<p>Aniger - Thank you! Looks like you spent a lot of time on this list, and it is much appreciated. I can’t believe that Chicago is 3/19, only 12 days away! Here’s hoping everyone’s decision news gets off to a great start!</p>
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We are big Skype fans espec with our two four year old grandchildren (born a day apart to different step-daughters). Nothing like watching their singing and dancing antics or just their general silliness. It really helps them know us since we generally only see them once every 12-18 months.</p>
<p>slight correction:</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 @ 9:26 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>Thinking of your grandbaby OWM. </p>
<p>Its cracking me up that their priorities for packing were their electronics, not their toothbrushes. I think my own kids would do the same.And I agree breastpumps are always good for a laugh when men are involved.</p>
<p>Wow - I was too busy all weekend to check in and boy, did it take me a while to catch up on all the posts over the weekend! </p>
<p>2education - thanks for setting up the shutterfly site. I will PM you to get added to the site.</p>
<p>OWM - I hope your grandson is better soon. Nothing worse than seeing a baby sick and feeling helpless. S has asthma - and the first time he had an attack, I didn’t recognize the signs. Called the doctor rather reluctantly at 9pm on a Sunday - doc listened to S’s breathing over the phone and told me to get to an ER pronto. H was out of town - I had to take five yr old D with me - all panicky since the doc sounded so serious/grave. Get to the ER, nurse rushes out, grabs the baby from me and runs in, yelling out to someone else - “let’s see how badly he’s compromised”. He turned out to be ok - but you can imagine the fear, especially since I almost didn’t call the doc! Sad thing is that my doc was so much in-tune with this, especially since he lost his son to an asthma attack a year prior to this!</p>
<p>Yep - March 30th is going to be one heck of a day. I had heard some of the other schools release a bit earlier than that - so here’s hoping, 30th will be the last for D. Her birthday is the weekend before - so she told me that she will either have a fabulous birthday or an incredibly awful day. Talking of results, she admitted to me this morning that she’s been having nightmares - one particular one was that she logged in on March 30th to check and just as she did, the house blew up !! Huh?</p>
<p>Stressed out is an understatement for how I am feeling right now. Didn’t even realize how stressed out I am - found myself crying over breakfast the other day, while re-reading a book. Sad part in the book, sure - but I’ve read this book hundreds of times before!! D asked me a question the other day - I somehow rambled on to talking about S and his future plans and suddenly I was crying. D was looking at me flabbergasted and shocked! Have to do something to keep this at bay over the next month. Suggestions welcome!!</p>
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<p>It depends on what companies need to move rentals from one location to another. I’ve used carrentals.com, expedia, hotwire, and probably some others I’m not remembering to try and find the best rate. One trip D1 and I flew into Boston and then flew out of Providence. I ended up getting the best rate by having one car just in the Boston area, returning that, and then using another company to drive from Boston to Providence.</p>
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<p>Over the years I have had some success with Avis for one way rentals. There seems to be more availability in Florida and California than elsewhere. Last year I tried to get a oneway in Philly and there were none without huge add-on fees. Ended up cheaper to round trip out of Newark. As Slithey said, it depends on who needs to move vehicles elsewhere. If you or anyone in your family belong to any of the “Preferred” of “Gold” preferred customer programs, you might call them on their “members only” line and see if there are any special one way programs or rates for their members.</p>
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Thanks for the clarification. I found that we didn’t have too much time to spend with the reactor - too many other classes.</p>
<p>And prayers for your grandson from here too.</p>
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Awwwwww, that’s really sweet…</p>
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You had me LOL at this one… I think you’re in good company.</p>
<p>So, I know from cc, that a certain honors college decision will be coming out today and it’s either a small envelope (bad) or a big one (good). Here’s me sitting on the front steps waiting to hear that little truck. Got a boiling kettle ready for steaming. Chances are, today will be the late delivery where we don’t get our mail until 6pm! Thinking of that catsup commercial “an-ti-ci-pation, an-ti-ci-pa–tion is making me wait…”</p>
<p>Amanda~I thought you could check on line for the Honors program ;)</p>
<p>OWm ~ Sending healing thought for the grand-baby :)</p>
<p>Stay 
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<p>Get better, little one!</p>
<p>We haven’t had refreshments in awhile. Here, I’ve got a plate of some chocolate-cherry “horn” from our local kosher bakery. Think danish pastry wrapped around layers of shaved chocolate and some sort of cherry (dried and chopped? jam? Not sure…) with a high filling-to-pastry ratio. Also, we have a leftover chocolate alligator from the same bakery. I would put out the leftover roast cauliflower from last night because it is that good except that the D’s, as always, scarfed it all up. There are many things I can think of putting in a care package, but sadly roast cauliflower isn’t one of them. </p>
<p>The spouse and I are trying to make plans for taking D1 to school in August. We know move-in day. We know when pre-orientation starts. We do not know if she will snag a pre-orientation spot. There should be an easy solution: everyone flies out in time for pre-orientation for a family vacation, and if D1 doesn’t get to do pre-orientation, she joins us on our trip. Except that D1 says no, if she can’t do pre-orientation she wants to spend as much time as possible at home. Which would mean that we are flying three people cross-country for, oh, three days. I don’t think so. The thing that’s REALLY annoying is that I know exactly what will happen: all of her friends will have already left for school by that point, and she’ll be bored.</p>
<p>2education - I think the online “trick” requires me to “accept the offer of admission” to the honors college and I just feel like that is getting a bit too devious even for me, steam I can do!</p>
<p>The snow plow knocked over our mailbox!!! Nomail until dh can fix it!!! Not while we are waiting for fellowship and fa news!!!</p>
<p>Adding UVa</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 @ 9:26 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 [2009- March 25th; 2010 March 26th]
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>Well, that is simply inexcuseable!!! You NEED a mailbox! Maybe you can hang a basket or something? (My mailman would toss it into the snowbank if there was no receptacle)</p>
<p>Hollie~ so funny… we had the same issue recently, DH tied the all thing to the next available tree.
Between last year college apps and this year college apps we made sure our mailman had a happy holiday 
Amanda~ I hear you i thought it might help…let us know … keeping fingers and all crossed :)</p>
<p>rejected 
this is going to hit hard, ugh.</p>
<p>Amanda- so sorry!!</p>
<p>Rural delivery- they won’t deliver if the mailbox isn’t intact! Hopefully dh can fix tomorrow!</p>
<p>Amanda~Oh no so sorry!
{HUGS}</p>
<p>friend of D’s just heard from Cornell…just reporting since you have the list above. (She got in!!! Very happy.)</p>