D24’s senior project proposal was approved today! She’s really excited.
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My kid goes to Fordham, and he dresses like one of the Golden Girls. Met one of his friends last visit, and he was dressed like a back-up dancer from an Olivia Newton-John video. That’s the Lincoln Center campus though…
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I looked at Southwestern with my older child and really liked it. We also liked Trinity U (San Antonio). Great choices. Trinity has a new president and a forward-thinking provost.
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Coincidence? Inquiring minds want to know . . .
I love this image. They should just have flash mobs instead of study breaks.
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I think Lincoln Center would be very similar to her high school (many young women, many gay guys). She’s been happy there, with lots of friends, but does not intend to graduate from college with her current track record of one date and one kiss (she’s also been voted “most likely to be a model” in the senior superlatives, so this is not from lack of personal appeal. 
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That’s awesome. S24 has his interview tomorrow and hoping they take him on. Then he has to get it approved by school. Fingers crossed.
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Mostly like Blanche Devereaux.
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It is a myth that there are no straight guys at Fordham Lincoln Center. My son knows of 3 (and suspects 2 others.) In each case, the other students have been good allies and have always made these boys feel like valued members of the LC community, despite their lifestyle. My son says that straights searching for community are rumored to find it in the Gabelli business major, where a number (students and professors alike) are openly heterosexual.
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LOL “suspects” 
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I’m so confused by the discussion on this thread: golden girls, plushies, Star Wars figures 
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So glad to hear your son and the rest of the FLC community support these other students choosing that alternate lifestyle. 
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Well, their visceral reaction is “ick”, but there is more and more evidence that heterosexual propensities are inborn, so FLC students try to be compassionate.
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We got our first this week as well, a merit offer from Ithaca. AFAIK, Ithaca has not checked FASFA yet, so there may be loan options (needs-based won’t be an option for us, I believe).
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Well, it was bound to happen - we got our first bit of disappointing news yesterday.
D24 was deferred from School of Engineering at Rutgers. Not a total surprise, as her stats were really just there as far as cds. She is going to send her sem 1 grades, which should help her cause, as she’s taking the most rigorous course load of her high school career this year, with AP Calc, AP Bio and AP Physics II and doing well in all.
What is frustrating is that when she applied, she indicated a first choice (School of Engineering) and a second choice (School of Arts and Sciences, majoring in Chem), which we felt would be more of a likely admit. There is no record of the SAS application in the portal. I don’t know if something got screwed up on the common app end (I sat with her as she completed it, so I know she selected a second choice) or if it is just another Rutgers snafu (there was a bit of a debacle with linking SRAR at the time of application, which was completely on Rutgers end), but in any event, it is frustrating. I think she feels a little bad because Rutgers is generally considered a safety for good students, and hearing about classmates and friends who were accepted (mostly to SAS) stings a bit.
Given that she’s already got an affordable offer on the table for a similar course of study elsewhere (Binghamton), we’re not going to bother trying to untangle it and ask for SAS consideration, but it would have been nice to have it in the pocket, just in case.
So, where things stand at the moment. D24 has 2 acceptances:
Undeclared at Binghamton.
Chemical engineering at Wentworth.
…and 3 awaiting decision:
Chemical engineering at RIT (regular decision due in March)
Chemical engineering at Stevens Institute (EA decision due by 2/1)
Engineering at Rutgers (newly considered RD notifcation due by end of Feb).
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Hi DeeCee36,
My D24 got her first waitlist yesterday too (U Mass). Her tin armor is dented! I have always thought, having heard all the stories on CC, that everybody getsat least one result that isn’t statistically consistent (in “rankings” and “safeties” and all) with the rest of their results. I even warned my daughter about it every so often. Your D24 already has two great acceptances, and I’m confident that a lot of our kids will be accepted in regular decision by the deferring schools. It does sting for them, though! (and for us, watching all their hard work). Hang in there!
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Congrats!
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As someone who works for a chemicals manufacturer, I am so happy to see your D has an interest in chemical engineering! It’s not a super diverse field among engineers (generally quite male heavy), and she will be able to write her own ticket.
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Let your daughter know Rutgers had an unexpected flood of applications this year. This is a snippet from an email they sent out to guidance counselors.
". It is an exciting time here at Rutgers as we witness record-breaking application numbers due to the addition of Common App.
We have received over 63,000 first-year applications for the fall 2024 term, a 60% increase from fall 2023…Accordingly, the increase in applications this year will lead to a significantly more competitive selection process for our applicants. We know this may surprise some students who may have expected admission."
60% increase with no increase in campus size. Rutgers acceptance rate just dropped significantly.
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