<p>ELKyes - Congrats! I agree with trying something new. UCONN, URI or UMASS will still be there if your S wants to transfer. </p>
<p>mspearl - Congrats to your D on Kenyon - I loved reading your story. I have been thinking about your D’s choices. The beauty of most LACs is she can do a double major there more easily (and in 4 years) than at a larger university. She can be immersed in the writing environment at Kenyon and still minor or major in a science. She can go to the large university for a ‘practical’ masters degree later when she knows what she wants. Kenyon will provide her with the rigor she needs to succeed.</p>
<p>It’s amazing what acouple years with this economy has done and the difference it’s made between D#1 and D#2. D#1 was accepted to almost all of the schools she applied to, 2210 SAT, lots of AP/5, NMS Commended, graduated 18/440, National AP scholar.</p>
<p>D#2 is absolutely crushed, I hate to see this. 2150 SAT, lots of APs/5 (she has 4 more this year), graduating 4/473, NMS Commended. She applied to 9 schools.
TCNJ - accepted
Northwestern - rejected
UNC Chapel Hill - Waitlisted
Boston Univ - Accepted
Fordham - Accepted
Vassar - Waitlisted
U Michigan - not released yet
Wasington Univ St. Louis - Waitlisted
William and Mary - Waitlisted</p>
<p>She is most upset that she was either Rejected or Waitlisted at her top THREE.</p>
<p>She is very busy finishing with her yearbook (editor in chief) and does not have much time to stress over it, but she is hurting most over Northwester and W&M.</p>
<p>Looks like it will be between Fordham and Boston Univ - she is huge Patriots fan so I guess it’s looking like Boston.</p>
<p>Second year in a row for our high school to send a student to Cornell. He will be a CS major. Just had to share his good news. He is a good guy.</p>
<p>Absweet: thanks. I need reminded of this. I know it isn’t black and white but it feels like that right now. :)</p>
<p>Chemusic: thank you. I have a tendency to agree with you. Like I told my dad, everything says yes to Kenyon (as a mom) except my bank account.</p>
<p>My no tag D uses the super fine fleece sheets which the cat purchased for her last Christmas. Our cat knows a thing or 2 about fleece! She is a great shopper and also got her boy s couple “personal” size eco-non stick egg pans so he can make his own breakfast omelets on school days . . . good kitty.</p>
<p>A funny no-tag story from the great beyond. My grandmother, for whom D was named, was coincidentally also a no-tag person. She told her 4 granddaughters everything about her habits, preferences etc. Some of those quirks - she wore jockey cotton underwear inside out so the seams wouldn’t press. She wore Hanes Alive support hoes every day, also inside out. She had many of the same brand of bra all with silk sewn over the place where the hooks are to prevent rubbing. She used to buy each daughter and granddaughter a Lanz of Salzburg nightie every Christmas, all pre-tried to make sure they didn’t have scratchy lace on the yoke or “fishing line” thread. When she died, my sister and I were charged with deciding what to bury her in. Looking in her drawer we found one pair of Hanes with a sticky note that said “too tight in thigh”. We wrote out a long, detailed summary for the funeral director so she wouldn’t go to the great beyond with seams pressing or stockings that were too tight in the thigh - a fate worse than death!</p>
<p>lvines - We too feel our kids need to have some “skin in the game” when it comes to college. In our case if they receive a four year merit scholarship that is their contribution. If they choose a school with no merit (and my daughter '12 potentially has 4 of them) there will be small loans. I am torn, however, because I want my daughter to go to the school of her choice but I also do not want her to start her post-grad life in debt. When my older daughter chose her college she had narrowed it down to a final two, one $50k+ without merit and one with a 1/2 tuition scholarship. I feel confident she chose the one she truly wanted to attend more without considering the money. I’m very happy it was the one with the scholarship. :)</p>
<p>I also must confess that I too cut out most of the tags in my own clothes. And sometimes I turn my socks inside out. Shhhhhh, please don’t tell anyone. ;)</p>
<p>Congratulations to ELKyes’s son for choosing College of Charleston! It’s a great campus!</p>
<p>elkyes - I’ll be at College of Charleston next Monday checking it out with my dd14. All I hear is how beautiful and amazing that city and college is, can’t wait to hear what she thinks about it. Congrats on having the decision made!</p>
<p>saintfan - love that story about grandma! I also got a lanz of salzburg nightgown from my nana every year for Christmas. I hadn’t thought about that in years! I’d sweat to death now.</p>
<p>Wow - a lot of tactilly defensive people on our thread! My S’10 was that way when he was younger. When he was about 8 months old and I started putting him in short sleeves for spring weather, he cried and tried to pull the sleeves down. He was also one of those kids who, until about the age of 4, would stop breathing when he got hurt or mad. Yup - stop breathing, turn purple, pass out. Made for a lovely note I had to write to the preschool under the question, “Is there anything else you’d like us to know about your son?”</p>
<p>He’s gotten over it though - pretty much nothing fazes him now. Shorts in a snow storm, sleep on a picnic table, etc.</p>
<p>jerseygirl14 - so sorry for your daughter’s disappointment in her results. I think things have changed a lot recently, so depending on when you older D was applying, it could be quite different. You and she did everything right though - reaches, matches, and safeties, so feel good knowing your D is going to college next year and has good choices! My older S applied to Boston U - what a cool location! The students who go there seem to love it.</p>
<p>I had no idea that there are so many tactile aware people out there. We used to compare my D to the princess in the “Princess and the Pea,” because she could feel anything. Cutting out labels was often not enough because the cut edge was still scratchy. I used to open up seams with a seam ripper to get rid of the entire label, and then resew the seam. I remember checking clothing at the store to make sure that I could get rid of the tags. </p>
<p>This same girl is also very sensitive to smell and taste - I’ve often thought that she’d make a good wine taster or perfume sniffer.</p>
<p>It’s actually called sensory integration disorder or dysfunction. My son saw an OT for an unrelated thing when she saw it in him. She did some therapy for him with it, which actually really helped him. However he still doesn’t like the bright sun or lights, loud screachy noises or itchy fabrics.</p>
<p>Speaking as one who also can’t tolerate tags or any tight or irritating clothing item, I wonder how similarly sensitive women survived the age of the corset.</p>
<p>College of Charleston sounds SO great, ELKyes! (All these months I’ve read your name as “elk eyes” and tried to picture an elk when I thought of you…hmmm.) </p>
<p>Jersey girl I’m so sorry for the disappointment. Fordham and BU are such great choices though…your D will have lots of opportunity at either place. </p>
<p>D was accepted at Fordham yesterday but not to the theater division. Housing at Lincoln Center, a merit scholarship…she tore it in two and was heartbroken. I do understand. (But if you want me next year you can find me at Fordham Lincoln Center, masquerading most unsuccessfully as an 18 year old.)</p>
<p>Taking a “study break” from in-law expense spreadsheets which need to get mailed out today . . .
It is interesting how many kids and adults are “sensitive”. That leads me to believe that like anything else it’s a continuum and some people fall outside the broad middle range to the point where it becomes a “syndrome” or is part of a larger array of symptoms or behaviors. I still go back to our co-op toddler group teacher’s distinction of “sock kids” and not “sock kids”. When D was about 4 I bought her some black velour leggings and an ice blue satin blouse for her dressy outfit. By this time she was completely done with dresses or colors outside the blue, green, black ranges. Unfortunately she got to the blouse before I could prep it and cut out the tags herself. She was pretty agile with scissors, but still managed to cut a hole in the neck.</p>
<p>Back to school choice and “fit” for a moment. I’m wondering if there might be a connection between the “sensitive” kids and the importance of school fit. DS15 I see as being more of the bloom where planted kid, but in addition to the “Princess and the Pea” designation we have also used the “hothouse flower” to describe D at times. She likes things just so. I’m wondering if the parents of the bloom where planted kids are less likely to obsess about these things.</p>
<p>One more note on the cat’s great gift of choosing just the right thing. With the kids’ assistance she got me a kangaroo for Christmas (stuffed and very cute). In her perfect world she would be able to ride around in a pouch and drink milk all day, so kitten and DS felt that everyone should have a kangaroo. Incidentally, DS (“snugged by a woman” boy) was a “sling baby” who refused to ride in sister’s front pack with legs dangling, but loved to be “empouched” as he now calls it.</p>
<p>Off to work - darn, must get out of micro fleece jammies</p>
<p>S accepted to Davidson last night - no FA till next week (ughh!)</p>
<p>Waiting on 3 more tomorrow @ 5pm - he will be devastated if he doesn’t get into one of them. I can barely breathe waiting…</p>
<p>Elkyes - congrats on the decision and being done - must feel great.</p>
<p>Weighing in on the tag and sock sensitivity - my D was like that (and tights) - had to buy special socks with no seams (or turn them inside out). She only lasted a year in ballet because wearing tights was such a battle. I have read that these are all typical traits of highly gifted people - I am going with that theory rather than some disorder :)</p>
<p>Sounds good to me. Actually, I always kind of thought to myself that all of S’s nervous system works really well - the part that feels little picky things and the part that thinks and processes. My theory and I’m sticking to it. ;)</p>
<p>Ugh - we aren’t waiting for any more acceptances, but are waiting for one huge piece of the financial puzzle to come together (or not). Should know everything within a week or so.</p>