<p>@mom2them. If you ask me (and you didn’t but I’m sharing anyway… :)), the hardest part in this whole quest is coming up with safety school that your student would be OK with which may or may not be non-auditioned programs. NU for example should never be on anyone’s safety list as Momcares will attest. The dream schools are easy. Getting into them may not be easy but dreaming about them only requires you to close your eyes.</p>
<p>So buckle up :)</p>
<p>Filling out college apps is hard enough. In MT land, you also deal with auditions. I’ve read many a post that described the audition trips as bonding experiences. I guess I can say “sort of” but to be honest, there were not too many rainbows and unicorns on our journey. How much bonding can you do when you are nervous? Or trying to find your way in a snowstorm to the audition? Or think that the audition you just did at your dream school didn’t go well and all you want to do is go home and cry but home is 2000 miles away and meanwhile what you really don’t want to do is provide any details whatsoever to the parent who is with you because you are processing. All the while the phone is ringing and the texts are flying because the other parent back home who is equally vested is waiting to hear… something… just a nugget and the silence is killing them. Not a lot of unicorns in rainbows in that.</p>
<p>My daughter also took the AP Calc exam today so I feel your pain… and mine is a senior and really doesn’t care anything about the result. AAAAHHHHH is right. You will be fine. Welcome to the club.</p>