<p>I’ll vote for (a)- that is my favorite Stones’ tune. Have a great weekend everyone!!</p>
<p>Cross posted with kathie. ^^^ I hope you dance always makes me teary in a good way.</p>
<p>Kathiep: I cried the first time I heard “I hope you Dance,” and it’s still one of my favorites.</p>
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madbean - I just realized the only people we told about NMF were my CC friends and S’s grandparents. No one else wants to hear about another one of S’s accomplishments.</p>
<p>snoozn - congrats to your D!! Now she has a choice. </p>
<p>I didn’t realize I was hanging with such a smart crowd. Who says CC isn’t populated with overachievers? (I’m not even sure that is spelled right!) Congrats to all the NMF’s!!</p>
<p>I did not push S to study too much for the psat. I knew about NMF from CC but he scored really well soph year and I just expected him to do better. Wouldn’t you know he did worse. …sigh. But, all’s well that ends well. He did exceptional (CC exceptional) on the SAT and ACT) so I won’t complain.</p>
<p>missed this AvonHSDAD - Congrats on scholarship!</p>
<p>I just converted a PDF document to a Word document with a fabulous (free) software program called NITRO PDF to Word. They also have one for Excel. So if you or your child have horrible penmanship, this is for you. It worked flawlessly. I emailed them the document and 5-6 hours later it was back in my inbox. I think they have another version (not free) if you want to do it yourself.</p>
<p>gosh I really don’t input much in here but read whenever I can. Will need to look up that Skype ad–but when I mentioned it makes parents cry D1 asked that I not watch it when she is around!
We have a long wait too–for results on last apps and also finaid pkgs. She’s happy with her 4 acceptances so far with good merit schships but we’ll have to wait for the big picture. Congrats to all the NM topdogs!!</p>
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<p>Yep–the envelope was sitting on the counter when I got home from a business trip tonight. My son had gotten home earlier in the day from a scholarship/admissions trip, so the NMF designation is lost in the discussion.</p>
<p>We also got an email from Pomona that they do not have the school report. How is it that a bunch of other schools successfully download it from the common app, and Pomona does not? Really?</p>
<p>Congratulations to your son on the official notification UT!!! :)</p>
<p>That’s frustrating that Pamona didn’t get the transcript. I do know schools are contacting applicants now for missing items. They have stressed (at least in things we have read) not to worry, it’s not ‘late’, they want a complete file so they can finish the evaluation. It is a hassle. No way around it.</p>
<p>Morning,</p>
<p>Before official notice of kiddo’s acceptance, our soundtrack was perhaps Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon…now doing FinAid, the Stones, (a) is appropriate!</p>
<p>Long week hereaand kiddo haas been tired.
Then has some math or engineering type of competition today. Not entirely sure, though kiddo left at 7:20am.
Got into state flagship, a nice accomplishment and would be waaaaay cheaper…sigh…than private U. </p>
<p>I Hope You Dance is a fav of mine…though makes me cry too!</p>
<p>Wow. 16 NM Finalists from this relatively small group. Congratulations to all the parents and their accomplished kids.</p>
<p>I vote a (Stones) for our song- both for our kids and us. D does not want to go to a Trustee Scholar weekend at one of her three safety schools- a school that could end up increasing her merit award to a full ride. Sigh. But she doesn’t want to go that school, so it’s coulda, woulda, shoulda time. I think we “shoulda” chosen her safeties more carefully. I sometimes think we made a mistake in letting her go to Italy for the fall. While she loved it there, it has increased her wish to stay right here in the same region for college. She realized that what she likes/wants is right here. I just hope she opts for living on campus.</p>
<p>Kinderny: I am terrible about second guessing my decisions, and I have learned that it’s usually a waste of energy. It sounds like your daughter had a great experience in Italy, and it has helped her learn more about what she wants. There are a lot of advantages to staying close to home for college. I think that you should let her follow her instincts, as long as it’s affordable. Yes, she might make the wrong choice, but there are always options to change it down the road.</p>
<p>My older daughter is a college junior, and I’m starting to realize that the four years spent in college are really just a small portion of the overall journey. I know that this is a huge decision for all of us and our kids. However, there is more than one good choice for each kid. If one door closes, another one will open up. This choice will shape their future, but it’s not the last choice they will have.</p>
<p>momjr - Well said.</p>
<p>We have to remember that our kids will probably live to be 100+ years old. 4 years or even 8 of college is not that big a chunk of out that; it only seems like it from the perspective of an 18 yr old. My mantra right now is: she’ll be fine wherever she’ll be fine wherever she’ll be fine wherever…</p>
<p>So proud of all your NMF guys ‘n’ gals! What happens next?</p>
<p>The sun is actually shining today after a couple of weeks of gray misery. Wish I didn’t have a cold picked up on the plane-trip…sigh.</p>
<p>Kinderny - I certainly agree with MomJr’s sentiments. I also think your hope for D to live on campus (if she stays close) is a good idea. I live in a college town and a lot of kids from D’s high school end up going to the local university (my D didn’t apply - definitely wants to get out of town). Living on campus helps these kids make the transition and start establishing new relationships.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you for the support. I guess I was beating myself up about how my decisions/recommendations might have disadvantaged D. What I have to hold on to is that SHE is happy, even during this waiting game. I pour more of my angst out here so I can be supportive of her irrespective of the (mostly good) options she has. Thanks for listening.</p>
<p>Wow, I went on a CC diet for a few days (I’m trying to cut back… so much actual work to accomplish!) and missed a lot! Congrats to all the NMFs!! It’s a little intimidating being in the presence of such genius. But I’m glad you have a place to crow-- you deserve lots of crowing!</p>
<p>kathiep, great choice of I Hope You Dance. I normally don’t go for sugary songs like that, but my older D, now a college junior, sang that with her class at their graduation… 120 young women in white dresses on stage at the Hollywood Bowl (I guess I just hurt our anonymity, oh well). So I will be teary about that song for the rest of my life. </p>
<p>Slithey, LOVE that Chinese QQ video! Thank you!</p>
<p>Our younger D is already greatly torn between two of the schools (Clark and Dickinson) that she’s been accepted to; she has a third in the top-3 but won’t hear from them until April 1. Our conversations are just like Tevye’s in Fiddler on the Roof: “On the one hand… On the other hand…” </p>
<p>Both schools have accepted students’ weekend over President’s Day, and we decided to send her to Dickinson, because she just visited Clark in the fall, and while we saw Dickinson last spring, to her it seems like a million years ago. Plus Harrisburg is not exactly a hot President’s Day vacation destination, so we were able to get a ticket on short notice with miles. Personally, I’m betting that she’s going to come home in love with Dickinson; she’s already over the moon about getting in with merit aid. But who knows? If she gets a bad dorm host or something else goes wrong, anything could happen.</p>
<p>I would love for her to make up her mind soon, so we can be done with all of this, but somehow I envision huge Tevye conversations at 10 p.m. on April 30th…</p>
<p>Going back a bit to the Sliding Doors film/Post Birthday World novel posts - a group of girlfriends and I all read The Post Birthday World independently from each other, and then met in the Florida keys for a girls weekend to talk about the novel, and all the different paths/choices we have made, how our lives might have been if a different path had been taken, etc. It made for a lot of fascinating conversations and relevations. I like the idea of showing Sliding Doors to our girls - so many different paths to choose from at this point in their lives, and each choice will lead to another, and on and on.</p>
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<p>There is a quote aboute calling her…</p>
<p>mommy and needing her
mom and wishing she’d leave you alone (teen years)
and late in life missing her when she’s gone saying “wish I knew what mom would do…”</p>
<p>I need to find that…
anyone know what I mean?</p>
<p>I had said jokingly to my mom that it’s amazing how much smarter she has gotten the older I have gotten…</p>