@Skates76 - how do you know what time these things get released? (You mentioned 5pm) …?
Many kids at DD’s school are staying home today in anticipation of Ivy decisions. For us it is going to mark the end of the admission season, but will not change anything on her short list. Good luck to everyone still waiting.
I think staying home would make my D more anxious. But she pretty much doesn’t think she will get in so she isn’t too worried. Close to 40,000 applications really makes it seem unattainable for her she says. But fingers crossed anyway.
S is off to school, then has band practice. He’ll be practicing for the spring concert when results come in. I’m under orders to drive over to the school and interrupt practice if he gets in.
@fretfulmother Just repeating what I have heard elsewhere, which could be wildly inaccurate.
Ah ok that makes sense!
Seriously?..not going to school because they are waiting on an admission decision? That would not fly at our house.
Good luck to everyone waiting on Ivy decisions today! D has heard from all the schools she applied to, but I am anxious to see how it goes for all of you on CC!
And going back to the subject of parents/grandparents, my father passed away almost 27 years ago, when he was only 55 (a year younger than I am now). I was not yet married, although he had met my husband-to-be. My son has turned out to be just like him in so many ways–I really wish so much they could have known each other. Thankfully, my kids have known their other grandparents. My mother is the only one still living though, besides my stepfather, who she married when my kids were quite young, so he is the only grandfather they’ve ever known on my side.
@fretfulmother, the school’s S applied to sent emails announcing the decision times.
@labegg I would think being the in school would make time go by faster because they are busier
I have been very moved by the stories of parents/grandparents lost, and am thinking of my own situation as well, with one parent very ill. I know my grandparents would have loved to meet their descendants also. @Mom2jl - I think it’s great that your kids are having your stepfather as a grandfather. I have seen families where the adult kid is upset about the parent’s remarriage and the [step]grandparent relationship really can’t get off the ground.
Although D is waiting on one more today, she’s pretty set on her choice. Sending good vibes to all you parents out there. I don’t think our kids get that we, also, are going through the college process. What do we do come May 2nd?
@labegg Mine haven’t stayed home for admission decisions, but we’ve probably had absences for what would look like far sillier reasons. As long as homework gets done and the lessons are absorbed, I’m fairly casual about attendance. The kids have learned to self regulate as a result-- there have been times I’ve suggested missing school to be met with “no, we’re doing a lab I can’t miss in Chem” or “I need to be in sectionals this afternoon and I’m not allowed on campus if I call in sick”. Different school, different kids…probably I’d handle it differently.
Come May 2nd? Begin or continue the assembly of Dorm Mountain. 
Good luck to all who are waiting on news today! I’m very glad H could not convince S to apply to any Ivys. Ha- we could barely get him to apply to more than one school.
@psychmomma I’ll definitely be doing a lot of reading on that thread cause I have no idea where to begin.
Well wishes to all waiting for results today. May the day go swiftly and the results be all you hoped for.
Add me to the missing a parent list. My dad who worked on some of the earliest computers when they were the size of a building would be so proud of his granddaughter heading off to be a computer science major. I wish he could have seen it.
@Mysonsdad very astute! UCLA is a fantastic school and economical to boot. The caveat of course, is whether students can get out in 4 years, as many have to go longer to get there courses at UCs. But careful planning could avoid that. I went to a prestigious UC, and grad school at an Ivy, and in my career it has ONLY been the grad school that mattered in prestige, obtaining jobs and job advancement. So I agree - save money with UCLA and go to Ivy for grad school.
Having said all that… S is waiting for Ivies too today, so pins and needles…
Our family doesn’t have any decisions to wait on today, but just from being around the kids and parents of such amazing kiddos, I find myself a bit nervous by proxy, so I can only imagine how anxious it is for some. The one truth of the matter is that the kids waiting for decision today might be exuberant, disappointed or a mix of both by the time tonight rolls around, but in the end they are all exceptionally well equipped to succeed in academics, careers and life!
On the grandparent issue, our family has a strange set of coincidences associated with that. When my wife was pregnant with S1, my Father passed. Pregnant with D, my Mother passed on. Pregnant with S2, my best friend’s Father, and whose house I halfway grew up in because it was that house where everybody in the neighborhood hung out, passed. It was a strange thing, and each of the kids was already destined, and do, have their grandparent’s first name as their middle name (my Dad and my best friend’s Dad also shared the same first name, hence it is a family name for both of my boys).
My kids are lucky to still have 3 grandparents. I’m worried S (third and final kid) will lose possibly more than one grandparent during his college years. My dad’s been gone 20 years now. He was a professor at a state U (and I of course did not want to live at home and go to that school!) and would have found the current college search and application process unbelievable.
Waiting on two decisions today, but this is the least tense I’ve been on a decision day though this process. I think it’s the odds. Being disappointed that she doesn’t get in is like being disappointed that I don’t weight the same as I did in high school. Yes, it’s possible, but am I surprised it’s not reality? Nah.
Good luck & aloha to all!
On a grandparents talk: my kids only have one grandparent left. When my DD got her acceptances to a top engineering schools, I told her how my father would be very proud of her. He was a talented inventor and left us way too soon.