<p>Hello parents I was just posting this to see if any of you have any good ideas for me (a student) to “prank” my parents with one of my college acceptance letters. Any ways to surprise them or get a good laugh would work. Any ideas please post. Thanks!</p>
<p>Maybe… If you are home before them and can arrange it, make a bunch of photocopies of your acceptance letter and “wallpaper” a bathroom at home, or some other room they’ll walk into unawares. Just an idea.</p>
<p>hopefully you have only One, ED</p>
<p>Tell us about the, “But…”</p>
<p>Just please don’t do the “I got rejected” and then like a half an hour later “haha just kidding” gig! I already told my daughter that she better not put me through that! :)</p>
<p>Send yourself a singing telegram or flowers and have the acceptance letter presented, as if the school loved you that much. $$$</p>
<p>Carefully open a bill or something else you know they’ll open, put your letter in it, and reseal the envelope.</p>
<p>Put it under the sink and scream “AAAGH theres a rat!! Come kill it!!!”</p>
<p>How 'bout printing out tuition & fees from website, sticking it in an envelope, and sliding among stack o bills?</p>
<p>Way to kill the joy, sunbite!</p>
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<p>I totally agree. I hate those real estate shows on HGTV where the agent walks up to the property virgins with a sad face and makes them think they got outbid on their dream home and then finally shouts “you got the house!” Grrrr…</p>
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<p>Ahh, the old “steam the envelope open trick” that is usually done by the parents when letters from colleges arrive. Yes, turn the tables on them! :D</p>
Since I applied early decision, I received my results on December 15th through email. I didn’t tell my parents this and only confined in friends and my older sister. So, prior to getting the decision, I ordered the “mom” and “dad” ornaments from NYU’s online store. Before I go on, I need to mention that NYU is my dream school (I had wanted to go there since I was ten and everyone in my family knows it) and my mom loves everything christmas and ornaments. Okay, so I wrapped the ornaments in little gift boxes (for my dad I had Packers wrapping paper and my mom had snowmen) about a week before the 15th and kept them hidden until I got my results. After looking at the email at school and freaking out, I went home and waited for my parents to come home. It was unbearable but when they did, I sat them down immediately across from my in the dining room. I pulled out the boxes and set them right in front of my parents. I told them to open them at the same time and once they did, they both started crying and hugged me. Then, I gave my dad a NYU hat and my mom an NYU sweater. It was so heartwearming, not really funny but I planned it Freshman year so I wasn’t about to change it.
@nikkiNYU – That is lovely and so thoughtful. Hope NYU is everything you hoped it would be.
I think I’m the grinch, here…I can’t think of anything I’d like LESS than finding out I was excluded from the moments of finding out. And I don’t much like pranks, or surprises, or AHA! either. I would think the acceptance is pretty exciting all on it’s own, without embellishment or confusion.
I hate to be a grinch too but I’m with greenbutton.
Maybe put a for sale sign in the yard, in the box where the phone # usually goes write: Quick sale! D just got accepted to X! Put it near the front door. They will go look at it for sure!
" can’t think of anything I’d like LESS than finding out I was excluded from the moments of finding out."
Aren’t your kids likely to find out before you on any appsfor any collleges that have online portals that show acceptances? Or will you only allow them to log on in your presence? Or, for snail mail acceptances will your kids only be allowed to open the envelopes when you’re right there?
For my older D it was a mix of online notification and snail mail, and she always let me know, but she was usually the first to know and THEN shared results with me and her dad. I expect the same will happen with my younger one.
OP, D likes the papering a wall/door with copies of the acceptance letter. I like the singing telegram or flowers.
nikkiNYU, that’s a sweet way to tell your parents. It’s the kind of thing my own parents would have loved.
My kids couldn’t have done this, because everybody knew what time the decisions would be available online.
I like nikkiNYU’s approach, because she didn’t make them wait (it looks like it was the same day she got the notice), and her gesture emphasized that this was something the whole family was sharing.
@sseamon, well yes, obviously they knew first via online, etc…but I wouldn’t have enjoyed a surprise the next day, no matter how much fun it might seem. They did get a couple acceptances by snailmail and they did open those alone when they got home and then come bounding out of the room (or shrugging, as the case warranted)
I would have just been confused, or sad that they had known and shared it with a bunch of other people before getting around to me. Which, of course, is why my kid didn’t surprise me. I’m sure the OP knows what will work, and I think the stories are fun. Just not a “me” thing.
Have balloons in your school colors delivered to your parents’ place of work. Or have them delivered to the house when you are all home.
I didn’t see that OP planned on sharing with a bunch of others, just wanting to make it special for their parents. I can’t imagine being sad finding out the next day. My younger D will probably call me within seconds of finding out one way or the other, but that’s her.
Tiggy-the balloon idea is the best yet! I’d go for a home delivery.