[DubaiSis]

It sounds like you have a good grip on it. I can't imagine you'd need to spend more than a couple hundred dollars, and I would NOT recommend getting new shoes for recruitment. She could get a new pair of sandals or two at the beginning of summer and make sure they're fully broken in by fall.

I am so picturing my Dad through all this. He wasn't involved in the least in my rush, but he did have a way of pushing my buttons (still does!) that my Mom has had to tell him more than once to shove a sock in it.

Remind her to keep her grades up and have fun through her senior year. Oh, and if she hasn't written her resume yet, she should do it now. It may give you an idea of any holes she needs to fill while she still has time.

And although it's too soon to start getting recs, it's not too early to start figuring out who's who so that you're ready to make the requests in 6 months.

Oh, and do us a favor and have her read through some of the threads here where girls didn't end up in their dream chapter but turned out happy. It makes "us" so crazy when girls are knee-capped by getting released from houses during recruitment or spread around a lot of blame instead of just accepting that it's just how it goes.