<p>That’s a good point. While S is an excellent student with all A’s, he seems to have the knack for knowing what and when to study at the last minute and also how to garner extra points when he needs them. We have cautioned him several times that the days of extra credit or extra points, particularly when he takes a larger freshman lecture course, will most likely not exist at the college level. :eek: The longer semester course will provide more time recover if he has a misstep along the way.</p>
<p>happy64 and others… Thanks for the comments and input re:UPS(University of Puget Sound)<br>
I will probably ask for input/help/comments with finaid info as it comes in since ppl seem to be wary of the FinAid Forum on CC?</p>
<p>Fun to hear about the Willamette streakers…</p>
<p>I hadn’t even considered the quarter/semester choices…she’ll just have to make it work wherever she goes–but she is another '“down to the last minute” finishing essay/projects student and like AvonHSDad we’ve tried to repeatedly point out that WON’T work in college…</p>
<p>Great to hear about the decisions coming! Yay on Willamette (which I pronounce the <em>right</em> way, thanks to you all) and also Pomona. I have heard stories about Pomona where they come to your dorm with warm chocolate chip cookies and milk at 9pm to encourage kids to take a study break and meet their hall neighbors. I want someone to come to my house with the same amenities. How cool! And to relieve stress around finals, they bring puppies and kittens to campus for the kids to pet. Sigh!!</p>
<p>Friday S2 and I went to his UCLA Theatre Open House (surprisingly cool swag bag !) and today we spent the day at USC’s School of Theatre. At USC, we were treated to a matinee of their spring musical, “On The Town,” which was amazing. Both schools offered full days of panels, food, meeting the professors, current students and new-admits, and tours of their theatre facilities.</p>
<p>Lots of information (too much?) to digest. S2 is pretty much indulging me in attending these events, as he isn’t looking for any more input. He’s also got Carnegie Mellon among his top 3, but refused our offer to re-visit. </p>
<p>This will all come down to the bottom line, I’m afraid. He knows how anxious this makes me–the idea of telling him no based on finances–and keeps trying to reassure me that he will be fine where ever he attends. He said as soon as the decision is made, he’ll move on and get excited about his school. Sigh… for being too rich and too poor all at once.</p>
<p>Glad to hear kids making decisions. None here yet. I put my foot down and said I didn’t care which assignments she had to miss, which activities she had to miss, but I am NOT choosing her potential living arrangements for her nor her suitemates. </p>
<p>The issue is that while my d is remarkably good at certain repetitive schedules and very responsible (it is remarkable because she has Executive Functioning Disorder), she has a hard time with non repetivitive, and seemingly random super important decisions and planning. Dorm selection falls in that category along with registration for events or classes, etc. So here we have a Perfect Storm set-up for failure- lots of repetitive events and near term important events that are on her radar like class assignments, the newspaper to put out, and the tournament that starts next Sunday- and there are very, very important random events like housing selection, registration for orientation where registration for classes will happen, and the most important- college selection- and she is almost oblivious to that. </p>
<p>Just in case anyone is wondering like she was- she has to choose her living situation at one of her two potential colleges before she decides whether that is the one or else she loses out on living in an honors dorm which is one of the bigger attractions of that college to her. We can get a refund of almost the complete housing deposit if she chooses the other school.</p>
<p>“UCLA Theatre Open House (surprisingly cool swag bag!)”
I suggested to D that she choose her school based on who gives her the most clothing Got a disgusted look, but not sure this is any less rational than some of her methods. H is pushing for “who has the best food?”, which I like even better!</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 final commitments to schools are due. Down to just about 3 weeks for the decision.**</p>
<p>MM- My S took little interest in ranking potential dorms and had no interest in choosing room mates online. Knowing him, he will be happy at any dorm he lands at and I think the probability of getting along with someone assigned to be his roommate are probably just as good as trying to pick someone online. His dorm ranking was not what I would have choosen, but I am not living there. They hold a lottery at his school, and it is not first come first serve, so he may not get any dorm on his list anyway. In your case losing the honors dorm may be a wake up call to her. If you think she “needs” to be in that dorm I would go ahead and submit the deposit and choose that dorm. If she just “wants” to be in that dorm I would let her do the work on her own.</p>
<p>I too appreciate the countdown, for the same reasons.</p>
<p>My daughter has not mentioned college in days. We go to Hampshire’s accepted student day on the 16th. We talked about her making an appt with someone at H to check into disability services related to her dysgraphia (basically letting her use a computer for all assignments/assessments) and to figure out how really alternative the school is in terms of touchy feely stuff (which she hates like journalling and self evaluation, the latter she knows she has to do for each class). She has not bothered to do so as yet.</p>
<p>Have no idea where she is on the college choice, but the quarter ended on Friday and we expect there to be 3 failing grades on the report. For two she has supposedly done the work but it has not been graded yet (typical for her school unfortunately). The last class is an online math class which she told us she was waiting to concentrate on once she was done with her other online class (expected to be within two weeks). Her choices, her consequences. She asked if her admittance would be revoked for quarter grades. When I told her no, only semester as far as I know, she said ok. I asked how she felt when she asked that, was she worried? She said no, she figured she would just go to SUNY Albany as they would still take her. :eek: :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Ah well. She is an adult in 4 weeks, gotta let her do what she is going to do (in this particular case anyway). She is still happy and healthy so we’re gonna go along for the ride.</p>
<p>Grade issue with my S also. No online classes, but S is butting heads big time with his AP physics teacher. S was recently diagnosed with ADD/executive function disorder and this guy has no tolerance whatever when S leaves an assignment in his locker, etc. He was actually one of the teachers requested to submit an eval on S for the ADD diagnosis. The physologist and special ed teacher showed us the report and told us this guys dislike of S was so evident in the report and contrary to the other teachers that they were disregarding his evaluation. That and the senioritis that has set in had me real concerned what his 3rd quarter grades would be. I would not even check online when they were released for fear of what I would find. I did open them when they came in the mail. Not good, C’s and a C+ in physics but not as bad as I feared. S’s school doesn’t report quarter grades either, so that is a blessing. He will be able to pull up final year grades with good performance on the AP exams so I will start to nudge him to study for those soon. I know he has to accept responsibilty for his actions and we have stopped micromanaging but jeez louise, there are only a few weeks of school left would it hurt to buckle down a little?</p>
<p>Rats! Someone posted a neat little college decision website where you could compare several colleges and put in your priorities. Now I can’t find it. This thread is too long to go through and I couldn’t pull it up with a search. Help!</p>
<p>The visit to Northeastern yesterday was great-even the weather cooperated.</p>
<p>He’s officially a Husky-I paid the deposits this morning.</p>
<p>What a journey-ending up excited to be at the school he hated on the first visit and only applied to because his father made him-for the potential NMF Scholarship-just in case!</p>
<p>In the end it came down to the University of Rochester and NEU. I am so happy that he didn’t chose against UR but FOR NEU! I never could have seen this outcome on the November day we visited NEU in the AM and Harvard in the PM-never.</p>
Got a disgusted look, but not sure this is any less rational than some of her methods. H is pushing for “who has the best food?”, which I like even better!</p>