<p>I do look before my D usually, because she wants me to handle it. UCB and Scripps will be the only two that she will want to do herself, as those are her top two. If it had been up to her, they are the only ones she would have applied to, which is part of the reason she doesn’t look them up herself. Although, I am noticing she is much more enthused about all of them, and is looking forward to the accepted day visits. I almost wonder if it was a defense mechanism – don’t get too invested until you know you are in. Last year, she had a hard time helping her boyfriend cope with the few rejections he got – I think that she built an emotional wall as a result. I won’t open the mail though – draw the line there. I’m not sure that she loves it when the first thing I do when she gets home from school is say, “here, open this!!”</p>
<p>I have the information to login to D’s email account and college accounts, but she requested that she wants to check the news first or open the mail first. I am glad she asked for that. I check her email to make sure she is not missing important college information regularly, but not the big news or even the test scores. </p>
<p>I hit submit too soon, I was going to say that I get so antsy waiting for her to go to the website though. It drives me crazy. </p>
<p>@itsv - Congratulations to your daughter on her cs award and being chosen as a finalist! Love the dress - I’m sure it will be a big hit at the conference!</p>
<p>Appreciate the link - good advice.</p>
<p>My S wants us to check his portals, but then again, like @PetraElise, so far they are not favorites and relatively expected admissions. When the important ones come in he may want to check himself. I actually get way more emotional and crazy over this than he does anyway!</p>
<p>My d for some reason wanted me to know before her and wanted to hear the news from me first. She’s also a bit of a weenie sometimes - lol </p>
<p>I think I am like that eyemamom. </p>
<p>Congratulations everyone!! Keep the good news coming. We only have two more weeks get on the amazing Cruise. </p>
<p>Do you wonder if they are conflicted about leaving home? I really think my daughter is a bit. She’s excited, but also very close to her sisters, and to her Dad and I. It will be tough for her to be away, even if it is also wonderful. I wish she would get more excited about some of the notifications, but she seems to be quite happy with me doing it. She didn’t even check her SAT score for months – I wasn’t even thinking that things are different nowadays, and kept checking the mailbox for it – duh. I finally looked up the estimate for when to expect scores, and found out she could have looked online months before. I know she cares very much about going, and is invested in making the decision about which school, but so far she’s just very chill. I, on the other hand, am not so much</p>
<p>Happy St. Patty’s Day everyone! I feel for all of you still buried in snow. I won’t whine about our intermittent rain ruining my sunshine today.</p>
<p>Spygirl received more good news from Gonzaga over the weekend - another scholarship! Can I say how much I love GU? Which was nice, since she was WL at UChicago on Friday. But she’s over it - especially in light of this year’s winter - and she still feels pretty good as they only accepted about 2K students and WL 800 out of more than 30K apps. She’s decided she won’t accept the WL status and is moving on to her other choices.</p>
<p>Sadly another student at her school was also WL there and he not only has stellar stats ( perfect ACT, 4.5 GPA!, 2320 SAT, sports star, tons and tons of real volunteer hours), but he’s full pay and he’s a great kid. I just don’t get it. He tells Spygirl that he, like her, was bombarded with mailings and emails from UChicago. It also may be a RD thing too. A third kid at their school was accepted, but EA.</p>
<p>@Itvs - Oregon is experiencing the same situation with OOS students. And it’s about the money here, too. The staff jokingly calls U of O, the University of California at Eugene. The kids call it University of Newport Beach, Eugene campus. </p>
<p>@AvonDad - Can you report for duty on Saturday? We’re going prom dress shopping and it may be an all hands on deck kind of day.</p>
<p>One more thing - a friend who works at a university told me this morning that financial aid packages may be delayed across the country as many colleges use a program called Banner. Apparently it’s a horrible program with severe software issues. :(</p>
<p>My D was also bombarded with stuff from UChicago -and if she hadn’t been so dead set against looking OOS, her dad would have pressured her to apply there (he’s a Chicago native). In hindsight, I’m very glad she didn’t, because it would have apparently been a huge waste of time. Needless to say, D15 won’t be applying there.</p>
<p>My S was Waitlisted at UChicago, too. Seems they Waitlisted way too many people – it’s a rejection, albeit a softer one. Feels like they don’t want to make to tough call and just reject. Hope this doesn’t mean the other privates he applied to will follow suit.</p>
<p>Agent99-I laughed at your report of Oregon. You are so right. I must confess that the typical student I see from here that goes there is a party kid who can go full pay. I rarely here of a California student getting rejected for Eugene. </p>
<p>You are also right about the budget. Oregon State accepted my daughter two weeks after she applied and well before the actual “decision release” date. We were sort of surprised. A year ago they told her she would definitely get a $7K merit scholarship; instead she got only $3k. Needless to say she is not going there for college. </p>
<p>I have not been here for a while. I am still recovering from a long and painful bout of shingles.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all with great news! Hugs to to those with rejections!</p>
<p>I am giving up on trying to understand this whole college process. D is an enthusiastic, quirky, non competitive but slow learner. She thinks that she is a “perfect” fit for LACs. She was rejected ED at Pomona (her dream school) but accepted EA at UChicago and MIT (applied only at the urging of her Math teacher). The kid still wants to appeal to Pomona. Husband and I gently tell her to move on-- go where you are wanted. </p>
<p>A couple of more weeks, we can all relax and enjoy our cruise.</p>
<p>I think kids often forget that Univ of Chicago’s selectivity rate is up there with the Ivies–last year it had an 8.8% acceptance rate. It’s a lottery school but they sure do a great job of marketing, don’t they?!</p>
<p>@worrytoomuch
Sorry for that. I can emphatize. I had chicken pox in my late 30’s and it wasn’t fun.</p>
<p>The selectivity of UChicago is part of the reason why I was puzzled by how aggressively they approached my D. She has good stats, but not so good that I expected that level of contact from them.</p>
<p>Same here, and with several kids in my daughter’s cohort. I think they must be spending all the money they make from application fees on printing and postage!</p>
<p>@worrytoomuch, Congratulations! That’s amazing! If your D just looks at all those chance me threads around the corner for getting into MIT, she probably will change her mind. Are you planning on visiting MIT and UChicago before deciding?She may like Harvey Mudd which is close to Pomona. </p>
<p>D threw away all the marketing materials except UChicago, they sure do a great job of advertising and their stuff is unique and clever. The “apple” of colleges!</p>
<p>Congrats on all the great news! Wow I can’t not believe how active this forum is…It is hard to keep up! Thanks for the discussion about Case. Here is another twist - my nephew is full pay! </p>
<p>On another note, my son just got accepted to Muhlenberg and Clarkson gave him 32K (Grant $3,916 and scholarship $27,500). We are very happy!</p>
<p>S is now 5 for 5 acceptances in RD. He applied ED to Colby and was deferred to RD and he now doesn’t seem that interested in Colby… I am glad we didn’t have to wait until April 1 for every decision but now I want to know the rest so we can start with the decision making process. April is going to be very busy! </p>
<p>Sending positive thoughts your way and hope all our children have a few schools to pick from!</p>
<p>Happy St Patricks day! I can not believe I forgot to wear green today! </p>