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<p>I thought it was "Behind every successful man there stands a surprised woman." I may have garbled the translation.</p>
<p>LFWB: whew. I'm glad you clarified. For a moment I thought you were suggesting that wives address their husbands that way and was thinking, "That'll never fly with TheMom."</p>
<p>I thought it was, </p>
<p>"Behind every successful man stands a very surprised mother-in-law!"</p>
<p>Touche. Could be. </p>
<p>I mostly lucked out on the M-i-L front; she is mostly harmless, lives a fair distance away. I defended TheMom when marital obligations demanded and spoke up for myself upon an occasion when polite silence was not a morally acceptable option...but there were only one or two occasions of each, not bad for 25 years. We happen to share in common the same birth date, fwiw. She is now in early 90's, so nil nisi.</p>
<p>an old US Marine Corp saying that I first heard from the lips of Gunny Highway (Clint Eastwood- Heartbreak Ridge). If you google this, you can actually get t-shirts, mugs, and yes even thongs with this printed on them :)</p>
<p>then there's always:</p>
<p>** illegitimis non carborundum **, most memorably told to me by one of my doctors, in reference to a certain troublesome individual in my life at the time</p>
<p>and:</p>
<p>** life is what happens when you're busy making other plans **</p>
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<p>For TheMom we say, </p>
<p>Ma'am, yes, Ma'am.</p>
<p>Ma'am, no, Ma'am.</p>
<p>Ma'am, aye aye, Ma'am.</p>
<p>Ma'am, I'll find out, Ma'am.</p>
<p>Ma'am, no excuse, Ma'am.</p>
<p>If TheMom is anything like CINC House, its easiest to go right to "No Excuse"</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>oops, out of practice with my bolding!</p>
<p>bump to top</p>
<p>Some of us have evidently missed something while we were at work…</p>
<p>EA = Good, ED = BAD </p>
<p>Ok, that may be overstating it a bit. But if you have any temptation to do Early Decision (binding)… do your research on CC. Many families have been frustrated by receiving lower FA/scholarship than expected, without not having the opportunity to compare to other answers. </p>
<p>Early Action is nice because nonbinding and sometimes you have the FA/scholarship info early too. It’s nice to have an acceptance “in your pocket” early, even if not the favorite school.</p>
<p>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a flying:
And this same flower that smiles today.
Tomorrow will be dying.</p>
<p>I just realized how old this thread is, but it has some great stuff.</p>
<p>The one I would add is:</p>
<p>“You don’t need an IB diploma to get into a good school.”
and
part B.<br>
“They do not pick from the IB diploma stack of applications first.”</p>
<p>Well, maybe they do at some schools, but not the ones we visited.</p>
<p>by Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)</p>
<p>A female applicant might be accepted to a single-sex school and not to a co-ed school of similar caliber.</p>
<p>posted by stacy, [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1066253415-post19.html]here[/url”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1066253415-post19.html]here[/url</a>] .</p>
<p>** You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose. **</p>
<p>DH’s favorite bit of advice</p>
<p>Go to the source to get answers to your specific college admission questions. I often see questions posted on CC to which the answers can be found more reliably on the college’s website–and I sometimes see wrong answers posted here, amazing though it is to believe! If the answer isn’t posted on the website, call the college.</p>
<p>If you are applying to too many colleges to look up the answers on their websites yourself, you are applying to too many colleges.</p>
<p>If things don’t work as planned, go to the next plan and keep trying.</p>
<p>I learned this by watching my children, overcome a lot of adversity. They perservered and found many different paths to reach their goals, ignoring naysayers and following their passions and dreams. They are stronger and more resiliant people because of all their experiences.</p>
<p>from a bumper sticker</p>
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<p>While it’s always strange to see these threads that re-surface after many years and read a post you have forgotten that you wrote, it’s really nice to find a quote from LatetoSchool that is still one of the best on the thread.
Going to try to do more of that.
I’d say Rest in Peace, but I think she’s somehow rockin’ heaven in her red shoes instead…</p>
<p>dragonmom^^^^^:D</p>