<p>I’m in agreement with you, DadII. Thanks for letting us know that everything worked for your daughter and your family. I think keeping your daughter’s final college selection is a wise decision. You’ve explained the reason, and it’s a very valid one. Congratulations.</p>
<p>thanks… …</p>
<p>DadII, DD is going to love the Buckeyes and I need tickets for Michigan, they’re at the 'Shoe this year!!!</p>
<p>j/k!!!</p>
<p>You know what. Becuase of mistakes like this, I will stop making any post on CC until I really learn my lesson. </p>
<p>I am very grateful of all the helps and advises I have received during my time on CC. I am sorry to cause any hurt feeling etc. </p>
<p>So see you all in a year or two.</p>
<p>Of course, Dad II is not “under the slightest obligation to announce where his daughter is going to school,” just as no posters were obligated to respond to his many posts asking for help and advice. But lots of help did come his way from well-meaning (and maybe some not-so-well-meaning) posters, and now to act coy is just poor form on a forum. That’s all. I understand soozie’s frustration.</p>
<p>Congrats to your daughter!</p>
<p>Agree with Soozie and YDS. Which is why I started avoiding those threads.</p>
<p>Dad II-- congratulations!! </p>
<p>Other posters-- this process is so stressful. It really doesn’t make sense to take any of these posts personally. If stressed parents and students can’t vent here, then where can they vent? At home? No-- to much at stake. At school? Definitely not-- too muc chance for getting into trouble. Friends? No way-- losing friendship is too intense. So, CC is a good place. I agree that many people, probably myself included, have gone over the top with this whole thing, and the wise ones on these forums have always been able to reel us back down to sanity. It really shouldn’t matter to any of us where Dad’s daughter is going. She, and the whole family, has a happy ending. <strong>tearing up</strong></p>
<p>Dad II-- go for more walks with your wife. In fact, go for walks with your daughter. Believe me, when she is gone, you will really miss her. But you will be happy for her too.</p>
<p>Dad II, thanks for posting. I’ve followed your journey and am very happy to hear it turned out well. And I don’t need to know the details, just the fact that you are both happy and proud is enough.</p>
<p>Well, I’ll be honest and say that the only discomfort I have with this thread is my jealousy over an FA package that is so generous it can make you cry! Still, DadII, your D has earned and deserved this, and I hope college is everything she dreams it to be.
Best of luck.</p>
<p>Privacy is very important. I completely respect the desire for it. Totally. But if one chooses to be private about it, then don’t put it out there in such a way that is so public and detailed where so many are helping and then announce another thread publicly which brings more attention and thus, in essence, is NOT private. I think one needs to choose whether they want to be public or private about such matters. This case has been very very public with threads devoted to this one case, many times over and with numerous very supportive and helpful members. Again, I respect the need for privacy but if you go the privacy route, it might be better not to be so in our faces so publicly with thread after thread. I think one needs to decide one path or the other. </p>
<p>We are indeed happy for your daughter and we don’t need to know where she is going. You have opted to be very public in all respects on her case otherwise. I can see why you don’t want to reveal her school and I fully understand the reasons. It would be better, in my view, to just be private about it and not start more public discussions on it, in such a situation.</p>
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<p>Now that’s funny!</p>
<p>Congrats to you and your family, Dad II</p>
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<p>Well, it is a relief to hear things went well in the end, and I’m glad we got to hear that much.</p>
<p>Tree, I agree that it is nice to hear it all worked out and in some ways that is a pat on the backs of many supportive and giving CC members who assured DadII that things would work out for his very qualified and deserving daughter and so I am glad to hear that came true as predicted.</p>
<p>I’m confused. Didn’t Dad II announce earlier that his daughter was going to Stanford?</p>
<p>I, too, thought he announced Stanford.</p>
<p>I don’t think so. Last I remember (and I don’t follow that closely!), she had gotten into Stanford, his first choice, but he was unhappy with the money offered. I’m guessing that he has now gotten more money for Stanford and that’s why he’s so happy.</p>
<p>There is also a difference between Dad II being very “out there” and the privacy concerns of his daughter. As far as we know, the daughter has not posted, just the Dad. Even though this is all pretty much anonymous, I would also feel as if I had exposed too much about my D if I disclosed more than just the minimum about her.</p>
<p>He also said his D wanted a different school, and later, said that D made the decision. </p>
<p>I’m hoping she picked the school that SHE wanted.</p>
<p>And he didn’t want to pay more for the school she wanted than he’d have had to pay at Stanford.</p>
<p>franglish, I completely understand the privacy concerns for the daughter! I’d have them too under this circumstance given how public all the other details have been. By starting MORE threads about her goes against trying to be private and is bringing MORE attention to her. It is also a bit of a tease to all those who have been so helpful in the past. I just don’t think one can have it both ways. Either lay low and be private or be very very out there with numerous threads on every detail of one child’s case. I would have to agree with DadII that it is not in his D’s best interests to reveal the school at this point given how public all the things along the way have been. If it were me, I’d then celebrate in private.</p>
<p>I was thinking she is going to Duke. Based on his past posts. He wanted Stanford she seemed to want Duke. My bet is on Duke.</p>