Sounds exactly like the two males I live with. I’ve stopped counting the number of times I’ve heard mom/hon, I can’t find xyz and it is right in front of them.</p>
<p>MOSB - thanks for asking about eating out while sticking to my eating plan. Last night was a casual place so I had salad with grilled chicken,walnuts, cranberries & raspberry vinaigrette dressing. Tonite will be harder as we are going to a more upscale place. I’ll probably get chicken or steak with veggies forgoing pasta and starches and just taste hubby’s dessert.</p>
<p>Hope everyone is well and looking forward to the break of Thanksgiving. I know we are looking forward to a weekend without “must do’s” on the schedule.</p>
<p>I think the fact that Thanksgiving is looming has given my D an idea that she should get moving. She plans to complete her 12/1 app supplements today. She can mostly give herself a little time off after that; no other schools will need apps in for audition scheduling, and all of the rest of her deadlines are 1/1 or later. She can do a little thinking and imagining to prepare for her last few sets of essays.</p>
<p>I think December has a very different feeling of urgency than Nov, Oct, and certainly Sept didn’t.</p>
<p>Everyone needs an interview from heck story. Now D1 has hers. What can one say about an interview where the interviewee and the interviewer disagree on everything? D1 reported that the interviewer hadn’t liked the books that D1 is reading, didn’t agree with D1’s taste in movies, and thought that the Kiera Knightly “Pride and Prejudice” movie was better than the Colin Firth BBC series. :eek: D1 reported that the interviewer seemed rather out of it; it was D1 who was asking questions like “What’s a class that you really liked taking at the school?” The interviewer also spent a lot of time enthusiastically talking about a city which isn’t where the school is located. Bad vibe all around, enough to convince D1 not to apply. After she told me the bit about the interviewer’s Pride and Prejudice preference, I was pretty scandalized myself. </p>
<p>All of D1’s three previous interviews went well, so perhaps she was due for a dud.</p>
<p>Our student has done one interview with an alum which was great
and has an alumni interview this week-hoping this one goes fine too–and offers more insight into life at the college.</p>
<p>Anyone see this article from today’s paper?</p>
<p>Very interesting article. Can’t say I agree with everything there, but one item that struck a chord with me was the observation that the more successful leaders were not necessarily schooled in the Ivys ( whether in corporate America or elsewhere). Out here is Silicon Valley, we have our own Ivy in Stanford, but my own personal observations are that a good chunk of the CEO/CFO/CTO come from mid western public universities along of course with Berkeley. It may simply have to do with the fact most graduates from public universities and smaller LACs may be less self centered than from the HYPS - just a thought.</p>
<p>Huge weekend here, hit submit on 10 supplements! Suddenly I am a nervous wreck about them… Still need to finalize the common app and seven more supplements and then MIT which is not common app, but suddenly it actually seems doable…but what a long wait until April!</p>
<p>Slithy - I assume that was an alumni interview? I am sure every school is different, but I imagine alumni interviews are not usually a big factor. There are jerks in all walks of life, unfortunately your D just met one. Sounds like this person does not know how to conduct an interview and was ill prepared.</p>
<p>Saw my brother over the weekend: he has a son who is in the middle of this application process, although from what my Brother says nephew is a long way off from hitting submit. I told Brother that S has already heard back from 2 schools and nephew should really make the effort to get any rolling apps in (probably too late for EA). I know he is thinking of Penn State which is a rolling school that gets more and more difficult to get in the later you submit your app. Drives me crazy when I tell things like that to my Brother (or whomever) and they look at me like what would you know about it? I want to tell them that I think having two acceptances before Thanksgiving says a lot about what I know. Of course, I have CC to thank for all this great knowledge.</p>
<p>The thing I took from the article was that the tippy top scorers were not necessarily the most successful–that it takes scores, smarts, AND creativity, AND etc etc etc…</p>
<p>No kidding–!</p>
<p>So while they did a study–it’s what I would expect for the results…as I have believed–going to HYP or any selective school—its not the ticket and place of admission --its what you do when you get here…</p>
<p>Still an interesting read. Here on CC there are the ivy lovers and the ivy bashers…and dont want this to be about the that…I didn’t even think about that when I posted the item.</p>
<p>Aniger–the MIT app is a snap…really if you student has done 10 supplements and you have 7 more!! You will find that the MIT app is pretty simple…its mostly very short responses. Your student did the interview (or has it scheduled?) right?</p>
<p>Fogfog, yes he has had the MIT interview, thinks it went very well. He is finding the app annoying though as he can’t reuse much of his other essays and they are sort of a medium length where you can’t just do a few sentences but not a full length essay either. In any case can see the end in sight! I thought I couldn’t wait for him to hit submit but now that he has I am a nervous wreck that something got screwed up… Well out of our hands now, which is a goodnthing!</p>
<p>Amandak: Oh no! I hope it doesn’t spread throught the family.</p>
<p>Congratulations to Aniger, Emmybet and others whose kids are making progress with their apps. It’s quite a process. Things are much calmer in our house now that the bulk of the apps have been submitted and some early acceptances have come through. This is an easy week for my daugther - just 2 half days of school and she doesn’t expect much homework over the break. My older daughter comes home tomorrow. I’m looking forward to a full nest.</p>
<p>@Aniger, we had a big weekend as well. D submitted 8 applications. Finally! Nine down and 4 more to go. Can’t wait 'til this part is over. Especially since the scholarship applications are coming due as well!</p>
<p>@Fogfog, D applied EA to MIT. Love those mini-essays. They certainly came in handy for some of the Common App. supplements. Sometimes, she needed to add a paragraph, other times, she just deleted some. Worked out great.</p>
<p>congrats dignified. Are you waiting on submitting some of the others until you hear from MIT? I now really wish my son applied EA somewhere so we would know something before April!</p>
<p>Aniger - way to go! Your son is almost there.</p>
<p>Omom & Amanda - updates plz. We’re all crossing our fingers and praying.</p>
<p>Lots of activity here this weekend. Son was nominated for a County-wide award in math. Each school nominates one student in each category. Student then prepares a big package which is evaluated by a six-person committee. Student also is interviewed by committee. Three awards per category - $3K, $2K, $1K, but the prestige is actually a bigger deal than the money. It’s a long shot because there are lots of schools. Son also had lots of other administrative work to do for colleges and school. Seemed like it was non-stop all weekend. How do kids do this without involved parents?</p>
<p>I know I’m spending way too much time on this stuff b/c I dreamed about it last night. Scary.</p>
<p>@Aniger. We’re taking nothing for granted and have decided to submit all apps by December 1. Waiting until December 15 to submit the remaining apps would just be too nerve-wracking… and depressing. Plus, we’re hoping for financial aid and a couple of the schools have December 1 deadlines for merit aid consideration.</p>
<p>I’m with you on the convenience of the EA apps. I wish she had applied to more of the EA options, but none of them were interesting for her. An engineering concentration was a prerequisite.</p>
<p>Like you, I don’t know how kids do it without involved parents.</p>
<p>Not so much progress in our household. There was a nice success last week as S2 won second overall in the state Academic Olympiad competition. It got him a two year full tuition scholarship to a state school he has no interest in–oh well. We only have worked just a bit on one application this weekend–a specialized essay for which there is no opportunity to modify all ready existing writing. S2 has a very reachy EA application out, and will wait to send a bunch of applications until Dec. 15 when we hear back. If lightning strikes, and the preliminary FA offer is adequate, there will be a bunch of places to which he will not apply (and I am more than happy to save the application fees.)</p>
<p>As a side note, I asked S2’s guidance counselor to send me a copy of the school’s profile. I sent back a note recommending some changes, and darned if he didn’t send me a revised version that incorporated them. It is nice to be able to contribute some of my CC-derived knowledge on behalf of his entire cohort.</p>
What can one say about an interview where the interviewee and the interviewer disagree on everything? D1 reported that the interviewer hadn’t liked the books that D1 is reading, didn’t agree with D1’s taste in movies, and thought that the Kiera Knightly “Pride and Prejudice” movie was better than the Colin Firth BBC series. :eek: D1 reported that the interviewer seemed rather out of it; it was D1 who was asking questions like “What’s a class that you really liked taking at the school?” The interviewer also spent a lot of time enthusiastically talking about a city which isn’t where the school is located. Bad vibe all around, enough to convince D1 not to apply. After she told me the bit about the interviewer’s Pride and Prejudice preference, I was pretty scandalized myself. 
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