<p>Claire1016:</p>
<p>That’s great! My niece is applying to Fordham as a transfer and she’d LOVE to get that news.</p>
<p>When I got my first acceptence letter I was frantically happy so I punched a hole in the wall, but i put my acceptance letter in it so my mom found the hole and the acceptance at the same time and it balanced out</p>
<p>Funny, we had a very different experience several years ago.</p>
<p>My daughter was initially placed on the wait list for Carnegie Mellon and was then told by them that she was admitted off the waitlist. She was so unhappy that they didn’t take her initially and that they wouldn’t match any financial offers made by similar schools (which they would do if she weren’t waitlisted) that she rejected their offer!</p>
<p>She loves her current school and has never regretted her decision.</p>
<p>I always get the mail to begin with but when I saw the small envelope from Utica I’m thinking “Oh gosh, I’m not getting in” then I opened it up and it said “Congratulations!” I started screaming and told my mother who was also in the kitchen then called my father at work and he was very excited as well.
Canisius sent me a large package and when I opened it I saw “Congratulations!” again I screamed haha and called out to my parents who were in the living room.
We went out for dinner both nights and enjoyed it.</p>
<p>Thanks ellebud. I hope she gets some good news as well :]</p>
<p>I got into st. joseph’s university today with a presidential scholarship and finally I saw some excitement! I screamed and I called my mom, then my uncle who graduated from saint joseph’s and loved it, then my grandpa, then my dad. haha. I’m still leanding towards fordham slightly, but I still have to wait on all my RD schools.</p>
<p>So I applied ED to my number one school and was not expecting my notification until today. But last week I didn’t go to school on Friday b/c of a concert. Well I drove home Friday morning and typically I check the mail religously if I don’t go to school, but this time I went and took a shower and left for work.</p>
<p>the weekend before i had told my mom not to open any of my mail. b/c i wanted to open (hopefully) my acceptance letter. well i am at work on friday and next thing i know my mom walks in the back door and at the same time the owner, a colonel and dean of a college, whom wrote a recommendation for me walks in. So i ask my mom why she is here and she tells me, “the school needs you to fill out a form for finacial aid” and i say “ok”.</p>
<p>so i satrt reading the letter which i should have realized was nothing for finacial aid and it took me to the last paragraph, after they have already said congratualtions, etc., when i read glad to see you in september in 2009, that i realized i got in. </p>
<p>i look at my mom and all i can say is “wait” and she starts to cry. so then i call my dad who says “damn you, now i have to pay 50K dollars but atleast i can keep my beer mug.”
memorable moment and 5 minutes later i was working. the kicker came three days later when i recieved a letter saying i had been awarded 45K in scholarships and aid.</p>
<p>Due to the legislation in Texas, I got into the University of Texas-Austin in October due to being in the top 10%. I applied early, and one day in early October I received an e-mail saying I was accepted. I felt a bit cheated because I already expected it.</p>
<p>I’ve always wanted to go to MIT. While waiting for the decision, the following two thoughts ran through my head, in an alternating pattern:</p>
<ol>
<li>There’s NO CHANCE that I’m getting in. Look at my so and so and there’s this and that.</li>
<li>There’s no way they’re NOT accepting me. I’m a shoe in! Look at this and that, etc.</li>
</ol>
<p>I got my decision online in the morning. It was so nerve wracking. Anyway, I logged in, and saw my acceptance. I couldn’t really believe what I was reading! I jumped up once in joy and then went to have breakfast with my folks, free at least for a little while, of college application worries. :D</p>
<p>I was checking my email, and I scrolled down some unwanted messages to delete. I then saw UC Riverside sent me a message. I thought they wanted more information or something since I only applied two weeks ago. I then read the email, and I saw I got accepted! It was monumental. I was told I would never go to college based on a disability I have. It was a sweet, first victory. I’m still waiting to hear from the other schools. Even though I was accepted, I’m still unsure about the others.</p>
<p>When I told my dad, he told me that UCR was a bad school. However, he has since changed his mind based on their engineering programs and supportive staff.</p>
<p>I love reading these stories.
hopefully a year from now I’m going to be celebrating my acceptance into Yale, as well as posting my own Dec. 15 adventure</p>
<p>These are such great stories to read.
I hope that a year from now I’m going to be on here celebrating my own acceptances and telling my own stories.</p>
<p>I love gladmom’s story. I think I’ll do what your son did! ahha</p>
<p>I wish I had a celebration story…My family thought MIT was in Manhattan.</p>
<p>I just got my first acceptance letter, its my backup but it was still exciting.
i was out of town, in the car with my dad and brother on the way to Kentucky to visit family. i knew my miami acceptance letter was due while i was gone, so i told my step-mother only to call me if it was good (i.e. call if i got accepted to the honors program, whether or not i got the full ride scholarship)
we had just stopped for a break when my dad’s cell rang, it was my step-mom, i could hear her say that i got a letter. I practically ripped the phone out of my dad’s hands and started crying as my step-mother read the letter telling me i got into miami u’s honors program. it was just what i needed to help me get my last applications in.
even better, when i texted my friend who applied to the same program, i found out her mother had just called her (she was in florida) to tell her she got in!!!</p>
<p>bump. any other good stories?</p>
<p>I love reading these. I hope I’ll have a good story one year from now :)</p>
<p>In September, I accidentally opened son’s first acceptance (to a school he really liked, about 20 mins from us). I thought it was more publicity mail from the school & I was going to chuck it. I then hastily taped it up and called son saying, “you got some mail you might want to read,” hoping to keep the ripping open part quiet.</p>
<p>When son came home, 7 year old sister shrieked: “You got into the closest school!” (she doesn’t want him to move far away). I apologized for opening, and son was very happy.</p>
<p>My mom and Dad say congrats, ask if im happy, then continue with the day…</p>
<p>My dads offered to take me out to dinner. Youpee.</p>
<p>Super bump! Because this just makes me so happy to read 
(Especially amidst all the depressing rejection threads)
It was early morning, Saturday when I checked my email for my UMich decision. My parents were out for the day when I logged onto my account on the UM site. I saw the “view decision” option on my admission profile, but it didn’t even register with me that it meant my “acceptance/rejection” would be revealed if I clicked the link. Drowsy eyed, I just though “What’s this? I’ll click it”. Then halfway while the page was loading, it hit me that I was about to find out whether I was in or not. I tried hitting the back button so I could first prepare myself, but it was too late: the page had already loaded. Luckily, the first word I read was “Congratulations!”. I was so happy, I screamed (in my empty house haha), then went for a jog around town in the snow haha! I was eating out that night with a friend, but before I left, I left a note for my parents on the kitchen table that said “GOOD news!”, written in maize (yellow) and blue, the Umich colors :)</p>
<p>^ This is and was a great thread. Thanks for the super bump. It was fun to read your story. Congratulations on your acceptance!</p>
<p>In our case, I knew from the Canadian version of CC (where we are), that some kids found out their admissions at the school our D wanted to go to (they come out with rolling offers starting on a particular date but it varies each year and is unknown so this was the first chance she might find out). D left her laptop open and her mail page open (typical) on the kitchen table and I could see she had gotten an email from them but she was out of town and I would never open her mail. The wait was hard for me. I tried to decipher the subject line by searching on line for clues but it didn’t help. Agony.</p>
<p>When she got home we told her to check online…and all we heard from the kitchen was “oh wow” and then us parents came running, “what does it say? what does it say?” The news was great, and we were all pretty excited.</p>
<p>I then quietly went online immediately and ordered her a hoodie from this school. It arrived a few days later with her acceptance package in snail mail so the timing was coincidental but perfect. Everyone said “wow what a great idea, how did you think of that?” </p>
<p>I KNEW I learned it on CC…and now I see I read about this idea on THIS thread four years ago!</p>