@me29034: " She is kind of giddy about the whole thing - ‘I’ve never been the smart one before’. "
This must be a throat-catching moment and situation for her. I am unfamiliar with the honor society you mention, which means nothing. Look into it, check out the links @mommdc mentioned, and talk it over with your daughter.
It is wonderful to hear that your daughter is having a measure of success in college which both surprises and pleases her. That is really great.
Thanks for the help @mommdc and your good thoughts @Waiting2exhale . It really is an amazing experience for her. This kid was a late bloomer and has just gotten stronger every year. She is really blossoming in college.
It seems like there isn’t a lot of experience with this honor society here. I did check out their website before posting the question above but there isn’t that much info. I spoke to D last night and found that she can attend a meeting on Sunday and find out more about it before actually joining and paying money so we’ll decide after that.
If any of your children are marching today I hope they stay safe.
It’s official , DS16 made the Deans List his first semester .
That is awesome news, @carolinamom2boys. And, a perfect segue for why I came to the thread today…
I have been coming to the site for the past couple of nights and basically stalking @carolinamom2boys. I have found her entries on CofC (her son’s school, abbreviated) to be so informative, and able to fill in the blanks for me and my daughter. Where I have been lost or confused, or just hadn’t known how to formulate a question that I might have needed, I found carolinamom2boys had already reached out to some other poor soul and filled in the blanks.
I came here to say ‘Thank You.’
I am happy to share in your happiness at your son’s earning a place on the Dean’s List, carolinamom2boys.
Thank you @Waiting2exhale . I feel partly responsible for increasing OOS applications at CofC. It’s a great school , a true hidden gem .
Some big news for D but with a possible glitch. She’s made it to the third and final round of the application process for a very competitive teaching residency this summer. She’ll have a 45-minute live online interview next, for her 1st choice site, but she misread the start date for the fall semester at college, and the last week of the program overlaps the first week next fall. if she’s offered this position and turns it down, she can’t opt for another site. She would only get to interview with one of the others if the 1st passes on her. Double ugh. Not sure what she’ll do-she has other options for the summer, and the other two sites for this program have much earlier end dates. Right now she’s not willing to consider missing her first week of school. But making it this far is pretty amazing-I hope that if she is offered this spot she can find a way to make it work.
An honor @sseamom - hope it all works out for her.
Mine will probably be at Wendy’s again next summer. I have tried to get her to move on putting together a resume and looking for more meaningful employment but she is totally focused on school work and there is only so much I want to nag. I think she believes that magic will happen and something other than Wendy’s will fall into her lap. On the other hand, they love her there and give her all the flexibility and hours she wants so it could be worse. They were begging her to come back and work over Christmas but she was home for such a short time that she didn’t. One more summer there will probably be enough to make her realize she needs to start putting some effort in for future years.
Congrats @carolinamom2boys Good luck to her! @sseamom We have a snow/ice day here today.
CofC should be paying @carolinamom2boys as their best professional recruiter!! Congrats to your S, Carolina, and to your D, @sseamom, and to you, @readingclaygirl!
Congrats to everyone, looks like your kids are all soaring and doing so well. After my son’s huge dip at midterms he got a such a shock and pulled his socks up rather swiftly ( although to give him some credit he said that the way of studying and the way things are done in the US are very different to what he knows from Zim). He said that now he knows how things work at a US College he set his mind to it and managed to do pretty well in his finals just missing out on the Dean’s List.
@me29034 he has also just received an invite although his is to join the Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD) Honors Society which is $45. Again I’m not sure of the benefits and will spend a little more time browsing their National site for info. It seems it’ll be good for their Resume, and to be involved in more community service stuff. Anyone else have any experience of this?
http://www.nationalald.org/achscertified/ On this page towards the bottom there is a “click here” link to An Open Letter to Students Invited to Join Honor Societies and outlines everything they need to know about Honors Societies.
Hope this helps anyone interested 
S was also invited to join Phi Eta Sigma. It’s $45 at his school. Not sure if he’ll be interested or not.
Hey there, @zimmum. Good to hear from you…good to hear your son is acclimating and meeting the challenge on all fronts.
@sseamom: The trouble with dates of some of these programs is that dreaded overlap. Here’s to hoping the first program says they want her, and then (if it is truly optimal) passes their pick in the draft to the next program - with a hearty vote of approval.
She interviewed this morning and they asked about possible overlaps. They said that it’s unlikely they would need her to stay the entire overlapping week, and she will see about arriving to Fisk late next fall-if it comes to that. Her program is so small she is willing to see if they can accommodate her. She thinks that overall the interview went well.
She’s also been asked to apply to the honors program at school-you have to have one semester behind you to do that. She had to submit a resume, recommendation and an essay explaining what she would bring to the program, in addition to having the GPA needed. I’m not sure when she will hear about that.
@zimmum Thanks for the update! Glad your son is doing well.
Good to hear from you @zimmum! I think first semester can be a difficult adjustment for many kids. I’m glad your son got to bounce back quickly!
For everyone interested in the Honor Society - My D did go to the meeting Sunday. She liked it and is going to join. I suspect the school takes a cut of the fee which may be why hers is higher that other places. She felt there were benefits to joining though she didn’t convey what they were and that there were also some service opportunities that she liked. It seemed like a fairly active organization to her.
I have a question about experiences with merit aid offered by private universities, because my D18 is starting to think about possible colleges and S16 only applied to a few in-state public colleges. When your DC were applying, did you find that private schools tended to offer substantial enough merit aid that the net tuition cost was somewhat close to the cost of in-state public universities? Or, were the private schools still much more expensive? I think she’d be applying to private universities that were similar in selectivity to the in-state schools she’d be applying to, and her grades, ECs, and SAT/ACT scores will probably put her in the top quartile of where she applies. I just don’t want her to fall in love with a private school if we find out the costs will be out of our league :(, so any advice is much appreciated!
@lifegarding DS16 applied to both Furman and Wofford. We found Wofford very generous. Look into the Wofford Scholars and Furman Scholars program. They both require recommendations by the GC in spring of their junior year.https://www.wofford.edu/scholars/http://www.furman.edu/admission/EngageFurman/FinancialInformation/Pages/Furman-Scholars-Program.aspx