[AGDee]

I really think he's going to be fine at Michigan. I think he will come to love it after that first Saturday in the student section in the Big House. I also think that it will greatly increase his confidence once he gets comfortable there. He will get comfortable there. Some of this may have been happening even if it was Brown because, honestly, he's the kid who has always had a hard time dealing with change. In some ways, Michigan will help with that because he'll be close enough to come home whenever he wants.

He had joked a few weeks before those final decisions came in that if worse came to worse, he would go to Michigan, be in the RC and marry JS- last year's valedictorian and homecoming queen. We met up with her after our tours were done and she showed him around the dorm, the classrooms, the cafeteria, the theater, the gelato shop and the coffee shop. She showed us her room and he met one of her friends who will probably be in a class with him in the fall. They were really nice and talked about how much they love it there.

The girl who lives across the street from his dad is also in the same program. Even though he "married" her when he was 4 and she was 5, in her backyard, under a tree, he doesn't care for her now. He did mention that he wished she wasn't there. It's not like he has to hang out with her.

Ironically, he really liked the girl he knows at K a lot at one point too, but then she dated one of his best friends so she became off limits...lol. She looks a lot like Hypo and people actually used to get them confused because they were in the same band section.

In another funny twist, my best friend since kindergarten had a baby girl two week after I had Hypo. When I called her to tell her I was pregnant with Halo, she laughed and said she was pregnant too. Our boys are a few weeks apart in age also. Her son is going to Michigan too.

Michigan is also our most economical option and is cheap enough that I can afford his football tickets and also fraternity dues. At the point when Hypo graduates, I probably won't qualify for financial aid anymore and at Michigan, his housing costs could really drop because he'll move out of the dorms and into an apartment or house. OR, he could apply to be an RA. Overall, this could be a very affordable education for him, leaving him with very little debt on graduation and in a good position for grad school. If we had some sort of financial disaster, he could commute to Michigan- another real bonus. It wouldn't be fun, but it could be done.

He has accepted his spot on the waitlists although he's not sure he'd go to Oberlin at this point. I think they hurt his feelings. He would definitely go to Brown and he has written the admissions counselor, updated some of his activities, let him know he would definitely attend if accepted off the wait list and finished the letter with a note that if he can't get off the wait list, Brown will be #1 on his list for grad school. But realistically, they haven't used their wait list in 2 years.