<p>::Chugging down the spiked coffee::
::Smelling the quail eggs::
::Grabs chocolate chip muffin instead::</p>
<p>Thanks for the congrats, acme and mythmom.</p>
<p>Second year FA limbo sounds ominous, cottonwood. Is there a big change from the first year’s aid?</p>
<p>That’s the limbo part…I don’t know yet, but very optimistic…it was great </p>
<p>last year!</p>
<p>Congrats, 2blue, fellow Yale mom! </p>
<p>Re the 24-hour waitlist turnaround. Last year, a student at son’s HS was offered a spot off the waitlist at a top LAC he had never visited. Admissions initially gave him 24 hours to decide, but the student was able to negotiate an additional 24 hours so that he could take a quick flight out and visit. He is at that school now. So depending on the college, the 24-hour turnaround time is not always set in concrete.</p>
<p>wjb-- wow, that is encouraging! You lifted my spirits. In case “the call” comes.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, can we stand another twin story?</p>
<p>When my fraternal twins/brother/sister were born, a rural uncle helpfully </p>
<p>pointed out that my sister would not be able to have children. It is the </p>
<p>case with horses, a ‘freemartin’ is a filly of colt/filly twins. Such a filly will </p>
<p>not have offspring. My sister however is not a freemartin and gave birth </p>
<p>to her children and has three grandchildren.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone, love hear these happy results!</p>
<p>I had been wondering about that 24-hour waitlist decision turn around, too, because several students had asked about that on the individual college threads. Even if a student has visited once as an applicant, the visits are so different through the eyes of an admitted student. </p>
<p>I hope everyone in waitlist limbo gets good news and soon. I really feel for those who are reluctant to commit their hearts 100% to the currently chosen school while there’s another possibility lurking out there.</p>
<p>Mountains</p>
<p>Are you saying that torturing one’s mother is not <em>drama</em>? </p>
<p>So sorry you’re still waiting. I thought the last minute would have arrived by now.</p>
<p>As usual jumping in late…</p>
<p>I just wanted to say that unless you are <em>in</em> education, most people don’t know the schools outside their own region. I went to a private college in the northeast, and I live in New Hampshire, and up until the last couple of years I had never heard of Pomona, or Grinnell, or lots of other great schools. And there are even MORE schools that I’ve heard of, but really couldn’t tell you a heck of a lot about. I think it’s just the nature of the beast. I wouldn’t expect someone who lives in New Mexico to have heard of St. Anselm, even though I know that it is an excellent small school with a great reputation.</p>
<p>I asked my D yesterday how she feels about her decision now that the deposit has been sent in, and she said ‘I’m over it, I’ve been over it for about four days’. </p>
<p>That didn’t sound very encouraging, so I tried to ask her again this morning, and she said that she thinks she’s happy, but she’s just stressed with prom and AP exams and such. Hmmm.</p>
<p>Like buying a house, you feel shell shocked, you get over it.</p>
<p>bethie - I think S calls it “payback.”</p>
<p>cottonwood, not having gone through the first year yet, do you have to be re-evaluated every year for the same aid or are you trying to get different/better aid package? And, does that mean I will have to do FAFSA every year?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, baby. Every year. And every year reevaluated. I have heard that some schools pull a bait and switch and reduce FA. However, that has not been my experience. With same stats, (income FA stats) D’s FA improved a teeny-tiny bit second year, and third year improved a lot because second is now in college. So hers was basically halved, but it now matches his, so I’m paying about the same for the two of them (a bit more) as I did for her alone.</p>
<p>This years packages aren’t back yet, so I don’t know how it will be with S’s school, but I expect the same. No cut back on FA. Well maybe a bit, because I did earn a little more. </p>
<p>However the drama with FA deadlines and paperwork never ends. Of that you can be sure.</p>
<p>Good Morning! It’s a gloomy, stormy day here. Just right for fighting traffic during rush hour as we wind our way to a neighboring state for another college visit. I think this may be our last one! All schools are under the 4 hr requirement set by D2. No matter what we say she won’t budge when we suggest she look at different options. Hopefully it won’t be an ugly day tomorrow when we do the campus visit! She really wants to make up her mind next week, commit to a school and be done with it. It would be a stress free senior yr next year!</p>
<p>Congrats on all the recent decisions!</p>
<p>(Can someone pass the hot choc and Bailey’s, please?);)</p>
<p>:: passes hot chocolate and Bailey’s to NorthMinnesota ::</p>
<p>:: also madeleines ::</p>
<p>There ya go; enjoy!</p>
<p>FAFSA-- I could think of a few choice words those letters stand for…</p>
<p>Oh, but the CSS Profile is so sweet! Pass the Bailey’s.</p>
<p>:: hands mythmom the Bailey’s ::</p>
<p>:: hands mythmom sugar cookies, too ::</p>