<p>The best posts are the ones that reveal our insecurities and concerns about our children, not their accomplishments. Often, when we are fortunate, others will empathize with us, share similar problems, and occasionally provide a solution.</p>
<p>So, for those that participate primarily to brag about their children, that’s what grandparents are for.</p>
<p>Slacker 1460. LOL. A few years ago when my oldest son took his SAT’s, before I had ever heard of College Confidential (perhaps it was not in existence in 1999 or 2000, whenever it was that he took them . . .) I was very proud of my oldest son’s SAT (1400). Sigh . . . those were the days . . .</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve exaggerated anything about my kids, though I have been <em>selective</em> about what I’ve revealed about them. . .</p>
<p>nowaitaminute. What about the senility factor? I don’t think I got d’s stats wrong, but I’m prone to lapses in all SORTS 
of things including memory. I finally got to where I just stated ‘mid700s on all parts of the SATI and SAT IIs’ …cuz really, who can remember this stuff? At this point, I can’t even remember which SAT IIs my kid took. (It’s kinda like labor, the mind allows you to forget so you’ll be willing to go through it again.)</p>
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Hey, you forgot the personal wooing by the adcom (phone calls and emails after the admission) and his subsequent adoption by said adcom. In fact, she regularly invites him to dinner! 
<-----All <em>that</em> for a 1460??? Actually, he submitted the ACT to Duke, but it was the essays that blew 'em away, or so we were told… ;)</p>
<p>I think mine must have sent Duke a “Why I want to go to Kutztown State essay” . I didn’t think it had time to get there before the thin envelope came zinging back. I still don’t know what happened. She said she just LOVED the beach. :(</p>
<p>I’ll confess. I don’t know what DB and BB means . I’ll take a shot in the dark that DB means discussion board but I don’t know what BB means.</p>
<p>It could be Barbie Benton. It could be a small projectile made famous by Daisy and fired from an air rifle. Or it could be bulletin board. In this context I’m going with my first guess, former Playmate of the Year Barbie Benton.</p>
<p>cur~</p>
<p>Luckily for our son, his Duke adcom had a “thing” for Level 4 viruses and infectious disease (although, dadgummit, it <em>was</em> a rather hilarious essay, now that I think back on it… 
). His Yale adcom, on the other hand, had a thing for “Debbie Does Dallas.” Whoops! S missed the mark on that one! :eek: Ya just never know whose hands the dang thing’ll land in, do you? ;)</p>
<p>sybs~</p>
<p>Bulletin Board??</p>
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<p>No, ma’am. You don’t. That’s what makes it a horserace. Hey, they ended up O.K. though, didn’t they?</p>
<p>(b, as I’ve posted before, D’s Yale experience was what it was because the adcom said the alumni interviewer pretty much laid down in front of the train. For weeks. Truly. )</p>
<p>cur~</p>
<p>You will <em>NOT</em> find me complainin’…not EVER!!! :)</p>
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I admit it. It was me. (wait…“popular poster”… hmm. probably not me.) I said that my son “finally got off the couch” this summer, and in reality he only <em>partially</em> got off the couch. He managed to play many, many, many video games in addition to taking “personal computing” at the local community college… (yessir, that very high level advanced class where you learn to do workprocessing, spreadsheets… impressive huh? ) And he has, indeed, been admitted to a third-tier public college. I apologize for my gross exaggerations and promise I will not do so again. ;)</p>
<p>^ Oh just stop all that bragging anxiousmom!</p>
<p>I can’t exaggerate too much because my kids would kill me if I write too much specific about them or list their stats…Darn. A little “amending” would feel good though.</p>
<p>Hahaa anxiousmom…cur…audio…I’m in the DYDT (Don’t You Dare Tell) camp with weenie. My son has sent out five apps and I think only one or two posters know which schools–via PM. I rpobably posted TMI in the early days but now–no. Sometimes one of my CC friends mentions my older son’s schools online and I ask the mods and friend to remove that reference. Everyone’s been quite good about it. Thank you.</p>
<p>I think my best stories are the depracating ones. I can’t recall exagerrating but I haven’t told the whole truth–not by a country mile. The whole truth is funnier but I just can’t go there with anyone but RL friends and family. Love ya!</p>
<p>Well heck, I guess I “forgot” to mention that DD applied to all 8 Ivies.</p>
<p>Not.</p>
<p>But of course we know it’s just some student poster ■■■■■ types who “exaggerate” their stats.</p>
<p>(Still trying to recover from Audiophile’s classic comment above)</p>
<p>Okay, okay already. Maybe I didn’t mention that we bought our kids’ into their schools. Development Admits R Us.</p>
<p>There. I feel better now.</p>
<p>I may have slipped up somewhere in some thread, but I just don’t feel comfortable posting my kid’s great SAT scores (or the other one’s horrible scores) because, well, they’re not mine! I mean the scores, not the kids. And modesty prevents me from mentioning my own great SAT scores. :D</p>
<p>OK I admit it: I mis-remembered that my S#2’s SAT II in Physics was 610 and wrote 620 instead in my “Class of 2011” intro here. Mea culpa. (As if that could be in some way considered bragging around here. Ha.)</p>
<p>You have got to be kidding me! As if a 1460 is really a lackluster score! I’m sure you had a good cry over it. Unbelievable!</p>
<p>You’ve got to be kidding me! Did you somehow go through this entire thread without noticing the glaringly obvious sarcasm? Unbelievable.</p>