@Yankee Belle- Congratulations to your daughter on graduating and becoming an SLP! She’s entering such an amazing and inspiring field.
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Posting for another:
A Bama student just found out she got a PERFECT SCORE on the LSAT…
Less than 0.1% of all LSAT test takers earn a perfect score.
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I posted the above last October.
Well, earlier this month she was accepted to Harvard Law! Congrats to her!!
And congrats to Yankee Belle’s daughter and best wishes to her and her future husband
Wow, that’s really impressive. RTR!
A Bama senior is heading to Harvard med school this fall! She’s been accepted into their super-competitive MD/PhD program. Roll Tide!
Been waiting four years to post this.
My UAH son has been accepted to Bama’s masters in finance program. He is just thrilled! First thing he said after reading the letter was that he needed to register so he could get football tickets!
Bama has always been his dream school. Looking forward to lots of ROLL TIDE this year … and always!
So happy for him, @momreads!
Good for him. ROLL TIDE ROLL!
My Bama boy landed a job as a software engineer with Capitol One in Richmond, VA. This is our first child and my wife and I kinda feel like one down two to go. Lol.
^ Fantastic!
@docndonna congrats to your son. Its a beautiful campus and a great place to work. Cap 1 really does some great software innovation.
Does she have any study suggestions for her fellow UA classmates?
To study for last that is and admission to Harvard. Any tips would be appreciated.
@ccmom11 can you clarify? What are you asking?
@mom2collegekids the perfect lsat scorer from UA - wondering if the student has any tips on studying/practicing the exam. Thank you!
@ccmom11 I don’t think she posts here on College Confidential
I thought I ‘bragged’ on this thread, but I see I have not.
DD graduated on time (civil and architectural eng, double major) last May and is in a job she loves!
Our family is very appreciative that she had Presidential Scholarship, $10K Engineering Scholarship, and music scholarships/stipends.
UA provided many opportunities to her - she was in STEM MBA until she decided if she was going to do graduate school it would be in her eng field; she had an opportunity to save time on the Master’s in Eng with signing up for the graduate course electives and doing the extra work (she decided she wanted to graduate on time). She was in the Million Dollar Band for 4 years - so many opportunities that most people’s pocketbooks couldn’t pay for - all the games/championships with all accommodations/transportation/meals/uniform and much gear paid for by UA. Had room in her schedule her last term to be in concert band and in the top group for non-music majors she was first chair and concertmaster; had several solos on the final concert.
We are so happy and proud of her accomplishments and the woman she is!
https://manthiram.mit.edu/people
Scroll down to the MIT PhD students. Kindle is a Bama grad. Some of our kids knew her when she was an undergrad at Alabama.
I teased her dad several years ago… Kindle is so awesome Amazon named a device after her. 
One of these students is the child of a friend. Two are heading to med school in the fall. I hope that their company, Ortho Screws, succeeds. Great idea for a product!
Hard to believe it’s been five years (!) since my son graduated from his small private high school and headed to Tuscaloosa for Alabama Action. At the time, I hoped he would enjoy his studies there, make a few friends, and if he decided to complete his education at UA and not transfer back to an in-state school, that he would be able to find a good job somewhere in the South, as I felt it was unrealistic for him to think he could come back to Philadelphia and compete with all the new engineering grads in this region (Penn, Penn State, Pitt, Drexel, Lehigh, UDel, Temple, Rutgers, and on and on) with a UA degree.
In spite of my strong encouragement, he did not start applying to jobs senior year - was too busy with his studies and his Big Al duties and wasn’t sure what he wanted to do after he graduated. He ended up moving home in June after taking and passing his FE exam in Alabama and was just offered his dream job as a mechanical design engineer for a prestige architecture/engineering firm in the city with clientele all over the US. Pay is good, and when he asked if there was room to negotiate, he was told that they start all their entry-level engineers (unless they have master’s degrees) at the same salary and base future raises on performance. It’s a good salary, regardless, but graduating with no debt (and a little savings from his co-op and Big Al gigs), made the choice so much easier. To be able to pursue what you love rather than what you’re compelled to by financial pressures is one of the great gifts UA has given many of our children, and my family will forever be grateful.
So don’t let anybody tell you that passing on the Ivy or “prestige school” for financial reasons will hold your student back. If they have the smarts and ambition for one of those schools, they will be offered every opportunity to shine and excel at Alabama. I am in awe of the young man my son has become. Forcing himself out of the bubble he was raised in was the best thing that ever could have happened for him. Only in my wildest dreams could I have imagined what an amazing five years he would have in Tuscaloosa. He graduated with a red cap, completed a co-op and an internship, earned several awards - both academic as a part of the Spirit Squads - and had the proverbial “time of his life.”
We will miss the school (and Big Al most of all!), but we know he is well prepared for whatever the future holds.
Roll Tide, my friends!
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