Waiting on scores to be released is the worst! I can't imagine waiting for college admission decisions! Hopefully you get good news soon!That's awesome!! We are in the holding pattern for another 6 weeks waiting to hear from FSU and 2 others (UF and Maryland) for acceptance. This is worse than the test scores IMHO.
Is it wrong for a little piece of me to hope she only gets in to FSU?
Her mother, the *real* father, someone passed on some smarts!Her mom must be really smart.
Congrats to NDKid!
Oh man, so far her top schools are Yale and Stanford. Her score puts her in the middle 50th percentile for Stanford admissions, but not for Yale. I keeping bringing up UVA because it's a really good school, and it's in-state, so it's cheaper.
I believe her 9th grade psat was 1210. The scale is different though - the high score on that psat is 1440. The psat they take their junior year for national merit scholarships goes up to 1520. Not sure why they need to have different scoring scales.
Tell her to go to William and Mary.
I couldn't imagine what it must be like to be my kid. Talk about dealing with some adversity!
She's taken the SAT a couple of times. She's at 1360 so far. The science section of the ACT helped her score (35), so I think she may focus on that one.
Really? You seem like such a softie. What happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, I guess.
I agree - it's what you do during undergrad as much as where you went. Still, I'm here to support her dreams, so if she wants to aim for the top, i'll do whatever I can to help her.FSU: Good enough for Myron Rolle, good enough for your kid.
Mr Rolle attended the Florida State University College of Medicine. He studied at Oxford University for the 2009–10 academic year to earn an M.Sc. in medical anthropology and is a neurosurgery resident at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital.
Ha! I'm kidding. It's been a long time (well, about 15 years, I guess) since I was able to really enjoy being reckless and irresponsible. I'm hopeful that once she's done with college I can get back to "sticking it to the Man". No, nowadays her biggest adversity is terrible puns and having to put up with me using current teen slang to get under her skin.
Of course. I harass and rankle our two (28 and 25) nonstop. Between, of course, trying to help them figure out how to pull off the paths in life that are their current choices/desires.
This is certainly valuable advice, and something we'll be keeping in mind. So far she's seemed to understand the value of having your school paid for, even if it's not your #1 choice, vs having to pay off a ton of loans. She's got a cousin who went to a smaller school on a lacrosse scholarship and was still able to go to Georgetown medical school, so I think she sees that there's more than one path.
Not long ago she learned how long it would take. You're right - I think we figured she'd be 35 when she gets through with residency. Residents still get paid though, like$50-60k/yr. Not a lot comparatively, but enough to not be homeless.
Not a ton yet. She's doing Model UN and apparently doing well at it. She's in the Latin Club. She's learning Muay Thai and guitar. Volunteering is scattered - she can't do what she wants - volunteer at the hospital - until she's 16yo, so next year.
Man, more power to him, but I really don't want that to be her. We've resisted starting any college classes. She's already about the youngest in her class. I don't want her to feel any more awkward by being another year or two ahead in college. As it is she won't turn 21 until after she's started her 4th year of undergrad. She doesn't need to be rushed and put in a spot where she's out of place.
