Can’t Live Without College Confidential

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Today, 03:40 PM #1
Roger_Dooley
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 6,011

Planned Downtime Early Thursday AM

We've got some server and software maintenance planned for Thursday morning. To minimize the impact on our members, we'll be starting at around 5 AM EST. We should have the work completed within two hours.
Thanks for your patience. For you morning people on the US east coast, or for others who normally hang out at CC at that time, the "info" portion of CC will remain up…
Roger

03:54 PM #2
kypdurron
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 182

Thanks for heads up! Though, who would even be on that early?

03:58 PM #3
hangooksaram
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 95

Students discussing their SAT scores, which are released 4~5am EST Thursday morning(:

04:13PM #4 5
econ981
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 220

It looks like you didn't pick a very good time. This is when SAT scores are released.

04:28 PM
#5 agreatperhaps
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 166
….really? That's EXACTLY when the SATs scores are released, and most of us will be in school by 7 aka this was a bad decision. 

05:01 PM #6
TheKongo
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 142
Because posting your SAT scores is more important than maintaining the site you go on everyday…

05:17 PM #7
Roger_Dooley
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 6,011
Sorry, folks, there is really no "downtime" when CC is inactive. And, the work is important enough that we didn't want to delay it. Thanks for understanding!

05:36 PM #8 nolife
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 166 Now I'll have nobody to complain to when I find out that I only got 2280 :(

Empty You-Know-What

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'Nest' is the wrong word for the dwelling. Everyone reports that it's more like an empty retirement home, just two old people taking frequent naps on all the extra beds. Here is what some of the mommy and daddy birds are doing:

- Epic vacations

- Plastic surgery

- Long walks with pets

- Zumba

- Commissioning plans to remodeling the kitchen, canceling because of two tuitions

- Cutting back on the housekeeper

- Skipping dinner, then having wine/popcorn/cereal at midnight

- Catching up on films missed for the last twenty years

- Foster child/adoption (100% true – my awesome cousin did this!)

- All sorts of puppy-related things

- All sorts of cooking-related things

- Finding a life coach

- Volunteering, getting roped into events, taking on responsibility of "table captain"

- Changing careers

- Booking tickets, re-booking tickets

- Having lunch/dinner with fellow ex-soccer parents, reminiscing about bad calls

- Sleeping and not sleeping at odd hours

- Finding graphic artists to help with websites

- Making new friends on College Confidential (other Empties whose freshmen won't answer their texts)

- Blogging

AND MOSTLY

- Stalking the kids on Facebook

Excellent News for Ninth Graders

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I love receiving e-mails from readers, but was a little nervous to open
one that arrived from the Executive Director of SAT Programs at the
College Board. Had they suddenly discovered a mistake in CJ’s math
score? How would this affect his upcoming college graduation?Or could
they be writing to apologize for getting rid of the analogies, my
favorite section?

It turns out that the e-mail was about none of the above, but instead offered solid advice for high school freshmen, encouraging them to be more proactive and
how to plan ahead.

I don’t usually post serious info here, but if you’re concerned that your child hasn’t yet mediated a peace conference because he’s still trying to figure out how to open his locker, this piece by Jennifer Karan very much warrants a read:

http://media.collegeboard.com/homeOrg/content/pdf/Freshman_Year_The_Big_Picture.pdf

So much here that I wish I had known when my kids were in ninth grade. It doesn’t go overboard with resume boosters about prestigious oboe competitions or tips about how to get internships with Stephen Hawking. But it does offer stellar, sensible advice like meet with your counselor early on, plan to take the right courses, and start thinking about what your passion might be.

So if you have a new high school schooler, now’s the time to think about the Big
Picture before the serious angst sets in sometime during eleventh grade. And as
icing on the cake, the College Board has come up with a whole Big Future
program, free one-stop shopping that will de-stress the process that lies
ahead.

Good work, College Board. Now can we talk about adding a summer
test date?