Anonymous wrote:The worst feeling is a defer and then waitlist.

I saw that in Case Western CC page today. Kids with top stats. Then kids with lower stats applying RD with acceptance. Those kids are seriously turned off. My DD made it EA but their FA sucks.

How did Case Western's aid compare with what the cost estimator tool predicted?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, in at WashU. The money won’t work, though.

Too bad. Excellent school.

How did what they offer compare with what the estimator tool predicted?

Got a loan, that’s it. Was hoping for merit scholarship.

DC has other options including a school that gave them $32k/ year.

Moving on.

Thanks.

Anonymous wrote:All of the Senators run together for me. My preference would be for Not-A-Senator.

I just posted that I'm starting to like Booker.

But one of the best arguments against nominating any Democratic senator, or any sane Republican senator, is that we need all of the sane senators we can get.

One of the best things about nominating Biden is that there'd be no chance a crazy person would end up filling his seat in the Senate, because he's not in the Senate.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t love him but he’s a lot more acceptable than harris or Beto.

They’re all kind of in the same lane but Beto and Harris are Cushing him.

Why?

He’s a pretty cool dude - kinda cringe but cool.

It's still pretty early.

I think he'll do better over time.

One problem he has is that, in hearings, he sounds too scripted. He sounds as if he's just saying what his staff people told him to say.

But I've seen him speak in person once, at a roast. He was smart and hilarious. He didn't sound like staffer puppet at all.

I think another great thing about him, for this particular election, is that he's strong, forceful guy. When he was mayor of Newark, he must have had to deal with all sorts of mobsters. Maybe knowing how to talk to mobsters without crying is good preparation for dealing with Trump and Putin.

I think the idea of Chelsea Clinton getting blamed for the terror attack is sad.

But I think a lot of the absolutist comments in this thread are equally sad.

We're all human, and we all bleed. Whether we're Democrats or Republicans, or Jews, Muslims, Christians or atheists, we need to try to have compassion for one another.

That's not witty or entertaining and doesn't make DCUM any more enjoyable to read. Posts about how people in this or that other group are trash might be more emotionally satisfying. But somehow we have try to cut down on delicious hate carbs and shift toward boring grams of compassion tofu.

Given that people may now want to login to use the username forum, I think you should have a login button show up there.

I’m so not used to logging in here that it took my some time to locate the login form.