Our awards night is next week, and that is basically the last day Seniors. Son was invited and I don’t really know what kind of award he will get. His grades and GPA are very good, but not at the total tip top level of some students. He didn’t take enough AP classes, just STEM AP classes. He took Honors level everything else though. I do know from attending graduation a few years back that certain kids get multiple tassels, and I sort of remember kids graduating with certain honors levels, but it wasn’t a lot of them. In the graduation brochure it lists everyone’s name and all of the awards the kid has earned in HS, plus where they are going to college or future plans.
Don’t even talk to me about schools colors…or lack of colors in Bowdoin’s case. Black and white? It’s killing me. I was ready to give up red though. Neither of our kids look good in red.
Bowdoin’s colors are pretty boring, LOL. At least they have a sort of cute Polar Bear mascot.
I am happy that for son17 he has black/red/white combo and son19 baby blue/white/brown and a cute elephant.
Every school I’ve been associated with up until now has been some form of crimson red/maroon. It’s not a bad color, I just don’t love it. I did like our mascots though.
Oh, @homerdog – UNCSA’s colors are black and white, too! Works perfectly with D19’s existing wardrobe. 
@OrangeFish how did I not know that? I think I was thrown by the green pickle.
@ninakatarina Did you say dark blue and orange? Sounds lovely to me, lol!
Mississippi State is maroon and white, which my daughter looks stunning in, so that’s good.
And by chance, her high school graduation gown—they get to each choose their gown colors, but they had to decide back in November—is maroon, so that’s a nice bit of synchronicity.
@Trixy34 probably true. Our rural area seems to have a lot of scholarship opportunities for the pretty small group of college bound kids (and smaller group that actually take time to apply).
Regarding colors: HS is purple & black, DD gets to wear a purple gown. She was talking about how she was glad her high school wasn’t red, “though green would have been nice”. I reminded her that her college is green and white so she’ll still get to have green.
When she was looking at colleges, colors and mascot were considered and bad ones could take a school off the list!
@Corinthian it’s all in the shades. Yours looks like a darker blue and a lighter orange.
Checking back in. Hi everyone! Had to step away from CC for a bit (again) and take a few thousand breaths.
S19’s (small, Catholic) school has a thing where if the seniors maintain a 93+ average in a course, they do not have to take the final. Well, he got out of every final except… religion. Which he missed missing by one point. So he trotted into school this morning, having already to quote him “mentally checked out,” and endured his last forced dose of Catholicism. And now, Penn State main campus (no religion requirement!) here he comes!
Classes/finals are over for him. Graduation ceremony/party is next week. I am feeling extremely misty today. How can this amazing young man who was just in preschool last week have wrapped up high school just like that? Wow.
On a much lighter note, the high school colors are green and gold (yellow). As such, I fully supported the Penn State decision based solely on what I considered to be a major upgrade of school colors. Navy blue and white compliment everyone. Like a pair of nice jeans. Green and gold? Not so much.
Guess we’ll have to start thinking about buying dorm crap soon?
My daughter just finished her last work for her last class and graduation is tomorrow evening! She plans to continue her Italian studies all through the summer, though, which will be easy with a month of immersion coming up. I couldn’t find her cap and gown yesterday and had a mini panic attack but it was located and all is well!
S19 finished classes last Friday and had his last exam yesterday. His lax team made the playoffs, game was last night . They won and now are on to the championship! Just when I thought he’d have a few days to relax, he now still has practice.
The next week is a bit crazy. Friday night is the game, dh flies out Saturday morning to pack up D17’s dorm room and drive it up to his brother’s for storage (she normally takes care of it but she’s studying abroad in the fall, storage unit was too expensive for that long, and dh wants to see his brother anyway). MIL flies in Monday afternoon, dh flies home at midnight that night (and it’s my birthday ugh). Senior Awards are Tuesday night, D17 takes red eye home Wed night and gets home 6:30am Thursday morning followed by baccalaureate Mass at 9am and graduation at 10:30am. Then headed to a graduation lunch with about 30 classmates and their families. Leaving Friday early for the beach to get a jump start on the Memorial Day beach traffic. S19 leaves Saturday for “beach week” then MIL leaves the Tuesday after Memorial Day.
And I have to do this all over again in June with my youngest who is “graduating” from her K-8 school. She has a dinner dance, pre-graduation pool party, an 8th grade team school trip, graduation then a graduation dinner with the whole class. The next morning I’m taking her and four friends to the beach for three days. I wish I could call that a mini-vacation for me, but it’s not exactly relaxing! And the day we get back is S19’s graduation party! I wasn’t even planning to have one but his best friend’s mom asked if we wanted to go in together for a party for the two of them and two of their other friends. Once that is over, I can relax!
(This is a repeat of my life two years ago - D17 and S21 graduated h.s. and K-8 school two weeks apart the same year. Not so smart having four kids all two years apart. I’ll deal with this again in two years when D17 graduates college and a week later S21 graduates h.s. Rinse and repeat when S19 graduates college and D23 h.s!)
Congratulations to those of you whose kids are learning about senior accolades and scholarships! So fun to hear everyone’s accomplishments!
One week left of school and S hasn’t been attending many classes recently. He says the teachers are telling them not to come. When I have made him go, he said there are about 4 or 5 kids per class (and he sent photographic proof 
). He has multiple IB exams remaining through next Wednesday. The school doesn’t do special recognition at graduation except for Val and Sal ( S19 is in the top 10 of about 750-800). Honors night was last month and it was nice that all the honors and IB diploma graduates were recognized. S didn’t receive any specific academic awards. He’s usually great overall but not the top in anything and the school is so big. The tennis banquet last week was very fun but emotional. They only give out one award to a varsity girl and a varsity boy player and S’s coach gave it to him for the second year which was a nice surprise. More grad parties this weekend. It’s getting close!
Congrats to all with awards and scholarships! D had an award night last week but did not attend because as she said, “she wasn’t getting anything were she had to go up on stage, just the awards where whole group stands up in place.” A friend went and she was right, D got her general AICE award and some kind of honor roll thing called Presidential Honor Roll I think, but with a class of over 850 kids they don’t call everyone up by name so we did not miss much.
@Trixy34 D did not like the purple and orange but liked the green and white so thought she would be ok with that. @homerdog Bowdoin’s colors were one of D’s favorite things about it LOL. 
D’s high school colors were blue and yellow, college is green and a nice turquoise/light blue. She definitely noticed the colors at each school and decided she liked this color combination so that was good.
She is in my room trying on graduation dresses right now, my mom and aunt fly in Friday and graduation is Saturday. We were trying to plant nice celebration dinner just for the family since my mom and aunt are coming all the way down from MA but the graduation is at night and D has parties both Friday and Sunday night so graduation brunch it is! We may have an actual party once this house gets done. As of now we are in renovation hell still, last night we could only enter the master bedroom by going out the slider doors, across the back patio and into the kitchen sliders. 
School colors = orange/black. Because Tigers, get it? I had already decided I didn’t want to deck myself out in swag - this is her accomplishment, not mine - but the colors make it easier to resist, lol.
D19 has high school color green, and NYU of course is violet. She looks good in both.
She has a final today for her AP tomorrow, and the non-AP course finals in the last week of school. From mid-week next week till end of school (7 june) we seem to have a back to back procession of various award, senior and graduation events (they also do a big occasion graduation for seniors in her religion-based-but-not-very-religious youth group).
Dartmouth is dark green and white. S19 has no swag whatsoever. I found an large piece of tape with Dartmouth written on it on his desk the other day. ‘What’s that?’ ‘Oh. We had swag day and you wear your college shirt. I didn’t have one so I put that tape on my t-shirt.’ Lol.
Navy and Orange—my college colors. I prefer it to Royal and Orange. I also really like orange and black. You’ve got to embrace the orange. My daughter was not too thrilled with it at first, but it stands out and now all she wears is UVA swag. Tulane is hunter green and what I call Carolina blue, but I’ve gotten a Tulane mom hat and have lots of (Kelly) green cast-offs from my daughter (and my time coaching at the HS). As a Ravens fan, I love purple too, so I think I have lots of the palette covered. It’s good to have those in my wardrobe since I wear a lot of black and white in my real life.
Good news, my College Confidential addiction has finally paid off. D19 was just notified that she won a small outside scholarship that I nudged her to apply for after reading about it here.