<p>Owm - hope your little grandbaby is home soon!</p>
<p>owm - ditto all the good wishes!</p>
<p>Please let me also board the ship name Purgatory…waiting for the final outcome. Hoping there is some positive news at the end of the month.</p>
<p>Another week is upon us …</p>
<p>Monday’s countdown is:</p>
<p>MIT (March 14th) - 7 days to go. Down to a week! Finally feels like some progress!</p>
<p>The big “H” -23 days to go based on a reported March 30th announcement date.</p>
<p>March 31st schools - 24 days to go.</p>
<p>For everyone’s sake, I really wish there was a way to speed this up. :)</p>
<p>owm: wishing a speedy recovery to your grandbaby. I’m glad your kids had the good sense to take him in as soon as they did.</p>
<p>When we were waiting for ED decision, I had to practically quarantine myself to keep from revealing my stress to S. As much as I wanted to vent, I knew I had to keep myself in check for his sake. If you guys need to stress, please come HERE and let it all out…</p>
<p>OWM - I’ll be thinking of that precious grandbaby of yours and his parents today. Your pride and support of your son and daughter-in-law as parents means more to them then you could possibly imagine. I hope you get some much needed rest as well.</p>
<p>OWM - Sending hugs to your precious grandson. Hope he is out of the hospital pronto. Very proud of your son and DIL for using their instincts and good parental judgment. They obviously had a wise teacher.</p>
<p>We increased our family by one over the weekend. My middle stepdaughter surprised us all by giving birth two weeks early to a second daughter. She is our fourth granddaughter and sixth grandchild (1 day to 14 years old). We will meet her and see the rest of the gang in October when we go to Israel for a few weeks.</p>
<p>Several pages back, some of you mentioned that your children will require certain housing accommodations in college. You might be interested in reading about the recent settlement reached in United States of America v. Millikin University, an important case concerning university housing and a student with disabilities. [University</a> Housing and the Fair Housing Act - Disability.gov](<a href=“http://blog.govdelivery.com/usodep/2011/02/university-housing-and-the-fair-housing-act.html]University”>http://blog.govdelivery.com/usodep/2011/02/university-housing-and-the-fair-housing-act.html)</p>
<p>Best wishes to the babies in our “family” here - health and happiness to all.</p>
<p>owm - wishing you grandson a speedy recovery.</p>
<p>AvonHSdad, all Ivies release on the same day, which is March 30th this year. Despite what they say on their websites, traditionally other top schools released the week before the Ivy release date (last year March 25, 26 and 27 were the biggest days), many releasing on Friday before (March 25th this year). Some release earlier - WashU has traditionally released this week! As you can tell I am way too into this stuff, but thought some may be interested.</p>
<p>owm - my daughter was hospitalized in intensive care when she was 2 weeks old with RSV, and she is now a graduating senior and a terrific multisport athlete (with amazing endurance; she runs distances and is a soccer midfielder). </p>
<p>You are correct that your grandbaby’s parents did the right thing and trusted their instincts bringing him to urgent care – I was casual about it, thought it was a cold and wasn’t concerned at first as her older brother had rarely been sick, then I did not follow up right away when the doctor’s office never called me back after a “she seems like she is struggling to breathe” message left at his office (!) – but luckily got to the hospital in time. (yes, we switched doctors pretty quickly after that)!</p>
<p>I’m sure he will recover beautifully and bring you many years of joy!</p>
<p>OWM – I hope you have good news today. Plenty of positive energy focused on your grandson…</p>
<p>FlMathMom – Congratulations! (Frankly, I’d rather see a baby at 6mos than a new born…they are much more interesting!)</p>
<p>We are 3 days from hearing whether D will be a PG or not. But our main focus right now is her surgery tomorrow. We all hope that this repair of her shoulder will put her back in the pool by the fall…H.S. sports aside, swimming has been her ‘thing’ since she was 7 yrs old and she misses it terribly.</p>
<p>owm, hope your grandbaby is on the road to recovery. I had a similar experience (and like gm, did not take it as seriously as I should have…) When my son was a baby, took him to the doctor’s office at the end of the day, hoping I wasn’t “bothering them with nothing”… and the doctor called an ambulance! He had bronchiolitis on top of asthma and was in the hospital almost a week (but doing fine now, 10 years later!) </p>
<p>Novelisto, hope your daughter’s shoulder surgery goes “swimmingly!”</p>
<p>LoP and Aniger, glad I am not the only one obsessing on dates! I also found that even though most of the schools say “March 31” or “April 1”, the most common dates seem to be Mar. 26-29. Perhaps they make allowances for the furthest away student with the worst mail delivery service.</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers. The kids are waiting for the doctor to visit this morning to see what happens next. I’m waiting here for instructions as to what to bring them at the hospital. They packed their iPads and chargers, but no clothes or toothbrushes for a possible overnight stay!</p>
<p>Here’s a funny image for you: when they learned they were headed to the hospital, I told my husband to head there to be with them while I went to waltz lessons. I asked the kids if they needed anything from their house. They said: the breast pump and attachments and bottles. So imagine my husband in their house, looking for the correct breast pump attachments! He’s an engineer so he doesn’t read instructions but he figured it out. </p>
<p>As if my stomach were not already tied up on knots, MIT announcement date is official. March 14 at 926 p.m. ET. Pi equals 3.14159265. For the past two years, the announcement has been at 159 PM. I’d like to guess the change to 926 is so kids don’t have to log in from school.</p>
<p>Again, many thanks to my virtual friends for your support. I’ll post when I know more.</p>
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<p>Aniger - Thanks for the additional release date info. At least the dates fall before those I have used in the countdowns. That will just help all of us by possibly eliminating those last couple of days of stress! Since there are a lot of variables and schools with their own schedules, I will keep the “target” dates and hope for early surprises for everyone. I have seen on some of the Admissions site blogs that there have been earlier releases in prior years so lets hope for a repeat. The only thing that could impact this pattern is the increase in overall apps this year.</p>
<p>The irony of these dates is that our S will be on his senior class trip to Washington from the 29th through the 2nd of April. I am sure he will have all of the school logins with him so he can check using his WiFi Ipod. Although he will be on the road, I can guarantee that we will be checking from home!</p>
<p>OWM - praying for good doctor news; breast pumps are always good for a laugh - esp. when men are involved.
Flmathmom - HOORAY! Congrats.
Novelisto - best of luck for a successful surgery and speedy recovery</p>
<p>There must be something wrong with me. When I learned of more weather issues in the Northeast today, my first thought was not “oh those poor people” it was “this better not slow down any adcoms!” I am officially over the edge…</p>
<p>Owm: I hope the doctor has good news today. It’s funny that your son and DIL remembered their IPODS but not their toothbrushes.</p>
<p>Novelisto: I hope your daughter’s surgery goes well so she can get back in the pool soon. I know what it’s like to have an athelete who is sidelined by an injury. My D1 has been dealing with an ankle injury that prevents her from working out and practicing gymnastics. She has been pretty cranky.</p>
<p>Angier - Thanks for your information! Where does one find out the exact release date for any particular school? Is there a list anywhere? I’m glad to hear that top non-Ivy schools tend to be sooner than the Ivies - hopefully, we’ll have some acceptances to take the sting out of any rejections from our Ivies. I guess we’re lucky that our spring break is April 1-10, but hate the thought of having to pay a premium for last-minute airfare if an admission comes in from a school we haven’t yet made it to.</p>
<p>A practical question - Has anyone run across a car rental company that does not charge an obscene markup for picking up a car at one airport and returning it to another airport? I don’t know how big our Northeast death march (if any) through the colleges will be, but short of a very long drive from home to and from the region, the rental car is the only way to do it. </p>
<p>I’ve also found that students don’t talk to each other much about their college choices, and I think it shows admirable sensitivity.</p>
<p>See below (generally “offficial” date is on the college’s website, for unofficial need to search old college confidential threads):</p>
<p>Amherst: April 1st [2010: email after 3pm on 3/26]
American: April 1st
Bard: website says “around April 1” by snail mail, email for internationals
Barnard: by early April [2010: 3/25 via snail mail]
Boston College: by April 15th [?] [2010: March 26]
Boston University: online notification April 15th [?] [2010: March 26]
Bowdoin College: “early April” [2010: mailed March 26]
Brandeis University:
Brown: March 30th, 5pm EST
Bryn Mawr:
Bucknell:mail by USPS 3/24, online 3/28
Caltech: 3/20
Carleton College: April 1
Carnegie Mellon:
Case Western: week of 3/21
Claremont McKenna College: April 1
Clark: website says April 1
Chicago, University of: 3/19 [2010: March 19, 11 PM EST online]
Colgate:
Colorado College: [2010: 3/12]
Columbia: 3/30
Connecticut College: March 31
Cornell: March 30th
Dartmouth: March 30th, 5pm EST
Davidson: mailed Early Decision II by February 1, and for Regular Decision by April 1 (online access available March 25 at 9pm)
Dickinson: website says “late March”.
Duke: online notification “late March” [2010: March 29 6 PM online]
Elon: Late January for fellows, March 15 for RD
Emory: April 1 via OPUS [2010: March 27th 12:00am via Opus account]
Florida State University: March 16th, online
Furman: March 15 RD
Georgetown: April 1 USPS - no online
George Washington: [2010: 3/25]
Georgia Institute of Technology - March 18th
Grinnell: March 26th online 8am
Hamilton: March 25th at 8:00 p.m. EST
Hampshire:
Harvard: notification by email after 5pm Eastern on March 30
Harvey Mudd: BY April 1
Haverford:
Johns Hopkins: notification by email [2010: 3/31 7 PM EST]
Kenyon:
Loyola Marymount (LMU):
Macalester:
McGill: January 28th then rolling through March 29th
Middlebury:Mailed Friday, March 25, 2011 - Available online on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 8:00am EST
MIT: 3/14 @ 9:56 PM EST [Online MIT account]
Mount Holyoke:
Northeastern: Decisions released on-line by April 1
Northwestern: [2010: 3/25 4 PM] By March 31 this year
Notre Dame: Mailed First week of April
NYU:
Oberlin:
Occidental: [2010: snail mailed on 3/25; letters rec’d as early as 3/26]
Pepperdine: “Decision notification on or before April 1” per website
Pitzer: Website says “April 1” [2010: snail mailed on 3/25; letters rec’d as early as 3/26]
Pomona: snail mail April 5 [last year snail mail 3/27]
Princeton: March 30
Puget Sound: March 15
Reed: [2010: emailed 3/26 4:30 PM PST]
Rice: April 1 [2010: 3/28]
RPI: March 12
Santa Clara University:
Seattle U: March 1
Scripps: “late March” – [2010: 3/25]
Skidmore: Website says “late March” by snail mail.
Smith:
Stanford: April 1st [Email, generally releases Friday prior to 4/1; in 2010 it was 3/26 after 3 PM.]
Swarthmore: [2010: most US mail letters arrived 3/27; some people got “accepted” letters as early as 3/14]
Syracuse: Website says “admission notification begins mid-March”
Tufts: [2010: 3/31 6 PM online]
UCB: March 24 [at noon on the MyBerkeley Portal]
UCD: Late March [2010: 3/23]
UCI: coming out in batches since 2/1, through end of March
UCLA: Mid-Late March [2010: 3/12 6 PM online]
UCM:
UCR: coming out in batches since 2/1, through end of March
UCSB: 3/21
UCSC: [2010: 3/15]
UCSD: Mid-Late March [2010: 3/15]
UGA: already available
UMiami, FL: [2010: 3/5]
UMichigan: RD - rolling starting Feb 4
UNC: January 21 first deadline online; around April 1 second deadline
UPenn: March 30th, online notification
URichmond: RD April 1 [[2010: letters snail mailed on 3/24]
URochester: mailed 2/22 - 4/1
USC: BY April 1 (Snail-Mail)
UWashington: March 15-31
UWisconsin:
UVA: April 1, online
Vanderbilt: mailed April 1
Vassar: “Around April 1”
Villanova: 3/18, online
Wake Forest: ED rolling; RD April 1
Washington University in St. Louis: decisions mailed April 1 [2010: online 3/11]
Wellesley: Early Evaluation: February 23rd at 7pm EST
Wesleyan: 3/25 at 3PM online [2010: 3/26 at 5 PM online]
Whitman: April 1
William & Mary: mailed “early April”
Williams: by April 1
Yale: March 30th, online notification</p>
<p>OWM - Thanks for the update. I’m sure the peds unit was helpful in getting your son and DIL some basic necessities (toothbrushes, etc.). I’d say it’s funny that they grabbed their ipads, but not at all surprising. It’s instinct. I’m sure they will be grateful for the change of clothes!</p>
<p>I’ve always thought that the MIT release date of ‘Pi day’ has been fun and unique. Anybody else have kids who have had parties in math for Pi day? Our school will take any excuse for a party! I do like that they moved the time so the kids are out of school. There is something about having people look over your shoulder that is unnerving. I would think parents are bad enough. Bluejr’s EC generally excuses Sr’s to go home early who have e-announcements due (these are the 5pm announcements). For a time intensive activity that rarely gives these kids a break I think it’s a nice touch. </p>
<p>FMM - Congratulations on the new addition to the family! Hopefully mom and baby are doing well. My guess is you’ll be meeting your granddaughter via skype before October. :)</p>
<p>Novelisto - Well wishes to your daughter during surgery and recovery. I hope everything goes as planned and she can be back to normal activities quickly. As parents, a child having surgery is a very anxious time. Please get plenty of rest before hand!</p>