Re: Senior-itis?

Rosalie B. wrote:

> My niece got senoritis, and her admission to a prestigious
> Pennsylvania university was withdrawn and she ended up going to
> Carnegie Mellon instead which was her second choice. She had been a
> really good student until then and I think it was her calculus grades
> that dropped also. This was particularly bad in her case because she
> applied to the engineering school.
>
> grandma Rosalie

Carnegie Mellon is still an excellent school. But by the time final
grades came out and her original first choice withdrew her
acceptance, wouldn't she have turned Carnegie Mellon down
as well as any other schools that had admitted her?

My daughter got into her first choice early decision so she
didn't apply elsewhere anyway.

I guess I'm going to need a lot of patience for the rest of this
school year!

I did put one restriction in place though. Her school has a
very flexible PE requirement and there are lots of ways to
fulfill it (PE class or a team sport or verifyable outside activities).

She does it by going to a gym at least twice a week. She hasn't
been doing so lately so I finally told her if she didn't get back to
doing that, possibly by reducing her work hours, then she was
going to have to do it Friday and Sat nights when she'd rather
be socializing. It IS a graduation requirement (and I
am paying for the gym) so she has to do it.

-- Zip

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