Thanks, 7D. CK is boarding. Yeah!!!
@doschicos - grades collapsed and then was expelled 6 weeks before graduation for drugs. He actually ended up finishing his final 6 weeks at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School as it was near home.
^ Every parent’s nightmare - and no fun for the school and teachers at the school either, or especially that student’s friends. Unfortunately, it seems like there is always that one student who self-destructs in the final semester.
So the roads just aren’t good enough to get down to D2’s school tonight. She and I are both pretty disappointed, and it’s kind of strange for her to be staying in a mostly empty dorm tonight–but she is clearly not the only boarder in this situation. Her grandparents will pick her up tomorrow morning.
Sorry to hear that Sudsie…I heard Route 78 was terrible today. I drove home from work early in the hour that it had stopped snowing.
I’m sorry to hear that, @Sudsie, but safety comes first, right? And I bet her grandparents will be thrilled to see her.
I’m sitting in the airport (an hour early) waiting for ChoatieKid, a day late but landing early. I can’t wait to get my arms around him! 
She’s home! was a longish trip both directions. Of course I won’t be home until 11:30 tonight to hug her due to work obligations, but she was very happy to be home.
So glad she’s home safely, @Sudsie! I know you’re counting the minutes. Enjoy every one of them.
Interesting and apropos discussion going on over at the parents’ forum:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1748777-hi-do-high-school-counselors-play-favorites.html
About college, but worth reading for recent BS applicants as well:
A great excerpt:
"For the general admission period, she applied to more than half a dozen schools. Georgetown, Emory, the University of Virginia and Pomona College all turned her down, leaving her to choose among the University of South Carolina, Pitzer College and Scripps College, a sister school of Claremont McKenna’s in Southern California.
“I felt so worthless,” she recalled.
She chose Scripps. And once she got there and saw how contentedly she fit in, she had a life-changing realization: Not only was a crushing chapter of her life in the past, it hadn’t crushed her. Rejection was fleeting — and survivable."
I am curious… do colleges also say that “this year was our record breaking year… we had the largest number of applicants… blah blah?” like BS does?
- bracing myself for class of 2017, 2018 (nephew) and 2019.
I think my comment from M10 says something similar, no?
@payn4ward - For the most part, yes.
@sevendad - in the example you quoted, the student had good choices - Pitzer and Scripps - both in the same consortium as Pomona. I do think the majority of students wind up loving their colleges. I can honestly think of more students I know who wind up not liking their higher rated choices than the other way around. Probably because their choice was made on prestige rather than on fit.
But, doschicos, surely prestige is NEVER a factor in choosing colleges (or BS), no? 
No problem with prestige being a factor, as long as it isn’t the primary or overarching factor.
Funny, the thing that stuck out to me in the article was that she was an Exonian with a “low 600” math sat. :trollface:
The Ides of March nearly past . . . All Quiet on the Eastern Front?
~O)
One WL at a reach for everyone school. Admit with full merit at safety (but had that at the end of Feb). Admit with doable, but not full merit, at low match.
So DD has options going into the minefield that is the last two weeks of March. I will admit that I had a moment of post prep school app PTSD after the WL but then the other came in positively the following day, and that makes me a little more secure going forward. She has choices! Yay!
The next two weeks are indeed the real minefield…unless of course you were most anxiously for the news that was delivered on Pi day.
I confess that I hate the gimmicky nature of Pi day. It’s just cheesy, baking pies and whatnot.
I have no objections to Pi, the mathematical concept. Funny that I feel I have to say that.
Oh, and while I’m on a roll, get off my lawn, you whippersnappers.