<p>@austinareadad, interesting twist, indeed! </p>
<p>Congrats to your son on the Michigan COE admission, @vandyeyes. Michigan has rolling admissions for regular decision so those deferrals can switch over to admissions at any time with them. I wish more schools did it that way!</p>
<p>Congrats, vandyeyes! Very exciting! It feels like the essay writing will never end! Good luck to all the interviewees this week. </p>
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go2 - Congratulations to go2girl. That is fabulous news! We are just crossing our fingers for an RD acceptance to Vandy.</p>
<p>Speaking of which - I submitted the CSS this afternoon and found that the Vandy priority date was tomorrow. I had missed it since we don’t have a decision and was focused on DD’s first choice EA school which has a due date of 2/7. Looks like we made it by 10 hours! :-)</p>
<p>Good news too for my daughter. Just few hours ago, UCLA sent her an email that she’s been selected to compete for the UCLA Regents Scholarship. The letter said that it’s not a admission “yet” but based from previous years, it’s almost an acceptance letter.</p>
<p>2018dad, good luck to your D on the Regents Scholarship! At UCLA - Wow - very impressive!</p>
<p>@itsv, I’m glad your son wasn’t in the car. These things are scary for a parent to hear. I’m glad he’s fine even if the car isn’t. </p>
<p>@calla1
Thank you. We’re very grateful and blessed. UCLA is actually one of her top schools and one that we can afford compared to some of her ultra reach schools.</p>
<p>So happy for everyone with acceptances in hand. I love reading of all of your journeys to this point. However, I have to admit to feeling somewhat terrified right now. D was deferred SCEA to Yale in December, which was awesome in that it wasn’t a rejection. Then just this weekend found out she wasn’t being considered for Merit scholarship from USC. But I know that another student from her school with lower test scores and GPA is a finalist for a full scholarship. My worry is that she will be rejected from her reach school for not being “special” enough, ie, another smart white girl with stellar grades and great but not outstanding ECs, but also rejected from her “safeties” because they are protecting their yield and are assuming she will get in to more desirable schools. So stressed, and I know I am over thinking the whole thing. Thanks for listening - just need to vent a bit!</p>
<p>@elkaydee
I know how you feel. That’s why we were so relieved when D was accepted and invited for scholarship interview at USC. Did your D applied to any of the UCs? Most of them doesn’t care about yield.</p>
<p>Yes - Cal, UCLA and Irvine as (hopefully) a safety. She doesn’t want to go to any of them particularly though - just applied so there would be something in case financials didn’t work out at her preferred schools </p>
<p>Congrats on all of the great finalist-for scholarship news. May they all win!</p>
<p>Son '14 officially accepted his scholarship to the U. of Alabama in Huntsville. He seems very content with everything, too. Had a great first semester report card. The final semester will be busy, though. Has homework nearly every night in three APs, but really likes his classes. Now, he needs to qualify for states in indoor track, which has been very difficult since several meets have been canceled.</p>
<p>So much impressive news! Congratulations to all! 2018dad - UCLA is a wonderful school. Smakl170 - way to go!</p>
<p>DS texted from his ski trip that he is accepted to Miami Ohio. Merit aid notification will come separately via snail mail so hard to say whether it’s in the running or not. It was a near-safety for DS so he would likely only be swayed by some good money. Although according to him, the women he saw on our visit were quite attractive and definitely a plus factor!</p>
<p>He comes back this afternoon and heads straight to an indoor soccer game. Then tomorrow is devoted to basketball in various ways (referee and coach) and then he is off to a Super Bowl party. Life is good when you’re a second semester senior.</p>
<p>Thanks @glido. Indeed UCLA is a wonderful school. She actually prefers it more than USC and UC Berkeley and UCLA has the major that she really like (joint major Computer Science and Linguistic).</p>
<p>Wow, go2mom, what wonderful news!! Congratulations and best wishes to your go2girl!</p>
<p>@Moonmaid - You’ve inspired me on the scholarship hunt! Thank you! I needed that after completing the FAFSA, which gave us a much larger EFC than we expected or came up with in the fall using a different formula recommended to us. 
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<p>@itsv - so glad your DS is okay! Best wishes on leveraging your DD’s full-ride for financial aid with other schools on her wishlist! Sounds like an exciting few months ahead between b-ball, robotics, admitted student days, and hearing back from schools!</p>
<p>Best wishes to all on upcoming school and scholarship news!</p>
<p>@vandyeyes - Congrats to your DS on Michigan acceptance and semi finalist news!</p>
<p>@2018dad - Congrats and best wishes to your D on her selection to compete for Regents Scholarship!</p>
<p>momreads - Congratulations to your son on his UAH decision and scholarship! Wishing him great success and personal bests in qualifying for States!</p>
<p>It is exciting to hear all the acceptances and scholarship opportunities rolling in! Even though I don’t “know” you all, I still get vicarious happiness from hearing about the accomplishments of your DSs and DDs!
My son finally went back to classes on Thursday. The seniors of the school spend the month of January in full-time volunteer positions in the community. Great program, but DS got used to no homework in the evening! Not good, since he has returned to a schedule full of AP and DE courses! And on top of that, he is a retreat leader for the juniors and will miss three and a half days of school NEXT week.
Even more “exciting” - he has the role of Big Jule (a gangster) in Guys and Dolls and he and his director envisioned the character bald. I had to write a letter to the Dean of Students saying I was OK with that (not really, but it is only hair!) so I found a sink full of curls last night and a 6’5" Walter White look-alike in the bathroom! Yikes!</p>
<p>Spent the morning doing taxes, then FAFSA, then CSS one after the other. CSS didn’t ask for my shoe size, but asked for pretty much everything else. I feel kind of worked over - I need a hot shower.</p>
<p>@GertrudeMcFuzz
I agree to everything what you’ve said about CSS. This is the first time that we’ve done it. It went on and on and on.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all the acceptances. it is really great to here the news! My son is now 3 for 3 - all safety schools but it is still nice to get the acceptances - the three schools are UNE, UVM and today he heard from Clarkson. I know nothing about the school - any insight?
Clarkson also invited S to apply to the honors program. They accept 30 per year into the program - it might be nice for S to be a big fish in a small pond…however he has to write yet another essay…sigh</p>
<p>I hate to rush things along but I am counting the days to April 1 ! </p>