@whataboutcollege It was more like 14 hours. 8am to 10pm. DS’s team didn’t make any ranking. Our school is not strong in STEM considering S makes the team. :))
All awards should be at the end of the year assembly. D has been on both sides and finds both sides to be awkward-- she doesn’t like being put on the spot either way.
DRUM ROLL, please…
Last college app submitted! 
D breathed a huge sigh of relief! Well there are still some pesky scholarship essays that require completion but they are manageable.
AND … Transcripts have been sent, GC letter and school report uploaded, 1 of 2 teacher LORs uploaded.
AND … D got the school nomination for the Danforth scholarship at Wash U!
@HiToWaMom So sorry for what your D has to go through… Hugs her way!!! I agree with @carachel2, all awards should be given at the end of school year award ceremony. Hope your D gets over this disappointment soon and receives many many other great scholarships!!!
Thank you for all the cyber-hugs!!!
@HiToWaMom I am so sorry for your D. I wish there was a hug or sad button instead of the like.
@mamaedefamilia …take that kid out to dinner and buy her a drink! Oh wait…they are only 17-18— a big cupcake!
Congrats on the scholarship nomination–I don’t know anything about that one since we are way down south. What is the competition like and is it a strong contender?
Nominate myself for clueless mom award. I borrowed D a physics B book, when D needs physics C book. My excuse is that I concentrate on the brand she likes…princeton review!!
@carachel2 Her treat of choice is boba tea and she’s getting a great big one.
Danforth is one of the few (highly selective) merit scholarships that Wash U offers. You have to be nominated by a guidance counselor. According to the Wash U site, there is no limit on nominations but the practice in D’s school is to be selective in putting forth students for Danforth consideration. It’s still a very very long shot, but every little bit helps. The only downside is more … essays … to … write…
I wonder what the Danforth essay(s) will be like. I looked with D at the short answer/essays for the other merit scholarships at WUSTL and they didn’t seem too bad. She’s basically answered all them on some app or scholarship already.
.Okay, I’m almost caught up, but I had to jump in…
Can you imagine some poor cc newbie jumping into this thread right at the point where we start delving into the depths of page justification, etc.? They’ll run screaming for the hills! Anyway, put me down for ragged right, new line between paragraphs, and a single space after periods. <-- I’m also a fan of the Oxford comma.
@snoozn – only one space at end of sentence???
Agree that it would be challenging to jump in mid-stream now.
Another opportunity to post my favorite Oxford comma cartoon.
Woo hoo - CASPer no longer!! Three EA apps were submitted today! I’d been feeling like such a slacker with all of you early birds. Truth be told, even today, D17 was still tweaking her essays, so I’m glad she’s had the time to let stuff percolate, notwithstanding her DM’s pressure to do otherwise.
@SincererLove - don’t get down on yourself. My husband bought the wrong textbook for AP Gov and D didn’t find out about it until right before the first test!
@Dolemite - did the WUSTL travel voucher come via snail mail or email?
@Dolemite and @mamaedefamilia - Not sure what the Danforth essays are like; the others are all available, but the Danforth is not. I do know that old threads indicate that it’s not an easy one to get! Have either of you gotten any confirmation about your C17’s having been nominated? I know my D’s counselor said that she would nominate D, but we haven’t received anything yet.
@snoozn - Love me some Oxford comma! That said, D17 had to remove 'em for the character count in two of her essays 
@HiToWaMom - how tactless of D’s principal. Sending hugs.
@LoveTheBard The GC’s recommendation is due on 11/15 and then the nominees are contacted with further instructions, AFAIK. Chances are slim but slim is better than zero!
I seriously want to beat D’s GC about the head and neck with a rubber chicken. D put in her original LoR request Sep 9 and told the GC about her 11/1 deadline. No problem - it will be just a couple of weeks! End of first week of October and D is getting nervous and speaks to GC. It will done on Oct 24. Okay, that’s not too scary. We’re both getting nervous now and D inquired once again (today being Oct 25), mentioning the looming deadline. GC says it will be done within two days. Arrrgh! I’ve been expecting this to be a strong LoR and now we’re looking at a last-minute rush job. Where the heck did I put that rubber chicken?
@HiToWaMom, I think it’s pretty weird for the principal to come barging into a class to make scholarship announcements. Put it on the website and in the school paper and announce the scholarships if the school has a general awards ceremony. Hmmph. I’m sure many good things are coming your D’s way soon enough.
@CT1417, Wikipedia sez:
Who are we to argue with “many sources?”
Your comic link is censored but for those who want to see it (quite hilarious!) substitute “im” followed by “gur” where it’s showing asterisks.
99 new posts in one day? I think I’m just going to bed.
That sounds wonderful but it would never happen here. Math tests in our district are LOCKED in a file cabinet of doom, and it seems the only way to view them is with permission of no less than 3 the teacher, the dept chair, a vice principal and for all I know you might need Santa Claus to approve. I’ve never seen one H.S. math test of my kids, even when I’ve requested it in writing. Not sure they ever return them to the kids most of the time, they just find out their grades.
Love me some Oxford comma! Although reviewing S’s essay tonight that is still over word count, he room may have to cut some loose.
@HiToWaMom I am so sorry, that is all kinds of not cool in my book. Celebrate the fact she tried!!! That’s a win right there.
Oxford comma: Yes, yes, and yes.
Spaces after punctuation: One space after terminal punctuation. Two spaces were good for typewritten text (and nearly necessary for readability, for some typefaces) in the days before kerning was possible, but now that computers take care of the kerning automatically, the use of two terminal spaces simply creates unnecessary whitespace.
Punctuation ordering: I use double quotation marks for first-order quotes (largely because single quotation marks have a technical meaning in my field), but I very strongly prefer British punctuation ordering, where punctuation goes outside the quotation marks unless the punctuation is actually a part of the quote. (So if you have a quote followed by a comma, “like this”, the comma isn’t between the word and the closing quotation mark.) I feel that it eliminates unnecessary ambiguity—if this system is used, you always know whether the punctuation’s from the original or not, whereas with the American system you don’t.
And while on the topic of fonts and such: I just totally fangirled at D19 about Baskerville. (She has a typography calendar among the many on her wall, and I just discovered October’s typeface is Baskerville.) It is by far my favorite font, and the OpenType version of it has an incredibly wonderful array of ligatures and stylistic sets, and you get a choice of lining or old-style numbers—and it’s been set up with a much larger chunk of Unicode than nearly any other font, including (importantly for my job) all of the IPA extensions. I figure everybody who cares about visual design at all has that one font they love past the point of all sense—for me it’s Baskerville.
Serifs: Yes. Always yes.
And spelling! And while on this particular sort of nerd-out, I might as well note that I generally use American spellings, but I consistently use grey instead of gray, and I didn’t even know judgment could also be spelled judgement until some years after I finished grad school.
My DD was told that she was being nominated for the Danforth at WashU back in September but hasn’t received an official email. She got the travel voucher via email. She already visited and interviewed at WashU in February so will not utilize the voucher. She did get the official email that she was nominated for the Jefferson Scholarship at UVA on Monday. I am going on the assumption that these nominations mean acceptances are in the bag at these two schools. Please tell me if you disagree, just be gentle in the telling.
@Testingearly As gently as possible, I can tell you that the Jefferson is independent of UVA. While it probably doesn’t happen often (if at all, but I seem to remember reading about it), you can get the Jefferson, but be rejected from UVA (obviously, the reverse scenario is much more common). I don’t know about the Danforth / WUSTL connection.
It is the case, however, that if the GC is nominating your D for these prestigious scholarships, she’s likely a very strong candidate and has a good chance at being admitted to both schools. As for it being “in the bag,” you know what they say about counting chickens…