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<\/a>Last night I sat with my eldest and reviewed “The Common Application” that two of the schools he is applying for (UNC-Asheville<\/a> and Hillsdale College<\/a>) use in the admissions process. It was rather fun in many ways, he had done much of it, I had filled in dates for him, and together we finished out about 95% of it. Having never been to college (though I did apply and was accepted at Boise State University<\/a> 1979 – go Bronco’s!), it was quite educational. The application isn’t hard, but it is very thorough. I was impressed with my son and his slate of hard classes (he’s an International Baccalaureate<\/a> student) and seeing his interests and activities reminded me of how proud I am of him.<\/div>\n![](\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_i1YtThdp5yw\/TMDYIkbvW1I\/AAAAAAAAAYY\/8__wXyZxYv0\/s200\/scan0001.jpg\")
<\/a>Tonight we finished setting up the last two of his college campus visits (NC State<\/a> and Duke University<\/a>) for next week when he’s out of class for a teacher workday. The last 17 years have flown by, and suddenly the goal we have talked about forever is within his grasp.<\/div>\nLast night I sat with my eldest and reviewed “The Common Application” that two of the schools he is applying for (UNC-Asheville and Hillsdale College) use in the admissions process. It was rather fun in many ways, he had done much of it, I had filled in dates for him, and together we finished out …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zbKo-Q1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}