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I'm not in the habit of doing this, but I know people who are:
Thought for the day...
- Thread starter Wendy
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I'm sure they mean well, but the end result is going to be a huge and serious black market, I think:
Just more old people to euthanize later once they pass the "Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill".
I wonder how many lives that law will save?
UPDATE #2:
Things have turned out well for her. She made the waitlist at two of the schools we went to -- University of Michigan and Cleveland Institute of Music -- and was offered admission by Oberlin Conservatory of Music (generally considered one of the country's elite conservatories sitting in a group just below places like Julliard and Eastman -- while there aren't official rankings of music schools, in part because the specific instrument, teacher, and studio have a huge influence, Oberlin is generally considered to be in the group of about three schools, along with Colburn and Peabody, sitting just below the top-7, which are the schools that produce over half of the musicians in the countries top orchestras). They wanted her enough so that they offered her what amounts to an 80% scholarship, which covered all of her tuition and a good chunk of the room (all students are required to live on campus all four years -- five in my daughter's case since she is planning to double major which, at Oberlin, is a structured five-year program). She may yet get a late offer from one of the other two, which would be a nice feather, but her first choice is Oberlin and she's already accepted their offer.
One funny aspect is that her mother has been getting increasingly concerned that she would opt to go to CU-Boulder because that's where her boyfriend is going for pre-med. Hmmm. Let's see. Take an offer from a top-10 conservatory but be about a thousand miles away from her boyfriend, or go to the same school as her boyfriend but be at a music school that is ranked somewhere around #150. For a lot of 18-year-olds that would be a heart-wrenching decision that could go either way. But we needed have worried. In less than five minutes after getting her financial aid offer from Oberlin she had accepted their offer and notified both CU-Boulder and CSU-Ft Collins that she would not be accepting their offers of admission. Clearly, this girl has her priorities pretty firmly in order. So, they will be trying to make a long-distance relationship work, which is a tough haul at their age. But I think those two have a pretty fair chance of pulling it off.
So, because of the recognition she has earned and the level at which she performs, our cost for her first year will only be about twice what my entire undergraduate degree cost.
She's finishing out her high school experience strong. She and a friend of hers (the cellist from the quartet they formed four years ago and which are still together, though only for another week or two) were co-winners of a local community orchestra's Youth Concerto Contest and each played at their concert last week as featured soloist -- and both girls knocked it out of the park! Then tonight they both were co-winners of both of the Youth Symphony's two annual awards, one for leadership and one for those pursuing music careers -- seems no one can split those two up! Lately they seem to be sharing everything -- I'm just hoping that's not including boyfriends! The latter award comes with an invitation to go to Barcelona and perform with their youth symphony, which is a very strong pre-professional orchestra.
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That was when they used to make the papers large enough to fit the news.
