Another competitive scholarship invite came in the mail. It’s comparatively low pressure–an essay followed by an interview if they like the essay. D liked the college and it’s not that far from home.
She is definitely doing better and I think the post-concussion symptoms are slowly subsiding. I’m very grateful for all the prayers and support we’ve received here.
After the break she took to heal, life will be getting busy again in the coming months since she was just asked to play for a school theater production. I’ve always wanted her to have a chance to play in an orchestra for musical theater because I think she would really like it. I’m glad this opportunity to try it came her way.
I’m so very happy to hear your daughter is starting to recover from her concussion @MACmiracle. She is one tough cookie. Also getting these scholarships and opportunities has to help her feel a little better as well. Congratulations to her!!!
@AmyBeth68 I think you are right. She’s had a lot of good news lately. It’s funny, she is saying she doesn’t care where she goes to college, but the letters of acceptances and scholarships do seem to be helping.
Oh, and I need reasons not to ask her to apply to Franklin & Marshall. It somehow got on my radar recently. There are many good things about it. Major, location, easy transportation home, an active club she would like, music opportunities, lower NPC result than other meets need colleges, it would be a match rather than a safety like almost all the other schools she applied to. I need to hear something that will make me stop considering it. :-t
New to this thread. Lurking for a year. We are anxiously awaiting a EA decision on the 15th for D’s top choice. If it falls through, I have no idea what she will do. She has 6 other apps in, but nothing compares to #1.
@melvin123 That has been our experience Senior year as well. We thought it would be wonderful, with all these memories when in reality, he is miserable and stressed out. His grades are fine, still straight A’s, but the pressure of holding on to his rank (1st) for Val, plus waiting on ED to UPenn, then all the applications and essays to be done if he doesn’t get in, with 5 AP classes, and all his million EC’s including Concertmaster for orchestra and doing MB for the first time bc they needed a violin soloist for the field show this year. None of this is how we thought this year would go and he never has a moment of down time. He said last night that he’s worried about us being disappointed if he doesn’t get into UPenn - I don’t know how to get through to him that I don’t care where he goes, I know he will end up where he was meant to and he will bloom where he is planted. I will be disappointed FOR him, but never IN him. He doesn’t need to add that kind of worry onto his full plate too. I hate wishing this year was over already but I do.
Gah, sorry - debbie downer over here, just so much stress right now. I just wish he could get one piece of good news to make all this stress worth it, you know?
@AmyBeth68 I will not be drawn into the grad school admissions process…I swear I will not obsessively research options and statistics. Yep, you can hold my feet to the fire on that! Yeah, right =))
I think I am keeping up with the FB group requests (15 members so far) . If I have missed you please PM me or if you already have my IRL name, send me another FB Friend request.
Well I have a D24 so I’ll be around a while .
S18 is driving me nuts. He informed me that he isn’t sure he’ll remember to check Stanford portal for admissions! Ugh, I can’t care more than you kid. His dad says this is a defensive mechanism. Maybe.
Please do not send DD an email that starts “your FSU application has been processed please check…” as the preview sentence. It freaks DD out and then she gets me to check to see what it says because she doesn’t want to look, only to find out a few sentences later that we will be able to view the decision on the evening of JANUARY 25!
But thanks for letting us know It was processed (we already knew that because we have been checking the Portal obessively)!
@kcjo02@3gigglinggirls@klbmom18 and others who have “decloaked” in the last few days… Welcome! Please continue to contribute! It is the diversity of our voices that makes this community so wonderful! >:D<
On senior year stress, it’s been pretty off and on for D, and right now it’s on, and I knew it was coming sadly. Her semester doesn’t end until the end of January, so their “break” is never a true break, they always have work they are doing and this one will be no exception, except this time she also has a ton she needs to also get done before break as well. To top it off, she was invited to a special “scholarship day” event at Whittier, where she would be in the running for additional $$, but it’s this Saturday, and will take pretty much the entire day including travel. The $$ potential makes it worthwhile, the experience of doing it makes it worthwhile (even if she decides Whittier isn’t for her), but the stress of giving up an entire day she had planned to spend working on school stuff is absolutely eating her up. I’m not sure what’s going to happen at this point because her personality is similar to mine, in that when things reach a certain critical mass of overwhelming she freezes up and just cannot move in any direction. I saw it last night as she just melted into the couch and prepared to spend some time watching TV with us when I knew all of the above. After some gentle questioning, we worked through what she needed to be doing and I was able to get her redirected with minimal outbursts (no small feat actually now that I think about it!). But I think it’s going to be a daily exercise in, hey what could you be working on right now to make your life a bit less stressful?
SO glad to hear your D is on the mend @MACmiracle !!
I agree with your H @Booajo sounds very much like a defense mechanism. If he doesn’t care it can’t hurt if a rejection comes, right? Or so he’s trying to tell himself.
Ugh @labegg that is so annoying. D got a similar email from her adcom at one of her schools and she was like, but I already got a generic “we got your app” email why send another? smh
Hold on tight everyone seems like this month is going to be pretty bumpy for a lot of us!!
@MACmiracle Wonderful news about D getting better. Having been around athletes who have had concussions over the years, without a doubt, there’s no standard recuperation period. Everyone is different.
Welcome to the lurkers joining the party. As I’ve mentioned before, I have a D21 and have already posted over there on the 2021 forum. She appears to be having a very good freshman year thus far. And a good student. Definitely different girls in terms of their strengths and weaknesses.
Right now, my D18 is either sleeping, eating or doing homework. Many apps to finish on the horizon. If she played poker, then you wouldn’t be able tell if she had a good or bad poker hand to play. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to tell if she’s happy or sad about her REA school’s decision, which will be here soon. She eats stress for breakfast. She’s my “just in time for the deadline” girl. Me OTOH, I wear my emotions. I’m the Jim Harbaugh of emotions.
I agree with @1822mom. I’m definitely getting ready for a “bumpy” ride this month. I wish I could check my D’s portals, because I doubt she does.
I will be done and empty nesting next fall…very weird to recognize that stage of life is over. I did an admirable job holding it together with DD#1 and didn’t really crack until April/May. I am still doing pretty good but I did break down yesterday in the Walgreens parking lot.
@MACmiracle: glad to hear your daughter is healing well. Sorry I can’t help talk you down from F&M; it’s pretty high on my daughter’s list. We did a visit and were very impressed; even more impressed by the NPC results
