Our family dinners are smaller these days as we are losing kids to camp. Last week Caitlin went to field hockey camp and this week John is at boy scout camp. It was Caitlin’s third year at the same camp and John’s first year at Goshen so our comfort levels with them being gone are […]
The bags are packed and we are almost ready to go. We’ll drive down today and move Caroline in tomorrow. The trip will take hopefully only 10 hours but the Saturday morning summer track could slow us down. We’ve been through the drama of her leaving us before so this isn’t so bad, but we’ll […]
Caroline is actually my favorite child. The last post was just an early April Fool’s!
Seniors spend most of their 12th grade year wondering where they will really end up the following year. First they have to decide where they want to apply, then see who accepts them, and then weigh options of which offers of aid can be a major factor. We’ve had a long year of wondering and […]
Caroline was born in the wrong year. First there were lots of stories about record number of college applications complete with list of schools and the percentage increase over the previous records. And these lists invariable included some schools that Caroline had applied to. And now come the stories detailing how declines in enrollment are […]
These days the mail is a highly anticipated time of day. The All Star I registrations are coming in – we anticipate an increasing number as the March 10 deadline approaches. It is always fun to flip through them and see the familiar names. The ones with kids we know get opened first to see […]
If only Caroline was going to Harvard, she could get a great education at a bargain price. The other day Harvard announced its new financial plan in which it will charge middle income families tuition of only 10 percent of their total income. This new plan targets families with incomes from $120,000 to $180,000 so […]
Caroline sent her Carolina and her College of Charleston early action applications in by the November 1st deadline and now we are waiting endlessly until mid-December when the letters will come. Early action is different from early decision in that you aren’t required to go if accepted. She would definitely attend Carolina (which is very, […]
This article about helicopter parents of college students summarizes a survey that concludes the children of the helicopter parents are happier and more involved at school than the children of hands off parents. Helicopter parents are the ones who are calling professors, checking that the kids are doing homework, and in touch with their kids […]
Caroline and I toured the College of William and Mary yesterday and were completely under whelmed by it. The admissions talk and tour were all about being the second oldest college in America, the great history of the school, and being considered the best public school in the nation. But they did not try to […]