The game hasn’t started yet, but I can see how it could lead to some unanticipated problems. Hopefully, someone is in touch with PD about it though.
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We’ve had a fair number of pretty serious negative effects from Senior Assassin in our area. My kid knows I hate it, and isn’t playing. The upside of this is that everyone is talking to him, so he knows who needs to get whom and all that. He’s enjoying being in the know.
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We’ve just learned of this game today as it has started for our S25 as well. We already dislike it -lol. Definitely leads to worry about unintended issues surrounding stalking and pulling a gun on a kid in a public place. Even if it’s an obvious play water gun - which it is. Our main issue today was the safety of this app having these kids’ location and info (who gets this info etc) and then the safety of my S25 driving all around trying to catch someone and not paying attention to surroundings. I’m sure more worry and annoyance is in our future. First we’ve set up some parameters about when he can play and go catch someone if they’re near and when he needs to stay home - school night vs weekend etc. Ugh. Fun times
I wonder if the negative impacts are more common in the big cities. I would definitely be happy to have my kiddo sit it out.
Litter boxes are indeed cleaned. Cats are not the only ones relieved by this state of affairs.
Dishwasher was not only run, but also unloaded. A nice surprise.
Mail was not brought in to the house, but all packages dropped off at the door made it inside. Good porch pirate prevention skills.
Two pizza boxes. In the garbage can.
I’ll call it a win!
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We had a big assassin tournament in my high school my sophomore year. I still remember getting in trouble for it. It wasn’t all that fun even before that, as I recall.
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OMG … am I the only one that keeps wondering if there is a world where March 10th is “the end of March”. Isn’t it strange how the waiting feels longer when you get closer. College has been in the back of my mind for several months and now it’s front of center again. I figure we’re one gel manicure away from getting some more information and 2 from hearing back from his entire list 
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I’m only laughing at this because it’s so true for us too. We’re waiting to see how much merit aid S25 gets from Clemson - they’ve told him he’s getting some and that he’d find out “by the end of March”. When, pray tell, is this “end of March”?
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I know the number of schools my kid applied to is absurd, but we still have 20+ decisions to go. Why, oh why, do we not have at least decision dates for 15 of them?!? Are they this week? In three weeks? Ugh…the wait and not knowing is brutal.
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Oh my goodness. How many schools did your kid apply to?
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Wow that’s a lot of applications left to go! I told D25 she had to stop at the Common App limit, which is the same as the FAFSA online limit. Beyond that seemed too complicated to be worth it. It helped that her geographic area was limited. We kind of ran out of colleges she would consider that aren’t reachy reach.
Are the colleges you’re waiting for your kid’s top choices? Or is it a mix?
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Too many? 35 or so. They cast a very wide net because of their unusual background and stats plus needing financial aid. We had a lot of fee waivers too. So far it was a good decision for us because they have been rejected from some safety schools, but accepted into a couple of reaches/hard targets. Financial aid packages have varied widely from nothing to full tuition. I mentioned in another post that the only school they heard back from and were super excited about gave them almost nothing.
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It’s nearly all reachy reaches from here on in. My kid wasn’t wedded to a particular size of school. They wanted to stay in the Northeast. We had very little time or funds to visit more than a handful of schools.
Their top choices are all lottery tickets. I tried to keep them realistic along the way, but when their long-term boyfriend got into Princeton with a full ride, and then only applied to MIT and Harvard for RD, that was the end of keeping it real for my kid.
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I suppose I can’t blame them for wanting to reach for the brass ring. In some ways I think it’s harder when their friends can grab it. It makes it feel realistic, which can make a rejection sting more. It’s not a big deal if you never thought it was possible in the first place. I hope that your kid gets some acceptances in the lot.
My child applied ED to a reachy reach and the rejection was a blow despite knowing the odds. There are still a few in the RD pile, but now she has no expectations so that’s good, imo. I think only two are need blind, but they’re the reachiest and least likely. The rest are need aware. I predict some rejections there, maybe a waitlist. Hopefully, 1-2 acceptances. I think we’ll start hearing things by the end of the week and expect them to trickle in through the end of the month. She’s got a big production that coincides with the RD decision cycle, and she told me she plans to wait until it’s over to check portals. I’m not sure I can stand to wait that long. I guess we’ll see if she can. She’s scared of rejections. Decisions in the portal are like Schrodinger’s cat, so she might be able to wait.
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We have all the reachy reaches (but of course top choices) left. 5 by April 1st. No expectations at all, but hope is definitely there. We’ve told him we’ll leave it to him to look and tell us when and if he wants, but come April 1st, we’ve got to hear all and make some decisions. He only got into his 2 safeties, so we’re pretty sure it’s one or the other, but there’s that slight hope for a random acceptance or even waitlist at this point from a ‘top school’. He got gutted during EA with his target/first choice/local state school declines. April can’t get here soon enough. Ready to get past the unknown.
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Yeah we are in the same boat. Still waiting on merit, but in my son’s mind it’s his only choice. We only applied to 10 (2 with waivers) but luckily he got in to his number one. Wishing you luck.
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My son has 7 left and it looks like 5 are coming this week. The last 2 are not until the last week of March though and the big one is dead last of course.
20 is a lot. Exciting but nerve wracking at the same time! Hope they get some good news!
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D25 has 7 schools still to go, mostly California schools. I am a little pissed that the damn schools know when they are going to release but do not tell a 17 year old child when they can expect it. They schools know when they’re going to release, and I’m grateful for the schools that are really transparent about it. There is so much uncertainty in all this (waves at everything) and this tiny bit of certainty is appreciated.
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Exactly this! We know they know. We have schools that shared their exact March release dates weeks/months ago. Why are there still so many that can’t even give us a ballpark date?
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I went onto Reddit for all the schools on my sons list, to see historic release dates. Was helpful and gave us a pretty good indicator of what dates to expect. So far quite accurate!
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