<p>Update: Accepted at Northwestern!</p>
<p>I went there my first two years. Husband went all four years. He's thrilled. We're both terrified the aid won't be enough to make it feasible. Still waiting.</p>
<p>Cogratulations! I really hope the money works out. </p>
<p>Update here; In at Berkeley! She's loving Duke though, and unless we can find some cell phone service here at Yosemite, D won't find out for a few more days.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap,</p>
<p>Congratulations on Berkeley. My S also appears to be loving Duke. We are going to have to pray over the finances if he decides to attend. He also has two letters that arrived today, one from Boston College and the other from Williams College. ( I do not know how we are going to be able to wait until Sunday for them to be opened). Stay tuned!</p>
<p>Texasmama,</p>
<p>Congratulations on Northwestern. I also hope the money work out.</p>
<p>Congratulations Shrinkrap. As for baby names, William Raspberry of the Washington Post wrote a very interesting column on the names that new AA parents select for their babies a few years ago. He was fairly (but not too harshly) critical. It got a lot of us thinking. Too many parents ARE going overboard. But, as the saying goes, "this is America."</p>
<p>Congrats to all! Harmony are the envelopes big or small??</p>
<p>Thanks Harmony. And did you know that if you put an envelope in microwave for about 45 seconds with a cup of water, it will steam open the seal?</p>
<p>Learned that in a hint from Heloise. (Smile)</p>
<p>Thanks all. The envelopes are big so I am hoping these schools would not be so cruel to write a rejection letter in a big envelope. DS will return home on Sunday so I will wait!!!</p>
<p>Congrats Shrink, Texas! Harmony, you're a better woman than I! I'll be trying T-mom's little Heloise trick the very next opportunity I get! :) </p>
<p>I know this is a college site, but I've an update on little d. We're just back from Roswell, NM (scifi heaven) where we took a peek at NMMI. It's apparently the nation's only state-supported military boarding school. The facilities, ECs and academic offerings were awesome! To my shock, baby d LOVED the school & passed the entrance exam w/flying colors. Looks like we'll be shipping off both kids come August. </p>
<p>Texasmama, the only way to Roswell is through Dallas, and BOY do y'all Texans know how to build a shopping mall! Don't know if you're anywhere in the vicinity, but WOW(!!) to the Grapevine Outlets and the Dallas Galleria! We had to buy additional luggage.</p>
<p>p.s. I don't recall who posted the link to the federal judge ruling -- but that was RIDICULOUS (in the "hip", "phat" sense of the word). Older D, who can't stand my CC addiction was reading over my shoulder until she just couldn't stay vertical. She was literally rolling on the floor laughing! Thanks for the gutbuster!</p>
<p>Congrats everyone! I have an update too. </p>
<p>D1, who as far as I can tell, just had her name invalidated by the federal judge ruling (I haven't sent her the link yet, but I know it'll make her laugh, thanks), just scored a paid graduate internship at UNC Medical Center for the summer -- emphasis on paid, Lol (works for me). </p>
<p>D2 just got accepted to Wake Forest and UVA today. </p>
<p>Very exciting time. Now, all we have to do is solve that little issue of paying tuition for D2.</p>
<p>FLVADAD,</p>
<p>Congrats all around in your house. In spite of the name thing, sounds like you, madville and the gang are having one of those "try me" moments. </p>
<p>You know the one, the part of sunday morning service, when the preacher tells the tithers "try me and see if I won't pour you out a blessing that you will not have room to receive."</p>
<p>First Mr. Tubbz, then Madville, then this thread (t-mama, shrinkwrap, harmony, and the rest of the gang) it is great to see so many blessings come flowing. Here's to hoping that everyone cup overflows!!</p>
<p>Congrats to all</p>
<p>Sybbie179 and all, </p>
<p>I agree that God is faithful and He is pouring out his blessings!!! I am so excited for all of our young people.</p>
<p>Supermom,
We Texans do love to shop. Given the financial aid packages I've seen so far, I think it may be years before I get to go to the mall again. Especially if my D goes North. she will need an entirely new wardrobe. I, on the other hand, will be getting my shoes reheeled!</p>
<p>Good Afternoon!</p>
<p>The kid just came back from "Weekend at the Mecca". Four days for the accepted Laureate Scholars at Howard. Aside from the fact that I missed her much, she had a great time!</p>
<p>She is looking forward to going to Howard in the fall. The 4 days there just validated to her that she made the right decision. : )</p>
<p>And shopping...now that we don't have to pay tuition, I told her she could spend up to 1 month of tuition on a new wardrobe lol. Ladies, start your engines!!!</p>
<p>Well, we're done. Yale was a "no-go" and H was doing the "happy dance." That's because now D's fully committed to the full ride and there's nothing getting in the way of him struttin' around the family reunion bragging about how he paid D's entire college tuition himself (the price of the deposit). <em>rolling eyes</em> REALLY, now!</p>
<p>New wardrobe will definitely get some "play" at Howard , Silvermoonlock, good choice! Super Mom, I love that dance! Enjoy! Maybe you two could send some money my way?</p>
<p>Latest update is acceptance to Pepperdine. How different is THAT from Duke? D regaled us with many tales of drunken debauchery after her weekend there, but she still feels it's number one (of 14 acceptances !) ...well I don't know if she knows about Pepperdine yet. Shhhhh!.</p>
<p>First post here for short time stalker :) What a great thread you have! I'm embarrassed to say that my D is only in middle school, but I am blessed to have found CC this early. I have learned so many new things (even though I went to college - but that was over 25 years ago). It's great to have this info ahead of time, that way i can help guide D's high school curriculum somewhat. Plus, after seeing how many colleges that people apply to, it would be nice to do some pre-visiting scouts during mini-vacations in a few years.
Quite often I would casually mention to D that she would be attending a specific HBCU when she went to college (when she was very young, she didn't realize that she actually had a choice :) )After reading CC for a few months, I started to realize that she'll probably have a better chance at $$ from many other colleges. I never realized how much tuition really was (shoot, mine was $3k/yr when I went)
Well that first post was pretty wordy!</p>
<p>Welcome aboard! But be warned, as your D approaches her HS milestones, this site will become increasingly additictive, lol!</p>
<p>Sydsim, Wow! How cool that we rated your very FIRST post here. Yeah Baby! <em>grin</em> We d'shizzle!</p>
<p>Welcome, welcome! Wish <em>I'd</em> known about CC in middle school -- although truly, things seem to change so quickly in the world of higher ed. For example, financial aid initiatives at top LACs that once shunned the middle class in favor of 1st Gens and those below the poverty line, are coming 'round again (thank GOODNESS!), but diversity-driven merit $$ appear to be dwindling alarmingly. Thus many schools listed on the financial aid thread as awarding $$ for National Merit, National Achievement AND National Hispanic scholars, now offer that money only to National Merit, or offer lesser amounts to National Achievement/National Hispanic Scholars.</p>
<p>But hey, if there's anyplace to be on the cutting edge of higher ed news, it's gotta be CC! Hope you'll become a regular.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap, congrats on Pepperdine! FOURTEEN ACCEPTANCES!! (rolling on floor laughing). No wonder you didn't wanna fess up to how many schools your D applied to! Nah really, I think that's great, but please, PLEASE give us the low-down. What was her final tally of apps and to which did she apply?</p>
<p>Thanks for the welcomes everyone. It's true that things will definitely be a lot different once D starts the college process, but thanks God that I have CC to keep me up to date! And how could I not choose this thread to begin my Cc journey? You all tell it like it is!</p>
<p>Welcome to CC sydsim. I didn't find CC until my oldest was a sophomore, and I'm sort of glad about that. Make sure you enjoy the middle school years before getting to caught up thinking about college. 3,000 for college. That would be nice!! If you go to financial aid forums you'll see tons of threads about what the expected family contribution is and how many people think it is unreasonable. If you haven't already started, make sure to save!</p>