<p>O.K.. I'll go first. One advantage/disadvantage to D's college starting early is that you get their mid-terms early.</p>
<p>Remember, my kid is on a merit scholarship without a grace period. If pulled she's back home at a non-flagship state school. Knowing all of that she chose a college with substantial rigor in areas where she has little experience -i.e. writing papers. She is taking 8 hours of these writing intensive courses and 8 hours of lab sciences. She is playing a club sport(Ultimate) and a varsity sport (Basketball). Add in a sorority rush/pledge, and volunteering at the hospital and you have a seemingly endless parade of time suckers.</p>
<p>Sooooo......... she is 1.) doing just fine (my take) 2.) not that hot (her take).
Her strong science classes? Top grades - A's. Her less strong classes? A- and a B+. </p>
<p>She's O.K. with it but there were less smiles over the phone than I would have thought. She does NOT think that lack of time has impacted her grades. She simply thinks that her prof's are tough graders (and excellent prof's). She AP'ed out of one of the non-science classes but felt she needed someone demanding to push her to new heights so she conciously picked the Rate My Professor's Tough but Great Prof. (It appears she has found her. LOL. This is a lot like the kid with stage-fright taking speech the first semester. ) She has expressed that she is going to work smarter the remainder of the term and feels that the lack of available grades has impacted her.</p>
<p>She's waay over the scholarship requirement and ever so close to Dean's List so I'm happy :). </p>
<p>There is much to admire here. A modest high achiever! Congrats!</p>
<p>A question I have, having recently read your great merit advice, is whether your DD is having any regrets about passing up Yale. On another poster's suggestion I researched Evil robot last week. It was of note to me that he came back asking about transfer possibilities. Any doubts in your household?</p>
<p>There is much to admire here. A modest high achiever! Congrats!</p>
<p>A question I have, having recently read your great merit advice, is whether your DD is having any regrets about passing up Yale. On another poster's suggestion I researched Evil robot last week. It was of note to me that he came back asking about transfer possibilities. Any doubts in your household?</p>
<p>Doubts? Yep. Plenty. All from me. I was the lone hold-out. Mom and D were teamed against me. I won't be fully convinced turning down Yale was the best choice for her until she is safely into her career path (med school/grad school/both) whatever that ends up being. (And even then, not till later in her life , when she's looking back.) </p>
<p>Now, don't get me wrong - they convinced me with sound arguments why Rhodes was a better choice for her, but being "convinced" she was right and knowing it down to the cellular level are two different things. </p>
<p>But D? Not one minute. She is in love with Rhodes. Socially she is in high cotton. Something that wasn't there in high school, too many labels, too restricting, too conformist, too ...well, just "too".</p>
<p>NJres, she says they are pretty dang good. (And she grades tough). She loves the work ethic and they are VERY tall. She is the 5th or 6th tallest. :eek:. Great crop of first-years and transfers, plus a girl coming back from surgery. Should make some noise in the SCAC. </p>
<p>They have a girl who , no joke, shot over 60% from 3 point range, and a 6'2" senior post who made all-conference. D feels that she will have to bide her time for any significant PT.</p>
<p>But she's having fun with it which is nice to see.</p>
<p>(She's starting play 11 pounds lighter than she finished high school, she always loses during the season, and it will be tough to play down low . She is hoping they let her roam a bit more and play her at the 4. She may get killed at the 5 at her weight but she's tough as a boot. We'll see.;))</p>
<p>Zagat, the "evil robot" posting in the transfer thread is NOT the same "evil_robot" who turned down Yale for Vanderbilt. The Vandy kid had a paid internship at NASA over the summer and posted the following last April:
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I'm a computer science major at Vandy. What specifically would you like to know? I am currently about to finish up my sophomore year and would be a junior by the time you got here. Last summer, I did research for a professor here which I continued in the fall semester. This semester I got to teach a math class. This summer I'm either going to be working with NASA or another college doing research. There's plenty of opportunities here, and the teachers in the CS program are (mostly) wonderful.
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No hint of dissatisfaction on this board that I can see. He has posted most frequently in the Vandy threads. Seems to have a lot of school spirit.</p>
<p>Very few grades to report yet (she just had midterms last week), but things seem to be going well. I just got back from Family Weekend, and am very happy with her choice of college. And I experienced D3 football - which is quite a change from Texas 5A football, but just as enjoyable (maybe more so).</p>
<p>D is at Northeastern, and just got the best grades of her life: lowest grade A- She's even acing calculus which is either a miracle or grade inflation ;) I hope she doesn't get overconfident and blow the remainder of the semester. (Ever the cynic, that mom.) She's playing on the women's squash team - rated 31st in the nation. Out of 31 teams. But she's not communicating all that much -- so it came both as a bit of a surprise and no surprise when we heard, via her best-friend's mom, that at first she liked the school only OK -- it's only lately that she's 'loving it.' Humph. Parents are always the last to know (at least in our family...)</p>
<p>Yes, she's having fun, thanks for asking curm. Mind you, she can barely walk (all kinds of sports-related knee injuries, lots of physical therapy) but she's still the 3rd best on the team. So this is all for fun, meeting people and to see some sights as they visit (and most likely get beaten by) various schools along the eastern seaborad.</p>
<p>Mid-Term Reports/Tears, cheers, jeers and fears </p>
<p>Cheers: Daughter seems to have had a wonderful time in Buenos Aires and is now busy exploring Beijing.</p>
<p>Tears: Reading her first e-mail from China telling us that the airline had lost her bag somewhere between Argentina and China -- her ONLY bag that contained everything for the entire semester. About halfway thru the e-mail she said she had to stop writing because she was getting so sad thinking about the incredible hassle of trying to replace every stitch of clothing, contact lenses, battery chargers, etc. in Beijing. At that point, she had been wearing the same jeans for five days.</p>
<p>Cheers: Getting another e-mail eight hours later that the airline had found her bag!</p>
<p>Fears: The e-mail from Argentina that she was jumping off a foothill in the Andes the next day dangling from a paraglider. Thinking about the logisitics of a broken leg on her trip.</p>
<p>Cheers: A subsequent e-mail letting us know she had survived unscathed.</p>
<p>Cheers: Finding the apartment building where her homestay family lives on the satellite maps of Beijing in Google Earth. </p>
<p>Jeers: Having to wait 'til she gets home to hear a running monolog of her experiences. She's sent a few long e-mails to friends and family, but just hitting the highpoints.</p>
<p>Cheers-So far grades are very good. I just hope they stay that way, so I won't cheer too loudly yet. </p>
<p>Fears-Who he will room with next year, and where he will live. Hopefully, he will be on-campus. I feel that Son is dragging his feet with this, b/c housing has sent out an email. He needs a roommate, and he has not figured out who he wants to live live with next year. He does have a couple of weeks still, but he needs to move on this issue. </p>
<p>He is also procastinating getting his flu vaccine. I am afraid that he just simply won't get vaccinated.</p>