<p>Congrats, mamom! It’s great when the student actually likes the school that offers the most money. Win-win for everyone. :)</p>
<p>Great day! My D loved the college we toured today. She applied there only a week ago (last minute addition, closer to home) and today the admissions rep gave her a verbal acceptance, and told her she would likely receive “significant” merit aid!</p>
<p>We will find out for sure next week! I don’t want to jinx it, so I’ll wait until then to mention the college by name. ;)</p>
<p>Way to go mamom. SO happy for you and your son (I first wrote our son until I corrected my typo. Starting to feel that way about all these kids). Wishing everyone of us such happiness. </p>
<p>OMom - we’ll hold our BIG cheers for next week and just send along some little ones for now.</p>
<p>Surgery went well…they repaired the problem they knew about and the one they ‘edu-guessed’ was there but couldn’t really see on the XRay-MRI-Look-If-I-Hold-The-Flashlight-Up-You-Can-See-My-Bones-O-Graph…</p>
<p>Now she’s in a serious sling for several weeks and quite a bit of pain…good thing I’ve recorded lots of her favorite shows. I will definitely be ‘loving the kid on the couch’ for the next two weeks. </p>
<p>Thanks for all your good wishes…hope you are all smiling at big piles of money right now!</p>
<p>Some days it’s pure posting madness around here. I so love to read everyone’s thoughts, musings, latest triumphs and also latest fears. I’m highfiving from Southern California each and every victorious email and letter. And I’m sending hugs to each S or D who must adjust to sad results. </p>
<p>I’m sorry to jump into the stream so late, but at least I’ll get started…</p>
<p>mamom–congratulations on the more money, more money, more money! Such a joy when a college wants your kid so badly. </p>
<p>O-mom–so happy your D was happy at the late-addition school. I am impressed you found a school with so much to offer and still available. And a verbal acceptance? yippeee!</p>
<p>Novelisto–wonderful news on D’s surgery. Recovery is not the most fun in the world, but soon she’ll be feeling so much better. </p>
<p>OWM–the flames! I’m lol over here! </p>
<p>Several of us (many?) are in the same soup with regards to it taking superstar merit awards to make some private Us affordable. My S2 had to take his best shot, but it was always a longshot. It was hard to watch some of those pass my boy by–meaning those schools are no longer a possibility even if (big if) he is to be admitted. But I am finding I can only hang onto these sad feelings for a day or two and somehow I miraculously brighten up. Hope we all find ourselves moving upward and onward with even better news to come.</p>
<p>Can’t keep up in here! Posting madness has occured since last night, my goodness.</p>
<p>OWM–sounds like a flamin good time at your house --oops-garage I mean</p>
<p>OGM–envelope openers will be getting lots of use soon in your house, hopefully with much good news</p>
<p>Omom–wondering what school it is, have a hunch but we’ll see, so glad it was a great visit with good news</p>
<p>More fist pumps to those with any and all good news…and gentle hugs to those without</p>
<p>Novelisto–best healing wishes to your D</p>
<p>mamom—they are showin you the money–yay! for you and your son</p>
<p>We’ll see how D1’s interview goes tomorrow, at the very least it will be a learning experience. Huge $$ BUT only would apply to one state school she’s been accepted to that was her safety and not high on the list. With financial challenges we’ve been experiencing though… just have to see what happens</p>
<p>OGM - I hope that school sends out a big letter filled with money to your D soon. Glad she liked it. </p>
<p>Novelisto - Wishing your daughter a speedy recovery.</p>
<p>collegemaw - good luck to your D with her interview.</p>
<p>Lots of good news on her this morning.</p>
<p>Mamom: Congrats on the $$. I’m glad that things are coming together so nicely for your son.</p>
<p>OWM: Never a dull moment at your house.</p>
<p>Omom: How nice that your daughter found a closer school that she likes. I’ll keep my fingers crossed on that merit aide.</p>
<p>Novelisto: I hope your daughter has a quick and easy recovery.</p>
<p>Emilybee: Congrats on NHS. It’s nice that your son set a goal and stuck with it.</p>
<p>Collegemaw: I hope the interview goes well.</p>
<p>My D1 came home last night after spending the first half of her spring break traveling with friends. It’s so nice to have both of my girls home. She’s applying for summer internships, so we will be going suit shopping.</p>
<p>Wow, this thread moves quickly! Although I don’t post often, I do try to keep up. Congratulations on all the good news, let the celebrations begin! And good luck for those still waiting. We are doing a little of both, celebrating and waiting. Although my daughter is in at her school, we are still waiting for the financial aid package and hoping for a small academic merit award. Tomorrow is a big day around here, interviews for a big scholarship program. There are eighteen categories and each high school school, over forty, nominates one senior in each category. The top four win a scholarship, from $3,000 to $1,000. My daughter is still busy doing scholarship applications, although a little less then willingly, lol. She complained last night about having to “bothering” the people in the guidance office again and that her friends were not applying for all these scholarships. I reminded her that her friends were all going to in-state schools and she wouldn’t need scholarships if she were going to UF instead of a pricey private school. Just think, in a few months, all this stress will just be a distant memory.</p>
<p>We are in major waiting time- not only with d’s three remaining colleges, but with FA and honors colleges acceptances. Then, equally important, we are still waiting to find out where we are moving in June and when exactly. Can’t make decisions about summer programs or vacations without knowing where we are going. Can’t decide on educational decisions for next year for youngest without knowing where we will be living. WE were supposed to find out on Feb. 22. The office that decides has been saying any day now since Feb. 24th. It is getting old. While d has been saying that where we move doesn’t matter, I think it may based on what she had been saying earlier in the year. FOr example, if we are moving overseas, I think she may be more tempted to go to a school with a close by international airport that serves where we would be living. I know that it was a hassle to get my son to rural MI when we lived in Belgium. ALso, a school may be more palatable if she can come home some weekends (thinking U of Denver where I am not sure why she is so keen on considering she doesn’t want to downhill ski or snowboard).
Then finally, I am waiting for spring.</p>
<p>MM - That is a lot of uncertainty to deal with for your family all at once. I wish you had a “date” to look forward for your answers. I surely hope you will find out before the college info comes in. I do feel for you - I HATE the unknown!!</p>
<p>MM: I think you have the hardest wait of anyone. I can’t imagine not knowing what country I will be living in next year. I can see how your location will affect your daughter’s decision. I hope they give you an answer very soon.</p>
<p>Wednesday’s countdown is:</p>
<p>**MIT (March 14th) - 5 days to go. </p>
<p>UC (March 19th) - 10 days to go. Just a week and a half. </p>
<p>The big “H” and other ivys - 21 days to go based on the March 30th at 5 PM announcement date and time. Down to 3 weeks.</p>
<p>March 31st schools - 22 days to go. Almost down to 3 weeks.**</p>
<p>collegemaw and fishymom – Good luck to your daughters on their scholarship interviews!</p>
<p>MilitaryMom – Sounds like you are handling your stress well. I would be a basket case. Uncertainty is so unnerving! I hope you find out soon, so you can start making firm plans.</p>
<p>Hurry up and finish, March. I don’t like to wish my life away, but this waiting is interminable.</p>
<p>MM - That is incredible that you don’t know yet!!! I hope you find out soon! 
Novelisto - Hope your patient is doing well and recovery is quick.
collegemaw/fishymom - good luck with those interviews!!
Slow day here, cleaning and more cleaning. How did this house get so messy?</p>
<p>mamom - fabulous news. I loved your comment about calling your son Mary if they were to send additional money. What’s in a name???</p>
<p>Oregonianmom - so great to find a school close to home, verbal acceptance and merit money? Wow - think of all the months of stress you could have avoided before this!</p>
<p>owm - intentionally set himself on fire? Gosh, I can’t (don’t want to) picture this. </p>
<p>Novelisto - hope your patient feels better soon. Love the kid on the couch…literally.</p>
<p>Nothing out here to report - like many, we are still in a holding pattern. H sort of lost it with D - a couple of scholarship apps are due this weekend and even though she has known it for a while, she only looked at them now. Found they require transcripts and 2 letters of recommendation. Ugh. She’s mad at herself - she now has to go plead with the teachers/GC to get this done. Can anyone say senioritis? She relaxed (perhaps a bit too much!) this past month.</p>
<p>We are in the same boat, apps due by the 15th and spring break starts next week. My daughter has the letters of recommendation from the teachers, but they are all specific to one particular scholarship. I asked her to have them fixed to a more generic form a month or so ago. I finally figured out that her resistance is because she feels bad asking them to write them again. I explained that they are most likely saved on their computers and all they have to do is change a couple of words, print them and sign them, no big deal. Hopefully, she can get them by Friday.</p>
<p>Arisamp, good luck to your daughter!</p>
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You ain’t kidding! But you know kids, it has to be THEIR idea. I suggested a few local schools a long time ago, but she wasn’t biting. It will be interesting to see how it stacks up against whichever schools she gets accepted to later this month. As of right now, it’s her #1 choice among the 2 other schools she’s so-far been accepted to.</p>
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<p>I was trying to explain this concept to H this morning. That instead of starting a conversation with D in a confrontation kind of mode, he could make it seem like it was her idea. Unfortunately, H is as stubborn as D (guess where she inherited that from!) - and wasn’t buying it. I can usually get D to agree to do the stuff, just with a slightly different approach :)</p>
<p>Congrats to all on the positive news, I can’t keep track. We are hoping they spell S’s first name right on his diploma. I made a note on the bottom of the form. It can go either way. He has been at this school for 7 years and on every report card at least 50% of the teachers spell it wrong. </p>
<p>We are chugging along with room choosing day tomorrow and booking orientation on S’s match with great merit. He does have one March 30 decision out there for a super reach. I can’t imagine he will be accepted, particularly as I don’t think his heart was in his app and his gpa is well south of 4.0. He says it won’t change his mind as he is very focused on weather and of course $$(thank you). But, I am looking forward to having that decision complete and anticipating the date for his many friends & parents who are waiting. And of course, all you guys.</p>