@IABooks could you post a link to the Engineering thread you mentioned? Thanks so much!
DS’s interim report arrived today with some alarming (well, at least eyebrow raising) news. I think this quarter has been very tough between athletics & testing. Hope he puts some time in to get back to his normal grades before the end of the term.
Absolutely! When dd registered for her USC tour and registered for the June subject test, both made her fill them out as srs. It caught her off guard. She made a comment about how it didn’t seem real that she is part of the sr class now. I think it is slightly unnerving that adulthood is right there staring at them.
^^^ Agree!
And also, I feel as if I have aged about 10 years. Will Sr. year send me back 10 years or give me another 10??
@carachel2 Hate to break the news, but parenting adults is a tough job. Their decisions and choices are often far more life-altering than the ones they made when they were younger. I don’t get involved in their decisions, but it doesn’t mean that I am not praying for them and hoping they make the better choice. Watching them learn through the consequences of their decisions can be painful.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek …I’m slowly starting to realize! Life was so much easier when they sat in the cute little bouncy chair!
Oh well, love the adult she is becoming. But I can definitely see how hard the decisions and choices will be.
@jmek15 Found Engineering Major link
Thanks! @IABooks
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/
I’ll ask if they can make fast food faster there. 
A huge congrats on your students’ accomplishments - @greeny8 & @Mom2aphysicsgeek so impressive! You must be so proud.
@RightCoaster – your son sounds similar to my younger one - they surprise sometimes when they announce an interest in something we hope for but don’t really expect – but in my case not enough follow through yet. 
@Gator88NE – very funny – my DS too is not very engaged – tends to think we’ll make things work out the way he wants - trying to get counselor to open his eyes to engage!! but given how hectic the school year STILL is, I think it will be a big push this summer. We have seen 7-8 schools & have 8 or so to go. I think it still feels so far away to when he’ll start college that it’s hard to focus on this long process so far in advance. But yikes I went to the college essay organizer site and put it a list of schools and it proclaimed there are 23 “essays” to write – like Yikes!! can’t imagine. Think we’ll need outside help to organize, prioritize and try to stay on track. Really want to do as much as possible this summer. Need him though to look at actual programs and courses to make sure he’s really interested in the programs etc.
I was looking for a current thread and glanced down at my old ones…such history there. “Where are good linguistics programs with scholarships?” for DD’14, “Can my son get into [X, Y, Z] if he doesn’t agree to play football for them?” for DS’15, and now these threads for DS’17. It’s all going by SO fast. Which you all know already. But still. :((
I’m so glad I don’t have to be a nag. D is really enthusiastic about the process even if we don’t always see eye to eye on the particulars. We even listen to a couple of admissions podcasts together driving to school. But karma will bite me in the butt next year with S18.
Someone on another thread posted the following link to Compass’ estimates of score ranges for the 25th percentile to the 75th percentile for a number of popular schools using new SAT scores. http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/college-profiles-new-sat/
Now I will procrastinate some more and go through those…
EDIT: Well that was fast…the schools on my D’s list aren’t popular enough to have made Compass Prep’s list.
My daughter’s school ran a fire drill in the middle of her AP Stats test!! @-)
(She said it was nice to relax outside, but it broke the flow of everything, so in her opinion probably a wash. She’s sure it messed with a couple of the other students, though.)
Similar to what Ynotgo posted on the “concordance.”
Thanks @payn4ward for posting the link for @jmek15 . Just now catching up after the soccer game.
Omg @dfbdfb, a fire drill?!? What on earth?
I should take notes while reading…
Someone upthread mentioned making two sets of lists, one with NMSF and one without. For D, the same schools would appear on both lists, but the order of the schools would be very different if she does make the cutoff.
(I really don’t think she will, though.)
In the article on the SAT/ACT concordance table, they said that initial test takers weren’t likely to be typical students. What does that even mean?
Thank you for all of the suggestions on screenwriting majors everyone. I will take a look at your recommendations and see if I can drum up some interest.
@canypava I just made a chocolate sheet cake with peanut butter frosting from a blog called Sally’s baking addiction. It was amazing! If you DD loves the chocolate peanut butter combo, this dessert is for her.
@jedwards70 Chocolate and peanut butter cake…yes please! But my D doesn’t like either chocolate or peanut butter. She’s a total weirdo. That just means more for me. 
A few years ago, a kid pulled the fire alarm during AP exam week. So a lot of mess. I think they had to do a make up.
DS17 does not like chocolate nor ice cream nor candies.
When DS was around 6, a neighbor friend offered ice cream and DS said no.
He said to me, what did you do to your child? How can a child not like Ice cream?
(Umm, I never offered ice cream to DS (we did not have ice cream at home then) because my teeth were bad then :)) I guess he never recovered from childhood deprivation )
DS19 is a total different story. He loves sweets and has cavities to show for it.
@jedwards70 chocolate and peanut butter are the best combination!!! (Now I want a Reese’s, thanks…)
My D is always looking up recipes to bake, I’ll look that one up, thank you!
Edit : just found the recipe. Looks delish. Have you tried their pnut butter choc lava cake? Yum
I am SO far behind but if I do not post now, I will never remember to.
@2muchquan – both of my boys receive a lot of their news from the NYT. I think the older one has NYT and CNBC push stories/headlines out to his phone. I would hate the constant interruption, so I see my NYT stories on FB or the NYT app. Younger son pops in to retrieve his news on his phone.
Older son has access to free NYT on campus and is practically the only one in the house reading the NYT and WSJ, primarily at breakfast. (Too lazy to walk up the driveway to retrieve current day’s paper so will happily read prior days’ news.)
To really break her in slowly, have you tried theSkimm? News light, and apparently has a huge number of daily subscribers now. A little more wonky is Next Draft. Both will arrive as daily emails: theSkimm early AM summarizing prior day’s news and Next Draft around 4pm, usually that day or prior day’s news. Both are free email subscriptions.