<p>Thanks for the explanation, baseballmom - but please, I don’t want any reins!! Wouldn’t know what to do with 'em.</p>
<p>NJres’ quote is an excellent one and so, baseballmom, is this one from your most recent post:
Mea culpa for me this past August, luckily for us all I’ve given over those reins, to the rider. ;)</p>
<p>Beautifully put. I am so happy to read how things have all worked out so well. Nothing would make me happier than to write the same thing a year from now. Congrats!!</p>
<p>Everyone here—I have enjoyed these last few posts enormously!!! Here I am giving out advice, when I am now the novice needing it since I am now embarking on my son’s college whereas both you, Baseballmom, and you, Blumini, are waaaaay ahead of me. Congrats to both of you, and a prayer for me that I can be you at those waypoints.</p>
<p>Apologies for not noticing the date of the OPost. Somehow I did not see anything but the first page cuz I was on the phone and working on something else at the time I was cruising on CC, and the post caught my eye, as everything seemed so similar to my junior son. Ladies, The drink is on me, should we ever meet up!</p>
<p>Not to worry, it’s easy to overlook a date or two.</p>
<p>When I first found this site, I was overwhelmed and new nothing about all this college stuff - unless you count what I knew from way back when in the 1970s. ;)</p>
<p>I still don’t know much, but I will say that sometimes less is more and sometimes what struck me as extreme involvement of others with regards to stats and ivies and people who appeared to have children who were building villages in foreign countries or discovering the cure for cancer during their summers or on their community service trips, wore me down and made me nervous.</p>
<p>Next I worried that my daughter wouldn’t get her essays done over the summer and that she’d be too overwhelmed with her heavy course load this year, add to that the fear of not having enough money to pay for $40K plus a year and I am surprised I did not develop an ulcer from all the acid churning in my stomach…</p>
<p>It ain’t over til the proverbial letter has been received and the check is in the mail, but I do feel a whole lot more relaxed now…and more importantly I feel that the person in my family who is actually doing the applying, etc., is in a very different place than she was a year ago. Funny how people grow and change when we aren’t looking so closely.</p>
<p>My only real advice is take everything with more than a few grains of salt and enjoy your time with your son. </p>
<p>I like this thread because it doesn’t have that acid churning intensity that can be seen elsewhere. Thanks to all who’ve posted and who’ve brought it back up for some fresh air. :D</p>
<p>Baseballmom, my kids all row and I can lend some help with schools that your child should qualify for. Look at Ithaca(national champs, great program and excellent school), Marist, Nazareth (Rochester NY, just starting a program),and St. Lawrence. Possible reach would be Union College, depending on interview. Hope this helps.</p>