<p>S got the first acceptance last night! What a great, great feeling.</p>
<p>Congrats college4three!</p>
<p>Yesterday D told me that she is the only senior she knows who hasn’t argued with her parents about college! That’s an awesome commercial for College Confidential…I feel like she did her job and I did mine and that is why it has gone smoothly (so far.) </p>
<p>She said one of her friends wants to apply to three specific schools. Only her father said she can’t apply to any until she has researched and found twelve schools with her major, then they can narrow them down from there. Okay, that might be a dandy idea in November of your JUNIOR year, but hello, there’s not really time to research, visit and apply to a dozen schools when you start in November of your SENIOR year!</p>
<p>missypie-it amazes me how late some people are doing things. most of my D’s friends have just started thinking about their essays, just started researching and visiting schools etc. Thank goodness we started this process when she was a sophomore. Things are pretty mellow here now comparatively!</p>
<p>college4three-congrats!</p>
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<p>Right. The dad actually had a very good idea…just WAY too late.</p>
<p>Another of D’s friends says she is either going to community college or to a specific school WAY out of state (that she hasn’t visited.) If she is uncertain about wanting to be away from home, how about looking at one of the dozen or more pefectly fine schools within 4 hours or so from home?!</p>
<p>I had a minor freak out this morning. Got an email from USC- which is one of D’s top schools. Email reminded her of 11/15 deadline for honors college & scholarships. </p>
<p>I kept re-reading it thinking- 11/15??? No, the USC deadline is 12/1. What is this honors college stuff? There’s no way D going to get that in by 11/15… </p>
<p>It took me a few minutes of re-reading to finally figure out it was U of South Carolina, and not Southern Cal! Whew :)</p>
<p>First…congrats to all who’ve had acceptances! I’m truly happy every time I read about an acceptance coming through for one of you…even if it’s to a safety the kid hasn’t learned to love. I count them all as victories.</p>
<p>Now…remember that voicemail left for songbird last Thu? She returned the call and had to leave a voicemail Friday?</p>
<p>So no further calls, but just now I checked YESTERDAY’s mail (I was out of town), and there’s a BIG FAT Priority Mail envelope from that school. It’s a safety, but then all of her six schools are really safeties (we’re in the camp with high stats looking for big scholarships).</p>
<p>(Sounds of me moaning and wailing)…We were home together last night and this morning. If only I’d thought to CHECK THE MAIL! What a dunce.</p>
<p>It’s on the kitchen island right now…just sitting there. How can I make it until 3:00? I know it’s an acceptance…what I want to see is the scholarship stuff.</p>
<p>Does anybody besides me remember the old Dick Van Dyke episode where Laura Petrie received a package (for Rob) and couldn’t resist just taking a quick peak to find out what was inside? It ended up being a self-inflating raft that immediately blew up into this huge thing she couldn’t hide? </p>
<p>I’m afraid that’s going to happen to me. Just out of curiosity…any super-snoops out there…which method do you recommend: steaming and re-gluing? Or cut at the seam with sharp scissors and neatly tape as if that was original closure? Holding up to bright light won’t work…there’s too much stuff and the red-white-and-blue Priority Mail envelope is annoyingly opaque.</p>
<p>Help me! I know it’s for her to open, I know! But it’s JUST SITTING THERE!!!</p>
<p>(Maybe MOSB needs a little mini-martini??? It’s 5 pm somewhere, right?) :)</p>
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<p>That would kill me when Son was going through it. He and H would read the first word or two…“Congratulations…” and stop reading the letter. I was always the one asking, “But how much MONEY are they offering?!”</p>
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<p>Of course, and I think that is what keeps everyone in our generation from opening other people’s mail!</p>
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<p>I’m a lurker in this thread, because my sons are HS classes of 2010 and 2012, so i like to see this year’s round and learn and enjoy it vicariously, but I don’t post. Except i will share what I did with my son about those envelopes waiting on the kitchen counter and calling my name. Text your daughter and ask her if she wants you to open it. If she’s like most HSers, she’ll see the text during the day and answer. I ended up asking my son if he wanted me to open things that came and text him, so that he’d find out right away. That way I had his permission and didn’t have to wait!</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you!</p>
<p>Really excited at our home!! D got her first acceptance today as well! It’s her safety but she feels good knowing that she got accepted. She told me last night she would have a difficult time waiting for her other decisions. I have to admit I think I might be more nervous than she is. Just don’t won’t her to be disappointed if she gets denied! Keeping fingers crossed and sending good luck to everyone else!!</p>
<p>Congratulations college4three! Really exciting!!</p>
<p>MOSB - S ignores all the college stuff he gets, I open it all. So when those acceptances start coming in, I feel that seeing as I have done all the heavy lifting (ie-opening all the solicitations) previously, it is my right to oopen the acceptances. Only kidding, but I may feel the urge if he is away. </p>
<p>Mommylaw- all these EA and scholarship deadlines are whirling around in my head and on a very large spreadsheet. I have a lot of respect for those kids who do this all on their own. </p>
<p>Congrats to college4three’s S!!!</p>
<p>We are just waiting for one acceptance. A letter came Saturday giving D the log in info to check her app status online. She ignored it, but I’ve been checking every morning.</p>
<p>Congrats to TessaR’s D!!! You know she is going somewhere. </p>
<p>Missypie - my fingers are crossed.</p>
<p>college4three, congrats! What school?</p>
<p>congrats TessaR…phew!!!</p>
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Alas, at her school, using your cell phone during the school day results in 1) phone being confiscated, 2) $50 fine to get it back, 3) detention. Trust me, she NEVER looks at her phone during the school day, and almost nobody else does either. I actually support the policy…just not today!</p>
<p>I know she would tell me to go ahead and open it, but I really think she should get to do this. She’s done a lot of the heavy lifting on the whole college thing (I’ve just been the project manager in the background), and she’s been good-natured and pleasant through it all (which, judging from some of the posts here, isn’t always the case). I will wait. Sigh…</p>
<p>Momofsb: You are showing great restraint, but I agree that your daughter should open the envelope. Try to keep yourself distracted and busy. I still remember the day three years ago when my older daughter was waiting to check her ED status at 5 pm. I thought the day would never end.</p>
<p>Holliesue, College4three, TessaR and anyone else I missed: Congratulations! Keep that good news coming.</p>
<p>I am SO pleased to have found this thread today! I’ve been using CC for years but before I saw this thread, I thought I was unique in the circumstance with my s. He is exceptionally bright but he is an unbelievable procrastinator! He starts his homework (5 AP classes) at 11:00 PM and pulls out A+'s consistently. So he thinks he can do the same with the applications. What if he gets sick or his computer crashes at the last minute? I’ve fought with him, tried to reward him when looks at an application…nothing works. He says he does his best work at the last minute and that’s how he intends to do his applications. It took a lot to get him to complete 1 EA and 1 rolling but he now intends to do nothing for a month or so. I’m stressed but he isn’t!</p>
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<p>Our school has given up. The students can now have their phones out during lunch and passing periods.</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement, momjr. </p>
<p>So at the end of that 5pm day that you thought would never end…did she make it ED???</p>