Looks like they are sending emails now. At least those not making the cut don’t need to wait for mail to know.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19220936/#Comment_19220936
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Wow. I read the email someone posted. Now I understand the frustration USC brings to the table regarding admissions. My sympathy to all who are waiting.
@Themommymommy Onions? Wow, that’s a new one! A whole sack or just one?
So sorry for anyone waiting for the elusive USC box. Reminds me of waiting for my “thick envelope”.
@kittymom1102 Congrats on the Northeastern scholarship. Boston is a great place to go to college. I still miss it after all these years.
@me29034 That certainly is unfair for those students in AP Environmental Science, sorry to hear that. Perhaps the students could discuss with the teacher the possibility of curving the test?
@me29034 I totally understand and it is hard for these kids. This is how D’s AP Calculus class has been all year. He only gives test and his test are tough and not even all the material covered in class or textbook. I wish they would curve too @4kids2graduate .
@kittymom1102 congrats! Great news for you and your S
@Themommymommy that’s a funny thing to get onions! Did you S eat it?
@momofsmartdancer we are from FL and I told my kids they can’t go west of the Mississippi. Just too far to fly back and forth, and dealing with holidays and parents weekend etc. I am ok with the northeast as I am from there and we have a lot of family there still. Even though it’s still far, it just a two hour flight.
@me29034 and @Sophmore1 My S’s BC Calculus class is the same way. It is the toughest class in our HS and ony about 20 kids qualify to take it each year. The teacher is overly tough with really hard tests and virtually no credit for homework or other assignments that could offset a poor test score. Very discouraging for all these seniors applying to college. In S’s case, he was carrying a B all semester but did poorly on one test but there was not enough other graded work to get him back to a B before the quarter ended last week. I really hope this does not affect his college admissions.
@EastGrad and @LKnomad No growth issues when S was on Accutane at 12-13. He grew 5 inches that year (and 5 inches the year before). He slowed down after those two years but just turned 17 and is 6 feet. Not sure if he is done yet. I always wondered if the the growth spurt he had when he was 11 contributed to the acne kicking in. Funny sort of college story there. My D is 7 years older than S (6 school years). It always irked her that she is 2 inches shorter than me because she is taller than all of her HS friends and their moms. When she went away to college as a freshman, she still had several inches on S. But by the time she came home for spring break, he had passed her. Took her a long time to get over the fact that she is the shortest one in the family because her younger brother passed her at age 11. All of D’s HS friends remember when S was born and was a little kid. Now he is taller than all of them (and several of their dads). They still think of him as a little brother though. 
@kittymom1102 Congratulations! The portals for USC been updated now so hopefully it will put an end for the agony for so many people one way or another.
@kittymom1102 Congratulations!
@PAO2008, dermatologist was careful to say that growth plate closure didn’t always happen or even usually happen, only that it could happen, and they didn’t have any studies to determine likelihood or incidence. More important consideration, imo, is timing for kids to avoid the end of the treatment overlapping with other stressful times.
@kittymom1102 so glad you checked the portal. Congratulations!!
@kittymom1102 Congrats! Fingers crossed for those still waiting
We live a few hours away from Whitman College…it is located in Walla Walla, Washington. At least in this area walla walla sweet onions are very popular…so I think that is the connection!
Congrats @kittymom1102 <:-P
@kittymom1102 , glad the portal brought good news!!
@kittymom1102 congrats! Hopefully those of you still waiting will find similar news in your portals.
@momofsmartdancer (I think), I couldn’t keep my D here in state unless I tied her to a chair. She has been driven to go to a specfic kind of college in a specific area since oh, maybe 6th grade. Of course it will take a day’s flying to get to her should something happen, but then I saw my son off to the Middle East for deployment at 18 and this same D went to Ghana at 14, so I’m probably not the best one to ask about keeping kids local.
Distance wise- I know there was a conversation started on this back aways. I’m going 45 minutes away and my sister is going 2 hours. There is no way I could go very far, my sister would probably be comfortable going a little further than she is but that’s where her dream school is. My mom went 35 minutes away for her first 2 years and 1 1/2 hours for the last 2. She did not want us to go very far at all- so I’m glad the schools we love are close. My dad on the other hand sees no problem with distance- he also went 6.5 hours away for college. I guess I’m curious if parents who want their kids to stay close went to college close to home and vice versa
@readingclaygirl I went over an hour away (which in Los Angeles can be quite a drive actually) and would’ve loved to have gone further honestly. I think dh and I have always hoped our kids would take advantage of being able to go further away if they wanted. My oldest D didn’t want to and kept her search to a 3hr radius of where we live. I made her apply to a Chicago school just in case, but it never got much attention. We also hope they go overseas for a semester or summer program. My D also didn’t want to do that. Funny how those things work out sometimes. I do think S16 will take advantage of an overseas program or two. I think the main thing is I want them to be brave and not look back and regret not taking the chance to travel a bit. I know my D has no regrets and we are very happy that she’s happy. She graduated and lives and works ten minutes away! I would bet one factor might be if the parents had the choice or not. I didn’t have a choice. I got accepted to Marquette and really wanted to go there and my parents absolutely refused to consider it. My dh had no choice. He had to pay for all of his own school and commuting was a necessity for that. So, for us, since we didn’t have those opportunities, we want our kids to have them. Whether they want to do that isn’t really the issue. We just wanted very much to give them more choices than we had.
All that said, there are a lot of good things about being somewhat close like you are. It’s very nice to be able to have short visits during the school term and get together for special events like birthdays, etc.
I’m a bit more protective of D16 so I wanted her to be closer to us for college. She’s the one I followed in my car when she drove for the first time by herself. :-"
She’ll be going to school only 4 hours away so that fits the bill for me.
Now D19, she’s the tougher one. I don’t mind her going away. She’s aiming for one of the service academies so those are quite far from us. I don’t mind her going to any of those schools (if she can get in). DW doesn’t want her to go far though. In the end, it’ll be completely her choice like it was for her sister.