Any 2021 Parents still lurking? I finally caught up reading updates! So fun to see all the journeys our kids have had. How in the world is it only about one year away until they graduate(if they are finishing in 4)? It seems like they just started.
D21 has had a great year: Fall abroad, now back on campus, still has a 3.9, and got multiple great offers for internships this summer, including her top choice(which means she is off to Europe again!). The only downside is the basketball team has had a rough turn the last few weeks.
She has decided to apply to grad school (phD) in her area of interest, and has decided not to pursue Fulbright (they have a prep team at Duke that she zoomed with while abroad and garnered their full support, but the timing does not fit her goals). She has enough to do with Honors/distinction thesis and her on-campus internship &ECs.
Time goes so fast and our kids almost are done with schools. My daughter is also quite busy and also involving us with her future plan, which got me into debating round with CCās experts and other parents in other thread.
I will check back here often and hopefully next year, we all can update the status our C21.
Iām here!!! Crazy to even type this out, let alone say it but S21 is graduating December 2024!!! Heās in the throws of trying to secure an internship for this summer possibly a graduate internship that would start Spring 2025. He added a minor in Data Analytics to his Finance degree.
D21 has two more finals this week and home this weekend, but then off to Spring Break with her roommates. Sheās on the quarter system at Cal Poly SLO.
She plans to apply to grad school, but may or may not take a gap year to make some money and accumulate more āhoursā for her grad school app.
D21 started at a small school in SC and decided it was not a fit. Transferred to a medium-sized school in TX for her second year and couldnāt be happier. Secured an internship this semester that will be a full-time position for the summer in a field that isnāt directly related to her major, but fits her personality very well.
Made a great decision to quickly change something that wasnāt working and resulted in a wonderful outcome.
Hi, 2021 Parents! Obviously Iām still here and more than lurking since I was wrangled into mod work. (ETA: like sushiritto)
My D is abroad this semester studying global health access and policy in India, South Africa and Argentina. She plans to take the MCAT this summer and apply to med school next year. Backup plans are MPH at this point.
When on campus she stayed busy with campus leadership, volunteering, TA (genetics) and research assistant (biochem/genetics joint project). This summer she has a research internship at the CDC and will also shadow a pediatrician at a childrenās hospital.
Fingers crossed for a fun and successful senior year for all our kids!
S21 transferred schools after sophomore year from an LAC to a public flagship (long story). He is much happier at his new school! He wonāt be able to graduate until Dec 2025 which is ok with us. The transfer school did accept all his credits but because he is going from an econ major at the LAC (no biz majors there) to a finance major at a school with a fairly hefty business core, he needs an extra semester. He is loving what he is studying now.
Still trying to secure a summer internship, heās gone down to the wire for a few jobs but they didnāt work out. He had business internships each of the last two summers, so fingers crossed he finds something. If not, he will live at home, work as a bartender or whatever, and take a class.
Most of our respective kids will be seniors before we know it. Wild.
DS has been very happy at GW.
Heās also been advancing his foreign language (including a summer at Middlebury, and another summer overseas for immersive learning) and just today received confirmation of summer internship that has been months in process.
Life is good for him. DC is expensive for us funding him and his love of food and restaurants, but do-able. His happiness is why weāve been saving money since he was little.
Internship could lead to a job after graduation, or, he is considering grad school at Middlebury for more foreign language acquisition.
I rarely check CC anymore, especially with our parent group so inactive lately, so what a coincidence that I had a sudden thought to check tonight! Itās great to hear the updates.
My D has been working hard. She is doing an honors thesis in English (will take her all three remaining semesters including this one) and added a history major. I think last fall I posted that she was going to be doing a summer in DC program with her school that would include academic work and a concurrent internship (that W&M would assist in finding ). In the end, she regretfully decided to withdraw from that program in favor of joining a legal scholars group for ongoing LSAT coaching and prep all semester with a full-time prep āboot campā for a few weeks in May/June after the semester ends, as her first priority is applying to law schools in early fall. The DC summer program starts in May and she couldnāt do both.
However, this winter she applied cold (with no contacts/networking) to various senators in our state and in Virginia (where she goes to school) in hopes of interning during the latter half of the summer. She applied to their regional offices and on CapitolHill. I thought it was a shot in the dark. She was thrilled to get a zoom interview for a position for the first senator that she applied to. Last week she was offered a DC congressional internship in July/August ! I wonāt say for which senator sheāll be interning (for privacyās sake) but sheāll be working in the Hart Senate building and the Capitol. My little girl (who cried the night before leaving home freshman year) is growing up ! And all of yours are too! These years are flying byā¦
Iām back and have been the last two weeks because D24 is wrapping up admissions season next week. S21 still loves it at Brown. Prob not maximizing all the oppty that they serve to them on a platter but heās been productive every summer and has an actual, well-paying internship this summer. Premed dreams went away and replaced with Public Health and entrepreneurship. Loves his classes and talks about his profs, including the beloved 92 year old prof who comes to school despite all the snow. āso, mom, I for sure gotta show up!ā Heās still a kid at heart. College S21 > high school S21.
Wish me luck 3/28 although D24 has been killing it in the UC admissions sweepstakes.
D21 is thriving as a big fish in a little pond at her small LAC. She has 4.0, is a two-time second team All-American in her sport (her school punches well about their weight in her sport), and is living her best life.
She has now studied abroad in four different countries on three continents and counting: she has another paid research internship this summer in country #5. Sheās planning on grad school eventually but is considering a Fulbright run in the meantime (her little school is a top producer of those as well). Go LACs!
As another poster said, College >>> HS (esp during the COVID years).
Keep the updates coming. And hugs to those whose kids have had challenges. Those can (and probably will!) happen to every kid: you just never know when theyāre coming. I never take anything for granted.
That first o-chem is a monster. My D had āless than zeroā social life that semester. So far she is sticking with it, but a long way to go before actually getting accepted to any med school. I wonder if Iāll be back on this thread in 6 years saying āmy kid got her first job!ā long after many of you. haha
Iām so glad your son is loving Brown. I remember that fantastically exciting news when he was accepted. Based on his current major, he may love this semester abroad my D is on now, but I guess that ship has sailed unless heās interested in going abroad senior year.
Our ACT instructor/his company does MCAT prep, too, if your D needs help. Iād just go do a price check with the other places and then compare with his company fees. I think S21ās downfall was he hated chemistry and tested out of intro thinking heād get it done and over with. 2nd semester gen chem was taking first semester of freshman year. First semester of ochem second semester of freshman year. It was too much for him. His lil sister has premed aspirations. I told her to take it easier. Start with intro, plan on a gap year. Itās fine. He didnāt even want to deal with a gap year. Second one always gets the good insights in my fam ;). Sheās also more coachable (got into UCLA! Waiting on Ivy Day next Thurs).
Iām glad to see this thread still has activity. I have been absent since the fall of 2022 when my D21 had to take a leave of absence due to several unfortunate circumstances. However, she just called me today to tell me that she is ready to return. I had no idea she had even been thinking about it, even though I found myself wondering from time to time if she ever wanted to finish her education. I cried tears of joy because of all of the healing that has led her to even be able to return to school in the first place. For the past year and a half she moved away from home and has been working full time. While she has been happy, she is now ready to re-commit with a new but somewhat similar major. Itās been been such a challenging time her and for me, so this update is very welcome and I canāt wait to break out the college sweatshirt again, as Iāve become a massive SDSU basketball fan, even though she was only there for a year . My own college path was not linear, and I jokingly told her she just had to follow in my footsteps. This community was so invaluable to me when decisions were rolling in and then sending our kids off to their freshman year. It became too painful to check in here after she needed to. leave, even though so many gave me wonderful support. I am happy to share this update and peak at all of your stories as well. Cheers!
SOOO many kids this age got derailed by the pandemic that I think a non-linear progression through college (and likely beyond) is going to be the norm. We wonāt understand the full toll it took on kids of all ages for years and years to come.
Hugs! Iām so happy for your daughter and for you. I know it had to have been hard. But it was two years. Thatās a blip in the long course of life and so glad D21 is healing. Thatās the most important thing.
Gang, Iām 100% done with college admissions for undergrad. Ended up being a mom of two bears. Brown Bruno S21 and UCLA Bruins D24. Iām just glad I donāt have to get rid of my generic momma bear shirt that I randomly bought 5 years ago. LOL
(ETA: like sushiritto)
His happiness is why weāve been saving money since he was little.
Based on his current major, he may love this semester abroad my D is on now, but I guess that ship has sailed unless heās interested in going abroad senior year.
