Fun fact- in the UK it costs 13 pounds to apply to one school and 23 pounds to apply to between 2 and 5 schools. You cannot apply to more than 5.
I’ll be shocked if Chicago’s acceptance rate doesn’t drop below 6 or 7% after all of their marketing. Sadly, we won’t be “helping” their stats.
@2muchquan, as far as I know ever. Other schools have gone undefeated when there were only 8 conference games, but UofI was the only team to go 9-0. The conference went to 8 conference games after that. And then the conference expanded to the the BIG10 + 2 then + 4 and split into divisions. So a useless fact that I can throw around.
Unless I answered the wrong question and you meant over how many years DW and I have been married for her to google as above.
We’ve been married 26 years, and (Joke of the day warning) several of them happy. B-)
To all other posters, apologies…
We won’t be helping UChicago either STEM2017!
Big 10 is going to 9 game conference schedule this year for football. Plus the conference title game.
Ohio State was 8-0 in the conference in 2014. And they won the Big Ten title game. So in 2014, they were 9-0 against Big Ten teams.
@RightCoaster How did the lax game go? The heat has been brutual. Hope everything went well with the coaches.
Hold on to that one @Dave_N! It sounds very special. Almost as special as UIUC bragging about Mosaic being invented by them 25 years ago. I should put that in the thread about places moving down after a visit!
Go Blue. 
QOTD2 Is that legal??? Maybe **QOTA/b?
Which academic summer program(s) have your kids gone to, and what have they thought of them?
DD went to Operation Catapult at Rose Hulman, and loved it. Rose Hulman might be her top choice for school now!
She also went to a UMass Amherst program, an engineering sampler. She HATED that one… Too boring, nothing to do. When they asked her what she learned, she said “how to follow directions”.
QOTD: I am certain my son hasn’t given it any thought as I don’t think any of the schools he is applying to are on a quarter schedule. If I had to guess, I think he would prefer semesters.
QOTD2: My DD just got back from UPenn’s social justice clinic summer program and loved it.
@thshadow D has done 3 summer programs. She did SAMS last year and didn’t enjoy it but learned a lot about herself and to self-advocate. This summer D started with DYNAMC at UT and to her surprise, she loved loved the program and UT and is now applying to UT despite not wanting to stay in TX. She’s now at a Notre Dame summer leadership seminar (she’s still there). At ND she’s again learning a lot about herself, about topics she cares about, and is having an overall good experience. I’m all about the free programs!
I was using accents as a measure of ‘southernness’. The Alabama accents made it seem very southern. Tulane was in the south but seemed northern (it is private and high ranking so probably attracts more students from other regions). D doesn’t want southern. Now that I know I won’t bother to encourage her to consider U KY (not that she listens to my suggestions anyway 8-| ).
Mine have not done any academic summer programs. They are both year round club swimmers, both volunteered at Girl Scout Day Camp for a week every year and went to GS summer camp for a week each year through end of eighth grade.
When DD17 started high school she also started volleyball which had 4 week summer camp smack in the middle of July. Then spring of sophomore year she turned 16, got her swim instructor and lifeguard training and started full time work last summer. Doing that again this summer.
DD20 starts high school in the fall and is in the middle of cross country camp, and will also start swim instructing next year. (With her sister as her supervisor, fun times!)
So basically… no time for academic programs. Also have not done any test prep. May bite us int he butt, may not, we’ll see.
Summer programs—fairly low key. A one week coding camp hosted by National Computer Camp, summers after 8th and after 9th. He was offered a counselor position for the following summer but he concluded that he would not learn anything new by doing that, so declined.
A one week DNA camp at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, summer after 9th. (That eliminated any possibility of taking AP Bio, so it served some purpose!) Research with an NYU prof summer after 10th & research with Yale prof this summer.
Splash at Yale hosted Sprout at Yale for four or five consecutive Saturdays and he attended that for two summers, perhaps after 8th & 9th.
So, no ‘real’ academic summer programs. He takes online classes for fun and teaches himself new (computer) languages, but not much that is really structured.
One summer he wanted to attend math camp out in Washington state. I explained that there was absolutely no reason to spend money on math camp when he could find almost free things to do near home.
The Quiz Bowl team meets weekly to practice. I cannot even imagine their dedication…
Swam and played water polo until the start of 10th grade but that last year was truly just to humor me who loved our summer swim team. He has taught a coding class at the library each summer–five or six sessions on Python or C/C+.
Both kids did and loved NSLI-Y language immersion programs in China the summer before their junior year. The program is sponsored and funded by US State Department. It is an excellent summer program. They learned so much more than the language by being in a foreign country for 6 weeks.
QOTA: @thshadow I’ve read several other very positive reviews of Operation Catapult here on CC.
S did RMP (Research Mentorship Program) at UCSB after 9th grade. It is much cheaper for locals than for kids who stay in dorms the whole 6 weeks! He was hoping to do one of the projects sponsored by his current research mentor, but they wouldn’t let him do a physics project, because he hadn’t taken calculus yet. Instead, he did a project designing a computational thinking curriculum for 4th-6th graders. He enjoyed working on that team, and the part that he did on his own was developing an error checking strategy to give useful feedback to the kids. He did a poster, paper, and talk as with many similar programs. He liked that his software was used by real kids in a number of schools the following year and he heard from elementary teachers who were very pleased with it.
Rising 11th he worked full time for the professor he’d hoped to work for at RMP.
He’s at SSP this summer and loving it at last report, though it’s a lot of work. They had lectures on quantum mechanics and Schrödinger’s equation today along with a lecture by one of CU Boulder’s Nobel Prize winners. I’m looking forward to hearing lots more about his summer when I pick him up in 9 days.
No college summer programs here. I was late to the party, and then couldn’t drum up interest this summer. I tried. I see a lot of value in the competitive admit programs. I have D2 coming behind, so this is something I want to really investigate for her.
My kids have attended Math Zoom, Astronomy Camp, Summer Science Program, a forensic chemistry camp, BYU’s French camp, Concordia Language Villages, and lots of outdoor type camps like BSA high adventure.
All camps have been loved except for forensic chemistry camp which was perfect bc that was my goal. I knew she would hate it, yet prior to camp she wanted to be Abby when she grew up. 
No academic summer programs for D. She really, really, really wanted to do one of the very selective math camps, but was not selected either last summer or this summer. 
We would have had difficulty affording it anyway.
This summer she did get an internship that is working out even better than expected. It has been a fantastic experience, and she is earning a little bit of money.
No summer programs except one week @ UCLA after 9th grade > Tried for strong ones this year and didn’t get in, but two summers did research (different mentors @ local UC) and hopefully publications from both of them.