Thanks for the encouraging words @halflokum
And yes, @TomSrOfBoston reading all those comments back to back was very Wide World of Sports, “The thrill of victory! The agony of defeat!”
It’s more curiosity than fear on how my D will fare through the college admissions race. For her, academics comes first, job second, and her favorite activities beyond that are pretty much solitary. I’m surprised how little importance employment is given on the common data set for most colleges and in general opinion on CC. She has worked for over two years at a small, local bean-to-bar gourmet chocolate company. She’s done everything from design and sew their reusable gift bags made from the burlap the cacao beans come in to grin-and-bearing-it with “customers” at holiday fairs who eat as many samples as possible only to declare the chocolate expensive and not as good as Hershey’s.
At the end of the day, she has safeties that are not holistic and happy to give her automatic merit.
Aloha & good luck to all.