I wish we could create a tagging system to identify the UA folks. I truly cannot keep track and am starting to think that I am in a minority for not having a UA applicant. Hopefully some will still be along for the ride by the time April rolls around. Some other class thread had a theme of Indecision. Cannot recall the details, but there were many undecided applicants.
On a nice note, the HS invited the 13 NMSF students and parents to attend BOE meeting tonight where the students were recognized (and photographed with iPhone camera—while my huge Nikon sat out in the car after the XC meet). Not that my son would have any interest in a NMSF keepsake photo. He only posed for prom photos to humor me. Neither of my boys seems to care about photos. Am wondering if this is a gender thing?
I know, I feel like an outlier not having a child who applied to Bama. Less so mind you when I look at our Naviance and see that only 5 in the last 3 years have even applied (none in 2016) and 0 have attended. LOL!
I think several of the UA applicants here have Bama as a safety, so all you non-Bama folks will still have plenty of company in the coming months as they/we wait for admission and merit decisions, don’t worry!
I tried to get my D interested in OU and UA last spring when it looked like she would be NMSF. She did joke around that if she went to OU maybe she could get all the other NMFs to take their technology stipend and pool together and buy one of those giant robo t-shirt launchers and a bunch of t-shirts and go around randomly launching t-shirts into crowds.
NMF app submitted. I need to print out the CA for final proof reading and she can start submitting apps.
Glad to know there will be others here for the long haul!
@payn4ward – and happy to know that my boys are not the only anti-photo ones. I have learned to never tag them if I should be so bold as to post their photos on FB.
Flip flops in 20 degrees. How do flip flops work in the snow? I just put all my flip flops away and my poor feet are sore from being confined in loafers after five+ months of flip flops.
Re: Alabama. Again, back to Naviance, to discover that many students from our HS have applied, and CT is really far from Alabama. None of the applicants are NM (evident from the scattergram), but very good odds at acceptance nonetheless. Six from my older son’s class! Who knew?
@whataboutcollege — Our scattergram does not identify which green dot ended up attending, so I do not know if any scholarship money came into play. No one seems to be above a 3.5 & 1950 SAT, so I am guessing those who attended were OOS full pay. May also have had something to do with the fact that almost everyone who applied was admitted. Full-pay OOS may be a hook!
Yeah, my daughter’s one of those for whom Alabama is an admit+finance safety, so I’m here til we’ve heard from all of them. (And no Naviance, so I wouldn’t be able to tell you any history, except that as far as the guidance counselor—who’s been there ~10 years—knows, no student from the school has ever applied there, let alone gone.)
Another UA parent here but I’m already a UA parent (DD15 goes there). DD17 has it as a solid 2nd or 3rd choice. We are not paying the deposits yet. Older DD didn’t do it until later in October and no problem getting in Ridgecrest South honors housing. Waiting on OU, which is DD17’s first choice. She already has 4 acceptances. Just need Oklahoma to hurry up.
We were almost a 'Bama family, but then OU took the lead. D hasn’t submitted her OU app yet, but I don’t think there is an urgency there, like there is for UA housing.
@CT1417 They stay mostly indoors at school. I used to have endless arguments with boys about jackets (you need at least a hoody!) and then one day saw an elementary schooler jump off her car in a spaghetti strap tank top and flip flops. I stopped the weather-appropriate-clothing argument since then.
@VickiSoCal A certain not to be named top list of top schools certainly doesn’t define any of the UC’s as regional schools. Most Cal States are considered regional schools. I do know the difference because my D12 did go to a regional school on the east coast, and at times it was a PITA since they didn’t organize for the kids who lived far away at all.
@LoveTheBard I’m in California so yes I know all about how the California schools differ but maybe not everyone on this board. That is what confused me about calling schools directional. I hadn’t really even heard the term before the past few days. And I’m skeptical about calling any of the UC’s directional. Although I do think they sort-of started with that concept in mind. But they have clearly grown into full grown national research insitutions.
@eandesmom All. I see… I was thinking directional was more like extra campuses to a main one. But I guess I stand corrected.
Having kids who never looked at any of these schools. I really didn’t know that. S17 won’t look at anything east of the Rockies, nor in the southwest. D12 while she looked more broadly didn’t look at anything that would be considered a directional school.
I don’t think most of us had ever heard of a directional before we started looking at colleges for our kids. That’s OK. Lots of them are excellent schools. Regardless of the definition or location, I wouldn’t want to sound like I was disparaging someone else’s choice of a college. Roll <insert your="" kid’s="" school="" here="">!
but he hates heat 
and wears shorts and flip flops in 20 degrees 
I stopped the weather-appropriate-clothing argument since then.