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  1. chitwood
    Well the boy made his decision. Cockrell School of Engineering at UT it is
  2. chitwood
    It all depends on the school. Some schools give tons of merit-based aid, and some give basically none. Go to their individual websites, particularly the smaller schools and go to their admissions and financial aid pages. Most are pretty transparent. Made the mistake on the twins not to look that up ahead of time and visited some schools that give very little merit-based. Won't do that again with kid 3 so she doesn't get her hopes up.
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    I think we are close to deciding yes to Trinity. She competed and got the Trinity Tower scholarship which is full tuition. Gets the cost under 20K. I think Reed is her slight favorite, but they offered very little $. Would be almost 40K a year more. I also think Trinity provides a great path for grad school. The fact that they have few graduate programs is irrelevant, most small liberal arts schools don’t, and they send tons of students to grad school (including me DePauw grad straight to UT law school).
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    Mechanical Engineering. Michigan State offered him a full tuition and fees scholarship in addition to paid research positions with professors as a freshman. Got the cost to under 10K. Also a chance to live somewhere else since he is born and raised in Austin. That said, he is probably 85% at UT. He got into Cockrell, admitted into engineering honors and got a 10K scholarship. He really likes Rice but they are offering $0.
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    Still hasn't decided. Trinity, Reed, Rhodes, Wooster, Macalester, Carleton? Boy is down to UT, Rice or Michigan State.
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    Hope so. My daughter got CAP’d and applied to Liberal Arts. She appealed and it was denied. I’m not holding my breath. She also didn’t accept a CAP agreement so don’t know if that matters.
  7. chitwood
    Where did you see that? We haven't seen anything.
  8. chitwood
    Pokerrrr2 app is much easier to do with friends. I haven’t set up a game yet, but played a few times.
  9. chitwood
    Haven't heard anything since last spring when they charged the two kids with murder.
  10. chitwood
    Ouch.
  11. chitwood
    Now that is funny. It just seems weird, because you would think something like this would have spread around school pretty fucking fast.
  12. chitwood
    I have three kids at Anderson, including two who are seniors this year, and they had heard nothing about this until I told them.
  13. chitwood
    Oh i posted it. CK is just busting my balls. Posted the Lost Creek shitshow today as well. Need an overhaul in the lesson tomorrow.
  14. chitwood
    48-39 today at Forest Creek. Not sure I hit one iron on the sweet spot. Classic case of trying to get around with whatever swing you have on a given day.
  15. chitwood
    Heard it is supposed to be a really cool muni after they renovated it.
  16. chitwood
    Playing at Jax Beach?
  17. chitwood
    KK<99 all in PF and flopped set of 10s loses to flopped set of Qs all in on turn. One shouldnt play poker on Valentine’s Day (although wife and older daughter are out of town for college trip, so I’m ok on that end).
  18. chitwood
    More likely than not where my daughter ends up as well.
  19. chitwood
    Yeah, I disagree with this. I'm not going to force my daughter to get a degree in something she has no interest in just because it potentially makes her more employable. If I wanted to do that, I'd tell her to be a plumber. This is higher education, not trade school. A degree from the College of Liberal Arts at a prestigious school like UT tells employers they can think and learn and write and communicate. Slapping a Business degree on a mediocre education doesn't make it any better. Now, I do agree that you shouldn't be borrowing huge sums of money for completely shitastic degrees, but I do think there are tons of liberal arts degrees and colleges out there that are worthwhile.
  20. chitwood
    Fucker.
  21. chitwood
    Yeah, I know. Poor kid may never recover. Thanks a bunch. His twin sister is appealing her CAP status, but as I noted she has lots of good options elsewhere if she chooses. It will be hard for them to split up, but had to happen sooner or later (we aren't from Arkansas or Oklahoma for God's sake).
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    Congrats, that is awesome! My son got into the Engineering Honors program and he got a nice scholarship offer this weekend which surprised us. He was rejected by Plan II, which may have been because he can't follow directions and failed to list Plan II or a liberal arts major as his second choice major, which appears to be a requirement. Good life lesson for him to pay attention to details.
  23. chitwood
    She decided to pass on CAP. Going to appeal the decision for the heck of it and see what happens. She got into Reed, Trinity, Wooster, Hendrix, Rhodes and Willamette with all except Reed offering enough $ to be equivalent with UT, so she has great options. Will be interesting to see what she chooses if she gets in on appeal since UT is probably (but not definitely) where her twin brother is going.
  24. chitwood
    Heard from someone who knows that there were something like 30,000 denials and CAPs today. The numbers applying to UT are insane. Nothing UT can really do about it, the state is exploding growth wise.
  25. chitwood
    Sounds like they dropped a bunch of CAP decisions today.

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