<p>Momsdream - I don't know why it's slower for you. It's much faster loading for me, which I really appreciate since I pay a fortune (in Germany) for my on-line time. I used to open several windows at a time, just to read one page while another was loading. Maybe it's faster for me because I'm using it while most of you are sleeping! I also like being logged in and not having to retrieve my password all the time to post.</p>
<p>Hi All, After an few days and a number of false starts, I THINK I'm back. I had blocked cookies (silly me) and could not log onto this site at all. If you get this message, it means I succeeded in unblocking the cookies...I sure hope it works. And thank you to the administrators of this site who have been very patient with my emails.</p>
<p>Glad you're on Thumper! I wonder how many others are out there frustrated and trying to log on. The boards still feel light.</p>
<p>Right, Carolyn, I've been wondering about the "junior member" for you and also Soozievt. Must be an honorific.</p>
<p>"Right, Carolyn, I've been wondering about the "junior member" for you and also Soozievt. Must be an honorific."</p>
<p>I didn't even know I was a "Junior Member until I read your post Patient! So, uh, what IS a junior member? Well, at least I get to be "young" in some aspect of my life. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>Susan -</p>
<p>You get promoted from New Member to Junior Member after a certain number of total posts. Looks like the number might be 30. I am guessing that you are soon headed for Senior Member, or Veteran Member, or Black Belt, or whatever the top posting levels are.</p>
<p>I'm wondering why the board says, "joined Oct. 04" when I recognise a few of the posters as old timers from when I started posting in June!</p>
<p>I noticed that too about it saying many of us became members in August or in October. But I think it was answered on here somewhere by Roger (one of the adminstrators of this website) that all the previously registered posters were entered in some database in August, and then after they did that, anyone who joined since August, seems to be listed as joining in October. Thus, someone like me who started reading here two years ago (when my oldest was starting her junior year and our thoughts turned to the college process), are all listed as becoming members this past August as that is when all the old timer names were entered into this new system. </p>
<p>I still don't get the junior member and all that jazz but whatever. It is a cool new format. I wish the time could be set to the correct one in any time zone but it is off by a certain number of minutes not hours, oh well.<br>
Susan</p>
<p>Took me a while to figure out that there was a NEW CC. Figured everyone was busy, but then after a few days, told my kids I LOST all my FRIENDS!!! Provided the kiddos with extreme laughter. DS pointed out that there was a new one, and I needed to figure the new one out. So far, I like!!! Well, at least as much as I have managed to decipher. I fixed my time zone, made my pages have 40 posts have not figured out the smilies...but I play around with it some more and it should be all good!!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Kat, Glad you found the "playground" again. Funny thing is I was just thinking that I hadn't yet seen you here this morning.</p>
<p>Susan, as old as I am, I'd call a 47-year-old a junior member as well. BTW: Off-Topic question: Has anyone heard from TsDad since his job change to UW-Madison?</p>
<p>The member levels increment with the number of posts. Since we didn't carry over old post histories, we all start off as New, graduate to Junior, and so on.</p>
<p>I don't like it at all. It was a pain to get on.</p>
<p>What happened to College Confidential Cafe?</p>
<p>Hi Carolyn!!! Yes I am here! Sort of!! DD#2 is making me crazy on whether she should ED or not. We were always of the opinion NOT to, due to finances or lack thereof, but....she met with admissions director (she came to visit since DD couldn't go visit) and after three hours of interviewing (it was really a girl's yak fest) she wanted her to ED. UGH. I am so torn, as is she. And it's a school where applying ED is advantageous in her particular situation (URM and recruited athlete), but again financial aid is a huge part of where DD ends up. Same as DS#1 who just graduated. I thought the school was too much of a reach, way too much, but they have contacted her and are pushing hard. As a single mom I don't have a better half to bounce this off of. DS#1 doesn't like the school (ivy league, thinks too elitist) but he's crazy anyways, he's up in MN playing football in the artic!!! DS#2 (junior) thinks its a great school, one he was planning on applying to, but for him not so much of a reach. She's in the top 5%, he's #1, she has a few APs he will have 17 when he gradutes. She finished her app, but hasn't sent it in. GC doesn't want her to, due to again financial aid. Big bro wants her to be up in MN with him, she thinks he's nuts! She is totally the beach baby, surfs, swims, dives, and loves to be in a bikini 24/7. Both were born in so cal, but that is about all they have in common!</p>
<p>I just don't know what to tell her.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>OK just went and read the ED post. Even more confused than before.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Looks like the answers to many of my existential questions are found in this thread. However, we still don't know what it takes to become a Goddess or the male equivalent (or what that is), or whether any Senior discounts are available.</p>
<p>There probably also are other unanswered questions, not to mention unasked ones.</p>
<p>Kat, that's a tough one. Does the school guarantee to meet 100% of financial need of accepted students? Could you possibly talk to the financial aid office to get at least some numbers about the average financial package make up -- grants, loans, work study, etc - before committing to ED? Maybe even do some research here on CC in the individual board on archives from last year to see if there's any sense of how ED packages fell out. </p>
<p>When is the ED deadline?</p>
<p>mtmomtok, here's the College</a> Confidential Cafe. :)</p>
<p>Carolyn-</p>
<p>school does guarantee 100% of need. I think the deadline is 11/1. But as DS#1 found out in May that there are tons of different ways of meeting that need. Out of the 6 schools he was accepted to, 1 gapped him (but I expected that one),3 met most of his need (short about 1-3k) and 2 met it completely (1 with about$10k per year in loans and 1 with $0 in loans, all scholarships and grants). He picked the last one. With an EFC of 0, that one made the most sense. And he is really enjoying the school, his classes and football. I think he was also very lucky, since he went to the school sight unseen. He could have just as easily hated it. But then again my kiddos don't really hate anything, they have always learned to make do. I was up super early just worrying about this, only to find her already up and worrying. Finances in our house affect everyone so it is a big responsibilty for her and she doesn't want to impact her younger sibs negatively. Her older bro felt the same way, thus the choice he made, based on financing.</p>
<p>Going to think about this some more.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Well, look at me -- I feel like I've finally figured some things out about this new forum and suddenly I'm posting all over the place! I will say that my favorite new feature is the breaking of long threads into individually accessible pages. My computer could never load those really long threads. I do miss the layout of the old New Messages page, though, where with one quick look you could see who posted lately on which threads.</p>