<p>I’ve been lurking around too. Congrats on all of the acceptances and so glad to hear about our college freshman. RU has been ok. No complaints. It is very big and son is already looking for off campus housing. Starting to make lists for child #2 who has an entirely different idea of what college should be like. Think old towers and small campus, inexpensive and for not such great academic high school students. Should be a tough application process come next fall.</p>
<p>Checking in…like others, had no power for ions; still have no internet at home…</p>
<p>Congrats to all the acceptances!! When i have a second, I will look through them;</p>
<p>On a more difficult note, has anyone heard from MHC? if my memory serves me correctly he lives in a VERY hard hit area of New York…</p>
<p>AS many of you here and elsewhere on CC know, there have been some missteps with Tulane admissions over the last few years (jym has a doozy story and her son ended up having a great 4 years!!)…well, I have another one…a tippy top kid applied via Universal app on September 24th; still hasn’t gotten a log-in; when I called last week, they couldn’t find his application (but had all his suppoting docs)…finally, a very nice admissions rep called me back and told me that they found it in the basement printer; apparently Tulane is having issues coordinating the Universal app with their computer system but nobody bothered to figure out that there were kids applications sitting in the system…he still hasn’t heard with a log-in…phone call on my schedule for tomorrow…</p>
<p>Moral of the story: check all your schools if you haven’t heard with log ins about 6 weeks after you submit…</p>
<p>jaynebe - great news on Penn State - thanks for sharing with us.</p>
<p>Rodney - re Tulane - can you see me rolling my eyes!</p>
<p>Jayneb: Congrats on penn state! Sure beats waiting till March for UD, doesn’t it?? Can you believe our older ones are nearing senior year!</p>
<p>LINYMOM: Hearing in November is a WHOLE lot better than waiting till March! It struck me last night pretty much for the first time that this time next year, no kids at home. How’s THAT happen? It’s hard to believe they will be SENIORS next year. It feels like yesterday that you and I first connected here.
Thanks for the good wishes. The wait continues as she is hoping to hear from a few more schools around December 15th.</p>
<p>Congrats Jaynebe! Those early acceptances are priceless.</p>
<p>Welcome back CherryHillmom. Thanks for the update. I can’t believe your son is already looking for off-campus housing. One thing I like about BU is that they offer on-campus housing for all four years, and the don’t do the housing lottery until March. Some students do prefer to move off-campus, but the whole process waits until the spring, which gives the students more time to figure out roommates. Good luck to your S.</p>
<p>jaynebe,</p>
<p>Congrats…</p>
<p>Hello “old” friends!! Just checking in and happy to see some early acceptances - congrats to all of you! What a great feeling.</p>
<p>Also, hope all of our freshman kids are doing well and have settled into life on campus. I have read some of the updates and am happy to see that most of thriving. It’s hard to believe next week is Thanksgiving and then just a few weeks after that, their first semester will be over. Crazy!</p>
<p>S2 is doing great at Wake Forest, both socially and academically. He is still dealing with a roommate issue, but hopefully that will work out. This past weekend was a bit rough as he and his HS girlfriend broke up. The typical scenario - different schools, long distance strain. As adults, we know its for the best, but my heart breaks for him because I know he is quite sad! He hasn’t been home since August 22, so next week can’t come soon enough!!</p>
<p>Safe travels to all the kids coming home for Thanksgiving!!</p>
<p>Congrats Jaynebe - great news!</p>
<p>I’m sure we are all very concerned about the current situation in Israel. I’m wondering if anyone has a student going on a December Birthright trip and how you are feeling about it.</p>
<p>Rockvillemom - My son (a junior at U Missouri) is scheduled to go on a December Birthright trip. We were surprised to get a email yesterday outlining the safety precautions and contingency planning that is in place. While it seems that they are very conservative and that safety is their first priority, the email had a tone that left the impression that the trip will go on, no matter what. As they still have a month before departure and given how quickly things in Israel could change, I feel there is nothing to do now but wait and watch. I think this is a “game day decision” and the call will have to be made at the last minute. I doubt very much that he will want to (or that we would support) flying into a active war zone for a sight seeing trip.</p>
<p>D applied ED1 to American. It is a bit of a reach (3.35uw/3.65w, 1970 SAT). I had hoped to see more of a upward trend this semester (thinking she may need it for some schools) but she continues to do the “same level of okay” with poor study habits and little motivation to improve. American offers terrific opportunities for her but she will need the grades to be able to take advantage of them. Has she bit off more than she can chew? Should we hope that she is rejected so that she can attend a less rigorous school? This is potentially a lot of money to roll the dice and hope for the best.</p>
<p>I also have a child signed up for BR, and the trip is on. They do have excellent safety precautions, and don’t want to make a decision at this time but are watching the situation closely ( as we are ). Yes, we’re concerned about the situation for everyone involved.</p>
<p>Pushydad- Your d’s stats indicate to me that she is quite capable of succeeding at AU. If she gets in with merit money and then continues with poor study habits (I assume she needs to maintain a certain GPA to keep getting the $$) she has to realize that she will not have the same chances for money if she ends up transferring. This is her best shot. Only you and she know if she is up to the task.</p>
<p>Hey everyone:</p>
<p>I haven’t posted for awhile. (Been hanging out in the cafe!:)) My college soph is scheduled to go on BR at the beginning of Jan. I’m quite concerned. Yikes, I feel so bad for these Israeli’s in harm’s way. I cannot believe the newspaper articles that say that this began with Israel’s asassination of a Hamas leader…hello?? It began because some bozos in Gaza started firing rockets into Israel! Please! WHY are the g-damned newspapers so biased?</p>
<p>Thanks for asking RVM. Yes, very concerned.</p>
<p>On another note, congrats to Vitrac and Liny on their children getting into Tulane! And all the other parent’s to their children on their repective schools as well. Waiting for the big news from Liny re: UMiami/Florida!!! Hurry up already! :D</p>
<p>Pushydad, if your daughter goes to AU–and I hope she does, my son loves it there–she will need to develop time management skills and good study skills, pronto. There is a lot of support in those areas if she needs the help, but she needs to be the one to take advantage of what is available. </p>
<p>The opportunities available are amazing, but it can be competitive to get your choice of opportunities, so it is important to do well. Many of the students on campus are ambitious and driven…not in a cut-throat, beat the other guy kind of way, but in the manner of each person really pushing himself and doing what needs to be done to be in the position of being chosen for some of the opportunities. it’s D.C., and it’s in the air there.</p>
<p>The good thing is that the achievement ethos is contagious…it’s unlikely your daughter will persist in “slacker” ways (for want of a better term–I don’t mean it as a pejorative) when everyone around her is doing what they need to get done.</p>
<p>The hardest thing will be for her to learn that everyone on campus is on their own schedule/timetable. Unlike high school, not everyone has their Bio test on Tuesday with the English paper due Friday. So she will need to learn to work when she needs to work, without paying attention to others who don’t have pressing assignments at the same time.</p>
<p>This was the hardest thing for my sons to learn. The kids hanging out in the floor lounge watching TV and then going out for pizza tonight might be relaxing because the previous week was brutal, while last week your daughter might not have had much due, but this week and next are pressure-filled. They had to learn to keep up with their own workload, and to work ahead when possible, so that if a fun opportunity came up, they could choose to have fun. And they had to learn that it was a choice, and that they could/had to say no to fun sometimes.</p>
<p>Thanks Choc! Welcome back! Good luck with BR. You will just have to wait and see.
We are awaiting Miami also. But nice to have 2 in the back pocket!</p>
<p>By the way, good luck to your D on her ED application. Please let me know if she would ever like a personal campus tour or to sit in on some classes…my son would be glad to host her.</p>
<p>CCC,
I am so in agreement with you!</p>
<p>I’m not sure how the media seems to think that the non-stop rockets from Gaza are just something to be put up with, and are indiscriminately targeted at whomever they might hit, while it is considered such a horror that the Israelis carefully target terrorists and locations of terror attacks. Can you even begin to imagine the flak the Israelis would get if they just let some of their own rockets just happen to randomly hit a Gaza apartment building?</p>
<p>And now Hamas is targeting Jerusalem?</p>
<p>I was also shocked last night at the Nightly News’ biased reporting on the Israel-Gaza situation. The situation is very scary. I agree that it’s too early to decide about December/January birthright trips. Let’s hope for a quick, peaceful resolution.</p>