RBOMoney

• Both of the cars we own are no longer in production (Honda Clarity and Honda Insight).  The Insight is really just a fancy Honda Civic Hybrid and they’re bringing back the Honda Civic Hybrid, so I don’t think it’s really so much of a change.  (They’ve done this before.)  I LOVE my Insight.  The Clarity is a bit big for me, but DH likes it.  Who knows what the car landscape will look like the next time we buy cars.
• DH dropped the lid of our le Creuset on the tile floor and it cracked all the way through, both the ceramic *and* the metal!  Hard core.  We can’t get a new lid, but if we ship the entire thing back at our expense, they will ship us a new one at their expense.
• My uni doesn’t have faculty brat scholarships (I have heard there’s a small one but like 1k or less and I can’t find any evidence of it online), but they do pay most of tuition for national merit fellows.
• DC1 got rejected from Harvey Mudd.  :(
• We’re hoping that the straight rejection (not deferral) from HMC doesn’t portend other things from other colleges that DC1 is interested in.  After all, they’re a weird little school that accepts very few people and gets a lot of applicants who are probably completely interchangeable with DC1.  That will be less the case at many of the schools on DC1’s list.
• I am a tiny bit relieved because I did always feel like Mudders got a lot of breadth but no depth and they just take too many classes.  But also disappointed on hir behalf.  And have an underlying concern that if zie ends up at like Vanderbilt that zie will be unable to feed hirself and will end up stunting hir growth.  (I grew an inch in college because the food was good but the food at our boarding high school was literally prison grade.  I cannot go to jail ever.)
• Grinnell has become surprisingly difficult to get into and surprisingly good for computer science.  (But, perhaps unsurprisingly in the current political climate, has been having racist incidents on campus…)
• We’re also concerned that DC1 won’t get into the computer science program at the state school zie has applied to (and been accepted to the university for but not the college).  DC1 is aware of that possibility and says zie would rather spend a year there taking gen eds and then transfer elsewhere rather than going to a different state school and majoring in CS.  Deadlines have passed so no take-backs at this point.
• Would DC1 be more attractive to colleges if zie had skipped fewer grades?  I do not know.
• DC1 is rapidly maturing this year.  But I don’t know that it’s the age so much as it is the short time before leaving the house.
• All the pages about gap years are like, don’t do a gap year if you didn’t get into your school of choice.  It’s better to do a year of academics and then transfer.  But DC1’s academics and test scores are good.  Zie can do school.  It’s the other parts of the application that are weak.  So I don’t know.

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