<p>Hi, </p>
<p>I hope all you addicts will share your wisdom on the thread I just opened about planning WAY ahead. My son is even younger than that sophomore one of you wants to mentor. </p>
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<p>Wow, right here in San Diego? Perhaps I’ll see you in class. :-)</p>
<p>This thread is hysterical!</p>
<p>OK, I’m guilty of all the above…yes, I still go the college guide section at Borders…even though D1 is a 1st yr college student…D2 is only a freshman in high school!..naturally, still lurking on CC…was posting on D’s college thread and was caught by one of her classmates…he asked if I was D’s mom!!! Oh well…caught red handed!!!</p>
<p>I was going to reply sooner, but I was busy in the Barnes & Noble PSAT and SAT II prep section…</p>
<p>But don’t worry, the first thing I did was check CC when I got home…</p>
<p>Hhmmm…</p>
<p>OK, obviously Step 7 is: I will relinquish visits to Borders and Barnes & Noble.
(And I guess we better stick Amazon in there as well for all of you who are prone to cheating. )</p>
<p>We will soon comtemplate having a CC class reunions that conincide with our kids college reunions</p>
<p>You know you are obsessed with the college admissions process and CC when you can’t remember your real name, only your CC name.</p>
<p>(Not there yet. . .)</p>
<p>Ellen, I knew that would happen so I planned ahead. :)</p>
<p>That is pretty funny, Carolyn!</p>
<p>-Susan</p>
<p>I belong to the group who look for fresh victims. :DI have a friend who has a HS soph and I told her it’s not too early to get started, then I offered my help. Shameless. The chase is just SO much fun and it’s interesting. Besides, I could be out doing major damage to my credit card, so this keeps me off the streets.;)</p>
<p>The soph. and jr. friends of my sr D are asking me to help them find a college and apply!!!</p>
<p>My junior high son is taking a Careers class, and they are currently researching colleges. Yep, I took the (alphabetized) box of daughter’s reject college mail to the teacher, and made a “few” suggestions of websites to investigate. Am trying to be very, very careful not to bore those not interested (thank heaven for this board!).</p>
<p>Must try not to put too much college stuff in our Christmas card letter. But … I wonder if there’s a Christmas card out there with Santa in a college jersey?</p>
<p>I volunteered for 4 years in my D’s high school in the College and Career Office just so that I could learn the ins and outs of applying to college and get to know the guidance counselors. </p>
<p>My D graduated last June and is now in college. . .and I am still volunteering, even though I don’t have a high school aged kid!!</p>
<p>PS: Carolyn–you make me laugh!</p>
<p>You know you’re obsessed when you become certain that keeping track of it all is beyond the limits of paper and pencil— you are convinced that at least 90 (very interactive) columns of Excel are the absolute minimum.</p>
<p>Total obsession creeps in once you spend more time with your nose in the Excel manual than in college view books.</p>
<p>“Let’s see now… if I make column 64 show the ratio of ED applicants accepted : to the number of students from Andorra…”</p>
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<p>Soon after your computer crashes… you realize you have not spoken to any of your offspring in several days, and your cat is eating more regularly than you.</p>
<p>when you read a biographical passage on the PSAT and think to yourself “hmm…this would make for a very good college admissions essay.” in fact, reading the essay from the perspective of an adcom was what helped me focus.</p>
<p>You know you’re obsessed…when you decide to brush up on excel and end up doing a spread sheet of all Pennsylvania colleges (and a few interesting out of state ones) showing cost, SAT’s for admit’s, etc. And then foist them on any student that shows the slightest interest.</p>
<p>When you’ve been campaigning for a grad school forum and your oldest child has been in college for 6 weeks!</p>
<p>When you keep reading and re-reading threads with topics like: “You know you’re obsessed with the admissions process”.</p>
<p>coureur, that was hilarious</p>
<p>coureur…that is exactly what I was thinking! And that you keep laughing even though you’ve read the same entries “several” times already.</p>
<p>And fireflyscout I love that your college stuff is alphabetized!</p>