<p>I’m glad it was a nice letter, Eyemamom. Shows the school cares enough to convey their thought process.</p>
<p>Congrats to Glido’s son on the acceptance to BC! Eyeamom -it sounds like you handled the deferral well with your daughter. Wonderful open communication- glad her stress level has been lessened with your talk. Best wishes for the rest of the journey.</p>
<p>Hi Everyone,
It’s great to see so many acceptances here lately. congrats to everyone!!!
D has had a great last few weeks. She has been accepted to the top 2 schools on her list. She has heard from 5 schools so far and is 5 for 5 :). Still waiting on a few more. A couple of safetys and a reach.
It’s great to be past the application process and have acceptances in hand. It is now time to get to the CSS profile I have been putting of :(.
Congrats again to all who have had good news and hope those still waiting hear soon.</p>
<p>Son accepted to his first choice tonight Colorado College!!! So happy for him</p>
<p>Congrats moments caught!</p>
<p>So, so happy for all the acceptances and for those who can close the door on this crazy process! Sorry for the disappointment some of us are having to manage (although, I truly feel that the right school is out there for each of our kids!).</p>
<p>In our house, DD got four acceptances and one deferral. Of course the one school that is playing hard to get is the “one.” The heart wants what it wants – though so often what the heart wants is also the one playing coy (why are we like that???). Winter break starts tomorrow afternoon and there are more applications to write. Raising a glass to casting a wide net. Good luck to everyone still in the game!</p>
<p>D stayed up past midnight because her second EA school said they would post on the 20th. Good to their word, the EA decisions were on their portal at 12:05 AM. </p>
<p>Accepted to Elon with a presidential scholarship and eligible for additional merit scholarship awards. This makes her 3 for 3. </p>
<p>It appears that we will be sailing on the SS Indecision come April 1st! :eek:</p>
<p>Congrats AvonHSDad! Your daughter is truly accomplished!
I remember your name from 3 years ago, when we both had kids going through the process. My daughter is a junior now at Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>So much drama around college choice tonite in the household, but it all came out ok in the end. S2 agreed to continue his Pomona application, after I had a calm morning chat with him a couple days ago (it helps to get them when they are sleepy and you bring them the gift of coffee in bed, I’ve found). He has been put in touch with a local alumni, and he called her tonite to arrange a meeting Monday morning. She is a very accomplished scientist, so I think right off the bat that alleviates his concern about science education at a small liberal arts school. I also printed out some past posts on CC from students who were accepted at Pomona with very similar stats to him, and a couple articles by their former longtime Dean of Admissions, who emphasized how important it is for students to retain their own voice when applying to schools - to not try to be the perfect applicant, but to find the school that is perfect for them. Anyway, big brother will be home from law school Tuesday, so he can pick his brain about essays-his brother had to work extremely hard to overcome some learning disabilities and become a good writer, so he is strong on mechanics.
S2 also agreed to apply to his academic/financial fit school - he had started to balk at the 5 supplemental essays, and said he wouldn’t, but I explained that it was important to have a backup plan in case Tulane FA and reach school Pomona didn’t work out.
And I have identified a State safety that I think he might agree to in UNT - strong science programs, also a medical school there, he is guaranteed admittance and merit scholarship with his class standing and ACT score. And admission deadline is not until March 1. At least if he applies there and the other schools do not pan out, he will have an affordable, quality backup college - plus they have a Division I football team with a brand new stadium, which would really appeal to him. I think getting another acceptance under his belt will be a nice boost for his confidence, and this actually seems like it could be a good fit. So I’ll float it in a little while and see how he feels about it.</p>
<p>Congrats momentscaught and Avon! </p>
<p>One of DS’ schools is supposed to be mailing decisions today. They aren’t far away so hopefully he’ll get that envelope tomorrow or Monday. </p>
<p>And then Michigan- lots of speculation on that board decisions will start to be released today because the admissions office is closed from noon-3:00 or something. I think it might be their holiday party, frankly. The hype on that board is out of control.</p>
<p>Congrats to the latest acceptances and to the ones still waiting remember: this is just round one, the fight is not over. Schools have just send their first round of admission letters. Many kids (non-ed of course) might not attend those schools, even Harvard and MIT ( as a few of the kids in my HS did not ,…ok they went to Princeton and Caltech but it was a rejection). SO my point is: schools get rejected TOO. Great schools, and they still are great schools after they have been rejected. Kids feel so pressured into this system that they loose sense of what is reasonable. In my DD school (very competitive), a kid did not get into YALE and threw his laptop in the bay. Now I know your kid is not like, but he does feel pressure too. Enjoy this last few days of 2013 without having to duel on application processes or acceptances, just on love and happiness. BTW University of Michigan, shame on you! I am Jewish, but what kind of cruel joke are you playing on these kids to delay the release of your results until the 24? Are you planning to accept everybody? Kind of sick if you ask me.</p>
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<p>If I were an adcom at UofM working my way through the rumored pile of EA apps they got this year and hearing all that buzz and impatience from the assembled thousands, I think I’d use that three-hour block today to start drinking heavily. But hopefully they’ll have your kid’s file processed before they hit the egg nog. Good luck!</p>
<p>That is funny,lol! My DD has not applied to UMichigan. She applied and was accepted to UMiami. I just feel for her friends, that are anxious waiting for a reply at the heels of Christmas. For many kids this can make or break their holiday, specially so close to the date.</p>
<p>Michigan’s College of Engineering has tweeted that their first wave of decisions will be sent today. </p>
<p>SomeOldGuy- Me too! My thoughts exactly. I’m thinking they are wrapping up setting up the emails to be sent and breaking at noon to start their holiday party- with plenty of adult beverages!</p>
<p>In Fall '11, for Fall '12 admissions, the emails started at 5 pm on Friday. My Barnardgirl got hers at 11:45 pm but some friends didn’t get them until as late as Monday. All weekend they were rolling out though. There was no rhyme or reason to it- accepted, deferred, rejected were all mingled, kids from the same in state school got them on different days. The kids on the board will try to find patterns, but there really weren’t any. Not even alphabetical.</p>
<p>“Best part of EA is knowing it’s not all riding on the AP Physics midterm.” - DS’14</p>
<p>glido… same exact thing here with my DS. After getting in ED, he gave a huge sigh of relief that he can relax a bit on his AP Physics mid-term… where the class average is a 75…WTH??? Regardless, he was shouting and running through the house yesterday, when after he checked online, he got one of the highest grades on it…and said to me, " I got a higher grade than my friend who just got in Harvard did"… made my night!</p>
<p>BIG Congrats’s to your S and also momentcaught!! Still bitter with CC though, for deferring ED and then rejecting DS is 2012:((( It’s a great school!!</p>
<p>Finally, all grades are in for this semester. I’m happy to announce that my daughter will graduate as the Valedictorian of her class (just first 7 semesters grades are considered). Her school is big and very competitive (typical SoCal sub-urban in an upper-middle class neighborhood HS), so it wasn’t easy. </p>
<p>No EA/ED, but this is equally, if not more important, to her than being accepted to a “lottery” school. It had been her dream to become Val since 6th grade. </p>
<p>Now, she can concentrate on her remaining “reach” apps. Happy Holidays everyone!</p>
<p>wow, congrats to your DD, 2018dad!</p>
<p>DS’14 has been accepted to four safeties EA. Three of them will be affordable with NMF scholarships, assuming he makes finalist. The fourth (WPI) will not, but they do offer a competitive full tuition scholarship, for which there is technically no additional application requirement but they do have a scholarship supplement which they recommend. I think my DS would kill me if I tried to get him to work on that now (he’s just finishing up 3 supplemental essays for his top choice RD school). I think that WPI may end up being one of the best fits if his top choice doesn’t come through with enough money, which will be iffy. But… we haven’t visited yet, so he doesn’t know, which will make it even less likely for him to work on supplements now. I’ve emailed admissions to ask if it will be too late if he were to do the supplement in mid-February, once he’s had a chance to visit and get excited for himself.</p>
<p>Which then leads me to my question about when best to visit. I had planned to do visits during his February vacation, during a “school day” so he could really see the schools in action. But of course, the schools are now planning admitted student days, primarily on the weekends. Usually I prefer a “regular” weekday visit to a “dog and pony show” visit, but I’m wondering if he would feel more welcomed/wooed by his safeties if we did the dog and pony show tour. Unfortunately the dates are non optimal, and would include a need to go to Boston (3 hours drive) two weekends in a row. I’d really like to do both Boston visits in a single trip. The problem is that WPI has its admitted students day on a Sunday, and Northeastern has its on the prior Sunday. If we did a “regular” visit to Northeastern, a Wednesday would be ideal for “engineering wednesday”. So if we want to do the two visits on consecutive days, we’d have to skip both admitted student days and do either Tues/Wed or Wed/Thu during his Feb break week. Thoughts? With my DS’11 we did mostly “regular” visits rather than admitted student days (though the place he ended up, and a good fit, we did visit on an admitted student event).</p>
<p>I do want him to feel the love for his safeties, since I’m not convinced his other options will come through with enough money. We’ve only visited one of the safeties so far, and he does like it.</p>
<p>Anybody besides me have a kid who refuses to identify a front runner? She’s been accepted and received ample merit aid from a half dozen schools. She has 3 schools outstanding. She won’t give any indication of which way she’s leaning. She s likely to get into the 3 remaining colleges (she was interested in safeties and matches primarily) and I fear complete indecision which is very unlike her. If my DH and I get too excited about one of these acceptances she scolds us for “pushing” that school. Driving me nuts! Just want enjoy the vicarious thrill ��</p>