<p>kathiep - Sorry to hear about your son’s WPI deferral. At least he is still in the game. Has he considered Rose-Hulman? I communicated with a dad whose son loves it there. I could try to find his contact info and PM you if you want.</p>
<p>gamom - Congrats on $$$$$$$$$</p>
<p>boomer - two acceptances and big money. Woo hoo!!!</p>
<p>Emmybet - Natalie Portman + ballet = ideal combo. Not a hubby type movie. Need to find a girlfriend to go with.</p>
<p>FLMathMom,
Rose-Hulman is a wonderful college, but it doesn’t have son’s major. He’s looking for IS or IST, not computer science. WPI is on the radar,and we’ll send in the new grades, but neither of us want to pin our hopes on it. Congrats to your son for the acceptance!</p>
<p>Congrats boomer on Hobart and William Smith College AND the scholarship! </p>
<p>gamom - Wonderful news!</p>
<p>Emmybet - Your daughter is already ahead of the game, she’s in already at a place she likes and more good prospects on the horizon - yay!</p>
<p>Yay EmmyBet</p>
<p>Well, I must say your successful students are making it hard on this congratulations-happy mom to keep up!!</p>
<p>MOSB: What great news on Songbirds’s Illinois Wesleyan University acceptance–plus the offer of their highest academic scholarship, PLUS the generous music scholarship! She may have a very tough decision to make in April. Or does she have a “dream” among her schools?</p>
<p>EmmyBet: I cannot imagine a college who would invite a student to an Honors College interview without fully intending to admit said student. Of course, the audition is a whole 'nother thing. But your D seems on a very nice track.</p>
<p>phbmom: Sorry about your D2’s wisdom teeth troubles, but woohoo on the West Point nom. With such great news, each of our kids may learn to put any EA deferral in context. Not a great feeling, by any means, but onward and upward!! Congrats.</p>
<p>FlMathMom: I love that your priorities are straight. WPI acceptance is very cool. But ahhhh!! Those fresh chocolate chips! Congrats.</p>
<p>kathiep: Sorry about your S’s WPI deferral, but how nice to have that big envelope from Guilford for balance! Congrats! I really think getting in touch with prof at Guilford is a great idea. S2 has had some amazingly helpful responses from profs he contacted by email. As a sidenote–each pointed out drawbacks of their programs (!!) One exclaiming how cold it was this time of year (my S2 is a SoCal kid), and the other pointing out how rarely they get a kid so serious about his specialty–and offering extra opportunities to work as her assistant on outside productions. It was much more specific and frank than the more generic and glossy Accepted Student programs. YMMV–but I think it’s good to pursue.</p>
<p>gamomof3: Wow on that new scholarship that stacks! I have dreams of such wonderful news!! LOL. Congrats.</p>
<p>boomer22: Which brings me to your fab news about the Hobart and William Smith Colleges ED acceptance w/20K Trustee Scholarship. It sounds like a complete win! Congrats.</p>
<p>I am always concerned that I have left some worthy parent/kid combo out–and if so, please accept my blanket congratulations for each and every hard-worked-over application that found a soft spot in the admissions committee’s hearts. </p>
<p>My S2 is off helping run a Hanukkah party for seniors (elderly–not HS students!) for a nearby JCC. I wonder why they are having it so long after the holiday–but where lotkes are concerned, I suppose it’s never too late?</p>
<p>Kathiep - Sorry about the WPI deferral and congrats on Guilford! I would be surprised if IS is as strong at Guilford as WPI, but in the IS field I expect your S will end up getting a grad degree anyway, so maybe it won’t matter?</p>
<p>Boomer - Congrats to your DS on the ED acceptance to Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the scholarship! </p>
<p>GAMom - that scholarship sounds awesome! I am jealous.</p>
<p>S is now on winter vacation til Jan. Hopefully, he will willingly work on those last two apps I can start pushing the scholarship apps. Still waiting for snail mail to bring a decision from a college that posted online over a week ago that the decision had been made and was being mailed. Jeez, how long does one leter take to arrive?</p>
<p>Here’s the thing about my son, he’s very, techy but he’s also very much a people person so when we’ve visited colleges, the ones he felt the most comfortable were the ones where he connected with the Professor or a student. When we visited WPI, his friend gave us an enthusiastic tour and THAT’s what made him want to apply. At Hartwick, St. Mike’s and Champlain the CS prof’s were also very personable and welcoming. </p>
<p>I’m going to echo madbean, It’s hard to keep up with all the news and I feel bad when I don’t recognize someone, but I think we all know that we’re all in this together even if a name isn’t mentioned. Least I hope so!</p>
<p>Wow So much news
Congrats to all of the acceptances and $ etc
and
Hugs to everyone in the waiting mode looking towards spring
I am afraid if I try and list everyone–I might miss someone–
so consider yourselves ((((U)))) hugged</p>
<p>We are so glad its the Christmas break…we started with a bang and a wonderful dinenr with long time friends–
and can now enjoy the Christmas cookies from the exchange etc.</p>
<p>As for me–I got a couple of cabinets cleaned out yesterday and before the end of the year-will look at the stuff in the kids drawers etc…I have piles on the dryer of folded clothes to go to charity and always feel a sense of accomplishment when I get stuff done and out the door.</p>
<p>I’ve lost track of all the good news this weekend, so I’ll echo Madbean also. Congratulations on all the acceptances and scholarships. I’m sorry about the deferrals, but it seems like most of the kids involved have some acceptances also.</p>
<p>Son is p r o c r a s t i n a t i n g on his VERY long TO DO list created by yours truly. Not moi. I’ve spent the entire day cleaning out all the college files, sorting between give to GC (guide books etc.), dump (snail mail from colleges not applied to) and organize (the college stuff for schools applied to, scholarships, fin aid). I even loaded Turbotax. Feels SO good!!</p>
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madbean, she WILL have a tough decision to make. She does have a dream school. Unfortunately, it does not offer the Bachelor of Music (“the performance degree”). 3 of her 6 schools offer it, the other 3 offer the BA with a major in vocal performance and, if she wants, a double-major in Music Ed or English, or French, or any of her other interests.</p>
<p>Her dream school has everything she wants except the BMus. She loves everything about this school. Perfect fit for her. The schools that DO offer the BMus degree are reasonably good fits and she sees some things she likes in each one, but they don’t make her light up like a Christmas tree the way the dream school does.</p>
<p>Most difficult for her is the fact that she really doesn’t know if she wants the performance career anyway. She’s always dreamed of it, but now that adulthood is close and she takes a more clear-eyed view of that career, she realizes that the lifestyle of a professional classical/opera singer (even assuming she could support herself that way) is not really what she wants (lots of travel, working nights and weekends, constant uncertainty about future work, etc). She’s a person who LOVES home-life and likes a fair amount of stability in her life.</p>
<p>She doesn’t know if she wants to teach. She thinks maybe she does. She thinks she may want to write. She can’t bear the thought of giving up singing, but knows she can do that vocationally, without making it her money-making career.</p>
<p>People tell her if she is “serious about music” (whatever that means…I don’t know anybody more serious about working at and loving music than she is)…then she must go for the BMus undergrad degree , because it will position her more favorably for grad school. (Whether in music or a different area, this is a girl who definitely has her sights set on grad school.)</p>
<p>Still…she’s in love with this other school. They have an ok music dept, but not as broad/deep/strong as the ones that offer the BMus.</p>
<p>Sorry to go on and on…as you can tell, I’m feeling a little bit of queasy uncertainty myself as she looks to me for guidance. The father of a good friend of hers told her (and his own D), “Go where you feel most comfortable. Go with fit. You can’t even predict at this point that you’ll major in what you THINK you’ll major in. Four years is a long time to be in what feels like the wrong place.”</p>
<p>Ahhh…deep breath. Will gladly take any and all advice…even if it’s just to relax, enjoy Christmas, and stop thinking about this, which is probably what I should do. Heck, we don’t even have the scholarship figures in hand for 3 of the schools yet.</p>
<p>Be advised…you can just ignore this now, because I’m sure to torture you folks with it again (in earnest!) come April!</p>
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I tend to agree assuming you are comfortable with the financial aspects. Your gut often is a better barometer than your brain.</p>
<p>More good news fro DD from her ED school - she was awarded a Dean’s Scholarship - $13,000 a year for 4 years! More happy dancing here!</p>
<p>Happy-congrats to your D on the nice scholarship! woohoo</p>
<p>Happy64 - Congrats on the scholarship!</p>
<p>MOSB: It sounds like your daughter will have a difficult decision. I don’t know much about music degrees, so I can’t offer much advice there. I will tell you that at least half of my older daughter’s friends changed majors by the end of sophomore year. The ones who had picked schools based on fit along with major are still very happy. I’m a big believer in instinct. If it were my daughter, I’d probably encourage her to follow her heart.</p>
<p>Great news happy64.</p>
<p>mosb - I think your D is super smart and thoughtful and will know her heart when the time comes. </p>
<p>Congrats on scholarships! And thank you for the good wishes for my D and the honors college.</p>
<p>She herself has been flat on her back today, felt crappy and didn’t do anything she’d hoped to. But she’s got a plan to get everything done. Unfortunately our school has 2 more days before break, which I think is SO unfair!! She really needs the time - both to relax and get things done.</p>
<p>I am so glad I’ll have all of you guys through this very circuitous journey we’ll take for many more months ahead … the good and bad news, and the very hard decisions. I know ours will be very intense, just like so many others’.</p>
<p>I too wish our break would start. D will be pulling all nighters tonight and tomorrow getting massive projects done that are due before break! OY… of course the holiday concert is tomorrow night and will eat into her work/sleep time. I guess she can crash on Thursday!!!</p>
<p>oh, congrats happy 64…great news!</p>
<p>It has been a couple of days since checking in and wow at all of the acceptances and good news! Congrats to everyone with EA acceptances and $$. It will make the holidays seem that much brighter! Sorry for all those with disappointments! The holidays will be a time to relax and regroup! Thank goodness D is out for break now. Looking forward to spending some relaxing time with the family. Lots of time to reflect and move forward. D sent a few more applications in…April 1st seems like an eternity but I know time will fly:)</p>
<p>I do not feel that I have been following this thread as well as some. DS2 was admitted EA to his first choice. He filed one super-reach application today, but it would still be a second, he thinks, to his EA school. So, he’s done. Hard to believe…And, the EA was Chicago.</p>
<p>Anothermom3 - Congrats to your S!! Hope he enjoys the restof his sr. year.</p>
<p>Emmy- hope your D feels better today.</p>
<p>Congrats Anothermom! Chicago is a fantastic school.</p>
<p>My daughter has school this week through Wednesday. We leave that night for a quick visit to the elderly in-laws in Florida.</p>
<p>Good luck to eveyone getting ready for Christmas.</p>