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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if we financially can't handle private if he moves alone? It was a stretch now, which I didn't want to mention, because I know that's not acceptable in DCUM-land.[/quote]

You don't know the art of garnering sympathy online, OP. You should have mentioned first that this is a military move. Then that private is a stretch. Most of us on DCUM put our kids in public, even though the majority are pretty well-off.

Finally, in all that, you never mentioned HOW YOUR CHILD FEELS ABOUT THIS. Big red flag that you're not all that as a parent.

My advice to you is to:
1. Start prioritizing your child.. If the move can't be helped, then she will need moral support to get through this difficult period, since she won't be able to rely on friends at school during fall of senior year, which is the most stressful period of all. 
2. You're not the type to hire a private college counselor, so BE the college counselor. I hope you have the wherewithal to write every deadline on a whiteboard: when to request letters of recommendation from the old school, when to request transcripts from both schools, when to send SAT/ACT scores if applicable, so that everything arrives before the deadlines. If she needs help with her essays, read them over, don't write them for her. They have to be her voice - college admissions officers are good at spotting that. Etc, etc.
3. I hope you've figured out how to pay for college, in all this mess. My son's in-state flagship is 30K, and he goes to an 85K a year private uni.

Sorry for being harsh, but this raises my hackles. It's not good parenting.[/quote]

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