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  1. Yes, the Common app is pretty easy at figuring out who needs what. We sent her scores out a couple weeks ago through the College Board site even though a lot are test optional. There's a checklist the Common app gives on what you need to turn in and what's optional. Though it feels like optional is not really optional unless it's not going to help their application. Our guy said to send her scores to all but two of the colleges she wants to apply to. One was a head scratcher because that school is test neutral and said a score would not be counted against you if you submitted it. He said her school would be on the low end of what they get which is still funny to me as her score is better than 92% of the people who took the SAT. We plan to apply to these Nov 1st schools by Thursday. We had planned on applying early to UT but when we took the tour on Columbus Day they said don't apply early unless you are completely done and ready because applying early had no bearing on getting in or not it just meant you'd get a decision faster. We did an open house of UT-Dallas on Saturday. She has a direct admission offer from them through Common and it would save us some money if she lived at home for the first year. I really want her to go out of the city though, just for her to grow as a person. We are facing the very real possibility that maybe she's just not ready. She's applied to North Texas and was accepted already. I think she just wanted that as a backup. UTD would be fine for her as she could double major in psychology and child development. They told her it would just be one additional course since both are under the Psychology department and share most of the same coursework. She wants to be a child/teen therapist. The direct admission offer is confusing. She's not admitted if she applies. She just doesn't have to turn in the personal essay, counselor recommendation, and teacher evaluations/other recommendations. The admissions person we talked to said they'll just flag her application when it comes in so she's put in the highly considered pile.
  2. It's interesting that the personal essay was not that hard for my kid to write after our guy gave her some help but these supplemental essay questions for a few of these are very difficult for her to complete. Some of them are fairly simple and it's not been too difficult like "why did you choose the major you want to take here" but then there's other ones for some of the smaller colleges that are just throwing her for a loop. It's down to the wire as two of them have early decision deadlines of this Saturday. We'd like her to go ahead because she'll know if it's a yes or no earlier and you can get access to more financial aid with them if you're already accepted. She's also applied to some of her safety schools since a few didn't require her to submit much based I guess on her GPA and SAT scores. She had an in-person interview at a local coffee shop with an admissions counselor from Trinity yesterday. She thought it went well. That's one I could see being a great fit for her.
  3. mdmost

    Brian Kelly to L$U

  4. Ceedee getting in on the great catch theme.
  5. What a play by Pickens. Great throw too.
  6. So we're going to sack the guy that just won us the league out of nowhere in his first year because he can't put it together with a bunch of possibly massively overpriced pieces that seem utterly clueless on how to play in his system? We're in 7th place. We're not near the relegation zone or midtable, for Christ's sake. We're also missing Alisson which is a pretty big deal. We're not winning the league again but nothing is completely fucked enough yet to decide to even think about Slot being out.
  7. DId you look 5 posts up?
  8. I think it came down to not highlighting Vandy two straight weeks. This is also a make-good since they didn't go to Holy War a few weeks ago. Lots of online whining about how they only feature SEC games. So instead they'll pick a boring Big 12 game. It's not a great week regardless.
  9. I don't blame Endries. I feel he's been good when called upon which is not as often as he should be. He's also wide open at times and Arch is locked into his #1 target.
  10. Right. Yesterday, Alabama, who could be the best team in the conference, struggled on the road against a terrible South Carolina team that OU held to 7. Weird shit happens at these away SEC games. I did something I try to never do which was to get on this stupid website while watching to vent instead of just sitting back and watching the game play out. I didn't do that in the 4th and it was much more enjoyable.
  11. I just looked at that thread and laughed at all the stupid miserable people posting in it. I'm sure many were angry that we got the comeback win last night. Not shocked at all with who are the most active on that thread. I'll also laugh when Sark is here next year to further torment them.
  12. I chuckled at Brenen Thompson doing this after we won in OT.
  13. Yeah but given the main reason we have 6 wins this season is our defense, I'll give them one shitty game with Taaffe out. Just take a win any way we can get them with this team. It's ugly but it's also pretty damn fun and hilarious. Imagine you're a MS State fan this morning after thinking you were going to finally get a win against an SEC team and hated Texas at that. Nope.
  14. The defense held MS St to -21 yards on 17 plays on their final 4 drives. The comeback doesn't happen if the defense doesn't play great in the 4th quarter and OT.
  15. I turned to mdleast before we started watching the game and said, like an asshole, there's no way Arch gets the same stats he did last year against Mississippi State. Last year, 26/31 325 yards, 2 TDs. Last night, 29/46, 346 yards, 3 TDs, 1 INT.
  16. We're not a good football team but we show signs of being one at times like in the 4th quarter. We dug ourselves out of a tremendous hole and showed some mental fortitude when we could've folded easily. We may have to ugly our way to more wins given the OL, Arch's inconsistencies, and Sark's tendencies. To go 3-1 in that 4 away game stretch including beating OU isn't bad. It wasn't pretty but I'm not going to apologize for wins nor not enjoy when they happen. I like our chances against Vandy.
  17. That was a fantastic breakdown. As someone who shit on Arch's performance for most of the game, that was a great 4th quarter from him.
  18. mdmost

    Niblett!

    There may not be anything better in CFB that when your returner takes it to the house. Now add to that he's done it in almost 3 straight weeks and each was the spark that led to a victory. He has that Ramonce Taylor magic. I wish Sark would put him in on an end around like VY and Ramonce did against Ok State in 2004.
  19. If you saw his story on Gameday a few weeks back, this is more sad news to wake up to as he lost his battle with cancer. RIP.
  20. ctj is a stinking genius
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