@kittymom1102 congrats on Vandy! Vanderbilt does a great job welcoming and supporting kids from all kinds of backgrounds-- in fact, Vanderbilt was home for the original ‘Posse’ scholarship group back in the 80’s-- all of the original Posse graduated from Vanderbilt. And Nashville is a great city to explore and… the weather-- well its definitely not Boston!
Unfortunately, I am almost bald and short on top of being Indian with not too southern Indian accent. 
I’m going to have to jump on the gender ratio train since I’m going to a women’s college! They will be guys around (there is a co-Ed campus of the same college nearby and students from there can take classes where I’m going and vice versa) plus there is a male heavy engineering school(RPI- I lol’ed about your comment @AsleepAtTheWheel !) up the road. But I’m not too concerned about finding a guy- it’s not in my priorities. @sseamom I have to admit when I read about your D’s long list of requirements no guy will probably never meet, I thought of Darcy from Pride and Prejudice! Yes I am a nerd. 
@OspreyCV22 That was indeed the bank that sent the “offer” since my daughter’s ID was stolen last summer I have opened every piece of bank/financial piece of mail that has her name on it. I am so worried that someone will open an account in her name and ruin her credit before she is aware it is happening. That these banks would target kids to young to really understand how a 30% interest rate can do to their credit and life is an outrage.
@kittymom1102 congrats on the Mosaic/vandy acceptance. You son sounds like he will have a surplus of great offers coming to him.
@Booajo even though you are disappointed it wasn’t a full ride, getting full tuition is still a great success. Congrats.
Congrats to all who have finalized their college selection.
@happymochi my DD is still working on scholarship essays too. It seems to be never ending. I keep telling her to bear in mind the per hour rate if she gets the scholarship money will be more than she will earn for quite a long while. She worked for 8 weeks full time last summer and made less than what some of these scholarships offer.
Haven’t posted much on this forum, but I have tried to scan the posts-which is next to impossible.
Two things, are girls still matching bedding with their roommates, and what reasonably priced girl and guy graduation gifts are you parents thinking of? (sorry if this has already been covered)
Add us to the list of people still working on scholarship essays. Yes, both of us, since DD is working on them occasionally and I nag her constantly. She has 6 scholarships applications due in two weeks and doesn’t want to work on them.
I got busy at work and missed a lot of good news! So congrats to those with acceptances, scholarships and final decisions.
DS is still working on honors college applications. Ugh.
DS has been admitted to three schools so far. He got a call from one of them the other night asking if the school was still in the running. He answered that they were definitely in his top three right now.
What a great response to the school by your DS @Almondjoy7 ! Would it still be in his top 3 if he had 6 acceptances at this point? ;-).
We are also in the scholarship-writing (or lack thereof) boat.
We have a list & every time one is submitted, DS crosses it off. The thing is, I keep adding to the list 
I don’t see that as a bad thing. For the most part the essays are somewhat similar- just crafting them to meet the scholarship app. I hate that I have to nag him but, I think it is crazy not to try.
I did not nag my D about local scholarships. The GC at the HS told them about the ones available and deadlines, she applied to a few that she thought she might have a chance at. She had already been awarded a full tuition scholarship, anything else was icing on the cake.
She did end up winning a few, which gave us an extra $2500, but they are only good for the first year.
She was not too thrilled about the fact that she had to report the scholarships as taxable income.
For graduation we paid for dinner, pictures, grad party, yearbook, cap and gown. All the college paraphernalia. We got D a necklace and she wanted to visit my sister in Germany so we paid for the flight.
D came up with a whole new list of scholarships yesterday (no school), so now she has even more to fill out! But those are national, and the real effort is going into local ones. She knows this is the priciest college on her list of top choices, so she wants to reduce her part of the finances if possible.
D has said she doesn’t need much, and she’s right. We’re giving her a party, but I have no idea what kind of gift we’ll give her. She hasn’t asked for anything.
@helpfulandtrying SOME girls still try matching their bedding, etc. Some of D’s friends already at college have done this. I told D not to get her hopes up, but that if she has contact info for her roommate early enough she should at least warn her about what she’s bringing.
@readingclaygirl D was just talking to me this morning about how she’s one of the most focused on her education in her class and the boys are not, so she just hasn’t dated. She’s concerned that this will spill over into college. I told her that some of her college’s reviews mention the intellectual conversations and dedication to education there so that she’s bound to meet some boys who have the same goals in life. Plus she’s young, she has plenty of time. But yeah, she’s picky.
@sseamom The majority of guys in my high school are jerks. There’s no need to rush and I don’t think pickiness is a bad trait.
I agree with you @readingclaygirl. My S16 didn’t really date that much. He went to two homecomings over the past four years, but nothing serious. He just now started dating a girl who is awesome. She very much appreciates him and I know he appreciates her. As far as timing, it’s a little rough that he met her right as college decisions are being made and him possibly going away, but you can’t always pick the timing. A lot of kids in high school do act jerkish, but some of them are just immature and they will grow up and be decent people. Some probably not lol. Glad that you know for sure that there is NO reason to put up with jerkish behavior.
How do I search on this thread for a past conversation?
My DS16 is the male version of @readingclaygirl and @sseamom 's daughter. He certainly won’t date a girl he can’t have relevant , intellectual conversations with. He’s not athletic, quite nerdy. He has lots of friends that are girls, but he’s stuck in the “friend” zone. He’s perfectly fine with that for right now. He has liked several girls in the past that have definitely sent mixed signals, so now he’s gun shy. One of his top choices of schools is 66% female, so at least his odds are good .
@carolinamom2boys Atleast he got some signals from girls, be they mixed or not! LOL
I never learned to read signals from girls (or later women); I don’t know if our sons can or not. Lucky for me my wife made the first move. If any girl in my high school gave me a second glance I don’t know about it.
@mstomper You sound like my son. It has rattled his confidence some though.
@mstomper, it works the other way around too…my D18 missed some signals from a boy just last week. We were at the DPS waiting to get her license when a boy in front of us was eavesdropping on our conversation and turned around to strike up a conversation with her. D18 goes to school with the boy although really doesn’t know him, but he seemed to know who she is and even that he was in a class with D18’s best friend. He kept looking for commonalities she was clueless.
@mstomper I thought you were a Mom because I read your screen name as Ms Tomper. Whoops.