Honestly, I have no idea- I should ask her. My impression is that it will be into spring semester before she hears anything from anyone.
Wow, Iām impressed. My son just recently decided he might like to apply to some graduate schools in the US as well as the UK schools already on the list. Of course, the deadline is December 1, so Iām not sure thereās really enough time. Heās taking excess credits this semester so he can cover all of his remaining double major requirements, and then thereās daily track practice and his job, so he wonāt realistically have time to focus on his personal statement and so on until Thanksgiving break. Sometimes I feel as though we are back in the fall of his senior year in high school, but Iām sure it will be some sort of useful life lesson. Hah!
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I hope heās able to get everything done! My daughter stayed at school and used her fall break to knock this stuff out- and sheād started in the summer too. Otherwise it would have been hard between classes, and teaching, and crew, and gymnastics- she was pre-overwhelmed so just started REALLY early. 
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I like that - āpre-overwhelmedā!
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My D19 has decided that she is taking a year or two before grad school. She is planning on working at a lab at a university. She already has an invitation from the lab where she did her internship, and another PI has also offered her a position, but that was a year back, so she is meeting with him to see if the offer is solid. She is looking at another couple of labs as well.
She says that she has been in schools 17 years straight, and would like to take a breather. She loves the research, and will be still working in research. But she needs a time without having to take classes.
She also wants to develop her lab skills, and will hopefully, be able to work on her own projects as well.
Her advisor, and her other mentors are all saying that itās a great idea, and the grad students she worked with over the summer told her that attrition rate in her field was far higher among students who went directly from undergrad to their PhD program (at least in their program). Itās a lab field and the research can get pretty intense for grad students.
Since applicants have to respond by April 15th (all PhD programs in the USA have that as their deadline for deciding whether to accept offers), I would guess that by the end of March she should know.
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Great to see all the updates from everyone!
Of course we are a year back from everyone else on the regular track with D19, who is effectively a junior this year. Iām happy to say she is still enjoying school after returning last spring - even more so, in fact - sheās transferred schools within NYU and loving the new set up. I may have mentioned before she got a competitive internship (linked to one of her classes)- itās an NGO for a cause she feels strongly about (as do I, incidentally). She is really enjoying working there and it sounds like they are valuing her too so thatās good news (she also gets college credit for it which is useful).
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HI everybody! It has been a long time since Iāve checked in here. I just managed t read through all of the posts Iāve missed and wow - study abroad, amazing sports achievements, internships, jobs, GRADUATION! Congratulations to all of you and your kids!
I think when I last updated here D19 was just getting to her semester abroad in Rome back in fall of 2021. She absolutely adored it, travelled all over Europe, made great friends, did not want to come home! It did set her back a bit because some of the classes she planned taking for her major were dropped due to lower enrollment than usual (lots of kids ended up not going because they werenāt sure what would be happening with Covid.)
She decided to drop her double major and just stick with her original major (Psych) and her minor (called SLAMM - School Liberal Arts Management Minor) and dropped Communications which she didnāt love anyway. She could have finished it all but would have only been able to take classes for her major for the last three semesters. She was ready to try something new and really wanted to have a creative outlet. Last spring she took glass blowing and this semester she is taking ceramics - she loves them both and even though they are much longer than normal classes due to having to spend so much time in the studio it is a nice stress reducer for her.
She stayed living in her house in New Orleans over the summer and got a great job at a small company doing their social media, blog and helping the owner with all sorts of other things like putting marketing packets together. She did not have a car and got so lucky to find this opportunity that was only 1/2 mile from her house. The owner liked her enough that she asked her to stay working however many hours she wanted during the school year as well.
She has absolutely no clue what she will do after she graduates and I know that is stressing her out. Stay in New Orleans? Move to CO for a year to live with a friend who has 1 more year to go? Find friends who want to try out NYC? Who knows - she says the only thing for sure is that she does not want to come back to Florida -I donāt blame her. 
I am in the middle of working on college stuff with S23 then after November 1st I think I will be done! I will try to keep checking in though because I love reading all of your updates.
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So fun to hear all of your updates and congrats to all of these great kids!
S19 is making the most of senior year and has been so busy with his activities/organizations that he hasnāt had time to really think about grad school, although he is planning to apply to some deferred MBA programs. So, he would apply in the spring and hopefully have an acceptance for the future, heād go off to do his consulting gig for a few years, and then start the MBA program. The main thing for him to do at the moment is decide whether to take the GMAT or the GRE. It seems like all the schools heād apply to accept both, but he still hasnāt done any practice tests. He does well on math and logic tests, but I think his strength is probably more in the verbal/essay writing area. So, Iām thinking GRE may be better for him? If anyone has any thoughts or experience Iād love to hear.
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Itās such a weird thing, but I was able to read one of my daughterās recommendations for grad school, and it just made me so proud! I know that it is so abnormal for students to see them, so I feel lucky that my daughter was sent this one (itās for a scholarship app that asks her to upload a recommendation used for a specific school). Obviously itās not the sort of thing I can scream from the rooftops, so I figured I would vent the happiness here.
ETA: neither she nor I actually know what grad schools look for in these things, but to my mom eye it was a peek into a side of my kid that has nothing to do with me usually.
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My daughter got a call this afternoon with her first acceptance- to Middlebury. What a relief to have one yes before the long wait for the rest of the decisions!
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I was just think about your daughter and wondering if she had heard back about interviewsā¦congratulations to her on her first acceptance!!
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She has interviewed with six schools- the middlebury interview was actually on thanksgiving. Everyone else has specific timeframes for decisions, so itāll be awhile before she hears again.
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Congratulations!!
We got to read one of D19ās recommendation letters as well. It was so nice to see what a teacher thought about her, would have been fun to see all of the letters for my kids.
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Everybody get to see their kids for Thanksgiving? DD and BF made it here for Friday afternoon through Sunday noon. Sheās going to get tired of this 4.5 hour drive as sheāll be back in December for DHās side of Christmas and in January for my side/vacation.
The job is going well, co-workers are all great, they just need to figure out some more responsibilities to fill her days. This is a newly created position and they are still working it out.
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We had T-G at my motherās - she just moved back to Minneapolis, so we flew there, and D19 flew in from Midd. My mother keeps kosher, hasnāt finished unpacking her kitchen, and kosher pre-prepared turkey is not easy to find in the Twin Cities, so we had salmon and eggplant parmesan instead. The members of my motherās immediate family who still live in the area joined, but there arenāt so many (small families). Still, D19 got to stay with her grandmother a couple of days until we joined and stole her to stay with us at our AirB&B.
It was fun, but after living in Chicago for so long, itās not easy getting used to having to take two flights to travel to Minneapolis.
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D19 met us in SoCal for thanksgiving, and it was fun and, for her, a nice warm break from what seems a fairly sudden onset of winter in NYC. Sheāll be back home in 3 weeks for winter break, a short one this time as sheāll be back to NY in the new year for J-term.
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Great to go onto CC today and see 7(!!) new posts in this thread. S19 stayed at school this Thanksgiving break, working on his graduate school applications and working in Admissions. His school allows students who live overseas to stay on campus over the break, and I think he enjoyed having his apartment all to himself for a week. Heās decided not to apply to any US schools for graduate school. He wants to study sports psychology, and itās actually very hard to find these programs in the US, so heās focusing on the UK now. He will probably do a one-year āconversionā Masterās, as his US degree probably wonāt cover all the ācore areasā specified by the British Psychological Society for accredited programs. And then heāll have to do a second Masterās in sports psychology before seeking admission to a Ph.D. program. Itās complicated, but he doesnāt seem to mind the extra year - itās a chance to get used to the UK educational style and review everything systematically. Heās being doing a psychology/sports science double major, and itās been a little chaotic trying to cover all the requirements. He loves his LAC, but finding classes that are offered, meet the major requirements, and fit into his schedule has sometimes been a challenge. Some of the best conversion programs are in Scotland, so he may end up there, which would be fine with us, as weād love to spend more time there. We will be moving to France in a couple of months, so weāll be pretty close in any event. In the meantime, we are looking forward to the beginning of indoor track season this weekend, which means weāll be back on the āgetting up at 3 a.m. on Saturday nights to watch the grainy, out-of-focus live video feedā routine for the next few months.
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My kids stayed on the east coast for thanksgiving, meeting in Philly and staying at an Airbnb owned by my husbandās family. They wanted to spend the holiday with their grandfather, whose health is precarious. It was definitely a little weird having the first holiday that was just my husband and I.
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Super short break at D19ās school so she flew home on turkey day and had a festive forty-eight hours at home before heading back to school.
Thrilled for those of you who also got to see your kiddos! Theyāre all so busy now with jobs and graduate applications and significant others that any time is precious.
Speaking of grad applications: Congrats to your daughter on her first acceptance, @milgymfam! After graduation, my D has decided to take a total break from school-related stuff and apply to grad schools next fall. I think she should apply now and defer, but sheās burned out. I get it. It really has been a rough couple of years for these Covid college kids.
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Our family of four went to a resort in Jamaica for Thanksgiving, as it was also DWās 50th birthday. Had a fantastic time, even though I had to work a full day from there on Friday because Black Friday is important in my work.
D19 has been in a bit of academic limbo because part-time faculty members at the New School are on strike. The university says itās planning to come up with some kind of stopgap to allow students to finish the semester (and allow early-graduating students like D19 to get their degrees), but the students have been pretty committed to honoring the picket line and refusing to work. Eager to see how it turns out, since our coming Christmastime trip to London was meant in part to celebrate D19 being finished.
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