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3 hours ago, PronghornD said:
Our child is a top music composition student at their undergraduate school, attending on a full tuition scholarship. A professor has said, "A student like you should not have to pay for their education." I'm looking to help make that a reality!
Please don't criticize me for trying to help my young adult with things they should be mature enough to do independently. Each student is special in their own way, and some require more assistance than others.
I have no concrete information for you as I have not yet BTDT, but want to commend you for helping your young adult navigate new and treacherous waters!! I have never understood those who offer blanket admonitions to those of us who help our young people with these investigatory tasks if the student is asking and/or willing to have the assist!
I also have a music student in much the same scenario as well as a current junior non-music who has been told over and over again that she should not pay a penny for graduate school with her resume. We are just beginning the research now that my last undergrad has started his freshman year. I will follow this thread with much interest!
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1 hour ago, Melissa Louise said:
Face yoga.
gonna go google! Thanks! 😊
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You know, the getting-older-saggy/double-chin/jowls situation. Is there anything that anyone has had successful experience with other than plastic surgery? Wondering if I should bother trying or just give up the good fight?
Losing weight didn't have the magical effect I'd hoped. Now I just look sort of emaciated under my eyes but still with a slight double chin. Phenomenal.
It's only just starting, but I imagine it'll be fast to settle in nicely. Figure if there's something non-surgical, I should probably find out about it now.
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Tattoo place with good reviews for piercings - that's where you want to take her. Definitely go to a tattoo place.
Make sure she is aware that the care goes a LOT longer than an earlobe piercing. A LOTTTTTT longer. It will be sensitive for a while - in the shower, changing clothes, someone leaning in to give her a hug... surprising ways she didn't realize the top of her ear would be in contact with people/things.
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Agreeing that the dresses don't give the same connotations that they would have seemed to signal decades ago. Girls and boys are very different-minded regarding clothing nowdays, and it's mostly good news. 😄 Yay for body confidence and feeling good about yourself!!
I think the dresses are super cute - love all the colors and love the silly/stripper heels and love the sneakers too! It all just looks like goofy, teenage fun to me.
A couple of girls I know who are HOCO age wore seamless boyshorts beneath their dresses, so I'd guess that's what a lot of them are doing so they can dance and move freely.
Otherwise, I don't know how they dance or walk up stairs in those dresses! lol They are really, really short!
(and, while I do love the HOCO dresses that are popular, I do wish there was more room allowed for girls who *don't* want to show that much skin to be as easily appreciated... but I know it's often an awkward struggle for them and that bums me out. Freedom of choice should equal... y'know... freedom of choice. Another young friend of our family is wearing a dress that I KNOW she is not comfortable in just to fit in with her friends which, to me, goes completely against this freedom of fashion thing!)
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17 hours ago, LinRTX said:
I am so glad the professor agreed. Just to tell you my nightmare story of professor's changing dates. My daughter was in her last semester of her RN degree with a Saturday clinical. My older daughter was getting married and the wedding was planned on the Saturday of spring break. This daughter was maid of honor. Guess what. Just two weeks before the wedding, the professor asked the class which Saturday of spring break would they prefer -- the one that had been scheduled all semester or the other one. Yep, the class decided to change the Saturday clinical was occurring, and my daughter got docked on her grade for missing clinical for her sister's wedding. Totally unfair.
...there are no words. seriously.
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1 minute ago, Carrie12345 said:
They can have “standard” or long hair, but the recessive long hair is often considered a fault. Their parents are one of each, so momma had that gene somewhere! Their whole litter was a mixed batch.
Fascinating!! Well, “fault” or not, he sure is adorbs!
Have fun & I hope Day 2 doesn’t bring more energy! 😄
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zomgosh 🥰 they are both so cute.
Likely a stupid question here, but why is dean so much floofier than sam? I’d thought GSDs were pretty standard on fur length/texture - are some longer-haired than others? Or will sam catch up with his brother on the floof factor at some point?
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Knock me over with a feather, but the professor agreed. It’s still not ideal, but at least workable now.
But the needless stress! 🤯DD leads many groups and knows she can’t change the time of a meeting by 30 minutes because it would wreck everyone’s schedules. Sometimes it just seems like professors think they can herky-jerky with dates and assignment changes and everyone is supposed to jump through hoops. I’d get it if it were some kind of error, but in this case the prof just took it upon herself to change things to “make it easier” and wound up making it harder on my kid in particular.
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On 10/5/2022 at 8:09 AM, plansrme said:
So many of their big beginnings are our small endings.
👏 absolute truth, right there. 👏
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This is a JAWM, btw 😁
Honestly - it shouldn't be allowed. DD is one of those students who reads the syllabus voraciously. She has a jammed-packed schedule and has to make sure things line up *just so* in order to get everything done.
She's in an online class this semester and their midterm was supposed to be the third week of October. DD mapped it out so that she could study during the early part of that week and take the test that Friday.
She is traveling out of the state with some friends the second week of October (and they've busted their backsides to get ahead in their classes and align everything perfectly to do this trip).
Today, she gets an email where the professor decided that having a midterm test and a discussion post due the same week was "too much" (🙄) and so moved the test to the 2nd week of October, leaving the discussion post for the 3rd week.
DD has zero time to study THIS week because of previous obligations and will be on the road with questionable wifi service during the week of the exam. The exam will be 1.5-2 hours long, so she will need steady wifi. She has data on her phone she can use, but hasn't connected to it for 2 hours before & never in the area where they will be traveling. (This class has one of those formats where, if the test shuts down, you canNOT re-open it... don't even get me started on that ridiculousness)
She's emailing the professor, but it just annoys me to no end that the professors expect these students to have the foresight of gawd-almighty and always turn things in days ahead of time in case of technical difficulty - but then will just change test dates willy-nilly for an online course! If the professor says no to DDs request (she's requesting to turn it in the first day of the 3rd week of October, which means she'll have to study while on her trip - not ideal, but doable), DD will have to reschedule her whole trip around this test - or just be the only one in her friend group who doesn't go after weeks of planning and class-preparation.
Incredibly frustrating. Blah.
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2 hours ago, madteaparty said:
Oh my gosh, same thing for my DS. I think it’s the only school he wrote a personal “sorry…” email. And he didn’t have as much interaction with admissions as your DS seems to have had.
Yes! lol DS2 sent it in as soon as he was feasibly sure he wouldn't be going there because he was hoping to free up a spot for someone on the waitlist - but it took him a solid day to be able to do it because he felt attached to the admissions person - especially after meeting in person, haha! Was a nice time to talk about how "easily replaceable" he was in this context, though, and that the admissions person wouldn't take it personally. (and, thank goodness, he's really very, very happy where he is, so no regrets!)
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On 10/5/2022 at 10:17 AM, bibiche said:
@threedogfarm Thank you, particularly for the info about the dorms. I have a friend who taught there and faculty housing was either on or practically on campus, so I just assumed student housing was too. Good to know!
They have *very* recently built a couple newer dorms on campus. When we visited, none of the students mentioned being off campus, so definitely something to ask about specifically as it might have changed over the years.
I deleted my original response because I accidentally added TMI personal information and didn't have time to just remove that section. 😄
I visited with my DS2 and the campus is absolutely stunning. Agreeing about the academic intensity - we very much also got that vibe from the students and faculty there. The alumni list from Swarthmore is impressssssive.
The faculty were THE most engaged, excited faculty we came into contact with. With the entire campus being undergraduates, there were tons of opportunities presented for undergrads without having to compete with grad students for time or attention from the faculty, which was a plus.
The vibe was academically competitive, I would say. We visited two Ivies and got much more of a collaborative energy from those than we did at Swarthmore. Not a bad thing, per se, just something we picked up on. Many students thrive with that kind of energy!! 🙂
So: lovely campus; sharp, interesting students; engaged, excited faculty. The little town directly connected to campus is like something out of a Hallmark movie. If you visit, stay at the Swarthmore Inn - it's perfect!! There is a train station directly connected to campus that gets kids to Philly, NYC, etc very quickly. Super convenient.
In the end, my DS2 chose elsewhere, but we thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Swarthmore.
Last year, iirc, their overall acceptance was 5.8% with a 3% acceptance rate in the regular decision portion. The admissions department REALLY reads those essays. They're divided up into regions and they get to know "their kids" pretty darn well. There was a lot of personal interaction between DS2 and the admissions team. So much so that, when he turned them down, this was the sole school where he "felt kinda bad" about it. They flew him out for a visit and were very engaging every step of the way and had THE BEST acceptance package of the lot!!
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Heartbreaking - but, wow she beat the odds, didn't she? I am glad that she had that time to revel in her family & my thoughts go to them now as they are a comfort to one another. ♥
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October-ish, 2021 and December, 2021. At the moment, I honestly can't remember which was worse (but, then, I likely have long-Covid brain fog from the December case, so... ... ... that is probably telling).
I'm immunocompromised, but no one else is. DH has been the sickest in our family - both times - and seems to have long-term lung damage. DS1 wasn't too awfully sick but lost sense of taste/smell in October and it's still not back. I lost sense of smell but it's mostly returned to normal. Everyone else had very mild cases.
Since summer, we've been maskless and have traveled a lot (in and out of the country) and none of us have been reinfected at all. Some of us are triple-vaxxed while others are just double with a mix of Moderna and Pfizer between all of us.
We are, however, relatively careful. We don't go out if we feel like we might have symptoms. We test quite a bit. We also will leave a situation if it seems someone else has visible symptoms. A lot of our travel/eating out time is spent outside, etc.
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awwww. I love gsds. are they both males?
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Definitely check out Alabama, OP, as mjbucks1 suggested! We have a friend whose kid is going there right now and another who graduated in cs and has a fantastic job that he loves that he got right out of school.
Their competitive programs for research and such are excellent, from what I have heard. There seems to be an abundance of opportunity there for a bargain price (more to go toward grad school!).-
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Schools will usually list their requirements (somewhere... sometimes you have to dig) on their websites. Also be VERY aware that many schools have one set of requirements for "everyone else" and a very different set of requirements for homeschoolers.
Some specifically encourage students to send all scores and pinky-swear to ONLY look at the highest scores. I'm not sure how much I believe that, lol, but they do SAY it. 😄
All of the Ivies used to require all scores, but they no longer do with the score-optional. When DS2 recently applied, there was ONE random school that required all scores to be sent in for homeschoolers and it was ridic (like a school with an 80% acceptance rate and a low ACT-average... like, really??). DS2 wasn't homeschooled, so it wasn't applicable to us, but it made me roll my eyes a lot. lol
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On 9/18/2022 at 8:25 PM, EmilyGF said:
I think I know in *theory* how tough college admissions are, but they don't seem so from this end in some ways. For example, four kids from my son's math team went to MIT this year. Also, I work with kids at a top-10 college, and some of them must be much better on paper than in reality. 😉 (might delete this later)
Emily
If this is your first student (I believe he is?) I could see how it might not seem so competitive from the seat you're currently sitting in. With his resume, he may very well get into every single school you listed, and I certainly hope that he does! Or he might not. He has done a lot of things, but so have the other CS applicants. They're all on math teams. They're all taking APs. They're all playing an instrument and/or a sport. They all volunteer and probably have leadership positions as well. That's just how it is right now for competitive programs, which is why one well-qualified kid will get in and ten will be turned away.
You just don't want to "rest on pretty" and risk having it be your kid who gets "no" from all of his schools. I've seen it happen more than once and it's gut wrenching to watch a smart kid scrambling to apply last-minute to schools after several early rejections and waitlists.
Aim for the list he currently has. But CYA and send in a couple less-competitive schools that would be a solid match - just in case. 🙂 And, hopefully, he won't need them! 🙂 Another plus is that those "yesses" from less-competitive programs are incredibly satisfying while you wait to hear back from the big ones.
Best of luck!
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3 hours ago, Roadrunner said:
I have asked this same question. I would submit as a homeschooler unless it’s absolutely out of range for the schools she is applying. I wouldn’t submit if she is one of the hooked ones - athlete, URM…
Recruited athletes are required to submit their scores for NCAA/NAIA purposes, aren't they? At least, that's how it used to be!
To the OP, I would submit since she is still in their "sweet spot" of accepted students. I think it's one of those "who knows" applications. If she gets in, you can rest easy. If she doesn't, it's not necessarily a signal that this was the wrong decision - she's just in the "it could go either way" situations!
Also, some schools are score optional, but in order to apply to specific programs or honors programs or scholarships, the student IS required to send in a score anyway.
In my own personal experience, homeschoolers who have not submitted scores have had struggles and have been turned away from schools, programs, and scholarships that they had every right to reasonably expect an acceptance. I see that @Farrar has very different anecdotal experiences from my own, so obviously it's not an exact science! 🙂 You make a choice, hold your breath, and hope for the best! 😁
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We *only* listed courses taken during high school AND graded.
For math and science courses taken earlier (7th/8th grade), I made an asterisked note at the bottom of the transcript with a small chart that listed:
2009-2010 | Biology I | A
2009-2010 | Pre-Algebra | A
2010-2011 | Algebra I | A
and then mentioned these courses (with a short description and textbook list) specifically in my counselor's packet.
I did NOT list courses on the transcript that were audited or taken as a S/U or P/F grade because some universities WILL recalculate GPAs and sometimes a satisfactory/pass is given a "C" which would have then been factored into the GPA. It was difficult to tell which colleges might do this, so I did not take the chance and instead listed those courses on their CV as extracurricular activities. This way, they were still available to be seen and show an interest without risking the GPA.
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We've had horrible luck scheduling on holidays. Many of my kids' doctors and specialists are relatively young with young families. Guess when they schedule a LOT of time off? lol Christmas and summertime. We are currently finding a new dermatologist for DD and both DSs in their college towns because their current derm was off almost all summer with her kids and her winter appointments close on like December 5 and won't reopen until the end of January.
I am currently curmudgeonly thinking that dermatologists must make way too much money to be able to take off time like that. lol (I just googled it and, holy moly!!! Why aren't any of my kids going into dermatology?!?!?!?!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!)
They were able to squeeze in vision and dental visits but will prob wind up moving dental visits to their college towns as well. They hate to spend so much time at Christmas visiting doctors. 😄 (but our eye doctor is phenomenal so they all want to stick with him and already have Christmas break appointments scheduled, haha!)
DD2 has a primary care physician in her college town but the boys both don't want to bother, so they'll just go to the school clinic, I suppose, as needed.
Graduating College Early? Pros? Cons? Experiences?
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Posted · Edited by easypeasy
DD realized she could, theoretically, graduate next semester if she wanted to. This would be one full year (two semesters) early.
She's on the fence. She's currently getting a degree that she created herself. By streamlining the degree just a bit, she can graduate early.
She's on a 100% completely full ride and studying for the LSAT right now. She worries she will be "throwing money away" by graduating early. She would probably do an internship or simply work for what would have been her senior year while she applies to law schools.
While she's weighing her options - does anyone have any input?
It's not costing her anything (she actually makes $$ by attending school) and the extra year would just allow her more time with friends at school and to take a few classes she'd like to take but wouldn't otherwise have time to.
She has no desire to double degree or add another minor.
She took a gap year and feels that this could get her back on a timeline of her same-aged peers, which appeals to her.
Her resume is full - lots of leadership and research in her 2+ years so far, so I don't think there would be any regrets there.