♫Emily, R-I-T, M-O-U-S-E!♫
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captainsblogWell, if she's lucky it could lead to a fairly famous Disney career, but for now we'll settle for being happy that she just took the first step in that direction:)
Last week, RIT sent a postcard saying, basically, check your application status because we're not sure we have everything you might want to submit!
When she got home Thursday, we called, and missed the admissions office closing time by two minutes. A day later when she got home from school, all lines were busy (pesky postcards;), so we left a message to ask what they still needed. Then Monday, during the morning, they called back, and were fairly nonchalant about it: No, nothing else she needs; nah, nothing else would make a difference at this point. That day's mail brought a thin envelope; in my day (bite me, Eli), that was the harbinger of admissions doom, but hers was just an invite to an online seminar for applicants.
Which, as of today's mail, she no longer is.
She is an ACCEPTED APPLICANT:O
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It's her first choice at the moment, which is no doubt a combination of its close-but-not-too-close location (both to us and to where the BF will be, down at Fredonia), its general reputation, its offering of at least some nominal in-state financial aid (assuming this state doesn't go Chapter 11 by the end of the summer), and the more tesh-nik-kul aspects of their animation program that I wouldn't begin to understand.
Eleanor and I know a little about the place on a more macro level. It's a very big, fairly isolated, and definitely butt-ugly campus on the outskirts of Rochester proper, and the male-female ratio is pretty overwhelmingly in favor of the males. From Eleanor's online research, there's also a definite tendency toward heavy nerdery among all students (think World of Warcraft and that lot), and we're not sure if she's ready for quite that much of a quantum leap into the Geek Accelerator.
On the other hand, it's close enough to home for regular contact and even the occasional rescue; we have friends (and at least one family) nearby to give her some sense of connectedness; and its drawbacks are at least drawbacks we know, unlike, say, having NFI about what it's like to live in Ohio or downtown Pittsburgh.
She has until May 1 to decide, and financial aid decisions from all of them will hopefully be coming soon, but we're just thrilled that she has one more button lit up on the comm panel of her captain's chair. It's also pretty feckin' awesome that she's been accepted at as rigorous a school as RIT; I remember some of the relatively few female engineering students at Cornell back in the day, and they were good people as well as good students (not that I had any idea what they were talking about /englishmajor). I'm sure she'll make the right choice, even if she takes a choice and turns it INTO the right one.
If any of you know people who can add any perspectives, we'd welcome them.
Last week, RIT sent a postcard saying, basically, check your application status because we're not sure we have everything you might want to submit!
When she got home Thursday, we called, and missed the admissions office closing time by two minutes. A day later when she got home from school, all lines were busy (pesky postcards;), so we left a message to ask what they still needed. Then Monday, during the morning, they called back, and were fairly nonchalant about it: No, nothing else she needs; nah, nothing else would make a difference at this point. That day's mail brought a thin envelope; in my day (bite me, Eli), that was the harbinger of admissions doom, but hers was just an invite to an online seminar for applicants.
Which, as of today's mail, she no longer is.
She is an ACCEPTED APPLICANT:O
----
It's her first choice at the moment, which is no doubt a combination of its close-but-not-too-close location (both to us and to where the BF will be, down at Fredonia), its general reputation, its offering of at least some nominal in-state financial aid (assuming this state doesn't go Chapter 11 by the end of the summer), and the more tesh-nik-kul aspects of their animation program that I wouldn't begin to understand.
Eleanor and I know a little about the place on a more macro level. It's a very big, fairly isolated, and definitely butt-ugly campus on the outskirts of Rochester proper, and the male-female ratio is pretty overwhelmingly in favor of the males. From Eleanor's online research, there's also a definite tendency toward heavy nerdery among all students (think World of Warcraft and that lot), and we're not sure if she's ready for quite that much of a quantum leap into the Geek Accelerator.
On the other hand, it's close enough to home for regular contact and even the occasional rescue; we have friends (and at least one family) nearby to give her some sense of connectedness; and its drawbacks are at least drawbacks we know, unlike, say, having NFI about what it's like to live in Ohio or downtown Pittsburgh.
She has until May 1 to decide, and financial aid decisions from all of them will hopefully be coming soon, but we're just thrilled that she has one more button lit up on the comm panel of her captain's chair. It's also pretty feckin' awesome that she's been accepted at as rigorous a school as RIT; I remember some of the relatively few female engineering students at Cornell back in the day, and they were good people as well as good students (not that I had any idea what they were talking about /englishmajor). I'm sure she'll make the right choice, even if she takes a choice and turns it INTO the right one.
If any of you know people who can add any perspectives, we'd welcome them.
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Date: 2010-03-10 10:52 am (UTC)My best friend at Buffalo-- who still lives in Lockport-- started at RIT in physics before transferring to UB for Classics. I'll ask her if she'll answer questions for Em.
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