<p>NEATOBURRITO!
OH my god she is the bomb diggity as a CC mother.</p>
<p>And hahaha kafka… lol. just… lol.</p>
<p>As I have said, it is human nature to want nice need orderly lists and then to rank everything on them. I know I can’t really object. It is just natural.</p>
<p>**We ranked schools ** ---- I objected
We developed acronyms for schools ---- I ignored them
We ranked pages covering schools ----- I laughed at it
Now we rank the posters ------- WHAT is it with all this ranking stuff? :o</p>
<p>Just remember…
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<p>Mostly I have just given up and try to correct inaccuracies (spelling is hopeless). When I get frustrated I use Latin quotes because they only insult the truly literate. </p>
<p>** So lets just do the facts on this thread. You can count them, list them or rank them. Your privilege **</p>
<p>1) I am a Man. 
2) I am married :o
3) I went to boarding school (SPS) 
4) Next oldest brother went (Exeter) :eek:
5) I am not a grandfather/grandpa (but it did amuse me) :eek:
6) Yes, I am getting a 2nd masters degree (in education) 
7) Yes, I am an Uncle (nephews are/have been at both Andover & SPS) :o
8) I do not stay home all day looking up facts (but did retire from Wall St at 39):rolleyes:
9) And I am a pilot, I have managed political campaigns, I ski, I shoot, I fish, I hike, I run non-profits, I read endlessly, and spend too much time here!:D</p>
<p>Now you know more than you are entitled to. I like helping you guys, but do you realize just how many hours you spend here? And the ungodly hours of the day you post? When you go to BS, unplug and get some sleep.</p>
<p>Finally, and it applies to me and to all of you and your applications:
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<p>Wow, Winterset, you sound like a pretty amazing guy. Wanna write me a reccomendation letter to SPS? :p</p>
<p>I am not sure if Winterset is qualified for “CC parent of the year”, but he sure is for “SPS parent of the year”. No other school has such a consistent and strong voice like Winterset for SPS. He practically is the face of SPS on CC! Because of him, CC’ers have learned A GREAT DEAL about SPS they otherwise wouldn’t be able to. Bravo, Winterset!</p>
<p>I actually seconded urbanflop’s opinion on Winterset until I read his post here. Bravo, Winterset!</p>
<p>Sorry, Winterset…I had no idea. I like how your posts are always so detailed with blue colors, big letter, bolded stuff, and quotes.</p>
<p>I have to admit, for some reason, I always thought neato was a dad !! Funny how we form these ideas. </p>
<p>I have to say I loved all the posts by benley & neato, but since my D was going for an all-girls school, I have to give a shout out to any parent who posted about all-girls schools (um, there are like three of you, haa haa). Special thanks to liddyb4.</p>
<p>Bamagirl95: Here is your Letter of Recommendation. Cut, paste and forward it:</p>
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<p>Bwahahaaa!!!</p>
<p>Why thank you, Winterset. I think this will help a lot! :D</p>
<p>I like how Winterset knows all the faces lol ;)</p>
<p>Hahahaha, I was reading this at debate actually 
Guess who came 2nd top of the entire debate league? :p</p>
<p>AHHH, congrats! Do you do NFL? I’m a speech person. 8D</p>
<p>“It is a girl”</p>
<p>The it part made me laugh for some reason.</p>
<p>My nomination
ThacherParent</p>
<p>No wonder Winterset is a SPS alum! I never realized that bama was alabama, I thought it was a brand! hahahahahahahaha no wonder I got WL’d to all my schools :D</p>
<p>it is better than practically being rejected from all your schools</p>
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<p>Thank you very much for the mention Hoping411. Yes, I still lurk around here still from time to time, but have hardly been very active around this area this year as there haven’t been too many girls hockey players dropping in and there are so many other folks with the answers chiming in. It is interesting to see my old posts still dragged up from time to time and that others still benefit from seeing my and other old-timers posts.</p>
<p>Not to thread-jack too much, but I think a special honor should go out to all of those parents who have been through this experience and have brought back both the good and the unexpected results of their child’s experience and shared the wisdom gained. Princess’ Dad comes to mind here, as the first run through the system yielded a child who returned home after a year IIRC, but left them undaunted at a second attempt.</p>
<p>I probably have been a bit lax in sharing goaliegirl’s more recent experience, as it hasn’t necessarily been full of drama (she definitely is anti-drama), but I thought for those of you who do remember goaliegirl, I thought I might drop a couple update notes and wisdom learned.</p>
<p>Goaliegirl is now finishing her Senior year at her prep school (still not disclosed) where she has finished her goaltending duties. About a year ago, she made a major life decision with regard to her post college plans and decided that she wants to participate in ROTC in addition to playing varsity hockey. </p>
<p>With this mind, she put in her college applications at a list of schools that offered both Division 3 (the tradeoff of potential playing time and ROTC committment dictated this) and Army ROTC also needing a goalie. This presented a very different set of schools than we would have ever expected when we started this whole boarding school process 4 years ago. 6 of the 7 were in the midwest, far from the hockey recruiting opportunities present for prep school goalies. And none of them were reach schools. </p>
<p>The Army ROTC scholarship process has been a challenge this year, as it has been the most competitive year on record, with the number of scholarshps cut in half from last year and the number of applicants up almost 50% from what we’ve been told. When we first talked to ROTC recruiters last year, we were assured that goaligirl would have her choice of several schools and would receive her scholarship early in the winter. </p>
<p>The results are in at last. She was accepted at all 7 colleges she applied to. The goaltending situation narrowed down to 3 schools fairly early as early committments by other goalies closed some doors. In the end, it was the awarding of a 4-year ROTC scholarship that closed the deal. She had her physical exam this week while home on break and we expect the offer paperwork to be approved next week. Goaliegirl has achieved her objective. Not the objective we ever envisioned when we started, but it is her experience at boarding school that has allowed her to develop into the solid citizen she is and make her own life plans.</p>
<p>And I’ll apologize for threadjacking here, but my point here is that all the parents who bring back their unique experiences here deserve some degree of recognition. And I’m very happy that some have benefitted from what I’ve posted along the way as I’m sure the others are. So I’m going to thank Hoping411 for prodding me to share again here. </p>
<p>And those of you still reading, I’ll be happy to share goaliegirl’s unique path through the whole experience - from the south, needing a ton of FA, women’s hockey recruiting (both prep and college), Army ROTC… if it can be of help to any of you. </p>
<p>Bottom line, you CAN make it work, no matter how different the path you choose is. </p>
<p>Thank you again.</p>
<p>goaliedad - that’s really interesting. I’d be curious to learn at what point during her boarding school career your daughter started thinking about the military and finally choose the ROTC path, or based on what moment, experience etc. Are you military? Is there a reason why you wouldn’t consider naming her boarding school? </p>
<p>I know only the smallest handful of BS kids who choose this route. I admire it, but like to see if I can spot the formative thinking. For those few kids I know who went this route, all of them, save one, either had family in the military or came from a the specific region of the country where such decisions were more the norm. The only exception was a kid who did it for the college funding. </p>
<p>Perhaps you could cut and paste your post to the Parent’s section. Most of us are interested in when and how those inflection points happen and especially if they originated in or were heavily influenced by the BS experience.</p>
<p>Thanks! The story is truly unique and interesting!</p>