<p>I second LIMOMof2, scualum. SUNYs are great and they are inexpensive enough OOS that scholarship money is just a bonus.</p>
<p>Yes, jackief. I was considering that. I joke with D that I will send her to Switzerland for a year for âfinishing schoolâ ;)</p>
<p>BTW, she is not in a magnet school. Her school is a regular neighborhood suburban high school, but it is very competitive and they are on the US News list for top 100 schools (whatever that means).</p>
<p>ok, I thought your D was the one in the performing arts magnet. Who am I thinking of? Yeah, I would love Switzerland.</p>
<p>Ahh, the theater. Her school has a âcertificate program academyâ for performing arts. It is actually lowering her GPA because it is non honors and gets no weight, but requires an enormous time commitment. She loves it though.</p>
<p>I guess, technically it is a magnet program since she had to apply to it, but it just happens to be at our neighborhood school and attracts kids with a lot less going for them academically than D, so I tend to forget.</p>
<p>I guess I also discount it because I did actually go to a magnet (a real one) and I am a snob.</p>
<p>Qm ^^^</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>Hello, 10ers! Just poking my head in to say hi, and of course up your post count. </p>
<p>QM, tons of kids go off to college at 17. My D did and my S1 will this fall. D was sure sheâd be the youngest kid on campus but there were numerous others (and this is a small school, <1500). The one and only problem it presented for her was that she alone on her sports team couldnât sign all her own NCAA forms herself - she had to fax them to me. But apparently there was at least one other kid on most of the fall teams in the same boat. </p>
<p>Back to padding the 09 thread! :D</p>
<p>thanks for your great wisdom Harriet, and for keeping an eye on us :)</p>
<p>QM- understand your feelings from your own program, not having direct experience with magnets I think of them more as specialized programs (which work like a magnet to pull in kids with similar interests) and not necessarily a program needing the top grades to get in, like an exam school.</p>
<p>I just found the coolest thing (which you probably all knew but it was new to me) - click on the number of posts and it gives you a list of who has posted the most on the thread⊠</p>
<p>All Hail LIMomof2!!! 621 posts on this thread, leaving all the rest of us in the dust!!!</p>
<p>I have a late November birthday, so I started college when I was 17. Further, I finished in 3 years and then went right into grad school. So there I was, fresh faced and under 21 wondering how to socialize at the âCollege Inn Pubâ after school. The solution was to take the arm of the oldest looking guy in the bunch, be quiet, and disappear to the ladies room when drink orders were taken. Things were easier come December.</p>
<p>Why canât I do it, scualum? HmmâŠmy computer illiteracy is showing.</p>
<p>On the main page - where it shows all of the threads - and we are listed with a number like 3590 - click on the 3590 and you will see you are in third place - and I have some serious typing to doâŠ</p>
<p>scualum, that doesnât work for me. I just get that single post in a new windowâŠ</p>
<p>the number appears under the title âRepliesâ</p>
<p>on this page</p>
<p><a href=âhttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/[/url]â>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/</a></p>
<p>Got it â I went back to the titles page. Pretty cool! I always knew LIMOM had a lot to say. (wisdom, that is!!) :D</p>
<p>cool! I got it now. Jackief and I are running a distant second and third!</p>
<p>Ah - the titles page - a much better name for it than the main page :)</p>
<p>Iâll catch both of you if I keep explaining this concept badly :)</p>
<p>And youâll pass me in the process!</p>
<p>I had no idea Iâve posted so often on this thread. Note to self: Get a life.</p>
<p>Oh shoot, and Iâm out of the money in 4th place at present ⊠</p>
<p>Swim season started off on the right foot, with the boys and girls teams easily beating their opponent. DS swam in 4 races as part of the varsity team this year, and was glad I reminded him to take his parka. SoCal kids can get cold on the deck when the temps are in the low 60s.</p>
<p>School board, after two meetings of trying, will have to bite the bullet next Tuesday regarding budget cuts that will be painful. State law says pink slips (even if they can be later retracted) must be in hand by March 15. I hope the HS doesnât lose the physics teacher whoâs a Phd (in physics, not education.)</p>
<p>Ok, I need a life. Thanks for pointing that out scualum. ;)</p>
<p>I canât believe Iâve posted here so often. Iâm blushing.</p>