<p>Thank you all so much. I was not expecting that at all. I really thought I was serving as a cautionary tale. Yes, I am close and that my last class got canceled is really par for the course seeing it’s taken me over two decades and seven colleges to finally put the credits together. Nothing like marrying a Marine and becoming a mom to slow the educational pace way, way down. </p>
<p>I really do love being back in school. When I started this last push, I was already to sail straight into my masters degree (& get it done on time!) But I’ve decided to give myself at least a month to not think about college when I do finally finish that last class. </p>
<p>Of course, no matter what I do S is starting college soon enough and my husband just started his doctorate. We have a serious problem with higher education here at Casa PMK. We just can’t stop!</p>
<p>Sorry dear, even more inspirational. I had forgotten your earlier posts mentioned the military connection. </p>
<p>My Dad, a depression era kid from a large family, could not attend MIT because he joined the Navy to send money back home to the family. He was a Chief Petty Officer (one of or the highest rank outside officer rank) and was a head electrician, knew tons of stuff. Then he wanted to go to law school but got married and had a family to support, so he was the second in command at the telephone exchange for all of Ft. Lewis. Then he retired. When I was ready to go to college (13 and 14 year gap to my sibs, so kind of a second family), he decided he was going to use some of his GI bill after all, and enrolled in community college. I’m sure he had some tales to tell the other students but he’d earned it and he had a great time with it.</p>
<p>I so wish he was alive today to hear about S. My H just got an email from a grad student who works with the prof who interviewed S yesterday. Word back from her: Prof was impressed with S. Family smiles about that! I’ll have to tell my S about this when he comes home from school, to give him some encouragement as he studies for his upcoming AP tests.</p>
<p>FindAPlace - thanks for sharing your dad’s story. I’m sure he’d be very proud of your S.</p>
<p>So, has anyone heard from their kids about today’s APs? I’m still waiting to hear from my D who should be just about finished with the Statistics exam.</p>
<p>Forgot to mention that D received the WUSTL Viewbook and App in the mail today! She’s not applying there - at least I don’t think she is - but it still makes this whole process seem even more real. I think I said that when I got the notice that the apps were available online too…lol.</p>
<p>Just went online to register D for June subject tests and saw that the registration deadline has been extended 'till May 16th. Gives her some extra time to decide if she actually wants to take them.</p>
<p>She especially should take them and be done with them if the tests are for the same subjects as AP classes. She really doesn’t want to have to re-study in the summer for the fall exam, does she? Bite the bullet!</p>
<p>World is the same as her AP (for which she is studying as I write), but Math II will take review and study. She claims she remembers nothing from the beginning of the year.</p>
<p>The real issue is she is starting to doubt applying to her reaches (which are the only ones requiring SATIIs). Even if she gets in, we will get no financial aid and merit is out of the question. </p>
<p>I relayed all the great opinions here to D, who thinks it is weird that I shared her dilemma, and she says that Latin teach says the same thing about her standing out. She seemed open to the idea of writing to some colleges. I’ll work on that with her this weekend. She also said she had thought of dropping Stats for Physics C.</p>
<p>Hope stats went well. What’s up for tomorrow, anything good? Odd how CB keeps extending their deadlines, wish ACT would D still hasn’t decided on June test. I know she would like a break after finals and SAT IIs are over, but I’m not paying again if she isn’t going to put some study hours in.</p>
<p>Y’all should check out the Cinqo de Mayo party going on with the '09s. If I’d just taken the time to write them down from the posts, I’d have the perfect menu.</p>
<p>So the 09ers have been virtually drinking all day in honor of the anniversary of their thread. We need to remember to do the same one year from this date our birthday -> 07-29-2008, 05:24 PM</p>
<p>QueensMom: my DD was in the same boat with the SAT IIs up until 2 weeks ago. Princeton & Northwestern were the only 2 out of 13 schools remaining on her list that needed SAT II’s. Her decision ended up being that they weren’t even in the top 5; that they wouldn’t give her merit aid and that she had schools on her list that she loved that didn’t want SAT IIs. So she cut those two schools off her list and decided not to test. I questioned her again a few days later, because I don’t want her coming to me in October stressing out. But she’s moved past that.</p>
<p>I never mentioned the college fair (at least I don’t think I did) we went to on Sunday. 7 out of the 9 schools on her list were there; she got to make a 2nd connection with 2 admission counselors for schools that she likes (and they remembered her.) She officially got on the radar for Rhodes and Vanderbilt. I walked out of there thinking she was ahead of the game; she knew what she was looking for and (more importantly) what she wasn’t interested in at all. </p>
<p>And she got the WUSTL viewbook/application in the mail too. She talked to their rep on Sunday; that school still gives me an odd feeling.</p>
<p>RobD, yes WUSTL gives me a very odd feeling too and I don’t know why.
D currently has 3 reaches on her list that require 2 SATs and she is completely in love with one of them and is not quite ready to give it up. That’s why the few extra days to consider is good.</p>
<p>QM - This is Barnard, right? If she’s in love, she should definitely test–better to stress now than stress more later.</p>
<p>Does anyone have firsthand information on Rhodes? I keep hearing so much about it here on CC, probably half of it from the legendary curmudgeon. 70% having rushed over 4 years is an awfully high number, or the 50/50 split of Greeks/independents that I’ve also heard cited. Memphis is dangerous, and it’s about as far south/east as one can get while staying in Tennessee. My parents are VERY unenthusiastic about the South, and less open-minded/risk-adverse than I am, so relative proximity to the Mid-Atlantic is a factor. On the other hand, Rhodes’s pros: collegiate gothic architecture, great merit aid.</p>
<p>I considered Hendrix seriously, too, but it has a very low Asian % and is located in Arkansas, which is mentally much more “backwater” (I know it’s really close to Memphis, and that both are essentially in the south, but remember parental mind games?)–also about half in-state, a significant flaw. Too bad I can’t have Hendrix’s liberal atmosphere and no-Greeks transplanted to Rhodes in say Nashville.</p>
<p>QM - I agree with Keil - your D should take the test if she’s in love with a school that requires it - better to just get them over with now.</p>
<p>Keilexandra - I agree that both Rhodes and Hendrix are both appealing schools in many ways. Do you have time to visit them, by any chance? Sounds like a visit would be necessary to see whether you would feel comfortable at either one of them. Sorry, though - no firsthand info on either school.</p>
<p>I loaded up on mimosas this a.m. but haven’t been back for a margarita. Ole!</p>
<p>Ds has BC tomorrow. He said his teacher is supplying doughnuts for his students. Sounds like a bad idea to me when they crash about halfway through the test, but, hey, he’s the expert. The good news is he won’t be obsessing about that test tonight because he’s got three straight nights of APUSH study groups. Wahoo! Wish that had all been done before last Saturday’s subject test.</p>
<p>Keix, ds is looking at Hendrix, too. Good friend is going there in the fall so he’ll get good inside info.</p>