D18 was selected as a RRS at Bama today. Proud of the kiddo. Seems like a great fit for her. She’s a natural researcher type and very good at presenting results (no fear!).
She’s still waiting on UFE at Bama and five more RD colleges. Things will accelerate soon: UFE and one college next week then boom, boom, boom in the last two weeks of March.
Interesting question about feedback when you are not admitted. Oxbridge will tell you specifically that you scored X on the entrance test, you were in the third quartile of interviewees etc. S18 didn’t want to know though, he didn’t want to dwell on what he could have done better.
Similarly, many dance programs have been reasonably forthcoming about D18’s audition results. It’s so much easier when it’s not holistic and purely an academic or talent based decision, because the thing someone would argue is about the weighting of different factors.
@droppedit Congrats on the RRS win! How were you notified? We’re still awaiting UFE, too. On tenterhooks.
/headdesk
Venting here…
So S has to get a long list of immunizations before he can start his EMT training. TDAP, MMRV, Meningitis x2, Hep A & B, TB test, and probably at least one more that I’m forgetting. If he’s missing any on the first day of class, they drop him.
I took him for flu and TDAP in late January. When we got home, I held the papers in my hand and said to both S and DH, “OK, these (papers) are very important. They prove that S has had certain vaccines, and he can’t take his EMT class without them. Where should we keep them? How about if S keeps them in his desk?”
DH said “No, give them to me. I’ll put with with the rest of the medical paperwork.” There may have been a roll of thunder, a bolt of lightning or some other ominous portent at that moment, but I, not wanting to doubt anyone’s competency, handed the papers over.
Today, I took S to get meningitis and the first round of Hep A&B. I had the papers in my purse so I could put them with the other proof if immunization papers that S will need for his class. So I asked DH if he would get the other set for me because I wanted to start a separate folder.
DH: What other set?
Me: The TDAP and flu shot records from January. You said you’d file them.
DH: Oh, well, the medical file is in the desk drawer.
I go to the desk, find the file - papers not there.
DH has no memory of ever having had the relevant conversation. S says he doesn’t remember the conversation either.
So apparently nobody listens to me even when I start the conversation with “OK, these are very important.” %-( :-@ :-L
Grrrr! I’ll search the files again later this weekend, and we can probably get duplicates from the provider, but geez o pete.
@DiotimaDM I hit “like,” as in “been there.” ~X( I have, more than once, threatened to only speak to my family members via text, so that there is an indisputable record of every conversation.
ETA - found the papers. I had to page through the entire flipping file cabinet because they were in the wrong folder, but at least I have them now. They’re in their very own folder in S’s bottom desk drawer because he’s an adult now and can be responsible for keeping track of them himself. Right, S?
@DiotimaDM Our Pediatrician keeps track of the immunizations, they get reported to some central state database.
I am curious though, did he not get any of these shots as a child?
My D had to get TB test for pharmacy school, actually two skin tests a month apart.
Then she got a Td booster since it was almost 10 years since her last one.
She had to have a positive Hep B titer and proof that she either had chicken pox as a child, or the VZV shots.
For MMR she only had to have had the shots as a child.
Arrgh. Why did I think I was replying to a different thread!?
He got them as a child, the MMR and TDAP anyway, but to be an EMT, he either has to have a titer done to prove his immunity (childhood records aren’t enough) or he has to re-do all of the immunizations. Our insurance covers the immunizations, but not the titers and if he fails any of the titers, he has to re-immunize anyway.
His medical records from childhood are missing one of the immunizations that should have been given in the hospital, so we had some suspicion he was probably deficient to start with. We were kind of surprised that he missed one way back when, but S was jaundiced at birth so it’s possible they skipped the one in the hospital and somehow we never made up for it.
He’ll need TB as well, but we’ll do that at the mandatory physical.
@DiotimaDM Oh I see.
I guess that makes sense.
@yugefamily – she received email this afternoon. They mailed out the physical mail today, too.
S got a call from a student in the program he was accepted to at Ithaca asking where he was in his decision making process. He said that Ithaca was his first choice, but the FA package was inadequate. She gave him a number to call; this made me think that a lot of students were getting inadequate aid. He sent his appeal today. We don’t think this is the best place for him, but we think that if the appeal is successful that maybe it was meant to be.
Good news tonight at our house as DS 18 got accepted into UCDavis.
Congrats to her. My Daughter is waiting on the some of the U.C.'s.
No Davis here for S18. He got his Cal Poly acceptance tho so he’s happy.
Waiting on UCSD, UCB, and UCSB (that order of preference) for D18.
S18 accepted direct to college for Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle campus!! They have an amazing SAE team which is his number one desired extracurricular in college. Tough choices ahead in the Wazlib household.
Anybody having a You lost me at defer problem? Daughter was deferred from what was initially her first choice. Great academic fit super location etc… She’s gone on (rightfully so) to embrace the wonderful options that she does have. She should hear from the school from which she was deferred this week, but all of her love has gone elsewhere. I suppose she’s done an excellent job of loving the ones that love her. Such a good job that she’s talked us into going to see one of said schools (hopefully) win in ACC tournament in New York. Go Hood!
@DiotimaDM we are married to the same man. I now correspond important things in email format.
@DiotimaDM lol. I feel your pain.
@RelocatedYankee I have personally experienced that issue. It’s fine; you get the great option to pick the place you truly want.