5 schools meant 5 application fees of between $30 and $55.
Ouch.
Five applications for a teen who may not even go to college now and enlist in the Air Force instead.
One day she can't wait to go away to school.
The next day she can't wait to go to boot camp.
The one common thread seems to be the "wanting to leave here" part.
Hmmm.....If I was the sensitive sort I'd take an affront to her wanting to leave us.
Quite the mercurial child, she is.
And no, it's not the alien teen life form hormones at play.
She came out of the womb not being able to make up her mind.
I can just see her now, after making her parents shell out $200+ to apply to schools, and getting into all 5 schools, and she ups and says forget it and joins the military.
After all, she took the Armed Forces Aptitude Test(the ASVAB)that indicates if you are smart enough to enlist and what jobs or career paths you qualify for. The minimum score to join the AF is 36......a 36 won't be flying planes however. ;-)
And she scored a 93 out of 99 on it so she qualifies for about 98% of the jobs in that branch of the service.
So now she's trying to decide between dropping bombs from the plane she is piloting or performing neurosurgery at the US Air Force Academy Hospital for a living.
She still has the physical fitness test to take before she can sign up to be a Jr. Birdman, er....woman however. The getting in-shape part is proving to be the harder side of things.
Unlike #1 son, who waited to apply to schools until Feb.(not one to jump right on a task, is he?), Daughter got motivated to apply to her choices by the end of September. I think it was more of a "let's get this over with and fast" kind of deal with her rather than a 'get up and go' attitude.
And late last week, she heard back from the 1st of the 5 schools.....the University of Pittsburgh(PITT).
She was accepted into their Pre-Med program for 2011!
Not this Pitt....
This one....
It's no Harvard but the freshman acceptance rate is quite low so we are proud of her.
4 more schools to hear back from plus the Air Force keeps beckoning to her.
But if she decides to go to PITT, you can come visit me at my new address--
Sluggy
c/o The Poor House
13 Broke Lane
ArmPitt, PA
It could be worse. Yes, Pitt is a public university but it's a lot pricier than the one #1 son attends. Daughter will still need $$ after we kick in what we have set aside for her education. Crossing the fingers she gets some academic scholarship monies or she'll have a substantial student loan debt when she graduates.
But Daughter has that all figured out too. If she attends college first, she'll enlist after college and get the Air Force to repay her loans for her in exchange for her service in the armed forces.
That's my girl.....always thinking of a way to save money!
Now if I could just get her to fold her own laundry and put it away.....
Sluggy
