<p>I am on pins and needles waiting for the MIT decisions and I don’t even have a kid waiting!
Good luck you guys…I have my fingers crossed for you! Keep your eye out for the double rainbow…</p>
<p>Glad I had a free weekend to read all the posts on Saturday & Sunday. There are a lot of decisions coming down so I’m glad I’m not completely lost! I keep telling myself that having TOO many choices can be just as stressful, so it can be helpful when things shake themselves out on their own. Lots of self-talk going on in my head :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Good luck with all the MIT decisions today. I’ll be looking forward to the updates. Among S’s closest friends 4 know exactly where they are going, 1 is 90% sure and then 3 are up in the air, waiting to see what the options are. They all seem to be very supportive.</p>
<p>Interesting 3 weeks ahead. Congrats also on the prom dress & shoes.</p>
<p>**It’s Pi day!<a href=“That’s%203/14%20for%20you%20non-math%20majors!”>/color</a> :)</p>
<p>Monday’s countdown is:</p>
<p>[color=red]MIT (March 14th) - Today is the day. Only about 12 hours to go! Here’s wishing good luck to all of the MIT applicants and parents on this forum.</p>
<p>UC (March 19th) - 5 days to go. The end of the week is near!</p>
<p>The big “H” and other ivys - 16 days to go based on the March 30th at 5 PM announcement date and time. Nearly down to two weeks.</p>
<p>March 31st schools - 17 days to go.**</p>
<p>March madness and the countdown to MLB opening day should help pass the time!</p>
<p>I’m so nervous I could:
a) throw up
b) eat a tub of raw cookie dough
c) scream
d) c, then b, then a.</p>
<p>Today was a collaboration Monday for our HS. That means teachers collaborate for 40 minutes and students arrive 40 later than normal. These happen twice a month and our son goes to breakfast once a month with his friends and once with me. Today, my husband joined us. We went to Dunkin Donuts and had------three Boston Cream donuts.</p>
<p>Over donuts, our son recalled some parts of his MIT interview that he hadn’t shared with us before. I think he wants this so much more than he had admitted before. He said, “I know Mizzou would be the easiest to accept financially and academically, but…” When I pressed him on what came after “but…” he said, “I just want to finally be challenged and have everyone in my classes care as much as I do.”</p>
<p>Butter is on the kitchen counter softening for the Boston Cream Pie. I am channeling my inner Meryl Streep as Julia Child: mmmm, butter. It just makes everything better.</p>
<p>I love the fact that MIT has pi day for its release of admission decisions. Adds a bit of levity to this not so fun process. I have no horse in the MIT race, but I’m rooting for the CCers here.</p>
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<p>I was thinking cheeseburger, fries and shake.</p>
<p>OWM - Oh…I feel for you. I can so appreciate your S’s desire. He sounds like he will bloom wherever he is planted. Let us know how the pie turns out!</p>
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OWM - my son to a tee.</p>
<p>Student popping in here again! Goodluck to all those waiting for their acceptances on Pi day. Sometimes I think I should have applied to MIT just to have the fun of getting my decision on this cool day. I just wanted to thank all the parents here who encouraged me to apply to my local uni (HKU) and helped me sort out my muddled thoughts. I got in! Although the application was a bit of a pain, I am so glad that I have a good safe option so close to home.</p>
<p>Putturani: Congrats on your acceptance! Thanks for checking back in to update us. </p>
<p>OWM and the other waiting for MIT: It’s going to be a long day. Hang in there. I’m rooting for your kids.</p>
<p>I hope everyone here gets good news today on MIT-I am so nervous for all of you.</p>
<p>FlMathMom let’s hope the not so great weekend is like a bad rehearsal before a great performance and you get the news this week you have been waiting for.</p>
<p>MOSB so happy for you.</p>
<p>Emmy I cannot imagine how hard it must be helping the girls cope with the horror in Japan.</p>
<p>amanda our sons were separated at birth-</p>
<p>My son also wants the academic challenge expressed by other people’s children-but he also wants to have fun-he is kind of clueless about things!</p>
<p>Keeping my fingers crossed for all waiting for news today. :)</p>
<p>Sincere best wishes for the MIT hopefuls today. It’s not on D’s list, but as I have “adopted” all these CC kids, I am waiting along side you. Hoping for good news all around and resilience and perspective if needed. Sorry about the unwelcome news being received. I’d give honors and FA to all these great kids if it were my decision!<br>
These next 2.5 weeks are going to be quite interesting. My D’s self esteem is largely dependent on her academics, so I worry about how she might take any bad news. I know she will land where she should she can only go to one school (and she has a safety she likes), but she really wants at least one reachy yes! She did make the state competition in her sport (barely), a welcome distraction - HOORAY!<br>
EB - thank goodness your JD and friend have you! Must be heart wrenching. I think we are just now starting to comprehend the enormity of the situation. Beyond the immediate issues, it will take years to recover the energy infrastructure.<br>
I am going to immerse myself in work now. May be a slow day as we all refresh. I brought pie to work and am now the recipient of some friendly nerd jesting. I love it!</p>
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<p>I felt that way on Saturday, and all we were doing was shopping for a prom dress. (Long story: we left the store to “think about” the favorite - went back 5 mintutes later but another girl already had it in her clutches. I stalked that girl’s dressing room for a full 90 minutes - 30 of which she spent in “the dress.” All the consultants were in on it, wanting D to have the dress. The moment the girl said she didn’t want the dress, it was handed off to me, before she even emerged from the dressing room. The things we do for our daughters!!!)</p>
<p>I, too, am nervous about MIT, as D has a friend waiting.</p>
<p>Congrats to all on the acceptances which seem to be rolling in nicely.
Condolences on the rejections - but it’s nice to see that for the most part they are balanced out by positive news from other schools.</p>
<p>I have been out of pocket this weekend. D and I were in Minnesota for a Scholars Weekend and I must say that if D decides to attend, I will be a very happy mom. They have so much to offer students that are interested in international issues, with a real emphasis on translating academics and travel into service to others. D was more apprehensive about the overnight stay aspect of the visit than about the scholarship interview, but wound up having a really nice time - pizza, student improv show, movie, late-night chat sessions. She said she wants to do a couple more overnights when she gets the rest of her decisions in to give all the schools an equal viewing, but this school will be very hard to beat.</p>
<p>Good luck to those waiting for MIT decisions. We are here to celebrate and commiserate.</p>
<p>" Spring of senior year can be trying for all, but it usually all falls beautifully into place! "</p>
<p>It is a grueling year. Especially for those in the top schools/scholarships/athletics-debate-performance track. Have been through this before…and I was just amazed at how relaxed it seemed in Oct after our 1st was off to school. Intially, I couldn’t figure out why everything felt so “light” I knew it wasn’t just having one less at home — and finally figured out it was the release of tensions from the intensity of the entire senior year plus the emotionally and physically exhausting process of sending them off to college.</p>
<p>My sympathies to those of you with a kid just 1 or 2 years behind. I had a few years before we had to do it all again (and 2nd kid wasn’t on the high performance track…so…has made it just a little bit easier.)</p>
<p>Good luck MIT hopefuls! I’m crossing my fingers for you.
D had a challenging weekend congratulating some and commiserating with other members of her large group of friends. The WashU, UCLA and CalTech decisions were the talk of the weekend, with some successes that were expected, but unfortunately also some waitlists and rejections that were totally unexpected. I have known these kids since D was in middle school, so I suffer for them as well.</p>
<p>MIT is big news in D’s high school (we are in a high tech area) and I am guessing that at least 10-12 kids applied. So far, D is the only one who has been accepted, but we are all so hopeful that at least a couple more will join her.</p>
<p>Congrats to Puttarani! Glad to hear Novelisto’s daughter is on the mend. Hoping for good news from here on out for everyone in Japan and friends/family.</p>
<p>owm, my daughter has the same wish as your son. I told her when I was working in a coffee shop yesterday that there were bio students (she will be bio/dance) from our local flagship (her financial safety, where she is worried she will have to go) studying next to me. She wanted to know what kind of kids they were. Did they seem really interested or just trying to get it done for a test? I was able to truthfully report that they did seem really interested in the subject. She said “Maybe I will be able to find my niche if I end up there.”</p>
<p>I have to pick my daughter up early and there is about a 50% chance mail will be in the box when I leave. AIGGGHHH!! Even though daughter should be hearing today (please today and not tomorrow or my brain may explode) from one of her top choice schools (it’s in a 3-way tie for first choice), when I dropped her off this moring she seemed more worried about her bf getting good pi day news.</p>
<p>Yep, it’s going to be a long day – a big vat of cookie dough AND a cheeseburger sound great.</p>
<p>Putturani - congrats. It was worth the effort. </p>
<p>cooker - glad to read your D had a good overnight. Good luck with the scholarship.</p>
<p>missy - glad you got the dress!</p>
<p>OWM- have a slice of that pie for me! I don’t often eat donuts but Boston creme is a fave</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK to all the MIT hopefuls today!!!</p>
<p>Yesterday, my D and I did ratings on [CollegePick</a> - Define colleges](<a href=“http://www.collegepick.us/]CollegePick”>http://www.collegepick.us/) that RenMom suggested (I believe), and it was really helpful. At first, I thought the only available factors were the drop-down ones, but you can type anything you want into those boxes. We listed factors that are important to her, and went through all of her 12 schools and rated each factor, guessing at some of them we haven’t visited yet. We were quite surprised with the final results! We printed it out and set it aside. Once she receives the rest of her acceptances and rejections, we can go back and pare down the list, and then once we finish visiting all of her accepted schools, we can go back and change things like “Fit” based on real feelings and not guesses. I’d highly recommend this tool.</p>
<p>When my son was going through the process two years ago, he quickly brought the 8 acceptances down to 4 choices. Then one of the four fell out, leaving him with three over which to agonize - second visits, several charts of pros and cons. Turns out that there was always a clear # 1, but I had made a comment months before about it being the most expensive, so Son assumed it was pretty much out of the question. In reality, I only let him apply to schools that would offer decent merit aid, so no school on the list was financially impossible.</p>
<p>So…if your student is having hard time making up her mind and you are able and willing to pay for all choices, you might want to bring that up. She may be trying to make herself love a less expensive school for financial reasons. (Of course, I assume that everyone has told their student right off the bat if a school was unaffordable.)</p>
<p>oregonianmom – Just used that College Pick link to compare DS’s top two schools (he’s already been admitted to both, but still trying to decide). One of them ended up with a score of 27 and the other 26! So, STILL nothing definitive to help us decide! :eek: </p>
<p>We did finally get School #2’s financial aid offer over the weekend; it is more aid than School #1 offered, but it is a more expensive school, so we’d still be paying a bit more. But again, it really isn’t enough to have the money be the deciding factor either.</p>
<p>It’s really going to come down to his sport; he needs to talk to School #1’s coach again, but it’s spring break this week, so he may not even be in town. </p>
<p>I am glad we already have his top two in hand; I really feel for everyone who’s waiting on announcements today and in the coming weeks. Best of luck to everyone!</p>