@srk2017 – Super congrats to your DS for ScienceO!! What a fabulous experience and outcome. Thanks for sharing!
@srk2017 Congratulations to your son!
@srk2017 , congrats! To your son on his and his team accomplishments!!
Thank you for all replied on G Tech and Emory visit. We have a good friend there at Atlanta, and she can take D to visit the schools. It is too scary for her and friends to go by themselves, even with the teacher.
@4beardolls , on LORs, can the teachers use what they wrote for your D’s summer camp? I thought they could do copy, paste, minimal editing?
Anybody’s kid is exerciseholic? Swimming season is long over and D has been doing at least one workout a day and two on the weekend - in the morning when she gets up and one before she goes to bed. That girl is ripped!!
@4beardolls Your post is exactly what I am concerned about. I wonder how competitive the outside scholarships are and are they based on need?
@srk2017 Congrats to your son and his team!!! <:-P <:-P
@Mom2aphysicsgeek CLS is more competitive than NSLI-Y. Dd knows someone from her Arabic classes here who was awarded one for this summer. She also knows many here and around the country who were not accepted. No need component. Summer only.
I imagine that Boren Awards are insanely competitive https://www.borenawards.org for the summer (STEM only), semester, and full year programs. Recipients are required to work a minimum of a year for the federal government in a national security area. Dd has noticed some schools like to announce how many Boren Scholars and Fellows they have.
I think whatever the opposite of exerciso-holic is, is my kids. They both got my metabolism, though, so they’re just tall and skinny with no endurance. They do walk a lot all day for school, and younger D swims at the Y in our neighborhood, so they get some but they’re definitely not athletes.
We had to ground younger D from going to the Ren fest today with her improv group because she’d promised to do all her homework/study before she went, and nope, it wasn’t done. That was a drag. Especially since we were going to drive her and three of her friends all the way down and back, and she had to text them to find another ride. I think she was testing us. I hate being the bad guy, but they have finals coming up. Actually this time DH was the grim trigger-I was asking her to show me her AP World homework/study packet, and she sassed me, and DH said “that’s it, no Ren fest tomorrow, you’re staying home and studying like we’ve been asking you to do all week.”
She was still mad at me instead of DH, though. Ah, parenthood.
Older D is studying mostly for the ACT and SAT coming up-she’s still using Magoosh. She has been looking at some colleges on her own-her opinion this morning was “they mostly look the same”. I don’t know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.
@srk2017 congrats to your son! That must have been epic!
I’m reading Oliver Sachs “An Anthropologist on Mars” for one of my classes, and all of the short stories the professor picked are about artists who have lost their vision or had brain damage. As an artist who has to go to the retina specialist once a year because she’s so nearsighted, these short stories gave me a straight-up full blown panic attack this morning.
I have trouble remaining objective and not feeling strong sympathy or empathy (the movies Homeward Bound and Inside Out make me cry like crazy), and Sach’s delight in describing stuff because he has the medical detachment freaks me the hell out. I haven’t even had breakfast yet and I had to go sit in a quiet room and meditate and do some yoga to get back some semblance of equilibrium. I rarely have panic attacks-it takes something that really strikes at the core of my fears, like blindness or my kids getting hurt. Sucks!
@srk2017 Congratulations to your S—what an accomplishment to place that high at Nationals!
@WhereIsMyKindle That is my worry. If we stretch our budget to the limit with regular attendance costs, there won’t be anything left for study abroad. Since most programs require it for a language degree, it will,put us between a rock and a hard place.
Congrats to your son @srk2017! That’s awesome! Hope ya’ll had some time for fun while there.
Been away for a wedding so I’m at the airport catching up!!
@MotherOfDragons congrats on your D grade in physics! Happy dance for you and you’re on your way to NMF!
@srk2017 great results for Olympiad. I wish my kids would do stuff like that
@SincererLove my D17 exercises a lot. She cheers from June thru Feb and she’s been having withdrawals. She tries to keep up a daily routine. OTOH my D16 is like me and @MotherOfDragons a couch potato athlete. Luckily we all have good genes and are naturally lean.
Re: naviance, my kids schools doesn’t have it and hearing all of the info you get from it we are sorely missing out. I feel like I’m living in the dark ages
@srk2017 Congratulations to your S and his team on the great achievements at the competition! I’m sure they’re exhausted but excited at how well they did.
Re: study abroad. For those looking at NMSF big scholarship schools, consider those that offer a 5th year of tuition as it works out to be very significant benefit if your child needs a year of study abroad, especially if a Flagship program. I’ve been running all sorts of possibilities to see what scholarships work out best given the significant number of study abroad my D will need to reach her goals. OU, even though not a full ride, works out the least expensive option for us assuming no outside scholarships like Boren, etc. And as I noted, a number of schools we are looking at have internal study abroad scholarships. So take s look at that as well.
Congrats @srk2017 to your S. That’s what all that hard work is for!
Congrats srk2017 to your son for placing well, good job!
Live streaming of our 2016 graduation ceremony right now. D is right in the camera shot of all the kids walking in (800+). She plays in the orchestra, so has to play that grad song (pomp and circumstance?) over…and over…and over. And over.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek, I think @itsgettingreal17’s post #5414 is a terrific option, particularly for NMF. When DS14 and I did a campus visit at OU three years ago, their advisor specifically talked about the NMF scholarship will help cover study aboard. I didn’t realize (as @WhereIsMyKindle wisely pointed out) that CLS is more competitive than NSLI-Y. Both of my kids did NSLI-Y in high school so I was thinking they should apply to CLS and Boren Award. Perhaps both programs could be out of reach for my STEM kids due to program competitiveness. (By they way, to answer your question above, both are merit scholarships)
At any rate, @Mom2aphysicsgeek, I applaud you for including this aspect into your college financial planning.
@SincererLove, I think the teachers can use some of what they wrote for DD’s summer camp. However, the summer program LOR was more focused on recommending her for science research internship. Ideally, the teacher should expand and talk about her as a whole person when they write the college LOR.
@itsgettingreal17 Excellent point about the 5th yr. Other than AL and OK, are ther others w a 5th yr option? (We are banking on NMF, so if that doesn’t come through, her options pretty much cease to exist.)
Thank you all. They were up till 5AM to celebrate!