<p>Applauds and congrats to all of the CC veterans and their DSs and DDs! :)</p>
<p>Question: What is this other forum many have alluded to? 
Does it still exist?</p>
<p>Tutu,</p>
<p>At the bottom of the page, you will find the link for college discussion classic</p>
<p>[College</a> Confidential Discussion](<a href=āhttp://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/]Collegeā>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/)</p>
<p>there you can find some of the older threads</p>
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<p>Itās another college site that had message boards related to college and college searches. Not wishing to dis another forum, I would prefer not to name it specifically. Many of us here posted āthereā before being joining here. Some of us posted in both places for a time. Iām not sure whether this other site still has discussions or not.</p>
<p>concerneddad-
Ah yes, of COURSE Inow remember all your sonās adventures with the EMS. Staying behind to help. It is all coming back to me now. We wil chat furtherā¦</p>
<p>Still here also. D1 will be graduating in May and applying to doctoral programs in organic chem. And, yes, she has had a fabulous college experience. D2 is now a senior in hsā¦keeping our fingers crossed for a similar outcome.</p>
<p>Another cc veteran here. S is home for Thanksgiving and is very excited about what his future holds. It is a future that was not even considered four years ago!! He graduates in May, but has decided to take the unconventional route to eventual grad school. He will be headed off to Washington state immediately after graduation and then to a Leadership Training course, where upon completion he will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the army. He then plans to serve as an officer for a few years, either in the army or in the National Guard. Either way, he will be applying for entrance in to aviation. If accepted, he will have at least a year and a half of flight training after the other officer training. (Wants to fly helicopters, possibly as a medovac or Apache pilotā¦)</p>
<p>Again, this is a path that we never expected. However, he seems very excited, and has already been offered some great opportunities, during and after this commitment. As parents, we just hope that things in the middle east will slow down such that when his training is completed (two years) his chance of deployment will be minimized, and his opportunity to serve this country will take a safe and meaningful turn. </p>
<p>Hard to believe that it is time to go through the college process fairly soon with child #2ā¦ :)</p>
<p>Thank you, everyone, for sharing your updates. I cannot believe how quickly time has flown - D and I were just starting to look at colleges when yours were applying. Shall I expect a thread in May discussing the merits of the various commencement speakers?</p>
<p>sokkermom- best wishes to your son and your family. His commitment to our nation is admirable. I too will pray that things calm down in the middle east and elsewhere so that all our sons and daughters serving our country remain safe and can come home real soon-- </p>
<p>my d will be graduating Cornell in May. Plans toeventually go to Law school - but it looks like she may spend a year or two having a ālife experienceā- be it teaching, working in a law firm or NGO for a few months.
I have a feeling sheās not going to know too much about her plans after college for a few more months.
She is going to apply for Teach for America- they seem to have a quick turn around time- so if she applies in the next cycle (in January), she may know by April. Itās a two year commitment and apparently very difficult to get into- seems to be a very popular program at her school. Canāt quite figure out if it is because, all these kids think they may want to become teachers, or they donāt have a clue what they want to do with their future, so it gives them another 2 years to figure it outā
weāll seeā</p>
<p>Good Luck to all!!</p>
<p>love hearing about all your wonderful young graduates or soon to be graduates..sokkermom, as a fellow Duke Mom, and a military brat/daughter of a career AF pilot myself, it is gratifying to know your son will be serving as an officer and a pilot. His choice says volumes about him, and we all wish him safety and service in a more peaceful world.</p>
<p>momof3sons, you brought back a bad memory in āHTHāā¦he(?) was a nightmare! From the āotherā board I think, where I began posting in '01 or '02. Remember trying to find out which āfine ivyā he went to? (one of 6 schools since he didnāt consider 2 of the ivies āfineā enough), and āTTTā, a term I despised.</p>
<p>Hereās to you HTH: S graduated '05 from his TTT trade school (Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science). Busy juggling living with gf (also CMU grad) in NYC with putting in fairly long hours for one of the well-known investment banks; anxiously awaiting Dec 13 b-day (b as in bonus, which suddenly makes all the late evenings worthwhile). Loves the job and seems to be challenged, which was always my top concern for him. Has spent 5 months of 2007 working in London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong (where I visted with him this summerā¦trip of a lifetime for this homebody).</p>
<p>DD is finishing final year of Masterās degree in Exceptionalities (new term for special ed I guess). A classic late bloomer. Made all PSAC (her univās league, the PA state colleges) for soccer her senior year. Most likely will combine teaching (specializing in autism) with coaching soccer if the opportunity arises.</p>
<p>Iām FINALLY almost done with tuitionā¦</p>
<p>Calmom et al who mark accomplishments with the hour hand, not the minute handā¦</p>
<p>I wish my MIL could meet you, and vice-versa. Her youngest S is polishing up his BA at age 51, wondering whoāll finish first-- himself or his two Dās. Sheād say youāre all doing mighty well 
Then sheād probably give you a slice from her 87th birthday cake.</p>
<p>I just noticed this thread and it got me thinking about when I first joined. It must have been about 4 years ago when son #1 was a junior in HS. I know it was on the old CC forum. I wish I could find that thread - I remember posting that my son was showing NO interest in college and some kind poster responded that
if it hadnāt been for her nudging her college son would still be home lying on the couch with the remote control.
That made me feel really good! (I wonder who that was?) :)</p>
<p>Son #1 is half way through his junior year at Denison. Heās double majoring in Economics, Poli Sci and minoring in music, heās also trying to fit in a math major. Like all our kids, heās grown in so many ways and Iāve sure enjoyed him home that past week, itās a rare event.</p>
<p>hmm not a parent here like xiggi but I do remember the old board.. sheesh. That was very, very long agoā¦ I think I found this after I sent in my deposit to Smith and thinking āoh @#$@$ why didnāt I find this earlier?!ā Needless to say, I took advantage of this board to help me with my transfer applications to Colgate and feeding advice that goes through my brotherās earsā¦ some words going out of the other ear. Iāve been around someā¦ just donāt have a lot of time but try to help when I can :)</p>
<p>Now I am in process of applying to History PhD programs in graduate schools around the Northeast- no CA for me! 
But I am very excited and itās pretty amazing how this process is different from undergraduate but the emotional roller coaster is still there. Iām looking into becoming a public educator for organizations and museumsā¦ essentially a history teacher without strings attached to bratty kids and grading papers everyday! Plan B? Move to Israel, marry an Israeli, and have Israeli children, and just be blissfully happy forever.</p>
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I hate to tell you xig - people like you and me, wellā¦we donāt blend. Itās not our nature.</p>
<p>Xiggi and grad school apps. Gee. Somebody must have sped up that dang clock again. I wish you luck in your search, friend. Not that youāll need it much. Youāll knockāem out wherever you go. ;)</p>
<p>Like Fireflyscout, we were just starting to look when yours were applying; I found CC from mentions at the other site (from which I quickly fled from all the nastiness). My daughter was a sophomore then (and is a sophomore now!), and I will be forever grateful for the wisdom I found here. The FA information was particularly helpful, since up to that point, I had been putting a portion of her college savings into her UGMA account. I was able to revise our savings plan, open a 529, and use the UGMA money for a summer at Interlochen, a computer, and for other enrichment activities. We got our FAFSA PINs well in advance and filed our first FAFSA on January 2nd of her senior year. We were able to identify her strengths, look for schools which would appreciate (with $$$) those strengths, and tailor her app so she could be identified by a nickname, if adcoms so desired. None of this would have been possible without the collective wisdom of CC.</p>
<p>Now my daughterās a sophomore designing her own major; will be studying for a semester in Mutare, Zimbabwe next year; is exploring the option of going to Rwanda for winter interterm her senior year; and is chewing on the possibilities of grad school or working for a year or two (preferably overseas) before grad school. Not at all the path I would have predicted, but I think thatās what makes it all so exciting.</p>
<p>Iāve been here since mid 2004. </p>
<p>D1 is now happily in her 3rd year in the MD/PhD program at Northwestern, diving into cancer research. </p>
<p>D2 will graduate from Washington University in St.Louis in 2008, double-majoring in biochemistry & gender studies. Sheās pretty sure she wants to take a year off after this, before going on to grad school - though sheās still not sure what grad.degree she wants to go for. Oh, well - thereās time enough for decisions.</p>
<p>So let me ask you allā¦ are the forums on careers, internships and graduate schools as good as weāve all found the undergrad areas to be? I recently returned here in earnest after a bit of a hiatus to scout out schools for my son whoās a HS senior. And Iāve got one more coming up about three years from now.</p>
<p>However, my oldest daughter, who is completing her 3rd year in upstate NY at Cultgate, began talking over the Thanksgiving dinner table about this summerās internship, grad school, fellowships ~ where, what and how to pay. </p>
<p>Thatās when I realized I have a second mini career/hobby about to start.</p>
<p>mhc48 ā PhD.org is a great site for your daughter.</p>
<p>Xiggi ā Best of luck with your apps!</p>
<p>Thumper ā I do remember Hautbois! I hope Irvine continued to be a good choice for her daughter the artist/Latin student.</p>
<p>Elleneast ā Your positive comments about your daughterās first year at Columbia were just some of the input that led to my Sās choosing to go there. Donāt worry, itās been a great ride for him. Like your D, heās gotten an excellent education, had a lot of fun, and learned much from New York City as well as in the classroom. While he hasnāt had much to say about Columbiaās administration, I do agree it is not the easiest school to negotiate. I just hope, if he gets into a grad program, it will be on the West Coast.</p>
<p>xiggi,</p>
<p>Grad school app time is something that I wish to never go through again. However, if you need any assistance, Iād be glad to offer you an essay read or a few hints.</p>
<p>mhc48, as a parent of 2 twentysomethings, I find myself floating around in the internship and career threads, and the business major and engineering major ones; plus MBA thread, since that may be in sonās future. Iāll pick up tidbits about the type of work my son does without having to bug him with ānow what is it you do again?ā, as systems analyst and information systems were once foreign phrases to me. Actually helps me converse with him better, I think, being exposed to people who actually do what he does.</p>