DD is taking Bio and Lit on Saturday. She signed up based on her interest. She would like to double major in Bio and English so it just made sense. After she signed up she read that the Lit was super difficult to score high on. It made her nervous that she'd made a mistake but she took at practice test and did very well so I told her to breathe - she's a worry wort. Anyone else have these tests coming up? I would love to know which ones ya'll chose?

If you plug what was missed into the AP Pass calculator that might help? I have no idea how accurate this is http://appass.com/calculators ​

I believe dd figured her score using a conversion table in her prep book. I know nothing about any of this because DD is very independent. I'll try to remember to ask her when I see her.

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DD is taking AP Calc, World, and Bio this year. She's super worried about Calc. For some reason she just never feels ready. She made a 4 on the practice exam though so I think she'll be ok.

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And all I can think is "who shakes hands outside of porta potties?" 😂 I'm so messed up sometimes.

Ok so I am on the opposite of this. If you check me out at the grocery a few times then I will probably recognize you, remember your name from your name tag, and be fully aware of how I "know" you if I bump into you in a different setting. Its awful Seriously...like a curse sometimes. I feel super familiar with people who have no idea who I am, haha.

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That's great! I should have known CCFA would have something. ðŸ‘

What makes it difficult is that he honestly doesn't need his own bedroom, but he really needs access to his own bathroom. If four guys are sharing one bathroom, that probably wouldn't work for him because.... He ties up the bathroom too much and when he needs to go, he absolutely needs to go. There is no wait time. If that makes sense? I considered a regular dorm room right beside a hall bathroom but he goes several times at night and he barely makes it (and sometimes doesn't make it) now and the bathroom isn't that far from his room. His bathroom issues can be embarrassing and privacy at time would be a huge plus. ETA: He has a specialist appointment this month and I plan to get his input.

Thinking forward, ds will be a sophomore in the fall and I told him to begin making a visit list this summer because as soon as we have dds applications done in the fall, I would like to begin visiting schools with him. Has anyone here had to request special room circumstances and were you able to solidify the options before applications? Ds has crohns and he will need his own bathroom - honestly, what he probably needs most is No roommate, his own bathroom. Any thoughts on how to approach this with colleges?

ummm...yes, I was trying to be lighthearted. I love newlyweds and I have a good marriage. I just remember thinking that we surely had it all figured out because our marriage was so perfect. 18+ years later, it is not perfect and we don't have it all figured out. Is he still right for me? Absolutely! Am I the perfection in the equation? Absolutely NOT. If anything about our marriage has been disappointing, it has been seeing the imperfections revealed in ME, not him.

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I had a similar situation and they sized me so much bigger than my normal size. When I got the dress in though, I had to have so much taken out of it. Just keep that in mind too if you haven't gotten it yet.

I have so many newlyweds in my Facebook feed lately and it is so sweet - these poor souls are going on and on about how they've married the perfect husband. Oh sweet girls, just wait and see...it is going to get very real with time. Not necessarily bad. Marriage is definitely full of ups and downs. I'm holding my tongue and letting them think they have found perfection and venting this here instead 😂

Dd took the ACT in April after she Took the test in March and had a proctor interrupt Her twice for no reason. She was signed up for the April exam with no charge. For some reason they wouldn't allow us to cancel dds March score and I'm glad because even with the interruptions she scored a 34, a tad higher than her tenth grade score. Dd thought she'd failed the March exam so she took the April exam. When dd arrived they began the test only to realize they didn't have score sheets. They delayed the exam two hours while they made photocopies of score sheets. Over half the students left before taking the exam. So now we get an email saying that dd can request the April score to be ungraded and take the exam again later this month. Or she can keep her score and still take it again for free at a different date. I just don't think dd wants to take it again. She has SAT sub tests and AP exams and she's planning to try the SAT all within the next two months. She's a little test tired. What do y'all think? Eta She is a bit worried about the April exam score since she was a bit tired and out of it by the time it began. She doesn't know if she wants that on her record. But she thought March was a fail too so she could end up ok.

I don't think there was a blur because these contacts were sent just for first generation students and nothing to do with racial minorities. The actual phrase, now that I remember it, was hidden minority for one school and under represented for the other. It wasn't a general email, letter, booklet, etc for all minorities....it was just geared for first generation.

These are great thoughts. Thank you. DD and I were just talking about this today after I was reading some of ya'lls posts to her. She is wondering about casting her net wider. We plan to sit down this summer and really research first generation schools with full neet met and make a list. She's considered adding Rice and Vandy to the list. As far as "will dd fit at Queens, Furman, Elon?" I'm not sure. I honestly don't think so. DD is super intellectual and thrives on intellectual discussion. Serioulsy, she gets giddy over the craziest things like .... essays from Francis Bacon and she had to read this book called The Swerve for a lit class and all of the kids groaned and hated it and she was enthralled. DD is deep and philosophical and loves, loves school and anything academic. Learning is a passion for her. My honest opinion is that (at least at Queens) she will come across odd for caring so much and she won't have the peer group she needs. Furman has been recruiting with merit aid and they have upped their ACT score 2 points just in the last 2 years that we have been looking into them. I think they also have an honors program so it might work?

Yes, just based on first generation. She is not a racial minority. She's white. They keep sending her info saying she is an unrecognized minority because her stats + first generation aren't typical. If that makes more sense?

No, with her stats and the fact that she is first generation, the ivies keep sending her info saying that makes her an unrecognized minority. If that makes sense? Harvard and Princeton keep sending her info and emails on this and asking her to please apply.

Quoting again because it won't let me edit :/ When I got my principal letter for NMS, it said that dd is in the running but it also made it sound like the commended cut off has jumped to 209 and I'm just not sure she'll make it semi-finalist with her score hit.

I need to look into this more. She was 99th percentile this year but her score took a hit because of sickness. I'm not sure she made the actual state cutoff. We'll have to wait til Fall I guess. I do need to look at a few merit aid schools. Because she really doens't want to go too far and none of them are close we didn't look but if she's willing to go to Harvard then....well. Any suggestions?

This is us... it is SO not about the name. Truthfully. It is about the fact that we will get great need based aid and dd will be debt free.

I'm not sure - if the NP Calculators are accurate then any school that offers good need based aid is about the same for us.. Duke, Wake, Harvard, W&L, Chapel Hill, Emory, etc will cost us between $5,000-$7,000 per year. That isn't easy to find in our budget but when I take into account the tax credit, her current school expenses, etc then I think we can swing it. The difference is how much of a loan DD is supposed to add in addition to that - Harvard = $0, Davidson = $0, CHill =$2,300, Wake is the highest at $7500 and I don't get it because that seems high. I hope it ends up better because it is her favorite school. Keep this in mind that all other schools fall in this range (without merit aid added) and now look at State - They say we should pay $12,500 a year and that dds loan will be $5500. That is almost full ticket. There is no way we can do that. I feel like we are missing something with State. Ok, Furman, Queens, etc use a different calculator and they all say we will need to pay $22,000 a year and we can't possibly do that but I think dd should hit significant merit aid with Furman, right? She's thinkin Queens will not stay on the list. I want to say W&L didn't have loans either? Harvard is farther from home than she wants but $5,000 a year from us and no loans for DD is so tempting. And they calculate a fairly good amount in that for personal expenses and books. I know that the ivies are a stretch but dd keeps getting emails and mail from them that she is an unrecognized minority because she is first generation + has high stats. The ivies keep making a big deal about this. DD will be the first person on either side of the family (parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc) to go to college and that is a pretty darn big deal to ivies.