<p>Emmybet - Bluejr’s prom date last year wore a black and white dress. The corsage was white with black and white ribbon. It was beautiful! For mom’s of boys who will be at prom this year, might I suggest having a tiny safety pin so you can help adjust the corsage if it goes on the wrist. Bluejr’s date last year had a tiny wrist and we had to do a quick fix to help it fit. Luckily they started at our house so I was able to run and get one. If he had given it to her anywhere else he would have had to done some quick thinking.</p>
<p>The girls here all take “presentation bouquets”-oh dear the money this is going to cost him-he better find a job ASAP doing anything.</p>
<p>:( I’m afraid the SS Indecision is steering further and further away from shore! Someone please let me off!</p>
<p>D returned late last night from Boston. She *loved *MIT, and went on and on about how down-to-earth and friendly the kids were. She went on to talk about her quick excursion to Harvard with a couple of other MIT/Harvard cross-admits – and *loved *that too. Then, she started talking about how great USC was when we visited last month, and…</p>
<p>My head is spinning.</p>
<p>But, now for some of the “dirt” being dished out at MIT (mainly directed towards Harvard):
- “Harvard kids are snobby”
- “Harvard kids have a lot of respect for the intelligence of MIT kids”
- “MIT has the best parties”
- “MIT girls are annoyed by the Wellesley and BU girls who come to MIT parties (and steal the men!)”
- “Harvard kids are not allowed to attend MIT parties if they are wearing their Harvard sweatshirts. But kids from other colleges (BU, BC, Tufts, etc.) are welcome to wear their college sweatshirts.”</p>
<p>D will visit the Princeton and Harvard events later this week. Can’t wait to hear what kind of dirt they’ll be dishing out ;)</p>
<p>dignified1, MIT has a rivalry with Harvard, but Harvard doesn’t know about it. ;)</p>
<p>^ That is all so funny.</p>
<p>When we were there the talk was that MIT boys dated girls from the other schools AND that no one dated the MIT boys…
How can those both be true.
MIT loves to say that the H people have to hire the MIT grads because they are smarter.</p>
<p>Cool thing is that either H or MIT…they can take classes at both schools.</p>
<p>When our kiddo was at the U…the one group the kids all didn’t like were the Ps…saying they were “arrogant”…the whole dish thing is really funny ;o) because most of these kids all applied to the same schools and many were cross admits…
Ah… collegiate “propoganda”</p>
<p>As for prom expenses</p>
<p>tickets are running about 75$ a couple
limos are running about $75 pp for a party of 10 for a stretch for 6 hrs
flowers $35 for a girls coursage, $18 for boutinere
Dinner
After party plans
Dress, shoes
Tux</p>
<p>whew!!!</p>
<p>Pepper03 – Your son and dances is like my daughter. In middle school she went to <em>one</em> dance, the last of the year, and nobody recognized her in a dress! H.S. she didn’t attend <em>any</em> her first two years…except a couple of dinner-ish ones that are pretty much compulsory. For junior and senior years that girl is out shaking a tail-feather at every event possible and having a grand time. She is beyond confident now and I think sports had a lot to do with it. </p>
<p>Is it getting empty on the ship now? I’m off on a cruise on Wednesday…and I think I’ll be wondering from <em>my</em> ship what’s going on with this one.</p>
<p>I am right there with amanda, hanging over the railing of the SS Indecision. Bluejr is not however on the Ledo deck in the conga line. He’s having a pretty hard time. He’s down to two, went to revisits at each school, and just can’t rip off the band-aid. I’m trying to stay out of it and put Bluedad on duty. Both are excellent choices, both have drawbacks…EVERY school does. If you sit and think of a schools flaws in a way to compare you’re going to go crazy, and have a hard time moving forward. I wish he would just think about where he would be happy and jump!! I don’t know why I expected anything different. This is a kid that takes four months to pick out a pair of shoes! :-/</p>
<p>Welcome to another week aboard the USS Indecision, fellow passengers! It seems that our son has purchased a ticket for the looonnnngggg trip, while others have booked shorter excursions. I’m just hoping that he doesn’t get too comfortable aboard the ship and forget to get off!</p>
<p>We’re off to Duke next weekend for an accepted students program. That should be our last visit. We’re also still waiting for scholarship information ftom one school. After the last visit and financial pieces are in place, I hope the decision will come quickly. Well, I can dream. His older brother kept us hostage on the USS Indecision - Class of 2008/2012 until the last possible day. When the ship was in danger of sinking, he made a leap for shore. Only got a little bit wet. The water was lapping at our ankles while he vascillated between his two final choices. Once he made the leap, all was well.</p>
<p>Congrats, Pepper! It sounds as if your son has made a great choice! I know what a good feeling it is to hit dry land! Can’t wait until we can join you on shore.</p>
<p>Is anyone concerned about their S or D choosing the “name” or “prestige” of a school over fit or is it just me?</p>
<p>Perhaps some levity will ease the sea sickness…</p>
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<p>Hello everyone!</p>
<p>Back from MIT Campus Preview Weekend last night.
All I can say: wild, lol!
Even S, who was looking for some action, was surprised by the extent of the party scene/frat system etc.
He forgot that there were no classes on Saturday, and wished he could have attended more of them.
Beautiful campus (my first time in Cambridge), weather was great, met lots of interesting people, and saw lots of dorms.
At least 3 others kids from S’s high school were attending as well, so they were comparing notes.
S had his birthday on Friday, and during one of the student-only event, the admission director had all the kids with CPW birthdays come up on the stage, so every one would know. I thought that was very sweet.</p>
<p>On to Princeton next Thursday…well, S is. I am not sure yet.</p>
<p>I can’t keep up with all that happened on CC while I was away, so heartfelt Congrats to everyone who made their college decision and or received $$$!!!</p>
<p>
haha. Way back when I attended an all women college MIT frats used send a nice bus out to pick us up and bring us to the frat parties. They served refreshments and cocktails on the way over. Free admission and free drinks at the party. 
Of course that was a long time ago when there weren’t too many women at MIT. I doubt they are still busing women into the parties now a days.</p>
<p>So, last week, DS made his decision to attend and play for the nearby LAC; the coach invited him to come to a spring scrimmage game this past Saturday. We went to watch. He got to be on the sideline with the team; there was also another high school senior there from the Houston area, so they chatted, and then some of the current players were also talking with them during the game. Afterwards, we all got to have lunch in the campus dining hall; DS sat at a long table with the other players, while myself, DH, and the other dad sat with the two coaches and the athletic trainer. Kind of nice to let the boys “have a chat” with the players, while the “grown-ups” could talk separately. (Side note: they have some VERY good pizza in that cafeteria!) </p>
<p>Then we visited the bookstore and got DS a new t-shirt and one for little brother, car window stickers for all. DH and I are holding off on buying shirts just in case they have a team fundraiser when the season starts. </p>
<p>DS also found out that the dorm he signed up for is “the” dorm to be in, with this team; even the coach said that the players who live in a different dorm will congregate in DS’ dorm. </p>
<p>Admitted student day is this coming Saturday; we inquired of the coach whether we should go. He sort of shrugged his shoulders. I said we didn’t need the sales pitch because we had already “bought the car.” The trainer said a sales pitch is definitely what you get; they’re working on the undecideds. So, I think we’re going to skip it.</p>
<p>Lol, mamom! :)</p>
<p>cgpm59: Congrats! Are you going to reveal the name of the school?</p>
<p>ohiomom - S will be there Thursday & Friday. PM me if you want to meet; I’ll be there on Friday.</p>
<p>Oregonianmom – I posted it over on the “drum roll” thread, but I guess I never did over here: it’s Southwestern Univ. in Georgetown, Texas. Their mascot is the Pirates. :)</p>
<p>A very nice school, that deserves a bigger rep than it has.</p>
<p>Congrats to your son, cg! </p>
<p>I got my sticker, too!! Boychild’s school was kind enough to send one in the letter acknowledging they got his deposit.</p>
<p>“Is anyone concerned about their S or D choosing the “name” or “prestige” of a school over fit or is it just me?”</p>
<p>For some, perhaps. But, for my D it is probably going to come down to “social fit”. She knows that she can’t go wrong academically with any of her schools, so she just wants to find a good group of kids that she can relate to. Problem is, all of the kids she has met thus far are “really cool”.</p>
<p>@aria, it sounds like your kid is on the same college tour schedule as mine. Are you finding that it is not so uncommon to find kids who were accepted to multiple top 10 schools? D certainly met quite a few of them during her visit to MIT. Many were accepted to at least 2 or 3 of the HYPSMC selection of schools, and, contrary to the propaganda being espoused on other threads, very few of them have been URMs.</p>