Congratulations 
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Wonderful news! Congratulations!
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Great school!! Congratulations!!
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Congratulations!!! My cousin went there and loved it!
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That’s fantastic. I was so impressed with Wellesley when we visited. Seems an incredible community.
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HUGE congrats! That’s my “one that got away” school for d26. WHAT A CAMPUS! And the young women there are so impressive. Your D26 is about to have a magical time.
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Huge congrats! What a fantastic school. So happy for you all!
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D26 has also been fighting with the AP Art Portfolio portal this week and will be so happy once everything is loaded.
She has prom this weekend. She finally worked up the courage to ask a boy to prom as friends and he said yes! Between that and Syracuse offering her more merit aid she’s been on cloud nine all week.
She has two AP tests, the AP Art Portfolio, and an ECE final next week. Then she has one more week of school after that where I dont know what she’s going to do since seniors don’t have to take finals.
On their last day seniors wear their college shirts and the girls decorate their uniform skorts. I’m not sure they have a senior prank planned. They were talking about switching places with the seniors for the other Catholic school in the area one day, which I think would have been hilarious. Unfortunately, I dont think they ever got it coordinated.
I’m on the flocking committee for our school. So, I have to go around putting flamingos in people’s yards starting later this week. Does anyone else do flocking, or is this a purely New England thing? I’d never heard of it until we moved here, but it seems like every school in Connecticut does it.
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I seriously could have written your post. D26 has been watching movies in most classes for the past several weeks, or the teachers are not even coming to work anymore. She has learned NOTHING this year. Yet somehow the admin is completely crazy about attendance and constantly sending out threatening emails to families. Maybe they should threaten the teachers who are not coming to work anymore. D26 had a day a couple weeks ago where only one of her teachers was at school. I asked her what she did all day- she said she went to all three lunch periods, wandered the halls with friends and sat in the auditorium. The one teacher who bothered to show up gave them a free period 
She will not know what hit her when she starts actual school in August!!
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There used to be somebody local who did this but I don’t think it was ever a widespread “thing”. I haven’t heard it mentioned for a few years, but it may still be happening.
Thanks for the info!
I am grateful this was not even an option since D26 is the only one from her grade attending her school. But I will say we know at least three kids who have done this and it has never ended well. Inevitably, one of the kids wants to branch out and meet new people and the other one feels slighted/not included, etc. FWIW these have all been girls, so maybe guys are different.
If someone put something in my yard for D26’s graduation, Id prefer it to be fertilizer and not a flamingo.
Does the flamingo represent something? Not familar with this tradition.
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We had this discussion early in the process, and glad we did because our D’s best friend will also be attending the same school (which is fantastic!). They have both found roommates from other areas and are both excited to meet new people while knowing they can always be close to each other for support while building their network together.
Very cool story about how our D ultimately found her roommate. She has been in competitive dance since a very young age. At her second competition this year, they were at Lehigh and our D was fortunate enough to receive a “Senior Solo Scholarship” award as part of the comp. She was called up during the awards and asked to tell about her plans after graduation. When she announced she would be attending Penn State to work toward becoming a Speech Therapist, we noticed another girl sitting on stage get very excited about that statement. Come to find out, there was another dancer there that had also recently committed to Penn State to major in CSD. She found our daughter after awards and introduced herself which helped speed up the process, after a few weeks of talking and stalking each other in IG they have submitted their official housing requests and will be living together next year!
We even went back and watched the video from the ceremony, and we have the moment captured as our angle had both of them in frame during the reaction. It was fun to see it happen in real time.
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Our school is not quite to that extent but it seems like a barbell of the AP classes being constant quizzes /prep for the AP exams while the other senior-only classes (the various engiish 4 variants and macro or gov* depending which students took in first semester) are lightening up workload. C26 has barely had any homework outside the AP quizzes (and by now, they don’t even bother prepping for the math anymore) so I can also see a bit of a shock when fall semester rolls around!
*students can only do one AP between these two and the APs were first semester, so the ones this semester are the non-AP ones.
In other news, C26 got admitted to a separate neurodiversity program at UIUC, which complements disability services with specific programming for adhd/asd (and also other disabilities not relevant to C26),including targeting things like executive function. Ngl, big sigh of relief because EF was one of the things I was particularly worried about and it helps to know there will be support there. I was slightly taken aback at the program cost but it’s an allowable 529 expense (I don’t believe private EF coaching is, which is what many other kids end up doing if my Facebook group is to be believed, and that cost probably adds up to similar where there are a whole bunch of other things this program does too). So this program, when I heard about it from other parents, was one of the things I liked about the college but at that stage didn’t realize it was a separate apply-and-be-accepted process. So there was quite a bit of legwork between the documentation required for disability services and this but happy it’s all in place. I assume part of the reason is related to all the chatter about people who don’t really need them getting accommodations.
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Totally unacceptable! Today is his last real day, so whatever, but a month ago? Maybe still have some work to do. He has 3 AP and 1 IB class. His AP Calc BC was pretty much done in January, since he had AB already. It’s an online class and has been good. They’ve reviewed and done practices tests this semester. But that was probably the best class he’s had. Well, I know he’s had quite a bit of work in IB English, so I’ll add that too. The rest seem like not much of anything for being hard or rigorous. Oh well. Hopefully he’s prepared for the fall. Sorry your school is like this too.
She does have two AP classes and those have suddenly ramped up - teachers prob panicking now that the exams are coming in the next couple weeks.
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My daughter just got an email from Colby admissions officer to set up a phone call for TODAY. She is waitlisted at Colby -and the acceptance rate is ridiculous - so we put it out of mind.
What can anyone tell me about Colby College?!!!
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I know nothing about this school- but this sounds so exciting!!!
Please update us with the outcome!!! Very eagerly awaiting to hear about this.
I cannot imagine it is anything but a possible admit (maybe with a condition- Spring start, semester abroad …)- what else could it be at this stage in the game?!
Have y’all had a chance to visit this one yet?
Good luck