<p>Excited to go to Kenyon tomorrow! Wish I could post pics like on FB. Lol</p>
<p>I think NMSC requires scholarship recipients to not tell anyone of the scholarship offer until after May 1st when they announce it to the media.</p>
<p>While I am stuck at work, DS is visiting Wabash tomorrow for his final scholarship competition. He will stay in the same fraternity all weekend and will even attend an event guaranteed to have girls! (I think they try to put this event during this scholarhsip weekend to show the young men that women are on campus). He has been wearing every school shirt he has collected over the years. I guess he really is in love with his school. </p>
<p>In a couple of weeks all the kids that I have helped with SAT boot camp and various college help are coming over to the house with all their rejected college letters, brochures, etc. We are having a bonfire. Many of you may see the fire on the horizon. Between DS marking requests for brochures, my requests for brochures and 20 college application and all the junk that comes with it I will be surprised if we don’t set the house on fire.</p>
<p>^I’ve saved ALL of DS’ college mail since he was a 10th grader, just to see how much there is. It’s about 5 feet high if stacked. I’m going to have him pose for a pic next to it when he finally decides.</p>
<p>No, the roommate’s mom didn’t mean Whittier or Whitworth. </p>
<p>I suggest you all read the ‘schools my kid crossed off the list’ thread. Hundreds of difference impressions on every school. This was just theirs. I am also sure they aren’t the only people who didn’t like Whitman. No one’s impressions of a school are exactly the same and not everyone is going to like every school.</p>
<p>Be happy that you like it and your child likes it. That’s all that should matter. </p>
<p>Btw, most people know Whittier as it’s where Nixon went to college.</p>
<p>saintfan: I’ve been trying to keep up with postings but haven’t had time to post myself. </p>
<p>For four straight weeks I’ve had to be out of town for at least part of the week. Took DS to Colorado College last week. He liked it, but expected to love it. Thinks the academics are great and the people were nice, but I’m not sure he felt it was “the one.” We’re visiting University of Portland and Puget Sound next week. He really likes Whitman, but their aid was paltry compared to all the other schools. He seems to have lost interest in Grinnell and Knox and hasn’t mentioned Beloit in a while either. St. Olaf ends up costing a bit more than Colorado, but we might have to fit in a visit, but I don’t know when!</p>
<p>Heading to Seattle tomorrow for four days with my dd14 and several of her newspaper buddies for a journalism convention. I clearly wasn’t thinking when I agreed to drive/chaperon a field trip in the middle of all of this college indecision! I thought about trying to find someone else to do it, but several times my daughter has said how glad she is that I’m going. When your 15 year old daughter says she wants to do something with you, you do it!</p>
<p>Trying to catch up–congrats PN! I love seeing the list with final decisions. So exciting!</p>
<p>Congrats Creekland! Great to see you on “the list’” Hope to join soon!</p>
<p>Happy to see all the decisions being made and scholarships coming through. We’re still in the running for UR here as well eyemamom. Also visiting next Friday, pghmomof2. Our last revisit is next weekend so there won’t be any decisions made here anytime soon.</p>
<p>pacnwmomof2 - your S has cool schools to choose from! The small LAC’s really appeal to me (more than to my two older S’s). My 2015 S is cut from different cloth so we’ll see where he likes. But first I’m taking a whole year off of even thinking about college searches! Of course, I’ll still be here with my 2012 buds. </p>
<p>The 2010 thread switched over to a “College class of 2014” thread in about July of 2010. Do we want to do that too?</p>
<p>intouch - good luck with the remaining college visits. Hopefully between costs and “that feeling”, your S will have a clear winner within 10 days!</p>
<p>PacNWMO2 - If you still haven’t visited StO and it’s a possibility financially - go. He will either fall in love or know it’s not the place. I don’t think there’s much middle ground. My usually reserved D came into my room last night just as I was getting to bed. She was all bubbly and said “Guess what!? I just went to check my email and there was a message from D_____ W_______ (admissions advisor at StO) that just said YEAH!!!” She was thrilled. We deposited on Monday, so he must have checked that info and responded.</p>
<p>On the Stepford Wives thing . . . D refused to apply to Whitman - our ‘local’ top end LAC. She has a 2nd cousin a year ahead who did the MW college tour and was completely creeped out by StO, kind of liked Carleton and ended up at Knox. Some schools allow for the bloom where planted approach and some are just singular enough in their own way that your kid would be better off at larger uni than small LAC that was really the wrong one for that student.</p>
<p>On a “housekeeping” note: D got all her decline paperwork and portal clicks done last night. She was funny in how dismissive she was of the schools now that she is allowed to be thrilled about the one. She was holding back to a degree because she knew that the money was an issue. Now that it’s not she was so not sentimental about the schools that she’s declining. </p>
<p>Today she is prom dress shopping with friends!!!</p>
<p>saintfan - I’m so happy for how things worked out for your D! St. Olaf was on our radar for a while because they are reputed to be so strong for math. It also seems St. O keeps popping up in our lives for being behind unrelated cool things. Math in Budapest? Oh yeah - St. Olaf started that. Oh - here’s a flyer about a cool chess camp this summer. Oh of course - it’s at St. Olaf. Let’s go check out the Rube Goldberg competition at Purdue this year - oh look, little old St. Olaf won it. They just have a great energy about them there.</p>
<p>Thanks for the congrats, JenPam! I’m thrilled to see things fell into place so well for your twins!</p>
<p>Congrats to those getting the $2,500 NMSC! Not many get those. Just remember to confirm it’s the best thing to accept. Some schools will give NMF an official award of $1,000 every year, but you have to turn down the one time $2,500 (different from the mega scholarships given to NMF by some colleges, which are granted by the university, not NMSC). It all depends on individual collages. Just look into it. :)</p>
<p>PghMomof2, I cannot even imagine keeping a week’s worth of college mail let alone EVERYTHING! Wow… (of course in my younger years, I have had to go out to the trash to retrieve something I accidentally threw away) - That being said, 5 ft of mail is pretty impressive. Just think if you had also printed out the e-mails he received too!</p>
<p>PinotNoir - I think the idea of switching to a College 2016 thread in July makes sense.</p>
<p>Interestingly my D is now swinging more into the Pomona camp. She said she keeps changing her mind. She was more into Whitman when she first returned, but by yesterday it had switched. She said the classes she attended were both equally as good by the way! I told her I hope she either really LOVES Macalester or absolutely HATES it! She and H left at 2:45 this morning to go on the high school band’s DC trip, she will come home for one day, and then leave for her long weekend at Mac. She wants to talk to someone in a sub-free dorm at Pomona but was too busy trying to get homework and packing done to call the admissions office during office hours. Do you think they would take it wrong if I phoned in her request due to her crazy schedule?!</p>
<p>MizzBee - D and her friends are having a beach bonfire to burn their rejection letters.</p>
<p>" I like the idea of starting a college class 2016 thread in July" :-(((( Can I still join in even though technically my DS will be in the college class of 2017? How sad is that… I don’t know a soul in parents 2013 thread.</p>
<p>Pacnw…when are you going to UPS? My S and I will be there next week too. He is spending the night Thursday night and we are both going Friday to the accepted student day. Maybe we can hook up.</p>
<p>H and S leave on a red eye tonight for NY. Of Couse my S is swamped with homework and is trying to get everything done this week, as he will also miss 3 days next week. I am a little worried because he is coming home to a big paper and 2 big tests on Tuesday… he is not getting home till late monday night… he says he is going to study when he is in NY…but I unfortunately know better.</p>
<p>^^ fun, showmom! I have been using the unloved college mail as fire starter for 2 years. I thought that maybe Hofstra, TCU and WASHU - all prolific mailers - might be able to sense the “disturbance in the force” and stop sending.</p>
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<p>Yup, except I think it’s a little later than May 1st. That said, I can confirm at least one NMSC $2500 award among the group of my D’s friends that were giggling in my D’s room on Monday night (in So.CA).</p>
<p>Did anyone on this group get offered a Berkeley Regents scholarship? Alternatively, any thoughts on Berkeley w/o Regents versus other UCs with Regents?</p>
<p>DD wants to save her rejection letters. Says it’ll keep her “humble”</p>
<p>saintfan… where would UPS stand as far as outdoorsy vs conventional? Is more on the Reed L&C side or more Willamette Whitman?? Just curious… you have heard me describe my DS, do you think it’s a fit for him?</p>
<p>Shout out to Creekland! Nice to see you over here. Congrats on U of R - wonderful school. :)</p>