<p>Have faith, yabey, last spring I thought she would not graduate from high school, the senioritis was so bad. Then she went to Alfred and made the Dean’s List! Complete turn around & is a happy camper. Picking her up on May 8-9, always seems my fate to move them out on Mother’s Day! Guess it is my tradition!</p>
<p>As May 1st approaches, I’m giving this thread a big hug for helping me though what I thought would be a tough year but has turned out to be a year where I realized how terrific my kid really is, and the colleges realized it too.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone, and to the Class of '11 and beyond…enjoy the journey!</p>
<p>RTR, what decision did your S make? I may have missed it! Was it Maryland or Penn State?</p>
<p>Seconding RTR’s thanks to the thread.</p>
<p>Hi - I’ve been lurking on this thread for sometime and wanted to thank everyone for their posts and insight. This was my first go around and I don’t think I could have done it without all the information I received from this site.
My daughter will be attending St. Lawrence University this fall !!!
It was a difficult decision for her - she was torn between HWS, SLU and Seton Hall. She plans to major in Global Studies and minor in Japanese and all 3 were a good fit.
My daughter has a 3.4ish and is ranked in the 5th decile, SAT 1110, ACT 24.
She was accepted to:
SLU, Alfred, HWS, Seton Hall, William Paterson, U of Puget Sound, U of San Fran., U of the Pacific, Pacific University.
Waitlisted:
U of Vermont
No Thanks:
Bates
Bowdoin</p>
<p>Congratulations, and it’s so great that she had choices she’s so happy about!</p>
<p>Wow, I can’t even keep up with all the exciting news here! Congrats everyone… 
We went to Clark yesterday to bring all the contracts, paperwork, and of course $$$!
It was actually quite fun. Everyone was soooo nice. The student working in the housing office even gave my son a quick re-tour of the dorms so he could make a more informed decision on the housing selection form. It was great. We met a number of freshman while we were walking around, and maybe because it was a wonderful day, maybe it was because they were winding down the year, but all of them were so nice, happy, and totally psyched about Clark, even carrying on jokingly about which dorms were best. </p>
<p>What a great thing that was for my son, and a very reassuring thing for mom!
All the other great schools seem to fade to the background when you recognize that your child seems to have made the <em>right</em> choice and is happy. My first wish through all of this was that he be happy where he went to college. I think my wish has come true!<br>
Cheers,
CCL
ps: We’re all going to stay in touch, right? We must stick together and chat during the fall…when the rubber hits the road! I’m sure there will be lots to talk about. What shall we call our new thread? or shall we just stay home in this comfy parlor we call 3.0-3.3?</p>
<p>EmmyBet - thanks.
Some of the most important things I learned from this site really helped with that.
Find a good fit for the student, include a mix of schools (safety, reach, good bet), don’t discount a school because of sticker price (you never know what they’ll offer).
And also to keep in mind that a certian amount of the process is a little bit of “luck” - what the school/student is looking for that year, demographics, intended major, how the campus visit went, school website, collateral.</p>
<p>Congratulations on Wheaton SLUMOM! </p>
<p>And congrats on St. Lawrence _me! I had cousins who lived near Canton when I was little, so I have some memories of the North Country. Your daughter will definitely need some serious winter gear, but it’s a very pretty area.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. I have finished with the last child and, perhaps, CC. The information and support has been very helpful. As I have mentioned in earlier posts, working through this process with my B-C student has been enlightening. The biggest myth floating around in education is that a student can’t get an outstanding education at a school that is not “top 20” US news or full of National Merit Scholars as students. I would stack most of my son’s schools against the elite schools D got in. The faculty was just as caring, knowledgeable, and committed. The students seemed just as eager to learn and the outcomes for a student willing to jump in and work hard are no different. Congratulations to all.</p>
<p>hornet where did your S decide to attend, or did I miss that somewhere?</p>
<p>Oh, _me, I am rather fond of SLU! Miss my trips up to Canton, seeing as the D#2 graduated in '09. Actually it seemed like her winters up there weren’t too bad compared to what we were getting in the New England area. One of my FB friends teaches @ SLU & they had about 6 inches of snow the other day. Wonderful school! Great choice!</p>
<p>Hi all, we’re back from Providence and sure enough S WAS accepted to Loyola as well! They called him while we were on the tour.</p>
<p>PC wants an answer postmarked by tomorrow…I didn’t sleep last night and probably won’t again tonight.</p>
<p>You’ll love this, on the PC tour this am (we had been there before but H hadn’t), there was a girl in the same boat, 24 hours to decide between PC and Loyola Maryland, but she had never been to Loyola and won’t get there before she has to decide.</p>
<p>Her dad remarked how happy, helpful and friendly everyone at PC was (it was like that at Loyola too, I told him he had to take our word for it), as opposed to Rollins in FL, he said no one smiled or said hello to them. He said “I know this sounds stupid but I think it says a lot about a college”…bingo, doesn’t sound stupid at all.</p>
<p>I’ll post tomorrow night or Sunday and let you know the final decision. Who knew the kid with so few choices would end up with so many?</p>
<p>momtravels, it is such a whirlwind for your family, but a good one!!! </p>
<p>Note about Rollins, my son was admitted there. It was the ONLY school that did not offer my son any merit aid or financial aid grant money (loans only). I don’t know what the point was of accepting him and not offering a dime because we certainly could not pay over 50,000 per year! I cannot comment about smiles and friendliness and such because we never visited (only drove past the school when were in FLA 3 years ago).</p>
<p>I think it is awful to give kids and parents only 24 hours to make such a crucial decision. And this is a religious institution?</p>
<p>By the way, what would they do if, in response to this immoral coercion, you replied yes, immediately visited Loyola MD and, if he preferred it, promptly told PC no? Since they can’t force you to attend, it would seem the worst they could do is forfeit the deposit.</p>
<p>yabeyabe, I agree.</p>
<p>Also, about PC, have you read this?</p>
<p>[A</a> Fairy Godmother to Help With College Aid - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/education/30aid.html]A”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/education/30aid.html)</p>
<p>I don’t want to sour momtravels son’s fabulous news, but PC had a 19% increase this year! That is plainly ridiculous in my opinion. Where does it end? Why don’t they cut a program and keep the hardship in mind for the middle class or in this case, upper middle class as well?</p>
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<p>19% ??? WOW. That’s huge. They used to be one of the more reasonable privates in New England (ok, they weren’t anything close to cheap but they were $5k or so below other New England LAC’s.)</p>
<p>Well, when you examine sticker prices of many other schools in the northeast, they are similarly priced after the hike, but having that much of a hike in one year is just shocking to me. Where does the cost end? I find it so upsetting to see sticker prices that are just not in line, even after merit and financial aid (okay, I am not seeing the bottom line for all, but I do know that most schools pile on loans and gap plenty), with what most families can really afford to pay for college.</p>
<p>How can any school–especially a religious one–morally justify increasing costs by 19% in a year when inflation was basically zero?</p>
<p>yabeyabe, I thought the very same thing! Justification might be not cutting programs and firing current employees.</p>