<p>I hope you got pics of you all meeting up that you can put on Shutterfly. That is great that you all met up - and best yet, that you had a great visit!</p>
<p>Sorry - yes! I didn’t make myself clear. University of Puget Sound it is. Go Loggers!
Glad to hear you know someone who loves it. We did but even so it’s still the great unknown till you get there for real! And I mean till SHE gets there! Although we live in Tx we are British and we don’t do Tx weather so well…</p>
<p>AvonHSDad - D1 is a junior at the U of Oregon which is on the quarter system. Last summer she had an internship in NYC, and this summer she returns for another one. The internships start during what would be her finals week. Her professors have been very accommodating in letting her take finals early. The internships she has had end in early/mid August. She will come home and have five weeks before school starts. After freshman year, she was a nanny, a long-term relationship she’d had with a former neighbor, so I can’t say how the job situation would go. In this part of the country, the quarter system seems to be more of the norm than semesters.</p>
<p>happy - We have a friend (also a Texan) who loves it up at UPS - she’s just finishing up her second year there.</p>
<p>Avon - The school my D will be going to (Carleton) is on quarters, and that’s one of the things we really like about it. It provides great flexibility in terms of study abroad options, and she likes the idea of the class intensity you get with quarters. And missing December in Minnesota during winter break isn’t such a bad idea either. 
My undergrad was quarters and I really liked it (though I prefer semesters for grad school as you often need more time with each course).</p>
<p>Novelisto - My D got on the FB for the accepted students and has enjoyed a bit of interaction with kids she’ll perhaps be in school with next year. “Everybody seems so nice!” is the typical refrain I hear!</p>
<p>Glad more are coming down the gangplank - congrats to O-mom and SeattleMom on the Willamette decisions - what a great school!</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 22 days when all commitments to schools are due. (Or nautically speaking, it’s time to sink or swim.)**</p>
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Sorry, we didn’t! I have a couple – mostly of my D2 goofing off when she needed a break from the grownups talking – I will post when I get home. Maybe omom can post the streakers instead. ;)</p>
<p>happy64, UPS made into the final three for my D. We liked it and know several current and alum that have only good things to say. Your D’s requirements, unsurprisingly, sound a lot like my D’s.</p>
<p>Everyone, thanks for the kind words! Now that’s behind us: to infinity, bed, bath and beyond!</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone for the quarter vs semester comments and thoughts. I don’t see a major problem with the differences as the school is obviously very successful, offers many intern and co-op programs throughout its academic colleges, offers a variety of study abroad programs, etc. The late starting date for summer jobs is the only drawback I see and that can also be managed by finding the right employer who needs help through the Labor Day holiday and into September.</p>
<p>I think its more of an issue to S but after the visit and chance to talk to current students, I am sure it will become a much lesser concern to him. His other concens are all student life related (food, dorm styles, recreational center, etc. :rolleyes:)</p>
<p>happy64, your D’s requirements are so much like mine! She chose Clark-- it has a very strong musical theatre club open to non-majors, has strength in the majors she’s interested in (pysch and poli sci), easy access to Boston and its airport, small but not teeny-tiny, traditional campus, merit aid, four seasons… the whole shebang.</p>
<p>I use interns in my small business, and my current intern is a Puget Sound girl, taking a semester off. She’s wonderful, and she LOVES her school and is counting the minutes until she gets back. She’s been lobbying one of my D’s friends, who is deciding between UPS, Lewis & Clark and Santa Cruz, to pick UPS.</p>
<p>Congrats o- mom and seattlemom- sounds like your d’s will be very happy!</p>
<p>@325: D came home pretty happy with Chicago. She arrived at midday on Thursday (her flight from Boston had problems so she arrived at 11:40am rather than 7:40am) so had missed part of the program and wound up deciding to blow off everything except the required stuff and figure it out for herself. She met with a professor in her likely major, with the undergraduate liason for that department, with the crew coach and captain, and explored campus. She said it felt like going directly to grad school, with the Core being the tie to undergraduate studies. And the food was pretty good on South Campus.</p>
<p>I’m coming to the quarter v. semester conversation a little late, but my impression is that the extra time in September can be useful for employers (at least in New England, where the traditional summer season starts closer to July 4 than Memorial Day, and can run past Labor Day). I have also known several people who got great internships for August/September because most kids on semester systems needed June/July and wanted some time off in August before returning to school. But it does sound intense.</p>
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I, yes, I have joined the facebook group for the class of 2015 for S’s college. I have found a bounty of information there. Several of the admission folks and current students answer questions posed there all the time. Tons of info on potential room mates and dorms. How can it hurt to join, you can unjoin with a click if you don’t like it. (BTW, I joined because I have one of those kids who is just taking it as it comes, he doesn’t need to socialize on facebook with kids he doesn’t know. ) whatever.</p>
<p>O-MOM - I went to HS in the early 70’s, streakers while not a common everyday occurance, were frequent enough. I still remember everyone running to the windows to watch. LOL</p>
<p>Happy64 -Hope you D loves her time at University of Puget Sound. I am from Boston and would definitely not do TX weather well.</p>
<p>I mailed off the deposit to Pomona today. A long college process, done! Now we’re realizing that move-in day is a little over 4 months away…</p>
<p>Well, I’m looking for a nice comfy chair on this cruise because I think we might be here for a while. After a great visit to Middlebury, returning late last night, we got up this morning for an Admitted Students Day at Davidson. S loved them both :rolleyes: He has no more clarity than he did a week ago. Can’t blame him. He’s headed to Duke at the end of next week so I will also be looking for the chorus of angels to appear.</p>
<p>Congrats to O-mom and seattlemom! How nice you got to meet. So glad your girls are happy. </p>
<p>325 & highhead- glad all at Chigago went well. </p>
<p>Happy64- UPS sounds lovely!</p>
<p>Calreader - Pomona sounds great. S knows he is running out of time on that choice. It is hard to schedule a visit at the last minute. Glad you are done!</p>
<p>Most ALL the parents today at Davidson said they are so ready for this to be over!</p>
<p>Calreader - welcome to dry land. I am still trying to come to terms about my S leaving the house for college in 4 months. yikes.</p>
<p>Rom, has your son been to visit Pomona yet? If he hasn’t been there, I hope he/you will have a chance to check it out. Pomona and the 5 C’s in general are pretty special. But so is everywhere else, I know :-).</p>
<p>It looks like the accepted students days at Pomona are similar to prospective students events - sit in on a class, have lunch with current students, etc. My S would have been interested in meeting more people from the admitted class, but it didn’t look like there were opportunities for that so he decided not to go.</p>
<p>Congrats Calreader! Pomona is a lovely school.</p>
<p>My daughter’s undergrad college was on a quarter system and my oldest son’s was on the traditional semester. The determining factor on who got summer jobs was more ambition then timing. My daughter always had her summer job in hand by Spring break. My son preferred to start looking in May after he was out. He was not always successful in finding jobs. My youngest, on the third hand, may go to a college that is on the quarter sytem but has co-ops so it essentially goes year round. Since the employers of the co-op students are used to their quarter timing, there is no issue on timing.</p>
<p>DD’2s school will be on quarters for her first year and will then switch to semesters. Can’t wait to see how that works. DD1’s school is also switching but she will graduate next year and miss the big switch. </p>
<p>As another poster said, quarters seem to go by in the blink of an eye so make sure your Ss and Ds are prepared. Every grade is important because there are far fewer of them.</p>
<p>Prom night here. Beautiful evening. A little warm (86) for pictures in the park but the kids indulged their parents. I went to dinner with husband and older son who leaves for Nicaragua tomorrow. Now those two are off on their motorcycles and I am enjoying the quiet–and editing pre-prom pictures–with the windows wide open and a glass of wine.</p>
<p>Hope everyone’s prom night is a perfect as this one.</p>