<p>We won the football game! (44-17) It was cold (for here) but dry. Yay! So the seniors live to play, dance and cheer again.</p>
<p>Today D got something from her favorite school that said CELEBRATE!!! on the outside…It was a birthday card. How about a darned letter of admission?</p>
<p>Congratulations on winning the game and forestalling the inevitable.</p>
<p>By the way, although I am not sure that berry flavored martinis are quite my style, does anyone know the band “Pink Martini” out of Portland, Oregon? I highly recommend them.</p>
<p>missypie - that “CELEBRATE” from your D’s fav school would kind of tick me off!</p>
<p>Missy, congrats to the team!</p>
<p>I would be very very very p**sed off.</p>
<p>I’m having trouble keeping up and who is who so congrats to all the parents and the kids on their acceptances!</p>
<p>Tessa, my friend’s daughter went to New Zealand. She loved it. It was a nice break for her from the workload she was use to at Bryn Mawr but the kids from other schools thought the workload was much more than what they were use to and they were from tops schools like Brown, NYU, Tufts, etc., etc.</p>
<p>Congrats to all the parents and kids who got acceptances this week!</p>
<p>MOSB: I’m so glad your mother is doing better.</p>
<p>Missypie: Congrats on the win. Our team lost, so our season is over. It was pretty cold last night, so I’m not too upset at the thought of spending next Friday night somewhere warm. It’s been a bad weekend for our teams so far. I hope the college games go better today.</p>
<p>I just discovered that many of the schools my daughter applied to have Facebook Groups. Admissions people answer questions on them and some of the info has been pretty helpful. It might help you avoid calling if you check them out. You can link to them from the school’s websites. I was very happy to see yesterday that my daughter’s ED school superscores the ACT!</p>
<p>Emilybee - I’m confused too, with all the details in our brains lately I have been forgetting alot of things like picking up my elementary school baby with her cello this week, bringing my camera to the cheer extravaganza (don’t think there was anyone else without a camera, guilt guilt guilt)…We won the football game 34-0 so onto another week and another halftime band show! Yeah!!!</p>
<p>Congrats to Momofzach, Kajon and mnmomof2!! Momofsongbird - benign is such a wonderful word isn’t it?</p>
<p>I’m getting a giggle out of “cold” for Texas. We’re getting our first snow today - I can feel it.</p>
<p>That birthday thing has got to be the stupidest idea I’ve heard yet.</p>
<p>mnmom - did you hear from UMinn-Twin Cities? We are so hoping our result will “roll” in, but they said they don’t promise anything. It would be great to hear that someone has actually heard!</p>
<p>I can tell if I’m doing too much for my D when I’m feeling like I should be signing a question with her name. Sometimes that’s stopped me from writing an e-mail. But I feel fine about anything that involves “my” jobs - especially scheduling visits, scheduling auditions, and ordering scores. So my latest question fell not only in the last category but also in the “have to do it during working hours and we only have one day to ask” mode. Except I didn’t get an answer; I’m suspecting their office was closed Thursday and Friday for a holiday weekend - I couldn’t get anyone at any extension.</p>
<p>So I’ll try again Monday; I’ll give it an hour or so in the morning, and then send the old score if I don’t hear anything. </p>
<p>Someone asked D how things are going right now, and she said she has an awful lot of work to do. She’s right, and I’m sympathetic. We’re just trying keep a livable balance going here. And since she seems always to be about a week behind my schedule, I’m guessing I’ll see the next two supplements before Thanksgiving … and a few that get dragged closer to the 1/1 deadline. Ah, so what? I’m going to complain that she didn’t do things well AND extra-early? Not worth the friction.</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone for a nice, happy weekend.</p>
<p>UT84321 - “Pink Martini” will be in our town next week. DH and I love the band. Unfortunately, we can’t make it to the concert, due to (alas) my FIL operation that is scheduled for the same day.</p>
<p>MOSB – glad to hear the good news about your mom’s health.</p>
<p>Congratulation to all the acceptances! </p>
<p>missypie - Happy Birthday to your D!</p>
<p>S has very ambitious goals for this weekend as far as the college applications are concerned. We’ll have to wait and see.</p>
<p>Tessa, my college junior son will be studying abroad in New Zealand next semester! All plans are now in place. PM me if you need specific information.</p>
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Yes! They are very popular here.</p>
<p>So this morning I suggested to D (and she agreed) that she should call her ED and EA schools on Monday morning and make sure they have everything. She submitted via common app about a month ago, so they <em>should</em> have everything, but we ought to be sure her test scores have also arrived, since Monday is the deadline!</p>
<p>Congrats to offspring momzach, OWM, mnmom and Kajon. You and your kids must be feeling great. Gives you some inspiration to plow thru the rest of the pile.</p>
<p>Missy - not liking that surprise. HB to your daughter.</p>
<p>Mexican food tonight as I begin my path to the new me or back to the old me. Thanks for the encouragement MOSB. Hugs to your folks.</p>
<p>I too have a hard time keeping our ‘community’ straight sometimes. I feel somewhat guilty when I forget someone in a post when I have meant to… a combination of brain-drain, lack-of-sleep, and a cognitive function that does much better when I can put names with faces. When I miss events… that’s a reflection on ME.</p>
<p>I mentioned yesterday I felt blech (that’s a technical term). Funny how we assume we are just spent… it couldn’t possibly be that we…a mom…are getting sick! I finally gave in this morning. Isn’t the first step to recovery admitting you are ill? :)</p>
<p>Puma, I absolutely do remember your son and how you were on the opposite coast trying to find the best way to meet him and get him to a Dr. after being overseas!! I’m so glad that he’s back at school and enjoying the semester. 
I hadn’t made the connection. People that think cc is only about choosing colleges and ‘chance me’ threads are missing the point in my opinion.</p>
<p>missypie - glad to hear there was no rain and your kids will be moving on to the next level. I have to admit, I’d be a bit miffed about the ‘Congratulations’ Birthday card…</p>
<p>Posting on this is my reward for finally fininshing the CSS Profile. What a pain. Not only that , when I thought I was done, I had to add another school my ds has decided to add to his list and low and behold another 20 questions appeared! Now I guess I know what it feels like when he opens another supplement on the CA and see even more essays to complete! Anyway I want to thank all of you for your inspriation and information as I read this site. It is a daunting process, so it is helpful to see that I am in the same boat with all of you and your posts are wonderful. </p>
<p>We are 8 apps in of 11, and the others should be done by the first week of December. He has worked so hard, I am cutting him some slack on these last few, they are the most important ones to him, and I think he is just taking his time to make sure the supps. are done right. We are happy to have one acceptance – Rutgers.</p>
<p>Then on to the scholarhip forms – YIKES!! </p>
<p>It is exhausting for us, but the reward is great. </p>
<p>Thanks again for your wonderful insight into this whole process</p>
<p>Emmy - yes UofMN Twin Cities. D had her part of the app in about a three weeks ago; the high school’s paperwork made it to the U about 10 days ago (or thereabout). </p>
<p>Happily, according to web site, nothing more to do for Honors College or merit money. Those notifications are in March. D’s other safety has a whole lot of hoops to go through for merit money (and soonish).</p>
<p>LOTS of snow here today. It’s heavy and the snow blower is acting up…</p>
<p>Keep posting the good news!</p>
<p>Blue, so sorry you’re sick. I hope you can kick back and just rest today (read in bed?).</p>
<p>Let us know how bluejr’s event today goes. I think it’s so cool when a teen can “give back” by mentoring younger kids in an activity he is passionate about. Does wonderful things for BOTH the kids and the teen!</p>
<p>Sending you chicken soup. Feel better soon! :)</p>
<p>I was holding off on posting until I had something to report, but OMG mnmomof2 - SNOW already? I’m used to lots of it in my neck of the woods, but not until winter! One of the schools on D’s short list is just outside of the Twin Cities. Not sure she knows to expect snow that early…if that’s where you are. We’re going to have to buy some winter attire in any event since all her schools are at least as far north as we are - she’s gotten used to sprinting to and from cars to her school - and that’s just not going to work on a college campus.</p>
<p>It looks like we’ll be having brownies tonight! My D requested brownies before the cross country state meet, but I told her that she should wait until after the season was over, and that I’d make them for her after her next application was submitted. College app number 3 is almost done (with the longest supplement of all time)!</p>
<p>cooker - yes, we are near Twin Cities. We used to live in a Chicago suburb and it is noticeably colder here and for a longer time. That being said, we had a great fall and three days of 60s last week. People here are used to the cold; it is a surprisingly outdoorsy year 'round place. I don’t think weather should be a deterrent to most kids for these many truly wonderful MN schools.</p>
<p>momofzach-congrats to your s!
kajon and mnmomof2 - also a big congrats to your kiddos!
OWM-wow, nice letter from Perdue!</p>
<p>Congrats to all those others I missed. Haven’t had time to go on CC much lately. I love reading about acceptances though.</p>