<p>TessaR ~ Congrats on Harvard!</p>
<p>**madbean - Congrats on USC!</p>
<p>TessaR - Congrats on Harvard!**</p>
<p>Woohoo TessaR on Harvard!
aria I think I missed the congrats on MIT a while back!</p>
<p>We are going to have lots of Boston kids in this class. :)</p>
<p>Hurray for the newest decisions! And to the remaining parents - just a few more days and it WILL be over.</p>
<p>emily - that is so funny. I did an English BA from '80-'84 and worked at Regenstein for a year after that. Did we intersect? H was there '78-'82 and another year working in a lab.</p>
<p>Tessa- congrats on Harvard!</p>
<p>Congrats Mom2and on the WL nod! That is definitely the first one I’ve heard of. I hope it bodes well for those us on holding out for the waitlist.</p>
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Congrats to all the cool things happening! 
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<p>We are still on land, though I have asked D a few times if she was sure. Money has been paid etc. and she has notified the other schools and she is still happy! :D</p>
<p>We were very surprised at the school she picked <a href=“BU”>color=red</a>[/color] since she has been in love with Northeastern for the past year! </p>
<p>(I’ve been reading how to format)</p>
<p>Did anyone read this item…interesting.</p>
<p>[When</a> Families Ask Colleges for More Money - Admissions & Student Aid - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“When Families Ask Colleges for More Money”>When Families Ask Colleges for More Money)</p>
<p>I had read an item in the NY Times about BUs finaid policies and wooing students. I guess it’s prevalent?</p>
<p>Thanks, Pepper03. 
Yes, my S is happy to be in Cambridge/Boston next year!</p>
<p>OK
I am going to say it…and flame away…</p>
<p>I think its wrong to join the 2011-2015 site for our group and not participate/put up pics…</p>
<p>There I said it.</p>
<p>OK OK So your teen doesn’t want his/her pics up…then don’t join…
But why do we have more than 40+ members and less than 30 albums???
It creeps me out.</p>
<p>If it is an issue of “privacey” --than consider how those who did participate have put their families, vacations, and student’s pics on a site for our cruise group to “SHARE”…</p>
<p>Not sharing your lives and yet being on the site is creepy.
It’s like being a snoop into another family— instead of a friend.</p>
<p>Emmy, I was there in 88-89. When I read Regenstein I broke out in a sweat. Thanks for that. ;)</p>
<p>fogfog: Interesting article about FA policies. I have to say that I was very surprised how colleges were willing to grant FA appeals based on higher FA awards from competitor colleges. This worked out great for us (and I am eternally grateful for this), but I had no idea that this was how FA worked when we were applying for aid a few months ago!</p>
<p>So d who is still undecided called both schools today and talked to people. Even though she didn’t really like the answers of one school, she can’t decide. In fact, she was wailing about how she can’t even decide what is most important to her. She says she is feeling like she is trying to find reasons to not choose one of the schools and she doesn’t like that. </p>
<p>I think her main problem is the one school has large lecture classes for at least some of her classes. However, she does like the greater choices of majors and minors, what she perceives as greater chances for a social life, and the food. The other school is much smaller with no very large classes. SHe didn’t like the answers about social life she was given. SHe did get a call back from the admissions counselor with an additional merit award of 4K. It really doesn’t matter since she would have that college funded by the VA. </p>
<p>She seems to think that I think college #2 is better. I don’t think that at all. I have pointed out that school 2 is more Greek than school 1 but it does have smaller classes. School 1 is further away from where we will be living. School 2 has less classes per smester since they also have an interim term. BUt school 1 will give her more credit for her previous work so that should lessen her load. Can I tell you that I really don’t have a preference? I don’t. Tomorrow is decision day for her since she needs a name for her graduation program which needs to be sent in on Thursday. I will let her wait till Thursday morning if she really wants to. If she chooses school 1, all we have to do is schedule orientation. IF school 2, we have to cancel deposits at school 1 and I am not even sure what we need to do with school 2- just send in or also send deposit.</p>
<p>THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL!!! Nerves and second guessing have evidently been overcome. </p>
<p>Not sure how or when it happened but I was looking at flannel sheets on Land’s End and wondering about whether I should buy twin or extra large twin and DS said “Can you buy both and return the ones that are wrong since we won’t have my dorm assignment until July and different dorms have different size beds?” Very casual-just like that-done!</p>
<p>I want to be that mellow when I grow up!</p>
<p>Military Mom: I really recommend the college pick . us (no spaces) website. It helped my D figure out just how important those little distinctions were to her and added them up objectively without her having to hold it all in her head. </p>
<p>Yay, momofzach! Sometimes a little shopping therapy does the trick!</p>
<p>emily: Did you know that Regenstein Library was built on the former site of the Chicago Hospital for Incurables…? I always thought that was SO apt.</p>
<p>Hello all! I’m traveling this week so need to go back and read the last few pages but I have a question and was hoping someone could help.</p>
<p>Most of you know that DD has had a change of heart and has just recently applied to 4 schools in Texas. I don’t expect that she will hear from any of those schools before May 1st. I’m trying to figure out what I should do at her original school in the meantime. She confirmed her admission with them months ago, did housing selections and paid a $300 deposit. I know I will lose the deposit but is she under some obligation to tell them she isn’t coming before May 1st? I just have this fear that she will visit these Texas schools May 5th & 6th) and then decide that UC isn’t so bad after all. </p>
<p>Any advice is, as always, appreciated!</p>
<p>Hooray for momofzach’s son and the mailed check! </p>
<p>There generally is a better selection of extra-long twin bedding in the summertime as students get ready for college. I think right now is a bit early for the best selection. My oldest has some bamboo sheets from BB&B that he absolutely loves. He says they’re very soft and comfortable. I sent him off with that pair of sheets and a different brand, but the BB&B ones go from the bed to the washer and dryer and straight back on the bed. </p>
<p>fogfog, thanks for sharing the article. It was very interesting. My son got an email today from a school telling him they are giving him an additional merit scholarship. It was nothing he had contacted them about. I think that with him not tendering an admissions decision yet, they figured they would send some more money his way to see if it would sway his decision.</p>
<p>Hi everybody,</p>
<p>I have much to catch up with and so much to write but it’s now 11:23 pm. My computer crashed on Monday, April 11 right before I left with my S for admitted students days at brown (ADOCH). Just before it crashed, I saw a weird message pop-up stating that my computer would no longer be functional. I cried out to my S to come check the message and he told me he’d never seen anything like it before. Then the screen went black. When I returned from Brown, I could get the apple logo page but the pinwheel would just turn. I just couldn’t reboot no matter what I tried. Took the computer into an Apple genius bar and they couldn’t get it to reboot either. Everything on my computer had to be erased. Needed a new hard drive. They did assure me that it wasn’t a virus. I picked it up just before leaving for Easter at my mom’s. Thankfully, I had backed up everything but for the last month. But neither my H nor I have had the time to “reconstruct” everything. My mail acct ends on March 26th, the last day I backed up our files. The whole thing is a bit of a mess. Our address book is MIA. I’ll have to figure out how to retrieve it, if I can.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’ve been in phone contact with Pepper, who lives in my home state where my mom and in-laws continue to live. Told her I was having major CC withdrawal. I’ll need to spend some time bringing myself up to speed on this thread. Excited to catch up with all your news. In the meantime, here is mine: my S absolutely loved Brown at ADOCH. While he was sad to decline certain acceptances – UChicago in particular (and I was sad to see UPenn go)-- he’s thrilled to be a member of Brown’s Class of 2015! He sent in/emailed all his notifications when he returned home last week, so it’s now official.</p>
<p>Emmybet, I owe you an email. Will write tomorrow.</p>
<p>Very glad to be back!!!</p>
<p>proudmomof2, I just saw your post. I think I’d just sit tight for now on the original school. She doesn’t even have admission offers and financial aid offers from the 4 schools to which she applied at the last moment. In her situation it seems fine to keep her present status at the original school.</p>
<p>sblue - that’s what I think also but I guess just wanted someone else to say it…lol. </p>
<p>Such great news over the last few days - it took me a little while to get caught up. Congrats to all who have disembarked. I can almost guarantee I’ll be the last, lonely parent on the boat due to DD’s last-minute change of heart. Did I mention that I get seasick? ugh.</p>