@Nhatrang @sdhotmama @ProfessorPlum168 Sorry for delay…was in Chicago for a few days and off of internet/email! THANK YOU!!! I really couldn’t be more excited for S to have chosen Berkeley! (everyone here calls it Berkeley, not Cal…so we are slowly adjusting! 
) He was successful in finding two other boys to do a triple room, and they seem nice and compatible! One is from Santa Barbara and the other is from D.C…hopefully they will get the room/location they put as their first choice! It’s great that they find out by the end of this month…at UMich kids don’t find out until early August, so there’s a lot of anxiety over the summer.
I have a feeling he will stay in the Bay area, at least initially…and I’m ok with that! I would be happy to move to Cali eventually… I don’t know how long I’ll be able to last in the Chicago winters…one of the only places colder than Michigan!
I really am so thankful to each of you for your advice…I am feeling so happy and relieved to have the decision made!
They have a tradition at S’s high school on the day the seniors get released (other than AP exams, he will be done with school!) which is tomorrow…all of the seniors wear a t-shirt or sweatshirt of the school they will be attending, there is a class picture, and then when the last bell rings at end of day, the seniors run through the whole school and all of the other students (it’s a grades 6 - 12 school) stand in the halls and high five them as they whoop and holler out the main entrance! It is a really fun tradition and I am excited to see S proudly wearing his Cal sweatshirt (glad we bought one when we did the admitted students tour!).
As one chapter ends, another begins…Cali here we come! 