I think I saw her as Janis in Mean Girls – we saw it on Broadway in summer 2019!
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I can take it when ignorant people say that stuff to me, but when somebody says it to my kid, I just want to yell at them. But what usually comes out instead is something like, “Wow, did you really just say that out loud?” It usually does the trick. 
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She was on Jessie, which was on constant rotation in our house when D26 was in elementary school.
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24 school days left (2 of those are finals and 1 is a senior ‘fun’ day)
So really just 21 actual working school days left.
42 days until graduation ceremony.
The ‘what’s next for admitted students’ page for RIT has a countdown for start of Fall semester!!
That makes me feel personally attacked 
D26 seems to finally be getting into the college spirit. I was a little concerned because she seemed a bit indifferent. (She is pretty mellow for most things- but I guess I was expecting something in the form of excitement from her )
But I think that was a symptom of committing to a school so early- feels a bit anti climatic having that info so early.
Now that others around her are getting excited about their decision - she is getting into the excitement a bit more.
She asked me to order a couple more RIT shirts and she is starting to work on her check list for her admitted student stuff (without being told too! 
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She also bought some concert tickets for out in November in New Jersey (not sure how she is getting there- but that will work itself out later). She bought an extra ticket for the friend she hopes to make - lol 
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D26 is still stuck on a merry-go-round/carousel ride that never ends, called “Did the college receive my official AP score reports?” So far, we have:
- Emailed the main Registrar’s Office help email address explaining the situation. They said since she’s not a current student, they couldn’t help.
- Emailed her College of Info Science advisor asking for help. She suggested to email registrar’s office, who said “no soup for you.”
- Searched college’s website, which all says that official scores are needed. Great, we’ve sent 2 reports so far.
- emailed admissions rep, who said AP scores are included in the high school transcript. Checked w/school counselor, who said, “No they’re not.” School counselor has a contact at the honors college…she’s going to ask that person for help with D26’s situation
- Learned that some other incoming freshman families are having the same problem
- Been told by other veteran parents not to worry, it’ll all show up in early August after you send an official AP score report this summer. Not applicable because D26 isn’t taking any AP classes this school year.
- Been told by people not to worry because you can change your class schedule around even up to a week after classes have started. That doesn’t make my kid feel any better because the preferable time slots for classes will all be full by then.
- Been told that you have to get this addressed because math class placement as a freshman is only good for the first year.
- Been told by veteran parents (on a FB group) to keep being persistent about it and don’t wait until the last minute to get this addressed. So which is it…wait and it’ll all auto-magically get sorted out? Or don’t wait?
- Been told by veteran parents that you have to pay your enrollment deposit first. Great, we did that back in January over 2 months ago.
Welcome to adulting, kiddo! If you can survive the gauntlet of how to get your AP scores credited, then you can survive anything. LOL.
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Not sure you run the NPC before application or not.
In my experiences, Northwestern is not as generous as other schools, maybe on a similar stingy level as Brown and Cornell, which is fine and we never even considered to send out an application for this reason.
One of my daughter’s teachers/mentors is pressuring her to make a college decision - and I’m like you can make after you visit your last college in mid-April. I realize everyone else in class already knows, but we haven’t even been to all the campus admitted student days yet! I told her she just has to put a deposit down somewhere by April 30.
Certainly some students must put their deposits down last minute, right?
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Oh, come on! Can the adults in our kids’ lives just stop already with the unnecessary pressure? 
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Today seems to be outrageous teachers day on this thread! Why does this teacher/mentor care if she decides now! Admitted students days are designed to help students who are weighing options to make a more informed decision. Rushing to a decision at this point makes zero sense if there are no actual deadlines before May 1st. That teacher needs to hold their horses.
My daughter still has 3 visits to go. If she falls deeply in love with one of the schools before all the visits are done, we’ll let her commit early (with at least a 2 day cooling off period). But otherwise, not until after they are all done. Anybody who is not your kid and her immediate family needs to butt out and mind their business!
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I think we are on a similiar visit/decision schedule!
Also - I just found out that she is missing prom because of the college visits. If our LA plane flight is not delayed she can go to after prom.
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D26 got a positive response from the math placement office, who basically said, “Yeah, it sounds like something isn’t quite right with your situation. We’re going to track this down. You shouldn’t have to take the math placement test AND you should get credit for Precalculus and 1st semester calculus. Give us a few days and we’ll get back to you with everything sorted out.”
We learned that the 3 ‘placements’ tasks are sequential. You have to do the writing/English one first. Completing that opens up the math placement. You can’t take the foreign language placement exam until you’ve completed the math placement step.
I bet you $$ that they do it this way in order to ensure that incoming freshmen actually complete all 3 things.
Meanwhile, my kid is like, “OH MY GOSH! I talk to, like, 50 people, and NOBODY knows the actual answer!” Welcome to bureaucracy, kiddo. We’re grateful for the math placement people being on top of things.
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So C26 originally signed up for virtual registration (given the distance) but then we decided to do an in-person one that we can tack onto the Juneteenth long weekend. Not sure how other colleges do this (NYU’s was all online) but they seem to have a fair amount of parent programming on the day as well so it’s not like we’d just be hanging around doing nothing. Plan to spend 2 nights in Chicago and 2 in Champaign - we can use Hyatt points for all nights and have some flight credit from the canceled trip to Boulder. Hoping D19 can join, just because (and of course I’m still hoping that she accepts the UChicago grad school offer so they can each see each others’ schools on the trip, which I think would be fun).
I’ll still have to take at least 1.5 days off work which is not ideal and I don’t really have it to take given our plans for the rest of the year tbh but I’ll just take a couple of unpaid days for whatever I need by year end.
We just took D19 and some friends out to dinner (one of whom we’ve met before -this is the random roommate turned best friend) which was fun. It always amazes me how there are so many restaurants in this city and they all seem to be full every night of the week!
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I think this is outrageous! I have a terrible teachers’ story too, my D26’s comp civics teacher says “of course your parents can pay 100k/year to send you to undergrad and then another 100k/year for law school, they love you, don’t they?” talking to a classful of students in a PUBLIC school!!! I am very much upper middle class but I don’t have 600K times two lying around!!!
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Ha, ha. So here I am, helping my husband to figure out how to last-minute cancel some trip plans…
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Been there done that lol
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Haha! But, yay, right??
D26 and I canceled two different admitted-student trips in Feb/March, plus one more from Dec that was not college-related. Even after recently booking our trip for D22’s graduation in May, we each still have hundreds in flight credit.
Waiting to see what all the kids have planned this summer – still a lot of moving parts and pieces – so I can maybe finally book a family vacation. 
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FWIW, both of my kids were last minute - one on April 30, one on April 26(ish). In one case we were hoping more merit might come his way as we got closer to the deadline (it didn’t) and in the other we needed all the weekends of April to finish doing accepted student visits at his finalist schools. Your D is not alone!!
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Our goal here is April 25, which is 5 days after D26s last admitted student day visit. I’m traveling to a conference the last week of April, so told her we should be done before that so that no one (ME!) is stressing.
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Trying for a decision by S26 and deposit by mid-April here to ease my mind! He plans at least one more shadow of a studio before the final decision. Also we’re on the “maybe they’ll give us more merit” train from the favorites (although the chances of winning the lottery are probably equivalent). He did just get more merit from a non-favorite, which is becoming a contender to me at least. The rest of the family sleeps well at night
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