<p>Great, missy! Thanks!</p>
<p>When the “how did you feel when your child was accepted thread” came up today, I must say I thought, “Oh, I’ll skip that, not so relevant now.” But it got to me, and I read it. It’s got some lovely stories, and I do find myself looking forward to the day that she gets the envelope (or e-mail, or whatever) saying “You’re going to college.” It WILL be a major moment in all of our lives.</p>
<p>No matter how much I think in my rational moments that we have no reason to worry, there are always those people to whom the worst happens. And I do wonder if she is applying to the right places - in this country, it’s not like you go into a common pool and you get placed in a school; you have to reach out and ask to be let in. </p>
<p>We’re in an “any day now” state with the first safety application, and I’ll tell you I’m not letting myself have any expectations. I want to see that letter! And it will be a big day.</p>
<p>I feel this way for all of the kids and families on this forum. Good luck to everyone. We’ll have a year full of really big moments, of all kids. And then we’ll be the ones telling the stories. Funny how that happens.</p>
<p>I wonder if we could write an essay that combined all nine cliches–about having a transformative service experience with the person you loved, and realizing that despite all your hard work, the college admissions process is fundamentally corrupt, most among it this stupid essay requirement, but it you don’t get in, you will stalk the adcoms…</p>
<p>UT, that would be great. Maybe we could have an annual CC Worst Essay contest, and some of our veteran parents whose kids are already out of college could be the judges!</p>
<p>^^ LOL… It’s equally hard to come up with bad essay topics.</p>
<p>How about the death of the family dog showed me that I really wanted to do computer science?</p>
<p>Why I am afraid to go to Walmart</p>
<p>Let’s move this concept to the College Admissions forum so that more people can find it, and it doesn’t monopolize our class of '15 dialogue…</p>
<p>Do you mean another thread in the Parents forum? I usually don’t go out of here or the Parents Cafe. Agree that a new thread would be fun, but let’s not go all the way out of town. ;)</p>
<p>I started it, and the mods have moved it to College Confidential Cafe.</p>
<p>sooo </p>
<p>…as a parent of a 2011 student is all sharing-caring, sweetness and smiles to pump for information about our kiddo…
…it is amazing and and almost hilarious (if it weren’t so pathetic) how the same parent shuts up and shuts down and pratically walks off when asked, so how is your DD doing …!
Like this parent can’t say anything about how the apps are going in their house? </p>
<p>Puuulease…this parent and her uber-competitive dd would cut you down at the knees if they could in order to be at the front of the line…
and everyone knows she is applying to all uber selective schools…so why not just make small talk and politely commiserate about how all of the Srs are sooo busy or what have you…</p>
<p>D and I are flying east tomorrow. First stop, Minnesota. Next stop, Pennsylvania. Visiting four schools in four days - sound like fun! (It really does, I truly do enjoy college visits). I’ll have a report when we get back. :)</p>
<p>fog- I haven’t run into those types of parents, but I can’t say I talk to S’s friends parents much. The ones I do are fairly open. What I hate are the relatives/friends with older kids who think they have great advice to pass on to me about the college admissions process. I just nod and think to myself “if they only belonged to CC”. </p>
<p>Oregonianmom-have fun! S will be applying to two schools in PA. When we were on vacation there last year in WesternPA I did not like the roads up and down the hills. I have a big fear of going off the side of the road. Ridiculous I know. Love Philly though. Hope you get good weather.</p>
<p>^ It was just sooo weird. Uber competitive does not begin to describe this parent and teen. And trying to show real interest in what should have been a polite small talk conversation feel flat. Really really odd.</p>
<p>Hey–check out this sweet story–made national news online…which is where I found it</p>
<p>[Special</a> lacrosse game grants a Florida Dad his dying wish - Prep Rally - Highschool - Yahoo! Sports](<a href=“http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Special-lacrosse-game-grants-a-Florida-Dad-his-d?urn=highschool-271938]Special”>http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Special-lacrosse-game-grants-a-Florida-Dad-his-d?urn=highschool-271938)</p>
<p>Our son got his first acceptance today. He logged into his application account for our state flagship to see if the GC had sent his transcript and it said ACCEPTED.</p>
<p>Not a surprise at all since he more than met all the requirements, but still nice to see. </p>
<p>Now the work begins for potential Honors College research grants and merit-based aid applications there. And two other applications–one a major reach (English teacher is reviewing his essays and then we’re done) and the other a large OOS school where he qualifies for instate tuition due to his ACT score (only essay left there.)</p>
<p>SAT in October, SAT II in November. Then we sit back and relax?</p>
<p>Omom - have a great trip</p>
<p>Rose Hulman - S received a postcard from them saying if he applies by Dec 1 there is no fee. Transcript, LORs and scores can follow. No special codes so looks like anyone interested can take advantage. I’ve heard great things about R-H if your child is interested in a small hands-on engineering school.</p>
<p>Congrats OlderWiserMom and child! Good to have one under your belt I imagine.</p>
<p>Congrats to your S, Olderwisermom! Nice to have one yes so early! </p>
<p>Fog- here I sit in work crying. How lucky we all are to be able to help our children through this process. Frustrating as it can sometimes be, at least we are here to experience it.</p>
<p>Congrats to all with those early acceptances! Yay!</p>
<p>Mamom–I loved the story too.
Really sweet that the girls did this for her and for her dad.
As parents of kids applying to schools, no matter how much paper, junk mail (and nasty parents) and such we all will contend with–we are blessed beyond measure to be with our teens through this rite of passage. Glad you liked it too.</p>
<p>Hugs all
fogfog</p>
<p>@olderwisermom- Congratulations to your son!! It makes no difference if you are expecting the acceptance. Seeing that ‘Welcome, we’ve choose you. We hope you choose us too.’ is very, very exciting! :)</p>
<p>@oregonianmom - Enjoy your trip. I love Philly, as well as the winding roads in PA…call me ridiculous!</p>
<p>@fogfog, @missypie, @ordinarylives, @SlitheyTove - Just a shout out to parents who have kids in both '11 & '14. I know there are several of us here, so for any I missed I’m sorry.</p>