Any idea of which one she’s leaning towards? When is her decision day?
I’m curious about the same questions. My older D is in her second year of a PhD program. It takes so long to get a PhD that I think it matters a lot to be located somewhere that you’ll enjoy living for 5-6 years. I know Middlebury has a strong reputation in languages, but I guess I wonder about it as a location to live as a PhD student for that long. Just in terms of location, the other 3 schools seem to me to offer more opportunities to meet other people her age and more to do.
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She is leaning towards going to Oxford, which is a one year masters in linguistics, and then back to Penn for the Italian PhD. They’ve already told her they would grant a deferral for a year. Waiting to hear from her scholarship app for grad school, as Oxford really doesn’t fund Americans and we can’t afford it on our own. She has a very good shot at the graduate scholarship though, and she’ll know in a couple of weeks. Oxford requested a response by April 10th, and April 15th is decision day for her US schools. You’d be surprised that a few of her professors are really pulling for Wisconsin, but I just don’t think that’s where she’ll choose.
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Wow, great results and a high-class problem deciding which to choose! I am jealous, as my son still has only one grad school application submitted, although I’m told two more will go out this week (Edinburgh and UCL, with Glasgow already done). He’s just waiting on his referees, who have been bogged down dealing with US applications, which I guess have earlier deadlines.
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She was stressed about deciding and disappointing people who think she should choose specific schools, and I reminded her what a first world problem this is to have- seemed to actually help a little. I’ve told her to stay in happy celebration mode until she hears from Jack Kent Cooke- the scholarship decision is such a huge factor that it’s not worth stressing about till she hears.
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I love your daughter’s tentative plan! A year at Oxford and then UPenn seems like a fantastic opportunity and I will keep my fingers crossed that she gets the necessary funding for Oxford. 
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Huzzah! Your daughter has some terrific options! I really like her plan to attend Oxford then Penn. Fingers crossed that the necessary funding comes through.
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Congratulations- that is so exciting!
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Middlebury has a Masters program, not a PhD program,
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Middlebury actually has both. 
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Evidently they have a Doctorate in Modern Languages. Who Knew?
Well, not me, evidently…
Congrats to your daughter @milgymfam! That’s very exciting. I’m still waiting to see if my S gets some grad school applications submitted, but so far it doesn’t seem like it has been a huge priority. 
Deadlines are in April.
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It’s crazy how different the deadlines are from place to place!
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Definitely. If he doesn’t get his act together, he can just apply in 2-3 years since that’s when he’d be starting an MBA program anyway. We shall see…
Yesterday S’s school announced their commencement speaker and sent out a bunch of info about graduation and the various festivities for families that weekend. It’s feeling real now! Gulp 
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So exciting to see all the graduations and next plans. I know I don’t know you all in “real life”, but I feel like we have all been on this ride together and I am so happy to celebrate your children’s’ successes. My D found out this week that she is accepted to grad school in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Now waiting to see if she gets a CA position or fellowship to help pay for it . She has a big flow chart of if this, then thats regarding her plans for the fall. A lot to still figure out, but pieces of the puzzle are starting to fall in place.
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D19 has two offers for working at labs in her field for the next two years (as well as a standing offer at the the lab in U Chicago where she’s done internships the last two summers). One is at Columbia, and the other is at MIT. She’ll almost certainly choose the MIT job. Last fall she just didn’t feel up to applying for grad schools, and wanted to not think about the next school year as she finishes up this school year. She also wants to finish up a publication or two, and hopes to have stuff from her job as well.
She’s also exciting because one of her two closest friends at Midd has just been accepted to a master’s program at Harvard, so they are going to rent a place together.
It’s going to be weird, because she really will be living there, rather than (at least offcicially) living with us and going to school.
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I very much agree – great to see everyone moving forward. Along those lines, an update on my D19, who graduated from Parsons in December with an eye toward working on the business/operations side of the art world. She continued working with the art consultant she’s been assisting part-time, and she then secured a gallery internship that was meant to take her through the spring. However, she kept interviewing for a full-time job (with benefits and 401(k) and everything) at another major gallery – and she got it. She starts on Monday, so she’ll be leaving the internship early; she was nervous about telling them, but they totally understood. Really proud of the way she advocated for herself: She negotiated on the salary because she had calculated exactly what would make her rent 30% of her income, and they agreed to bump up the offer. My little daughter is a grown-up working woman. So thrilled for her!
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Yay for new jobs and grad schools!
We visited DD- who is in the grown-up working world- over the weekend for the first time since moving her last fall. She likes her job and will likely be moved into an even better position this spring which she is already doing some work with now. Still doesn’t like the city or being that far from home but she has made a couple friends. As soon as BF finishes grad school there, they will be moving on.
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Update - after she got an official offer letter from MIT, she officially chose that position, and has politely and nicely turned down the Columbia offer. The PI for her two internships in U Chicago wrote a wonderful and supportive congratulatory email to her.
So that’s what she’ll be doing, and where she’ll be living for the next one to two years.
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@MWolf Congratulations! What amazing choices she had!
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