<p>rrah, your D’s path has been discussed MANY times previously, as recently as 1978. Please use the search function!</p>
<p>Re: pathways…</p>
<p>What a coincidence! My college pirate (S-7) just mentioned in his hourly email that he wished he’d have followed the second star to the right and straight on till morning. Wish we’d have known!!!</p>
<p>Helpful link: [Peter</a> Pan Bus Lines](<a href=“http://www.peterpanbus.com/]Peter”>http://www.peterpanbus.com/)</p>
<p>Sigh… it is nice to finally find sanity on this forum.</p>
<p>I hate to report that D neglected to tell me one of the dogs followed her to school. She was late for her Inuit AP class, got mad and threw the didgeridoo at the dog. The elderly crossing guard (hs shares a campus with an elementary school magnet), reported her to the principal. The old bat had caught the whole episode on her camera cell. The evidence is indisputable.</p>
<p>The principal is active in PETA, (and previously refused to sanction my D’s idea for a dog-sled racing club). He called the press, and police. She was booked and charged with animal cruelty. Four day suspension, which will appear on her final transcript.</p>
<p>Just a few questions:
-will UTasmania rescind her admission?
-should we not report this and instead falsify her final transcript?
-if UTrans does rescind her can she still take a gap year, not perform professionally, and still apply to Yale? Does a rescind hurt her chances?
-can we use bail, lawyer’s fees and court costs as “special” circumstances for financial aid?</p>
<p>Yes, yes, and yes. it will be described as “surmounting difficult circumstances and falling from middle-class to lower income status.” What’s the point of saving for your kid’s education? We all know people who live large and then qualify for finaid.If she applied to Harvard, she would be eligible for the HFAI. I don’t know about Yale, though… Of course, there are those who would argue that, considering your depleted finances, she should not aspire to an Ivy education but should make do with one of the (horror!) publics.</p>
<p>marite, I’m confused. I asked five questions, you gave three “yes” answers. Can I apply the yesses to all five, or do I have to choose?</p>
<p>How far did she throw the didgeridoo? Adjusting for weight (depending on how the didgeridoo is decorated and waxed, etc.), a good distance suggests that she might take up the javelin as an extra EC. I see this as helping to round out the story of her application, also, since the javelin relates directly to the Inuit spear-fishing and seal-spearing traditions of her heritage. </p>
<p>She could hone her skills with a private coach while you and violamom are busy falsifying her transcript. </p>
<p>After all, none of this is her fault. If the dog had been sensitive to the stress she was under, none of this would have happened.</p>
<p>violadad-
Congratulations to you and your daughter! Finally, she has something unique to write about in her essays for Yale. Those iditarod/dogsled/didgeridoo sagas have been done to death.</p>
<p>Violadad, my answer was an emphatic yes to the last question. 
You do know, don’t you that UTasmania is a public? :(</p>
<p>I believe it’s a “public Ivy” though. Maybe that helps.</p>
<p>I sure hope that Violadaughter is instate for UT(as). We will plan to relocate to southern outer mongolia…does this mean that we’ll qualify for instate tuition somewhere?</p>
<p>Violadad…DD will loan Violadaughter the bassoon…sort of like the didgeridoo. We’ll just keep the reeds here.</p>
<p>the question is, does the dog know that following her to school one day “was against the rules”? </p>
<p>If not, I think you have an out.(or does that just apply to little lambs? And would that thus be discriminatory? Hmmm, sounds like a fairness issue here.)</p>
<p>Every morning when my son left for school, I would jokingly tell him “Conquer the world!”. Well, between that and watching too much “Pinky and the Brain” during the formative years, he has decided to dominate the world. Anyone know a good college for megalomania?</p>
<p>I read somewhere that being followed to school one day by a sled dog (as opposed to a little lamb) makes her an URM.</p>
<p>Tansmania Meglomania Technological Institute (though the retention rate is only 98%)</p>
<p>Fireflyscout, how am I supposed to keep everyone in the house on the right pathway when all I can hear is “one is a genius, the other’s insane!”? </p>
<p>Talk about issues of fairness.</p>
<p>But maybe there’s an essay here . . . oppression by insidious tv theme-song earworm. . . . Will work on this.</p>
<p>oh GOD! THIS THREAD IS HYSTERICAL!!! Finally, something to smile about on CC! I had almost lost hope.</p>
<p>Fireflyscout–“one is a genius, the other’s insane.” I guess it depends on which category your S fits under whether or not he’ll fit in at TMT.</p>
<p>Edit: DAng, Harriet beat me to it.</p>
<p>Garland - only because I’m the one who still has a 6-year-old in the house.</p>
<p>Though I hasten to assure everyone that he is already on the Right Pathway.</p>
<p>Digiridoo? D-8’s friends tell me that’s a bass with an eating disorder. </p>
<p>Does your D have a perfectionist streak? Care to share? </p>
<p>Don’t worry, this site is confidential. The Adcoms who biplane in to read posts can’t identify her just because you wrote about her dog-sledding, the digiridoo, and Tasmania. That’s pretty general stuff.</p>