Happy 18th birthday to your kid!!
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S26 got waitlisted, it was one of his top choice between that and UCSD. I told him they probably thought he would go to UCSD or UCB and didn’t want to waste an acceptance on someone who wouldn’t attend. Let’s hope for good news on Friday for both kids.
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Sorry to hear about your pup, but glad you got to bring him home! And happy birthday to S26. Sounds like he still got to celebrate if not as much as hoped.
I really hope you all got a great night’s sleep!
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Happiest of birthdays to him and I very much hope your pup recovers quickly!
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So sorry. We don’t know as much out here on the east coast about the UC’s and their ways, but we do know it is crazy competitive, perhaps even more so than some ivies if one is OOS? That’s what it seems like to us in our limited view. Our neighbor with bonkers stats and EC’s (and whose sibling is at one of the super competitive UCs doing very well) was rejected too. Not even a waitlist. Hugs to your D26. My D26s friends are on the roller coaster too. We’re hosting a “junk food and fuggettaboutit movie night” this weekend.
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Happy Birthday to S26! I hope your pup recovers and you get good news regarding the mass. That must be so hard worrying and waiting.
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Sending get-well-quick vibes to your pup! Poor thing. I get it – we have a yellow lab who is 13, and she’s had a couple of surgeries over the last couple of years – but she’s hanging in there. Hope the news about the mass isn’t terrible.
Happy birthday to your S26! We’ve had those birthdays when there were too many school and life things going on to properly celebrate. But my kids would be ecstatic with one of the big Lego sets (there’s a newish Pokemon one I’ve been eyeing that’s on backorder, but I dunno if I can justify the cost, lol).
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Happy birthday to your son. Glad your dog is home.
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Happy 18th and I hope your dog is doing well in recovery today.
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D26 was pretty excited last night, she did her last homework of the year for AP Calculus BC apparently they just review for the rest of the year, she said it was the first thing academically she can 
off and ride the senioritis wave on
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I remember my D22 sweating it out with BC Calc – and she was virtual half of that year because it was during Covid.
D26 has been coasting through BC Calc because she had AB last year, so everything has come pretty easily – until now, lol. I don’t know how much more instruction they have in the class before review, but she only has 31 days of school left, and she won’t have Calc every one of those days because it’s a rotating schedule. I know she’s got a big test next week, so maybe that’s the last one. But she’s going through it at the moment as it’s all of a sudden gotten hard!
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I can’t believe your D26 only has 31 days of school left! That’s crazy. We still have 2.5 months to go here. Things are getting real though. Senior Show is this weekend and my daughter is excited because she is the only one not part of the dance club that got put on the front line during the dance. She’s been practicing a bunch in her spare time (lol, she doesn’t really have any of that between school, cheer, work, volunteering and maintaining a social life). She did say the other day that senioritis has kicked in. I haven’t really noticed it and it’s certainly not reflected in her grades, so I’m not sure what she’s talking about.
Best of luck to your D26 getting through the final countdown, especially with Calc. I hope the test goes well.
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I feel like D26 has made it through the entire fall and winter without getting sick and now she has been sick non stop. She got sick a few weeks ago while we were on vacation and that lasted for 10 days, and now is sick again- congestion, sore throat, etc. Likely the gross viral illness everyone seems to have, or flu B or covid. Regardless she feels like garbage. We are flying down to her college tomorrow evening so she will miss school Friday so I do not want her to miss today or tomorrow. Her school is psychotic about absences, especially for the seniors and they keep sending emails to everyone threatening “no credit” if they miss a day. Hopefully she can rally while we are visiting school this weekend- she will do a housing tour to get an idea of what the options look like and she has connected with some current students who have invited her to hang out and go out so that should be fun.
She finishes classes April 8 and it can not come soon enough. Then senior project and she has a bunch of things she needs to complete for college before orientation (math placement exam, several on-line modules, etc.). When my son did these two years ago he waited until June and regretted it. They are tedious and time consuming.
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D26 still has 2.5 months too. We are still getting cold weather (
) but it doesn’t look like there are any more snow days on the horizon so I don’t expect her grad date to change. It’s certified by the board in April. Now in S23’s senior year, the grad date set on the calendar fell on a Monday so the administration played with dates until they were able to have it on the Friday before. For D26, it is on a Wednesday and I don’t see that moving.
Senioritis has definitely raised its head and it’s amplified by the fact that she’s 18 now. Plus it’s the time of year that the course selection for next year is taking place and the seniors are of course not a part of that. Most of her grades are fine, but AP Lang is dipping because he’s cracking down on late work at the very worst time!
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31 days may be misleading – I was only counting school days, not weekends, and she has a couple days off for Easter. But her last day of school is May 1. After that she has AP exams and a senior trip, and we’re flying out for D22’s college graduation. But her own graduation is Memorial Day weekend.
The biggest stressor right now (in addition to things getting real in all the AP classes) is her final STEM presentation for the year-long project is on April 16 or 17. It’s before a panel of judges, and families are invited. She still has a boatload of work to do for the final leg of it – but first, the spring play is next weekend.
Best of luck to your kiddo for her Senior Show! I will never understand how kids like to get up on stage and perform (all three of mine!) – you couldn’t PAY me enough, lol.
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According to my D26 they move through the material faster then normal, to leave time to review so it might be her last test but this is definitely the only class that is finished with material so I think it is moves slightly faster then average. I guess they changed it a couple years ago which seemed to increase the amounts of 5’s on the AP test. this is also her only class with no final exam so extra excited! Hopefully your D26 test next week is her last one!
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Wow we go through early June!! Em but yeah for being done early 
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Got curious and checked her dates:
27 in school days remaining
54 days until Graduation (ealy/mid-May)
!!!
May have just had a minor panic attack 
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We’re just under 40 class days remaining here. But graduation isn’t until June. New Jersey seems later than most other places, even though D26s school is going to be earlier than S29s.
When my kids were younger, the teachers in our district went on strike for two weeks. The seniors didn’t graduate until June 26 
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