She looks amazing! I hope she has an amazing time at prom.
D26 is a little sad to move on, especially since several of her close friends are going across the country or across the ocean for college. But she is also totally ready for a new beginning and to be done with the kids she’s not close with. I think partially because it’s a small school and several of them have been together since kindergarten. She’s ready to not be surrounded by people who have known her forever.
C26 doesn’t want a yard sign either. To be fair we live at the end of a cul de sac so only our 2 neighbors would see it anyway!
They’ve been texting me details of the gen ed courses they’re interested in so that’s something! They’re still a little nervous about the whole enterprise.
Update: Colby won’t fly her out or extend the deadline. Considering her acceptance letter (with the financial need package) won’t arrive until tomorrow -that’s a pretty tight turn around.
I tried to console her by telling her they don’t even have a Target in Waterville - trying to be the best parent I can. 
ETA: At least the top two that we did visit are wonderful options
Your daughter looks stunning in that dress. I hope she has fun.
That is too bad. Honestly, I didn’t expect they would fly her out but extending the deadline seems like a reasonable ask. If you want to pursue Colby and can tell them you will book a trip for a specific day (in the not too distant future) if they will extend the deadline until that time, it may work better.
Otherwise, two excellent options already in hand.
Oh my word – what is she even on about?! That’s a gorgeous dress, and she looks perfect in it!
It’s hard to be this age. I think our kids have more social pressures than we did. Or possibly I’ve forgotten what it was like. But I was a much more typical kid and was into all the social drama, and my D26 is not great with all of that – and also just doesn’t care and isn’t super social, so she gets left out a lot. I take it way more personally than she does.
As far as announcements and yard sign and all that – yep, we are doing all of that! The school gives us a personalized yard sign, and then I bought a GT-bound one. I’ll put them up with a giant fathead of her face, LOL, like I did for her siblings. It’s okay, we live in a small neighborhood with 21 homes, and only 3 homes in our cul-de-sac will even see it. It’s really just for me. 
(The key is balancing it with my college kid who is graduating next weekend – I’m not doing announcements for her, or at least not right now, because I want to keep the focus on D26.)
I couldn’t talk D26 into a party, though. She really just wants a family trip to the aquarium or a restaurant downtown or some other local adventure. But she’s been invited to three other grad parties that she’s planning to go to.
That seems unreasonable. 
I’m sorry. Thinking of you guys with this decision!
They fly out students (with need) for admitted student day, and the AO thought he could arrange that without issue for her. Honestly, that’s the only reason we were suprised it turned out differently. He seemed pretty confident about the flight and the extension -so bummer it turned out differently than expected. But oh well - no Target, right? 
Honestly, I think it’s probably good in the end. Someone else will get in who is dreaming of Colby -and my daughter will end up in a place that is less rural. So, all good.
We are such bad high school student parents that we didn’t even think about the yard sign thing. Now I need to ask my wife if we should think about getting a banner or yard sign or something. D26 will probably say she does not want one, but need to check I guess.
I can’t wait to dive into this with S26 – she knows I love love love to plan out classes, lol, so she’s indulging me. 
I found a couple different apps that GT students have built, I think, to help schedule classes – really useful Reddit thread about it that I stumbled across.
Kid has ONE more assignment that she needs to finish tonight and present tomorrow morning – PowerPoint on a specific court case for her Gov class. There are only two seniors in that class, so they’ll both present tomorrow.
I feel like Colby has all the things she didn’t like about Colorado college without the benefit of the one class at a time thing which she likes. Or maybe I just didn’t care for Colby when we walked around one hot summer day
I love that too! But, boo hoo, my D chose a school with a set curriculum, and she has already fulfilled her 6 gen ed units with AP, so she has no class options to plan… 
She won’t even need to select section times, because they pre-register all the first year engineering students into the required class timetable, and don’t allow section changes.
I agree with you! I was teasing her that all these colleges must think she is SUPER OUTDOORSIE – maybe everyone thinks folks in Kansas live on a ranch or something?
OMG - I LOVE to plan out classes.
My son would not let me help him after his first semester. But his advisor seems VERY solid and has given him great advice. (I still ASK what he is taking and ask for all the details! I’m sure he thinks I’m ridiculous -but I always just say “Great Plan!”)
My kid actually turned down a school she liked better almost solely for their set curriculum – she just couldn’t get on board with that. (Mostly because she’s not 100% sure what she wants to study or what she’ll end up liking – she didn’t want to be locked in.)
My S25’s school also pre-registers all freshmen for first semester, but he wasn’t having it, so he selected his own schedule (with some help from me), then preemptively emailed his advisor and made a case for why she should register him for those classes. (It worked! Mind you, he’s not in engineering, lol.)
Yup, I think this is a US versus non-US thing. Set curriculum seems to be pretty normal outside the US.
Haha I don’t know that I’d try do that! But I was worried they wouldn’t find any humanities/social science courses of interest and there are a few. The arch curriculum is pretty structured of course. I think there are 4 required courses for arch fall semester plus composition, and the gen eds come into play 2nd semester, but as they should be exempt from composition 1 not sure if they will do the advanced composition or a gen ed instead. But …that’s why they have an advisor meeting!!
For us, the first couple of years were pretty set with I think one elective each semester, then final year you had more choice (3-year bachelors in the vein of the UK).
Yes, my D will have some options in her final year to specialize her degree.
Year 1 has a set curriculum for all engineering majors, then you are placed in a major and have a standard curriculum for that major for years 2 and 3, then you have specialization options (a long list of electives) in year 4.
There is some wiggle room in changing it up slightly, but not nearly as much flexibility as she would have with the same major at the US schools on her list.