<p>D said she had a conversation with you about your junior D. She said it ended with her saying "I’ve butchered this college search thing pretty badly. Just go to CollegeConfidential.com and ask for my dad and his friends. They’ll help you out. My dad is Curmudgeon. " LOL. My how things have changed. Embarrassment has turned to referrals.</p>
<p>I wonder what you must have been thinking. Looney-tunes? </p>
<p>Hey,but I’m feeling like we made the bigtime if my D is sending us folks. LOL. </p>
<p>Actually, I’ve recommended CC to several people; mostly about FA. Didn’t tell them my screen name, but if they know me well enough, they’ll be able to figure out who I am.</p>
<p>I love it, Cur! Congrats! I had a similar moment this past week with WildChild home with us. I walked into his room and he quickly hid the screen, but I recognized the familiar format of none other than College Confidential! (the “why do you waste so much time on that now that I’m in college…” forum). He mumbled something about checking out one of the transfer threads.</p>
<p>MOWC-I think your son checking us out is the greatest form of flattery; he obviously values the information you have given and received here.</p>
<p>I hope my kids never sign on as I have put too much personal information out there. I think they would be upset that I told “strangers” about their life!</p>
<p>I too have referred people to this site and Curmudgeon in particular for FA advice. I’ve been through this process 3 times now and people in our community have sought me out for what they consider my “sane” approach to the college process, but I am clueless on the FA issue since we, unfortunately, qualify for none. The only merit money my kids qualified for was NMS and their schools offered a minimal amount if there was no “need”. I feel like those who understand and know how to use the merit and need-based formulas are a godsend to the parents of juniors and seniors. From the little I’ve seen it’s like stepping into quicksand that redistributes itself with every minor move you make.
If only the GC would read these discussions I think they’d be able to give much better advice about financial fit as well as academic fit. Our town has only 1 HS and a reputation for being a wealthy suburb. It is, in fact, just that but there are many who do not fit that profile and I think those families would be better served by a staff more knowledgeable in the FA side of things. Seems like when money is an issue the answer is “SUNY”.</p>
<p>There are certainly risks to putting out the personal information. I just found out one of Wildchild’s boarding school classmates (the son of the Dean of Academics) has been stalking me on this forum. He copied all my posts (without all the supporting posts from others) about the recent “AWOL” issue and sent them gleefully to his father. It wasn’t so much that it was a big secret (it wasn’t), but the information was not shared by him to ask for support or help for two struggling boys who were his classmates and friends, but more in the vein of “Look what they’ve done NOW!” The father and other faculty members have no concept of the help and support this site offers, so I took it upon myself to educate them a little and also suggest some ways he and his son could be a little more compassionate. (Hi, Tim. I hope you are reading this and will pass it along)</p>
<p>Hey, is that you Tim? Good ol’ Twisted Timmy. Have you dealt with your “issues” involving farm animals yet? If not I think I have your cure out here at the ranch. Come spend a little time and we’ll get you right with God. ;)</p>
<p>MoWC - hmmm…Tim sounds like a future political operative/henchman in the making. Karl Rove perhaps?? Yep… I say send him to curmudgeon. </p>
<p>I’ve rec’d a few pms asking if I’m the mom of ‘so and so’; so I’ve come to the conclusion I’ve gone too far with my personal info. But so far, all is good. Everyone who has figured it out has been a very nice person, complimentary of ldgirl, and here for the right reasons…help and support in the college admissions process. I suppose I’ll be singing a different tune when the ‘wrong’ person figures it out though.</p>
<p>Cur…I had a long legal thing last week. Six lawyers in the room. The highest priced one has a daughter going through the college search. I “turned him on” to CC. Wonder if I could charge him for that? LOL he bills in 10 minute increments…
At one point I looked around at all those lawyers and said out loud “good thing we don’t need to change a light bulb, we would need a few more of you.”</p>
LOL. </p>