Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is the time of year in the U.S. when seniors who have applied to highly selective schools are pretty nervous. In the school counseling process they are told about Andover students who had great grades and test scores who are not admitted to any universities. When these young adults tour the campuses all the admissions people talk about the importance of taking the toughest classes as well as social activity, the fact that they receive ten to twenty applications for every spot available. Toward the end of February, my daughter was bemoaning the fact that she had not started an orphanage for tsunami victims in our back yard. Every day that one of her friends crowed about being accepted at another school was both a good day and a very bad day: as a parent I could not tell her that the only admission worth being excited about was her friend's acceptance to Yale, the others were mid tier schools hoping to get lucky. Thursday night two of her acceptable schools called with acceptance and one a large merit scholarship: I was lucky enough to capture her dancing through the house in a tiara and a pink feather boa: http://gallery.leica-users.org/album143/maryaccepted Comments always welcome. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com