<p>momof2inca,
we are very similar to you. We are very interested in the merit aid. the visit really made a difference for us too. The school really “fits” my S as well. I will keep my fingers crossed for you both. You’ll hear tomorrow I’ll bet.</p>
<p>Bookworm, glad to hear it!</p>
<p>Thanks Sybbie</p>
<p>Congrats Bettina! Good luck with the aid. </p>
<p>Runnersmom- how different are your 2 kids? My S applied to both of those schools.</p>
<p>Kdos,</p>
<p>My sons aren’t as different as they might think they are. Though S1 (at U of C currently) is probably the deeper thinker of the two, they both love to engage in esoteric discussion and debate. Arguing is the most common form of communication in my house and their 15 year old sister chimes in as well. They are both well rounded students who did well on SAT’s and SAT IIs, but really enjoyed their high school years. (No straight A’s for either of them, but they did attend a school with non-traditional transcripts) They are both stronger in the humanities than math/science and are passionate about books. To be honest I could have probably seen either one of them at either U of C or WUSTL, but I think the intensity of U of C might be too much for S2.</p>
<p>S
Accepted to: Carnegie Mellon-SCS
Decision: Withdrawing other applications
Other info? Psyched he doesn’t have to write that last essay I was going to make him do over the holidays</p>
<p>thanks, kdos… no mail from UofC today, although other Calif. residents got theirs. We’re not by a big city, so that might add a day’s delay for the mail. </p>
<p>Welcome runnersmom! Your description of your boys reminds me so much of our S, especially the arguing part and passionate about books. A couple of years ago, our S took to carrying a soft briefcase to school instead of a backpack (because he likes to be a little different and odd, I guess) but broke the clasps off of two of them because he crammed so many books in. He’s getting a nice canvas messenger bag for Christmas that is still different looking and should do the trick! Congrats on your S’s WUSTL acceptance!</p>
<p>Hey Strick! Congratulations! I’ve heard great things about CM’s SCS program! Wow. What a relief for you and him to be done! :)</p>
<p>Strick:
Wonderful news! A graduate from S’s high school is there and loving it. I like Pittsburgh a lot myself.</p>
<p>Strick:</p>
<p>Congratualtions, to you and your son</p>
<p>Is that a collective sigh of relief I hear now that you don’t have to have lock-down for essay writing?</p>
<p>Naw, I was looking forward to it. He was going to “correct” all the things he could have done better in the first one. ;)</p>
<p>Now I have to focus on selling a couple of guitars and refinancing the house… 
:lol</p>
<p>Strick…way to go for your son! What an exciting moment and great opportunity. And to be done with the whole shebang…must feel super great. </p>
<p>My D is a RD applicant to Carnegie Mellon and we go there in late February for her audition and I look forward to it as I have never been to that area. </p>
<p>You are better than my husband…the notion of selling his guitars would be over his dead body! Maybe I should suggest it as payment for a quarter of freshman year? He would die at the notion. I’ll tell him about you though!
Susan</p>
<p>Strick -</p>
<p>Congrats on your son’s CMU acceptance. I used to be in the CS department at CMU (AI LAb) many moons ago, and I still remember when I arrived for my first day - looking for my new office - I saw names on the other office doors of authors of my grad school textbooks! It’s a phenomenal place, and the CMU CS dept is really geared toward those who will go on the graduate school.</p>
<p>Congrats to your D on Dartmouth, cangel. From your fellow southern “hurricane buddy”, Tabby - We have actually worn jackets for 4 days :)</p>
<p>Good luck momof2inca - I recall comparing our Ss once - so many funny things in common - the briefcase thing I could relate to - brought a smile! We are sort of like you, waiting on the scholarship offers moreso than acceptances. I feel it will all work out in the end! Tabby</p>
<p>updated list</p>
<hr>
<p>DigMedia’s Son
Accepted to: Ohio University, Univ. of Colorado (both rolling)
Decision: Ohio University
Other info?Glad not to do other apps; senioritis raging…</p>
<p>Momsdream’s Son
Accepted to: UPenn ED
Decision: UPenn
Other Info: is now acting as campaign manager for his deferred GF</p>
<p>Cangel’s Daughter
Accepted to: Dartmouth ED, Univ of AL, B’ham-Southern (rolling)
Decision: Dartmouth
Other Info: Practicing wearing a jacket (it is 27 this morning), finals, senioritis</p>
<p>Searchingavalon’s Daughter:
Accepted to: Swarthmore ED
Decision: Swarthmore
Other Info: She needs to do something worthwhile between March and August.</p>
<p>Marite’s S:
Accepted to: Harvard SCEA
Decision: Harvard
Other info: currently taking classes with profs he’ll be working with still, so senioritis out of the question!</p>
<p>Redr002’s Daughter:
Accepted to: Georgetown EA (waiting on Brown,GWU,American,U of Miami)
Decision: Georgetown (95% sure)
Other info:Still loves Brown, so not sure if she’ll change her mind. Also will still apply to Yale.</p>
<p>Dizzymom’s son
Accepted to: Princeton, E.D.
Decision: Go, Tigers!
Other info? Recruited athlete</p>
<p>Texas137’s son
accepted to: MIT and Caltech EA
Decision: 95% sure MIT
Other info: RD decisions pending from Harvard & Stanford, but they seem to be out of the running.</p>
<p>pamvanw’s son
accepted to Penn State engineering
accepted ED to Virginia Tech engineering
Decision: VT
Other info: girlfriend accepted ED to UVA; it’s a Merry Christmas in PA</p>
<p>Burlmom’s Daughter
Accepted to: Dartmouth ED
Decision: Dartmouth
Other info: relief, excitement, fighting off senioritis</p>
<p>MusicMom758’s son
Accepted ED:Columbia University SEAS
Decision: Will attend!
Wonderful Financial package</p>
<p>ncmom’s daughter
Accepted ED:NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Decision: Can’t wait to attend!</p>
<p>jtoup’s son
Accepted ED:GWU
Decision: Will attend!</p>
<p>Kinshasa’s son
Accepted to: Boston University ED
Decision: Go Terriers! Who cares that the NHL is on strike?
Other info: Waiting for the acceptance package to see if he has a University Scholarship (half-tuition). Results of Latin Scholarship exam not available for a few months. Go east, young man!</p>
<p>Jrpar’s son
Accepted: Wisconsin, Boston College EA, Colgate ED
Decision: Colgate!</p>
<p>Wsox’s D
Accepted to: Princeton
Decision: ED no choice
Other information: Great transcript, test scores, essays, recs., ecs and most important a wonderful kid.</p>
<p>Little Mother’s D
Accepted to: Pomona ED
Decision: Pomona
Other info: Just signed up for a college dance class and working hard on a fair wage campaign–no senioritis for this little Sagehen who can’t wait to be in a warm weather state! Empty nest for us next year.</p>
<p>Cookiemom’s son
Accepted to: Princeton ED
Decision: Princeton
Other info: math/physics major, crew team</p>
<p>Chinaman’s Son
Accepted to: Yale EA
Decision:
Other info:</p>
<p>Suzy’s Daughter
Accepted to: Northwestern ED
Decision: Northwestern</p>
<p>Cedronella’s Son
Accepted to: Wesleyan ED
Decision: Wesleyan</p>
<p>Kdos’ Son
Accepted: U Chicago EA
Decision: Pending other apps/decisions</p>
<p>Bettina’s daughter
Accepted EA: University of Chicago
Decision: Highly likely, but need fin’l aid so will apply to 3 other schools RD</p>
<p>Strick’s S
Accepted to: Carnegie Mellon-SCS
Decision: Withdrawing other applications
Other info? Psyched he doesn’t have to write that last essay I was going to make him do over the holidays</p>
<p>runnersmom S</p>
<p>Accepted: Colorado/Boulder; Wisconsin/Madison; Washington University in St. Louis ED</p>
<p>Decision: WUSTL</p>
<p>congratulations</p>
<p>Thanks folks, we appreciate the thought. </p>
<p>soozievt, I thought of you earlier. S has come home and announced he’s in his school’s production of “Beauty and the Beast”. He’s sort of like dinner theater to your D being Broadway, but I couldn’t help but laugh. If your husband can sell a couple of guitars and pay even a quarter of the freshman year, he’s got nicer ones than I do. Used guitars only bring half what you paided for them, after all, unless they’re really old and special. Either way tell him I said, “don’t do it!”</p>
<p>My daughter received her acceptance to Chicago yesterday! She is very happy and is looking forward to visiting in April, if not before. We are ALSO interested in merit aid, and she will be comparing schools in the spring. Congratulations to all on the list of the proud and relieved!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all the Proud and Relieved (love that phrase)!</p>
<p>Sounds like a lot of your kids are headed to the U of Chicago. We live less than a mile from their campus in Hyde Park. For a small fee (homemade chocolate-chip cookies would do :-), we might even undertake to keep an eye on 'em. Kind of like surrogate parents…</p>
<p>Hello all. I’ve been lurking for a while and finally decided to sign in and post. My oldest son got his first acceptance this week, EA from MIT, and we’re all soaring. “Just in case”, he’s waiting for a few more RDs, but the odds are probably 90% that he’ll accept MIT. I’m ready to share more of this experience with you all: what an exciting (and exhausting!) time! So:</p>
<p>mootmom’s son
Accepted to: MIT EA
Decision: probably MIT; waiting on Berkeley, Mudd, Olin, Columbia
Other info: he’s mentioned after-Christmas sales on down coats … hmm</p>
<p>Tabbyz - thanks, not only jackets here, but a FIRE!!! a real fire in the fireplace without A) Feeling stupid, or B) Opening the patio door! Hope we can get your way sometime before Christmas, I love to shop N.O. before Christmas. Maybe a “got into college” after Christmas present for the daughter - shopping and food!</p>
<p>cangel… gosh it’s like 80 degrees here. The thought of a fire in anyone’s mind might actually start one up in the hills! Two weeks ago it was in the 40s. </p>
<p>Anyways… mootmom, congrats on your S’s MIT acceptance! And welcome to the board. It’s a great place to visit.</p>
<p>Mominca, it was 80 degrees here 2 weeks ago, now in the low 60s, but going back to the 40s this weekend - it doesn’t last long so we love it. By the way, I think your SH is great, I’m another one of those folks that for the longest time thought you were from Peru or something ;).</p>