I wasn’t a big jogging stroller person with my oldest – because I didn’t really walk/run, and I was militant about her napping in her crib, LOL.
But with my twins I did have the Baby Jogger City Classic Double – huge fan of that one because it was sturdy enough to support two kids but still relatively easy to fold and get in and out of the car.
Which brings me to one of my very favorite stories of D22 – I put the double jogger out to sell at a garage sale when my twins were about 5, so older one must have been 8. A woman stopped by and was looking at the stroller.
Woman (to me): “So you had twins?”
D22: “We still have them.”
(I guess at least she didn’t add “unfortunately” to that comment.)
My D26 has done a handful of interviews so far, and she seems to get more out of the informal ones that are with students. Talking to actual students has made a couple of schools move up on her list because she felt like she got a real sense of the school vs the more generic questions from an AO. But I do think an interview would be a great opportunity for your daughter to respond to the gaps in her transcript, like you said.
This is why I don’t look. But honestly, if that’s the worst of it, it’s not so bad. Typos happen. Any school that were to reject her over a typo is probably not one she would have wanted to attend anyway.
She liked it. It checks a lot of boxes (urban campus, good nursing, nearby clincials at some pretty fantastic hospitals). She generally liked Cleveland. She’s a big NBA fan, and it didn’t hurt that we caught a Cavs game the night before. She also really liked the new CWRU Healthcare Education Campus/building. They are doing some pretty cool things there. It has an interdisciplinary approach so that some lab simulations have both nursing and med school students (e.g., they have a real life flight helicopter on hydraulics and will run through a simulation using nursing students and med students who unload the “patient” and rush upstairs via elevator to do “surgery” in a simulated surgery lab). My D liked the visible diversity on campus, but was concerned about a possible lack of school spirit and campus life. And, because she is a big sports fan, she would generally prefer D1. Overall, more good than bad and it is definitely a contender if she gets in.
He did it! S26 finished his 11/1 deadline schools last night. He did a fantastic job and worked so hard on his ED1 supplemental essays. They are so him—authentic and vulnerable. I’m very proud of him and I hope he is proud of himself no matter how things turn out. He’s also very happy to be able to enjoy Halloween tonight without the 11/1 deadline looming.
He has a couple of 11/15 applications plus the UCs to work through this month but he is off to the races!
D26 is also applying to Case. We visited on an open house day and liked it. The professors did an excellent job selling the school.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the admissions cycle. They have an inflated MSRP and gives out “merit” scholarships to the majority of admitted students. The whole thing seems kind of gimmicky but I get they have to play the game.
Are you getting $15, $25, $35k? Apply and find out here at Case Western!
Our biggest mistake? We put our real name and address and are getting 3-4 pieces of mail per week from them.
As I said in a previous post, next time, we’re signing in as Travis and Jason Kelce.
I love this post so much. Our daughters sound very similar. I am mystified as to what my D26 has written about in her personal statement, other than she is tying in her favorite movie, Oppenheimer, to her achievements and personal qualities (?? I know– I have no idea.) Anyway, I tried to bargain with her so that I could read it, and she said she’d let me read it after she starts getting acceptances
But I do love what you wrote about your daughter… on the same morning that I got an email from D26’s cross-country coach, saying that my mid- to back-of the-pack runner “finished her career with a gutsy effort” I told her, at that point you’ve just gotta laugh!
You might remind her that as a mid-to-back of pack kid -she is still A LOT faster than about 95% of the folks out there! (That’s what I told my mid-back-of-the-pack runner!) Plus, developing a lifelong love of fitness is really priceless.
Yes -totally realize that wasn’t the point of her post! I bet her essay is really cool!
If it makes you feel any better, my D22 asked her English teacher for a letter of rec, and then after she graduated, they stayed in touch via social media. Not long ago, he asked her if she wanted to see what he had written. (Yes, yes she did!) The letter was amazing, but it had a typo in the very first sentence, lol. I cringed when she showed it to me – an English teacher! – but this was years after she had gotten in to her very good college.
So I daresay it’s not a huge deal. (Your comment about a leprechaun speaking cracked me up!)
This is really cool stuff! Man I would love to display that R2 in my house, lol. (I suspect I can’t afford that even if it were for sale.)
You will appreciate my D26’s favorite pajama pants, which she took when DH was getting rid of them. (She’s the only other one in our house tall enough to wear them, lol.)
This is her favorite t-shirt, too – which I bought my D22 because it made me cry with laughter. But she wasn’t nerdy enough to wear it out of the house, and D26 is, so she took it.
Anyone else in the boat where the teachers LOR are not submitted for 11/1 deadline? S26 asked verbally at the start of the year, both said “yes.” Officially requested via Schoollinks and emailed with info early September. Reminder email sent last week. One replied that it will be done. Nothing updated as yet. What a shame if that’s why his applications are not even considered. I just have to hope there is some grace period with some of the schools.
I told her, at that point you’ve just gotta laugh!
(Your comment about a leprechaun speaking cracked me up!)
