<p>keylimepie, fortunately we don’t have that problem, since S dropped almost a dozen colleges off his list after he got in EA at his first choice. Too bad it can’t just be left blank. If he feels “undecided” is too blunt, maybe he could call or write a quick note to them to politely decline.</p>
<p>**The SS Indecision left port on April 1st.</p>
<p>The ship will stop in many ports this month with the last port call scheduled in 27 days when all final commitments to schools are due. (Or nautically speaking, it’s time to sink or swim.)**</p>
<p>Good morning all…</p>
<p>I am getting seasick on this voyage! D said this morning she is down to 3 schools and has a visit at one school this weekend (RPI in NY)- if she doesn’t like it, then she will be in Boston at either Northeastern or BU. We did a trip into Boston yesterday to walk around the BU campus on our own - previously she did not like the campus - not a lot of greenspace…now she is still undecided, she doesn’t get the college feel from BU and she doesn’t like the fact that she might have to use a ‘communal’ bathroom (I had to laugh at that one). But she is going back there next week for an open house and today she told me that she was going to call Northeastern and beg for money…now that should be interesting. ha ha </p>
<p>We, like others, are still waiting for all the financial aid stuff to come in and that will make a difference in where she goes. She did tell me that if she had been accepted to either one of the two Ivys, we would be done. D is still not over the rejections but is getting better - as long as she vents to me and H then she will be okay. I think she is almost at the point where she is realizing that the remaining schools are her choices and she needs to start looking at things like the dining plans, who would she have to share a bathroom with etc…(she already knows at Northeastern that she would be sharing a bathroom with 3 other girls - I did tell her that sharing a bathroom with a bunch of girls is all part of the college experience! ha ha )</p>
<p>I am so looking forward to the day when she is excited about where she is going…</p>
<p>I firmly believe that things will work out and she will be happy where ever she goes (me - I’ll be a nervous wreck if she is Boston! ha ha )</p>
<p>Have a great day everyone!</p>
<p>keylime: We had a similar issue here. He’s ready to take a couple off the list but hasn’t made a final choice. He said it would be insulting to say “I’m don’t know which school I’ll choose, but it won’t be your school.” So, he did nothing.</p>
<p>We’re still waiting for scholarship information from two schools. We’ve said all along that this decision will have to take into consideration cost, but I can see that it’s easier to say this than to do it. S2 has some very, very nice merit scholarship offers, but they’re not at the school that seems to be the favorite. Could be a long ride for us on the SS Indecision!</p>
<p>bkcsmn99 – My D has been sharing a communal bathroom for 4 years with a whole floor of girls (16 or so). Tell your daughter not to be alarmed – they are not all in there at the same time. Because college classes don’t all start at 8 am or so the way h.s. classes do, chances are she’ll hardly ever see her bathroomies. </p>
<p>Thanks be to goodness for the internet. We are doing a lot of the registration stuff on-line and it makes it so easy. No waiting to see if you got the orientation time you wanted, loving the FAQ’s, and feedback communication is almost immediate. </p>
<p>One interesting thing: My D’s college had an on-line personality test to see where the kids fall on a 5-range of intelligence (investigative, social, etc.) as part of the registration process. Anybody else finding this?</p>
<p>I don’t believe in applying to a bunch of reach schools and seeing which one sticks and neither does my son’s GC which is why boychild applied to mostly safeties and matches. That he got into his two reaches (Binghamton and Bates) was just icing on the cake. I also think I am a pretty good judge of what is Ivy League - top 10 school material and boychild simply wasn’t in that league. </p>
<p>Congrats to those whose kids are now ashore! ++++ for the ones still on the boat. </p>
<p>Mailed all the not attending and the acceptance & deposit to Bates this morning! :)</p>
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haven’t come across this. I have seen lots of kids on the Marquette Class of 2015 FB site looking for roomies. S has said he will take his chance with the school pairing rather than try to find a roomie on line. Dorms are assigned by lottery so although there was no rush to send in the deposit, we did. He had to rank his dorm choices and wouldn’t you know he is contrary to how I would have ranked. And he did it after a few minutes looking at descriptions of the various dorm offerings. I will not be living there and I know more about the dorms than he does. </p>
<p>bkcsmn - I would prefer the large communal bathroom to having a private bath with one other room mate. You know the communal bath gets cleaned periodically. It would drive me crazy to live with a slob who never helps to clean the bathroom.</p>
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<p>Actually kind of funny…
YEars from now–he will likely be a distant memory and yet she will be happily at Willamette.
Think of it this way–God used a Burning Bush! He can use a hs bf ;)</p>
<p>Pepper and Momofboston – that would be funny if you meet up at a parents thing. NEU is such a nice school. It has changed a lot of the past 20 years.<br>
O-mom hope your D has 4 great years at Willamette.
Emilybee – welcome ashore to your S. He should be happy at Bates!</p>
<p>“I” have to figure out how to let the other schools on S’s list know he won’t be attending. S will not do it but I feel obligated to let them know. Hopefully I will have time this week to figure it out.</p>
<p>mamom, there should be an acceptance/rejection in each package. Just fill it out and mail it in. You will have to forge his name.</p>
<p>Oregonianmom ~ Good luck on Friday! :)</p>
<p>thanks emilybee - I will look for it.</p>
<p>Congrats Emilybee – it sounds like you, gc, and boychild were all in sync on “the plan” and it worked out well. Good job.</p>
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<p>Three of our four acceptances have concluded that we have not demonstrated financial need, and one has offered a little and a small merit award. The vast majority of our 2010 income was early, penalized, withdrawals from our IRAs, which was our only option given employment changes and our starting a new business. I will be meeting with the financial aid office of one of the schools (Columbia) in New York next week, and will try to do so on our trip to Chicago this week. Does anyone have any words of wisdom on how to approach these meetings? I do not understand how they can treat these withdrawals exactly the same as earned income.</p>
<p>Congrats to all whose kids are finalizing their choices. My son is working on narrowing his down. Went to Pitt this past weekend and it looks like a likely with all the loot he got and bought there. Loved the Accepted Students Day. They rolled out the red carpet for them. I think it will be Pitt, Fairfield or Fordham for him with Pitt in the lead for now.</p>
<p>Northeastern is getting a lot of top kids from son’s school. They always have. Son was wait listed there and he is not going to stay on the list since he isn’t getting any money from them. It was a reach for him.</p>
<p>It’s a tough choice for these kids to make, and I love the way all of parents here are handling this. Big hugs to all of you. </p>
<p>I agree that the hall communal bathroom has the advantage that it gets cleaned by professionals regularly so it doesn’t stink up the halls. Those suite bathrooms can get really rank, since it is up to the suitemates to clean it. </p>
<p>Advice from someone who is doing this for the 4th time: don’t fill out those decline cards for the colleges your kids have said they have eliminated until AFTER May 1. You just never know what can happen. The schools are unlikely to be redistributing merit money or going on the waitlist till then any ways. The adcoms are probably hitting all of the local bars this month, ha, ha. They’ll have to gear up when the accepts come rolling in.</p>
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<p>That love note you got from College Board—may not be the only issue.
That company was connected to banks!! and Credit Cards!</p>
<p>Congrats on Northeastern and Willamette!! Those are two terrific schools. It’s so great to see all these kids finding their homes. It’s been fun to see my D’s friends, even the ones bruised from rejections, getting excited about their choices and one by one deciding on their new homes. She says there’s a new crop on Facebook every day.</p>
<p>Because my D chose a school (Clark) that is little known in California, where we live, we’ve had to do a lot of explaining to people who look at us blankly when we answer their question about where she’s going. But no one has an attitude or seems judgmental, I’m happy to say. Because she’s such a good student, many at first expected her to go to a name-brand school, but I’m glad we can help educate people about the joys (financial, educational, community, etc.) of the good but lesser-knowns.</p>
<p>cpt, I thought about not mailing the declines in and agree you never know what may happen but boychild already sick of getting calls from all those schools.</p>
<p>Researching, I live about 100 from Worcester and people hear have never heard of Clark! Most people don’t know very many colleges - especially the small ones.</p>