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Post by Lizard Queen on Oct 25, 2018 8:24:35 GMT -5
Anyhoo, that’s what we did with DD when she was academically advanced. What’s not specified is that she had/has massive anxiety. When she started intensive dance classes, her anxiety became manageable. But, that didn’t happen until fifth grade. That’s why we didn’t skip her a grade in the primary years. Yesterday, she turned in her Northwestern application. She wore purple the whole day along with her NW sweatshirt. We find out December 1st if she’s accepted. I’m not optimistic. Today was her six-month check for having her drivers license. She gets to have friends in the car with her now. I appreciate the state having that rule. Why aren't you optimistic about Northwestern? Seems like she'd be a shoe-in. They courted me heavily 20 years ago. I know colleges are all a lot harder to get into nowadays, but she's also way ahead of where I was at her age. I wouldn't be surprised at all if she got in there. I would be a little concerned about managing her anxiety though, now that I think you mentioned she stopped dancing? I hope she's still getting some kind of regular exercise to compensate.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 8:41:38 GMT -5
Anyhoo, that’s what we did with DD when she was academically advanced. What’s not specified is that she had/has massive anxiety. When she started intensive dance classes, her anxiety became manageable. But, that didn’t happen until fifth grade. That’s why we didn’t skip her a grade in the primary years. Yesterday, she turned in her Northwestern application. She wore purple the whole day along with her NW sweatshirt. We find out December 1st if she’s accepted. I’m not optimistic. Today was her six-month check for having her drivers license. She gets to have friends in the car with her now. I appreciate the state having that rule. Why aren't you optimistic about Northwestern? Seems like she'd be a shoe-in. They courted me heavily 20 years ago. I know colleges are all a lot harder to get into nowadays, but she's also way ahead of where I was at her age. I wouldn't be surprised at all if she got in there. I would be a little concerned about managing her anxiety though, now that I think you mentioned she stopped dancing? I hope she's still getting some kind of regular exercise to compensate. Things are a lot different than they were 20 years ago. 30 years ago I got accepted into my son's reach school and I had dropped out of high school my JR year! He has a very low probability of getting in even though he is light years better looking on paper than I was.
College data ranks Northwestern as "Most Difficult" for college admission. The admission rate is 9%, with 89% of incoming freshman having an ACT of 30-35. I'd say it's pretty tough.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 25, 2018 8:47:28 GMT -5
Anyhoo, that’s what we did with DD when she was academically advanced. What’s not specified is that she had/has massive anxiety. When she started intensive dance classes, her anxiety became manageable. But, that didn’t happen until fifth grade. That’s why we didn’t skip her a grade in the primary years. Yesterday, she turned in her Northwestern application. She wore purple the whole day along with her NW sweatshirt. We find out December 1st if she’s accepted. I’m not optimistic. Today was her six-month check for having her drivers license. She gets to have friends in the car with her now. I appreciate the state having that rule. Why aren't you optimistic about Northwestern? Seems like she'd be a shoe-in. They courted me heavily 20 years ago. I know colleges are all a lot harder to get into nowadays, but she's also way ahead of where I was at her age. I wouldn't be surprised at all if she got in there. I would be a little concerned about managing her anxiety though, now that I think you mentioned she stopped dancing? I hope she's still getting some kind of regular exercise to compensate. First, I’m an incredibly pessimistic person. It’s my MO to assume rejection. Second, We live in an extremely rural portion of the west coast. Upper echelon colleges do not recruit anyone from the six counties in which I’ve lived or border those I’ve lived in. We don’t have “college prep” tracts of any kind—IB, school/district diploma, AP classes. Northwestern only accepts 15% overall. They do accept a higher percentage on their early application process.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 8:52:37 GMT -5
Why aren't you optimistic about Northwestern? Seems like she'd be a shoe-in. They courted me heavily 20 years ago. I know colleges are all a lot harder to get into nowadays, but she's also way ahead of where I was at her age. I wouldn't be surprised at all if she got in there. I would be a little concerned about managing her anxiety though, now that I think you mentioned she stopped dancing? I hope she's still getting some kind of regular exercise to compensate. First, I’m an incredibly pessimistic person. It’s my MO to assume rejection. Second, We live in an extremely rural portion of the west coast. Upper echelon colleges do not recruit anyone from the six counties in which I’ve lived or border those I’ve lived in. We don’t have “college prep” tracts of any kind—IB, school/district diploma, AP classes. Northwestern only accepts 15% overall. They do accept a higher percentage on their early application process. LOL That's how I am with DS and getting into our flagship. I'd rather it be an OMG HE GOT IN! surprise, than a big letdown because we were sure he'd be able to pull it off and didn't.
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Post by chapeau on Oct 25, 2018 9:55:34 GMT -5
It is rare for a pessimist to be unpleasantly surprised.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Oct 25, 2018 10:38:16 GMT -5
Oh, I totally understand the draw to be pessimistic. But currently, I'm thinking neutrality is best for my mental health.
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Post by geenamercile on Oct 25, 2018 10:54:02 GMT -5
on the school front we are going to home school ODD. Between and online classes and me supplementing we should be fine. We talked to her last night about it. I honestly don't know how much help DH is going to be with it, but we can't keep going how we are. I also have feelers out for to find another consular for her. We will find some other group activities too. But over all she had no one that she wanted to go back and say good by too. YDD seems fine with it, and still wants to go to school. I hope I am not screwing this up.
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Post by geenamercile on Oct 25, 2018 10:57:16 GMT -5
I am normally a pretty optimistic person, but right now I am tired and I feel like all of my strength is just gone. There is a part of me that wants to go self destructive, a part that just wants to send DH and the girls down to my ILs and just fade away. I did have a good talk with my friend last night. Maybe we need an YM>WIR island that we can all run away too.
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Post by raeoflyte on Oct 25, 2018 11:00:16 GMT -5
Hugs Geena! That has to be a rough decision. I hope your dh steps up.
I had that talk with C again a couple nights ago. That it is an option if school is so terrible, but there is too much he'd miss.
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Post by gs11rmb on Oct 25, 2018 12:44:51 GMT -5
on the school front we are going to home school ODD. Between and online classes and me supplementing we should be fine. We talked to her last night about it. I honestly don't know how much help DH is going to be with it, but we can't keep going how we are. I also have feelers out for to find another consular for her. We will find some other group activities too. But over all she had no one that she wanted to go back and say good by too. YDD seems fine with it, and still wants to go to school. I hope I am not screwing this up. I want to preface this by saying I am not judging you or your choices. I have no doubt you are trying to do the best you can for your daughter. Is it possible to try another school environment rather than homeschooling? I'd be concerned that your daughter would become even more socially isolated and that will compound her problems. I do hope you can find a way to help her manage her anxiety. This has to be so hard for you to watch and I can practically feel your helplessness in your posts. But with you on her side there will be a good outcome for your daughter.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 13:55:55 GMT -5
Why aren't you optimistic about Northwestern? Seems like she'd be a shoe-in. They courted me heavily 20 years ago. I know colleges are all a lot harder to get into nowadays, but she's also way ahead of where I was at her age. I wouldn't be surprised at all if she got in there. I would be a little concerned about managing her anxiety though, now that I think you mentioned she stopped dancing? I hope she's still getting some kind of regular exercise to compensate. First, I’m an incredibly pessimistic person. It’s my MO to assume rejection. Second, We live in an extremely rural portion of the west coast. Upper echelon colleges do not recruit anyone from the six counties in which I’ve lived or border those I’ve lived in. We don’t have “college prep” tracts of any kind—IB, school/district diploma, AP classes. Northwestern only accepts 15% overall. They do accept a higher percentage on their early application process. Your post got me looking into the University of Minnesota for DS again and I found this blurb in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
One of the easiest Big Ten schools to get into a decade ago, the U now turns down a higher percentage of applicants than all but Northwestern and Michigan. Applications jumped by 150 percent from 2003 to 2013, causing the U’s acceptance rate to tumble to 44 percent from 76 percent, even as admissions steadily grew.
So, I can honestly say, I'm right there with you in worrying if my kid will get in his dream school.
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Post by oped on Oct 25, 2018 15:58:07 GMT -5
Yeah, Northeastern has become as difficult to get in to, interestingly enough. Although its ranked worse... but costs more.
I don't think i understand anything about this whole university process. Sigh. Daughter is not taking a significant interest and i'm thinking she will do a year close to home just taking a few classes because she is probably not where she needs to be in the process to go full time where she might want to go next year.
Son kind of went in the back door route and got where he wanted to be, so all good there. Anyway, daughter is young, only 18 after graduation, so another year isn't a big deal. Honestly, i'd rather they not spend the big money until they are sure of what they want to do, given the cost these days.
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Post by oped on Oct 25, 2018 16:00:59 GMT -5
First, I’m an incredibly pessimistic person. It’s my MO to assume rejection. Second, We live in an extremely rural portion of the west coast. Upper echelon colleges do not recruit anyone from the six counties in which I’ve lived or border those I’ve lived in. We don’t have “college prep” tracts of any kind—IB, school/district diploma, AP classes. Northwestern only accepts 15% overall. They do accept a higher percentage on their early application process. Your post got me looking into the University of Minnesota for DS again and I found this blurb in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
One of the easiest Big Ten schools to get into a decade ago, the U now turns down a higher percentage of applicants than all but Northwestern and Michigan. Applications jumped by 150 percent from 2003 to 2013, causing the U’s acceptance rate to tumble to 44 percent from 76 percent, even as admissions steadily grew.
So, I can honestly say, I'm right there with you in worrying if my kid will get in his dream school.
Part of this is also on the other end though... more and more people apply because everyone thinks they need to go to college, no everyone is going to be actual competition for your boy. One issue with daughter is that, although she did much harder work for homeschool... her homeschool grades aren't straight As... because you can't do that as a homeschoooler... different rules. But she will actually graduate from a school... so her GPA will be 'school' but not as high as those others leaving school. Fuck, Northeastern's average GPA is currently 4.1-4.3 or something... how the hell. It kind of pisses me off. Especially knowing what her current AP English class is doing.
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Post by stillmovingforward on Oct 25, 2018 16:50:30 GMT -5
I'd like to share that 3 of my 4 kids got into colleges that amazed me. We're from a very small rural school with no enrichment. The colleges told me that most colleges give extra points to kids like ours. Even medical school gave me dd1 extra points for being from a 150 person high school. DD2 and DS2 just went off to college last year so I'm guessing that's current info.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 16:52:44 GMT -5
Your post got me looking into the University of Minnesota for DS again and I found this blurb in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
One of the easiest Big Ten schools to get into a decade ago, the U now turns down a higher percentage of applicants than all but Northwestern and Michigan. Applications jumped by 150 percent from 2003 to 2013, causing the U’s acceptance rate to tumble to 44 percent from 76 percent, even as admissions steadily grew.
So, I can honestly say, I'm right there with you in worrying if my kid will get in his dream school.
Part of this is also on the other end though... more and more people apply because everyone thinks they need to go to college, no everyone is going to be actual competition for your boy. One issue with daughter is that, although she did much harder work for homeschool... her homeschool grades aren't straight As... because you can't do that as a homeschoooler... different rules. But she will actually graduate from a school... so her GPA will be 'school' but not as high as those others leaving school. Fuck, Northeastern's average GPA is currently 4.1-4.3 or something... how the hell. It kind of pisses me off. Especially knowing what her current AP English class is doing. Right? DS struggled his freshman year. That 3.4 (hello...still not BAD), doomed him to a max 3.8 even if he gets straight A's the rest of the time. College of science and engineering at U of M has an "average" incoming of 4.0 too. No wonder kids are so stressed.
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Post by debthaven on Oct 25, 2018 17:28:41 GMT -5
Knee Deep in Water Chloe that's my grad school Alma Mater, I went to Medill. I hope your DD gets in. It's a beautiful campus, and having the lake so close is just magical. My ex and I LOVED the Chicago blues clubs (we met at Northwestern). It's also cold as hell, but you know that. I also hope your DD is doing better at managing her anxiety. I work at two very highly-ranked French business schools (here you specialize after HS. Not a good system IMO but that's how it is here.) Being a student isn't as easy these days.
If Northwestern actually ASKED your DD that question, I agree with Lizard Queen , they seem extremely interested in her. Fingers crossed for her! Given her anxiety issues, you'll probably need to budget a couple of trips (for her or for you/DH) during the first year.
You know, my DS1 is absolutely brilliant, and incredibly independent. He wanted to drop out of Oxford during his first week there because all they did was drink themselves sick during orientation week, and DS1 was homesick. DH had a business trip to Sweden that week. DH flew home from Sweden to Paris via London (ie completely out of the way) to spend an evening with DS1. We also recruited a friend of a good friend to take him out to dinner another evening that week.
Of course I was ready to drop everything to visit DS1. But he told me, unless you are coming to pick me up and bring me home, I don't want to see you. DS1 is 32 now. Occasionally, when we reminisce, he still thanks me for not picking him up that week LOL.
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Post by swasat on Oct 25, 2018 19:05:31 GMT -5
Knee Deep in Water Chloe, I graduated from Northwestern 20 years ago! Born and brought up in Evanston IL, went to Northwestern for my undergrad That university was hard to get into for some specific courses even 20 years ago. And expensive, with a capital E. But it’s a great university, extremely beautiful campus and hiring rate for new grads has always been super high. I hope your DD gets in. The winters are brutal but everything else about Chicago is awesome!! :-)
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Post by alabamagal on Oct 25, 2018 19:37:57 GMT -5
DD #2 had to explain to Northwestern why she was graduating a year early, so I'm just going to copy and paste that into here.
When it was time for me to start Kindergarten, I was devastated. I much preferred staying home to read books. I didn't want to continue going to school. My first grade teacher Miss Strong is still one of my favorite teachers. With her guidance, I loved school. However, as I adapted to demonstrating my reading skills and math fluency, I easily surpassed first grade work. I was sent to second grade for my core classes. In second grade, I was in a 2nd/3rd grade blended class. I simply spent the entire time doing third grade work.
The summer between my second and third grade year we moved to another small Oregon town. My parents enrolled me in third grade because technically I was still in the third grade. When we met with my teacher prior to school starting, we discovered the curriculum was the exact same curriculum as my previous school. My parents didn't want to add more stress to me as we'd just moved, so they decided to not officially have me skip a grade. Instead, I spent about half a day in fourth grade and half a day in third grade with my core subjects being in fourth grade. We continued this process through sixth grade.
The summer between my sixth and seventh grade year, my mother utilized our district's online summer school program and did a combination of homeschooling me with district's approved eighth grade math class.
As a seventh grader, I took Algebra I with the regular high class. I also had an additional class with our online alternative school for high school English I; this class took me two school years to complete as it was in addition to my full time school schedule and ten hours per week of dance class. In eighth grade, I completed Geometry and Spanish I in the regular high school classes. Going into my first official year of high school, I had four full-year credits completed. During my second year of high school, I completed eight full-year credits instead of the normal seven. During my third year of high school, which is this current school year, I have enough room in my schedule to take three regular high school classes and three college classes.
I will graduate in June 2019 after three school years of high school but still with a complete and advanced course load.
Since my son started “early” he was 17 when he went away to college. I put the early in quotes because he was only early starting school because he was 2 weeks late being born. 2nd week in college he went to the health clinic and they told him he just had a cold and to go get some OTC cold medicine. Drug store wouldn’t let him because he was underage. He had to call a friend to buy it for him. 🤨
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Post by bean29 on Oct 25, 2018 19:44:25 GMT -5
First, I’m an incredibly pessimistic person. It’s my MO to assume rejection. Second, We live in an extremely rural portion of the west coast. Upper echelon colleges do not recruit anyone from the six counties in which I’ve lived or border those I’ve lived in. We don’t have “college prep” tracts of any kind—IB, school/district diploma, AP classes. Northwestern only accepts 15% overall. They do accept a higher percentage on their early application process. Your post got me looking into the University of Minnesota for DS again and I found this blurb in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
One of the easiest Big Ten schools to get into a decade ago, the U now turns down a higher percentage of applicants than all but Northwestern and Michigan. Applications jumped by 150 percent from 2003 to 2013, causing the U’s acceptance rate to tumble to 44 percent from 76 percent, even as admissions steadily grew.
So, I can honestly say, I'm right there with you in worrying if my kid will get in his dream school.
What about UW-Madison? Is that easier to get into? DN graduated with an Engineering /Computer Science Degree and stayed in Madison. The son of a friend is Engineering/Computer science Major and just did an internship with Intuit (Turbo Tax, Quick Books & more).
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Post by tcu2003 on Oct 25, 2018 20:36:07 GMT -5
Part of this is also on the other end though... more and more people apply because everyone thinks they need to go to college, no everyone is going to be actual competition for your boy. One issue with daughter is that, although she did much harder work for homeschool... her homeschool grades aren't straight As... because you can't do that as a homeschoooler... different rules. But she will actually graduate from a school... so her GPA will be 'school' but not as high as those others leaving school. Fuck, Northeastern's average GPA is currently 4.1-4.3 or something... how the hell. It kind of pisses me off. Especially knowing what her current AP English class is doing. Right? DS struggled his freshman year. That 3.4 (hello...still not BAD), doomed him to a max 3.8 even if he gets straight A's the rest of the time. College of science and engineering at U of M has an "average" incoming of 4.0 too. No wonder kids are so stressed. I worked in the admission office in undergrad (so it’s been about 15 years now as I’m getting old), but they calculate GPAs several different ways. They do a weighted, unweighted, and also junior/senior year GPA. So the fact that your son showed improvement from his freshman year is a really good thing.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 25, 2018 21:21:24 GMT -5
I am normally a pretty optimistic person, but right now I am tired and I feel like all of my strength is just gone. There is a part of me that wants to go self destructive, a part that just wants to send DH and the girls down to my ILs and just fade away. I did have a good talk with my friend last night. Maybe we need an YM>WIR island that we can all run away too.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 25, 2018 21:23:08 GMT -5
Yeah, Northeastern has become as difficult to get in to, interestingly enough. Although its ranked worse... but costs more. I don't think i understand anything about this whole university process. Sigh. Daughter is not taking a significant interest and i'm thinking she will do a year close to home just taking a few classes because she is probably not where she needs to be in the process to go full time where she might want to go next year. Son kind of went in the back door route and got where he wanted to be, so all good there. Anyway, daughter is young, only 18 after graduation, so another year isn't a big deal. Honestly, i'd rather they not spend the big money until they are sure of what they want to do, given the cost these days. I understand our state's public university process, but I don't know how private colleges work. It's frustrating for a helicopter parent.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 25, 2018 21:26:25 GMT -5
Knee Deep in Water Chloe that's my grad school Alma Mater, I went to Medill. I hope your DD gets in. It's a beautiful campus, and having the lake so close is just magical. My ex and I LOVED the Chicago blues clubs (we met at Northwestern). It's also cold as hell, but you know that. I also hope your DD is doing better at managing her anxiety. I work at two very highly-ranked French business schools (here you specialize after HS. Not a good system IMO but that's how it is here.) Being a student isn't as easy these days.
If Northwestern actually ASKED your DD that question, I agree with Lizard Queen , they seem extremely interested in her. Fingers crossed for her! Given her anxiety issues, you'll probably need to budget a couple of trips (for her or for you/DH) during the first year.
You know, my DS1 is absolutely brilliant, and incredibly independent. He wanted to drop out of Oxford during his first week there because all they did was drink themselves sick during orientation week, and DS1 was homesick. DH had a business trip to Sweden that week. DH flew home from Sweden to Paris via London (ie completely out of the way) to spend an evening with DS1. We also recruited a friend of a good friend to take him out to dinner another evening that week.
Of course I was ready to drop everything to visit DS1. But he told me, unless you are coming to pick me up and bring me home, I don't want to see you. DS1 is 32 now. Occasionally, when we reminisce, he still thanks me for not picking him up that week LOL.
It was not specific or personal to her. She cannot complete the application with classes in all four years of high school, so there's a box to check for "graduating early" when the coding otherwise won't let the applicant move on with one of the school years blank.
Good job not picking up, your son. DD#1 asked us her freshman year, but DH was adamant we weren't going to get her.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 25, 2018 21:28:19 GMT -5
Knee Deep in Water Chloe , I graduated from Northwestern 20 years ago! Born and brought up in Evanston IL, went to Northwestern for my undergrad [img src="http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/smile.gif" alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png" class="smile"] That university was hard to get into for some specific courses even 20 years ago. And expensive, with a capital E. But it’s a great university, extremely beautiful campus and hiring rate for new grads has always been super high. I hope your DD gets in. The winters are brutal but everything else about Chicago is awesome!! :-) DH keeps saying "Hey, if she doesn't get in, we'll save a ton of money!" LOL. However, if she doesn't get in to Northwestern, she's going to apply to University of Chicago.
What's the abbreviation for Northwestern? I'm kind of getting tired of typing that out all the way.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 25, 2018 21:30:12 GMT -5
Also, when she toured the colleges, the Northwestern tour guide made it quite clear that the essay for "Why Northwestern?" had to be incredibly specific or the application would get tossed. If "Northwestern" could be replaced with "Disneyland" and the essay still made sense, the application would be immediately rejected.
I do think she did well with that essay.
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Post by Pants on Oct 25, 2018 21:32:18 GMT -5
Knee Deep in Water Chloe , I graduated from Northwestern 20 years ago! Born and brought up in Evanston IL, went to Northwestern for my undergrad [img src="http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/smile.gif" alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png" class="smile"] That university was hard to get into for some specific courses even 20 years ago. And expensive, with a capital E. But it’s a great university, extremely beautiful campus and hiring rate for new grads has always been super high. I hope your DD gets in. The winters are brutal but everything else about Chicago is awesome!! :-) DH keeps saying "Hey, if she doesn't get in, we'll save a ton of money!" LOL. However, if she doesn't get in to Northwestern, she's going to apply to University of Chicago.
What's the abbreviation for Northwestern? I'm kind of getting tired of typing that out all the way. Isn't U of C harder to get into than NW? Also, you know the student motto of U of C is "where fun goes to die."?
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Post by oped on Oct 25, 2018 21:37:29 GMT -5
on the school front we are going to home school ODD. Between and online classes and me supplementing we should be fine. We talked to her last night about it. I honestly don't know how much help DH is going to be with it, but we can't keep going how we are. I also have feelers out for to find another consular for her. We will find some other group activities too. But over all she had no one that she wanted to go back and say good by too. YDD seems fine with it, and still wants to go to school. I hope I am not screwing this up. I want to preface this by saying I am not judging you or your choices. I have no doubt you are trying to do the best you can for your daughter. Is it possible to try another school environment rather than homeschooling? I'd be concerned that your daughter would become even more socially isolated and that will compound her problems. I do hope you can find a way to help her manage her anxiety. This has to be so hard for you to watch and I can practically feel your helplessness in your posts. But with you on her side there will be a good outcome for your daughter. I'm actually going to come down on the other side of this. As a mom to a son who is an extreme introvert and has anxiety. Not spending all day wasting anxiety and energy draining interactions is what allowed him to develop into a mostly normal human being He still needs a lot more transition time to new life experiences, and has to plan his schedule and interactions knowing his personality... but homeschooling and choosing when and where he placed his efforts, scaffolding his progress and allowing him to come into it on his own terms is what honestly allows him to function as well as he does now, i really believe. He is not at all isolated and manages his anxiety in proactive ways BECAUSE he had the space and time and control in which to learn to do so. I mean he's not officially adulting yet, but i feel like he has a good foundation to get there and is continuing to grow and adapt better because of that foundation.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 25, 2018 21:56:19 GMT -5
DH keeps saying "Hey, if she doesn't get in, we'll save a ton of money!" LOL. However, if she doesn't get in to Northwestern, she's going to apply to University of Chicago.
What's the abbreviation for Northwestern? I'm kind of getting tired of typing that out all the way. Isn't U of C harder to get into than NW? Also, you know the student motto of U of C is "where fun goes to die."? LOL! Yes, I'm sure fun does die there, but DD is not interested in fun. Hence the classical ballet training.
UC actually just took SAT and ACT test scores out of their application process. In that regard, it will be easier for her to get into UC. Due to her anxiety, her SATs are only 1190. She's taken it three times.
Their application essay topics are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out there.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 22:33:57 GMT -5
Your post got me looking into the University of Minnesota for DS again and I found this blurb in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
One of the easiest Big Ten schools to get into a decade ago, the U now turns down a higher percentage of applicants than all but Northwestern and Michigan. Applications jumped by 150 percent from 2003 to 2013, causing the U’s acceptance rate to tumble to 44 percent from 76 percent, even as admissions steadily grew.
So, I can honestly say, I'm right there with you in worrying if my kid will get in his dream school.
What about UW-Madison? Is that easier to get into? DN graduated with an Engineering /Computer Science Degree and stayed in Madison. The son of a friend is Engineering/Computer science Major and just did an internship with Intuit (Turbo Tax, Quick Books & more). I haven't looked into it, but someone else mentioned that school yesterday at parent teacher conferences. The one thing is that money is a bit of an issue and while WI is a reciprocity state MN has a fairly generous grant program which we'd give up going out of state, so that is in the back of my mind too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 22:37:30 GMT -5
So Carrot's parent teacher conference wasn't as good as his brother's. He's pretty much not doing anything work-wise in class. He's testing 94th percentile math and 99th percentile reading, but has completed almost nothing. It seems most of his problem is rooted in his poor writing ability. Does anybody know how to get an 8 year old to hold a pencil correctly? He holds it about the same as he does a spoon and fork...like in a fist. I think writing is just so painfully difficult for him that he avoids doing it at all, but he fights me to no end when I try to show him the correct way to do it.
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