Not attending Bama afterall ?!?! WHAT?!?!?!

ProudBamaMama
Wed, 07 Aug 2013 19:37:05 +0000

What a rollercoaster ride this whole college thing has been for my daughter the last few weeks. This entire past school year she was deadset on going to Bama. She wouldn’t even consider any other school. She took the ACT several times, with a 29 being her highest score, so in June she started softening on Penn State.

While secretly dreaming of earning a 30 on the Sept. ACT so she could attend UA, she started finding reasons she “should” attend PSU: amazing handling of gluten-free dining; can room with best friend from HS (whom she gets along with wonderfully), a little less than 2 hours from home, pretty good chance of making the Blue Band’s silks(colorguard), and most importantly… a highly ranked engineering program.

Flash forward to last week…Thursday night, the night before we are to go to PSU for “Spend a Summer Day”, we find out about the new scholarship at Bama for those earning a 29 on the ACT! Yippee! Suddenly she was no longer even considering PSU and was Bama Bound. We canceled plans for her to stay with family while we take our son next week to Bama for his second year, so she could go with us. We scheduled a campus tour, engineering dept tour, and a meeting with the director of residential dining at Bama.

We still had her go to PSU the following day and had to listen to her compare PSU to Bama the entire day. One highlight of the PSU trip was an engineering dept. informational session. For some time now, she has known she wanted to be an engineer, but didn’t know in which area…Now she knew - Industrial Engineer! Everything seemed perfect until…we realized that UA DOESN’T HAVE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING… UGH!

Anyhow, she applied to UA a week or so ago and is still going with us next week for son’s move in, take the tours and talk to the director of residential dining…My head hurts just thinking about all the ups and downs we have expereinced the last few weeks and those to come… I might have to change my screenname to “Housedivided”…