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  1. His essays could have been terrible, other portions of his app could not have been great, etc. Some of the more selective schools have actively come out and said they aren’t necessarily focusing on the smartest at this point and are going for well rounded students that have a better chance of being involved on campus. One of the kids from our school graduated near the top of his class, made a 35, didn’t make it into UGA and a mix of other known schools. He’s also white, upper class, and wanted to go into the business school which has the highest application rate at most of those schools. There are a ton of stories out there about similar examples. Our oldest is going to focus on trying to get into an Honors college at the back end of the Top 100 schools. She’s been invited to apply for a couple high end scholarship/honors college opportunities so she is going to go after those. After looking at the common dataset in the colleges she applied for originally, she really shot for some ultra low acceptance rate schools. She’s also applying with English as her major and excellent essays, so maybe one of them will give her a shot.
  2. If you aren’t going to get into Texas in state, you’re probably not close to making the cut at GA out of state unless you are applying to a less sought after degree program. The numbers there are ridiculous on out of state acceptance rates.
  3. We own a large IT company that does all of that. Largest customers are 400+ seats. If you’re interested in talking to them, PM me and I’ll send you contact info.
  4. He was getting hit before anyone would have had a chance to make a read. When he wasn’t hit immediately, it was because he had moved out of the pocket and hadn’t been caught yet. It was terrible blocking from the line, the backs, the TE’s, etc. it wasn’t all on them though. The D gave up long plays down the sidelines that should have been stopped as well. The TD from the backup QB should have easily been stopped. The DB’s had some absolutely terrible fouls. No one on that team wanted to play by the looks of it other than DJ who isn’t good enough to carry a team anywhere. Plus, that fumble he had completely took the wind out of what little they wanted to play. This week may top it unless Justin Fields decides to start playing better.
  5. If everyone waited until they thought they could afford kids to have kids, there would be very few kids. Welcome to the wives thread, first time visit? On a serious note, there is a reason storage units are going for astronomical multiples right now. People have too much shit combined with an annuitized billing methodology means 14x multiples.
  6. Picture is not great, but just for the record they do pulled pork that is right up there with anyone’s. We’ve been stopping there on lake weekends for as long as I can remember. You’re not going to find brisket, ribs, etc just whole hog pulled pork served one way.
  7. Finally got contract settled to go ahead and start as well as the last of the appliances, so we’re moving forward. Kitchen renovation is going to cost more than the 2nd house we moved into in the mid 2000’s. Just in time for the kids to be leaving for college too, so it will get a lot of use in the future.
  8. As long as the virgin doesn’t have to be female, you should be able to find a few around here that can piss off your boat for you.
  9. Every time we drive somewhere separate my wife parks on the opposite side of the parking lot for some stupid reason. I’m typically always the first one there and will park where there are spaces together, she never parks there. She wanted help loading a new Christmas tree today, so she followed me over there on my way back to work. I pull in, park near the store exit with spaces all around for easy out like a normal person, she goes down past the entrance to the far side of the lot and parks. She did offer me a ride back to my vehicle, I just walked off.
  10. We have probably officially toured 10 or so college campuses at this point with plans to go to another 5-10 this fall. She is applying to a few she hasn’t seen and we’ll tour them later if some of the ones above them on her list don’t work out.
  11. The concept makes perfect sense, I think her issue was that she never realized where the cutoff was on the seller schools. A lot of the state schools have inflated admissions percentages because of in state enrollment, so when you dig around and find out that OOS is sub 6-8% at places like UGA, UNC, Mich, etc it changes the game. She is terrible at simple math which held her ACT score back which will ultimately mean she needs to rethink where she wants to go, quickly. She’s in at any number of good schools, so it will work out with me likely paying more than I had planned based on her high school resume. It’s just a lot different process than what I would have thought.
  12. It’s dictated by FLSA under the DOL. To my knowledge there are state laws that can provide further protections to the employee but they cannot go below the federal required standards.
  13. Justhookit reminds me yet again of the terrible life choices I have made (or that my wife has made.)
  14. I think every school my daughter applied to other than NYU and W&M (maybe Illinois) required an ACT or SAT score now. Most (especially in the south) have gone back to required or are going back this year or next.
  15. Fuck no, depending on where they will want to go versus where you will pay for them to go. Oldest is a senior this year and is sitting top 10 in her class, will have 8 4-5’s on AP’s which will be the max she could take nonArts/language, a little off on the ACT at a 31-32, and most colleges she wants to go to if she can even get in are going to be no money given because they have moved to a more need based approach or they offer limited performance scholarships. Schools like UNC/UVA she will likely not get into as an OOS. We’re figuring roughly $60k a year if she doesn’t get money to one of the places she wants to go that she can get into like Illinois or William and Mary, but Wake was $100k a year for example. Again, she could go to Ole Miss, Bama, a number of other places for free but she wants to go further north to ultimately end up in NYC/CHI post graduate. It’s been a kick in the nuts going through this process. It’s also hard to narrow schools down when you can’t get into where you really want to go. We’re looking at smaller highly rated liberal arts schools now to see what options there are, but she really wants to go to a large state school for some reason. I think the small private school background she is coming from is driving her to want to be in a big school where she doesn’t know anyone.
  16. I’m not promoting it, but Ole Miss offers in state tuition with a decent GPA/ACT. They have moved up the rankings nationally quite a bit. Bama does as well. Downside, you have a degree from a MS/AL school. I’ve told my daughter I’ll pay full boat anywhere for her not to go to Ole Miss although she has a full ride there if she chooses.
  17. No, tips are the employees not the employers. The employer’s responsibility is to make sure that the employee makes at least minimum wage with tips, but all tips are due to the employee.
  18. Kids picked NYC for their Christmas presents for the second straight year. Looks like we are going to do Christmas week as they want to see it decorated for the holidays. Staying at the Refinery to be near Bryant Park. Past that they don’t have much on their lists if there are any must sees/eats that time of year not listed on the previous pages.
  19. Mine always did group lessons and will still jump into one this year when we get there just a little more advanced. The only time I ever did a private was when I was with buddies and we wanted to do an advanced private. I think it was really beneficial there because we got one on one, but as a newbie just go group. As far as timing, if we’re there for a week we usually ski 2, go snowmobiling or something else and then ski 2 more before leaving. The break in the middle lets everyone take a break and do something else fun. With kids that age it’s a crapshoot anyways. My oldest had zero interest and now just hangs out with mom and spends money. The youngest wants to go snowboarding, but she isn’t going open to close for 5+ days.
  20. My knees are trashed from years of abuse and partial tears, complete tears, etc. The last round of PT I went through they had me work more on stretching the upper and lower leg muscles to get more range of motion in them which helps stabilize the knee and take pressure off them. I still weight train but the focus has been more on range of motion and elasticity of the muscles the last year. Saying all that, I’ve still had to dial back what I do on the slopes and give up wakeboarding completely because there is only so much everything else can cover for if your knees are a problem.
  21. The trend continues, big dollar pool I’m in that pays out half a mil lost half it’s remaining people today. Surprising ones were the earlier games were road dogs won over big home picks.
  22. Projected layups have done a really good job cleaning these pools out over the years.
  23. How is sympathy for random people on the internet any different than commenting negatively on someone that is gone? It’s opposite sides of the same coin. You either think about it enough to notice (which means that person has made some impression good or bad) or you don’t. As far as him specifically, he’s been around a long time and has been interesting if nothing else. Hopefully, he does find peace outside of here. That doesn’t seem like that strange a thought for a normal person. I hope most people find peace in their everyday lives just for the record. Meant to quote the “why” post too just for the record.
  24. Went ahead and got 2 for AT&T also. Hopefully it works, if not I’ll find someone to go see Isbell.
  25. Picked up 6 for my oldest graduation trip with her friends. Depending on move in dates at college we’ll buy secondary for AT&T later on.
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