Oh, he is making a decision today! He has all the info, just needs to pull that trigger.
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Good luck with your decisions! Good to have a slight reprieve, Iām sure.
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Thatās been the experience of the people we know who have done engineering at ND (who were all super satisfied with their choices).
Sounds like Northwestern had great vibes? But yours would be going into Mudd with eyes wide open it seems.
Again all wonderful options and hope the choice feels right later today!
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What? Free? Thatās good to know! We are planning our trip āaka late summer vacationā with move in at Macalester with visiting some lakes and State Fair. It also happens to be the first week of 4th grade for S33, but it is what it is. 
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thatās how it was as of a couple of years ago, at least! It was only up to 4 boxes, and you had to be living on campus again in the fall (also you had to get your stuff from the storage to your new room, which was a pain, but S managed)
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Nope! Mine has not either --or if she has decided, she has not told me. I keep repeating to myself āShe is not trying to torture meā¦ As stressful as I am finding this, it is not about meā¦ she is not trying to torture meā¦ā
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Mine has not either. The two contenders both have June 1st as their deposit day so I may still have almost a month. 
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Omg I would be going INSANE.
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D24 declared yesterday that sheās frustrated that she has to wait until 6/15 to find out who her roommate is going to be. She said, āBFF (whoās going to U of A) found out who HER roommate is. Iām tired of waiting!ā
I see all of this as positive signs. Itās a sign that sheās excited about the road ahead. Excited about engaging in her new campus community this fall.
2 weeks from tomorrow is graduation day. holy cow
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Same! We just participated in a tradition of ādecorating their lockers.ā Iām not sure if other schools do this. The funny thing is, the students never use their lockers, so the principal has to tell us the numbers and combinations on the hall. The school was made for a much larger population, so there is space! We decorate with their names, where they are going to college, and pictures of the graduate. My daughterās male friend has a dad who is divorced from the mom, and I think he was assigned the task, and came over to spy out what we were doing before buying his stuff! I hope Gā's dad comes through like a champ! 
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Today was the last day for seniors! Graduation is 2 weeks from tomorrow. She is so happy to not have any more homework! Itās been so busy this spring that I am also glad she is done.
She is happy to start thinking about plans and buying things for the dorm. I think we are starting by buying a new backpack!
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Hugs to all the parents waiting for their kids to decide. It does feel like torture. Hopefully the wait is just that your kids truly loves their options and, in the grand scheme, what a great problem! But for those impacted by FAFSA, that just sucks. It is so disappointing such an important process has been a cluster this year
My kidsā schools had Decision Day celebrations today and I was given permission to make his decision social media official. It was a happy day and yet I find Iām starting to choke up more and more.
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To tell the truth I am a little jealous of everyone getting to give their announcements. I know our time will come but geesh! what a year. Top choice school has not sent FAFSA yet which wouldnāt matter but we are also on the waitlist for tuition exchange 
I will celebrate everyone here who have been able to decide and are getting excited on what the future holds 
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This is not a big deal, but for some reason itās really bothering me tonight:
In January, C24 interviewed for a very cool honors program at a state school, followed by an audition for that schoolās BFA program in February. They got waitlisted for the honors program shortly after their BFA audition, and as April 1 rolled around without a BFA decision, they mentally wrote the school off.
The first week of April, they got a snail mail letter accepting them to the BFA program, but never got an email and their portal never changed, so it kind of didnāt seem real. They went on to fall in love with and commit to a different school.
Today, they got two snail mail letters: one welcoming them to the honors program that had previously waitlisted them, and a second increasing their merit award substantially. Both were dated last week.
Functionally, this changes nothing. C committed elsewhere and declined this school last week, before the letters arrived (but after they were mailed). But I canāt help but be a little frustrated! If the school had just sent an email or really used any notification method other than an actual paper letter, then at least C would have known in time to have given the offer serious consideration. It just feels kind of bad to know that they turned down an opportunity they never knew they had.
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I would be totally frustrated by that, too!
yeah, thatās super annoying!
Just got an email from a college letting us know theyāll be sending aid packages mid-May. Via USPS.
Itās a relatively decent-sized public. Iām guessing 12-14k undergrads.
I meanā¦ what are they going to do? People are committing left and right. A kid would have to like them well enough to surrender their deposit someplace else. I guess it might all come out in the wash. But these late senders have to be at some kind of disadvantage. And āstarting Mid-Mayā combined with USPS sounds to me like some kids wonāt know until almost June.
Do they just start throwing money at kids?
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Go to the Wait List - and then after that go to the - oops, we made an error when we sent you a rejection letter.
Come hereā¦please.
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Thatās what I was wonderingā¦ but itās relatively non-selective as it is. My son applied there because it would probably be cheaper than attending a state school where we live. I donāt know. I guess weād consider it if they tossed enough money at us. But itād have to be a lot. It was actually in the running until the last week or so, and he just decided to commit to another affordable option.
Granted, weāre deciding almost entirely on COA. Vibes arenāt going to feed the rest of the kids left at home.
We canāt be alone. And thatās going to have to hurt some schools that are so late to the party.
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Iām a bundle of nerves today. D24 is having some logistical challenges with her senior project presentation on Saturday. D26 was home sick from school today with a sinus infectionā¦again. Itās now a monthly thing and we are so sick of the allergies in our house right now. Time to schedule an allergist appointment for that kid. She feels like poo. Dr was reluctant to prescribe antibiotics, clearly didnāt believe us about the sinus infectionā¦even tested D26 for COVID and flu when her symptoms donāt present as either of those. And for peteās sakeā¦itās 90+ degrees here today. Itās not COVID or flu!
Work is crazy busy. Iām anxious as hell about a colonoscopy and pancreatic ultrasound that I have to have next Tuesday (thanks to breast cancer & ATM gene mutation positive). D26 is really worried that sheāll still be sick for her chemistry final exam on Monday.
I put out a ācongrats graduate!ā sort of sign out front this afternoon that I had made for D24 through an online store. It really feels real now! 1 of D24ās classmates asked for a photo of her because the kid is putting together a photo montage on Instagram for the seniors and that got me all in the feels today for some dumb reason.
Itās also becoming super real that in 2 yr from now, our other kid (D26) will be graduating, tooā¦yesterday, she was very chatty & excited about 2 majors at U of A which sheās super interested in. The 2 majors are both in the cybersecurity realm of the College of Applied Science & Technologyā¦neither require a year and a half of calculus + linear algebra. Neither require a year of chemistry like computer science does. Both have a mix of tech stuff and US history-related topics. And both qualify one to be able to apply to NSAās cybersecurity scholarships for your last 2 yr of college. Lots of the professors work down in Fort Huachuca. The husband of a friend of mine works down there and has offered to do an informational interview w/D26 so she can learn more about that sort of careerā¦my friend says that her husband talks often about how hard it is to find women to fill the open jobs that his company has.
This is a kid who asked the US History teacher if when sheās a senior, could 1 of the Humanities senior capstone class options be a class thatās all about the history of warfare (she loves WW2 history). Today, despite feeling lousy, on the way home from the doctor, D26 said, āitās like we found the perfect mix of computer stuff and history stuff and itās all right there in Tucson, Mama!ā (her BFF from 2nd grade still lives in Tucsonā¦they chat on a regular basis still)
It just makes me insanely happy to see my kids excited about something. I mean, in those moments, it feels like I won the lottery or something. Where did all the time go? Graduation is in 2 weeks. Good thing Iām not wearing makeup to that event. Thereās no pointā¦itāll all come off anyway because thereāll be so many happy tears! Iām excited for my kidsā futures but also bittersweet sad that chapters of their lives are ending and the time is coming very near that it wonāt be so loud and chaotic at times in our household.
If any of you veteran parents who already have kids in college have any sage words of advice, Iām all ears.
Thanks for listening to/reading my rambling this evening.
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