<p>D drinks coffee once in a while but mostly the blended drinks that are even worse for you. DH and I both have our morning coffee, too. She went to Trader Joe’s with me the other day and insisted that I start buying organic meat. Something she learned in school convinced her that we should make the switch! </p>
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My son got one from Drexel last year. A couple kept calling until S finally told them he wasn’t interested. There are a few emails that D’s receiving that are in our local area. She must’ve also checked off our religious affiliation on the PSAT because she’s getting mail from small private schools in that category.</p>
<p>D has loved coffee since she was a toddler, though it was decaf then. Boarding school, and 7:30 am classes have not been good for her coffee consumption. She used to only drink coffee when she was under-slept, but we buy much better beans than school, so now she’s an every morning coffee drinker. </p>
<p>Well, you know the old quote (attributed to Erdos, but actually from Alfr</p>
<p>We live in a college town where abundant coffee shops are a major hang out for middle schoolers on up. Therefore, D2 is a coffee drinker, although more of a social drinker than caffeine addict.<br>
She checked the box on the PSATs and is getting the emails. Just dumping them all into an outlook folder to peruse at her leisure. She has been deleting the definite no gos, but has not been hitting unsubscribe. Maybe she should start doing that. She also got a telephone call last night on our home line. I am surprised they got the number, I do not remember filling that out anywhere. Telephone calls are really too much, and it seems kind of early to be calling college juniors. As a policy we do not give money to charities that call us on the telephone. Maybe we should extend the policy to not applying to any college that calls on the phone.</p>
<p>DS put his school email on the forms, and so he’s now forwarding emails to another account that I have access to (just so I can track where they’re coming from). One of these days, we’ll figure out a triage system (respond to those on his list so he’s shown interest, trash the rest).</p>
<p>Someone a few pages back asked about Dec ACT detail reports. DS just got that a few days ago.</p>
<p>D likes both coffee and tea. Right now she is drinking more green tea (both hot and cold) than coffee.</p>
<p>D also checked no email so we are not receiving them. She has a specific list of colleges already that have division I equestrian plus a couple of backup schools she likes. I think her list is pretty much complete.</p>
<p>Ok, this is just not right. As I mentioned in my previous post that D2 replied to some of those emails last night, this morning I already received emails from those schools. Apparently D2 put my email as her parent´s contact info. NOw my email box is going to be flooded with college emails. What happened to this is suppose to student´s process, and us helicopter parents should stay out. Sheesh.</p>
<p>For S2 (and S1; didn’t figure this out for D1) - we created a new email address just for college. Checked it last night and was filled with emails from colleges (~30).
Both S2 and I know the password and can check it any time.</p>
<p>Best thing we ever did - highly recommend this for college applications too - then the notices don’t get lost in the kids ‘regular’ email box.</p>
<p>I did this too but DS dosen’t use it yet. We used my email for all the college correspondence for both his sisters and it worked well most of the time. I am online many hours a day so I don’t miss anything important. I print and forward all important emails. It works here. Both girls, once they got to college, set up a new college email account and my viligance was no longer needed. Once in a while, I get email forwarded to me from thier accounts (like the housing or tuition bill for next semester). Do what works for your families.</p>
<p>Welcome to Galveston/Houston to Geoson also and Seiclan who will visit Rice if I remember rightly!</p>
<p>My DD is only sending “Interested” responses to the colleges and giving them MY email so I can get spammed, kind of a form of revenge on her part I think!</p>
<p>As I was saying before, they are kind of comical in their obvious attempts to flatter me into pushing their particular school. I did not even consider fee waivers when we started this, but that would be a happy outcome. We got offered one fee waiver, but it involves a trip to Dallas to attend “Scholars Day” next month at UT-Dallas, so kind of difficult to get that one. I don’t know if they know our exact PSAT, but I think they probably do. One school mentioned my DD will “most likely” will be a semi-finalist in their literature.</p>
<p>My DD is now a huge morning coffee drinker. It is great because she now makes the coffee every morning. Our bus comes at 6:00am, seriously. She takes a travel cup with her on the bus. She will have it easier, and can leave later, IF she gets a car for her 17th birthday in April, wink, wink :)</p>
<p>My S2 gets out of bed at 7am to leave the house at 7:15 - isn’t it grand to be a boy! Doesn’t eat breakfast (which I don’t approve of) or drink coffee (which I think is good). Actually none of my kids drink coffee or soda. They didn’t like the bubbles in the soda when they were younger, so it never took.</p>
<p>seiclan also mentioned a coffee incident happened to her son as a little kid. This and that made me think that maybe I should give my little kid a bit bad tasting beer/coffee/whatever, so he’ll grow up not liking them. Please share if anyone runs into any scientific backing of this.</p>
<p>Well, we discovered that D liked coffee when she was 18 months old. I was drinking a decaf iced latte (no sugar, just decaf and skim milk) and she insisted upon a taste. It was a 20 oz. drink that I had just started, and she drank the whole thing.</p>
<p>lake42ks-we tried it with beer and wine, and so far he still hates the taste of both. He has learned to appreciate coffee, though it is generally iced and full of sugar as well.
Sophomore year he got tons of college stuff after taking the PSAT, but was smart enough to mark no mail/email this year. We are still getting tons of stuff from other sources that I signed up for last year.</p>
<p>Tried that with our kids, giving them a little sip of beer when they were very small.
D1 screwed up her face at the awful taste and has never wanted to taste alcohol since. Unfortunately, D2 liked the beer and wanted more. We’re a little worried about that, since there is alcoholism running in DH’s side of the family. We do a lot of talking about responsible drinking.</p>
<p>Both my kids like coffee. We only have decaf in the house, so they are welcome to it.</p>
<p>SAT results are in this morning from D’s first sitting. Her CB saved search of prospective schools that met her criteria will be reduced from 29 to 19 with these schools. Wonder if she will want to take another crack at it this spring… think I will encourage her to do so (if only to boost chances of admission and merit at remaining schools). </p>
<p>This afternoon/evening is the league championship meet in her sport …doesn’t give us much time to think about the March test sign-up (deadline tomorrow).</p>
<p>Wish CB would give more than a day between results/registration!!!</p>
<p>Think I will make a BIG pot of coffee now for the household :)</p>
<p>SAT results are in . . . and she is DONE! I have to wait a few hours to wake her up. I had to tell someone. Thanks for being there.</p>
<p>This is her 2nd sitting (10/09). She had very good scores and we were tempted to not risk another test, but she took them again and went up in every section.</p>