We put down a deposit at UGA on the day the housing app opened up. DC got in EA OOS and the application opened for everyone the following Monday. It’s recommended to do that ASAP at UGA. I’m not sure that applied to any other schools where DC has been accepted so far.
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This differs by school - some you get an advantage by depositing early but not in others, so you would have to check the policy of each college.
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I am highly entertained by nail color choice. I’d vote for anything you can do to speed the State decisions, since I think that’s the day the Carolina decisions will come out too, and really, it’s all about me and I’m anxious. 
In all seriousness, I could use a distraction. It’s been A Week and it’s only Wednesday.
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IMO, if it’s a place the kid is likely to go to and you can easily afford losing the money, then there’s nothing lost by sending in a housing deposit early, especially if it’s a place that doesn’t guarantee housing slots for entering students.
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This is the longest. week. ever. I’m calling it the Week of Waiting. I’m holding out hope that the UNC and NCSU decisions come out on Friday - also still waiting for RIT and who knows when those decisions will come out. Those are the last three schools. It looks like ECU snail mails their Honors decisions and I’d expect those this week or next week, too. Finally, UNCW Honors decisions should be out sometime soon, maybe next week? Waiting is not my forte!
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Yeah, that’s how things have generally rolled around here, with NC State and UNC CH announcing on the same day. I’m going to put faith in the universe and the power of my toenail color to make it happen: Wolfpack red is going on, tonight!!!
I KNOW, right??? It would be so, so nice to get that this week. I found it so weird that NC State originally posted the date of Thursday 1/30…very out of character.
That’s wild. Argh!!! (And not in the ECU Pirate kind of Argh, more like the “you’re killin’ me here” kind of Argh.)
We will make it through, friends. But I agree, a distraction to make this week go faster would not be frowned upon.
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I just had to share this post I saw on upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelance-jobs/apply/Social-Media-Manager-for-Year-Old-Football-Player_~021882141873445517980/
Thank goodness my child was not athletic. I could not imagine navigating this and trying to build my child’s “online brand identity.” The college process was hard enough without the sports stuff!
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Now I feel judgy for posting it. I wish their 13 year old football player great success.
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agree.. this seems like a classic “don’t hate the player, hate the game”
I feel like recruiting system is so wild, this is probably what people need to do? I don’t love that, but can’t judget parents either..
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Agreed. And I never had an athletic kid, so I don’t know what it takes to support them in this area. Again, it was bitchy of me to post it, but I can’t seem to delete it now.
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Give yourself some grace 
. It’s certainly a wild thing!
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Not bitchy, it’s ridiculous that that’s what feels necessary. Not that the parents, or that the kid are ridiculous, the whole recruiting system is ridiculous. That it starts so early, and that you have to do so much, really disadvantages the families and kids who either don’t know that or can’t do that. I wish it wasn’t like that.
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It’s definitely extreme…although is it really that much different from parents of 8th graders already figuring out “strategies” for their kids to get into a “t20”? I’ve seen it here plenty of times, including working with private counselors and studying for the SAT as well.
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You should be able to edit your post and remove everything and just leave a few words such as deleted.
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No, not that different, and I think that’s kind of ridiculous too! I mean, I get thinking in 8th grade about what kind of course selections you want to make in HS to position yourself to apply to college. For example, my older kid couldn’t apply to any of the UC’s because he didn’t have a fine art. Maybe we could’ve asked for an exemption, but if we knew in 8th grade he wanted a UC and that they had specific requirements, then maybe he would’ve crafted his HS path differently. I think that kind of planning, or planning to take four years of language because that’s perceived as stronger, is different from the T20 or Bust school of preparation, which can be too much. Kids need time for some relaxation too, it shouldn’t be all test prep and kumon and research programs in the summer etc unless the kid is saying that’s what they love and want.
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I definitely agree with you. Its not a path I would have chosen for any of my kids for sports nor for academics. But I think we live in a society of super competitive kids and parents and its easy to get caught up in it especially if you live in a community that values “D1 or bust” or “T20 or bust” attitudes.
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100%. When we moved to the US there was a place we specifically did not move to because of this kind of thinking. Interviews for preschool and kumon at age 3 etc.
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Absolutely, which is why CC needs a →😔← reaction.
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FWIW, toenails are now officially Wolfpack Red. I could live with this look for four years….
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One foot for each color would cover both your bases. 
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