Oh my gosh… you’re right.
Alternatively: mascots
CMU’s mascot is a Tartan and the color is plaid. Meh.
The plaid was one of my favorite things about CMU! But then I have never quite put away my inner preppy…
With no disrespect to BW- they have to be the winner of the bad school colors game- brown and yellow- hard to make that work.
UNCSA’s mascot is the Fighting Pickle!
I feel like the forum is slowing down … and I’m sure it is. It’s just that time of year.
The school decision has been made for the most part here - just waiting to see everything in writing before I click submit on the housing deposit. As soon as we do, I’ll be sure to share in the Final Decisions thread … I love reading everyone’s stories!!
What is everyone’s kids up to as the school year winds down?
D is ASM at a local community theatre over the next several weeks - it’s a new role for her and she’s having fun behind the scenes. Her 18th (and golden!) birthday is this weekend … on Saturday her and her best friend will see Carousel at the Lyric Opera in Chicago. We’ll pick up her sister in Nashville for the summer in a couple of weeks … her first year away flew by!
D is doing a cabaret style show at school and then her senior recital at the end of May. Throw in Senior Ball, Orientation at Ball State and Graduation and we have a full dance card for the next two months. And, that’s not counting my 14 year old twins! Yes, believe it or not, I have other children. They are dreading the Diva moving out because mom will have all of this time to add value to their lives!
We are REALLY close to final decision. D just wanted to have a final conversation with the head of her school drama program, but she’s pretty much done. She has a final show, AP exams, and graduation mid-May…and then, for the first summer since Middle School-Nothing. The plan was to just train and travel, but started hearing noise about how she would go crazy without a show last time she was home…
^^^The summer before starting college, my D did two shows (one professional, and one at theater camp) and I’m glad she did. One reason is freshmen can’t perform at her college (she was fine with that) and while some students here lament that idea, it really is not like giving up performing all year (not to mention other types of performing besides musicals she did in college her first year), but rather if you are in productions the summer before freshman year and the summer after, you are just not in productions for 8 months, not a full year. On a more personal front, I was happy my D had shows the summer before college began because she was out of EVERYTHING her final semester of high school due to injuries from an accident, hospitalization and recovery and so had to give up the lead she had been rehearsing in her final HS show, her annual and final dance show after ten years at her dance studio and more and so I was glad she got to return to the stage that summer. However, my kids also knew that the summer after high school graduation, they had to earn money and so my MT did that too and began her own MT program in our community for youth and directed and taught it and also wrote a musical revue for it, besides the classes she ran. She earned a lot doing that! She was home for all but three weeks that summer, the first time in 8 years and the last time ever! Keep in mind, parents, that after this summer, your kids may not live at home again, not even for a summer! So, soak it in!
We have one more school to visit this week. After taking a performance break since the fall because of the college audition schedule, D is very happily immersed in rehearsals for Honk and building up her college fund with it (although she’d be ecstatic to do without being paid, too 
). Crazily, we are moving in the next weeks, so we are beginning to pack, and D wants to look for a job in the new area that’ll fit around rehearsals and performances for the current show and any she might do this summer. (She’s a nanny a few afternoons a week, but that job is only during the school year. She’s never had a summer job, but she wants to build her funds more.) D also has a couple dances coming up–prom and a less formal one. We’re also just beginning to think about D’s graduation party; we only have the date picked, which is thankfully not until July, since the idea of organizing it right now is overwhelming. Plus, we’re looking forward to a family trip to Sarasota (our favorite place) in a few weeks. I can’t wait! It’ll be a well-deserved breather. We might try to fit in one or two more little getaways this summer, depending on our budget and schedules.
I can’t believe we are almost done with this process! It’s crazy. It felt like it would never get here, and, suddenly, we’re almost done with this part! The busy-ness of the next couple months will make this time fly, and all too soon, we’ll be dropping off our “kids” at their colleges!
I highly recommend your child getting a summer job! They’re going to want to have spending $$ at school. We told our son that we’ll pay all school expenses, but we’re not “funding fun.” A job was especially important to him, because he’s in school in Scotland and he knew he was going to want to travel while there (which he’s done and has been thankful of all the $$ he saved.)
@limbo2019 and @myloves it feels like we are the last of the undecided. I fear we may be pushing up until April 30t at this point. I think we have to go do another school visit at the beginning of next week.
Then, the idea of a gap year came up again. We visited this idea 3 times along the way and every time we determined we would forge ahead. Now, we are back at a gap year. I’ve always pushed the issue of gap year, but S has been against it. I’ve proposed it again and he didn’t immediately say no. How does that work if you defer an admittance for a year? Does that defer your scholarship?
@IfYouOnlyKnew, call the school for that answer as I’m sure every school is different. That is really the mantra for this entire process.
That is THE TRUTH @GSOMTMom ! As a person who works in a more standard field, the lack of standard in MT audition process may be directly responsible for years of therapy! :))
@IfYouOnlyKnew - you are not the only ones still undecided. We are on 2 waitlists that have us in limbo. D is visiting her other choices this week and we will see where the chips fall. It is increasingly difficult to hold out hope. We have a terrific option that will be great so a gap year is not the issue, but the waitlist thing means the fat lady has yet to sing for us too.
We too have not yet decided. My S is in wait list limbo with 1 school and we are honestly struggling to decide between the remaining 5! I know you would think we at least could narrow it down to 2. But we didn’t visit schools in the process, knowing how difficult it is to get in, we figured we’d wait and see what happened. Then I waited to schedule visits until this week and next because he has missed so much school already. I don’t know what I was thinking! Can’t wait to buy that sweatshirt and finally post his results!
Last year the deposit wasn’t paid until May 1st. The D didn’t even have a school tee to wear for Senior Week. I made her one by buying a plain tee and a printable iron on from a craft store and downloading the school logo from the interwebs. It happens–not everyone decides before mid-April.
My favorite May 1st outfit at school last year was worn by a senior who was taking a year off…so she wore a t-shirt from The Gap.
Welcome to the club @gingersnap97 . Glad to know a few of us are still in the trenches. Thankfully our gap year decisions is not because of lack of options, but for non artistic reasons. Doubly thankful we can defer one of his choices for a year and he won’t have to re-audtion next year. I feel like we should start an “in limbo still” thread so we can all commiserate together. Who will be the May 1st hold out? 
edit: didn’t mean to not welcome you to the limbo club @Jrdirectortommy! Waving!
My D is wearing a “Monsters University” T-shirt for Senior Day… we are in limbo as well, but have great options, so D will be good regardless of how everything plays out.