I too think that would be a little creepy @happymochi
I follow a few twitter feeds of schools.Had one school 2020 page request a follow, as my setting is private.
Also letting it sit- I feel it is more for the students & they probably don’t want an old-fogy parent following their tweets.
“Had one school 2020 page request a follow…”
I did too but probably because I’ve lurked on their pages. Son refuses to “like” any of his schools for fear of jinxing his outstanding applications. My Facebook is in our dog’s name so they couldn’t have made the connection other wise. Our dog has a different last name from the rest of the family 
Maybe a dog will like the CC page.
One can be an ORM and still be a diversity candidate at some schools where ORMs are not as well represented as their peers. Vandy and Asians come to mind.
Talked to my techy kid and we still can’t figure out the mysterious IG follow. After some of you mentioned FB, I wondered if there was a connection. I do follow the school’s two FB pages (one regular, one for admissions) and did "like’ one of their admissions posts back in December. I also posted an IG photo on my FB page a couple of weeks ago. However, my FB is set to “friends only” privacy, and even my S, who is not on FB, can’t see anything. And on IG, I don’t follow them at all because I am rarely on there.
@EastGrad haha! Thanks for that laugh. I’m just an ordinary gal, and my IG is harmless - mostly photos of our dog and the kids at various events or on birthdays. I hardly remember to post anything on there.
@texaspg You have a good point. In this school’s case, he’d be pretty well represented.
@OspreyCV22 I love the idea of our dog having a FB page! LOL! My son and I have also decided not to join any Class of 2020 admitted students and parent FB pages until all decisions are in. Don’t want to give the impression that he’s made a decision until he’s actually made it.
@Ballerina016 Congratulations on NMF!!!
Congratulations to @Ballerina016 and any others advancing to NMF! May the scholarship $s advance to you as well!!
I see no harm in her taking the test @labegg. I am glad that she gets to be there for all the health science special events. She should get a good feel for the school and her potential classmates. Keep us posted!
S was notified today that he was accepted to the Honors College at Florida State. It wasn’t a huge surprise, and he’s hoping that he won’t have to avail himself of it-- but it remains a really good option pending the upcoming March results.
Congrats to those with positive admissions and scholarship news and those who are narrowing choices and making decisions.
More ice cream for those with bad news.
I’ll be posting this regularly - we’re still waiting (in a sing song voice).
Congrats to your S @petrichor11 ! <:-P
Congrats @petrichor11 and @Ballerina016 .
@happymochi I think that is totally creepy (that they follow you). Why would they want to? They hundreds, thousands of applicants over the years, plus parents. I don’t get how they found you and why they would bother looking on your instagram page.
Did you leave your personal email address somewhere? On the common app? I think email address is always a way to find people online. Just a hunch.
@suzyQ7 I know, right?!! The Common App does ask for parents’ email addresses, but you can’t find my IG through googling my email. I tried searching using my email and nothing major pops up. :-/
@petrichor11 That’s great news!
@critter @4kids2graduate Thank you for the heads up on financial aid. I sure hope so. I just checked the forum for one of the mid-March schools, and in the past they sent out awards about a week later…just before April 1st.
@happymochi I do think most of the mid-late March notification schools sent out FA offers with their acceptances, but there was probably an outlier or two that sent it a little delayed after the acceptance…it has been just enough years (5) that I cannot recall accurately, so sorry!
Question for all - FA offers this year for S16 will be based on the fact that his sister (D14) is also a sophomore in college so we will have two in at the same time. That is well and good for the next two years…but the unknown of S16’s final two years once his older sister graduates is keeping me up at night and stressing S out as well. Have any of you had experience with this…have you been able to ask schools to “project” anticipated expenses for future years once a sibling drops off of the equation?
I am a bit panicked that what we see as affordable for the first two years could end up NOT being affordable the last two years. It would be absolutely awful if S16 could not afford to finish his last two years due to his cost going up significantly.
On my more paranoid days, I wonder if adcoms or other stakeholders browse these CC posts. Then, I figure they’re too busy. But, who knows?!
I am holding off on sharing any of D16’s college-decision news on my own personal social media (FB, I guess) until “national decision day.” At this point, I am starting to wonder if I should keep it short and sweet or meander into a pride-filled spiel – an ode to this wonderful kid who overcame immense hardship to realize her goal. I really don’t know which way to go. I guess I have more potential to offend with the second approach. It would be interesting to hear thoughts on this fork in the road.
@PAO2008 I am hearing that being sung by Dori in “Finding Nemo” to the tune of “Just keep swimming”. That sounds about right.
@dyiu13 When D got into her top choice, we went all out. It meant that she did what she said she would do and has some great choices in her future. No matter where she ends up, the journey was one we wanted to celebrate. YMMV.
We had a bit of drama today. Seconds before D had to be at her driving appointment, she realized she’d LOST her permit. So, no drive. After tearing apart her room, the living room and the dining room, no luck. She did find the paper permit she was sent before she got her hard copy, and the instructor will accept that, so all is not lost, other than the $20 for the cancelled class and the $20 to replace the laminated permit. I wanted to yell, but kept myself together. In her defense, it’s been a rough, crazy two weeks, but this is the sort of thing you keep track of! Sheesh.
Doesn’t the money being used for the older kid become available for the younger one when older one graduates?
Financial aid is operating on a simple principle - what can the family afford given the income and savings. If your older kid stays longer in school, then younger one probably gets to keep the same FA but the moment that person is out of school, the money being allocated to that kid now becomes available to the one going to school.
@4kids@graduate-
Run the net price calculators with both scenarios. We ran S '13’s with S’13 present and then without his info. It varied from school to school because the formulas are all different. Plus you might want to think about how your financial circumstances may change in the meantime and make adjustments accordingly.
No disrespect but “financial aid is operating on a simple principle” made me LOL! I know what you mean, because that would make sense, but after going through this process with 5 kids, it seems like a huge oxymoron. Getting them into college is the relatively easy part. It’s the FA process that makes us crazy!
Congrats @ petrichor11 and @Ballerina016 !
@4kids2graduate my understanding is that FA expects you to pay a bit more than"half of what you can afford" per each of the two of them. Like if you can “afford” 10,000 then they allot six thousand per kid and you pay 12,000 that year. Presumably when DD graduates, you go back to paying all the 10,000 but just for DS.
@sseamom Been there done that with the driver’s permit and cancelled drive - more than once, with more than one kid. I felt like I was reliving it as I read you description!
@critter yes, it is the FA that contributes to my gray hair the most, and it never works out neat and tidy!
@texaspg We fall in that donut hole…not low income enough to get great need based aid…a bit, just not enough. Not high enough income to cover the amount they say we could and should cover.
It really isn’t as simple as “what the family can afford given the income and savings”. My college kids have to contribute alot more to make up for what FAFSA and NPC say parents can “afford” which is always more than we actually can afford. So, my kids pay more and we pay less to make it work in our financial world. My kids find scholarships, earn more during the year than they are required to “contribute”, live very frugally off campus, and have some money to use that was put away for them by a grandparent years ago…plus what we can afford. So, the entire amount of money that was allocated to the first kid isn’t “available” for the second kid. Some yes, but not enough (or that is my fear).
Also, I believe they have changed the formula over the years that calculates the EFC. I know when my first child S11 was applying to colleges (and our finances are roughly the same now)…running the NPCs at that time calculated a much lower EFC than what our EFC comes out to now. So…will things continue to change with the formulas/calculations over the next 4 years?
Congrats @petrichor11 and @Ballerina016!
Wow, @4kids2graduate, that’s a tough one. If @dyiu13 is right about adcoms merrily reading along with us, I hope your description of how hard your family works to make up your FC makes it back to financial aid offices. I vote to let him go to his choice, but explain your reservations. If he ends up working harder or receiving loans, he will be prepared. This is your last one, right? Maybe you will end up with a bit more via saved food expenses, gas, school fees, club costs, and other things.
@dyiu13, I think we’d all like to share your great news. I vote for the spiel.