Just noticing our D25s have similar school lists.
Auburn: accepted
Alabama: accepted
Samford: accepted
Furman: accepted
Rhodes: accepted
Sewanee: accepted
Wofford: accepted
WakeForest: waiting
Wm&Mary: waiting
Northeastern: waiting
Vanderbilt: waiting
URichmond: deferred, waiting for RD
Does your D25 have a favorite yet? Mine has been hesitant to rank - can see herself at several. We are doing admitted Main Event at Wofford next week and another at Rhodes next month. Also interested in others but soccer season is preventing us from attending many of the planned admitted events. Might go revisit top choices during spring break for one last vibe check before decision day.
Any other schools do ‘senior assassin’? I probably shouldn’t say ‘school’ since it isn’t a school sponsored event. Every year a senior organizes the game unofficially. There’s even an app for it! D25 is all in. 95 of the 325 seniors are participating this year. They each pay $5, so the winner gets $475!
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Fun! We played it in my NYC high school in the late 80s. 
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Yes! It’s a lot of fun but I will give my annual warning to make sure that all parents know what’s happening. There have been incidents of kids popping out of bushes and parents thinking it’s an intruder and pulling guns on kids. 
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Yes tons of schools around me do this (including both my kiddos schools- one public and one private).
Ours don’t have $ though - just pride in winning
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Yes, 5 overlaps! We talked about Rhodes and Sewanee and toured Wake and Vanderbilt, too. Our D25 should hear from Denison on Thursday and that news could matter a lot.
Ours does. (NH)
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I had never heard of this game until D25 told me about it last year when that senior class was doing it. It is very involved! Multiple rounds, purges, bounty hunters, etc. The first purge was tonight. D25 stayed home so she wouldn’t get caught.
I need to check in with S25, as I’ve been enjoying an extended weekend in Ireland while DH wrapped up some work before he has to continue on to work in Barcelona, but I know for a fact his school does this senior thing. I just don’t know if it has started yet. He and his IB diploma buddies are still slogging through several of their final major papers, so if the assassin game has started, I expect they haven’t been able to join.
This was, BTW, first time we left the kiddo on his own for more than two nights. I’m going to be very interested to see what state the house will be in when I return! Will the litter boxes be cleaned (please, please, for the sake of the cats, let them be cleaned)? Will the dishwasher have been run, or just loaded? Will the mailbox be overflowing? How many pizza boxes will be in the garbage? I’ll find out in about 15 hours!
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You’re braver than I to leave a teen alone for a weekend. I can trust my kid not to throw a party or anything, but they have to be reminded daily to clear dishes. I can only imagine what might await me after a weekend without such reminders. I would be happy if the pizza boxes made it to the trash!
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Any messes need to be cleaned up by the kid as soon as I get home. I refuse to pick up after laziness.
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I’m with you. My teens and I just seem to have very different levels of mess tolerance, as does my husband. It feels like a constant battle. My home was always so neat and tidy pre-marriage and kids. Once my kids both are off to college, I might be able to have a nice house again.
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Ugh. My biggest pet peeve. I love my spouse very much, but he doesn’t get my need to have a clean kitchen. He’ll say “don’t worry about the dishes and pots/pans, I’ll do them.” Great! Except that doesn’t mean doing them THAT NIGHT. They are almost always still there the next morning. Sometimes a baking sheet will be there for 2-3 days. And I won’t wash them the first day or two, because he SAID he’d do it, and I do all the cooking, and i don’t want to do all the dishes too. But if it’s still there on day two and certainly on day three, I can’t handle it. I wash them, and it makes me bitter and angry the whole time.
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Same! My dream is to have someone come in and clean if for no other reason than my husband would be too embarrassed to let them see the house messy. lol But it’s out of budget especially with college costs. I will continue to dream.
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OMG. Every word of this. My other dream for when I randomly become a zillionaire (not going to happen) is to have someone do all the cooking. I don’t really like cooking, but more than that, I don’t like having to think of things to cook. Just having some kind of private chef that could make dinners so I didn’t have to think about it and could just have tasty healthy food ready? DREAM.
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This is a great time to start leaving the teen alone for a few nights! In a few months they will have all the freedom in the world and they need some practice.
We have only left my son for a couple of single nights before, and one weekend last year. We’re off to an out of state wedding for a couple of nights soon. We’re intentionally trying to find another couple of weekends to be gone before he leaves for college. We want him to get used to us not being around and taking care of himself.
He’s a really responsible kid so it’s not hard. I can deal with a little mess, just nothing too crazy.
When I was a kid, my parents went out one night and when they came home there were dishes in the sink. I was asleep. My dad was so angry and woke me up- it was a bad scene and I still have trauma from it. I’ve learned to let a little mess go- there’s bigger things to worry about.
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100% to what you’ve written here. Its hard to go away and let them have the freedom of the house overnight or for several nights, BUT that is coming soon regardless. Like you, for the past year we have given a weekend here or there. Probably better training for us than D25.
That said, as generally as responsible as she is, she constantly leaves dirty dishes, etc. in her room for days on end. I’m at the end of my leash on this. I do not care about the clothes on the floor, etc. But dirty dishes attracts bugs. Your last paragraph is a good reminder to me to approach this issue differently than I probably would. Thank you for that timely reminder.
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Well I am back to US soil, and now just have to wait two hours for the final leg of todays travel to get home and see how S25 did with his time alone for four nights. My fingers (and toes) are crossed.
To your points, @Julmarmc and @MidwestPack , it does seem like the right time to make sure S25 has some independent time at home. Plus it gives him a concrete example of us trusting him to deal with regular adulting issues that he’s going to be facing at college soon enough.
It is also good practice for me to not to hover 
and my friends: I need the practice!!
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And it turns out the senior “water wars” have not yet started, but there is discussion amongst S25’s friend group about whether or not to participate. Apparently the police have been called on kids before and my kid’s buddies are anxious about that possibility.
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Our Local PD are notified when it starts by the HS (while not super official event, it is sort of so). A lot of parents of seniors let their neighbors know too. (e.g. there could be kids in cars “stalking” our house)
And kids use little dinky bright colored water pistols I think.