| MomofAPrincess....you may also want to check to see if these particular schools notify only by snail mail or if they have an online notification of decisions as well. Some do but I don't know in the case of those three particular schools. When my older D applied to college four years ago, almost all of her schools notified applicants close to April 1 and so we found out pretty much all at one time within a few days of one another. Actually, a few had online notifications on their site at a particular time of day. I recall this quite vividly. I recall that three schools were going to post decisions on the same day at 5 PM. On that particular day, I was tied to driving younger D to and from dance classes (which for us is 25 miles away and so I must wait at the studio). I wasn't going to be home at 5 but would be in the car as older D learned of those three decisions. Cell phones do not work on the drive or in our town and so I knew she was finding out, including two of her favorite schools, but had to wait until I walked in the tour to hear what happened. It was a very joyous moment because she got into one of her favorites (where she ended up in fact) and into another top school and rejected after a deferral at another favorite. The rejection didn't really matter because she was receiving acceptances at the same time! My younger D who applied to BFA programs heard from a few sooner than the others but many of her schools notified around April 1 or a little before and so we just waited that out.
I realize that people have been posting results here on the MT forum for a while, but actually there are whole bunch of schools and programs that do not send out any of their decisions until very late in March or on April 1 and so basically, I see this period as a waiting period and holding pattern and just a time to focus on something else until the decisions roll in almost all at once.
Just to give some perspective, when my daughter applied to BFA programs, she did 8 auditions and one week following her final audition, she was in a very serious car accident that landed her in intensive care as well as eventual surgery and ten days in the hospital and another ten days in a hospital bed in our living room and so at that point, it was about survival of a much bigger nature. She was receiving her acceptances in the hospital and everything. So, things could be a lot worse than merely having to wait out decisions. You guys will all survive! It is not that much longer. I have a child awaiting grad school decisions which all start to come out beginning in about another week for her. We just put it out of our minds as much as possible during this waiting period. Things usually do work out for every kid in one way or another....keep the faith. |