<p>Good Luck to all the Fellows candidates attending the weekend. I hope it does not rain and you all have an enjoyable weekend. :)</p>
<p>Woo hoo. So excited to take S today. Good luck to all.</p>
<p>7am flight tomorrow morning for son and me.</p>
<p>We’re driving down Friday morning. Hope to get there in time for a dorm tour. Does anyone know the format for the Elon Experiences session? 2:45 - 5:00 sounds too long to sit in a room and listen to speakers. Could it be set up as a wander/mingle open house-type event?</p>
<p>^^DB: Samtalya is on an airplane, but I think she asked me this earlier this week…</p>
<p>The way it was done last year is that the group is split up and each student attends each session at a different time…Possibly alphabetically, but don’t hold me to that…</p>
<p>Not sure if that’s the plan this year, but I would assume the same…</p>
<p>We’re leaving in a few hours - splitting up the drive down so we can be there for the entire afternoon tomorrow without leaving in the wee hours. Can’t wait to be back on campus and to start our Elon experience!!</p>
<p>We’re driving down tomorrow morning. We hope to be there by 2:00. I assume that it doesn’t matter if we get there at 12:00 or at 2:00, since tomorrow’s daytime activites seem to run continuously until 5pm. Is my assumption correct?</p>
<p>I hope your assumption is correct, LR. That’s the plan we’re following, too. :)</p>
<p>Nice weekend. Exhausting, though. The students we met were all very impressive.</p>
<p>Fantastic weekend. S loved it too, met such great kids. Now I wish I knew who you all were. Met another CCer from another thread I frequent.</p>
<p>Met a boy named Doug and asked him if he had a parent on CC user name dougbetsy, but no. LOL</p>
<p>Good luck to all as we wait for the next nerve wracking weeks.</p>
<p>My son is in now all excited about Elon after this weekend. Met some great kids and great parents from CO, TX, NJ and MA. Wish there was a little more sun and a little less rain.</p>
<p>Lol Samtalya I do believe you actually met my S!</p>
<p>Great week-end, very impressive current student and alumni speakers. We also had great interaction with students, faculty and Dean in the Fellows program that S has applied to. The director of the program gave me a hug good-bye and said “see you in August!” The professor he interviewed with was great too, she came out and spoke with us after the interview and encouraged S to reach out to her with any Elon questions. Wow, she’s in a department he wont have any interaction with, so she sure didn’t need to do that! Came away from our experience feeling that Elon really is all they claim to be, and are thrilled that this is where S will be spending his college years!</p>
<p>We had a great time, too. D came away liking it a lot more than she did going in. She’s a candidate for College Fellow and Honors Fellow. She said, if they gave her a choice (which she knows they won’t/don’t) she’d take a College Fellow spot. But, either one would be awesome, of course. </p>
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LOL! How nice that you actually met Embracethemess’s S! (My Doug goes to Wake Forest. We were able to meet him for dinner on his campus Saturday night.)</p>
<p>Just curious DougBetsy, why would your D choose the $4500/year College Fellow instead of the $12,000/year Honors Fellow?</p>
<p>Paraphrasing my daughter’s observations:
Because the College Fellows program seemed to leave time in a student’s day to “have a life.”
Because she “clicked” with more College Fellows at the receptions than Honors Fellows.
Because her interviewer answered questions about the 2 programs and mentioned some reasons (I can’t remember them) that tipped the scale in favor of College Fellows.</p>
<p>From a family perspective, the Honors money is nice. But, we’re not requiring her to make an enrollment decision based on price. As long as the cost doesn’t exceed the budget we gave her, she can choose any school. A College Fellowship would keep her under budget. So, she is free to like it better than Honors, if she chooses.</p>
<p>OK, I will admit, I packed incorrectly and was cold in the rainy weather so instead of my blouse and blazer I bought a sweatshirt and wore it on Saturday. NEON LIME green with ELON in big blue letters. So if you saw the lime green sweat and the frizzy wet hair, that was me!!!</p>
<p>ps. yes i did buy other more attractive sweatshirts too!</p>
<p>I agree that the weather was disappointing. We were there Thursday evening and it had been 80 degrees and sunny - too bad that did not continue. Of course, it would have been hard to sit through the parent sessions if the weather had been that nice. The sun came out again just as we had to leave on Saturday.</p>
<p>We may be wishing for that cooler weather come move-in day in August.</p>
<p>My husband overheard a current student say that it rains every fellows weekend - Guess it’s a tradition 
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<p>Does anyone know how many students were there over the weekend - I know I read that there were supposed to be around 600 but didn’t hear any confirmation of that while there -</p>
<p>When I walked by the check-in table after lunch on Saturday they were down to less than one bin of packets. So, I’d say they exceeded 500. </p>
<p>Did anyone else think the boy-girl ratio was lopsided with more girls?</p>
<p>Yes, the ratio of boys to girls was off by a lot - My son said that in his group there were about 70 girls to 10 boys -</p>