@NerdMom88 Yes, she chose Alabama. It’s hard to say no to free, and even more difficult when the campus is gorgeous and the faculty and staff really made her feel wanted. We have drunk the Kool Aid 
@CA1543 I am happy to say that my twins are not, and never have been, too consumed with the process! A couple late nights for one of them writing some supplements, and that was about it. It’s just me (the planner), thinking ahead to multiple visits we may need to make, etc, and I’m just antsy to get it moving!
@WhataProcess – get it - well totally understand that but certainly nice that he twins are relaxed. I set a few reminders in my calendar about notification dates in March and hope to temporarily forget about them. The process could be streamlined for sure but it’s out of our control so at various points, I TRY to put it out of my mind.
@curiositycat333 @Capecodder2014 @VickiSoCal @socalmom007
Still waiting for Cal Poly SLO here. Don’t have a good feeling after reading the CC comments about how if you don’t hear on the first wave all hope is lost. The good news is I’ve only seen one aerospace eng OOS acceptance so far so i don’t think that counts as a “wave.”
Fingers crossed. CP SLO would be an amazing experience for my NYC boy.
I have been reading the thread and keeping track of all the good news. What an amazing group of talented young people!!
@MotherOfDragons Roll Tide!! I hope your Dd loves it there as much as our ds. He truly is incredibly happy with his decision and it has been a wonderful experience. I can’t believe he will be a sr next yr!
Two weeks or so from now our Dd will have made her decision.
Very disappointing night at my house last night. D17 was running for national board of her youth group and lost. She is all the way in Chicago. If she had gotten it, we would have to made a decision between two schools, but now we still wait for RD (which are all the reaches). i feel so bad for her, as she worked so hard for this. This seems to be the story of her life, never quite getting what she wants. Makes me not look forward to March. The good news is that she has acceptances at places she would go.
@sdl0625 Struggles that will make her stronger. Hugs.
@sdl0625 – so sorry to hear that - the national board was somehow connected to a college she was considering? It is good she has some acceptances that could work - perhaps while you are waiting for others, since those are reaches, she could think more about where she is accepted and perhaps visit, sit in on a class and see how she likes it. Just a thought.
@sdl0625 I am so sorry. It is so hard to see them work so hard and have things not pan out. I do believe in silver linings and things we cannot see at given moments in time but that doesn’t make it an iota easier in the moment itself.
@sdl0625 Hugs to you and your D. It is so much harder going through this process as parents… I think it hurts more when it is our children then it did when we went through the process ourselves… Hang in there!
@sdl0625 I am so sorry. It is so hard to see them work so hard and have things not pan out. I do believe in silver linings and things we cannot see at given moments in time but that doesn’t make it an iota easier in the moment itself.
@sdl0625, sorry to hear about the delay for Chicago and support for the national board position.
It probably doesn’t feel like it now, but if she has acceptances at places she would go, you and your D have done a great job and the aspirational schools don’t know what they are missing.
Onward and upward…
@MotherOfDragons I logged on just so I could say congratulations!!! It must feel great to have the decision made!
@sdl0625 I’m sorry to hear that. My oldest D14 had some big disappointments too, we used to call her “the queen of plan B.” I am happy to tell you that those disappointments are now a distant memory, but at the time it was difficult to embrace the suck.
@sdl0625 hugs to you and your DD. I know what you mean, they work so hard , Hopefully it will be a great March for everyone on the board
Popping in again to say hello, congrats, hugs to folks.
And to @BigPapiofthree, @LoveTheBard and @SincererLove (and anyone else in that boat)… yea re new Vandy news! Our older one is there and absolutely loves it. And what a fun town to visit. Feel free to PM me if any questions.
@sdl0625 I’m sorry for your daughter and you, it is hard to see these kids go through disappointment. Though I do
believe in what is meant to be, glass half full etc… Though it may be hard to see right now many amazing things are ahead for your DD, I believe that!! Good luck to you both :">
Good luck to those waiting on SLO!!!
thanks for all the encouragement. If she had gotten this position, she would have been able to put on her application for those schools still considering her that she was now national religious and cultural VP. She cant quite put down, I ran for… Also If she had gotten the position, knowing that it would take up all her “free” time next year in college as her “extracurricular” , she was going to definitely choose between CofC and Elon for now, and not try still for GW /American.
I have another question. We filled out CSS for GW/American, but of course dont know what our “number” is. I know that they will give the financial aide information when accepted, but is it ok to call and find out if they have looked at it, and what our “number” might be. I know our FAFSA number, but how different is CSS from it?
Congrats @MotherOfDragons - Roll Tide, indeed!
@mamaedefamilia yeah, the difference in her since she committed is amazing-right now she’s goofing off on the back porch with a bunch of her friends from her programming group-no school today, and they went out and bought 5 lbs of dry ice and are making frozen bubbles out on the back porch.
Lots of smiles and laughter out in the sunshine today, and I’m so happy for her. Last week she was completely stressed out and having stomach issues and freaking out over her statistics test (which she did fine on).
This process is so arduous and difficult-I’ll be so happy when all of our kids on here pick a school and move forward.