She applied to a nice mix of schools in September. When the results were in, she wasn’t happy with her choices-- denied by her favorite, and visits to the other schools, and the kids she met on the Accepted Students group chats simply didn’t leave her feeling that she had found her school.
So she sent out a few more apps in January.
She is now thrilled to death to be attending a school she had never heard of in September. She has “found her people” and can’t wait to start this new phase of her life.
I’m so happy that she had the resilience to pick herself back up (admittedly after a brief pity party or two) and find the option that would make her happy.
@bjkmom…what school? Apologies if you have already said…decisions are popping up like popcorn and I am having trouble keeping up! Love the school avatars…such a visual learner I am.
@bjkmom I know some kids from S18s school who have gone to Plymouth State and loved it. His prom date is actually planning to go there in the Fall too!
Good for your D for being persistent and finding a good fit.
We went to Admitted Students Day for one of the finalists yesterday and it almost tanked. The intro speeches were too long and got a little hokey. S was ready to walk out and we skipped the mid-morning panel to just walk around. He realized he still loved the campus and at lunch was able to interact with real students which may have saved the day. One group was very nice and even hunted down another student for S to meet who shared some of his interests.
I was wishing we had not signed up for the official visit day and visited on another day. It didn’t help that it was 35 and almost snowing but I don’t think it was the weather that fazed him.
Next visit is later in the week and then it is decision time.
Add me to the pile still running around doing Accepted student visits. D has 3 choices that are so different from each other. I thought these visits would be exciting but they are actually stressful. Now up for a 4 hour drive to visit the school in two days of rain. Hopefully it will shine it’s personalit
This decision time is almost as stressful as the whole rest of the year. D is down to two choices. She went to one accepted student day last week and came away fairly certain that was her school. She went to the second this weekend and is back to “How do I choose?” She was in tears multiple times over the weekend. She’s done a pros and cons list for each school without a lot of clarity. I asked her to check in with guidance today and see if the college counselor can help her work it through today. I’m really ready for her to be looking forward.
Congrats to @GertrudeMcFuzz , @suzy100 and all the others with enrollment decisions to such great schools! We are not quite there but hoping for a decision soon. The five music school and academic admits are FSU, Miami-Fla, USCal, Furman and Loyola-NO. He has nice merit/talent scholarships to all, but FSU and Miami have separated themselves by showing him the love both in terms of scholarships but also receiving admits for FSU honors college and Presidential Scholars, and Singer Scholarship/Foote Fellow Honors to Miami. FSU and Miami will both be essentially free for him, with full rides to both due to OOS NMF Benacquisto program and stacking of other scholarships. So money is no longer a deciding factor. His opportunities at both schools will be tremendous. FSU has an edge in that he also has $12,000 in summer abroad scholarship money through the Presidential Scholars and as one of only 25 FSU Presidential Scholars he will have lots of attention from faculty and the school. FSU’s voice program is higher ranked, though Miami is higher ranked in general academics. So now it likely comes down to which voice teacher he wants to study with and where he feels most comfortable. He visits Miami again for a day trip later this week, then he is going to make a pro/con list and hopefully we will have a decision by the weekend!
Well, you are all doing a lot better than me. S18 has eliminated only the NFW schools (Richmond and Denison for those keeping score). Still 5 on the list. He refused to revisit any of them in April (“not necessary”), refuses to talk about it, and is just basically driving his parents to drink.
@lovespink My D is deciding between UCSB and UCI (w/ CHP). I’m a UCI alum but doubt my recollections mean anything to the campus today. Unfortunately we can’t go to Celebrate UCI this weekend. She’s really torn. Since we wen’t to UCSB’s open house last weekend that one may win out, but I don’t know.
College applications by the numbers when you have twins:
21 different colleges visited in 11 states, 1 district (of Columbia) and 1 foreign country (the UK)
12 separate trips by plane plus 5 more long distance trips by car
36 nights in hotels
28 colleges applied to
12 in-person (dance) auditions and 6 admission/scholarship interviews
18 acceptances, 14 with merit scholarships
6 planned revisits, 5 completed (sorry Berkeley)
2 decisions, thank goodness…
Yes, I feel so relieved today. I really needed to have financial & calendar details, as we will be in the midst of showing / selling one home & moving into another in August. Great timing. 8-} The fact that she has chosen the full ride makes our financial situation a little easier through all of this.
D is happy today too. I talked through her last two candidates with her (it came down to ASU & UCF - she loves the model of the smaller honors college within the enormous university, as well as all the hand-holding she will get through the NMF programs there). She went back & forth a bit, then once the decision was made she started to read about UCF on their website & got progressively more excited - apparently she was up most of the night reading!
This is the fun part! D has been discovering all sorts of interesting things about her school now that she’s been taking the time to dig deeper. She joined the Facebook group for accepted students, and from that has joined three group chats. She’s “meeting” all sorts of people and getting really excited about this next phase.
It’s funny, she keeps asking me how we did this before the internet. We didn’t! I showed up on move-in day and found out then who my roommate was! Didn’t know a soul when I started college. How times have changed!
like @3scoutsmom we too were pretty much one and done.
Currently, my oldest DS, the traveling Physical Therapist, is negotiating his next 13 week assignment - he has 4 offers on the table that all popped up Friday - All have their own pros and cons
He’s texting me questions (he’s at work) and I’m Googling like crazy LOL meanwhile his recruiter is working the contract negotiations. This is kind of fun! Its sure nice to have career options.