Parents of the HS Class of 2012 - Original

[marciemi]

Congrats to everyone with great news - especially you, CPU! (Hey, that rhymes!). And definite hugs to those who need it - son has more than a few friends fitting that category right now.

Big news here is that one of S's good friends, who had been accepted to MIT EA with him (and he was counting on having for a friend if he goes there!) was accepted as well last night to Harvard! So I guess she'll be having a HUGE decision (especially since MIT WAS her first choice, but ya know - it's HARVARD!!). Also big for our school since we had our first person ever accepted to an Ivy last year (Penn, mostly for athletics) so this is a huge accomplishment (and yes, the school is 50 years old and graduates around 450 kids a year - my son last year was the first to MIT as well).

Got the last (Caltech) FA package today - about what we'd received in the estimate so as of now all three schools are still on the table and evidently will be until we return from MIT CPW on April 22. No early decisions here I guess!

Have the two older kids home on Spring Break through tomorrow and had to deal with not one but TWO household crises today (plumbing and electrical) so haven't been here as much as I would have liked!

[mspearl]

Thanks guys. It is nice to have people understand this. Family: my D really liked Hiram and applied there. It has a good vibe.

I think the general public needs educated on colleges and the fact that the big flagship isn't necessarily the best for every person out there.

But Buckeyes fans are a little extreme. I know, I Am one.

[familyof3boys]

Thanks Mspearl, We liked it a lot too and think it is "just right" for our son. We have friends who moved to OH a few years ago, and they say that all they hear about is OSU, as if there are no other schools in Ohio.

Edited to add: After driving through Ohio on our recent college tour, we finally figured out what the nugget/nut? was on the flags everywhere, Lol!

[EAO1227]

Marciemi, I am a parent from 2015, 2013 and 2012 and was lurking...My son 2013 also got into MIT and Harvard and didn't decide till about 10 minutes before the deadline on where to go. He choose Harvard, in the end the meal plan and the housing system tipped the scales....for us it was the financial aide! Good luck with your decision and good luck to the rest of 2012 parents. I am pretty active on the 2015 site and I can say from experience that whatever news you got about acceptances or rejections, a year from now its all water under the bridge and 99% of the kids LOVE where they ended up!

[mimk6]

Well, since we're talking about unsupportive people, here's my story.

My mother-in-law and I are in the same book club, a club she spent years talking me into joining. Early in the week, I emailed the group that I would not attend the meeting held last night. I felt I needed to be here to support DS s he received decisions and to begin to process the information. She called early in the week to try to cajole me into going, unable to really understand why I would choose to be home. Anyhow, it has now been over 24 hours since decisions were released. Has mother-in-law called to find out the results? To offer a comforting shoulder if the news was disappointing or to offer congratulations if it was not? No, she has not. She has found time, however, to intrude into my sister-in-law's decision to allow her daughter a friend for a sleepover the night before my MIL is hosting an event, but not a call to check in with her grandson. And it is not possible she forgot as I was MIA from the meeting last night and she knew why. By now she has probably heard through the grapevine from her other kids some of the news. Still no call. This should not come as a huge shock to me. This is the same woman who scheduled her daughter's wedding three days after the due date of my second child and then booked a cruise to leave town for six weeks after the birth. But it upsets me nevertheless. I never seem to get completely inured to this kind of thing. She's the only grandparent my kids have known and she can't muster up the social commonsense to make a phone call.

[texaspg]

nice surprise in the email - D got into Stanford.

[lisabees]

Texas!!! Yay!!!! Congrats. That is incredible!!

[GeminiMom]

Very nice, texaspg!

mimk6 -- sorry for the lack of support from your MIL. I think some people are just wired differently. Try not to let it get to you (I know it's easier said than done). Your son is clearly a great kid and it's her loss that she chooses not to be that involved.

[1moremom]

My S was also on the fence between MIT and Harvard until the eleventh hour. I think deep down he knew he wanted to go to Harvard but his dad was an MIT alum and an uncle taught there so we visited often. Harvard wasn't even on his radar until the summer after junior year when he visited with friends from his summer program. He spent four great years at Harvard and is now a grad student at MIT.

[lisabees]

Mim, So sorry about ur mil. That stinks.

[mimk6]

Woohoo, TPG!!! That's fantastic! You have some tough choices to make!

[mimk6]

Just got an email from MIL about something else that ended "tell DS to call first chance". Guess she heard.

[CPUscientist3000]

congrats texaspg!


No Stanford

[kathieh1]

Originally Posted by SteveC

The beloved GT English teacher who died at the beginning of the year always spoke highly of Northwestern, but put Chicago on another plane altogether. Can't imagine what he would have thought about having two students admitted this year.

I've slowly been catching up on all the news and this comment really touched me. Just wanted to say that he probably knows and maybe it was partly his doing. In our family we always feel this way as a reverant way of honoring those who are no longer around.. helps to think they are looking down on us and their dreams live on even if there is no way to prove it. His memory at least lives on in the opportunity.

On freedom - My D who is 18 sort of doesn't have a curfew, but she has always been very responsible and not much of a run arounder. This past week though she went out swing dancing with a few girlfriends and then they were planning to come back here for sleepover. I knew the dance was usually over at 1ish.. so when they weren't home by 1:30 I just went to bed. My DH was still up.

Next morning I got up and didn't think to check.. but around noon my DH got up. I said - What time did the girls get in? He said, "I don't know.. they weren't when I went to bed at 3:30!" Yikes! I went upstairs and found my D sleeping .. woke her up to ask what was up.. Turned out they went out to Voodoo Donuts after the dance about 2AM (sketch neighborhood btw) and then IHOP and talked all night and only got home at 8:30. But.. she explained.. she had her phone, so if we were worried we could have called/texted her she reminded me. :P I still can't believe my DH didn't wake me up if he was worried.. I would have called her.

On opposite favorite schools, I feel like we've got something a bit similar with St. Olaf and Pomona. At least StO has the reputation for being pretty quiet socially.. no drinking, etc. and Pomona has free beer. Icy cold winters vs. no winters. etc. but when you have kids who are very open minded they can really see themselves in wildly different environments.. even Harvey Mudd is on her list.

Neither of our schools have the immediate common place name recognition either (sympathizes with Kenyon) compared to our U of O (Oregon in this case). Everyone here is either a Duck or a Beaver - and we've never been either.

Well I'm off to the mall for a bit of distraction.. Keeping fingers crossed on Stanford for everyone.

[kleibo]

Great news TexasPG!!