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<p>I just renewed my car insurance 2 weeks ago. My S is moving to NH in August with NO CAR. He cost me about $1,500/Yr! What have you parents done to remove them from insurance while at school…I know it’s early, but I’m figuring how to save the most $ to pay Yale:)</p>
<p>just call your agent and tell them. Should be as simple as that. We didn’t actually remove our daughter (so she could still use the car on breaks) but since she was some distance away and without the car, there was a big discount.</p>
<p>Headed to Yale tomorrow for an exciting weekend of Commencement events. It will be very bittersweet–our second and last Yale graduation. Thanks to everyone for so many years of support, advice, encouragement and help. It has been a great journey!</p>
<p>Congratulations Clarimom and thank you for all the help here on cc.</p>
<p>@Clarimom Congrats!!! I can’t imagine the pride you must be feeling:)</p>
<p>@Clarimom, Congratulations! When DS was graduated from college, he really missed his 4 years there.</p>
<p>The lamp posts on Broadway are bedecked with their annual blue & white ribbons. It’s going to be a very busy weekend! Congratulations! </p>
<p>Hello parents out there. I would like to know if any of your children participated in the FOOT program for freshman class prior to moving in. If so, did your sons and daughters did the white mountains of NH or the green mountains of VT? How did they like it?</p>
<p>My daughter did the FOOT program 3 years ago; she did VT. She’s not your classic outdoors or athletic kid, though she’s slender and in good shape. She found it very strenuous. In the end, she did not feel it really made any difference in her integration into Yale; she doesn’t particularly hang out with the people she met there. I was just asking her about it a couple of days ago, as our son is to be a freshman at a school that does not have any program like that. She was telling him not to feel bad; that the people she happens to know who did FOOT didn’t particularly love it!</p>
<p>My child did the Catskills (and then was trip leader in the Greens). Catskills were strenuous, but less so than the Whites. Loved it. FOOT seemed to help tremendously in those first few days back on campus when they didn’'t know anybody else. They shared cell phone numbers and met to go to the dining hall, etc. I think the friendships became “familiar faces on campus,” but they were important friendships for my child in the first few days. It was a great experience.</p>
<p>DS has a few friends matriculating with him, and also knows a few current students, so maybe I won’t have a view for or against FOOT for him. I predict that, as the time approaches to wave goodbye to his gf, he will resent having to do so a few days early. </p>
<p>My son did FOOT last year and really enjoyed it but he has spent several summers hiking & canoeing. He enjoyed the camaraderie and the group did meet a couple of times during the beginning of school but that has faded now. Assignment to the FOOT groups is not that deliberate (I think) other than ensuring the boy/girl ratio and avoiding too many from the same residential college. The suite assignments are much more deliberate and the Deans put considerable thought into forming compatible groups. As a result, the suite bonds seem to quickly override the FOOT bonds. FOOT is nice a transition but not critical. Keep in mind that the cost of FOOT will be adjusted to your financial aid package if that is a concern.</p>
<p>Thank you parents. My son really wants to do it and so I won’t stop him. Let’s see what happens:)</p>
<p>My son did FOOT and enjoyed it a lot; he was an experienced hiker and camper. My daughter, who isn’t a camper at all, didn’t do it, and didn’t particularly miss it. So it’s really up to individual preference.</p>
<p>Hi all my son has enrolled for the international student orientation. At first he didn’t think he wanted to but has changed his mind. It looks like fun! but now comes the logistical planning - get there drop him off, go away for a few days, come back for 2 then leave (sniff). The way the activities are it finishes and we’d check out on the 18th of August and then come back for the 21 and 22 then go.</p>
<p>For us getting there, makes all this tricky with the time change and the connections but we’ll get it sorted.</p>
<p>Anyway I was wondering amid all the planning do many of you plan on going back for parents weekend?</p>
<p>^ When DS moved in for his freshman year, we really overdid it: We stayed at Omni Hotel on Temple Street for 10 days (if I remember it correctly) to “help” DS settle down. (DS kept reminding us that he did not need the majority of the help we offered him, up to today! At the end of the school year, we occasionally found that some package we had UPSed to him was never opened so we had to UPS it back home. What a waste of money and time! Don’t do that!)</p>
<p>Since we flied in from half the country away, we could not carry too much stuff with us. (But still plenty in today’s standard. This was because a passenger could check in 2 luggages free of charge back then. So we checked in 6 luggages, I think. It was quite a hassle to move all this stuff to RC or home at the end of the spring semester.) We also allocated a lot of time to shop locally.</p>
<p>However, we have never been to parents’ weekends.</p>
<p>We went to every Parents’ Weekend for 8 years. Some parents go, some don’t. We always had a good time, but our sons were always involved in concerts so we got to see them perform several times during the weekend. It gave us a nice trip to look forward to every year.</p>
<p>My daughter is a rising senior and we haven’t attended any parents’ weekends. Since we live relatively close, we’ve often gone on the weekend after, but honestly, I don’t think you need to feel that you have to go. Even on alternative weekends, we fit in around our DD’s schedule. </p>
<p>Parents weekend is great if your kid is in a musical group because they all perform. We did not really do any of the other special activities. We just spent time with our kid between performances. If your kid is not a performer, you could visit any other weekend.</p>