<p>Good morning, momofthree and fireflyscout! I’ve missed our chats here on the Rhodes board, too! </p>
<p>momofthree, I can’t begin to imagine what it must be like at your house. Your S has so many wonderful opportunities to consider. I feel sure he’ll make the right decision. From everything that you’ve mentioned before, he sounds like a very intelligent young man who really gives a lot of thought to things. I will be very interested to see where he lands. I can absolutely understand your desire for him to keep his mind open to Rhodes. I think it is a wonderful school with wonderful opportunities, especially with someone who has been awarded the Bellingrath! Kudos to you if you have been able to keep quiet. I can only hope that I can show the strength and restraint that you currently have with your S when it is time for my D to make her decision.</p>
<p>fireflyscout, maybe we will cross paths at some point. That would be fun! I do hope you and your D enjoy your visit to Macalester. My D is pretty determined to stay where the weather is a bit more mild. She doesn’t want to close the door to any opportunities, but feels she can find something that meets all her criteria, including the weather. Please remind me where all your D has considered and or visited.</p>
<p>A woman I’ve known for a few years through school (I’m the school nurse, she’s a mom, our girls played basketball together in junior high) stopped in my clinic the other day to ask me to pass on congratulations to D for making Girls State. Said she had seen it in the paper and likes to keep up with that because her oldest D had gone several years previous. As we got to talking and she asked me where D wants to go to school, I rattled off the list of places she is researching and when I mentioned Centre, she said her oldest D is a senior there. I told her we are scheduled to go weekend after next for Junior Days. Coincidentally, her D is one of the students who gives tours so she gave me her e-mail address and told me to have my D e-mail her. D is very excited and e-mailed her yesterday. One thing I did learn about Centre, thanks to Curmudgeon, that may also be of interest to you fireflyscout … they offer something called the Centre Fellows Scholarship. Here’s a blurb about it and I’ve attached a link, too. </p>
<p>If a student is nominated by the high school counselor and chooses to become a Centre Fellow, he or she is guaranteed a minimum scholarship level of $6,000 per year. A Centre Fellow can certainly win a higher scholarship, but at least he or she will get $6,000. It’s really a good deal that requires no commitment on the student’s part! <a href=“http://www.centre.edu/web/admission/fellows_program/index.html[/url]”>http://www.centre.edu/web/admission/fellows_program/index.html</a> That sounds wonderful to me! </p>
<p>We have talked of taking a trip in July to visit a few more schools. We thought of flying into DC, renting a car, seeing the sights, driving down through VA to hit a couple of schools there, then maybe SC and NC. Besides William & Mary, UVA, Davidson and UNC, any other suggestions for that trip? I think I’m leaving out the one in SC, but can’t think of it right now. I hope you both have a great weekend! :)</p>