<p>DH wants to know how early people get on this board. We have a freshman and he's watching our college fund (and my free time) getting sucked up in books on colleges. 'Fess up. How old was your son/daughter when you started here? Youngest one wins.</p>
<p>Second semester of junior year for my college freshman. (I still have a HS sophomore.)</p>
<p>Did not find it till second was a HS senior(now college soph). The third is now a HS soph.</p>
<p>My e-money bet goes to TokenAdult for this one!</p>
<p>My son was in his first year of college - and this board and site was brand new. Currently I have a daughter who is a high school junior.</p>
<p>My S was almost 17 when I started here;) ....a Junior in HS. MGMOm, go take a vacation and a loooong soak in the tub....and come back in a year + 5 months.</p>
<p>I didn't find this site until my younger son was a high school senior. It would have saved me a lot of problems had I found it much earlier!!</p>
<p>My D. was a freshman. She's a junior now.</p>
<p>I found site this last summer, so I am still a winner!! :) I had a kid who just graduated from college, another one about to begin senior year, and the third, about to be a h.s. junior.</p>
<p>I first discovered this site in the fall of 2002, I think (S was in 10th grade). I was a little slow to actually post, though! I had googled for info about PSATs, and this site was one that came up. I think my s owes some of his success in the college application process to all of you who so kindly share your information and experience. THANK YOU!</p>
<p>No winner here. S had just finished first semester Sr. year, and apps were all in. Still helped with gS and assorted issues, and created the obvious addiction. :D</p>
<p>My e-money is on dke (I think, my e-memory is not so good). Aren't his still in elementary school?</p>
<p>I think when DD was a junior - but may have been a sophmore. She's a college freshman (well, rising soph, I guess) - and now I'm here for rising HS junior son.</p>
<p>sophomore (I obsessed early)</p>
<p>I think that we can safely say that I am the winner. I found this site about 15 years before my first is likely to be born! That is 33 years before he or she will go to college! ***
I WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!***</p>
<p>I think I win the prize for latest to find the site. I found it a little over a month ago in late March - 5 days before my D (only child) received her acceptance to her #1. I would have enjoyed being here earlier, but I fear that it would have heightened the already high tension of going through the process ;)</p>
<p>Since d in 7th grade because I had a lot of freetime to go on the web plus reading lots of college admission books from the public library.The longer one's here, the worse it gests. When I started I was preparing for Ivies, now I'm just preparing for some top colleges, may be next year I will be preparing for college, and the year after that it will be for CC. The expectations go down as the year progresses.When D is in senior year, I would be glad if she just graduate from HS.(lol)</p>
<p>I don't win anything but I can say that the timing for me felt perfect and had I had to do it again, I would not change a thing. </p>
<p>I found this site around the time that my oldest daughter was about to start junior year. That coincided with her sixteenth birthday which was the start of our beginning to think about college and we bought her some books and directories. That was Sept. 2002. So, I was on here throughout her junior and senior year (might not have posted much at the beginning though have clearly made up for it now). She is now nearing the end of her freshman year at Brown. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, I knew I had second daughter two years younger and would be doing it all again. Little did I know that both kids' college processes overlapped because D2 opted to graduate a year early so I was reading last winter/spring for one kid who was waiting to hear from colleges and one making her list and plans. Thus my end of it has never ended as D2 is going to graduate in June and heads to college in the fall one year behind her sister thought they are two years apart. So, I have put my three years in here from start of college process to egg crate mattresses. I think I will stay on as we share with those next in line but also share amongst ourselves the next exciting step as this crop of kids starts college this fall (I did enjoy that this past fall with the group of parents on here who were sending one off too). So, here I go again.....</p>
<p>Oh, and those are all the kids I have so no more thick/thin envelopes for me....then again, there is always grad school for D1....I guess it is neverending!
Susan</p>
<p>She just turned 16 (I just found these a couple of weeks ago) but is a rising senior. I've learned so much from everyone here.</p>
<p>Oh-- my money is on dke. Her kids are still in middle school!!! My oldest was a sr when I really started reading CC. My younger was in middle shcool (he's now a HS freshman).
PS-- Sorry yemaya-- I think you have to have kids already to be in the running :)</p>
<p>About two and a half years ago after D took PSAT her sophomore year. I've also got a son finishing up 8th grade right now. Heaven only knows what he'll be interested in.</p>