Sarah got all her answers to her college applications. We already knew she was accepted at UW-LaCrosse, which was her first choice, but she still wanted to know (and so did I) if she was good enough to get into her other choices. So she was accepted at my alma mater, Marquette, and she was wait-listed at UW Madison. She was a little bummed out about being wait listed, but I told her that it depends on a few things, like the school she was trying to get into as well as how many applicants they had. It also could make a difference being that she didn't turn in her application to UW until the final day of early application period. So had she decided to get off her butt and actually do the application and send it in September when I told her to, she may have been accepted.
At first she was stressing out because she thought that it was going to be a difficult choice since MU was a very close second to LaCrosse in the first place, plus she had seen some of the facilities there so she was a little more familiar with it. Plus, they have a program where, if you stay on track, you do get out in five years. At LaCrosse, once Sarah gets her BS, she'll have to be accepted into the graduate school there to get the degree she wants, and right now, it is a very small school. I looked up the acceptance rates at in 2013 (or was it 2014?) they accepted 19 students out of 300+ who applied. So I worry about that. But anyway, when I pointed out the Sarah the difference in tuition between LaCrosse and Marquette, she quickly decided that LaCrosse was probably the school for her.
So now we just have to work on getting all the other paperwork done, FAFSA, housing forms, meal plans, etc... I forgot how much I hated doing this paperwork stuff.
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