My D’s prom is the weekend in between the AP exams. I’m scratching my head over that one.
@suzy100, yeah, my D’s is right before AP exams start. :!!
Our high school prom is this weekend, and my daughter isn’t going. She’s not too disappointed, but can’t wait for it to be over due to the nonstop talking about it at school.
She got asked by three boys - boys who had never spoken to her in class before, and asked her via Snapchat and imessage. Um, that’s not happening. I don’t know them, but I feel it was more a case of them being really shy. Still, if you can’t talk to someone in class it’s going to be a looooong prom evening.
I feel for my bright, beautiful, sweet girl but we had long discussions during the Promposal Month from Hell about how she is no one’s last minute date, don’t go with someone you won’t have fun with, etc. So instead she’s going out for ice cream with a couple like-minded girls who are also not going to prom.
She also said she’s staying off of social media this weekend. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, lol.
Prom here isn’t until May 13th. DS is taking his girlfriend, she’s a senior. I insisted he ask his GF her because he’s not into dances but I didn’t want her to miss her senior prom just because he thinks dances are silly. I think he was surprised when GF said yes she wanted to go to prom. He assumed she felt the same way about dances as he did. Since it was my idea I offered to pay which made him very happy.
@bearcatfan and @3scoutsmom. What wonderful mothers you are!
S’s QAS for the January 2017 SAT arrived today. That probably means the test has been officially released into the wild for practice purposes, too.
^Ours arrived too. When my son sees it I think it may rekindle his desire to take it a second time and correct the 790 math score which is annoying him.
@Suzanne34 Yeah my sister who put camp counselor on her application got into UC Berkeley and all the other UCs she applied to. She also had good grades and test scores and other ECs, but because of her I think of being a camp counselor as a valuable experience. At the very least it’s a way for students to practice leadership.
Prom here was a few weeks ago. Glad it’s early to avoid the conflicts you all are discussing.
S’18 is doing a 6 week summer music program. He’s very excited.
Our prom is also between AP weeks. S17 has decided to go with two couples rather than ask a girl. He is just too shy–took him too long to get his courage to ask and then it was too late. I’m pretty sure it is going to be super awkward because seems obvious to me and spouse that he and one of the girls like each other, but some other guy asked her first.
S18 is going to three proms this year, one of which has already happened. I probably could have bought a tux for the money we spent to rent three, but unfortunately the invitation to the third prom didn’t come until after the tux for the first two proms had been rented.
For summer, he is attending Buckeye Boys State, taking a week long seminar that will hopefully help him polish his Common App essay, volunteering at a local Boys and Girls Club, and going to workouts for his high school sports team. We might try and sneak in college visits to U Richmond and U South Carolina, if time permits. It’s a short summer due to the way the school calendars fall this year and next, but I’m sure it will fly by and application season will be here before he knows it.
@wustl93 we had long talks about the rent vs. buy a tux in the end since both my boys are very close in size we decided to purchase a tux with the intention of sharing it. As part of the discussion we talked about how many times the tux was likely to be used. DS18 and I came up with different numbers, turns out that he’s planning to wear this tux to his wedding! Evidently he and GF have already made plans, thankfully for AFTER college not sure if that includes grad school or not. I had to struggle to keep my composure after that but told him for this discussion let’s limit it to uses within the next four years.
@3scoutsmom my S is convinced he isn’t done growing! So no way could he wear a tux he bought now to his wedding.
He told me the other day that the AF Academy was out because he might get taller than 75 inches! I guess it’s possible, he is 72 inches now at age 16 and his dad grew even in college. Still AFA was already out because of his asthma. Curious to me that he knew the height requirement for a place he can’t go, but won’t read the descriptions of schools that might be possibilities.
@wustl93 I’m curious about the seminar to work on common application
@3scoutsmom - okay, you just made my day! That is all.
My S will be attending the Engineering SITE camp at U of Alabama this summer. He will also be going with his Scout troop to S. Carolina for his last summer camp with the Boy Scouts since he will age out in the fall. 
He’s trying out for Drum Major so we are blocking off a week for him to go to Drum Major camp should he need to. We won’t know until next month. Then summer band starts up last week of July so that will be the end of his summer.
@Booajo: “Curious to me that he knew the height requirement for a place he can’t go, but won’t read the descriptions of schools that might be possibilities.”
Ah, that made me laugh!
S had Junior Prom last weekend. Being involved in theatre, he always has girls who are friends and want to go to dances. Typically a whole pack go together. I casually asked him if he wanted me to cook for him and he could have his friends over to our house before the dance, instead of going out to a restaurant. To my surprise, he said yes, and I found myself cooking for 12 kids Friday night, with my wife out of town! But a couple moms came over to help, and my wife did a lot of prep before she left. The kids had fun and me and the moms hung out on the porch with a bottle of wine, trying to stay out of the kids’ way.
That sounds awesomely fun, @vistajay! How cool for your S and his friends.
What a great evening, @vistajay.
@vistajay …that sounds great!