@HiToWaMom you are right. I’ve been following and enjoying this thread as well.
Yearbook and Sr Breakfast Day. Things are moving so fast.
@lemon_drop Me, too. I don’t really belong in this thread (I have D13 and D17) but I enjoy reading about everyone’s journey!
Oh, I also follow and have occasionally accidentally posted in this thread, but as D19 is only just over the title threshold at 3.5, I consider myself a semi-member anyway 
Just a reminder, anyone can post on any thread.
@Britmom5 D (and I) also liked that about Wooster. It was the first college visit where she really felt she could see herself at that particular school. People were incredibly friendly and welcoming and she liked the small school but with a bigger campus feel. (And the merit aid was nice too!)
Your guys had some great choices and ended up making very well considered decisions–I’m sure they’ll do great at Drexel. Been hearing good things about it in the course of D’s college search.
Hi all and Happy Mother’s Day weekend to all the moms! Did anyone find a college that weighted your kids’ improved junior and senior first semester grades more heavily than the frosh or sophomore bad grades year(s)?
@augie696 I continue to be impressed over and over by Wooster, who have contacted us about both boys and offered to keep a place and their scholarships available, should my guys change their mind. Very impressive.
@Britmom5 Flagler also asked my son if he would be interested in hearing about transfer opportunities in the future. They have been very attentive as well.
@Britmom5 Wooster was by far my favorite school when I toured with my son way back in 1991. He was more prestige conscious and chose Haverford but I loved Wooster and wished I had gone there. (I had never heard of Wooster way back in the dark ages when I was looking at colleges).
@carolinamom2boys Flagler is an awesome school. And what a beautiful city. Not prettier than Charleston but really nice.
@privatebanker it was a hard choice. They didn’t have his desired major, if they did I honestly don’t know what might have happened. We all really liked Flagler.
DS19 just received an email asking him to schedule a Skype interview because he has advanced to the interview portion for the Bonners Scholars program at CofC. I didn’t even realize he had submitted an application.
@Carolinamom2boys That is fantastic news! Congrats and good luck to him for the interview.
Good luck to him @carolinamom2boys !!
Thanks everyone.
So at my daughter’s small hippie-granola school, every graduating student who wishes to speak gets a chance to. My daughter opted to take the opportunity. Her speech was more of a meta-speech than anything, but she did have a couple of actual-content elements to it, including at one point in the middle mentioning that she’d be attending Mississippi State University.
In response, there were a couple shouts of “Go Dawgs!” from the crowd.
Which wouldn’t have been remarkable, except that this was a high school graduation in Alaska.
@dfbdfb
Go Eskimos!!
Just here to summarize our journey for my DS.
We received an E-Mail from school two weeks ago that our child was currently failing at least one class(!). Pull up PowerSchool and find English has multiple HW assignments missing. Turn to DS and he has no answer… EMs with teacher find she has been on him for weeks to turn in HWs and he states he’ll get on that… Full weekend without any electronics and nose in the books gets the assignments in and his English grade up to a C.
Graduation was last night and he made it across that line. Now to see if he’s ready to head to Shawnee State in the fall (on our $) to learn video game coding. I see many discussions coming over the summer. We’ll see how excited he is at Orientation in June.