<p>Robyrm, getting back to your original post, one of the reasons that you have not rationalised this has to do with how the 8 schools got on the list: your son selected them. Our kids simply don’t apply to schools where they wouldn’t like to go. So each college is a nice place to go. Also each college offers more than any one student can absorb (one takes 32 courses out of the hundreds offered). I have gone through this same process with my D as her preference shifted. It seemed as if every other week I was trying to picture her at a different college and enjoying the experience.</p>
<p>Yes, I can really see him at any of the schools- a slightly different but equally interesting and engaged version of him that is…An “early notification” would be swell, but hasn’t been forthcoming- it would be easy but misleading to over-read some casual comments- he hasn’t, I haven’t. I will say that having a HS senior and college freshman at the same time IS mostly healthful in that whatever angst one has can be readily dispersed!</p>