@Mom2aphysicsgeek spent the 8$ and will spend some serious time with it for our '18 kid.
Thank you!
@Mom2aphysicsgeek I bought it as well. Thanks!
I’d be curious what you think of it.
Dd just submitted 3 more applications, only one had a fee. I sent several test scores. 3 applications to complete and 1 scholarship application that cannot be completed until after acceptance. Then, thank goodness, she is done!
@Mom2aphysicsgeek I found one additional possibility for D on that list. So that was $8 well spent for us! Thank you!!!
@Mom2aphysicsgeek - Yes, they did say something about scholarships not being applicable for study abroad. But is she’s paying less than $10K/yr in total COA, the money saved there could help pay for her to study abroad.
There are also a ton of scholarships specifically for study abroad in Russia. Here are a few:
Allowing cats in the dorm without permission from the roommate? I am very allergic and I would be beyond angry. She should get accommodations for a private room as @LoveTheBard mentioned.
Congrats on those who submitted applications! Since schools were closed today and Friday due to the lovely hurricane, you would’ve thought my DD would’ve taken the opportunity to work on her supplements. Nope, she napped and looked at pictures and did her nails. There’s always tomorrow and the rest of the weekend!
Good news on the hurricane front, we made lots of sweet treats! Cookie dough (didn’t even bother to make cookies) chocolate covered strawberries and banana muffins. Yum
I just invested my $8…
The kid and I just pulled into NOLA. Bumming around campus at Tulane tomorrow, followed by a formal info session and tours on Saturday. There is an inauguration for the new ‘Brain Institute’ tomorrow, and daughter opted to attend some sessions for that rather than sit in on a class. A professor she communicated with (this time, really her 
) asked that she come introduce herself…he will be speaking.
A HS friend of hers came down earlier today, and they both know a current freshman at Tulane who is going to show them her dorm and some other parts of campus.
It was 90 degrees today (about 70 when we landed0. A little warm for this time of year! Was hoping for some cooler weather. Oh, well. Could be worse!! Good luck @greeny8!
JOTD in honor of the new Tulane Brain Institute:
A brain goes into a bar and says to the bartender, “I’ll have a pint, please.”
The bartender says, “Sorry, I can’t serve you. You’re out of your head.”
@hadmeathello I am secretly hoping S19 will have Tulane on his list.
Have a beignet for me. Or three.
Thanks! @lovethebard.
@christygb Thinking of you and your son.
I’m $8 poorer, but richer for it. Thanks @Mom2aphysicsgeek ^:)^ !
Son submitted 4 Common App apps last night. You would have thought I was pulling out 4 of his teeth. ~X(
A few apps with short essays left, then we are done. <:-P
Then it all really begins. :-j
There is definitely an accommodation for allergies. Colleges in the south, because of the heat, get a spike in “allergy” accommodation requests from freshman in the spring so the school will install AC in their room. That student and parent need to write a letter and give (as in demand) the school respond within 24 hours. Accommodation of one student is NOT at the expense of another child. Whether it results in the roommate having an allergic reaction (worst case scenario) or the student does not agree to have a cat in their room. No student should be subjected to that.
Remind your student that they should follow up in discussions with an email. Having written documentation is powerful. It can be in the form of a thank you note for their time discussing xyz and I look forward to your follow up on this matter. Polite and respectful but substantively documenting the issue.
@itsgettingreal17 - I just got an email from our GC. it said that there are 75 kids applying to UGA and at least that many with common apps that have other Oct 15th deadlines. They are saying that the kids need to have the emails entered for the counselors and any online transcripts order by Monday morning. My point is that you were right to go ahead and step in on you DD’s behalf. If our school knows it needs that amount of time to get them all done in time then your school probably needs the same.
I am getting ready to spend my $8 too. However I just noticed there is a wealth of free information on that site too. Most we probably already know…but there are some things that I had forgotten about/haven’t seen before:
http://www.mykidscollegechoice.com/start-here/
This is now going to be my go to link to send anyone that asks for suggestions on where to begin.
In other news - college sports are suddenly being discussed a lot in our house. My D17 was contacted by the girls lacrosse coach at the school she is visiting this weekend. (D did not reach out to the coach first - but did list lacrosse as an interest when filling out the visit form). The coach wants to meet her and thinks she should stay for the FB game after the visit to meet some of the team. This is my D who wasn’t even considering playing in college. But now…who knows?
AND we went to the parent meeting for my S19 new club soccer team this week. The coach is lets say “intense” Young, no kids, played D1 soccer himself. He told us his main focus is getting the boys exposed to college coaches. He wants the boys to make a list of schools they are interested in so that he can make sure they attend tournaments where those coaches will be. There were parents that were asking where to start compiling a list and he said things like look at things like the coaching style of the head coach…UGHHHH! It took everything I had to bite my tongue. There are few thinks I hate more than youth sports coaches that tout D1 scholarships to kids…
I am really tempted to email this link to the team manager and ask her to share it with all the parents as a place to start: http://www.scholarshipstats.com/soccer.html
@stlarenas In my opinion (LOL), my son is an amazing soccer player. Of course I am his dad, but I truly feel that he is a talented player. However, we both gave up on the thought of college soccer by the time he was 14. Even for a full ride, I don’t think it is worth it to be a slave to the team at the expense of his education, especially in engineering.
He’ll find the club or inter-mural soccer team wherever he lands and play with them. He’ll get asked to try out for varsity and (hopefully) he’ll say no, thank you.
@STEM2017 I wholeheartedly agree! I believe that these coaches intentions are good. But I just think they are leading these kids and parents down a path for disappointment. The chances of the kids 1)getting accepted to the school 2)making the team 3)not getting hurt and 4)balancing the rigor with the academics and 5) being able to pay tuition are INCREDIBLY slim. My kid is super excited about making this team because it is the most competitive team he has ever made. And I think it will make for a very exciting and fun couple of years. But he has NO intention of playing soccer in college. Right now his focus is to get into a really good party school He know that soccer will take away from his time to have fun in college.
@stlarenas we’ve been down that path with soccer specifically. Unless the student WANTS it. And I mean like eats, lives, breathes soccer and is a personality that puts themselves out there, wants to email coaches, meet with them, market themselves…it will be a lot of wasted time and energy. It’s the right thing for some kids. A select few. And generally that’s obvious who those are by that age.
Enjoy the team, improve the play now, have a blast. Your student may be exposed to a school they had never heard of as part of the recruiting process and fall in love with it. There are a lot of good things that can happen. But ugh. Some of the parents and the coaches. Ugh ugh and ugh. I do NOT miss that process and am grateful that out of the 4 we only had to deal with it once.
Club soccer at a D1 school with the right academics is such a better way to go in my opinion. It’s been amazing for our family. Not to mention the fact it’s a ton more fun as a player. Not on the bench with an overstuffed roster, not impacting the academics, leadership opportunities, networking (it’s really her “sorority” and the boys team is their related “fraternity”). It’s all good. Really really good.
I was so, so foolish to think an application would go out last night. LOL
I’m glad my only kid with some kind of athletic talent (D20) is in a sport where it is pretty darn objective. Here’s her cross country times, like them, yes or no?