I’d like to join the beverage brigade please. Still no financial aid letters. They say next week. Unbelievable.
I want a beverage. I suppose in theory, I could be the lone passenger on the SS Indecision in a few months since S signed the form to pursue the transfer option at Cornell. Aaahhhhhhhhhh!!!
My S has two schools which he absolutely cannot decide between. As soon as he starts favoring one he hears something great about the other…it’s a great problem to have, but no idea how he will ever decide! My ten year old told him she will get him Hermione’s time turner so he can attend both.
Little brothers and sister can provide the most humorous form of relief from the insanity of it all.
Hey, we are back from spring break and I’ve been trying to catch up on everybody’s news. I’m so sorry to hear about the difficulty your Ds and Ss are having with their decisions. It’s such a big one! And happy to see that several other’s kids have decisions nailed down, and will be sttending some really awesome schools!
My H can’t make it to our admitted students weekend, next week, so we’ll be attending a local meet and greet. Hoping to find nice parents to connect with! It’s pretty small LAC school so I expect the turnout will be relatively small. But they’re having get a pizza and beer at place in downtown, so that will be fun!
We loved our annual trip home, to So California. Too bad we weren’t able to see any of our SoCal CC friends! (maybe next year, and @CAMidwestMom can join us!) Boy, was the weather gorgeous, and everyone was super friendly*. We had friends with us, from MN, on the trip, so It was nice that it went so well. *We forgot how happy everybody can be when it’s not cloudy and snowing or raining every day!! I still can’t believe that neither of our boys are interested in going to school there. S17 is set on going to school in the Pacific Northwest or Colorado, somewhere near mountains. We’ll see if we can swing that! In the meantime… On to Iowa!
Sending good wishes, and many tasty cocktails, to those still on USS Indecision! Hopefully the boat stops rocking soon!
Good luck with all the visits and decisions! I went on a field trip to the state capital today-pretty interesting
So sorry to hear about the teacher at your school, @readingclaygirl. So much sadness in your community recently. Hopefully people are pulling together, and her treatment will be successful.
@4kids2graduate - Also, thoughts go out to my old community of Thousand Oaks (H worked there and we lived down the hill, in Camarillo) for the loss of their Senior student. While on break, I learned that an LMU classmate of mine, who is was a resident and attorney in Thousand Oaks, passed away in late March, unexpectedly, due to a complication from minor surgery. He was so healthy, and doing great. Kids attending UC Berkley and West Point. It is difficult to wrap one’s head around such unexplained losses.
Greetings from the Midwest snow! On our SS Indecision cruise, we’re lurching towards a port, I think. Last week’s visit to the “#3, but maybe off the table” school briefly pulled it back up onto the table, but then I think it slowly settled back down somewhere on the 5.5 hour flight home. We’re now 4 hours away, at the school that was tied at the top. After a day and an overnight, it seems to have settled into the #2 position, leaving us with next weekend’s ~90 minute flight to go.
He’s given a lot of reasons and is clearly thinking through this a lot, and pretty well, too, I think. I’m hoping we are nearing a decision, though. Mama’s ready to pull the ship into port and disembark.
Minor teary melt down last night over a piano lesson. Piano teacher asked D16 to cut a few pages from a comtemporary song she is playing for the spring recital because the piece is rather long in conjunction with the other lengthy classical piece she is playing . D16 feels that cutting the bars degraded the quality of the piece. She feels that though they are melodically repetitive they builds the momentum of the piece. So I told her that she is old enough and experienced enough to make the argument to her piano teacher.
My D17 would be delighted if her teacher suggests to shorten the piece for the recital! She hates performing in front of people! Your D must really love it!
Tons of peer pressure at school for my son to pick Stanford. Everyone has a vote, apparently, and they all think he should join the same forest as @cardinal2020mom 's daughter.
Sometimes I wish we could use Hermione’s time turner and go back and tweak the application process. In hindsight, he applied to too many schools. For him it was not about chalking up acceptances, but making sure he had a choice of two schools. And it was hard to know where to shoot to make that happen. So since you don’t know the future, you make the best decisions you can, knowing the long odds.
Wishing everyone a happy weekend!
@piesquared - If that is your big issue, then I have no sympathy for you. 
So what are the choices and why NOT S?
Oops. Didn’t mean to complain or sound whiney. My apologies if I did. I just think it’s funny how everyone has an opinion. And S is very much in the running, but since admitted students day isn’t until the VERY LAST weekend, we’ll be hanging out on the ss indecision for a while
So what other schools does he need to evaluate/eliminate? I can tell you now if he goes to admtted days, he wont have any other schools he will consider.
Why is that, @texaspg? How good is the show they put on?
They bought the sun, the moon, the good weather, and happy people all around putting on a show that is supposedly unbeatable.
Hmmm. So, like me, the weather makes a difference for you. Hmmm…
I have not been to any admitted days at any school. However, knowing people who did - I know what has made a difference to them.
@piesquared you mean to tell me your son is interested in the best school for him and not exclusively basing his decision on what elicits the most fawning from a Greek chorus of prestige aficionados?? Oh, these crazy kids nowadays! 