@dyiu13 it couldn’t have happened to a nicer poster! Congrats to you and your family! 
@dyiu13 Congratulation! So many positive things happening for y’all!
@dyiu13 Congratulations!! What exciting news!!
@petrichor11 Thanks for that tip! We’ll have to figure out where in our home would be quiet, clean, and have good wifi connection. Our dog tends to bark at random moments, so there’s that too. How should he dress? Would business casual suffice?
@LKnomad My S has 6 schools that ask for IDOC, and of those only 5 are listed. I did a little digging, and the missing school says on their financial aid page that they will not request our info from IDOC unless the student has been accepted for admission, and the deadline appears to be a few days after they’ve historically announced decisions. Is it possible Reed works the same way?
@palm715 bwahahaha! I love your sense of humor and would have fallen off my chair laughing!
Congrats @dyiu13 sounds like everything is falling into place!
Thanks @Ridiculous22 & @happymochi. I emailed Reed today and they seem to think they should be on my son’s list! They seem as confused as I am.
ETA. Reed is also need aware so I assume they want the info.
@diyu- Congratulations…so jealous! Ours always go to the last week of decisions.
@palm715 - Hahaha! You win with the laugh of the day! Does your daughter know about this yet?
@happymochi - Good advice from petrichor, as always. S’16 has done some skype interviews and S '13 did as well. Rather than major clean-up, we find that doing a trial run helps. Make sure everything works properly. S’13 skyped his sister first one time and was able to correct a sound glitch. Make sure the right camera is on…that happened to S '13 and he said the nasal view was not attractive. See what the camera is takes in and make adjustments…plaques off the wall, close the curtains if there is glare. Make sure the home phone is off-both the ringer and answering machine, as well as the cell phones. We make sure everyone is out of range (yes, even parents and yes, even just hearing range) because we wouldn’t be listening in at a coffee shop interview! It helps them relax. They can give the all clear signal when they are done. And last, have notes, a resume or essay or anything else they may want to refer to during the conversation handy and have them go over all of the above plus the college or program website in advance.
I always do a little research in advance and we chat for a while before an interview. Quite often it gets them thinking and it is easier to not get blind-sided during the real thing. Most of all I always say ‘have fun’. My kids learned to enjoy their interviews and a lot of times they got great insights that were not necessarily school-specific, especially when they asked the right questions. Good luck!
@critter Thank you! Passing on these tips to S, and we will definitely do a couple of trial runs. Wouldn’t want that nasal view, LOL.
@LKnomad Good that you are on their radar. I’m sure it’ll all work out!
@dyiu13 Congratulations
@happymochi he just needs to dress up from the waist up, since he probably be sitting down. DD only had one Skype interview for her scholarship and she was at her summer program at the time so I was not involved at all. She did few test runs with her brother just to make sure cameras and sound work fine.
Congratulations to everyone making their final decisions.
As far as the financial forms, I can’t wait until they are done. It seems like I keep making dumb mistakes on them. I actually can’t believe colleges expect kids to be able to do this stuff.
@palm715 when I tell my students that I do some modeling on the side,I tell them that I am the “before” picture for plastic surgeons.
Congrats, @dyiu13! Wahoo!
@palm715, enjoy your destination wedding.
@Ballerina016, are you suggesting that @happymochi’s son doesn’t need to wear pants in his Skype interview when you say “he just needs to dress from the waist up”? 
Interesting suggestion @EastGrad I was thinking more like nice shirt and jeans or shorts (considering it is going to be around 86F all week).
@EastGrad Gasp! LOL!
(I tried posting a link to Jerry Seinfeld in a dress shirt, tie, and boxers, but post would not let me)
@Eastgrad and @Ballerina016- When interviewing for summer internships last year S '13 said he actually decided to go with a sweatshirt from his university instead of business attire for a particular skype interview. He said he just got that vibe about the interviewers and that particular opportunity. During the following summer (because of course, that is one of the choices he had and naturally the one he selected) this was a regular topic of conversation in the office, especially anytime a consultant or some unsuspecting ‘outsider’ stopped by, because apparently everyone else wore a jacket and tie, etc. He said he was often asked if he wasn’t worried that his strategy was risky and toward the end of the summer he finally piped up with, ‘that’s nothing…I actually wasn’t wearing pants’ and the whole place lost it. Apparently he felt boxers were fine. So be careful what you suggest!
Congratulations on both fronts (job and school) @dyiu13 !
@critter – lots of good points I forgot. We did a test run on Skype, though we do use it fairly often for both visiting with the out-of-town stepdaughter’s family and for S’s music lessons (his teacher is out of state). As far as clothes…I think S wore a nice shirt and jeans; since he was sitting down the fact that he was in ratty white socks wasn’t visible (but he was more comfortable).
We always Google the interviewer beforehand, except the one time when none of us could understand her name on the phone message (name with multiple slight variances and a bad connection.) Turns out she’s a local girl and apparently graduated the year before Eldest Step-D, though S didn’t mention that to her-- his reasoning wasn’t so much that she might not remember his sister but that she might. Ah, sibling love…
Congrats @labegg and @dyiu13 .
In terms of Skype , I can’t offer any suggestions, as I’ve never skyped. We may need to figure it out though because that’s how he’s supposed to be notified about acceptance into William Aiken.
@Critter, I love your son’s style! Shouldn’t everyone be able to interview–and work–in a sweatshirt and boxers? Just think how much more productive we’d all be!
@EastGrad Sitting here with a cat in my lap, teleworking in my sweatpants, I had to chuckle at your comment!
Finished Fafsa for D16. Started working on Fafsa for D13 and realized there might be a mistake on the first one. Can’t make corrections until it’s processed - ugh!!!
We have finished fafsa but had to estimate due to one missing statement. Called the financial institution and they said they were running late and would get them done this week. So I guess we’re not really done. Our EFC came out so laughably high. I thought we wouldn’t qualify for any need based aid, but now that I’ve run the numbers I’m completely sure. But we needed to do this for one school’s merit scholarship so we sent it to all schools still in contention.
Congratulations to all of you who have decided or at least narrowed your list. D’s list is going in the wrong direction. She was down to two. Now we are back up to four. She is having a very hard time letting any of these four go. She did cross off two, that probably weren’t the best fits to begin with. Those two didn’t make the fafsa list so they are gone. But the other four are in serious contention. H and I both agree on where we think she will end up, but every day it seems a different one is her favorite for a different reason. This is driving me nuts.
Had a nice visit to D’s interview for scholarship. It was really cold so we did not go around campus too much. D was not sure how it went, but I think it went pretty well since she started getting personal emails from professors on the way home.
Annoyingly, they told us 2 weeks as we were leaving, but she got an email saying “mid-march” on the way home. I told her that probably mid-march is the last possible day, but could be sooner. I hope I am right.