@AsleepAtTheWheel I have been known to check SAT scores in advance but I don’t have the ED school login info. Decisions should come out shortly after DC arrives home from school that day so I will offer to check if DC prefers, but insist that one of us check right away. I just want this to be over with.
Like @2filles I’m usually awake before my son. I’ll either get the email notice first or see on here that the decision notice is up. Knowing first prepares me to text hub & say if it’s a Drown Sorrows in Pizza Day or make the drive to the college’s town & buy t-shirts to celebrate. No one knows yet the exact date his SCEA school will release. It’s likely 15th or 16th. We have an only child so this is the first time we’re going through this. Son doesn’t care if I know first.
@palm715 - We, too, are waiting for my son’s ED decision on Thursday at 5pm. Just to think that this could all be over by 6pm is the best thought ever…but the closer I get to Thursday, the less confident that he will get in I become. Should be interesting! Good luck!
@RyanG1207 I would never mention CC to anyone outside my family. They would not get it at all. My son sort of rolled his eyes but now he realizes that I’ve gotten a lot of good info from CC so he doesn’t do that anymore.
The decisions for one of super reach schools will come out next Wednesday. The other two schools did not announce yet. I will not be checking it before DD, because I am afraid. At home, we have very involved grandmother who is checking all college mail and believes that every school should want her little girl. DD does not mind as long as she will deliver only good news.
@AsleepAtTheWheel - I am forbidden to do so! And, they send the portal instructions to him on the day of the decision, so I wouldn’t even know how to check it. I do think that I will ask him to at least be in the same vicinity of me when he finds out. I’d rather not just get a text about it… [-O<
I do not have any of D’s login or password info for any of her portals, so no, I do not check them. I now have her ACT and SAT logins because she got tired of checking whether scores were sent on time. She got a letter from one of her schools last week when she was not going to be home until very late, so she asked me to open it for her. Turns out they didn’t get her transcripts, so she has to find out whether they didn’t get mailed or the college just never got them.
We have no decision dates coming up. We’re waiting on a formal acceptance from one school after a verbal one two weeks ago, but the rest we won’t hear from for several weeks.
I check the portals and check to see if emails have been received but I do not open anything. I usually tell her"you might want to check your email/portal".
I knew she was accepted at Pitt when she received an email because of CC (admits get an email, denials are sent snail mail, although I never told her I knew that an email would be the key). I sent the email to her during her AP Calc class and told her to open it immediately. Apparently she started crying and the teacher stopped class to find out what was wrong and her friend said “She just got accepted to Pitt!” which led the teacher to stop the lesson and talk for the remaining period about getting serious about applying to college (This was back in late mid Sept).
Most of the other admissions have been via snail mail, which of course I do not open. Most of the schools she is waiting to hear from now have portals. I will probably check but not tell her what I know.
D used my Mac to apply to schools - she didn’t trust her pc - so I have access to her college app accounts (we also have pw’s etc written down in a manual file of college app stuff…)
D prefers that I check her portals and get back to her. Personally, I’d rather she check it on her own - she’s welcome to use my mac to do so.
I’m trying to wean her from the habit of relying on me to do things like this for her… Next year, she will need to check her own portals!
DD’s passwords are ridiculously long and I have no idea how to crack her account. So I am just waiting until she says something.
One EA school, she said she could not access to the portal account and one month later, she still could not access to her account. I asked her to contact the school and she did not. It is one of her match schools and I am a little bit nerve but decided not to bring it again. So… everything is up to her.
The only portal/account I have access to for D is College Board and that was after her scores came out and primarily for CSS profile reasons. As anxious as I am to here about her acceptances and any scholarship offers, I know I have to let her be the one who hears first, just like I was many years ago when it was my college application time.
What really drives me nuts is that she also grabs the mail every day before I get home since some schools still send notices, especially scholarship based ones, via snail mail. So generally I will find a pile of mail from stalker colleges that she is ignoring and know to ask her two things.
Any news from your schools today?
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Um, where did you put the totally unimportant stuff, you know, like the utility bills? LOL
I don’t have logins, so I can’t check. Probably just as well.
She got that Pitt email, but didn’t click on the link–she HATES college “junk” email. She is amazed that some people go online and check stuff. The only reason she knew to click the link is because I heard on CC that it was the admission notice and told her to click it. So it was probably a week or more after she was admitted before she knew. I am just thankful she had not put the email into her archive.
She also never found out about Tulane online–honestly, I don’t think she has any clue about these “portals”. We are apparently still living in 1985 when you get an envelope in the mail and that’s how you know.
I don’t know my D’s passwords, but she uses my computer which “remembers” all of them. I won’t open any snail mail, but the one we’re waiting for has a big YES on the outside!
I don’t have either of my kids portal passwords for any of the SAT, ACT, or college sites. I wouldn’t check if I did though I feel like they did the work they should see it first. Heck, I feel weird getting the mail out of the mailbox at this time of year worried I’ll see something I shouldn’t 
This is getting totally out of hand. I pulled the mail out of the mailbox this afternoon and there was a HUGE envelope in with advertisements, and I got so excited until I realized it was insurance pamphlets. There oughta be a law, no big envelopes allowed when we’re waiting for college acceptances. :-S
@AsleepAtTheWheel Wow! Friday! Fingers and toes are crossed for you guys! I am very interested in your story, and whether you decide to check or not against DC’s wishes.
With S19, I checked everything, SAT scores, college decisions, everything. He would ask if the results were in and if I knew. I would say yes, and he’d either ask me or go check it himself. D16 is a whole different animal. I am not allowed to check anything. I have all the passwords, accounts, etc, I just had to promise to sit on my hands and wait for her. While it makes me totally crazy to wait for her (she won’t check right away, she’ll wait until she’s alone where she can lick her wounds in peace in case that is the situation) I understand and need to have begun a really amazing book or something that can hold my attention while I wait. Can’t wait to hear about your adventure!
As stated before, I am my D’s (and my S’s prior) administrative assistant so I have all the logins, passwords, do all the score sending (and…paying naturally…LOL), etc. I do all the portal checking for LOR’s received, SAT’s scores received but when and if there is some notification on the portal I do not let on if anything is on there. I will suggest she check. The only think I do not have direct access to is her email, which is fine with me as I am not looking to pry just be a helpful parent with all the ancillary chores that she doesn’t truly have the time to do. I have to remind her every couple of days to check her email and I would never open any thick and potentially important looking mail. We too get prematurely excited about big envelopes that end up containing some mundane policy renewals that we mistake for college decisions. Its frustrating!
@carolinamom2boys Same here! Huge navy blue envelope, I think, oh good, it’s finally here, and it was some credit card offer!
We set up a separate “college application” email account for DS to use for college stuff. I monitoring it. As a result, I’ve set up all his portals for the schools he has applied to - they send an email with the link to set up an account on the portal and I do it for him. I’ve been checking the portals to make sure his apps show they are complete - we’ve had some issues with SAT scores not showing up. But when it comes to decision time (still a few months away), I won’t check before DS although it will be torture not to.
My DS got accepted to Pitt back in Sept. and never got an acceptance email - only a snail mail letter. Strangely, they must have my personal email as a parent so I am getting emails now about why DS should enroll. He continues to get snail mail from Pitt, their College of Arts & Sciences and the Honors College about why he should enroll.
When the Pitt letter came, it was a flat, thin 8 1/2 by 11 envelope - and DS was away at an ALL day cross country meet. But there were just enough words peeking through the window that I could tell it was an acceptance. Saved me from hours of tension. LOL
When my DD applied, we also had an email we used for college applications. I don’t remember setting up portals for her - I think she did that. And I never checked for decisions. Most decisions came by snail mail, some by an email telling her to check the portal. I let her do the checking. WashU, where she went, was a big one and I remember “hovering” in the next room while she checked online. 
Good luck to everyone with ED and other decisions coming in the next week. Fingers crossed for good outcomes for everyone.
S has one EA which only notifies via snail mail, and one coming out the end of next week. Then there’s one which doesn’t notify until January.
Ginormous State Flagship U , to which both kids applied, should be notifying applicants the end of this week (!).
I just asked D about her other two schools, and she’s apparently lost her user names and passwords for the portals. ::facepalm::