Thank you to all of you sending your congrats and well-wishes. I never expected to find such a supportive community I consider friends on CC, but I have.
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Mine would just ignore it and then probably never remember to even check for a voicemail 
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Yours is the feel-good story of this application season we all needed! Thank you for sharing it and prayers for your husbandâs recovery and health. Your story very much mimics mine, except I was your daughter. Good people are taken care of in ways our minds canât comprehend. All the best for her future.
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This is the best update on this thread. Sincerely happy for your family.
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So so happy for you! What wonderful news. Wishing your husband a speedy recovery.
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This thread moved fast! Itâs heartening to read all the good news.
@M_Fun, so happy for you and your family!
Kids who are applying for MT and Acting are hovering over their phones now. My S21 was SO EXCITED to get a phone call from the school he now attends. It was probably the last time he ever answered a call from an unknown number, ha!
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Be kind to your kidâs schoolâs FA departments⊠info will now not be available to them until March. (I work in higher ed, though not FA, but am feeling so badly for the FA departments as well as the frustration of being a 24/25 parent. Yelling at the FA department wonât make anyone feel betterâŠ)
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This was my daughter. Luckily, they left a message and she was in rehearsal for her current show and the drama teacher announced that she was on the phone with the school and then everyone clapped so it was a good day.
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Oh, that sounds so nice! Iâm happy for your kid.
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The FA situation is very unfortunate. My d24 will be forced to make a decision without knowing the full FA package due to time constraints. Definitely a lot of added stress on top of everything else.
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Speculations on if the May 1 deposit date will be pushed back in light of the further FAFSA delay?
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SpeculatingâŠ.no
Maybe individual cases (one offs) at less desired schools as they canât afford to lose any prospective customers.
But en masse - Iâd speculate not.
But - itâs just speculation.
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I just read a news article about it. So frustrating!
Wonderful news! Congratulations to your daughter! 
Best wishes to your family as you manage your husbandâs recovery. 
I do know of a Denali scholar from BC who applied ED a few years ago. I also think I saw an ED Richmond become Richmond scholars finalist.
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Posted a write up of our Centre Cillege visit in the âcolleges that moved up or down and whyâ thread.
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Congratulations!!! Best wishes to you, your husband and your D24! Good times ahead 
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Does anyone elseâs kid have no idea how they are going to make their final decision? I know we donât have all the info yet but I feel like once we do there wonât be a ton of time for him to make the decision, so Iâd like to feel like there is a plan or some pre-thought.
(By the way, there was some discussion above of parents who are Meyers-Briggs âJsâ and kids who are âPs.â My son might be a J, but I am the J-est J that ever existed. 
Not only do I answer every J/P question as J, I answer them EMPHATICALLY and INCREDULOUSLY as J. If I could be 200% J I would be. My husband has always been a J but compared to me, he is wishy-washy. Honestly, Iâm so much a J it might be a disorder⊠
)
Literally every day I have to restrain myself from asking, âBut how will you make the decision?!â He knows all his preferences on individual characteristics (which is a lot of growth from where he was a year ago), but he still has no idea how to weigh the characteristics against each other.
So he wants a school that is:
- Inexpensive (he knows he gets any money he doesnât spend on college for grad school, house etc <â This might have been a bad idea on our part, making the decision harder.)
- Small
- Close to home
- Flexible curriculum
- Well-regarded
- Access to experiential learning (preferably coops or internships)
- Access to high quality gluten free food
- Fewer people sharing a bathroom
- Strong Christian community of a flavor that suits his values/beliefs
- Curriculum in major that has more of the classes he likes and fewer he doesnât like
- Takes more of his AP/DE credits
But of course no school has all these features. Some of them are in direct opposition practically! He has gotten into 8 public schools (I think he has eliminated 2 of them), and has financial packages. He is in at one private (no financial package yet) and still has 5 more to hear from. Each has characteristics he loves and characteristics he hates. 
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I think you look at the metric thatâs most important.
But another way to help is to not look at all 8 together (or 6 that remain).
Pick a baseline school - and then compare it to one other. If itâs just these two, which would you pick?
We eliminated a lot this way.
But for now, you can rank them -heâs an engineer right.
For example, is inexpensive more important than closer to home? Or he must be close to home.
To me, budget trumps anything and everything. Doesnât have to be the cheapest but has to be one you can afford and are willing to afford (not always the same thing). Without that, it should have no consideration.
You applied to state schools so Iâm sure all are not small - so maybe thatâs lower down the ladder.
Christian - most schools will have a communityâŠor does he want it prevalent through the schoolâs visionâŠthat wonât be at a state school so I assume that goes lowerâŠ
You can rank, throw out the schools and deets and we can help you.
But - sometimes going one vs. one can help with a lot of the heavy lifting.
If school A was the baseline but school C beats it, now school C is the baseline.
Oh, and you have til May 1 - so lots of time!!!
Good luck.
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