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  1. So as someone who got his daughter Taylor Swift tickets and is pretty decent at getting Disneyland dining options at the crack of dawn, I could have a chance? Is it you are offered CAP and then the campus selection is right then or is it later after you accept the offer? We went on a drive out to Tyler to look at azaleas and just did a drive around UT-Tyler just to see if that's the fallback option if she was offered CAP. Very small but if you're only doing a year, not terrible. I don't think UTA would be a dealbreaker for mine since we live in Dallas. UTSA would be the most ideal but I get why that's the hardest to pull off. She has a good number of AP credits right now so I guess we'd have to navigate how not to lose those. It's interesting with the summer work. She's taking some online classes with Dallas College right now. I was admitted into UT in the summer of 94 as a provisional student. I was a dumbass who slacked off when I could've just worked a little bit harder to get automatic acceptance back then. Decent grades but just below the cutoff for automatic. I also didn't take the SAT seriously. I had to take a full load in the summer of 94 and didn't manage the GPA that was required to be fully admitted. I then had to decide if I was going to slink back home in shame to attend community college in Dallas or try to get back into UT at ACC. I chose the latter and I'm glad I did but I'm happy they don't offer that program any longer. I definitely missed out on making friends and the freshman experience so I am cautious to have her go through that. As I said upthread, she's had something similar her freshman year of high school so that also plays into whether she would want to do CAP if offered. She's not as gung ho about Texas as your kid. She's been there with her UT On Ramps English class but it wasn't a full tour. I may drive her down and we do the full thing in the Fall. I can show her all the places her mom and I went, the dorm her mom stayed in, the new development that was once my old apartment on Nueces.
  2. Next one on the 90s Essentials. Is this inappropriate to watch with your 17 year old child, maybe. I saw it when I was 18. The 4K really shows off a lot of the gory details like the aftermath of Stuck In The Middle With You. The 4K steelbook is fairly amusing.
  3. Summer long balls
  4. They want Bix for Wonder Woman.
  5. That's from May, my dude.
  6. Or Coldplay is his all-time favorite and Chris Martin betrayed him so it's the deepest cut.
  7. You could post this to any number of threads on this website and it would ring true. Not sure why this incident is a bridge too far for you.
  8. Don't dip your pen in company ink. Looking at you, slorch!
  9. Lol. We're obviously imperfect because we don't get your weird reasoning on this. Again, please explain it since you love to make declarative statements about how we "don't get it". Also, new motto?
  10. So explain how then. You make these statements as something everyone should get. We obviously don't so please show your work.
  11. Intentionally vague immamac is the best immamac.
  12. Social media is what it is. This type of stuff has happened for a while. The only person I feel bad for is the wife who didn't ask for her world to be blown up by her cheating husband.
  13. First day on the internet?
  14. Well anyway. Back to our regularly scheduled sample programming. This whole album is chalk full of samples. It's a great concept album which MF DOOM was so good at.
  15. Are you a thread cop? If you're a thread cop and we ask you, you have to tell us.
  16. I'm not sure on the CAP program details, I just know about it from someone else that was offered it. She's not sure if she wants to spend her freshman year at one school and then transfer to UT only to be behind yet again in making friends and missing out on the freshman experience in Austin. I get it. It mirrors her freshman year of high school that was disjointed for the personal reasons I discussed above. She missed out on making some friends but bounced back in that department. I was honest with her about my UT experience that also started out elsewhere and then made me a bit behind on making friends. Her mother had the opposite experience with all 4 years on campus. So I get it. I think if it is where she really wants to be then it's a good option but honestly, she's such a smart kid and very determined so she'll do fine wherever she goes.
  17. And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling Englishmen from Coldplay!
  18. I guess I can finally join this thread. My kid is outside the top 5 by a wide margin. Her class size is small at her magnet and she had a crappy freshman year due to some personal issues that she's completely bounced back from. She did well on the SAT and wants to take it again to see if she can improve her math score. I'd love her to go to Texas but it's really not in the cards and that's fine. I want her to go where she wants to go because it speaks to her and not because Mom and Dad went there. She wants to be a therapist so she would like to get a degree in Psychology. We're working with a college counselor who recommended smaller schools. We toured Colorado College and University of Denver. We also checked out CU-Boulder and CSU. She loved Colorado College and CU. It's hard not to as both had great presentations and you cannot beat the views just outside the campus. She liked CSU but that was a bit more remote. I feel that would be a good one if they offered some scholarship money. She did not like Univ of Denver but made a friend who lives here in the process so that was cool. We also looked at UTSA since we went down on Saturday for the Trinity University open house. UTSA was more if she was somehow offered the 1 year at a UT-affiliate option before getting acceptance to Texas her sophomore year. Trinity was really great. That's one that I could see her doing really well at. I just don't know how much they could give us to make it competitive but it's worth an application as they don't charge a fee to apply. We don't plan on doing any early decision applications as we don't want to be tied to an option that might be too expensive. None of them really so far have been one where she said she would want to be there over anywhere else...except CU. We'd like her to get out of Texas if it makes sense but obviously don't want to break the bank in the process. She's not really a kid who I think would do well at some of our Texas options. I really don't want her to stay in DFW if possible. Our guy also recommended looking at San Diego State, UC San Diego, University of San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, and Cal Poly. I think the last option is a reach for her based on their requirements. My niece goes there so we know it's good so we may just apply because why not? We're looking at a trip to San Diego in September to tour the 3 there. We're going to Disneyland in August and will take a few hours one day while there to head to tour UC Irvine since it's 25 minutes away by Uber. UC Santa Barbara is a bit too remote. He also said Oregon could be a decent option for her if she's comfortable with its size. We're going to a small college fair in August to also check out those options. I think Southwestern will be there. Any other places we should look either in California or Texas? I don't think she'd do well in the SEC schools.
  19. It wouldn't shock me if 60 Minutes gets less episodes next year. They can't outright cancel it because it generates too much in ad revenue.
  20. They toured without Christine back in the early 2000s. The 2003 Say You Will album and tour didn't have Christine at all. It's not the same without her but it is possible.
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