<p>B,</p>
<p>From reading your posts, my heart is full and my spirit is renewed and I don’t even have a kid going through the process. I guess, i will be sniffing a lot today as we hear everyone’s good news (and every one is going to have some). Congratualtions on the JHU acceptance as more blessings are coming your son’s way.</p>
<p>Wow! Another! Mazel tov and keep on kvellin’!</p>
<p>Congrats to your son!! Enjoy these days, they will forever be special. I know when having a large family (I have 5) sometimes the joy of the moment can be overshadowed by the concerns of “how do we pay for this”, “how do we get him there, who will watch the little ones”, “there has to be enough left over for the other ones…”</p>
<p>Again, enjoy these acceptances and no matter where he ends up, know that he has done well and will continue to do so.</p>
<p>Many. many happy wishes to your family!!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>:) 
Cool news! Sluggy congrats!</p>
<p>Berurah:</p>
<p>One nice thing about RD is that good news come in multiples. Congrats again! The EA rejection stung, but it’s great to have your faith in your son’s accompishments and academic excellence validated. I loved your blow by blow account.</p>
<p>Wow, you stay off the net for a day or two and this is what happens -Six pages of congratulations!</p>
<p>Well, I add mine too - how well I remember the SLOW loading web (well, in our case, email), and the incredible word, “CONGRATULATIONS!”</p>
<p>Your family deserved this! I am very happy for you and hope the rest of our CC family still waiting gets good news too!</p>
<p>love voronwe</p>
<p>Just read your blow-by-blow. Amazing - so vivid. I could see your backyard and the basketball pole. Thanks for taking the time when I am sure you are busy.</p>
<p>So glad for for you and your son, Berurah! Trying not to cry (at work!). Better go out and buy more spray paint!</p>
<p>Over 100 ways to dasy congratulations by now; tough to find a different one.</p>
<p>Duke and Johns Hopkins so far. ZOUNDS!! Hope enough money accompanies one or the other to make it happen.</p>
<p>More congrats are in order…so now what? Duke or JHU? Decisions, decisions!</p>
<p>Loved your blow by blow account. How special to share it with everyone as he did and his thank yous to you …awesome. Next…Johns Hopkins…WOW!</p>
<p>As a parent whose d was admitted ED, I still find myself hooked on this site. I also can’t wait for my daughter to come home everyday and give me the “good news” from her peers. Today is a big day for some and I can’t wait until 5:00 to hear if my daughters friends. It was so nice to read your play by play as I and others lived through the moment and feel sooooo happy for you and your family. I hope we hear more and more good news as these next few days pass.</p>
<p>An embarrassment of riches! I know you will find a way to work it out.</p>
<p>Keep those cards and letters comin’ … to the whole CC family!</p>
<p>Berurah:
Well now THIS is a turn of events you hadn’t mentioned as a possibility!!! Such Congrats!!! What will your s. do?? Sooo many choices!!! Any aid $$$ with the JH acceptance??? Isn’t it nice to feel wanted??? So, while we’re throwing around old yiddish terms our grandmothers used to say…You must have such nackhes!!! (translation: Proud pleasure, special joy, particularly from the achievement of a child).</p>
<p>Berurah-</p>
<p><em>POP</em></p>
<p>And so pops the second bottle of e-champagne for CC parents:</p>
<p>In honor of Berurah’s Son - any icy bottle of Krug 1990</p>
<p>Raise your glasses everyone! (and be patient, the server is sooooo slow. It may take me a few minutes to get around to everyone holding an empty glass!) </p>
<p>Three cheers!</p>
<p>BTW, I am pouring myself a glass with each thread of good news, so I hope everyone reports their acceptances soon or I may pass out!</p>
<p>Another crying mom here offering the biggest of congratulations. I just read the whole thread and smiled hugely at the intial acceptance, cried over the play by play and yelped out loud over the JHU acceptance. Your family is so blessed!</p>
<p>As a Duke grad, I’m thrilled that my alma mater came through for you and your son. Get that basketball post repainted quick and…GO DEVILS!</p>
<p>Berurah, congratulations on Hopkins, tho’ I know Duke is the BIG ONE for you…
my D also got into JHU…
and one of her school friends, who has the same name as your son, just got into Duke. Good news all around :)</p>
<p>Hi all…an update~</p>
<p>I feel like I have been through the wringer; in fact, I think I’m still in there somewhere (though unfortunately, I’m not any skinnier! <em>lol</em>). </p>
<p>I wanted to let all of you fine people know our final count (though we are still waiting on Stanford):
My son found out this evening that he was also accepted to UPENN!!!</p>
<p>So, total list so far:
Accepted: Duke
Johns Hopkins
UPenn
UMich
UMiami
University of Kansas</p>
<p>Waitlisted: WashU
Brown</p>
<p>Rejected: Yale
Cornell</p>
<p>We are happy beyond words. We were SO not expecting this, and we fully understand how very easily it could have come out so differently.</p>
<p>Both my son and I are having so many mixed emotions right now. We are both feeling a great deal of “survivor’s guilt”. We KNOW that there are many others who are equally deserving, but who, for whatever reason, came out on the other end of things. Our hearts go out to all of those whose dreams have been…well, detoured.</p>
<p>I so want to be able to post to each and every one of you who has shared our angst and our joy. I want to hug you. Shoot, I want to take you each to lunch! I have so very much going on right now that I have been unable to post to individuals as I normally do and as I wish to, but I hope that eventually, I am able to let every single one of you know how very much your support has meant.</p>
<p>This week has reminded me SO much of how I have always felt in the week after I have given birth…like I am in some surreal place where time becomes an entirely new dimension and all priorities are rearranged. But I can see why, I guess. I have given birth to a future COLLEGE STUDENT!!!</p>
<p>love to all, ~berurah</p>
<p>Chocoholic~I am so proud of and happy for your bee-you-tee-ful daughter!!! JHU!!! That is SO very, very exciting. HUGE congrats to her and to her very remarkable (and hilarious) mom!</p>
<p>Fredo~I have not had a chance to post to you yet, but I just wanted to tell you that your post about your experience with getting accepted to Duke just tickled me to no end. I have been talking about that post to anyone and everyone who will listen! It was the subject of conversation during my husband’s and my walk around the block yesterday! That was just too dang funny…gotta believe in karma, huh?? </p>
<p>momsdream~Are you under the table yet??? <em>lol</em></p>
<p>jym–yep, I’ve got some SERIOUS nackhes goin’ here…I just LOVE this Yiddish refresher (I had one grandma who never did learn English. She only spoke Russian and Yiddish.)</p>
<p>twinmom~hope your ears have recovered from my D’s screams!</p>
<p>marite~ these few words:
spoke VOLUMES, and they made me cry tears of happiness.</p>
<p>sybbie–I have printed out your unbelievably kind and supportive notes. They are beautiful!</p>
<p>~berurah</p>