Yes, the bigger cubes are supposed to keep the drink chilled while melting slower and watering them less.
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Itâs sad that at your sons school they donât care where anyone is going.
Successes should be celebrated.
Sure, it can be overboard and it stinks for kids that donât get to participate but it doesnât mean success shouldnât be celebrated - and tastefully.
Frankly, I think many kids apply to âtoo manyâ schools so they can have this âcontinualâ success to keep up with the joneses.
So it is too much but I wouldnât say itâs in poor taste - and yes, there are always some who might feel displaced because of it but and itâs unfortunate, no one can do anything that is good for all people.
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According to S24, there is a set of colleges you can wear without an admission, and others where you need to actually be admitted.
I am not sure I entirely understand the rules, but it appears you can wear any college where you have been a fan of their sports, parent or sibling colleges, colleges you visited for some event or program or possibly even as a tourist (just not an admissions visit), and so on.
The thing they are trying to avoid, I gather, is someone suddenly showing up in some new gear and everyone assuming they just got admitted when in fact they did not.
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I said my sonâs school DOES do a celebration of all new acceptances about once a month. But they do have uniforms so no one wears swag daily. I was asking about whether I should celebrate on social media. I love seeing parentsâ posts, but I donât want to veer into obnoxious/brag territory.
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Sorry I was responding to @shmom41 who said they do not talk about college apps nor does anyone care where anyone is applying. Besides two kids, he doesnât know or care where anyone else is going.
Ahhhh - I see I tagged the wrong message. Sorry
Yes, I think itâs ok to celebrate - but not 100 messages - maybe one a month of an update, etc.
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At S24âs school, like at a lot of schools, once the senior commits, they send the school, major and a pic to have it posted in the high schoolâs senior college commitment Instagram page. Then most update their social profiles and some share that commitment post. Itâs frowned upon (esp by classmates) to brag beyond that.
I donât plan to âannounceâ his commitment on socials. Iâll share offline with family and close friends.
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Yes. Same for our HS.
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I get back from my Tuesday 10 walk and this thread has gone crazy. When to withdraw after ED acceptance, when to wear swag, when to post on social media and crazy ice cube molds for bourbon. My head is spinning.
No clue on the ED withdrawal issue my guess is use your best effort. Wearing school swag and posting on social media is seriously frowned upon at DSâs school. They donât do a college gear day. No comment ice cube molds for bourbon, as I drink it neat. The way it should be enjoyed. 
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Hahaha
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So I did a quick post on my social media about S24s ED acceptance. Did not post about the others and wouldnât have thought to. He will start wearing swag tomorrow and that will be his announcement to the school where he is going. No one has gone to this school since â21 and that was the first in many years before that.
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Rats, the real adults have found us.
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Iâm so glad that I can obsess about college admissions and make progress on holiday shopping at the same time today.
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So this is a serious question. How do you answer the obsessive kid who has been trying to continue to get all As who now is in to his college on what he really needs to do for school work for the rest of the year. He has been a perfectionist for 12 years. Do you tell him to back off? Continue to work hard to get the AP credit and keep up the habit? Something else?
Mine wanted to finish hs strong and be as prepared as possible for college by really understanding the material.
IMO good grades arenât about getting into college, itâs about learning.
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I absolutely post every single college acceptance on my social media. However, Iâm not connected on social media with hundreds of people. And my kid only applied to 7 schools. And my kid has had some bumps in the road in her high school career. The people I share that info with on social media are people who are important to me. 
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75 new messages! Trying to catch up.
I donât know what I would do if I were you (other than jump up and down with joy) but I will take a snapshot of your question and send it to my S.
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I have/will share decisions on my socials for similar reasons. Not to brag but to let other families with average kids/ kids that struggled know that itâs not all doom if you arenât a 4.0/class president/cancer curer.
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This is the issue - and we see so many - I got a B or C and now I canât go to a good college - when they should be concerned about understanding the material so they can advance but most arenât about that it appears.
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My daughter got into safety, and it would be a good school for her. But if I am honest, the whole admissions process and everything, makes it a little hard to just feel good about a school. Its everyoneâs own responsibility, but I think the process and obsessing over acceptance rate/elite status makes that more
If a challenge than it needs to be to just be happy. The economics
Of exclusion
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When this came up with S24, I suggested once he is committed he should still continue to do his reasonable best. Go to class prepared and participate, do his assignments on time to the best of his ability, study a reasonable amount for exams, and so on. I agree that is good just for the sake of learning and preparation, and also I personally think it is disrespectful to the teacher and fellow students to not do that.
But, if he does that and then is tracking toward a grade that is a little lower than his normal expectation, does he have to start looking for extra credit? Doubling his efforts?
Yeah, probably not. This doesnât happen often, but every once in a while there was a class where he felt like he needed to do something like that, and I would not suggest he would need to do it again once he is committed.
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