Well we are landing at A tomorrow and my car is in c and I thought the AirTran was now going to a. Will update tomorrow!
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D20 is graduating from Hamilton next month. Her top 3 restaurants weâre hitting for graduation weekend dinners (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday): Tailor & Cook, Ocean Blue, and Nostro. Theyâre all in nearby Utica. For lunch she wants to fit in Symeonâs one day. And no trip to Clinton or Utica would be complete without Utica Coffee Roasters. Youâll often see a long line there at the busy times, but itâs worth the wait. Whenever weâre up at Hamilton I make sure to go at least once a day, and we canât leave the area without one for the drive back home.
Have fun. My D is excited to graduate but also quite sad to leave Hamilton. Itâs been a wonderful 4 yearsâeven with the fall 2020 COVID start.
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Our friends have done this. Itâs a smart move. For four years.
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2/3 spring break college visits down! S24 continues to love St. Olaf. I do, tooâŠthis was my third time there, and Iâm more impressed every time. So we did admitted student day there until 3 then drove 300 miles to Appleton, WI, for Lawrence admitted student day (and a horn lesson) tomorrow. And then we ONLY have to drive another 160 miles or so to tomorrow nightâs hotel, which sounds amazing to me after 4 straight days of driving between 240 and 440 miles. Who planned this trip anyway?! 
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Yes, we loved Farmers and Chefs!!
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For my version of D30 back in the day, seeing Vassar lit up at night, the day before her brotherâs tour, blew her away. (She ended up not applying to Vassar, b/c her brother was there, but it lit her up about colleges)
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That opening clause, âWith the exception of the traffic in IllinioisâŠâ - other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
I still have PTSD of trying to get from Michigan to Wisconsin a few times, going (through, around, etc) Chicago.
Maybe it has gotten better by now? That was in the 90s.
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I was mildly surprised that for class of 27, Amherst gave up on 50/50, and ended up about 42-55-3. Weâll have to see what '28 looks like, but I think Amherst overall is now about 46% male, and dropping. And thatâs with football and ice hockey, etc.
I think the non-engineering LACs are going to increasingly struggle to keep an even gender ratio.
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Switzerland is great! My daughter did paragliding in Murren, was beautiful. Regarding food - I found it all costs the same no matter if you eat a burger, pizza, or some kind of meal. I think in most places you are paying for the seat and the view, not so much the food!
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Just finished touring CMU and will be going home soon. Other than the weather, it was good overall. It was raining, snowing, cloudy and sunny all within 30 min yesterday.
The school is now too big or small. The school emphasizes interdisciplinary study which will be good for S24. Seems like almost everyone is doing either double major or taking on CS/DS minor.
There was heavy emphasis on how the school will support the students academically (we will help them to graduate and get a good job).
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That actually makes me feel a lot better, because I get that.
I wonder if in light of recent developments there is increasing discomfort with whatever gender preferences they need to get to 50/50. And if all or almost all the prominent private colleges tacitly agreed to largely let it go, like the prominent publics have already done, it might not be a big competitive issue.
Given that I have a D30, that sure would be nice. Weâve already been having some frank conversations about how it might have been easier for S24 at some of these places just because of his gender.
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We were admitted to 14 schools âall pretty good schoolsâbut only received merit from 3 of them. Does that seem odd? Did our finances impact this somehow??
Good Luck! It is one of the best universities in the world for Engineering at this time.
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D24 and i were at Pitt for the admitted students day and later at the honors college reception and wasnât expected such a weird weather with 40 mph wind gusts while touring a somewhat spread out campus.
We were very impressed with Pitt which offered a complete college experience in a nice urban location. Cathedral of Learning was astonishing. Students looked very happy and engaged.
Interesting fact we learned for class of 2024: Close to 60K applications for an incoming class of 4800 + ~500 transfers.
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I think CMUâs freshmen class is typically around 1700-1800. Maybe 4800 was the total admitted students?
It depends. Do the schools offer merit? Are the schools public and you are out of state?
It depends on the list - but in 99.9% of cases, merit isnât tied to finances.
If you name the schools, and provide your stats (GPA, test), a better answer can be given.
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The male female ratio thing is so interesting. I am surprised that all of the kids going to the highly selective lacs from our high school are male, and half are Asian males. This year there are many more in total than past years too.
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We saw a direct correlation between the prestige of school and the merit. She got $42k a year at one, $35k at two, $20-25k at five, $10-20k at four and zero at one (Lehigh). We donât qualify for aid so I donât think itâs related.
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Weâre flying out shortly for the Turning Tartan day tomorrow. Looks like weâll have somewhat better weather than you did, fortunately. Really looking forward to it!
BTW @BankofMOMandDAD was talking about Pitt, not CMU.
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I donât think this article covers new ground, but I thought it was relevant to families in this thread and I didnât see if posted elsewhere. Gift link.
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