@GMC2918 Go right ahead. Will check in regularly but we have a time difference so there might be a delay.
Congratulations on Southwestern and the Brown scholarship! And on being mostly- kinda - sorta committed!
We should have visited Southwestern when we made our Texas swing. I like the Georgetown area, but San Antonio would have been a great place for parent weekend visits.
@1822mom YESSSSSSS!!! I’m so happy for your D, and your whole family! :-*
@1822mom Congratulations to your daughter! The lack of decision in my house is driving us all crazy. I want this process to be over so I can buy a T-shirt at whichever school he decides to attend. Does anyone else have a kid who doesn’t want to talk about it even though we are three weeks away from D Day?
@H0llyw00d YES. See my post above about reading the tea leaves. Ugh
@Booajo I just saw your post! Lol. I am so glad I’m not alone!
Are we there yet? A decision will happen later this month, but I just really want to put a “fill in the blank college/uni mom” bumper sticker on my car already! It will be the first one I have ever thought to display!! :))
So, we have two more college visits in our future: Westwood this weekend and Colorado Springs next weekend.
We are part way through revisits for S18. UVA Days on the Lawn yesterday was cool (literally, as it was snowing!) and the complete flexibility of the Echols program sounds great (S18 even said they were “his people” i.e. nerds). W&M today was nice but the Monroe program confers less benefits, so harder to see why it’s worth paying for OOS, compared to UVA.
Tomorrow back to DC for GWU Elliott school, then we still have UCLA Bruins Day on Saturday and Cal Day the following Saturday. Berkeley is a tough one, everyone seems to agree it’s the most prestigious PoliSci program, but it’s also the closest to home. So a lot more narrowing down to be done. I’m not expecting a decision until April 30.
@Twoin18, UVA Echols is a great program and the school, founded by Thomas Jefferson, is steeped in tradition. GW Elliott is well known for International Affairs, but no school spirit, campus or dining hall. However GW is in a great location for internships in D.C. Agree that UVA would get the edge over W&M.
@Twoin18 , we will be somewhat following in your footsteps . . . we’ll be at Inside GW on the 13th and Bruin Day the 14th. Gotta love those cross country flights and missing school - ugh. It will all be over soon, though.
@H0llyw00d - my S is still torn between 2 schools and I think the visit days will help.
In the meantime, he will randomly barrage us with very specific questions about the schools. Often before I’ve had my coffee in the morning! I think he can’t go wrong so I don’t really want to influence him and I think he gets aggravated because I won’t pick a favorite.
Meanwhile DH can’t let one of the reach schools go and wants S to do everything possible to show interest and get off the waitlist. I can’t take adding a third school back in the mix at this point!
@pickledginger Yes, seems like you are in a very similar position to us. Hard to decide between our great in-state options in CA and the benefits of going further afield, especially DC and the surrounding region for kids interested in PoliSci/IR.
I have to brag a bit about D’s sweetness. She knows I have been a little burned out homeschooling my youngest and that I’m exploring school options for next year. She told me that if she accepts the full tuition offer then I should use the money we save to help pay for school for my youngest. :x
To me, it’s a separate issue but I am so touched by her thoughtfulness.
My oldest just accepted a job offer in the Midwest so I’m starting to appreciate the idea of D18 not being too far away for college. And, sheesh, college is one thing but it’s even harder for me to think of one of my kids leaving for a job because she might never come home again. And it’s been so wonderful to have her home for the last few months. :-S
@1822mom Congratulations! (Not gonna lie I thought it was gonna be Trinity) Yay, so glad y’all have arrived at the station !
Oh @MACmiracle hugs to you! I think the idea of truly “leaving” one day is one of the things that has D spooked about the whole college thing, but we just keep her focused on the here and now. I think the letting go is the hardest part.
LOL @labegg I think it was close honestly. I don’t pretend to know everything that goes on in her mind, but I think the location being slightly closer helped SU, and also when we visited both campuses, she definitely felt more “at home” on Southwestern’s campus. Probably the only visit I’ve been on with her where she said “I liked it”… strange but true, though I think she had some with my H she liked. She’s very, very particular and was willing to give schools a chance even if she didn’t feel 100% about them. I think she felt that Trinity would have worked for her, but it did not really feel like her place.
Personally, I feel like Agnes Scott was the one that got away. I loved that school. When we visited, I felt though, like we were each experiencing completely different places. I was ready to sign her up (or turn back time and send myself lol!), she wasn’t feeling it at all. She went in enamored of it on paper, but reality was a splash of cold water: a flight away, a women’s college (the only one she applied to), very small (smaller even than her high school), even the mandatory trip that all first year’s go on was starting to seem not so attractive. I loved it all, still do. Lucky me, I have a D22 so I get another chance. 
H’s one that got away was Willamette. It was one of their first college visits together and it really set the tone for what she wanted in a college experience. They both fell in love, she just fell out, he never did. But it was just too far away and on our 2nd visit it lost some luster. I felt they had the best mental health programs of any school we saw.
All that said, we are satisfied with her choice. It’s definitely the right fit for her.
@Momma2018 we just added our third school to the mix and my son said he’ll have his decision made early next week. One can only hope!!! Wishing us all luck in the home stretch!
We are down to 2.5. Waitlisted at W&L (her #1) which we are counting as her .5, attending admitted students day on Friday at Furman. Centre is also a contender. I don’t have a read on her other than to say if she gets off of the waitlist she Will attend W&L. Hoping this weekend a decision is made between the other schools.
I need a whole forum just for discussing how to handle the last child leaving for college. This one is so good - we have him trained exactly right (takes out the trash, etc without being asked). It is never the same once they leave for college. I know that from my older two. They call and text almost everyday, but its just not the same. And my third is not a communicator. He won’t be calling or texting unless he needs something. Right now, its food and laundry that keep him sweet, but once he learns to handle those for himself I don’t know that I’ll hear from him, except when he needs money. Soooooo sad. I love this kid.
@memmom2018 , I went to W&L but was really impressed with Furman. It reminds me a lot of W&L, though with different departmental strengths and weaknesses. And warmer!
Furman was S18’s first love, which was only diminished as other universities showed him more love. Good luck!