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<p>My '09 son was a choir kid and he sang at his graduation. I was expecting to be so emotional. However, H chose seats that were behind the choir and wouldn’t move, and I was so ticked at H that I couldn’t see Son’s face that I didn’t cry.</p>
<p>However, today, during the beautiful gorgeous officers dance, I sobbed so hard that younger D said she could see me crying across the gym.</p>
<p>Hearing about all the “lasts” puts a lump in my throat-good luck getting through the events in one piece.</p>
<p>I would really want my son to visit the school in question. I wouldn’t force him but I would strongly encourage it.</p>
<p>I would open the envelope-I wouldn’t even think twice-although I wouldn’t have thought of it as breaking confidentiality. Maybe it is and I should have given it more thought.</p>
<p>Yes Opening Day for the Red Sox-I wish I could be there.</p>
<p>Put me in the ‘open the envelope’ class. Esp. as it seems you have more than one copy. My besetting sin has always been the longing ‘to know…know now!’ and I wouldn’t even have waited this long!</p>
<p>Oh my some of you have a l o n g time to be done with high school/college with your little ones.<br>
I will have a very hard time when D2 (HS 2015)is “done and gone” however H and I are what you might call “older” parents :0 so it will be past time to become emptynesters no matter how difficult the transition…</p>
<p>Can’t wait to hear how everyone’s college visits are going, especially in the Pacific Northwest! </p>
<p>happy64–how did your D decide on UPS? Were there any other PNW schools she was looking at?</p>
<p>Anyone–what does CTCL mean? And thanks for ppl asking about college name pronounciations–I, too, have been puzzled about how to say some of them. And shame on me for putting an extra “i” in Willamette a previous post, I surely know better!</p>
<p>CTCL = Colleges That Change Lives (based on Loren Pope’s book)</p>
<p>News from our berth on the SS Indecision–son was so NOT feeling the vibe at Stanford that he and his mother went sightseeing rather than do the second day of the visit. I think he is just more the LAC type.</p>
<p>UT84321 – I think it’s great when you get a decisive feeling – one way or the other. At least you can cross Stanford off the list and move on. Good luck!</p>
<p>My thinking exactly. If you are going to pass on a school as obviously amazing as Stanford, you surely better look it in the eye beforehand and know what you are turning down. It would be easy to say “well why didn’t you go visit beforehand?” but whodathunk he was going to get in. I wasn’t going to spend a thousand bucks visiting a less than 1 in 10 longshot.</p>
<p>(He did say that at the start of the tour the guide asked if there were any admitted students, and he was the only one to raise his hand. The other tourees (tourers? tourists?) seemed impressed, and maybe a tad envious.)</p>
<p>I am just waiting for the decisive fit on the other side of the ledger–some Old Testament splitting of the heavens and an angelic academic choir singing C-major chords unto him so that we can step ashore.</p>
<p>Go Yankees!!</p>
<p>What school is that?</p>
<p>Well today was arts & sciences honors college day at our state u (Rutgers - this is the only place he applied and was accepted into two colleges - both engineering and A&S) and so my “soooooo not going to Rutgers, don’t want to study liberal arts…I’m going to do engineering” has done his usual 180 and wants to be a philosophy major. “Forget engineering, that is not me. THIS is me.” We had lunch with the philosophy prof on the faculty panel who is obviously brilliant and oh by the way, top in the field (in the WORLD mind you, not just this campus). I give up. Next week he’s back to another admitted students day and I remind him, it is “as an engineer.” He’d just better raise his voice about how possible is it to change schools/majors because this is going to be a bumpy ride. Where are those nice pointy children you guys mentioned? My boy, he is round round round.</p>
<p>Go Sox! :)</p>
<p>Amanda when I was talking to the philosophy professor last week he mentioned Rutgers has a tremendous philosophy department-as good as any in the country.</p>
<p>Just thought you’d like to know. ;)</p>
<p>They kept saying it’s something like #1 or #2 in the world. The prof we were with is going to Princeton in the fall as a visiting prof for a yr.</p>
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<p>UT…Just curious…did your son meet with any of the students or administrators in Stanford’s Structured Liberal Education (SLE) program?</p>
<p>Not on this trip, but SLE was one of the big draws to Stanford. He specifically wrote about it in his application essay.</p>
<p>Does anyone recall the source that allows you to look at a college , the COA, the avg salary of grads, the retention etc…
It had pie charts, and you could look at segments…I remember using it back in the fall…and forget where that was…</p>
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And did anyone else get the spam/private message trying to get your email address etc…REPORT it by clicking the red yield sign in upper rt hand corner</p>
<p>Just gonna throw this out there: Shouldn’t the dock be named “Port Indecision” and the boat be considered the decision part? That makes more sense to me.</p>
<p>UT loved your post about the heavens opening up/choir to let your kid know this is THE school he was meant to go to!</p>
<p>fogfog–hope someone’s got that site bookmarked, would love to see it again also</p>
<p>finally gettin a little decent weather today in the PNW, --and D2 wants to go–rollerskating?! oh well, will probably go ahead and get her and a friend there since even though it’s spring break she’s not been able to get together with any friends and has been working on some homework…</p>
<p>UT84321 - wow, I imagine your S is getting pressure from some to say yes to Stanford for the name only. How mature he must be to be able to look beyond the name. I will be waiting for the "splitting of the heavens and an angelic academic choir ". </p>
<p>Go Sox! yeah baby! that was a W worth waiting for. </p>
<p>Next week is sr week at S’s school with all the awards ceremonies, sr prayer service, special speakers, cpr training, etc. Something to disrupt every day. I think the school as well as the kids have decided the year is done. </p>
<p>Waiting on shore for those still at sea. Good luck with the voyage. S has a friend who decided with only several hours to spare last year.</p>
<p>Well, I admit it. Curiousity got the best of me and I opened the letters. THe one from the teacher was wonderful. Spot on description of my son and his abilities. The GC one was, to say the least, disappointing. It was a regurgitation of the “resume” he gave her (thanks to reading CC discussions-I shudder to think what it would have looked like had she not had that paper). It was very generic at best. I realize most guidance counselors at large high schools don’t get to “know” each kid due to time and responsibility constraints but…WOW…the style of the letter clearly showed she didn’t have a clue about him. Anyone here could have typed the same letter had we given you the list of his accomplishments. Makes you wonder how much this plays into an admission consideration.
Oh…and I would love to see the site with the pie charts. Might help lift the anchor from our personal SS Indecision and get us to the Decision Port.</p>