Thanks @critter . We’re up and getting ready to head to the college. DS16 is handling it quite well. Me, not so much.
Congratulations @GoldenWest
@carolinamom2boys Good luck to your son on his scholarship weekend. Sounds like a whirlwind of events.
@petrichor11 Wonderful news, congratulations on your daughter’s scholarship!
@GoldenWest Congratulations to your son’s acceptance and making a final decision! So looking forward to getting there with my son.
@LKnomad Good luck with your younger son’s course of Accutane.
Congratulations to everyone
Silly question, but what are students wearing to these scholarship events? We will be in a place with chance of flurries, so I am assuming business casual with boots for D?
All the CA paragraph talk got me worried, S told me he went through all his CA essays before he submitted and everything was there.
Why do our kids get punished for mistakes that CA and College Board make? perhaps the college should start getting on their cases about the poor quality of service they are providing, especially with the prices they charge. Our kids are supposed to be beyond perfect yet these crucial organizations can cost a kid an acceptance due to their incompetence.
Good luck to everyone on scholarship weekend!
@dyiu13 re: housing, I noticed you recently mentioned your daughter likes to go to bed at a certain time each night and relatively early. After seeing modern dorm living with my older student, that will be an important factor to mention on her roommate matching questionnaire. That, and perhaps taking a good pair of earplugs!
@GoldenWest This was the first question on housing application DD completed. She is a complete opposite of your DD @dyiu13 She can sleep past 11am and go to bed well after the midnight. She cannot wait for HS to be over and plans to have her classes start not before 10am.
@Ballerina016 - my older son is like that - night owl and very productive in the evening - and has been since the night he was born.
Congrats to everyone getting good news, and good luck to those going on scholarship weekend visits!
D got a surprise substantial merit scholarship yesterday from a school we weren’t expecting it from. She had already crossed the school off her list so this upset the apple cart a bit. I think getting the scholarship actually stressed her out since she was narrowing her list down and this seemed to open it up again. But after we talked it through we realized that this really isn’t the right school for her anyway and it is still off the list. Now I wish we could get a surprise scholarship from one of the schools she is still considering.
@me29034 This happened to us this week too. S has recently expressed that he is very stressed about this whole process and the choices he has, while he recognizes it is a great situation, are also actually making it harder. I showed him the merit award and he actually kind of sighed. I know in retrospect, he will realize he was very lucky, but it does muddy the waters a bit doesn’t it?
@labegg: your consistency (and your H’s) in major are offset by mine and by eldest step-D. Between us we racked up 9 majors before getting our BAs, and neither of us are working in the fields in which we majored (though I’m sort of working in hers).
Good luck to everyone with scholarship weekends, list-narrowing, Accutane, and icky weather! We have a rare weekend where both kids have a day unencumbered. It’s a shame it’s not the same day…but at least I can get the laundry caught up and the beginnings of driver’s-license-getting underway.
Last night I told DD that mom and dad could potentially be relocating to London with dad’s job. Just in time for her to begin studies at UCL. The look on her face was priceless. Ohh the thought of independence and late-night partying…
@CAMidwestMom i agree it’s nice to have options but also adds to the stress of making the decision. D has said that she almost wishes one of the schools she is still considering would do something that she didn’t like so she could easily eliminate it and and she could just be done with it.
D likes to go to bed very early-she has always needed a ton of sleep. Most of her schools require quiet hours after a certain time and some even have a curfew! She is happy for that. She’ll certainly be asking for a roommate who goes to bed early.
Here’s how crazy-making this whole process has been for me: last night I had a dream that one of the schools offered D a financial aid package that was literally a package-a large ziploc bag of a sugar-like substance that totaled about 2 years worth of the cost. I’m not entirely sure what she was supposed to do with this sugar stuff-but she was supposed to pay for her schooling with it. The scary thing was that I had the math correct even in my sleep!
Sitting in parents session for interview weekend right now. Way more students than we accepted . It’s funny to see how many of these students we have seen at other scholarship weekends.
Have fun @carolinamom2boys and good luck to your son!
For those who are still working through the Cornell IDOC issue, according to Cornell, you should start seeing them appear on your IDOC list shortly after the weekend. They only put the requests in over the last few days.
fingers crossed for your son @carolinamom2boys @Booajo if you are expecting flurries you might want to be sure to have something with good treads so you don’t slip on ice