<p>I’m curious about how people find this place, since I didn’t until all our Ss apps were in. It is such a wonderful resource, as well as fun.</p>
<p>For myself, we had an ED/EA dilemma and I had a non-specific memory that there were admissions discussion boards out there. I first found Princeton Review’s and the most informed (to my observation) and very helpful poster there, “college helper,” posted more than a couple links to this board. A few peeks and I was hooked. </p>
<p>Edit: Meant to put this in the cafe. Don’t know where it belongs. Moderators, please move if appropriate.</p>
<p>google search … to research a question when my boss’ was looking at schools … I still have time to the first of my 3-to-go apply to school. (That said, I’m going to mail my daughter a letter now with my guesses about which schools and majors in which she will be interested when she starts this process for real).</p>
<p>Kat, your GC directed you here? I am impressed. The only CC our GC has heard of is Community College.
I too, unfortunately found this amazing warm friendly knowledgeable community only in Dec.2004, after my daughter’s apps. were sent, just like jmmom
cc was quoted on a another discussion board, which I quickly abandoned after 30 seconds of lurking here.</p>
<p>This time of year in 2003, we were suffering through the wait for RD notifications, and read an article about “likely letters.” This prompted a google search, which revealed several threads here.</p>
<p>Been in NC since 10/03 via Las Vegas. We were in vegas for a little less than 2 years. Moved there from Northern Cali. 4 years before that Phoenix, and 2 years before that San Diego. It was the GC in northern CA that steered me here. Have been a happy poster ever since. Pm me all you want.</p>
<p>But I do love it here. Very different than Vegas though.</p>
<p>Did a google search on one of the Amherst programs and got directed to a CC thread. I was a little dense at first become some of the first posts I read were from Soozie and Jami (I said to myself "what kind of people are these?). Lurked then got hooked in december 2003 after daughter applied to college. Stayed for the countdown to April 1 song by Thedad, laughed and cried through the acceptances, rejections and waitlist. Learned about XL sheets and the Lands End XL duffle, and the fact that you could send a trunk via UPS and I wasn’t the only one missing my baby as she went of to start the next chapter in her life. Still here because I met a lot of friends, I got some great cyber kids on the Dartmouth board and taking joy in watching the next class move forward.</p>
<p>Most important:</p>
<p>Finally learned how to do :eek: , and write using Big letters and colors </p>
<p>And also our GC told me he tries to avoid places like this at all costs --the idea being that we live in such a hyper-competitive area that this board would just inflame anxiety and cause us parents to push our kids even harder. Too bad I found out this late that actually this board consists of great data from a wide spectrum of people with a wide spectrum of approaches to the process - and the shared goal of the best for the kids. And the info is actually causing me to back off the pushing rather than increase. Mildly ironic.</p>
It is such a wonderful resource, as well as fun.</p>
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