I know that Early Decision is binding but what about financial aid numbers? My son wants to attend Texas A&M. It is his top choice. He just got an SAT score high enough for an automatic admission. However, as a resident of Virginia he cannot attend unless he receives an in-state tuition waiver (which requires $4000 in annual scholarships from the university). We would both love to apply ED and be done but if he applys ED and doesn't get the scholarships he needs are we still committed?

My son is pleased. He got a score high enough for an automatic admit at his top-choice school (a a 70 point increase over his June score). Now we can finish up the applications. We didn't need to wait for the scores but somehow we were waiting mentally, I think.

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We all have the same bacteria the world over. Eggs naturally have a covering called a "cuticle" that keeps out bacteria. US policies require that cuticle to be removed during cleaning so that the eggs now need to be refrigerated to keep them fresh. In other countries that cuticle is left intact and the eggs can be stored at room temperature.

I am totally with you. My parents have plenty of room for us to visit and stay at their home and so did my MIL but my MIL replaced her car with a car that seated no more than 5 and when we visited there was a total of 6 or 7. The plan was that they would rent a car when we visited but everyone always backed out due to the expense and so we couldn't even go out to dinner all together. It was awful and felt unwelcoming. Family is of the greatest importance to me and so we will stay in a house that will allow at least one set of visitors at a time. I would love a house with large living spaces, and just 2 bedrooms and then guest cottages on the periphery but it would be more expensive to move than stay put.

Tracheomalacia My son (born full-term) sounded like a baby pterodactyl when he breathed (all the time, not just when sleeping.). The doctor diagnosed it as Tracheomalacia and said that by definition he would outgrow it by age 1. He sounded like that full time for a few months and then while sleeping until he was three. He is normal and has no breathing issues today.

My husband wears a 9.5 (he is 5'8")and I wear a 9 (I am 5'7"). Our daughters wear 8.5. My son wore an 11.5 at 15. Now at 17 and 6 feet tall he wears a 12.5 I don't think that there is any way to predict what size your son will wear in a year or two. Men grow much longer than women.

My MIL was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in mid-July ( a few years ago) and died six weeks later. She was told 6 days to 6 months. She was really only debilitated in the last three days. She was 76 years old and in very good health before the diagnosis. I still miss her

My husband uses one for lower back pain and gets significant, immediate relief from it.

Check out A Man, a Can and a Microwave on Amazon. It is a cookbook of recipes from Men's Health Magazine that use primarily canned ingredients and all of them can be cooked in the microwave. It may not be gourmet or the freshest food available but it will be cheaper than takeout and healthier too.

Is this a list of foods that you are limited to for snacks for your own child? If it is, I have an issue with it regardless of anyone's take on the "health" qualities of the foods on the list. But yes, there are so many interpretations of what constitutes "healthy" foods and the interpretations change so often...that list contains foods that were thought to be "healthy" 5-10 years ago and are now suspect.

pretty much my son's requirements too, hence rugby and krav maga are his activities. SaveSave

I actually played water polo in college for a year. I was at the pool doing a synchronized swimming workout on my own and the water polo team was practicing and saw me doing egg beater laps up and down the pool and the next thing that I knew I was defending a goal. It was fun but co-ed and I got tired of having cut and bruised legs.

We inherited 5 acres of land with a house built around a single wide mobile home (it was about 1/4 of the total house) the buyers could not get a mortgage so we carried the mortgage ourselves. It went well for us.

My son says "play Rugby" Joking aside. I swam from 6-9 pm every night of the week for years as a 6-10th grader and ate dinner in the car on the way. We swam a mile for warm-up. I was a nationally ranked synchronized swimmer. If eating before swimming upsets his stomach figure out another plan but It never upset mine at all and I swam hard.

I had it happen when I cooked eggs by themselves and the inside of the eggs was a weird beige color as well. The first time I cooked eggs they were perfect the second time brown and icky. There hasn't been a third time.

I just read a little more on this and you do not have to be of asian descent to have alcohol flush, it is just much more common for East Asians than the general population.

What is your genetic heritage? 30% of peoples from Japan, China, Korea, and Vietnam have a genetic condition that affects how they metabolize alcohol. My husband is half Japanese and has it and 2/3 of my children have inherited it (my son is still underage so we don't know). It cause them to metabolize alcohol very quickly. My daughter gets headaches and feels nauseous after drinking as little as 1 bottle of beer. She got very sick and miserable at Easter when she had a mike's hard lemonade with lunch. They all three turn bright red and you didn't mention that symptom so that may not be it but you can read more here

Reminders is an app that is built into your iphone and your mac. If the list is stored on iCloud it will auto-update on all your signed in devices. Siri can add items to it if you say "Siri remind me to order curriculum" you can add a time and/or date to be reminded. It also handles repeating reminders, mine reminds me to change my contacts every two weeks. You can also set up location based reminders. For example, if my to-do list has "buy highlighters" which is something that I need to do but is not time critical, I can set it up to remind me to do when I am near Staples. My phone gives an actual alert noise that I have a task to complete and shows me the to-do item when I drive near to Staples. Here is a great article in getting started using reminders.

You might see if she will take another look at Richmond. My daughter, (with similar stats to yours) attended college there and received good merit aid. She took subsidized student loans only for three of five years (so a total of $20,000) and between the loan and her merit aid we paid less than $400 tuition and fees every semester. We did have to pay room and board but she lived off campus (her choice) and our annual cost was about $10,000.

I have no issues with transgender individuals at all. From a feminist point of view there are two issues arising out of the increased visibility of trans individuals in our country that particularly irritate me and worry me. The first is MtF trans models. As a whole we as women have been told that we are not good enough for a long time. Most models are not women, but children. Women stop growing in height at 12-14 years of age but continue growing in weight and fat (secondary sexual characteristics) until age 21 but our runway models are all 14. They are children, unrealistic goals for us to achieve. Print media is all photoshopped to be thinner and blemish free and now we have transwomen models. So now not only are most of us not good enough as women but biological men are better at being women than us. The second is in sports. Particularly high school sports. While hormone treatment will change the fat/muscle percentages on MtF trans athletes it cannot change that the fact that men and women have different bone structures and that those very structures affect performance. In addition, the increased q-angle caused by a woman's hip structure puts her at increased risk for knee injuries in all sports that involve running. So our biologically female athletes are not as good at being athletes as a biological man either. I am surprised that feminists are not more outraged about these kind of issues. We came a long way with Title 9 and now we are backpedaling in a uniquely 21st century fashion.

I need to write a counselor recommendation for my son for college applications and I do not even know where to start. I didn't have to write them for either of my older kids. Is anyone willing to send me a copy of theirs to see? Thank You

This is me exactly. Thank You for saving me a lot of typing.

I really liked the fact that you can choose from several different books. I also liked that statistical analysis is included. I hated the DVD lessons. I can live with "whiteboard style" lectures but the experiment sections were literally photographs. Sometimes annotated but still photos. Video would have been effective and not technologically difficult.

Okay, certifying the outside activities is not a big deal and yes, I am certainly the most qualified to do it (oh the miles and hours I have logged due to extra-curricular activities!) The counselor letter is daunting. Neither of my other students needed them and my son is not applying to any common app schools and I don't even know where to begin. For one thing I cannot imagine a high school counselor knowing any thing at all about their students (I want to three different high schools, a public one, a private one and top-ranked public magnet school and I never even met my counselor more than once) so I cannot imagine how to even begin writing a letter that will not stick out like a sore thumb because I do actually know my son.