<p>Good luck to go2girl!!</p>
<p>Eyemamom sounds like you won’t be boarding the Indecision after all. Congratulations on reaching the finish line. Auburn is a great choice!</p>
<p>Congrats to Spygirl on her first acceptance and to lindz126’s S on the Vandy admit. That is quite an accomplishment!</p>
<p>@eyemamom - Congratulations on your D’s Auburn decision! My D’14 and I were there just last month to visit a friend of hers going to school there - beautiful school! My D said if they were offering her an OOS scholarship, it would definitely be on her list.</p>
<p>@momreads - Love your son’s attitude on scholarship apps!</p>
<p>@go2mom - What an exciting time for you! Sending best wishes your way for go2girl on her Vandy interview next weekend! You’re right, just getting in is huge with those stats.</p>
<p>Congrats to Spygirl on 1st acceptance!</p>
<p>I’m with you, Minnymom, waiting is tough. Just so thankful for one in-state tuition acceptance. Would be wonderful if some of the other OOS schools come back with an acceptance and sufficient financial aid for D to be able to choose.</p>
<p>Congrats to DS of 4beardolls! The U!</p>
<p>Congrats Eyemamom! War Eagle!</p>
<p>Now that the decision has been made it’s been like the clouds parted and sun has come into here. D is so excited, of course we had to order the “gear”, she joined the fb page and is doing the roommate survey. Most importantly she’s deleting any “weird” pictures.</p>
<p>Next problem - the boyfriend. She realizes they won’t make it. He is starting to get really clingy. But they haven’t applied to any of the same schools anyway. </p>
<p>Congrats to all the new acceptances! Have fun buying gear!</p>
<p>Hi everyone, my D is waiting on a decision from OSU’s biomedical science program, only 25 students accepted. She interviewed last week. So many scholarships and such still to be done as well as all the other senior year classes etc. I can see her just wanting an answer so she can move to to the next stage. </p>
<p>Just a quick note to let everyone know that the SS Indecision is not just for those who are undecided. It is also available for all of those parents who have thankfully experienced a final decision. It offers a place and time to relax before the next chapter in this process that comes with graduation, roomate selection, orientation, THE shopping list, and the dreaded move-in with tearful good-byes!</p>
<p>And if that is not a reason to jump on board with many of us, just remember that all the adult beverages are free! </p>
<p>Five weeks from now, I will finish grad school and have my Master’s Degree in Information Assurance with a specialization in digital forensics and my son will turn 18 one day later. Seven weeks from now, we should know where he will be attending college. I feel like everything I’ve been working toward for the last 20 years will have been achieved- two “adult” children and finished a Master’s degree (I started one in a completely different field and quit when I found out Barnardgirl had been conceived). I feel like I should do something really special to celebrate, but what?? </p>
<p>Congratulations @Barnardmom!! It is a great accomplishment!! digital forensics sounds very important and very current. </p>
<p>@2016barnardmom, that’s a huge milestone for you and your family. Congratulations!</p>
<p>Thanks 
The whole information security field is really on fire right now and I don’t expect that to change any time soon. I very highly recommend it as a field for any kid who is leaning toward an IT career. </p>
<p>Congrats to Eyemamom on your d’s clear decision, and to all the acceptances! Good luck to murmur’s d on the biomedical at OSU, and to go2girl on her Vandy interview. Is that for a sport? We visited Vandy in the summer and my s fell in love with the school. </p>
<p>Congrats to you 2016Barnardmom! You should be very proud of accomplishing that while raising your kids. Let’s have a toast to you when you graduate/finish in five weeks!</p>
<p>Eyemamom, while I am thrilled to hear that your daughter made a decision, as a mom of one U. of Alabama graduate and a second son set to go to UAH, well … I do wish her all the luck in the world at Auburn. It is an excellent school, especially for engineering. One of my co-workers is an Auburn grad. We love chatting about the perception that many people hold about schools in the deep South. These individuals really do not see the outstanding education that these schools offer. Her son hopes to follow her and her husband and go to Auburn in the NROTC program and become an engineer. My sons, however, just do not like the color orange! In fact, if my older son goes to UVA for law school, he said that he would only wear navy blue! </p>
<p>Speaking of the older son, he’s awaiting law school decisions. He’s home visiting this weekend (and brought me three loads of laundry because he has been so busy working that he has not done it lately). Son '14 is glad to hang with his older brother, because come this fall, they probably will see each other at the holidays only. Thank goodness for texting and Skype. </p>
<p>momreads - we can taunt each other next year over the football games - lol Orange happens to be one of my d’s favorite colors. She was funny when we’d visit schools she’d look at their logo, colors, etc. She hated when schools were a boring blue and white. She liked Auburn over other schools because of the friendly, family vibe and how nice everyone was. I told her the other day to not be fooled by the “bless your heart” comments - they were “code”. </p>
<p>And I think I can really only admit this here without people telling me I was crazy. I printed off the sample class schedule for her major and I had her look through and see what gen eds she’d choose and she already worked out roughly what she’d be taking. Graduating in 4 years is a big deal in this house and I know how easy it is to get off track.</p>
<p>BarnardMom - that is a great accomplishment! Congratulations! Maybe a fabulous trip is in order to celebrate?</p>
<p>Yesterday’s mail brought good news - D received merit scholarship to Sewanee! She is very excited!</p>
<p>Filling in those gen ed requirements is a good thing. The older son had 65 credits from APs when he went to Alabama. He had to take two gen ed classes, and did both online between his freshman and sophomore years. All those APs allowed him to double major and double minor. Son '14 will have about 50 credits going into UAH. Again, he will have satisfied a lot of his gen ed requirements, so he may be able to take a little lighter load his first semester when he is adjusting to being away from home and running at the collegiate level. </p>
<p>As for the “boring” blue and white, UAH uses royal blue, and it is a very attractive color. Son '14 is big on the color red (or in this case, crimson), but he liked the royal blue, too. </p>
<p>And people can call you and your D crazy for going the Auburn route, but this is her decision. She liked the place and what it offered. That is what matters most.</p>
<p>I just actually sat down to leaf through the hard copy version of DS’s acceptance package to Miami Ohio and realized they admitted him to Honors. He swears that wasn’t in the online version :). Merit money won’t be awarded until late March but right now of his three acceptances it is the middle choice. </p>
<p>Also got an email on Friday that Northwestern was missing his supplement. Oops. So he had to resubmit, but he wasn’t phased since he only applied there out of a sense of duty really. Funny, for a long time NU was his number one school, but that was before he realized he could play his sport at the DIII level, and that he could get decent merit money from less selective schools. The allure of a nice chunk of cash waiting for him at graduation has played a significant role in his change of heart!</p>
<p>Speaking of money, it’s quite clear that despite DH’s lofty aspirations and stated intent to file FAFSA and CSS to see if we could take out a loan for DS and establish his credit rating, it ain’t happening. Next week is the deadline, we just got our tax stuff together for our guy, and DH leaves tomorrow for a business trip. As they say in baseball, “Wait until next year!”</p>
<p>@2016BarnardMom - What a huge accomplishment! Congratulations!! You and your children should definitely do something special to celebrate!</p>
<p>@eyemamom, your daughter will be the most prepared student on campus on day 1 with her four-year plan in hand. ^:)^ .
Meanwhile, we are still waiting on more than 3/4 of DS’ colleges to give us their decisions.</p>
<p>So Happy to hear all the acceptances and scholarships rolling in. Eyemamom… CONGRAT’S!! Isn’t it a great feeling!! My S is parading around in his Kenyon sweatshirt as we speak:). </p>
<p>The big decision around here is my S’s gap year plans. He needs to have a set plan in place to write Kenyon with. He wants to travel/backpack abroad, work, and looking into an organization that he could go to Romania and teach Drama and English to elementary school kids. I think he would LOVE that. Because his brother took a gap year and said it was most definitely the best decision he ever made, DS14 is all on board with it. He is very young( will still only be 17 in Sept.) , I think an extra year will be great. MY DS12 is thriving as his college, and had no problems adjusting after his year off, except he had a bit of a rough start in Chem as he hadn’t had math for so long and only took Chem honors in 10th grade, but by the end of the semester he was fine. </p>
<p>WOW, just WOW on those Vandy stats… congrat’s to those who got accepted! </p>