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<p>You didn’t really answer the question. Does your child know you post about them here?</p>
<p>She’s in the other room. Just drove 10 hours. I just read her my post. She rolled her eyes. She loves me. ;)</p>
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<p>Anyway, I haven’t been posting in this thread much but have followed it, just want to say congrats to all those with successes.</p>
<p>I’m hep to all the lingo. Jiggy wid it. I’m on Spacebook and MyFace, too.</p>
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<p>Parents love to talk about their kids all the time, get used to it because it’s a CC thing. You’re not going to change anything by pointing it out.</p>
<p>And this website ain’t nothing. You should have seen me at the middle school dance. She still starts twitching when * Twist and Shout* comes on the 60’s channel. Her therapist says she’s making great strides. ;)</p>
<p>Understand, kiddos. A parent’s main purpose in life is to make yours a Livinghellonearth. (At least we know that’s how you see it.) We all do what we can. ;)</p>
<p>Spacebook and MyFace. I’m on this thread just to read Curm’s entries and stalk his daughter.</p>
<p>Can your daughter dish it back to you…or does she just roll her eyes?</p>
<p>Oh, she’s wicked good at dishing it back.</p>
<p>Yep, my DD has known about this site for years, and appreciated the undergrad options she had due to my “larnin the ropes” here on CC. All my DDs have answered many specific PM questions about various schools etc and also public ones.</p>
<p>I generally am a wee bit more circumspect than Curm, but any one who wanted to take the time could find enough details in posts to likely find my DD due to unusual ECs. </p>
<p>CC has taught many of us and we are just paying it forward. I only wish people last year had posted about their journeys so we had a better feel for the reality of the med school app process.</p>
<p>This is not “your journey,” though. It’s your child’s. At some point you have let them go. To be honest, it would be extremely tough for me to take your kids seriously with their parents planning out their lives. Are you sure your child even wants to go into medicine? And the dad asking for dating advice for his son is just insane, IMO. You can respond with sarcasm and jokes all you want, but I hope you’ve actually examined what you’re doing and realize that you may not be helping your children by being so “helpful.”</p>
<p>Re: parents involvement:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1062573162-post93.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1062573162-post93.html</a></p>
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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1062572263-post89.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1062572263-post89.html</a></p>
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<p>Yeah, yeah. We suck. We are awful people. Probably mentally ill, too. </p>
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<p>What’s your story, jamestown? You just joined, you are born in 86, what else can you share? Are you an M.D. applicant this year? If so, join in. We could use the input. </p>
<p>And to be serious for a second, the purpose of this thread is to give an “in real time” app season, start to finish. Some have found it helpful. Those are the people we are attempting to serve. If we need to take a few dings along the way from folks who don’t understand our motivations, well…that’s the price of doing business on the 'net. No biggie.</p>
<p>As a parent, I always appreciate the unselfish helps and insightful suggestions from other parents as well as other college students here in the past. It is not only about the academic and career path choices for our child. It is also about how to help ourselves and our child during the difficult transition periods from high school to college and beyond.</p>
<p>Our family have never been living in the “cold” area. Before we sent our child to a college on the north side of the country where we were not familiar with, people on this site gave me a lot of helps, including clothing, what to pack, etc. Nobody in our family knew anything about FAFSA, CSS Profiles at that time. More often than not, it is the parents, not college or high school students, who gave us the most helps. From some helpful CCers (again, most of these are parents), I could often find the weather conditions in other state when my child needs to fly home, what he should do if he stuck at a airport when his flight is canceled, or when there is a special deal for airfare.</p>
<p>When my child was a senior in high school or a freshman in college, he might roll his eyes when I mentioned to him about something new I had just learned from a public forum. Not any more today.</p>
<p>We conversed casually on the phone the other day and he had a question that both he and I did not have an answer for it. He suggested to me “Why don’t we go to CC to ask this question and maybe somebody happens to have the knowledge about it.” I think, as he grows up, he becomes more and more aware that the reason for us to go to this site is not to equip ourselves so that we can watch over his shoulder. We just want to educate ourselves so that we may be of some helps to him some day WHEN HE HAPPEN TO NEED IT. In the past, I think I have had chances to pass to him only about 10% of what I have learned here. It is often the case that we have about 10 minutes to talk with each other every week as he is very busy at school.</p>
<p>A biggest compliment to us is that, even though he does not have much time for us while he is in college (he is very busy with whatever he is busy with at college – often we really do not – and should not – know what he is busy with), he still likes to go home after years in college.</p>
<p>As a student I love reading these things even if its not my time to post yet. I know what to be prepared for in the future and how to schedule my life accordingly. For example, I didn’t realize how time consuming the interviewing process could be. I was planning on taking some lab requirements that semester but now I’ll be getting them out the way earlier so I don’t do badly on classes required for my major. Its always useful to hear about people going through the process even if its the parents posting. I like to think that students would post about their experiences if they had the time but they’re too busy living the process out to actually write about it.</p>
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<p>Oh believe me, students do post a ton about their experiences during the process, even more than the parents on this forum. Go look on SDN and MDApps and you will see plenty of student feedback.</p>
<p>I try to avoid SDN as much as possible. The place freaks me out.</p>
<p>I never said you were horrible people, just that you’re over involved. </p>
<p>Yes, I’m a current applicant. I’ll answer questions if you have them, but the best place for that sort of thing is SDN.</p>
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<p>SDN also scares the crap out of me, but I do agree with jamestown that it is better site for discussing medical school topics than CC. SDN has certainly helped me navigate my convoluted path of gaining admission to medical school. </p>
<p>Although we are many months into the 2010 application cycle, I do wish all the best to the parents and their children (especially those parents going through this for the first time) the best of luck and hope ya’ll get good news when all is said and done ;)</p>