Admissions Beat

Navigating April

Episode Summary

For one month each year, two admission cycles overlap as high school seniors and juniors share center stage. As seniors wrap up their searches over the next four weeks and juniors shift into active mode, college counselor Darryl Tiggle from Friends School of Baltimore joins AB host Lee Coffin to map a plan for a purposeful April for both classes.

Episode Notes

For one month each year, two admission cycles overlap as high school seniors and juniors share center stage. As seniors wrap up their searches over the next four weeks and juniors shift into active mode, college counselor Darryl Tiggle from Friends School of Baltimore joins AB host Lee Coffin to map a plan for a purposeful April for both classes.

Episode Transcription

Lee Coffin:

From Hanover, New Hampshire, I'm Lee Coffin, Dartmouth's vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid, and this is Admissions Beat.

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If you asked most people how many months there are in a year, they would say 12. If you asked me how many months are in an admission calendar, I would say 13. Why 13? Because every admission cycle overlaps in the month of April. So tomorrow is April 1st. It's not just April Fool's Day. It is the one month of the year where two classes are the primary audience. The seniors have been admitted and need to make a decision in the next 30 days, and the juniors should be getting off their fanny and starting a cha-cha into center stage of the cert. So when we return, Darryl Tiggle, who has more appearances on Admission Beats than anybody else, will come back again to talk with us about what a senior and a junior should be doing during this 13th month. We'll be right back.

Hello, Darryl.

Darryl Tiggle:

Hello. Hello.

Lee Coffin:

Hello. Welcome back.

Darryl Tiggle:

Thank you. It's great to be here.

Lee Coffin:

It's always fun to have you. For listeners, Darryl is the director of college counseling at Friends School of Baltimore. He is my former colleague way back when in the Tufts Admission Office, and he's been an admission officer at Union College, his alma mater. And we've both seen a lot of Aprils come and go. Let's talk about April and give some advice to both the seniors who are wrapping up and the juniors who are getting going. Daryl, what's happening at the Friends School of Baltimore is April dawns?

Darryl Tiggle:

All right. Well, I think I'll play off your 13th month and we're going to call that 13. It's a lucky 13th month.

Lee Coffin:

Lucky 13.

Darryl Tiggle:

It's not the notorious 13. And indeed, my seniors, so the students who are about to graduate, are really enjoying some really good gifts of admissions. And like many students, there are places that they might be a little disappointed in not earning admission, but I've really tried to make them focus their attention and their energy and their love towards the places that have already showed them love. And that seems to be resonating and gaining some traction. They're trying to make sure that their now expiring time isn't intruded upon with our juniors who are at the gate and ready to go. So like you said, those two classes are overlapping.

Lee Coffin:

Well, it's funny because you're trying to counsel both. You've got a set of kids who are veterans of the college admission process. They've got wins and battle bruises and you're nursing them through that. While at the same time, you've got these eager beavers ready to come into the mix, or maybe they're reluctantly coming into the mix, but let's focus on the seniors. So all the decisions are out.

Darryl Tiggle:

They've all got decisions in hand. So the rest of our work is closing the loop on where they'll enroll. And that takes a little more work in terms of finding the right fit, going to visit the places and being thoughtful about what you want for your next four or maybe more years of living and learning.

Lee Coffin:

So let's dive into that. A couple episodes ago, I gave the advice to seniors that you have to play the hand you're dealt.

Darryl Tiggle:

Yes.

Lee Coffin:

Not the hand you wish you had, but you have decisions. Maybe it's just one, maybe it's two, three, maybe it's 10. I mean, I had a girl come up to me accepted the open house last year and she said, "I got into 20 places." And I thought, "Oh my God."" And she was immobilized by that because it was a bonanza of good news that she couldn't process. But let's be more realistic. Someone's got several offers of admission. What's your counsel to that senior about how to narrow several down to a couple?

Darryl Tiggle:

I first tell them, "Look, I feel your pain because if you have two places that you'd like to go, you're in a quagmire because you can only go to one." So I say, you've got to do a little bit of soul-searching. And this is stuff they did at the beginning of the process when they were choosing schools. But I say to the extent that you can, if you haven't, make sure to visit and try to do it when there's live action, like go to lunch, go to class, attend an event that sort of speaks to the ethos, the vibe of the place. So think about the vibe that you want and be able to articulate it. And it's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's okay to be a bookworm. It's okay to be someone who likes to work hard and play hard, but know who you are and see how that intersects with the lifestyle at those schools.

So both through visiting in person, doing the things that they might be visiting your community and giving you some insight, but try as best you can to fully engage the places that you're most thinking about attending, kind of knowing that the academics to a large extent might be similar. The learning and requirements might be different, but the lifestyle, the lived experience, I think is one I really tell my students to lean into finding out how the students interact, how they get along, what their faculty members, what they do when they're outside the classroom and what they do when they're inside the classroom, how they learn, how they collaborate.

Lee Coffin:

I think that's right. And going back to a campus with an offer of admission in your hand feels really different than when you take a tour in April of your junior year or during the summer, even in the fall when you think, maybe I'll get in. Well, guess what? You got in. So you have this invitation that you could activate, but you have to really own it. And I think seeing a campus as an accepted student is eye-opening because you're noticing things. You don't have that worry anymore. You've got confirmation that you've been invited. And I keep using the word “invited.” I hear myself talking even in staff meetings about the invitation to join us. And that's when acceptance is. It's we read the file, we saw a match between a person and the campus, and it's your turn, applicant, to see if that match feels true to you. It may not. And the other thing I've noticed when I see accepted students on campus is sometimes places feel differently at the end of senior year than they did during junior year and senior fall. Do you hear that when they come back, their perceptions start to shift?

Darryl Tiggle:

Yeah, but I think the perception shifts in a different way because before they could only imagine themselves being there. And I think once you're admitted, you can see yourself there. You can put your little sticker on different places and say, "That's where I am."

Lee Coffin:

You can go buy the sweatshirt and know, oh, I don't have to trade this in.

Darryl Tiggle:

That is right. That is right.

Lee Coffin:

So let's give some news you could use. So you just said visit campus. So I think the most intentional visit opportunity for almost every college I know of is a visit day. So whether it's called an open house.

Darryl Tiggle:

Accepted students' day.

Lee Coffin:

Accepted student day. When we were at Tufts, we called it Jumbo Day. At Dartmouth, we call it Dimensions. So there's a program sometime over the next four weeks for accepted students and parents, guardians to come to campus and look behind the curtain. Talk about that. What happens on one of these programs?

Darryl Tiggle:

Well, like I said, you can kind of see yourself there. And I really like the invitation perspective because when we're talking about getting into a college, that's really what they're doing, is inviting you to be part of their community. So just like you might move into another community, go in there and get a feel for the place. And I think almost all of these open house structured programs are going to give you an opportunity to both attend a class, maybe have a panel with students who have studied in that particular major or department. So go there and touch all those points that you can. Go to class, eat on campus, go to all the formal events, but make sure to break off some time to yourself where you wander and people watch and get a feel for how everyone treats their classmates, their schoolmates, and get a sense of the vibe.

Purely social experience…you're not going to see as much of that during the open houses, but you will see the activities, whether it be athletics, student organizations, community service, internship opportunities. These pre-programmed days give you an opportunity to taste a little bit of everything off that school's menu where if you go on your own for a tour and information session, you can get a lot of these things, but they have them prepackaged for you where, again, that invitation, you're coming to their admission party and they want to make sure that you have a really, really good time because that's going to speak to some of the way in which your life will manifest when you're there. So go there when they have it planned, go to the planned events, but also walk off the path so you can see what it's going to be like when you are there indeed alone walking back to your dorm, walking to a class.

Lee Coffin:

Yeah, no, that's really good advice. I love the idea of the admission party. And the other thing for people to keep in mind, you will meet your potential classmates and you get a really interesting and important opportunity to check out the potential peers and ask yourself, do these fellow admits feel like my people?

Darryl Tiggle:

Indeed.

Lee Coffin:

In whatever way you want to define that. Indeed. But you may say, "I love everybody I'm meeting." Or you might be like, I don't know that this is it. That's really important because these are the people you're going to spend a lot of time with.

Darryl Tiggle:

And I have to say, and this is not as scientific, but if you've been thorough and thoughtful about your college search, when you go and do that visit, that feeling that you get, it's a pretty good way in which to follow your heart and your mind because you've already done the really diligent research and now you're trying to feel how it feels. And that fit is super important.

Lee Coffin:

Yeah, I agree. And you're going to know, seniors, it's going to almost every time be “bing” and you may not know which campus is going to be the “bing,” but you're going to get this point where you're like, "This is it." And it may not be the place that was in first place when your search started. It was fifth and it just kind of leapfrogs up and you're like, oh my God, I see myself. And so you have accepted student programming, that's really important. What do parents do during those programs?

Darryl Tiggle:

Depending on, I think the relationship with the child. Some of them want to walk lockstep with the parents and with their child and see the things that they're seeing. They may not go to class with them, but I think parents are really looking for the same things. They're not going to be going to class, but they want to know what the academic environment is like. Is it super competitive? Is my child going to thrive here or are they going to need to be chasing their tail all the time? Many colleges, and I think this is a great thing, they do specific things for parents. So they'll have breakout sessions for parents. I've seen some where they even separate parents purposely from the students when they get to campus so that the parents can go and, again, breathe in the place and find out the type of environment where their child will be going to school.

But parents, no offense, a lot of your influence or preferences at this point are going to be in the backseat to your child because they are making most of that final call. But yeah, we're looking out for the parents too. And we want to make sure that they understand the tenor of the place where their child is going. But it's mostly an 18, 19-year-old event.

Lee Coffin:

We are a place that has a parent track and we say to them, "Let go, let your students go find their way." And I will see parents at the end of the day and I'll say, "How's it going? " And they'll say, "I haven't seen her all day." I think, "That's great. That means they're happy and they're off playing."

Darryl Tiggle:

Parents, if you know that your student needs academic support in any way, go to the academic support center. If they need mental health, personal support while they're in school, that's a good time to go and do that research. If you're still working through the financial aid process before you come to campus, make an appointment to see if you can meet with financial aid when you come to open house. And the financial aid folks, regardless what people tell you, are the most generous, kind people on campus, but they're dealing with lots and lots of important numbers. So please help them help you. And to the extent that you can make time for them, they'll make time for you.

Lee Coffin:

Yeah, great. That was great advice. And I would add, if you are coming to campus with a plan to meet with a financial aid officer and you've got, bring the new information with you. Yes. So if there's something that you think might've been overlooked, bring whatever financial information, documentation, data that you want to hand to the financial aid officer and say, "Can we rerun the information with this and see what happens?" But parents, I agree with Darryl. Certainly come. You are part of the extended community, but it's the time to plan to go sit in a coffee shop or maybe hear a president give a talk while students are gone and reunite at the end of the day. And I'm not kidding, when they want to go to the bookstore to get the sweatshirt, you know you've got a decision at hand.

Darryl Tiggle:

It's a wrap.

Lee Coffin:

That's a wrap. The other thing that could happen at an open house is an overnight. Now, some places have stopped hosting students in the dorms as part of these programs, but some places still include an optional bring your sleeping bag, sleep on the floor in the dorm room. Any advice to students who are doing an overnight?

Darryl Tiggle:

If you can, if that's available to you, please try to take advantage of that opportunity.

Lee Coffin:

Why?

Darryl Tiggle:

Because a lot of what you won't see during the daytime, you'll see in the evening, you'll see the dinner crusade. You might go to a social event, you can go to an athletic event, but you also spend some time in the dorm. You're going to spend a lot of time when you get to college. You'll likely have to maybe go to the library with them and read a book while they're studying, and you'll get an idea of what the academic pace and environment's like. So if you can do an overnight or shadowing a student during the day, that's a really good way to try this on for size. And for many years, that was my main portfolio, getting young people on my campus to host new young people that we'd like to invite to our community.

And I tell you, that was the single biggest conversion to someone coming and saying, "I think I want to come here." And then when I was putting them on the bus to send them home, they were telling me they'd see me in September.

Lee Coffin:

Yeah. Yeah. The overnight could be powerful. It could also go awry.

Darryl Tiggle:

It could.

Lee Coffin:

Yeah, it could. So just a little word of sober caution here. Yeah.

Darryl Tiggle:

Remember that you're still perspective until you arrive.

Lee Coffin:

You're still prospective. And I use the word “sober” caution intentionally. It's not an invitation to come to campus and crash a fraternity party. I had a host once come to the admission office and say, "My prospective student never came back to the dorm." And I thought, "Really?" And we hunted down said person, and I'll just say he had had fun, and it turned into a sticky reprimand. So be mindful that you are a guest on the campus. You are experiencing someone's hospitality by staying in their room with them. Be gracious as you share that space. So anyway, it's one of those hidden little parts of this April moment where it almost always goes really well, but every once in a while I put my head down on the desk and I say-

Darryl Tiggle:

Only takes one bad apple.

Lee Coffin:

It only takes one. Yeah. And then the other thing that could happen this month is an accepted student event if you're in a big city in that place. So Darryl, you're in Baltimore. It wouldn't be unusual for a college to say, "Hey, let's gather all the admits from maybe Metro, DC, Baltimore, and have you come to someone's house and have an event." So what happens at those?

Darryl Tiggle:

Well, it's a really feel good event because it's typically an alum who is opening up their home and inviting other alums and current students from the area. And although it's a recruitment event, it's really more of a social experience. They'll have refreshments and you'll sit in the backyard or around the pool and really talk about the lives that those alums lived while they were undergrads, or you'll meet current students who can tell you're really up close and personal everything you need to know. And because it's a home setting, it's a really comfortable way to ask sensitive questions, difficult to ask and big setting type questions. And if you're a people watcher like me, as you drive up to the house, you say, "Wow, here's someone who's made a good life for themselves." When you talk to the people that are at the event, you might meet a doctor, you might meet a lawyer, you might meet an environmental scientist, but you'll also see what the lives of the people that have gone to those schools transform them into.

And that's super powerful. That's super impressive.

Lee Coffin:

Yeah. And it shows you the local network. A student coming home on break, you maybe do an internship with one of these alums and you're getting a sense of the presence of that college in your hometown. There's lots of different ways that April plays out for a senior. How does a senior start to narrow it? If you get into six places, do you need to carry all six through May 1st? If you look at your acceptances and you realize it's really down to three, do you say no thank you to the other three early or do you wait?

Darryl Tiggle:

Yes.

Lee Coffin:

How do you start to narrow this?

Darryl Tiggle:

So to make the process, and like we said before, even if you have two places that you want to go, that's one heck of a decision to have to make. So if you've got four or five or six and you know that those aren't going to be in the final heat, take them off your list so you take them off your mind, but also in the karmatic way in which admissions what works, let that college know that you're not coming. They might be able to bring someone off the wait list that will take that space. And as you narrow it down, like I said, any more than one is a couple to juggle. It gives you the bandwidth to really have the time to spend to go to that place, to research that place, to reach out to students and people at those places. And if you're reaching out to two or three places you've narrowed it down to, that's going to be a lot less legwork than five or six.

And I think the quality of the research and the questions and the feedback that you're getting, you're going to be able to go a little bit deeper when you think about your last two or three places. And I know it's a difficult thing. You've worked so hard to get into all those places and you're like, "Wow, I got to cut this great school off my list." But we can only go to one, so we're going to find the one that fits us best.

Lee Coffin:

To seniors, to parents, really important advice because as a place starts to fade out of contention for whatever reason, it's time to let it go. And that certainly is true when you get to May 1. I mean, you have to say no thank you to all of the ones that you don't choose. But letting colleges know earlier that your plans are moving in another direction is an act of kindness to your peers who are still on the wait list at that place. So Darryl, as a last stop on the senior junket, how about the wait list? What counsel do you have to the wait listed kiddo in this 13th month?

Darryl Tiggle:

My real simple advice is giving them an old saying that used to totally confused me as a child, but now I understand. I go, “the bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush.” Your birds in hand are the places where you've been admitted. Hopefully, maybe hopefully your wait list will work out. So what I tell students to do, if they're on the wait list, if they are inclined to stay on the wait list to try to vibe for admissions to that school, accept the place on the wait list, do whatever next steps should be done to stay on the wait list, but then wait on them. I think focus your energy on the places where you've been admitted because those are real opportunities for you. The wait list, let them know that you're interested. Respond, maybe send a letter of continued interest if they accept that.

But until the wait list becomes a reality to you, I really want my students focusing on the places where they can enroll tomorrow. And the wait list is one of those things that it's kind of hard to predict. It largely depends on the behavior of the other students to whom have been offered admission. So I say that's one of those things that we can see that's on the horizon. So let's not try to manipulate it at our table now. When we get to that point on the horizon, then we can deal with that opportunity.

Lee Coffin:

Right. And people don't like that advice.

Darryl Tiggle:

I know.

Lee Coffin:

The first word in wait list-

Darryl Tiggle:

Is wait.

Lee Coffin:

... is wait. And I get questions all the time, "Well, when will we know?" And, "So we told you not until May 1st, if then. It may be June 1st." But you're waiting to see how the enrollment situation clarifies as you move through April. So releasing an offer helps clarify, but hanging on to an expectation is also not playing the hand you're dealt. Make a choice and then maybe May 15th, May 20th.

Darryl Tiggle:

June 1st.

Lee Coffin:

A new offer materializes and then you have another decision like, "Do I like where I am or do I want to continue to look at this?" But I think the best advice I would give a senior is don't spend April looking forward to something that may never happen.

Darryl Tiggle:

And something I've found really refreshing in my students this year, they've been so pleased with their admissions offers. A lot of them have opted not to wait.

Lee Coffin:

Not to stay on the wait list. Yeah.

Darryl Tiggle:

They've gone and moved forward.

Lee Coffin:

There's clarity. I mean, we keep a wait list because it is pragmatic. You have to have a way of making sure your class is whole as it moves into the summer. But for a student, you might say, I'm done. This is the group that chose me. I'm going to pick from this group and then let's move forward. Okay. So the seniors are in the final chapter of their college search. The new seniors is as soon as you enroll somewhere, the college admission process for you is over. This March through my world ends and you can start doing all the pre-matriculation stuff, which we'll talk about in a later episode. But for seniors, this is your homework this month. Is there a clear choice? Have you thought about it? And when it's ready, make the decision. Okay. So that's the 13th month for a 12th grader.

Let's pivot to the 13th month for the 11th grader is really the first month.

Darryl Tiggle:

The 1st of the 13th. I gotcha.

Lee Coffin:

Yeah, the 1st of the 13th. So you've been doing junior program and having meetings February, March, you're getting your engine ready. The race begins.

Darryl Tiggle:

It does.

Lee Coffin:

April is when, if you are a member of the high school class of '27, April 1st means start paying attention. Why do I say that, Darryl?

Darryl Tiggle:

Well, so for a few reasons. The most practical reason for me from an academic standpoint is that you're going through the end of your junior year. You want to maximize your potential academically. So you're finishing as strongly as you can. And April still gives you a month and a half, two more months to make sure that you're really nailing down your academic work. And then April, although it sounds like college admissions is done for seniors, it's not done for college admissions offices. That's when they start their next cycle of recruitment and seeing students. So in that April of junior year, and we've probably been working with them for a couple months. I'm at a smaller private school, so we get to work with them a little bit sooner. But what I try to tell them is we're going to talk about the process. We're going to start imagining your college list.

One of the things that really good about [visiting in] April is that come May, college students disappear. If they go home, school's over. And there are certain kind of schools you can see at any time in the year, you can go there during the holidays and you're like, "Yep, I got a good feel for it." But a place that is a residential community, like the small to medium-sized students populations, you've got to see them in live action because they're amazing. They're amazing when students are there. They're beautiful when students are not there. But if you can get there when there's classes going on, some activity, it really gives you an opportunity to see what type of place it is and begin seeing if it's a good fit for you.

Lee Coffin:

No, that's right. And I liked your advice about finishing 11th strong. I say to students all the time, 11th grade is going to be the last year that's finished. So your transcript through 11th grade is going to tell a story. 12th grade, it's moving. 11th grade sets up 12th grade. If you apply to a place with required testing, you might do some testing in April.

Darryl Tiggle:

That's right.

Lee Coffin:

It starts to guide you into your senior year. If you're a place that offers AP exams, you're going to do them at the end of 11th grade. That could be useful as you move into the college admission cycle. So junior spring isn't just prom and get your driver's license. Those two things are true, but you have this early homework. Your to-do list is now active. And the other date I'm going to put on the junior watch list is August 1st. So what happens on August 1st, Darryl?

Darryl Tiggle:

The new version of the Common Application is released. And the important piece there is that colleges, many of them, most of them will require students to say something about the college, why they're interested in the college in an essay form. And those essays will change from year to year a little bit. And August 1st is when the new release of all the essays will come out with the common application.

Lee Coffin:

Yeah. So not in April, but April begins the journey through end of junior year into the summer. August 1st common app is live and things start to get real.

Darryl Tiggle:

So April is also April to May is when the seniors in your class have decided where they're going to go. And then come May, no offense seniors, they kind of fade into their next phase of life. It's a really good time to get some fresh advice from people who just went through the process as to why they chose the school that they chose. So it's a good time to interview your 12th grade schoolmates to get a little more insight about how their process went, things that you might be able to glean from their experience, so stealing from some of their good knowledge.

Lee Coffin:

I love that advice. But Daryl, could an 11th grader get intimidated by a 12th grade's experience?

Darryl Tiggle:

If they asked them in January, yes. But if they ask them once they've enrolled, I think it's a much more likely, very positive conversation. Because I say this and I haven't tested this theory, but I often say that once my students have enrolled where they're going to attend, if you stop them in the middle of the street and say, "Hey, where else did you get admitted?" I don't think they can say it. I think they become so now a Dartmouth ... What do you guys call...

Lee Coffin:

The Big Green.

Darryl Tiggle:

The Big Green, right? Or you become a Hopkins Blue Jay where you don't even remember what went on three weeks ago. They've become their next life.

Lee Coffin:

But Darryl, I love that reflection because it's reassuring. I think back to the seniors as they hit the 13th month. There's this like, "Oh, I got in. " And now the frenzy seems to move into this new phase. But the silver lining here is when you make a decision, there's a zen that kind of comes with it. It's like, "I have a place."

Darryl Tiggle:

Yes. A new home, a new landscape to go and be brilliant.

Lee Coffin:

Yeah. Okay. So everybody, April, 30 days, not 31. It's a busy month. As you move through the next 30 days, seniors, the hourglass is winding down. The sand is almost out of it. That's good news. Just keep your wits about you. Don't hyperventilate as you think about the decision that's coming. Go to the open houses. Follow along on social media if that's your jam. Go to programs, see what feels right.

Darryl Tiggle:

And have fun. This is when it becomes fun. You've done all the work. Now enjoy the spoils of your good work.

Lee Coffin:

Yeah. And for juniors, I would give you the same advice. Have fun. You're starting, you're testing out things. If you have an April vacation, go visit some places. Some colleges have open houses for juniors who will be applying next year. I went to one last year with my niece and it was really interesting to see this fresh set of eyes taking in the campus for the first time and learning what's the rhythm of this thing called the college search. But April is the month when the junior has to start moving forward. You can procrastinate and say, "Oh, I'll start in October." Then you're in a sprint. If you wait until the fall, this becomes more stressful because you're rushing to do things and visit and clarify lists. April, you've got time to have a smooth onboarding.

Darryl Tiggle:

Indeed. Indeed.

Lee Coffin:

So Darryl, last thoughts on April as we wind up.

Darryl Tiggle:

I'm going to say for juniors, because I think our seniors are pretty well down the road, so as we start thinking about fit and trying to find the place that'll be the best fit for you, and this is going to sound kind of crazy or unusual—think about who you are. Who are you as a scholar? Who are you as a community member? And how do you want that to manifest in your college experience? And then think about the writing that you're going to have to do for the next nine months or so. And I kind of split the writing into two sections. You're going to write your personal statement, which essentially you're telling the college why you. And the why you, you might have a pretty good handle on that already. "I'm really driven. I'm really ambitious. I'm super resilient. I'm a tenacious academician."

Start thinking about who you are and how you want to present that in your personal statement because you're going to say to almost every college that you apply to, "This is who I am. This has been my background. This is something I've overcome. This is something that has helped change my outlook on the world or stretched my mind." Start thinking about how you want to tell the world who you are, because that's essentially what your personal statement is. You're telling the world who you are, a piece of who you are. So start thinking about the colleges that you want to go to, but start thinking about who you are intellectually, spiritually, socially, so that you can present that in the most brilliant way in your application.

Lee Coffin:

Good advice. Darryl, thank you as always for-

Darryl Tiggle:

Pleasure.

Lee Coffin:

... being on Admission Beat. Listeners, hope this was a helpful primer on the next four weeks. Keep coming to you every Tuesday with some new advice. For now, this is Lee Coffin with Darryl Tiggle. Thanks for listening.

Darryl Tiggle:

Thank you.