My D26 is squarely in the doesn’t mind either way camp.
DID they get in? I don’t have time to read the thread right now!! 
Yes!!! The clam fart story has a happy ending!
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We are very nearly done! D26 officially declined admission offers from Connecticut College and Fordham. Both great schools she really liked but the financial aid just wasn’t there. She is also in the process of appealing another financial aid award. After an accepted students day scheduled for April 18th, she will make her final decision. Very exciting!
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Yup!
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In an unexpected twist, D26 was admitted today to McGill bioengineering. This is apparently a very selective program at McGill (the most selective of all the engineering disciplines), and months ago she had mentally crossed it off her list because she had a B on her record from sophomore year and we figured that was likely to disqualify her (
)… at this point she had pretty much forgotten that she had even applied, so it was a surprise to get email from them… hmm, now I guess we have to look into it at least a bit!
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Now that I think about it, I think I’ve read that thread before – but if I got all the way through it, I had forgotten. 
Whew, what a day. I feel like I’m managing everyone else’s chaos. D26 had an event come up that was really important to her on the same day we’re flying to D22’s graduation – so now I’m looking into changing our flights to the next morning. It took half the day just to figure out logistics.
D22’s car was broken into on campus, smashed windows, messed up steering wheel, not good. She had to adult and call AAA and have it towed to an auto body shop, meanwhile it’s opening day of a show she’s producing and stage managing.
D22 also found out yesterday about an opportunity to sit in on a day of classes at a grad school program she’s considering, but the only day that worked for her (sort of) is this coming Monday, so looking at flights three days away was a little expensive, to say the least. AND she doesn’t yet know if she snagged an available spot for Monday, so she hasn’t even booked the flight yet.
S25 registered for summer (one online class) and fall classes today – grabbed the last spot in one thing that’s really important, but is on the waitlist for another class that filled immediately. So I listened to him perseverate on that.
And then, my parents seem to be reverting back to childhood, and it’s been challenging trying to do basic medication management for them.
Finally, D26 and I are butting heads because she’s got a five-day weekend, so you’d THINK she’d be grinding on the giant pile of schoolwork she’s got left – including a very stressful project. But no, putting things off seems to be the better plan. (Oy)
But we discovered that Georgia Tech puts on a little mini con called WreckCon that is composed of ALL her favorite things – I mean, look at this! And there are 1,200 people in the Discord related to the event, so she feels a little better that she’ll find her people.
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I LOVE McGill. I don’t like big cities and I love Montreal as well. Congrats!
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My son just got his MUCH belated financial aid offer from Tulane. It’s ridiculous. He’s been very fortunate up to this point in that every acceptance has met or exceeded our SAI by a comfortable margin. Tulane, on the other hand, is only offering a grant of 8K with a family contribution of 91K, which according to Tulane’s own estimate of our ability to pay from the CSS profile, is off by 70,000 a year. Since Tulane claims to meet close to 100% of student need, this is a little dismaying. I’ll be calling today to make sure they didn’t make a mistake.
My son will be disappointed, since he was warming to the idea of four years in NO, but this will help to narrow it down, and he has many other excellent options.
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Yes - contact their FA office. My personal experience (and my sense from many others on here over the last couple of years) is that if things were accurately put into the NPC, the actual aid package comes out fairly close to that. If their award is off by THAT MUCH from your calculated SAI - it would seem something is off.
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Congrats! I tried REALLY hard to get my daughter to apply to McGill. I still wish she would have considered it. We all love Montreal, despite the cold and it’s not even that far away for us, but alas, she still wouldn’t apply.
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We’ve completed the admitted students days/weekends/visits for her ‘short list’ of schools D26 is heavily considering.
D26 admitted to 9 of 11, with one Wait List (#10, which is very unlikely to covert) - and she had already dropped four schools into the ‘not really considering’ bucket as of early March.
We set up visits to the other five strong potentials for March and early April. After visits to the first four on that list, she has decided the fifth school is no longer in the running as the minor concerns she had with a couple of others were settled on her visits and those school far outweigh the fifth in her mind and she’s canceled her admitted students day visit there.
And in that remaining group of four, there is one school that D26 says is clearly in fourth position (so to me, it’s well out of the running as well).
That leaves three schools - the ‘problem’ is the campus/admitted student visits appear to have compressed these schools much closer together rather than clearly separating them out into 1/2/3 for her. Good news is all three schools have great aspects to them and as a parent I’m good with her enrolling at each of them, bad news is she’s going to have to cogitate on this awhile to see if she can make a clear decision in the next couple of weeks!
And then there will be the second thoughts issue over the summer (I’m guessing).
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Oy! That’s a lot to deal with in one day. Hoping it all gets sorted out/organized/fixed, though, you know the parent thing is unfortunately probably not going to get easier.
Yay for the con. Looks fun! (UIUC does one as well, UI-Con - that was another box ticked!)
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Still, it’s a great dilemma to have. Congrats on at least getting a shorter list!
UTulsa contacted D26 yesterday & offered her another $3k of merit scholarship. That’s not enough to push it into the category of “She’ll change her mind.” Besides, we already paid an enrollment deposit elsewhere. But it was nice of them to offer it.
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I love Montreal. What an cool experience it would be to spend 4 years there! My daughter considered applying but ended up feeling like the curriculum was more limited than she wanted. But for a kid who isn’t looking to have side quests in their academics, it would be an amazing place I think. Congrats!
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Senior skip day today for D26. April 10 is the last day of the grading period, and then it’s study study study for IB exams which begin on April 24. Getting seriously close to the finish line!
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Son and I were able to call Tulane over lunch about the previously mentioned bizarre financial aid offer, thanks to his Spanish teacher letting him use an office. (They won’t talk to me alone due to FERPA, and son’s school doesn’t allow cell phones). The short version is that maybe it was a mistake. They’ll look into it and email my son sometime next week. Notable that it’s already been three weeks since son was notified that he was admitted RD.
Sorry to kvetch. I know those folks have an overwhelming workload in a short amount of time. But if I wasn’t already a fan of smaller schools, I certainly am now. We’ll see.
In the meantime, tomorrow is the Spring Dance. Wife and I will have the house to ourselves for five hours!
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Good luck!