<p>I did say what % of the EA applicants are accepted on post 86.</p>
<p>You will have to contact admissions to see what they will do to defray cost of driving.</p>
<p>Loook up the fares for the dates (and surrounding dates) you are travelling for spring break to the major NE cities near the schools you plan to see. You can reroute the schools you see based on the cheapest place to fly into-out of. You can do this yourself-- don’t need the cc parents to do this for you :)</p>
<p>** add - and Airtran/Southwest will let you book one way- so you could fly into one city and out of another. Report back after you have researched this. And consider ALL the airports Airtran flies into. So for instance in NY, it might be way cheaper to fly into HPN than LAG. Car rentals are way cheaper out of HPN than LAG too.</p>
<p>I’m going to talk to my father and I’m going to tell him to read the last few pages of his thread and then see what he says. If he still refuses to fly, I’ll call Hiram and see if they give us money for driving. I will also call Knox and see if they give admitted students reimbursements for flying.</p>
<p>I think you make a much more compelling argument if you say to your dad “I researched this and here are the flights/fares I found and car rental prices, with discount rates, that I found”. To me, shows initiative and makes a much more compelling argument. My s’s learned to do this and are now masters at finding deals on the web. I turn to them to help me out, and I am pretty darned good at it myself!</p>
<p>If YOU can make a compelling argument to your dad that YOU researched this and found the BEST fares on xyz dates into airport X and out of airport Y with a rental car discount rate of XXX and that compared to the gas cost of XXX and wear and tear on the car, and that the college will also contribute to the travel cost, then that may carry more weight than " Hey dad- read this and look what these other parents say". Dont forget to look at hotel/motel rates too. I would guess that a school offering to help with air travel will also help with gas travel. Don’t know if the amount will be the same though. You will have to present a cogent case.</p>
<p>And btw, if you had not crossed off your list one particular school that was originally on it and you had scheduled a local interview, I would have declined if I’d been asked to do the interview, deferring to another local alum interviewer who has not had cc post contact with you :)</p>
<p>I have no idea what your talking about. The only recent school I crossed out was Sarah Lawrence and I already interviewed with them. But, I always knew you weren’t fond of me :)</p>
<p>No need to know what school, though it was high on your list many iterations ago (and there were a lot of iterations). And it has nothing to do with like or dislike. It has to do with reasonable/unreasonable. Whoever used the word saga was spot on. It is a saga.</p>
<p>If I didn’t want to help you I wouldnt be spending all this time here, now would I? You seem to have a lot of need for assistance.</p>
<p>Well, I am guessing it’s Vassar from a past thread I just read. And the only time I ever remember Vassar being on my list was freshman year. My list has changed a lot since I first started researching colleges. However, a friend at my school is applying to Vassar but I’m not sure if she is interviewing. If she does, I’ll ask her to tell her “interviewer” I had said hello. :)</p>
<p>And other CC members have thought, “I’ve already told you this before, but you ARE amazing!” and “I have been following this thread and I am very happy for you! You are pretty amazing earlycollege and your initiative and determination will get you far.”</p>
<p>I don’t know any other peers who care about college as much as I do even the top students in my class. But we will see if my college search payed off really soon :)</p>
<p>Good. You passed the research test. So now go research your travel plans as was suggested. You have the skills to do this. Use them. And yes, you sure are amazing alright…</p>
<p>So are you Jym, just as amazing in my book…</p>
<p>I do hope you have your dad read this entire thread. He will be most enlightened. Then again, probably not. Good day. I hope you appreciate all the time and assistance that has geen given to you here, whether we “like” you or not. You have needed, and received, a lot of handholding, in all your personalized thread sagas/melodramas.</p>
<p>Why do I all of a sudden have a vision of ec giving the Sally Field Oscar acceptance speech? “You like me, you really really like me!”;)</p>
<p>There is also a difference between trying to help someone and being rude. Some posters (jkiwmom, mspearl, northeastmom, etc) have not only been encouraging but very helpful as well. Jym and I go way back everyone, to the days when I wanted to go to Simon’s Rock. I will say that is one thing I am very glad I never did. And I have done so much research it’s not even funny. CC has helped me a lot, but has made me realized how lucky I am at the same time. My parents would be happy I’m making the initiative to ask questions if they read this thread, thank you!</p>
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Yes , this is true, ec. And all the help with all the travel plans was helpful. The snarky comment about saying “hi” to a college applicant was indeed rude. Sometimes help is not always what you want to hear at the time. Like the advice about Simons, or how to study for SATs, or get involved with the local Holocaust museum, or what classes to take, or what schools to consider/not waste your time with, of how to coordinate travel plans etc etc etc. So glad you appreciate all the help.</p>
<p>Telling someone you would decline to interview them, is very rude. I, on the other hand, was being sarcastic. And I’m not talking about this thread in particular, but since I started posting on CC. There is a difference between trying to help someone and give positive advice and trying to help someone with very mean and hurtful postings.</p>
<p>EC, I mean it sincerely when I say I think theatre is PERFECT for you. You have a natural flair for the dramatic.</p>
<p>I appreciate your enthusiasm for my future acting career GA2012Mom. I will be sure to give Jym a shout out when I’m on Ellen.</p>
<p>You TOTALLY misunderstand, ec. I would have declined to interview you because I would know who you are, just as any of our friends who know our sons had to decline interviewing them. An interviewer cannot interview someone they know.</p>
<p>Ellen, no. Hee Haw, maybe.</p>