Looking at my kids’ school locations:
✓Allentown, Pennsylvania
✓Starkville, Mississippi
✓Denton, Texas
Yep. Just yep.
(I mean, by comparison with those, Hempstead, New York would be positively quick and easy, even from Alaska! So watch C25 end up at Syracuse, just to make it more, um, interesting.
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Denton is actually not too bad of a drive from Dallas - less than an hour. Really cute town.
At least Syracuse has an airport. 
Nothing is particularly easy for us to get to from where we live. Yet somehow the least difficult to get to are sinking to the bottom and the most difficult are rising to the top.
I thought we’d be down to two by the end of this week. I thought I knew which two. I clearly need to rein in my prognostications!
So far, we are only planning on the admitted student days for Union and New Paltz. American is likely off the table because of $$$. We have a meeting with Clark’s financial office to see if they can help a bit more. We still have 10 RD decisions to wait for, so it’s hard to plan any more visits. April might be very busy with travel.
That’s interesting. I doubt anyone at our school has ever heard of that. Congrats to everyone nominated. Seems like a very hard thing to get nominated for!
I never heard of this program either.. and yes, seems incredibly incredibly selective! Big congrats to people nominated!!
True—but then again, I-35E…
Anyone else in this group dealing with a kiddo in a relationship with another Class of 25 kiddo with whom they trying to go to college at the same place? I am very well aware of all the risks and pitfalls of this, and I am communicating them as carefully as possible without causing additional problems, just wondering if there are others in the same boat and how they are handling the additional challenge.
My s24 received the presidential nomination last year along with 3 others in his class. S24 got act36 in one sitting, the others 1590/1600 sat. There was no mention in school newsletter, senior awards like nmsf/nmf, morning announcements, nothing….. this year, only 1 student received the award. I don’t think anyone really knows about this award, it’s not pushed like college board pushes their NMF. S24 did not mention on his applications since he didn’t need to send loci or update information on his applications. In the end, it didn’t really help him, only for us to know that he achieved it.
I’ve got a S25 in a relationship with a Class of 26!!! Exceptional student, Eagle Scout, crew team. His favorite schools were 4hours+ away from home. Then he started looking closer to home and they became his top choices. But this is common - we saw it as kids and we see it now as parents. We know the odds, but they don’t want to hear it. I just try to remind him of what he has accomplished to earn these admissions and encourage him to prioritize the important things when making the decision on where to go. Telling them their relationship won’t last will just create separation at a time when they’re about to leave and you want that closeness. Its hard.
I mean, the timing of it is kind of weird for that—more and more students, and particularly the ones who would be nominated for this award, have already had most or even all of their applications evaluated and decisions made by this point in the year.
Really, it’s mainly an application to get to attend a fancy ceremony in DC, which (perhaps particularly for those of us who live far away but have family in the area😁) may be worth it on its own.
It’s funny, b/c my son and his gf are not even considering going to college anywhere near each other. She wants to stay close to home and he wants to go away somewhere warmer than Vermont. I’ve actually been waiting for a change of heart but so far no (let’s pray it stays that way).
Yep. My son is in a two year relationship with another '25 kiddo. His boyfriend was accepted early to Princeton and the only other school he applied to for RD is MIT. Son applied to schools from Maine to Virginia, but where his boyfriend ends up may come in to play when we are down to final decisions and they map out travel time between schools.
My D25 is in a relationship with a class of 26er too! I think things are too new for her to even think about it affecting her college choices. So far it doesn’t seem to be a factor. But May 1 is a long way off!
Edited to add: It’s more like that D25 and her best friend will try to figure out how to go to college either together or near each other. They have some crossover, but not a lot.
Again, completely unrelated to college and also totally related to baked goods…
There’s a new pop-up coffee/pastry thing in the lobby of my building. I’m eating my emotions today, so I thought I’d go check it out, and get a treat. I got a chai latte, totally fine, and a chocolate chip cookie. Everything they have has weird cutesy non-descriptive names, so the name didn’t give the ingredients of the cookie away. It looked good, nice looking chocolate chunks, couldn’t read the smaller print on the label while I was in line waiting then felt pressured to go quickly.
Only after ordering, paying for, and being handed my cookie did I see the fine print.
Cheeze-its. There are cheeze-its in my chocolate chip cookie.
It’s not as gross as it sounds, it mostly just tastes like random salt bombs throughout the cookie. But after less than half, I was done. The giant full size cheeze-it that was sticking out from the middle of the cookie just took away my appetite for cookies.
(Also, can you tell that I’m procrastinating on something?)
It’s probably sick and wrong of me that I read that, and my first reaction was "Oh, yeah, I can totally see that working!"
I was all with you on the “treat yo self” on the chai latte and a baked good…but cheezit cookie enhancement?? 
Yikes. Good for you for giving it a full try. But I think you still owe yourself a really good baked good. Just one opinion.
Like, in theory…it could work. It just would have to be done REALLY well.
@fuschiachop and @dfbdfb - I mean, it’s not the worst. And at first it was kind of like oh! Hit of salt to offset the really sweet milk chocolate, I can be down with that. But I have since decided that it’s just too much. (Or, hell, it could just be that my stomach is revolting to all the crap I’ve eaten today - I normally eat pretty healthy and moderately bland, but today’s lunch included left-over tortellini in an aglio olio sauce that was heavy on the red pepper and garlic and olive oil, washed down with my second cup of tea after three cups of coffee… I think my whole system is just haywire after all of this…)