News on the apparel front – directly from Cambridge, MA ! ! ! ! ! ! !
As some of you may remember, DS and DH are spending two days at Boston for the Scholars program at NEU.
Well, S had a document to drop off at MIT’s financial aid office. So, this morning they made their way from NEU to MIT. In the same trip, they stopped by the MIT shop and S bought an MIT hoodie! ! ! Out of his own initiative <:-P
He sent me a picture and asked me whether it would be in bad taste to wear it to school on Fridays
@Cheeringsection and @carolinamom2boys your posts make me glad we are sending D on the scholars’ weekend at her school in a couple of weeks. She and her assigned buddy have already been talking via text and seem to have lot in common.
D16’s revelation at breakfast this morning - “I don’t have to take the AP Calc exam”. Because our school district is self pay for the $92 per AP exam technically no one has to take the AP exam…but, we did a review of her projected college courses over the weekend and she is not required to take Calculus, she is required to take Statistics. I can see the wheels turning in her head, it’s the last 9 weeks, she is a senior and she has realized that AP Calc has little impact on her future education. Me- “It’s not an excuse to slack off.”
Sounds wonderful @kittymom1102 He should wear it loud and proud!
@labegg You and I are of a very like mind (-; , but I also have to admire your daughter’s strategic planning skills as well!
I just realized that we bought shirts and apparel at over a dozen schools, plus some cups and mugs and we wear them all of the time, but lo and behold, what school did we never hit the bookstore at, yep, University of Delaware, lol. Luckily D got some UD swag from her Scholars Weekend, including a hoodie. If she chooses to go there, at least it is a relatively short drive to get me some gear (-: I mean who doesn’t want to celebrate being a, um, Blue Hen…ok, so mascot is not one of the plusses for that school.
My D owns shirts from two schools. One we purchased and the other was given free at a tour. These just happen to be the last two schools being considered.
I also wonder what you are referring to about the overnights @carolinamom2boys . My D has not been able to do any overnights and I wonder what exactly we are missing. I have actually heard mixed things about them - for example, if you happen to get matched with a host that you don’t click with it can negatively reflect on the school even though it was just one person. What do you really learn that was different than what you learned through the regular visit? Did it reinforce what you already knew or did it actually contradict things that you were being told by admissions?
@Skates76 and @kittymom1102 Congratulations on being closer to a decision. We are getting further from shore on the SS Indecision. S is on spring break and called me at work to tell me it was a banner mail day for him. Further info from WashU, follow up acceptance packages from Rochester and Brandeis and Brandeis offered him a nice merit scholarship that S did not see coming. And, he got an acceptance to University of Richmond today. I haven’t been following that forum much and did not know those packages were mailed. Lot more discussions and visits in the next month. I’m eating lunch at my desk but I have to go get my head back into work for several hours before I can go read everything that came. LOL
I don’t feel comfortable telling exactly what happened, but the atmosphere on campus was different at night than the organized event. That’s all I feel comfortable saying.
@carolinamom2boys It is great that you were able to spot a trouble during your visit. Much better than after you already committed. My only concern since I have a girl and with girls it is all about emotions, if she just doesn’t click with her peers during her visit, and than you have a situation like @fretfulmother first visit to MIT. ( Yes, it strikes very close to home since I can see my girl telling me exactly the same thing. )
All the t-shirt comments are interesting. S just asked me to buy him a certain school t-shirt when I was out yesterday and he was home doing homework. Maybe he’s made his decision, but I won’t believe it until I see him actually wear the shirt. (And tell me to put down the deposit?)
I can tell you it’s a personal decision what each of you choose to do . I mentioned and recommended it because I felt that it was important for people to consider. I will tell you this. We have visited this school multiple times for scheduled activities and interviews, both in the daytime and at night. I have a responsible mature son who does not overreact. It wasn’t that he “didn’t click” with his host. He was fine during the scheduled activity with the other attendees. He learned some things when the planned activities stopped that made it very clear that he would not feel comfortable attending that school. Enough that I drove 45 minutes to pick him up at midnight. I shared because I thought it was important for everyone to know that things may be different during an overnight than any other visit. I have always respected everyone on this thread when they have said that they want their privacy respected, is appreciate the same. I’m sorry I ever said anything.
D bought a t-shirt at every campus she thought was a possibility. Her school has a t-shirt reveal day for the seniors… so she needed “just-the-right-t-shirt” so it would look good for the class picture! I only bought one for myself when we went for a revisit to her final choice.
We have a charter school in town that requires kids wear a polo or a college-t shirt; and they are always happy to take donations of gently worn t-shirts- so we may be dropping those off soon.
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