<p>@PetraElise - It’s tough for us parents to watch our children be denied to their favorite schools. This isn’t an easy time. But I agree with your analysis of her situation and you know your D best. She has some great choices.</p>
<p>@PetraElise – it is often said that Santa Cruz (not Berkeley) is the campus to which more UC faculty choose to send their own kids, and while I’ve never found the source of that statistic I know it is a wonderful place to be an undergrad, as is UCSD (and probably your D’s other choices, I just don’t know them as well). Californians are lucky to have so many outstanding options.</p>
<p>No from both Yale and Brown for D14. A few hours of sadness, but I hear some singing already. She has some other great options. SS Indecision, we are almost ready to board. </p>
<p>Yes to Cornell, waitlisted Columbia, no to Yale. This makes mom very happy since Cornell is only 45 min away 
. Now DD has to decide between Cornell (waiting on their financial aid) and Kentucky (full ride thanks to NMF). I’m feeling most blessed!</p>
<p>@2014ProfDad – thank you for your words of encouragement. UCSC has been my not so secret first choice, but I’m not going, lol, so I’m trying hard to keep that opinion under wraps. I know Berkeley has this phenomenal reputation, but my gut just tells me she wouldn’t be happy there, and I hate the surrounding area, to be honest. We’ve never been to UCSD, but I have hopes that it will be a good option for her. She does love San Diego, and we have friends there too. </p>
<p>Looks like a lot of ups and downs! I did try to post around 5:15 but CC had crashed. “Server unavailable”. S14 sent a text at 5:07 pm which said “WAITLISTED!!! YAY!!! WAHOOO!!! I’LL TAKE IT :)” He was waitlisted at Brown and was over the moon happy it wasn’t an all out rejection. The Brown wait list letter is really very complimentary and I think it helped ease the shock of the wait list from Oberlin. He will accept his spot on the wait list for Brown for sure and we’re going to talk about other various options over the weekend. Here’s hoping some white males from blue collar towns in the midwest interested in his major choose to go elsewhere? We need to discuss what to do about the Oberlin wait list because I’m concerned about the financial aid situation if he is accepted off the wait list there. They are not need blind and I strongly suspect his wait list is related to financial need. </p>
<p>Many congrats to those with good news. @PetraElise As much as my S14 was hurting last night, I do understand and I hope that your D bounces back quickly. They might need a little time to grieve but then it is time to find the positives in their remaining options. Part of my strategy is to show him this stack of communications we continue to receive from Michigan and Kalamazoo. They have been showing him the love for months now with almost constant communications. He needs to see how badly they want him. </p>
<p>@2016 Barnardmom- yay! Your S has a great attitude. It will all work out.</p>
<p>My S also accepted a spot on Cal’s wait list. A thread on Cal’s forum said some years all kids on wait list get an offer. Hope the same holds true for Brown,</p>
<p>DS in at both Penn and Duke! Both being full pay schools for us, we will have to sit down with DS to compare them against Vandy with full tuition scholarship.</p>
<p>Brown hasn’t published those numbers since the 2010-11 academic year when it was 600 who accepted positions on the waitlist and 32 who ended up accepted off the waitlist. I highly suspect those numbers are more competitive now as they all seem to get more competitive each year. We’ve only ever had two kids get accepted into an Ivy from our high school. One was accepted from Yale’s wait list 3 years ago. As I had noted earlier in the thread though- it’s better to do your due diligence with your waitlist school and then proceed as though it is a rejection and make your other plans. </p>
<p>Results in for two of the last four. </p>
<p>Rejected at Princeton and Rejected at Duke</p>
<p>One more piece of news today, S won’t advance to interview stage of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Scholarship. S still has good options and seems okay. </p>
<p>Congrats to all on the great list of acceptances today.
Good news here as no rejections from any Ivys today. No acceptances either. D didn’t want to apply.
Still no news from Lehigh and waiting on Vandy to release most likely on Monday.
We received FA letters from Loyola Chicago and Villanova. Loyola in now a no and Villanova is very doable school. Her grant and scholarship totaled nearly $40K. We are very pleased and can exhale now. We will be very happy when Monday is here and the final results are in.</p>
<p>SS Indecision pre-boarding check-in will be available beginning on Saturday, March 29th. Required boarding documents include a copy of any college acceptance letter, personal ID such as a license or a passport, and your advance boarding day drink order form if you would like your favorite beverage handed to you as you come off the gangway and are greeted by the welcoming staff on deck 4. The waiting is nearly over!</p>
<p>@AvonHSDad, InitiateLaunch reporting for duty. I can swab decks, serve as a dishwasher or stoke the engines, but my real skill is mixing a killer martini. 
S2 locked in on JMU some weeks back and a thumbs up from Elon and Allegheny did not dissuade him. It’s such a good fit…</p>
<p>for those who are still holding tickets or think they might have a reservation, rest assured our kids will land where they are meant to be and they will prosper. They will thrive. It’s in their DNA.</p>
<p>No worries about Ivys here either! S2got a no from Pomona on Monday, but was not crushed as his heart is set on Tulane at this point, and they are giving him a decent chunk of FA, over $41k in merit, grants and WS. He has been submitting outside scholarship apps like crazy. Occidental had a decent offer, but their COA is even higher than Tulane, so that’s not really an option. So it looks like another Tulanian in our family, and he is going to their Top Scholars program for Honors students next weekend. And we will all be there in May for S1’s law school graduation!
Congrats to all on all the good news, and just like my S2 bounced back from his crushing Claremont rejection and is now thrilled to be going to Tulane, the ones who are now smarting from no’s from their supposed dream schools will also find their niche at schools that fit. </p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone! It is nice to see that the acceptance and wait list status. My S has 6 acceptances and waiting on UROC. In MHO, he has 4 good options at this point - Mulhenberg the front runner with the best FA and Brandeis the front runner for highest rank school in the bunch. Although my S has not visited UROC - he is very interested and is waiting and waiting for the news…</p>
<p>On another note - my nephew…3 acceptance out of 14 schools - redirected from all IVYs except Cornell - wait listed - I think he has WL at 4 or 5 schools…2 more schools to go. Stanford ( he is assuming a no) and his original favorite Michigan. The poor kid - worked so hard to get all A’s at a highly ranked public high school. He feels all his hard work is for nothing. My feeling is that he got caught up in the frenzy of apply where everyone else was applying…He originally wanted to go to Michigan ( visited twice ) until he did a summer internship at MIT - it became his dream school - his list grew to adding many IVYs and so on…</p>
<p>Although it hurts to be redirected or WL by so many he has great options - Oberlin, University of Wisconsin, UMASS and hopefully Michigan. I believe he will accept the WL at MIT.
His guidance counselor told him that he could not be on more than one WL ? Why is that? </p>
<p>Here’s hoping we will have all our news by April one ! April is going to be a long month! </p>
<p>Congrats to all those who got good news. A hug for those redirected or waitlisted.</p>
<p>We sat around last night watching the Facebook posts. One of my husband’s former students (and Son '14’s friends) got into Cornell, Columbia, Yale and Harvard. She is just amazing. Published a couple of times. Incredible student. Wonderful family. She is waiting on Stanford, which is her No. 1 school. Regarding of the outcome, she has great choices.</p>
<p>While my son is very comfortable with his college decision, I am sure someone in one of his classes will say that he “settled.” He had higher grades, SATs and big ECs, but he truly does not want the debt that so many kids are graduating with. He also wanted to run competitively and only a handful of schools offered him that chance. One of my teacher friends who knows Son '14 says that he definitely made the right choice. Her daughter was faced with the same decision – a chance to swim at the college level but at a smaller school or forego swimming and just be a regular college kid. She could not give up swimming and is so happy with her decision. She got blasted by several classmates for her decision, too, but she will graduate with little or no debt.</p>
<p>So if your kid is faced with the nasty remarks from classmates/friends/family members, tell them to hang in there. </p>
<p>@onlyonemom - Your nephew’s guidance counselor is incorrect. You are allowed to stay on as many waitlists as you want. If he wanted to stay on both Cornell’s and MIT’s wait list, that would be absolutely acceptable!</p>
<p>Well, oddly enough, both of my twin D’s now have all the same decisions to 12 of the schools they know about… I think that’s really odd. After last night’s results, they are in at Dartmouth, waitlisted at Harvard, Brown and Duke. Girls were content with results. However, my husband and I JUST looked at Dartmouth’s FA package and we are in shock. Yes, we did the NPC, we thought we knew our EFC (roughly), but this Dartmouth package for 2 kids would be akin to purchasing our home 2X in the next 4 years. We know this is not a financial burden our family can bear. It’s heavy on my heart. I know we are not the first family to experience this; we worked hard, saved and were frugal and sometimes things just don’t seem fair. But I keep telling myself to remember Apollo6 and what is truly important in life. </p>
<p>We have a few more decisions to come in - Vandy, GW, USC and then we will get down to business making the mother of all spreadsheets. Thank you @asleepatthewheel for your story. Here’s hoping my girls have the same story as you! Oh and @itsv, congrats to your daughter on her award and for the record, I’m really mad at that coach too. </p>
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<p>haha, @2016BarnardMom, this was my D’s response to her Wellesley waitlist, too. She felt great about getting that far. It’s wonderful when our kids can look on the bright side and not be crushed!</p>
<p>Congrats to all the great news and I’m sorry for any disappointments. It sounds like the acceptances are winding down now. Who would have thought we’d actually ever get here!</p>
<p>I’m looking forward to hearing the final decisions! </p>