<p>Sometimes on this forum, it seems like a small world. Just the other day I got a message from a CC poster who’s friend’s son had met my son during the HTC interviews in Ohio. They were both admitted to the same program. I’ve also been contacted by another (student) poster who knew who my son was by what I had been posting about him (remember to be careful that way). And I’ve had email conversations with some of the CC parents. It’s GREAT to find these good, smart, handsome, intelligent, caring people (at least they seem good, smart, handsome, intelligent and caring). Of course what we all have in common is the situation we are in trying to watch our students chart the waters of late high school life and college admissions.</p>
<p>It might be too cautious of me, but I have a reluctance to communicate with any of the students on here via PMs or email. I have exchanged a few emails about specific things, but as a parent, I’m a little leery of non-public communications between an adult and non-adult, so that will remain my policy. However, a one-time exchange about a specific topic is probably OK.</p>
<p>Anyway, who has stories about actually finding out they knew a CC poster or met a CC poster in real life??</p>
<p>I’ve made plans to meet up with several CC parent posters at the MIT Campus Preview Weekend in Cambridge in April and am really looking forward to that. And I agree: the email conversations I’ve had with other parent posters have been stellar, lots of fun and lots of people to admire and respect.</p>
<p>Anyone in the SF Bay Area want to have a get-together this spring or summer? (I love to host that kind of thing.)</p>
<p>Mootmom- I’d actually consider flying up to the Bay Area for a get-together over the summer. I’m sure some of the other Southern Californians would as well. I’m serious - let’s see if we can make it happen!</p>
<p>I have met some students here on CC who I recognized from our local community. Stranger, and sadder, was the time when another Mom here on CC and I, who had been talking via email, realized we were both going to be at the funeral of a friend of my daughter’s.</p>
<p>I live near San Jose, calidan, and have a spacious home w/ deck and pool (and a 1-year-new kitchen) and I seriously love hosting gatherings (and have done so before with people I’ve only known online previously). I’m smelling “gathering” here, let’s keep brainstorming…</p>
<p>I wish I could come!!! I live on the east coast, so I probably won’t be able to meet any of you Californians unless I end up in college in California or Oregon. :(</p>
<p>I am an alum interviewer and interviewed a student whom I had initially met here. I did not let the student know that I am NSM, and to my knowledge, the student didn’t realize that.</p>
<p>On another board, I encountered a first gen college student whose career plans mirrored much of what I did. I ended up mentoring hert anonymously through the admissions process. When the student was accepted to my college, I revealed my identity to the student, told her to make sure she showed my info to her parents, and told her to contact the alum office to verify I was who I said I was. After she did all of that, she revealed her identity to me.</p>
<p>When I visited the college for an alumni meeting, I also met her in person at a coffee shop close to the campus. Both of us brought a friend along – just in case. She brought a male friend who also was a freshman at her college. I brought a female friend who was a faculty member at a nearby college. It was a nice meeting for all.</p>
<p>I also encountered on CC a kid who went to a CTY camp with my S, who still keeps in touch with him. A current CC member went last summer to engineering camp with S.</p>
<p>mootmom - I am getting nostalgic for Bay Area. Have a trip planned next week to SDiego, so probably can’t swing one to Bay Area in summer. BUT… if you do the deed, keep me posted. Maybe I’ll hop on another plane.</p>
<p>While I haven’t met any one my daughter has met Cangel and her daughter and has said nothing but great things about them. I probably won’t meet cangel until her daughter is a sophmore and mine is a junior because they willnot start school at the same time in september.</p>
<p>I used to go on the PR Parent’s board several years ago, and I recognized the mom of a friend of my son on there. And I met the mom of a student at my son’s college on the PR board when they were freshman, and I later met her and her family in person at Parents’ weekend.</p>
<p>Pleasure. We lived in Bay Area many, many years and I try to get back at least once a year - either Bay Area or SD, where one friend moved, or both (when it’s a very lucky year).</p>
<p>Jmmom, Well, if you feel like meeting for a cup of coffee or something, let me know. (No pressure - I usually don’t feel up to doing social stuff while on vacation either)</p>
<p>I met one mom on CC whose son is in the same school system as my son. I guessed who she was based on some bio info that jibed with stories that came home from my son, and because I guessed her identity I revealed my own. So far we have not met in real life.</p>
<p>A couple of other adults on this board have “outed” themselves to me on PMs regarding specific things that needed to be emailed. They were regular posters and it did not concern me.</p>
<p>I have concerns about people recognizing my D next year based on my posts so I think I will probably NOT be able to crow about where she winds up going! </p>
<p>It is a pity, but I would not want her privacy to be compromised-- so I think I will leave her college name out of it, and then next year, if I have insights to offer about her eventual school, I will probably re-enroll with a different screen name.</p>
<p>I would imagine 99% of the posters are reliable and would not violate anyone’s privacy but who knows who is lurking?</p>
<p>My daughter recognized one of the posters as a student in her school. UNfortunately he was trying to purchase an exam. She likes the boy, more or less, and we know his parents. We didn’t know what to do about it: tell his parents–talk to him?
Finally, as we were about to approach his parents, he was caught selling the test he purchased to other students in his class.
We were very worried about the whole thing.
My daughter is the valedictorian and he will likely be the salutorian. With alot of soul searching we decided not to say anything about his post to anyone, although the post remains on this forum.
We decided to leave it to fate and wish for the best for him; relying on something like Emerson’s “Law of Compensation” to bring a little balance back into his life–it seems it has.</p>
<p>I have been very lucky to meet CCers in real life, and, even better, their kids. Also emailed and talked on the phone with some of you - great experience. </p>
<p>Carolyn: I’ll let you know when I’m in SoCal.</p>
<p>Take off our Bat disguises? I’m sleep-deprived this morning, but…okay! I’ve always pictured this happening in a ballroom at a Ramada Inn somewhere (sort of like a Trekkie convention), but your house sounds much nicer, Mootmom. :)</p>
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