<p>They deleted the comments.</p>
<p>it was deleted. Moderator deleted everything from GMT’s comments to @Cariar, my reaction, Cariar’s response, the posts “supportive” of GMT from @Stargirl3 and @MrNephew, @Cariar’s mea culpa and then @escribiendo’s feelings about GMT’s harsh treatment of kids. Poof all gone. </p>
<p>Oh, that. Oh well. Thanks for explaining, mathman and BigBird. </p>
<p>anyways, i did let know the schools I will not be attending and only one had the decency to write back</p>
<p>Loomis sent an email. Really nice of them. Too bad you can only attend not school. </p>
<p>Yes, Loomis was the only one</p>
<p>So is the deleting thing what happened to @bsexpert and all his comments?</p>
<p>There is no “decency” requirement from a school you have just rejected. It’s a simple yes/no transaction. If you say “yes,” they will continue to correspond with you until you arrive on campus. If you say “no,” you both move on. There is no further obligation on either end to continue the conversation. If Loomis followed up, how nice, but how superfluous.</p>
<p>^^^Loomis’s email was generic too so…</p>
<p>It was, but it was still nice. </p>
<p>Two of the schools I was excepted to were coed and (not to brag at all) They were both trying to woo me. After revisits, I got lovely emails from the admissions directors at both (who had already previously contacted me) saying how much they would love for me to go there. I felt really bad replying and saying we had chosen another schoo but we basically told them that it came down to co-ed vs girls school even though it was more tHan that. I do think it made it nicer but I don’t know. Both directors replied and said they were sad I had decided to go somewhere else, but that MPS was lucky to have me. I felt bad because they were both great schools, maybe even a little more prestigious than MPS but I loved the community there and while it was a hard choice, i ended up choosing MPS therefore creating the challenge of telling the AO. </p>
<p>When you get accepted to more than one school, you’re not only grateful, but you wish you can attend all of the schools you’ve been accepted to. My daughter decided not to attend Choate or MPS. They are both excellent schools, we had a great experience during revisit day, but she decided to attend a different school.
I have to give credit to the Miss Porter’s School (MPS) admissions team. If they want you to be a Porter’s girl, they will do little things (send you postcards, confetti, email, etc.) to make you feel like a part of their community. I hope my daughter made the right decision.
@newyorkerr, i wish you success at MPS.</p>
<p>Exactly how I felt about Loomis. I really felt bad turning them down because it was such a great school, but on the other hand I felt a little guilty for even thinking it because no matter how good Loomis was, it didn’t hold a candle to L’ville after my revisit.</p>
<p>Knowing that it might help someone pining to get off the WL, lessened the guilt of declining a wonderful school that demonstrated so much faith. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that all the schools expect anywhere from 1/2 to 1/3 of their admits to say “no thank you”. Having not enough "no thank you"s puts them in a serious bind for bed space. </p>
<p>@mrnephew Why did Loomis pale so much in comparison to L’ville? Was it the student body? The lower SSAT scores? Wondering what made you think that one was so much lower than the other.</p>
<p>This might just be me, but, for me, it wasn’t that one really “paled.” I had two great choices, with very different experiences at both tours/interviews and revisits. I loved both of them. At the end, it came down to where I felt most comfortable and which offered what I needed and wanted, and I made a pros/cons list. I still love the school I didn’t choose, and I could see myself going there, but I am ecstatic with my choice.</p>
<p>@mrnephew I felt the same way about Loomis and Exeter.</p>
<p>@grx567: I know someone that got into Lville and Loomis, and turned down lville.
I would’ve gone to lville, but i guess she felt more at home at loomis. :)</p>
<p>Every single part, really. I didn’t take into account the SSAT as much as the jump from that to the SAT, and the student body, and mostly the way I just connected to it. </p>
<p>It wasn’t that Loomis was low, it’s just that Lville was so high. </p>