t discount violadad’s inuitishness.</p>
<p>I’d also like to point out that any of us, including violadad, can post whatever we want without proof. We only have his word that D was accepted. For that matter, she might even be afraid of dogs, and tone deaf. The beauty of the Internet!</p>
<p>So don’t take it too hard. Your S will end up at the perfect place for him, just wait!</p>
<p>Yes, everything happens for a reason. </p>
<p>Could I please have the ititarod dogs?</p>
<p>I’ve been reading this sporadically and obsessively for about 48 hours now and wonder when I will start saving time, as promised?</p>
<p>“But I, I took the Pathway less travelled by. And that has made all the difference.”
Res ipsa loquitor.</p>
<p>I have it on good authority that violadad is a FRAUD. He in fact, is a she and she is 14 years old and lives at the local juvey hall here in east yugoslavia. She does not like dogs, priestesses, or anything else. </p>
<p>Whereas MY child (the napoleon dynamite super-star-athlete) is the REAL THING! THE TOTAL PACKAGE! In fact just today we got letters from HYPS saying WE WANT YOU GOTTA HAVE YOU SO THERE!</p>
<p>But getting back to MY child: Do you think we should appeal the waitlist? I am sure it was the GC at the school. She is not used to handling paperwork for schools as prestigious as the ones my s applied to.</p>
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Exactly what I was thinking!!! Notice that he’s “Violadad” and all he brags about is her dog-sledding and not her viola playing. Of course, he’ll come back on and say she can even play the viola with her mittens on. In fact, she’s gotten so good playing that way that she wears her mittens when she she solos at Carnegie Hall. In fact, she wears all her sledding gear on stage.</p>
<p>Not to get off topic, but the fetus of the pregnant man has already started his/her college essay! Boy, there’s a kid nobody needs to nag. Would anybody be willing to read it? It begins:
“Even before I was born I knew I was destined for something special. At first, I thought it would be the Jerry Springer Show. Then I had an epiphany and realized it was HYP. (I know some people add M and S, but I’m still in gestation and not ready to decide whether or not M and S are really equally prestigious.)”</p>
<p>“Exactly what I was thinking!!! Notice that he’s “Violadad” and all he brags about is her dog-sledding and not her viola playing. Of course, he’ll come back on and say she can even play the viola with her mittens on. In fact, she’s gotten so good playing that way that she wears her mittens when she she solos at Carnegie Hall. In fact, she wears all her sledding gear on stage.”</p>
<p>I actually read on another thread that it’s the dogs who play the viola. Just wanted to clear that up for you.</p>
<p>No, no, no, people. Violadads dau is a legacy. And he gives a boatload of $$$$. Its a development admit, plain and simple. Given the size of his donations, they are naming a bathroom stall in the mens lockerrooom after him. But because he’s not given enough for a fullsize plaque, they are abbreviating the sign-- it’ll say “VD” on it. I am sure it’ll be used frequently.</p>
<p>VD–oh, cute, that’s like “Valentine’s Day”–right?</p>
<p>… more like as in venereal disease… (hence the boys lockerroom placement)</p>
<p>psst…jym … I think you’ve been had …</p>
<p>… or have I?</p>
<p>Garland, I really must take issue with your insistence on using the term pathways. I myself prefer to use the term ROADWAY, not pathway. PATHway implies that one is sending the child into a narrow constricted life hemmed in by a dark forest of lost opportunities. </p>
<p>ROADway, on the other hand, suggests open vistas, low gas prices, and a ticket to ride. </p>
<p>Some here would undoubtably prefer the term FREEWAY, but realistically there just aren’t that many Free Rides available for college.</p>
<p>Violadad, do not listen to the advice you’ve gotten here. You are going about things the wrong way. You need to do some research. Do a search on google for “strategic plan” and “digeroo” to identify colleges where there is a desperate need for digeroo players. They’re the ones most likely to admit her. </p>
<p>However, it is vitally important that you also consider fit. If, for example, your daughter prefers a large digeroo and the colleges who might want her only offer small digeroos, she will be doomed to a life of misery should she end up attending a small digeroo school. </p>
<p>The exception, of course, is if the small digeroo school makes it so cheap for her to attend that you can afford to buy her a large digeroo without having to take out a PLUS loan. But, I really can’t get into the financial side of the equation in this post. If you go to my blog, however, I have a list of digeroo financing options there that might interest you.</p>
<p>Finally, I hate to even suggest this, but it seems to me that you are living entirely through your daughter’s digeroo. I would suggest taking a step back and getting a grip on reality. While others have been focusing on the dog issue, clearly you are only focusing on the digeroo. I have worked with many students who ended up with serious emotional problems because they had parents who were overly digeroo-focused, so I would encourage you to consider the consequences of being so concerned with your daughter’s success in this area. </p>
<p>The important thing is to love her for who she is, not for where she ends up playing the digeroo in college.</p>
<p>I hope we’re all keeping track of how much time we’re saving on this thread–I know I am–thanks a bunch, garland!</p>
<p>I agree with Carolyn. You will have to find a way to love her, even if she goes to State U. She can always play the didgeroo at a more prestigious grad school.</p>
<p>Can someone help me decide between WUSTL and T.I.T.S before tomorrow’s deadline? Oops, I mean, it’s for my son, of course. MONEY IS NO OBJECT. I just, I mean, he just… well, both of them are so perfect! And I ,he, likes everything about both of them. And…</p>
<p>Can anyone supply that info on the roomba?</p>
<p>Why should this be about our kids–I mean, what do they know about college admissions? Excuse me, but I think we are the experts here.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how that girl & her URM iditarod dogs got in to T.I.T.S. and HYPMSCOOODETC when her SAT scores and grades were lower than mine. Yes, my St. Bernard is faithful. Yes, sometimes I give her a little nip (ok, a gulp) of the brandy since she is the one carrying it in the barrell arround her neck, but to say that we are boring and are like all of the other drunk St. Bernard and there are already so many of us in attendance is discrimination.</p>
<p>and by the way, my friend Romy and I not only discovered post-its, but we also walk on water (frozen water at that!!) and we both got waitlisted.</p>
<p>Isn’t walking on water still an extraordinary thing??</p>