<p>We’re looking at 100, 112, or 190 miles, which is funny for a girl who for years dreamed of escaping the Northeast and going to college someplace where winter didn’t take up half the year. She jokes now that she decided to stay close to limit her carbon footprint. I was going to support her choice even if it was thousands of miles away, but I’m happy that she’ll be near. I don’t expect her to come home often, but I’m glad she’ll be able to whenever the spirit moves her. We predict zero homesickness. She loves home, she loves us, but she’s not looking back.</p>
<p>Maybe 400mi, or 2700mi, or 40mi, or possibly 2000mi.
Clearly, distance is not her determining factor.</p>
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<p>I guess that’s one of the benefits of a big(ger) metropolis. We don’t have to go far, to find something different. DD will be about 45 miles from home. Farthest school she considered was about 1200 miles away. Although distance wasn’t ever really a consideration… it was her choice, just worked out that way (and DW is happy as a clam!)</p>
<p>951 miles, 16 hour drive, or 4 hr with one stop flight
i hate driving.</p>
<p>Clearly your daughters are much more talented at finding prom dresses than I am…green is my favorite color and I swear I scoured the internet for an emerald green dress. No luck.</p>
<p>S is going 41 miles, but two of his friends are going to colleges in town.</p>
<p>2780 miles. I find it interesting that my D will be on a different continent from us, but performersmom D will be farther away from her home than my D.</p>
<p>449 miles. Sigh. Haverford, his closest acceptance, is only 25 miles away. </p>
<p>Elkyes, I’m with you. I don’t like driving either.</p>
<p>Creekland - I’ll be thinking of your ds - scary. Keep us updated.</p>
<p>75 miles.</p>
<p>Back online after spring break vacation which was a great blessing after highly-selective admissions disappointment week.</p>
<p>D rallied probably more quickly than her parents and is moving on with her life. I’m so proud of that fine girl. She decided on UGA (Honors) and I think will be very happy and successful there.</p>
<p>Creekland - I second the suggestion that maybe a cardiologist should be consulted. There’s some HCM (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) in our family. It’s the condition that is most commonly responsible for sudden death in healthy young athletes. If there’s any possibility that the “seizures” could be heartbeat irregularity, you’d want to check that out.</p>
<p>Well, we’re making progress, even if not ready to put a decision up on the big board. The last two days have been a see-saw between Whitman and Willamette. Lawrence is also still in the picture, but something of a dark horse at this point. Hasn’t mentioned Beloit for some time, and L&C’s FA offer was a fraction of what son was offered from everywhere else, so I’m breathing a sigh of relief that it’s not his top choice! This still may go down to the wire, but I’m confident that in the end he will make the right choice for the wrong reason and end up at a great place. :)</p>
<p>Creekland, sending good thoughts your way. </p>
<p>D and I found her Prom dress in one stop. Deep Royal Blue, sort of a halter top, fitted with an a line skirt. Fits her perfectly and on sale. D hates to shop, so I purchased a hot pink sparkly dress…strong motivation to go pick out one she liked. Still have to convince her to go buy shoes.</p>
<p>Performersmom, yes DD did BDD and I recall it as being intense and a little overwhelming. I think it’s only gotten more intense but it also looks more interesting and fun. It seems to me this has to be at least one person’s full-time job to put on. He’s planning on all the major welcome activities the first evening plus the Quizbowl event given his stint in Academic Decathlon. He thinks that will be fun especially since there will be pizza (it is distinctly possible that food factored into choices of events). He’s going to tour the school and the residential colleges, go to the student panel, go to the welcome address (which is really an event worth going to and is something you will remember when attending graduation in the same hall in four years), academic and EC fairs, panel on residential life, classes and Master classes, Yale Political Union event, career fair, touring the Yale Daily News (he’s involved in journalism), a welcome meeting of a campus religious group, possible tours of art galleries or hearing the Yale symphony rehearse (they are playing a piece he loves) and the humanities forum, pizza party, etc. He actually scheduled “chill with host” in his itinerary – at 1:00 a.m. He also hopes to meet with his regional admissions officer and one or two other people. I am glad I planned to spend Wednesday night there. He’s going to need to crash. This is preceded by Columbia Admit Days. I’m a bit of a wreck because we are literally racing to catch a train to New Haven in order to get there in time for dinner, meet-up with host and evening events. </p>
<p>DD was in Jonathan Edwards College. I’ll PM you. Maybe we can find each other in one of the parent events.</p>
<p>DS will be either 2812 miles away or 2880.</p>
<p>Wow, Mimk, I am exhausted just reading your DS’s proposed itinerary! How many days does he have to do all of that?!</p>
<p>My D might be the closest: between 30 and 40 miles away. Will look today when we drive down. </p>
<p>Had a fun first day at Kenyon. The admissions director said he saw on College Comfidential where I posted about her winning the writing award. So, they do read this. :)</p>
<p>Anyway, the author that helped decide the writing award gave D a present - 3 of her books and a personal letter wrapped up in pretty paper with a bow. (I saved the bow) I wanted to cry but just smiled. Everyone knew who she was and that is really why we like Kenyon. It is so personal. A lady said she had tears reading her essays. My husband asked me later what she wrote about and I said they sounded poetic and bare in a good way. I wanted to ask admissions if they remembered her misspelling/small errors on the common app. Lol. Now that I know my D writes poetry I am hoping she lets me see it sometime. I very very rarely get to see what she writes and had to bribe her with money to let me read her last ap English paper. Smh</p>
<p>Their food for us parents was delicious and they even had wine. It doesn’t take much to impress me. I tried not to feel awkward though it didn’t work entirely and while I was in the bathroom. H struck up a comversation with an admissions person and told him when he saw the letter about D winning the award he felt like that letter just cost him money as he feels D is obligated to go here. 
Awkward. H said he was joking but, no, he wasn’t. That is how he feels. </p>
<p>Taking my mom with me today. Hopefully she behaves. I have faith she will.</p>
<p>Saw giterdones post…so we are 2nd closest. Lol Feel like in many ways Kenyon will feel further away as only 17% are from Ohio. Many from California, New York and New England.</p>
<p>Lark, it exhausts me too. That list covers about 48 hours. It’s preceded by 24 hours at Columbia. I hope he scheduled some time to have an epiphany about where he is going to go to college.</p>
<p>I’ve been feeling kind of guilty that we, as homeschoolers, have a much more flexible scheduled than y’all do. My son’s history teacher at the community college is really supportive of his missing three classes, two for college visits, one for an AP exam, so I’m thankful for his flexibility.</p>
<p>Son’s at Caltech today and tomorrow, then gets dropped off at Mudd Saturday. I’ll meet him on Sunday and we’ll leave Monday afternoon. He’ll then fly out to Princeton on Wed. night and get back Saturday night. He won’t be able to revisit MIT but hopefully, he’ll make a decision within a couple days of that last visit.</p>
<p>Knowing that he feels he could be happy at any of his choices makes me feel ok about watching my oldest leave home.</p>
<p>mim, looking for that epiphany, too. :-)</p>
<p>Distance could be as close as 100 or so miles and as far as maybe 2800 or so?</p>
<p>I already miss him, ha-ha!</p>
<p>Thanks all for the cardiac suggestions. It might be a possibility as I do recall him complaining about chest pains a time or two back when he was in track. He mentioned it to his sports physical doc and was told just to pay attention and return if it became “common.” Now I’m wondering. I’ll be sure to mention it next Friday.</p>
<p>They had him on all sorts of equipment Wednesday night. Wouldn’t an irregular heartbeat have shown up? (Just asking what’s coming to mind - I’m a math and physics person, not healthcare. I feel like I’m learning a ton in a short period of time, but without answers - just possibilities.)</p>
<p>He fell and hit his head a few days before any symptoms started. So far, everyone has told us these events aren’t related (I suppose partially due to the CAT scan), but it just seems really odd for the timing otherwise. When he fell he didn’t tell us about it until 3 days later when he informed me he was glad his headache had disappeared (what headache??? - One has to love teen boys!). So, that was never looked into at the time.</p>
<p>It’s interesting looking at the variety of distances our kids are choosing. I went 11 1/2 hours (drive) from my house. Oldest is doing the same. Middle is going half the distance. Are others finding distance in the family (far or near)?</p>
<p>Definitely not a talent - shootingsilver - I’d say beginner’s luck. D hasn’t worn a dress since 3rd or 4th grade and hasn’t worn one willingly since 3 or 4 years old. Someone posted a really funny (and creepily serious) instructional video about how to make a dress out of a pair of sweatpants in case we had to go that route. It’s great, she is really excited about it. Apparently her friend’s boyfriend said she would look good in a short, green dress and she just marched in and found one straight away.</p>
<p>What a great story, mspearl!
I may have said this on here before, but I thinking finding a college and college experience is a lot like getting your baby to sleep. Each kid is so individual and each parent’s tolerance is so individual that you just have to find what works in your case with fit, finances, distance and all those other things. People will Ferberize their kid then go all over town telling everyone that it’s the only thing that works and everyone should do it. Then you could have a kid like mine who just cries until they puke - maybe to show you who’s boss :-)<br>
sunmachine: sounds like you’re down to a couple good choices</p>
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<p>Quote of the week.</p>