Not really. We had been spammed by schools where the kids already had finished apps and acceptances.
UA still not showing ACT has been received via MyBama. That ain’t right. It’s been like 2 weeks. Sigh. They should hold back one of those scholarships and get their App process fixed. It’s a mess.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek & @CaucAsianDad – my older son, a rising college Jr, still receives email invites to attend HS summer college at the school he presently attends!
@itsgettingreal17 - Another thing we have in common 
I have access to my S’s social media accounts. I let him create his own accounts in middle school with stipulation that I should have access until he goes to college. I guess another single child trait
@Ynotgo - UCSD is dropping Bioinformatics with Chemistry emphasis (that’s my son’s first priority!). I guess we will try to check it out with Biology department.
Wow. I give D17 a certain amount of privacy. I share her college email account, but not her private one. We are FB friends, but not SnapChat.
Fake-kid? I see ALL his stuff. No arguments, thankfully.
My mom checked our emails when we first got them but not anymore. As for social media she did recently friend me on face book with the caveat she won’t comment on anything or post on my timeline
My DS told me I can post his photos on my FB timeline but can’t tag him! He is not that active on FB.
I do not have access to my kids e-mail accounts (unless they leave their gmail open on my computer), but one stipulation of FB was that I could friend them. S barely uses FB. D uses it a little. I am friends with a lot of her friends too. It is pretty benign. D snapchats more. I do not have a snapchat account.
Digging through my DS17’s e-mail…the last ten would be:
U-Pitt
Colby (who, for some reason has sent several e-mails over the last few weeks)
Furman
UCF
Florida Southern College
Rose-Hulman
Penn State
Northwestern
Yale
Franklin University -Switzerland :-??
Just feels random to me. Over the last 6 or 7 weeks he’s gotten e-mails from most of the Ivy’s and at least two that are “diversity” related, Harvard Undergraduate Minority Recruitment and Pomona College Admission Diversity office. Harvard’s group is willing to answer any questions we may have, while Pomona wants us to apply for one of two Fly-in programs. We’ve also gotten e-mails from all of the regular suspects, Tulane, Ohio State, UCLA ($38K a year in OOS Tuition?..HAHAHAHA =)) ).
D is back at the hotel with H and G. She thought Olin was “interesting”. Which could mean anything. I said “on the list or off the list?” she said “on, but I need to do more investigation just in case it’s actually a cult and not a college.” Love her sense of humor.
I’m waiting to hear what H thinks about it. I bet he must be exhausted; they’ve been driving all over hell’s half acre today and they are back in Boston in their third (!) hotel in three days. Hey, I didn’t make the itinerary. Oh wait, I did ;
I am friends on both D’s instagram accounts, with the agreement that they have them and I don’t tag them on it. I can tag them on FB since “only old people are on it” and they cross post their instagram stuff with facebook. I just got snapchat so I can follow D on her trip-that’s a rather exhausting app to figure out, but she said it was the easiest way to keep up with what she’s doing. I’ve banned tumblr because it’s worthless and a huge time suck. We all use groupme as a backup, and they skype with their friends.
I can look at their stuff if I want to, and I have occasionally in the past asked them to hand over their phones. If I want to look at their stuff I do it with them and they know I’m doing it. Younger D got all her social media taken away last year and only recently has earned it back-she gets more oversight than older D because she has shown us that she needs it. She got way too sucked into social media stuff.
@MotherOfDragons – 3 hotels in 3 days - ouch!!! Looking forward to more of their report - Olin is considered quite a gem by certain students - we’d like to visit but not time yet to do that. It might be a cult to the students it cultivates!
Just learned DS has to get wisdom teeth out – ugh - but better to do over the summer than during the school year I suppose.
To be fair, he and his dad decided they wanted to do three hotels. Sunday night was Copley Plaza (or something copley), last night was some place in Worcester, and tonight they’re back in Boston by Logan airport. I picked the colleges to visit, he did the three hotels! The first one was so they could do touristy stuff, the second one was proximity to WPI and Olin, and the third is obviously an easy trip to the airport tomorrow. I think they turned in their rental car tonight, as well.
I think the only real line crosser would be if my parents read my texts. I mean technically they could because they pay the cell phone bill but I do have private conversations with friends that I’d rather not them read plus they said they won’t. But, I only got the ability to text at 15, almost 16 and a iPhone at 17 and FB at 18. And I don’t use snapchat. I don’t see the point
@srk2017, @itsgettingreal17 not a single kid trait. I have access to all accounts. Social media is fine as long as I am their friend lol. With the agreement I won’t tag or comment on most things. For email, I am the only one who can change passwords on the main account and require secondary accounts to be forwarded. For me it has more to do with making sure they don’t miss things, I only see incoming unless I log in as them, which I rarely if ever do. It also has to do with keeping an eye out for other relative contact that could be problematic so it’s a safety measure on multiple levels.
@MotherOfDragons My DD17 doesn’t even use FB anymore because it’s “for old people.” LoL. She has an Instagram and Twitter but rarely uses them. She mainly uses Snapchat and I don’t have Snapchat. My 10 yo DD (wow that would be DD24 - weird!) just started using FB with the caveat that her dad and I both have the password and we are both her friends and she must ask one of us before she adds any friends. It’s mainly family.
I don’t monitor texts or snapchat or vine or…well really anything. Just need to have my eye on things due to the relative situation (drug addict bio dad who occasionally causes issues and messes with their head) and it is helpful to make sure they don’t miss stuff. They are very aware that I can see incoming and could care less. Both are SO bad about deleting junk mail that they lose important things and actually rely on me to keep on top of it (which isn’t really a good thing, S19 is better than S17 on that front). I don’t see what they send, just what comes in and S19 doesn’t even have any social medial, S17 just deleted snapchat as it was a mindless time suck according to him. LOL!
I did go in and clean up a bunch of junk for S17 not all that long ago, it was awful!
Thankfully D’s last 10 are all from schools of interest. Unsubscribing has cut down on unwanted emails and snail mail. But here’s the worst “mail incident.” There was a school D was interested in but hadn’t contacted yet. A flyer came in the mail from them and I handed it to her, “Hey look, University X is interested in you too!” It was addressed to her brother (S18). Sigh.
@CA1543, well our kids have three over-lapping schools: WPI, Case, and RIT. She had RPI and Northeastern on the list (and enjoyed visits at those two), but they have fallen off.
I don’t check up on DS17, but I probably should for DC21. We are FB friends with both our kids, but that is less than the tip of the iceberg.
There are so many things DS is on besides the usual social media. He doesn’t post much on FB or Twitter, but he’s on several “Slack” teams, GitHub teams for various projects, and an encrypted chat client that his hacking team modified from an open source client. I know where his tumblr blog is, but he doesn’t post much except his 3D modeling images.
DC21 uses Instagram a lot, but I don’t do Instagram. Both my kids use aliases to avoid giving out their real names on pretty much everything but FB and email.
I think he is using the FB private group for his summer program at the program. He added a bunch of the kids as FB friends when he got there.
He also does not want to be tagged on FB, but DH does it anyway, but at least not for things that are “too” nerdy.
I do remind him to check email occasionally, because I know he has missed some things. He has forwarded some emails while he’s been away, so perhaps he is keeping up with email a bit.
@MotherOfDragons Olin is really small school. Hard to get in and the selection process is weird too as an FYI.
Cool place though for the right candidates. It used to be free!