<p>I applied to a pretty high-reach school early decision because I fell absolutely head over heels in love with it.</p>
<p>I got a pretty standard school in the midwest that rarely sends anyone out of state, let alone to this college. All my friends and family were sure I would get in because I am one of the top students at my school, but I wasn’t sure because my SATs weren’t on par and I wasn’t from some fancy private school. Nevertheless, the morning the letter came, we had a delay from school because of the weather. So at 8, my dad and I went to the post office to see if we could get our mail early, and when the lady came back with it, there was this huge priority mail envelope and the minute I saw it, I started crying. I could hardly get it open because my hands were shaking. But sure enough, it was a ‘Congratulations! You have been admitted…’</p>
<p>When we drove back home, I ran up the drive and almost fell on my butt like three times. My mom saw me running through the window and flung open the door and said, “Did you get it?!?!?!”</p>
<p>And then we hugged and we didn’t really celebrate later that night, but we are planning on it sometime later :)</p>
<p>Our daughter said, “You can go outside and do yard work, right?” when she was to check the Williams site at 8 p.m. the other night. So we got our coats on and started around the block. At 8:10 my cell phone rang and her voice sounded very happy. My husband started yelling “Yay!” and then gave me a big kiss. We walked to the supermarket and bought an ice cream cake.
I have to say, despite the unbridled joy for her, that I’m feeling a little melancholy that our younger child now knows where she’s headed. We don’t talk about this very much, but for parents, everything is about to change. It’s definitely emotional and bittersweet for me. I want them to grow up, and they should leave home, and I expect it, but that doesn’t make it easy.</p>
<p>well, my first acceptance, I almost forgot to check had my friend not called me to ask about my decision. I was working on a lit project.
the second acceptance two days later, I was working on my biology hmk after school and decided to check my account. Read that “your decision is ready”, and freaked out. I skimmed the first line “congratulations” and voila, I was accepted into Chicago. i told my dad 5 minutes later, and he said, “i’m not surprised.” hmph. i got kinda of disappointed that he didn’t even say congratulations, and complained to my mom. My dad overheard, and said “If you get into MIT, I’ll definitely say it.” (chicago and mit were the same day)
so an hour before decisions, I took a shower, tried to calm myself by watching t.v and logged in 10 minutes earlier. Saw that decisions were ready, and logged on to my account. Skimmed the words, saw “pleasure” “admission” “Class of 2013” and yelled “OH MY GOD! I GOT IN!” my dad ran over from the living room, and both of us started crying. I didn’t finish reading the letter until an hour later.</p>
<p>My daughter was checking her online status at a school that was pending quite a while, it was a reach school but located in a snowy part of the country, nice school, wrong location, and not really her #1 choice. The admissions status looked odd, but it definately said something to the effect “accepted”. She was shocked but not thrilled. I knew she had her heart set on a school she was deferred to back in October, that she’d have to retake the SATs in January and jump through hoops to even remotely get moved from deferred to accepted. So that night I helped her log into that account at her favorite “deferred” school, just to show what a deferred status looks like in comparison to this accepted one. After helping her locate the application status at her #1 choice deferred school, all of a sudden the screen flashed and said “Congratulations! You have been accepted to Summer 2009”.</p>
<p>We looked, shocked and silent for a moment, I covered my mouth and screamed, then started crying. D started trembling, crying, reread it a few times JUST TO MAKE SURE, screamed, then grab her phone and texted every one of her friends. Even though she still has a few admissions decision outstanding, we knew this was the perfect place for her, and the next day we submitted enrollment and housing deposits.</p>
<p>She is done! :)</p>
<p>The next day she told her guidance counselor, who jumped from her chair, screamed, and hugged D. Everyone was rooting for her!</p>
<p>My son has been logging in every day to check for a decision from Temple for Fall '09. Today, the good news came. He ran around the house with his laptop open, yelling “look at this, look at this, I’m in.” Our two dogs were barking and running behind him.
My wife and I are very excited for him. His older sister is a great student, headed for her master’s degree at Pitt, and he’s always felt like he was in her shadow. Today was a good confidence-builder for him.</p>
<p>I just got my acceptance letter from Washington and Lee today! After watching many of my friends hear back from the schools they applied ED/EA to, I was definitely anxious to get mine. We just had a pretty sizeable winter storm, so the mail hadn’t come for a few days. Needless to say, being trapped inside while also waiting for my letter was driving me insane. Then, while I was on my computer, my mom told me the mail truck had just passed by! I went down to the mailbox, saw the letter, and sprinted back down the snowy driveway to my house. Once I opened and read it, hands shaking, I gave my mom a huge hug and told the news to the rest of my family. It’s so nice to be done!</p>
<p>I was hanging out with my girlfriend in my room, when one of my friends called me and told me that UCLA decisions were out. I didn’t believe her because I was checking here just about every day and was sure they wouldn’t be out for a while. She insisted that they were out and told me she didn’t get in, so I got up and went to go check. As I opened the page online, I saw that I was accepted and my girlfriend and I just stood there, looking at the screen, not moving. At the same time, my mom was walking by my room and looked and saw us and asked what happend. I told her, I remember the exact words, “Mom, I just got into UCLA.” She came in, started crying and gave me a huge hug and then we called my dad. It was a great day. It was also the first time we really celebrated, as it was a school I’d really wanted to go to and the other ones I got into before were pretty much backups.</p>
<p>Our family was packed into a shabby motel room last Friday as we had no power and couldn’t stay in our cold, dark house. Son was checking his e-mail and found the acceptance to Stanford. We didn’t really celebrate because we had bigger concerns about the power (which finally came on 5 days later). I would say that the acceptance was the one light in a very gloomy “discombobulating” week.</p>
<p>My daughter had been waiting all week for the letter to arrive from her #1 choice school, we knew it had been mailed on Monday but it was now Friday and we were getting frantic. Our mail usually comes around 3, and her school gets out at 2:40 and she’s only five minutes away, so I asked her if she was coming home right away, or did she want us to check. She said we should check because she didn’t want to come home only to find an empty mailbox again. Her good friend got into another school in the same city and was waiting anxiously to find out if D was also going to that city, so the friend was going to come with her. I saw the mail truck and quick called her and said, the mail truck is on the block what do you want to do? She said we should go check and see if a letter came if so she would come home with her friends to open the letter. My husband and I ran to the mailbox (did I mention I was sitting outside in a chair, waiting for the mail truck to come?) and he pulled out the large envelope. We looked at each other and I said, let’s run over to the school! We jumped in the car and drove over, and saw her in her friend’s car with all of her friends, and she saw us, and we both pulled our cars over to the side of the road, D, jumped out, I waved the envelope, she grabbed it and went to open it, she turned around with a huge smile, her friends screamed, I cried, and we all hugged. We then went back to the school (this was right outside the school) where she told the rest of her friends who had not left yet, and my husband and I went to find the guidance director and principal, who had been so supportive, and found them both together in his office and I just jumped up and down and there were hugs all around. We went out to eat for the third time this week (D’s birthday was Monday, she heard from her #2 school on Weds., and this was the real celebration). Now we can have a relaxing holiday.</p>
<p>while i was waiting for my decision too my top college early last febuary + checking the mail every day b/c it was rolling we get a phone call one night from my sisters bf i answer it and i know somethings up…he doesn’t call yeah we love him but he really doesn’t call. he’s talking too my mum and dad and their happy. He asks for their hand and marriage. SO Its 2 later on Febuary 2nd, my sister calls us (shes in laguna beach lived their for years) and tells us the good news, im all jumpy and jittery. Were making fone calls were doing this and that, and the mail comes im like watch it come today. I sort thru the mail and what do u know A large packet from my college and I start crying and call my mum over and im like crying/jumping up and down and my mum knew what happened. My sisters engagement kinda rained on my parade but my brother in law is the greatest guy ever they also rained on my parade w/ getting married but i love her too much too care…lol they got married August 30th i had orientation September 4th</p>
<p>Rice accidentally (?) released my financial aid award letter online before the actual decision, so even though my application was still “under review,” the award letter opened with “Congratulations on your admission to Rice University!” I was briefly dreading the possibility that they had sent this to me by mistake and that I had actually been rejected (due to my still-ambiguous application status). The worst part was that I had to go to work and wait for five more hours before I was able to check my status again. By then, though, it had changed to “admit”! My parents were happy for me, but they’re pretty low-key, so there wasn’t a wild celebration or anything. :P</p>
<p>When I pulled up my Yale decision, heard that fight song playing in the background and saw that bulldog staring at me, I screamed and gave my mom the biggest hug–EVER.</p>
<p>If one of my parents opened my envelope I would have to strangle them. They have been no help in this process and I’ve done everything MYSELF. Therefore, I would like to be the first to know my decision.</p>
<p>Soulside Journey…I know what you mean. I got accepted to U of M which is supposedly hard to get in to and my parents were not even excited! They just don’t understand college acceptances aren’t a guarantee.</p>
<p>Ahh…can’t WAIT to get away from this place !</p>
<p>My dad never liked the idea of me moving 900 miles away from home, so I can’t really blame him. He’s getting over it, and will hopefully be used to the idea by the time September rolls around. Personally, I have no qualms about getting away from this god-forsaken city, either. :P</p>
<p>Parents never “get used to” a beloved child moving away from home. We get used to it, but we’re never USED to it. (When I was pregnant with my son a friend said that I should get a lifetime of sleep before the baby was born because you never sleep well again.) </p>
<p>I love hearing your stories! </p>
<p>When I called my daughter’s guidance counselor to tell her about our daughter’s admit she was dumbfounded. She did win the (informal) counselor’s competition for the best admit. :)</p>
<p>My S applied to Stanford SCEA last year. He was waiting until 5 pm, the earliest possible e-mail notification time, on the day results were supposed to come out in December. I was making dinner, and my S checked the upstairs computer for results. He said that there was nothing yet. He came downstairs to help me. He checked a few more times, but no go. My H came home at around 6 and we were sitting down to dinner. My S asked me to get his sweatshirt from a nearby chair. He has never asked me to do such a thing before, but I was so jittery that I did what he asked without wondering why.</p>
<p>Under the sweatshirt was a copy of the email he had received at 5 pm admitting him! He is such a sly one – keeping it a secret until both his father and I were there. I was screaming on and off for at least 10 minutes. S and H were laughing and grinning. I guess I was the only one who screamed. We just couldn’t believe it! We proceeded to eat our dinner and haven’t stopped smiling since. He just completed his first quarter and feels like the luckiest kid in the world.</p>
<p>When our son got his first ‘early admission’ acceptance it was a cause for celebration. First was simply the thrill of knowing that at a minimum he can go to a ‘top ten’ school. Then, came the realization that this is going to take most of the pressure off the rest of the application process. Now, it is no longer about getting to a good place, it is, hopefully, about having choices. My spouse was terribly pessimistic about his chances of getting in, and tended to be rather foreboding about the fact that he is not taking the whole thing seriously enough. So here is a third reason to celebrate. </p>
<p>Bottom line: the entire family went to eat out. Nothing really fancy, but a shared moment of marking the nice things that life throws our way.</p>
<p>These are so fun to read. I wish my parents would get a little more excited about my acceptances. I got into Fordham and I was so excited and all my mom and dad said was “good job.” No yelling or any signs of true excitement. When I asked they said, “well, we knew you would get in there.” My SAT, GPA, and rank were on par, but still… it’s not exactly easy… :(</p>