<p>Hey all, this is new to me, so I’m passing it on:</p>
<p>[Dip</a> Your Apple - Fountainheads Rosh Hashanah - YouTube](<a href=“Dip Your Apple - Fountainheads Rosh Hashanah - YouTube”>Dip Your Apple - Fountainheads Rosh Hashanah - YouTube)</p>
<p>LINYMOM, your D is braver than I! My mom used to make teyglach but it was always a messy sticky proposition. I keep telling myself I’ll try again sometime…</p>
<p>This one’s cute- in French!
[Call</a> Me Maybe-Chana Tova - YouTube](<a href=“Call Me Maybe-Chana Tova - YouTube”>Call Me Maybe-Chana Tova - YouTube)</p>
<p>Happy new year everyone!</p>
<p>Thank you for all the recipes!</p>
<p>Shana Tovah to all my CC friends… a sweet year for all of you and all of our children!</p>
<p>So busy cooking all day… did not get a chance to log on until now:
Happy New Year to all of you!</p>
<p>Happy New Year to all of you! Love the suggestions of recipes!!! Thanks!</p>
<p>Happy New Year to everyone. May it be happy and healthy. And to all of our children, may their journey be an exciting and successful one!</p>
<p>l’shana tova to all of my friends here on the “B” student thread. May it be a good and sweet New Year for all of you and your kids.</p>
<p>Happy New Year to you all!</p>
<p>Sending my New Year’s wishes too…the shofar sounds were so exquisite to hear today…it was a gorgeous day here on the east coast and I just LOVE hearing the shofar played each year!</p>
<p>Yum…gefilte fish, brisket, roasted chicken, apples, honey, challah…yum! :)</p>
<p>Best wishes to all of you for an easy fast (next week), happy moments, HEALTHY bodies and fun memories with your kids and families.</p>
<p>Wow. Couldn’t find us till page 4. I know we were all busy with the holiday this week so there’s a good reason!</p>
<p>My DH’s teiglach was a hit! Had to zap it in the microwave for a few seconds to make it easier to eat, but everyone loved it. Even DH’s Italian mother thought it was the best struffoli that she ever had.</p>
<p>On the college front, we have two applications submitted! Woo hoo! It is starting to feel real. DS will meet with his GC tomorrow to give her the paperwork so she will send transcript, etc. I gave him a deadline of Sunday to finish the essays for another app - then the three EA apps will be done.</p>
<p>Hope everyone else’s HS seniors are making progress too. I have to give a special shout-out to Vitrac for keeping me sane (and letting me vent) as we go through this process!</p>
<p>Right back atya, LINY! Major shout-out to everyone on CC and certainly those on this thread for providing such great input, advice and support. Sometimes I can’t believe how clueless some families are about everything from academics to finances. Even after I tell them about CC, they don’t want to educate themselves! I don’t get it. I don’t know where D2 will land when all is said and done, but at least I know I learned all I could about the process.<br>
Happy New Year to all!</p>
<p>Happy New Year to all of you. I hope you have had a wonderful time with your families.</p>
<p>D is making some progress on her apps, for which I am grateful. Her CA has been filled out except for the essay. She’s waiting on one more person to proof it before she cuts and pastes to the CA and hits send. I think it is a good to very good essay. Not unbelievably incredible but solid enough. Transcripts have been requested, scores have been sent and four supplements to the CA have been completed and submitted. So we are on our way!</p>
<p>D has a day off in October and so we are hoping to go to JMU that day. I am trying to find out if they have classes. Our original plan had been to go to St M@ry’s College that day but they are having Reading Days on the day we planned to go and she would not be able to sit in on any classes. She also has a day off in November so I guess we will try to get to St M@ry’s then.</p>
<p>Does anyone else have any visits planned?</p>
<p>I am eying Veterans Day for a college visit. It’s a long weekend so it gives us an option if we want to fly somewhere - that would be Tulane if DS hears from them before that. Otherwise, back to Lehigh. We went in soph year so perhaps am on campus interview is warranted. They like that of you live close enough. We will see. </p>
<p>Columbus Day is a good visit day but DS’ marching band plays in the NYC parade. I think it’s pretty cool but neither of my kids were impressed. It’s usually pretty hot for their marching band costumes, rather uniforms!!</p>
<p>LINYMOM - We are taking D2 (junior) to visit Lehigh the beginning of November. We will have to compare notes!</p>
<p>mdmomfromli: We went to Lehigh already once - Election Day of sophomore year. It is an amazing time to see the campus as it’s the middle of leaf season. It was beautiful! Interested to hear what you think.</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I love this thread, it is simply wonderful! Any advice on how to get my dd to narrow down her college list. At this moment it is at 30+. </p>
<p>Some information about her/us that may help:
She is a senior in high school, we live in Florida, she wants to major in Environmental Studies and Marine Biology in Florida, outside of Florida, she only cares that the school has her environmental major. (If you can understand this, please explain it to my dh and I.) Her ultimate goal is to become an environmental lawyer, so she would like if the school has a pre-law program, but she says it is not absolutely necessary. </p>
<p>After visiting 7 colleges in Florida, we have thankfully discovered some preferences. She seems to prefer suburban campuses over urban campuses and smaller colleges over large universities, but it is not always the case… out of the seven we visited she likes Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Stetson in Deland and FSU in Tallahassee. We realized the importance of college visits, because she thought that the only school she even wanted to apply to was U of Miami until we visited, now she does not even want to apply.
We are planning on visiting South Carolina/North Carolina Colleges in October and fitting in 3 or 4 more colleges in Florida and Georgia between now and November.</p>
<p>I don’t think my dh helps when an application arrives in the mail with the offer of no application fee, he says apply and see what happens…but that just makes the list grow. She has also expressed interest in schools in different states as well, just don’t have the time to give to visit all of them. She doesn’t really research any of the schools, barely glances at the cover of the brochures and gets annoyed if I try to talk to her more than 5 minutes a day about narrowing down her list, it took us all of last spring and this summer to even get her to make a list. My dh and I would prefer for her to attend a school that has Hillel, but dd has already informed us that she doesn’t know if she would join, but is more concerned that they will have matzoh for her over Passover.(Don’t know if I should laugh or cry at this point.) Any advice would be welcomed, how to narrow down the list and how many we should apply to (will definitely take her on more trips to accepted colleges in the spring).
Sorry if I complained too much in this post. Thank you in advance for your help!</p>
<p>SaddleBrook: Welcome to the thread! (Do you live near Saddlebrook? DH and I spent a few days there working on our tennis!) You will get great advice here. So that we can really help you, though, you should share more info about your DD, specifically GPA and test scores. They can help figuring what is possible.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about Hillel yet. You never know. My DD would only look at schools with significant Jewish populations (10%) and, sadly, hasn’t even been to High Holiday services at school (now a junior). She’s done a couple of Israel/Hillel things, but not what I was expecting (she is a Jewish studies minor though). Anyway, way too soon for you to worry about that!</p>
<p>Hello and welcome! </p>
<p>I would try to group schools into categories - and then eliminate a few from each category. For example, small schools in FL, large universities in FL, small schools in the Carolina, etc. Try to also organize by application deadline. For example, if she applies to a school that is rolling or early action that is a safety school - she would hopefully have that acceptance by the end of the year. Once you have that in hand - you may be able to eliminate some similar schools that have later deadlines.</p>
<p>You don’t have to finalize the entire list now - I would focus on the schools with early action or rolling admissions first - and get a few of those sent out. She may decide to whittle the list herself once she has a few submitted.</p>
<p>For most students - 8-10 applications is plenty. Do a few that are safety schools - both from an admissions and a financial perspective - then do a middle layer of match schools - and then add a few reaches. I think it is a rare case when someone truly needs more than 10 schools.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that if she has numerous acceptances - the final decision making process will also be difficult.</p>
<p>I would avoid “impulse shopping”. Those no-fee applications - are basically junk mail. If she was never interested in that college before - the fact that they are waiving a $50 fee is not reason enough to apply. You’ll just clog up the process.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that each application will require sending test scores, transcripts, etc. It’s a lot to manage - trying to keep track of each application - did you send everything - did the hs send their stuff - has the college received everything. I have seen kids apply to too many colleges - and then lose track of the completeness of each file.</p>
<p>Keep us posted - we are happy to help you!</p>
<p>I agree to bypass the “free application” schools unless there is already an interest there. Most schools that take the common app are free to apply to anyway, and you would still have to pay for scores to be sent and potentially for transcripts as well. </p>
<p>One school I can toss out, that is a small LAC, rural but within an hour of a city that has an environmental studies program is the College of Wooster in Wooster, OH. You might want to send for some info or look it over online. We visited last April and it is on my daughter’s list (although not for that major.)</p>
<p>For those of you that are doing visits, LINYMOM and MDMOM I am looking at you!, please come back and share thoughts. I will do the same. Even though the list is done for D, I have two more kids that will need me to know about schools!</p>