<p>Thanks Holliesue and everyone who has sent good wishes! Much appreciated.</p>
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<p>Yes, Calreader; I was lucky enough to visit 2x with my son; once last June and for the IDP. It is a beautiful campus.</p>
<p>It’s so interesting how the kids change as they go through the process. My S started the process beginning of Junior year thinking he wanted a big school in a big city. After his first round of school visits, he did a complete 180 and decided on small (and city not required).</p>
<p>Bella28–I think the big letdown won’t be until we drop them off at that selected college; so much more to do/think about/enjoy until then.</p>
<p>Way to go EmilyBee’s S! I watched some kids of good friends the last few years frantically working on applications over Christmas break, and your Boychild won’t be one of them!</p>
<p>GKM, only because he GC requires all apps be done by Dec. 1st. I’m sure he’d doing them over Xmas break if that wasn’t the case. </p>
<p>My son also started out wanting big city, big school. NYU was his top choice. Now all his schools are small, except one safety, and none are even close to a big city. Most aren’t even close to a small city.</p>
<p>GMK–congrats to your S on Bard. Also, I love to hear the actual school’s named. (heck–I feel like I know so many schools by now, it’s always fun to live vicariously through your kids!) So if your S or D gets an acceptance, would it be okay for us to all share that news by name? </p>
<p>Emilybee–so wonderful to have this phase done. Best of luck on good answers soon.</p>
<p>Emmybet–I thank you for allowing me to vent!! I understand that admissions decisions for creative arts majors often weight portfolio work into the equation. It makes sense they would want to take a serious look at the candidates’ output and creative writing. Music majors and acting majors can show their stuff in auditions, so design/art/film majors must compile these beastly supplements. In truth, I wonder if some kids just balk at all that work. Maybe this thins the herd a bit? Can I hope this is true??? LOL!!! I will grasp at any straw at this point.</p>
<p>Missypie, congratulations on the acceptance to the #1 school! What an accomplishment so early in the year! Congrats to everyone else receiving good news. </p>
<p>I can relate on the procrastination front–D got her UC application (due Nov 30) and another due Dec 1 in this past Saturday. Now she has two due 12/15 and has one supplement question remaining for each. At that point, she’ll be done until she hears from her EA school 12/20. I’m dreading it if she doesn’t get the news she wants to hear but, if she is accepted, she won’t complete the remaining applications due Jan 1 and Jan 15. Best wishes to everyone hoping their kids will complete their apps and to those who are waiting to hear!</p>
<p>I feel kind of weird posting in a topic where there’s lots of parents around, and I’m just a high school student…</p>
<p>But anyways, today, I received two acceptances from some of the safeties that I applied to. :D</p>
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<li>California State University-Fullerton</li>
<li>Arizona State University</li>
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<p>However, do note that I’m still working on the last half of my college applications. I have sent in my first half already (this includes some of my safety schools that offered me admission). I love how I’m beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It motivates me to finish off my remaining college applications with vigor! =)</p>
<p>Congrats, Will! It’s always nice to hear a student’s point of view. You sound like you have things well under control. Those are nice safeties, too.</p>
<p>Forgive me if I don’t post the name of D’s school…I’m almost positive that she is the only person in her school to apply there. Given the very odd combination of schools to which she applied, she may well be the only person in the country to have been admitted to both of those particular schools.</p>
<p>Just a warning about posting names of schools, esp. on the master acceptances thread. As much as I enjoy reading them, it may cause you/your child to be identified. My '09 son was admitted to 8 schools and I proudly posted the names of all 8. I was at a meeting of parents at the school and a mom that I barely knew came up to me and said (in front of a group of other parents, no less), “You’re missypie, aren’t you?” She had seen us on one college visit and guessed from there. If your child has been admitted to all the usual local schools and no others, you’re probably safe…but throw in an unusual choice for your area and you could be giving away your identity (if that matters to you.)</p>
<p>^^That must have been a shock! Totally understandable if one is not naming a specific U on any other thread around CC for privacy’s sake. However, any who are posting this info on the main accepted thread and elsewhere (like the college’s own thread), I thought it could be great if we feel comfortable to share it here, too. </p>
<p>Privacy on CC is an interesting topic, too. I have met several CCers IRL and have found the people I admire online as caring, sharing, smart and kind are pretty terrific in the flesh. There are others I would not care to run into!! ;)</p>
<p>I think it also gets down to our kids’ privacy. I bet almost everyone on this thread has ranted about their child’s procrastination, or some other moderately negative thing. Would they be okay if their friends read the post and knew it was them? On CC we also post about kids getting a bad grade, being dumped by boyfriends, not having a date for homecoming, eating disorders, etc etc etc. It’s one thing to give away our own privacy, but we may also be compromising the privacy of our kids.</p>
<p>I agree about the kids’ privacy issue. I wish I didn’t feel that I had to be so circumspect, but it’s just not that hard to identify people. I write with the assumption that local people who know my kids might be reading.</p>
<p>I haven’t always been guarded, which isn’t smart. Do any of you use the same screen name on other boards? I do, which again, isn’t smart. </p>
<p>Have you ever googled your screen name? Some boards reveal your identity. We may think we’re posting annonymously, but that might not be the case.</p>
<p>I just googled my screen name again. Fortunately, it’s not that original…Other missypies out there are 13 years old and 29 years old. One appears to be Korean, one is an infant, another is a quarter horse and one actually runs a pie shop!</p>
<p>Best you can try to do is not give too many personal details; one reason I decided to share my S experiences (with his permission) is that I know it can help others here…as so many of the posts, especially those with actual schools and/or stats, have helped us.</p>
<p>Good assumption, CalReader–I pretty much do the same thing. My attitude is that I’m not saying anything that would really surprise or shock anyone who knows us locally as well.</p>
<p>Same here GKM and Calreader. I always assume my kids or anyone they know could be reading. Good reminders, Missypie, to keep aware of this. </p>
<p>I do post college info by name–and with my 2 S’s, they have such distinct and obscure majors that it could be quite clear who they are. However, I take care not to post info they might find too personally revealing, including their scores, gpas, or ups and downs w/gfs since they don’t share these details with their acquaintances. With S2 I’ll probably do as I did with S1, I’ll get a new username that is anonymous and post his stats and results in order to pay forward the help we’ve received in a manner that cannot easily be associated with their identities or even mine. :)</p>
<p>Each of us has our own comfort zone on this. For me, this forum has been a great source of information and support. That is due, in large part, to parents I will never know across the country who were willing to share a lot of their struggle and success during the application and college search process. I am really grateful and know my kids have benefited from my cc education. So thanks again to all who are contributors. It’s been a huge help to have this connection.</p>
<p>missypie - that’s a good name for a pie shop “Missy’s Pie’s”! I used to post on a gymnastics forum which was just within NJ, and boy did people know who was who if you posted enough. That’s the only place I have felt the need for a good mustache and glasses. You guys are making me paranoid about this forum now, gosh.</p>
<p>Hey All
Hope you had a great day. Been busy here–was with 25 ESOL kindergarten children this week. That was a blast!</p>
<p>As far as screen names–mine is so not original…and I have googled it, and also seen it in lots of places–and even blogs with languages other than english…also its used on gmail and a few others, I haven’t been able to use it other places…I always wonder when there are others…
You all may recall same stalker parent here on CC pm’d another cc-er claiming to know me and the family…and spent the pm complaining about her life, her husbands long work hours etc…Gotta wonder about people like that! Don’t people realize that screen names get used all over…???</p>
<p>I freely admit that I have thought I recognized people here only to read old posts and realized they were not the same family…some posts seemed to “cfonfimr” I knew them only to realize later they lived across the country, had children of a different gender, different sport etc. </p>
<p>One thing to realize is we all think our circumstances or things are unique and so often we have far more in common than we realize…
and our kids are more similar than different. So sometimes I think we think we recognize people–and may be mistaken more often than correct…idk
Yet, Its not until we get “older” than we recgonize that–and actualy have fun at hs reunions laughing about things…</p>
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Missypie is right. So while I have been pm’d and able to help other families with some issues–and have made some CCer friends IRL now… we aren’t posting the successes…</p>
<p>I worry sometimes that the schools lurk on these threads, and I try not to criticize or paint a bad picture of my kid. But I figure they understand that she’s normal. Besides, if she was slow sending in her application, they already know it!</p>
<p>I realized early on that if I worried too much I wouldn’t be able to say anything, considering how everything about my D makes her easy to identify. So I try just to say things that matter. But I’ve needed a fair amount of very specific information about some of her schools - especially the auditioned ones - so I’ve taken the chance of revealing perhaps too much for some people’s taste.</p>
<p>I agree with those who feel CC is valuable because we can share information and help each other. I don’t fear that what I’ve said here will hurt my kid - if it does, maybe she shouldn’t be going to that school, anyway. I guess I’ll feel funny if we go somewhere and someone says they’ve figured out who I am. But right now I wouldn’t trade that for the wonderful information, support and advice I’ve gotten. </p>
<p>I’m figuring once she gets in that I can give back that kind of help without fearing any negative consequences for her. Soon enough I’ll be one of those “old” parents who help the newbies!</p>
<p>Done done done!!! All apps are in! Now the verrry long wait begins. But I am thrilled that he hit submit on last one. It was MIT and the posters who tried to tell me it wasn’t a bad one were right, guess I was just intimidated by our one non common app app.</p>