Parents of the HS Class of 2025 (Part 2)

[fuschiachop]

@dfbdfb

I still remember the sweatshirt one of the lit professors at a place I used to work would wear: Ain’t no party like a Gatsby party 'cause a Gatsby party don’t stop until two people are dead and everyone is disillusioned with the jazz age as a whole.

Now I want this shirt.

[cfmom]

Yes. Same here. I have never heard of seniors ending the school year early. It must be a regional thing.

[Izzy74]

Our school has started the Instagram posts for decision day. Lots of California this year (we’re in Washington), biggest post Covid CA year that I can remember. USD, Santa Clara, CalPoly, and a UC Irvine. What trends are you all seeing?

[Mdowns123]

Ours is late too - June 20th

[PurpleSunset24]

Ours is an extremely long 1000 person evening graduation followed by the all-night party…which this year costs $110 per person. It will be interesting to see how many people attend that. The price seems really steep compared to past years.

[L_NewEngland]

@Izzy74

What trends are you all seeing?

25’s schools has been slowing getting posted to since December. I can’t see it is markedly different than last few years. Maybe will see more differences in next couple of weeks as updates pour in? I think about 25% have submitted so far, and usually almost 50% do…

[dfbdfb]

I checked—there are places online selling them!! (Mostly t-shirts, but there are other options, too.)

[tjd0829]

We are seeing many more kids going abroad (Italy, Ireland, France, England) for full 3-4 year programs. In past years, my son’s school (professional art high school) has sent a handful to RISD. This year there at least 13 going!

[klei]

We have a lot more going to Canada this year than normal… and only about half of the students have posted their college
destinations.

[SpreadsheetMom]

@Izzy74

Our school has started the Instagram posts for decision day. Lots of California this year (we’re in Washington), biggest post Covid CA year that I can remember. USD, Santa Clara, CalPoly, and a UC Irvine. What trends are you all seeing?

We’re in the southeast, so lots of UGA, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Clemson, South Carolina, Tennessee, Furman – that’s mostly where our private school sends kids. Usually there’s maybe one Ivy, but this year we have a Columbia, a Harvard, a Penn and an MIT. So that’s cool!

Our public school overlaps with the same schools, but then there’s more in-state public schools as well.

[illneversaynever]

This makes me so happy! Not too long ago you seemed like you were almost dreading this “last”, as things this season had not gone as desired. So to end on a note like this: WOW! WOW! WOW! What a gift!

[illneversaynever]

Count me as a resource if your kid is heading to the SF Bay Area!

[jthree]

@Julmarmc

@DivineMarshmallow

Also last I heard, you thought he was going to pick U W (Dub)?

He cut his list to 5 once all his acceptances came- We did the tours and the final 3 were UW, UMich and Vassar (Carleton and Macalester got cut). He realized UW wasn’t the best fit for his major (a late major choice) so he gave it up. It was a tough decision for him b/c he really did love it.
So it was down to UMich and Vassar- a weird combo. Could have gone either way but in the end the big school was what he wanted. I think he made a good choice.

Oh, I thought it was UW too! Sounds like a good fit if it has his major. Congrats!

[MistySteel27]

D and her friend did their promposal video and it was hilarious. They definitely don’t do anything by halves. She made a sign that said: Hey, (in big letters) then like 7 generic girl names and one guy name all crossed out with her name last with: Prom? written at the bottom. She jumped out of the car saying Yes! Yes! While running up to him holding the sign. He handed her some scraggly weeds that had flowered and a Burger King crown. The friend filming told them to now kiss and D audibly said EW! It was really cute and their friends and family all loved it. They were in 3 year old preschool together and have always been close. His family has taken her on holidays when we were working and on vacation with them. He also went to Germany with her last summer. My heart is full watching the video over and over.

[Pnwfamily]

Whoop Smith!!! That is awesome. My daughter went on study abroad with a bunch of Smith students and was so bummed she hadn’t applied because she loved them all and found them all so thoughtful and interesting. Best of luck to her!!

[PurpleSunset24]

@OctoberKate

It seriously was the best night and just the positive thing he needs to get through the next couple weeks of exams and dealing with less than great grades and everything else

I’m so happy for you all that he had a good end to the last home meet! Good memories!!

[SpreadsheetMom]

This does sound hilarious. What a sweet friendship!

[Massmomoftwins]

We’re seeing many, many more students choosing to attend more-affordable state schools than shelling out 95K X 4 for private colleges. Folks are saving money for graduate school, med school, etc

[DivineMarshmallow]

In our case the private school was far less than any of the state schools…but maybe that is the state schools she chose. I’m sure other state schools would have been way less expensive. I do wonder what other private colleges would have cost. I wish there were more transparency with costs.

[SpreadsheetMom]

I wish that were true for us. Our oldest is at a private school in TX that is fantastic with meeting need…except it deemed that we didn’t have any need. Merit scholarships are rarely a thing. So we’re paying $80K+ per year for our daughter to study a major that doesn’t really have an obvious career path without grad school.

We alternate between feeling grateful – because she is absolutely in love with the school, has met her people and blossomed and is living her best life and could NOT be happier – and feeling like chumps because she could have gone to a very good in-state public school (we have two top ranked ones) for like $15K a year at most (just room and board). Plus no flights.