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<p>Momof3sons, whatsamatta wit-youse, d’whine like dat? H, Y, P are all good even if thayer outsida Brooklyn.</p>
<p>As for that boy-and-girl bathroom thing? Ew. We have them in my apartment, too. I have to go right after my sisters.</p>
<p>What a good parent like mine would do is get her a chastity belt. But, when you call around for “locks” make sure they send you to a hardware store, not a deli. Stay the pathway.</p>
<p>I have been so energized by the thought of taking garland’s time management course that I have finally started writing a novel:</p>
<p>"The end of the semester hit like a sledgehammer of unfulfilled promise. Still the derivations were not working. From the three-foot heaps of paper on the desk, the zeta’s and eta’s whispered, mocking. Even the smug confidence that the apostrophes were, in fact, used correctly in the preceding sentence failed to bring the usual smirk of self-satisfaction. Thoughts of binge-drinking opportunities, all by-passed, rose unbidden . . . all by-passed, all lost–unless, of course, the time machine could be invented after all–but for the moment, all else-when . . . along with the sheets of high thread-count. </p>
<p>If only it had been possible to drink from the firehose that is an MIT or Caltech undergraduate education, surely cohomologies would have proven less baffling, and the equations would have stopped reducing to 0 = 0. The dregs of the morning’s coffee sagged in the Dunkin’ Donuts new dieci-sized cardboard coffee-cup. But that had been purchased much earlier in the day, before the robins started their slow trudge to the bookstores, to return the textbooks, unneeded now that the semester had ended. Surly and disheveled, the professor stared disconsolately out the window of the sub-basement office. Time to grade the finals."</p>
<p>Its genre is University Noir. The best thing is, I’ve lined up an agent already–AND she’s previously handled an actual Harvard undergrad author!</p>
<p>^^oh, and seriously, soozievt, I’m just asking for a friend of a friend of course, but suppose that someone scored 1600 on the old SAT and 800/800/800 on SAT II’s, but didn’t take any more SAT II’s; and now their scores can easily be outdone by anyone taking the SAT I with writing. Is there some remedy for this MAJOR PROBLEM?</p>
<p>(Short of the time-machine invention succeeding) </p>
<p>Also, plz answer IMMEDIATELY, although I’ll be off doing something else, so I probably won’t see the reply for a few days.</p>
<p>quantmech-
That looks like your commonapp essay. Is this the thread for common app questions?? I only have 8,547,692 more questions about it. First question-- can we edit the commonapp after we send it to a school?? Answer IMMEDIATELY. I am desperate.</p>
<p>Yes. Next question.</p>
<p>Yes, jym, as long as you call admiissions yourself. Don’t EVER let your mother call admissions about anything–instant kiss of death!!</p>
<p>My mother?? Now there’s a thought-- heavenly inspiration… Ghosts and goblins will haunt the Adcomms if they dont admit with full scholarship AND a 10K stipend for booze, handmaidens to do laundry and make the bed, and to write papers (wait-- mom can “ghost write” them…)</p>
<p>HELP!!! My D got into Harvard based on her international status as a saw player. An hour ago she had an accident while playing and lost a hand. She’s still in surgery, but PLEASE, I want to know if Harvard will rescind her admissions. Do you think we should tell them, or should she just show up for orientation?</p>
<p>Quantmech: Nice try, but I’ve seen that passage in another novel. You must be very careful when you plagiarize to not pick a novel that’s won a National Book Award and been widely read.</p>
<p>Gotta go talk to the doctor, now. Back to CC in a few minutes.</p>
<p>Uh oh. Red light. Keep the grandmas (whether of this earth or beyond) out of the conversation with the Adcoms. After age 70, they feel they can say exactly what they think. (We try it on but we can’t yet wear it.) Grandmaspeak can be dangerous for your attempted pathway, like throwing a pebble in the path of a chariot.</p>
<p>After we’re all done with my time management course, I’m offering a Lit Crit one where we deconstruct Quant’s novel (or maybe this thread.)</p>
<p>Can’t believe nobody suggested a new hook for my daughter.</p>
<p>Usually, you guys are so helpful.</p>
<p>Actually, P3T, jym, and others - especially those interested concerned about the well-being of their darlings while in the dorms, etc. I heard that at T. I. T. S. they actually encourage parental involvement, and allow mothers and grandmothers special access for written messages to be brought to the students at any hour, day or night. (Kinda like the owls at Hogwarts.) They can be used to send reminders, advice, term paper edits, or whatever is needed. This frequent contact from the womenfolk has been shown to put the squeeze on the T. I. T. -ies and squash any problems. The school calls them Ma’am-ograms.</p>
<p>lololol!!!</p>
<p>Ouch, sac! (LOL)</p>
<p>Howlers, I think they call them.</p>
<p>You guys are a hoot. Er.
Yes, ma’am.</p>
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<p>---- She and I do not need YOUR advice. Stop pontificating.</p>
<p>If you bothered to read the prior posts, I would not have had to restate the obvious. <<</p>
<p>ViolaDad, Obviously you have some sort of severe emotional issue that prevents you from doing what is best for your daughter, which is namely listening to MY advice.</p>
<p>I feel very sorry for your daughter. While she certainly has some wonderful attributes, with a pushy, demanding father like you the cards are stacked against her. In fact, I would venture to say that the reason she wishes to join a religious cult as quickly as possible is to escape from the pressure she feels living with you.</p>
<p>I beg you to please consider getting professional counseling for yourself before it is to late. </p>
<p>And, Garland, I hope that you will stop using the term PATHWAYS. The correct term is ROADWAYS. You are giving new members a distorted sense of admissions when you suggest that one can merely stroll down some pathway and get into an Ivy league school. Anyone with Ivy League aspirations needs to be on the ROADWAY to the Ivy League, NOT the pathway. Pathways only lead to third rate LACs such as those included in the Loren Pope book, Pathways that Change Lives, and cut-rate state universities where students will take ten or more years to graduate. So, please stick to the correct terminology.</p>
<p>I think folks are being a bit hard on ViolaDad. I suspect he comes across a little coarse because he’s just really anxious about things the rest of us are fretting over, like co-ed bathrooms and such. Especially such.</p>
<p>Oh, excuuuuuuse me, Carolyn.</p>
<p>From now on, it is Superhighway A or Superhighway B</p>
<p>(my way or the highway, in other words.)</p>
<p>Happy, Ms. Fancypants College Counselor?!</p>
<p>Sac, I am sorry no one responded to your question about hooks for your daughter. One way to gain a hook in admissions is to go for U.R.M. status (Ultra Mazurka Rapture). I would start your daughter on Mazurka lessons as quickly as possible, and look into having her attend a Mazurka enrichment camp this summer so that she can achieve Rapture before she applies to colleges. While it is difficult to find world-class Mazurka teachers, students with U.R.M. status almost always have an edge in admissions and there are some great merit scholarships available for them too. Anyone not familiar with Mazurka should immediately look it up in the dictionary because my understanding is that U.R.M. applicants are going to be the “hot” applicants next year.</p>