not really if you consider location important. If your principal desire is to go to school in, say, Chicago you will be able to meet your wishes. Even if De Paul isn't Northwestern, the big attraction is the location so there is some comparability. If your goal is ND, you are only going for ND or Mayor Pete.

Sure, academically and community wise ND is comparable to BC or schools of that nature. Half of Marquette seems to be ND rejections.

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Wow.. I'd probably look on let go for same dishwasher.. low ball the shit out of them and buy it for the part.

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Location? Location is one of the worst things about Notre Dame. South Bend is bad.

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Indiana is bad.

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If you're on a cool campus, it doesn't really matter where the school is. But affordability trumps location anyway, doesn't it? My daughter got accepted into a school in a really hip neighborhood in another city, but I'm a little light on funds, and I am relieved that she did not have her heart set on it. (Fortunately, she was accepted to her first choice, a local school, and is going to live at home, which makes it less financially crazy.)

That's a bummer about ND, Jawbreaker. I am sorry to hear that.

Pretty much. South Bend isn't even good for Indiana.

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I know I mentioned this in another thread re: college admissions. The son of one of my closest friends attended the most elite prep school in the country. He got a perfect SAT. He had a good internship and was a 7 time varsity letterman. His grade point average was okay but he went through a tough time his sophomore year and that really knocked it down, his last two years were strong though. His counselor told him he should not even bother applying to the Ivies. He got waitlisted at Northeastern. I guess that's just how tough it is to get into these schools nowadays.

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Just some unsolicited advice for those that worry about such things. Getting into the highly respected state schools is easier a year out of HS. Killing yourself if you are on the edges of acceptance is not worth all of the trouble. Going to the directional for a year or even two gains you an edge in later and you get the good degree in the end.

Of course, you don't have that if you goal is the really high privates and especially Ivies. Some though do now have their own version of directional campuses.

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That's it. You have to be perfect from day one and also find some bullshit activity that makes sounds greater than it actually is and is probably performed by the parents. It's really a ridiculous system we have created.

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Then you wonder why the privileged people in Hollywood do what they did in the USC thing. Of course, it is not right but people will do anything mostly for their kids to get a leg up.

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Maybe this is why kids are exhausted.

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Pffft. No Tiger Moms on this board.

I should add this because it's funny. When the kid's counselor told him he wasn't going to get accepted at the Ivies he responded, "Not even Brown?"

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Being born in a baby bust era like I was made college admissions a wee bit less competitive which was a good thing for young Squirrel. Might of tested well, had decent activities and gotten good recommendations but my gpa was nothing special.

I taught at a pretty high-powered high school for a while and what I learned is that there is sometimes no discernible reason to applicants why they did not get accepted. I had the chance to talk with admission counselors at Harvard Columbia, and Notre Dame and I was surprised that some decisions came down to things like book lists ("List the ten books you think every teen should read") and what kind of job the students had. (Class, race, and gender were factors, but that's different.) In one case, the better student--the son of a prominent local politician, and one of the best kids I have ever known--got zapped because of his book list, while his best friend got in because "he worked blue-collar jobs as a high school student." (He did, albeit briefly; his parents were close to being upper-middle-class.) As far as ND goes, girls seemed to have an easier time getting in than boys.

I guess most students, unless they are gonna be miserable the rest of their lives, realize that they are fine where they are. Still, some of these schools pop on a resume.

No doubt. What got me into U of I in '88 would not get me in there today....same with NU.

I'm sure I could always get into Purdue or Indiana, though. God bless those safety schools!

#RFDC
#RFDJulie
#BRick

Yeah, this kid ended up going to a small liberal arts school and he's doing great. Things probably worked out better for him than if he had gone to Harvard. The kid is pretty funny though. When he visited his school for orientation the basketball coach asked him where he went to high school and when he answered the coach said, "Whoa, most of those guys go to Yale or Harvard." My guy said, "Tell me about it!"

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Doing some running around on Sunday, and after my last store my car wouldn't start. Had lights, heat, horn, everything, but no cranking. Bummer. At least I didn't have my kid with me and was close to home. Took an Uber home, towed the car to the shop yesterday to have them diagnose a bad key. Yep. The chip in my key failed and of course I have no spare key for the car. So I have to take it to the dealer to get re-keyed and re-programmed.

It looked like this would take at least a week as dealers were all booked up which would have been a total pain trying to borrow a car or catch Ubers while carting a 15 month old around. Fortunately in a stroke of luck, I called Joe Rizza again today and they had a cancellation and can get this done on Thursday.

TL;DR
DON'T BE STUPID LIKE FRANK. GET A SPARE KEY FOR YOUR CAR.

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Those keys are absurdly expensive, aren't they?

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U if I was as simple as an ACT and gpa combo too. You didn’t need directional U as a fallback if you hit those numbers. I bombed out on my stretch schools, no ivy for squirrel (not even Brown) but that was to be expected. Actually was 0-2-3 out of state with one if those three accepting me the day after I got the wait list. God has cursed me with staying in Illinois apparently as that was 3-0.

Friend of my that is overly techie bought a key fob programmer over the internet. You can find these fob things cheaper from guys like that or if you like start your own hobby/business.

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I'm not sure about Fords, but we've had to get new keys for our two Chevy's a couple of times because those cheap fucking plastic fobs like to break, and they've been about 50 bucks a shot. Luckily, the dealership by my house usually has them in the parts department, and it takes them all of 10 minutes to do it.

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Depending on the key, I'm told it will be $120-$300 for a new key and the computer diagnostic to reprogram.

I'll ask them to use lube at least.

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I recall that. The application was like a tri-fold pamphlet. It had chart on the back to tell you if you were accepted or not. Please fill in your name address and include $200 deposit.

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My key guy, if you're ever in a pickle:
http://www.bullislock.com/

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Yep.. A few years latter people were telling me how hard it was to get in and I was like “wtf you talking about?”.. apparently it’s not 1992 anymore.

You really are the big shooter. Expensive keys and not stringing your own guitar.

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I don't know how much it has changed but at UofI there were majors that were virtually impossible to get into without a perfect academic record since you were 3 years old and others that were easy to get into. I think they closed the loophole but I think a lot of people that were desperate to go there went into Agriculture and then tried to switch majors.

The weirdest part of my college choice was that NIU told me I had to wait a year to apply to get into my major but Purdue was happy to let me start right from day one. I don't know if that was standard for everyone but it was a pretty easy decision to not take the chance that after a year of being at a school I was denied doing the major I wanted to do.

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My issue is that the car's computer needs to be reprogrammed as well, and only Ford can do that. If it was just a key I would have had this fixed yesterday.

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Hey when you make $52 per show, it's very easy to buy extra keys and strings.

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