Acceptances by School Name Alma College - son of Jenny in Florida (merit scholarships/dance company/performing arts scholarship) Auburn - son of 8filltheheart Austin College - son of MysteryJen (merit scholarship) -daughter of Elisabet (merit and music scholarship) -son of beachmom (merit scholarship) Azusa Pacific University - son of Running the race (merit scholarship) Baylor University -daughter of Elisabet (merit scholarship and honors college) -son of beachmom (merit scholarship and University Scholars) Bellarmine University - son of MysteryJen (merit scholarship/honors college) Belmont University - son of Susan in TN - daughter #1 of Galtgrl Berry College - son of MysteryJen (merit scholarship) Biola University - son of Running the race (merit scholarship) California Baptist University - son of Running the race (merit scholarship/Honors) California State University - Long Beach - son of Running the race Case Western Reserve University - son of 8filltheheart (merit scholarship) Cedarville University - son #2 of Kinsa College of Wooster - son of 8filltheheart (merit scholarship) Colorado School of Mines - son of Margaret in CO (merit scholarship/AFROTC scholarship) - son of Sue in St Pete (merit scholarship/athletic scholarship) Concordia University Irvine - daughter of CAMom (merit scholarship) Cornell College - son of MysteryJen (merit scholarship) Covenant College - son of 1bassoon (winner of competitive scholarship) Dordt College - son of 1bassoon (merit scholarship) Eckerd College - son of Creekland (merit scholarship) - son of MysteryJen (merit scholarship/honors college) - son of Sue in St Pete (merit scholarship) Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott - son of Running the race (merit scholarship) Florida Tech - son of Laura in CA (merit scholarship) - son of Sue in St Pete (merit scholarship) Geneva College - daughters of Galtgrl George Mason University - son of Zoorho Georgia Tech - son of Laura in CA - son of 8filltheheart Grand Canyon University - son of Lori D. (merit scholarship; work study) (transfer as junior to complete BA, after earning AAS at CC May 2014) Hendrix College - son of MysteryJen (merit scholarship) Hiram College - son of Dirty Ethel Rackham (merit scholarship) Hope College - son of Dirty Ethel Rackham (merit scholarship) Illinois Tech - son of Laura in CA (merit scholarship) Illinois Wesleyan University - son of Dirty Ethel Rackham (merit scholarship) Indiana University - daughter of mom2att Ithaca College - son of Myra (merit scholarship) Kalamazoo College - son of Dirty Ethel Rackham (merit scholarship) Lawrence University - son of Dirty Ethel Rackham (merit scholarship) LeTourneau University - son #1 of Kinsa - son of Running the race (merit scholarship) - son of 1bassoon (merit scholarship) Long Island University - Post - son of Jenny in Florida (merit scholarship) Manhattanville College - son of Jenny in Florida (merit scholarship) Marist College - son of Myra (merit scholarship) Marymount Manhattan College - son of Jenny in Florida (merit scholarship) Middle Tennessee State University - son of Susan in TN (Honors College, School of Music) North Carolina State University - son of 8filltheheart Northern Illinois University -son of Rivendellmom Oklahoma City University - son of Jenny in Florida (merit scholarship) Pacific University - daughter of CAMom (merit scholarship) Patrick Henry College - daughter of CAMom (merit scholarship) Purdue - daughter of GailV Queens University of Charlotte - son of Zoorho (dean's scholarship) Rochester Institute of Technology - son of Laura in CA Rollins College - son of Jenny in Florida (merit scholarship) St. Edward's University - son of MysteryJen (merit scholarship/honors college) Southern Methodist University -son of beachmom (merit scholarship and honors college) Texas A&M -daughter of Elisabet (honors program) Texas Christian University - daughter of GailV -son of beachmom (merit scholarship and honors college) Tennessee Tech University - son of Susan in TN (Honors Program, School of Music) Trinity University -daughter of Elisabet (merit scholarship) University of Alabama - son of Hoggirl (Honors College, merit scholarship) - son of 8filltheheart (honors college, merit scholarship) University of Alabama at Birmingham - son of 1bassoon (Honors College, full tuition merit scholarship) University of Arkansas - son of Hoggirl (Honors College, merit scholarship) University of California, Berkeley - son of Laura in CA University of Colorado, Boulder - son of Margaret in CO (merit scholarship/AFROTC scholarship) - daughter of Regentrude University of Dallas -son of beachmom (merit & departmental scholarship) University of Durham - son of Laura Corin (conditional offer) University of Evansville - daughter of GailV University of Exeter - son of Laura Corin (conditional offer) University of Florida - daughter of mom2att University of Georgia - daughter of mom2att University of Illinois - daughter of GailV University of Kansas - daughter of GailV University of Minnesota - daughter of Regentrude University of Mississippi - son of Hoggirl (Honors College, merit scholarship) University of North Florida - daughter of mom2att University of North Carolina - son of Pawz4me University of North Carolina (Greensboro) - son of Susan in TN (Honors College, School of Music) University of North Carolina (Wilmington) - son of Pawz4me University of North Texas -son of beachmom (merit scholarship and honors college) University of Oxford - son of Laura Corin (conditional offer) University of South Carolina - son of Pawz4me (merit scholarship) University of South Dakota - son of MysteryJen (merit scholarship/honors college) University of Tampa - son of Jenny in Florida (merit scholarship/honors program/performing arts program) University of Texas Austin -daughter of Elisabet -son of beachmom (Plan II, LAC Honors) University of Texas Dallas -daughter of Elisabet (AES scholarship) University of Virginia - DD of Regentrude University of Warwick - son of Laura Corin (conditional offer) University of York - son of Laura Corin (conditional offer) Wagner College - son of Jenny in Florida Waynesburg University - daughters of Galtgrl (merit scholarship) West Chester University - son of Zoorho Westminster College PA - daughters of Galtgrl (merit scholarship) Youngstown State University - daughters of Galtgrl (merit scholarship) Acceptances by Boardie Name 1bassoon (son): Covenant College, Dordt College, LeTourneau University, University of Alabama at Birmingham 8filltheheart (son): Auburn, UAlabama, CWRU, GA Tech, NCSU, College of Wooster Beachmom: Austin College, Baylor, SMU, TCU, UD, UNT, UT Austin CAMom (daughter): Concordia University Irvine, Pacific University, Patrick Henry College Creekland (son): Eckerd College (only place he applied) Dirty Ethel Rackham (son): Hiram College, Hope College, Illinois Wesleyan University, Kalamazoo College, Lawrence University Elisabet (Daughter) Austin College, Trinity University, Baylor University Honors College, Texas A&M Honors, UT Austin, UT Dallas GailV (daughter): Purdue, TCU, Univ. of Evansville, Univ. of Illinois, Univ. of Kansas Galtgrl (daughters 1 & 2) : Belmont U (d#1), Geneva College, Westminster College PA, Waynesburg University, Youngstown State University Hoggirl (son): University of Alabama, University of Arkansas, University of Mississippi Jenny in Florida (son): Alma College, Manhattanville College, Marymount Manhattan College, Long Island University-Post, Oklahoma City University, Rollins College, University of Tampa, Wagner College Kinsa (son no. 1): LeTourneau University (Longview, Texas) Kinsa (son no. 2): Cedarville University (Cedarville, Ohio) Laura Corin (son): Universities of Durham, Exeter, Oxford, Warwick and York (all conditional offers) Laura in CA (son): Florida Tech, Georgia Tech, Illinois Tech, Rochester Tech, UC Berkeley Lori D. (son): Grand Canyon University (sole application) Margaret in CO (son) Colorado School of MInes, University of Colorado, Boulder Mom2att (daughter): Indiana University, University of Georgia, University of North Florida, University of Florida Myra (son): Marist College, Ithaca College MysteryJen (son): Austin College, Bellarmine University, Berry College, Cornell College, Eckerd College, Hendrix College, St. Edward's University, University of South Dakota Pawz4me (son): University of North Carolina, University of North Carolina (Wilmington), University of South Carolina Regentrude (daughter): University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Minnesota, University of Virginia Rivendellmom (son): Northern Illinois University Running the race (son): Azusa Pacific University, Biola University, California Baptist University, California State University - Long Beach, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott, LeTourneau University Sue in St Pete (son): Colorado School of Mines, Eckerd College, Florida Tech Susan in TN (son): Belmont University, Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee Tech University, University of North Carolina (Greensboro) Zoorho (son): George Mason U, Queens University of Charlotte, West Chester University - PA

Several years ago I checked out Little House in the Ozarks and I found this gem in the book. I forgot I had it until the threads on Laura Ingalls Wilder started apearing here. From Little House in the Ozarks: A Laura Ingalls Wilder Sampler The Rediscovered Writings Edited by Stephen W. Hines Page 53 “The Findleys Strive for an Education†August 1922 “We are putting what we earn into our children’s minds, instead of into houses and clothes,†said little Mrs. Findley as she smoothed the hair of small Ben, who leaned against her knee. “We think it a better investment. “Oh yes, my husband agrees with me! He didn’t at first. He said we couldn’t educate the children because we were poor, but now he is as ambitious for them as I am.†“Tell me about it,†I said, and this is the story she told me as we sat on the shady porch one pleasant afternoon. “When I was a child we lived back in the woods, and father was poor. My own mother was dead, and while my stepmother did the best she could for me, there were smaller children to take care of and always so much to do. Father wanted me to go to school, but when I was needed at home to help, he could never see any other way but that I must stay and work. Then, too, he hadn’t money to buy my school books. “When I was twelve years old, my brother and I chopped a load of wood, hauled it to town, and sold it for money to buy a grammar and history. We hacked the wood up some, but we got it into sticks and we got the books. “It was that way when I needed the first books for my children, Glen and Joette; there was no money to buy the book, so I took in a washing and got the money. I’ve always been ashamed of that work. It was not well done, because I was in such poor health that I had to hold myself up by the tub while I scrubbed; but that book just had to come and it came. “You see, after I married, we lived in Joplin and my husband worked in the mines. Jess had been earning $4.50 a day, but it took it all to live; so when we came back to the hills, we had only our bare hands. “Well, I started the children to work in their new book, and every day we had lessons. I taught them first a word, then the letters in it; and they had them ready for use in another word. When they learned a name, I showed them the object; when they learned an action word, we acted it. For instance, when they read the word ‘jump,’ we jumped; and how they did enjoy saying their lessons to daddy in the evening, especially when he’s let them beat him. “When Glen was seven years old and Joette six, I started them to school ready for fourth grade work. The superintendent could not think it possible and insisted that they begin in the third grade; but after only one day there, they were promoted to the fourth. “The first year they went to school only two months, then finished their grades at home. The next year they went two months and finished at home. The following year they went four months and were obliged to stop because of sickness, but again they finished their grades at home. Since then they have gone regularly, and at thirteen and fourteen years old have finished the first year in high school and the fifth set in bookkeeping. “Violet and Ben have had the same training at home that the older children had and now, at six and eight years old, are ready to start to school in the fourth grade. “Violet has been more difficult to teach than the others, because she likes to sew and play with her dolls better than to study. People said she was stupid and that I never would be able to push her as I had the others; but she was only different and just as smart, if not smarter. She just would not keep her mind on her books until she found she must and would be punished if she didn’t. I know what her talent is, but she has to have her books, too; and she will sew all the better for having ‘book learning.’ “Besides, I had made up my mind that through my children I would raise the standard of the family. It couldn’t be bettered morally, but it could be raised educationally; and so Violet, as well as the rest, must study her books. I knew her well and gave her special attention so she is going right along with the others. “I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mother’s care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children. At home the expense is much less, for in school there are a great many expenses that are difficult for poor people to meet. “The children are well started in getting their education. None of the family has ever graduated from high school, but my children will, and some of them will go to college, too. “Jess says I aim too high, but I tell him I’ll shoot straight; for when a thing has to be done, it’s done. And if people say the Jess Findley family were poor, they’ll say, too, that the children were well educated; for that is where we are putting our life’s work – into their heads. “We are doing something worthwhile, for in raising the standard of our children’s lives we are raising the standard of four homes of the future, and our work goes on and on, raising the standard of the community and of future generations.†When Mrs. Findley had finished her story, I mentally took note of one thought which has escaped so many of us. It is not the old story of an education always being within the grasp of those who really seek it; but that in raising the standard of the Findley home, the standard of four homes of the future had been elevated to the point which we would like to think of as a representative “American Home.†Here, mother love had combined with the vision of future usefulness in the country’s citizenship, resulting in the finest service to which any parent can aspire.

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Thanks! He's made his travel plans and is writing more essays. I am busy chewing my fingernails....

Thanks for the input about UTD, but he applied and got accepted to UD. UTD is a great school but they are limited in the languages they offer, which matters to ds.

I don't post very often but thought I would join this one. Ds has been accepted to all schools applied for, along with several honors programs. I am having a difficult time trying to discern what might be best for him. Money is a huge factor, so we have to wait for some scholarship decisions to come back. Here's what he is considering. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated! (These are not listed in any particular order.) 1. UT Austin: accepted to Plan II (honors major) 2. Baylor: accepted to University Scholars program 3. SMU: admitted; waiting to see if invited to scholarship competition 4.University of Dallas: accepted with scholarship offer, too 5. Deep Springs College: invited to Round 2; will have approximately 1 in 3 chance of being admitted

My ds received an invitation to interview in person at Deep Springs College in January (or February). Does anyone here have any information they could share about this unique school? I can see where it would be a great fit for some but I am looking beyond the two years there and don't know if he can finish in two years afterward with a double major (German, International Relations). Plus we can't afford the costs if he got accepted to a big-name school after completing his time there. Does anyone here know someone who attended there? Thanks for any input!

We just saw a foreclosure today that most likely won't be available for long. (It was under contract when we originally tried to see it but the buyers couldn't get the lending to go through.) Our real estate agent says it needs only some work (high estimate of $25K) and that we would be way ahead even after putting that money into fixing it. I like it and the neighborhood. After talking to the realtor, the necessary work seems very doable. My dh, on the other hand, kind of likes it, but thinks the bushes will be too much work to maintain. He thinks the yard is too small when there is a huge common area right outside our fence. I don't get his thinking right now. We have seen other homes for the same price, and while they are ready to go, they are smaller and don't have some of the neighborhood amenities this one has. Any advice?

I hurt my arm several months ago and put up with the discomfort and escalating pain for several months. I finally went to the doctor who thinks I have a partially torn rotator cuff. I am in the process of seeing a specialist who will most likely order an MRI in addition to the xray the family practice doctor ordered (don't know the results). Has anyone here been through this? Did you have surgery?

I most likely have a partially torn rotator cuff tear in my right arm. I put up with the discomfort for several months and finally gave in and went to a doctor. I have done a few weeks of physical therapy exercises but don't see any progress. In the next week or so, I will have an xray and MRI. Has anyone here dealt with this before? Did you have surgery?

May be I should be more grateful:001_smile:. My boys are adamant that they don't want to go to school every Saturday.

I have looked into the Saturday school, but it is 45 minutes to an hour away. I don't know how enthusiastic they would be about attending. The meetup group might be a possibility. I will have to look into that some more. I had not thought about the German audio books. I need to look into that.

I will look into some of these ideas. Thanks for sharing!

I have 2 ds, ages 8 and 11, who speak, read, and write German fluently for their ages. Unfortunately, mom and dad don't. Does anyone have suggestions on how I can keep some level of fluency after we move back to the States? I am thinking about getting a tutor once or twice a week, but I don't know yet how that will work out.