congratulations@glido on UCLA and Fordham acceptances!!
S18 in at Denison with merit. Probably not enough but at least a positive result
With Frankin and Marshall’s acceptance tonight, it’s 9/10 for D. Waiting on last decision from UVA, which this is the one reach school that we are not expecting a congrats letter. D’s leading choice is Penn State.
S18 rejected from MIT earlier this week, but just heard he was accepted to UCSD for Mechanical Engineering. He is at Colorado School of Mines now for an admitted student weekend. Just waiting on two more schools now. So far, accepted to seven and denied at three. Glad he has some good choices.
Congratulations to all!
S18 accepted at Holy Cross! They have such a small class and with applications up all over, I was not sure how he would do.Still waiting on 5 schools but he has some great options already. I feel like I let out a breath I have been holding since December.
@Momma2018 Congratulations!!!
Well the tears came gushing out last night and not why you would think…just the pressure of not knowing and the slow band aid pull of one school. Up to now I have not mentioned schools by name as my personal decision was not to do this until all were in but I am really ticked at one school which happens to be my alma mater and will be getting a piece of my mind no matter which way this goes down.
Syracuse has been pulling this crazy reveal that is completely over the top in an already stressful process. RD was scheduled to come out mid-late March. Three weeks ago they released decisions to top merit students (and international I believe) because they did not want to lose them. The message to the rest…you are not our top. Yesterday they released more acceptances. However not everyone got a message. The rumor and it is looking like it might be true is acceptances this week, denials next week and acceptances/wait-list the following. My daughter was baby-sitting and did not check her email until she came home at 10:30pm. Nothing. Then the sobbing started as she just wants to know. She really loved the school we went to accepted students last weekend but she knew SU would be out this week and she waited anxiously all week for it. She only applied to Newhouse which is the most competitive school (under 10%) so we know the the challenge is real with her test scores but this is a top communications program and she loves it. She just wants a decision so she can move forward. She has some great choices that love her and she wants to love back but she can not do anything until it is all in. This is really rotten. If they want to do rolling admissions do it (accepts and denies) if they want to do a date do it and stick to it.
Oh and SU if you are going to do this could please at least not send out Twitter Congratulations and other social media to those that got in. And could you not have done this on my birthday during the basketball game I had to turn off.
Rant over.
This morning she received a rejection from Boston University which her dad’s alma mater. It came on the day at the time they said they would have their decisions out. That is class. Thank you BU for doing it right. She handled it well.
@MinnieFan So sorry to hear this. Good luck going forward!
That really is a terrible process, @MinnieFan. I’m sorry. 
@MinnieFan - that sounds like a horrible way to send out decisions. Hugs to your D.
@MinnieFan That is an awful process—I am so sorry!
@MinnieFan , that is truly frustrating. I’m sorry you are all dealing with that and, for what it’s worth, Happy Belated Bday. Hope the rest of the weekend goes better.
I think more schools are going the way of SU. I know Miami Ohio did it. DD got her EA acceptance there way back in December even though they weren’t supposed to come out until February (and most didn’t).
I think sometimes the admissions offices forget they are dealing with teenagers. They are so focused on recruiting the best class that they don’t take into consideration the other students. I’m sorry @MinnieFan this has been such a painful process for your DD, but hopefully a few weeks from now she is in love with a school that loves her back and all is forgotten. (and belated happy birthday to you!).
@MinnieFan, on behalf of my alma mater I am sorry they are being you-know-whats about the whole thing. Talk about making people feel less-than if they did not get accepted in the first wave.
I really hope this is not the future for college decisions. Kids are quite aware of who is getting into where thanks to social media - they don’t need the colleges rubbing their noses in it, too.
@stemmmm I totally agree…these are kids. Four years of pressure to get to the application process then putting 17 /18 year olds through hoops and on edge for months on end. D20 is not as competitive a student so we will be doing different schools and I hope it is better on those playing fields.
Also watching D18’s friends go through a rough time. These are top kids academically and with ECs. Mostly rejections from top choice schools and I think the blues are in full force during the school days so that only adds to the drama.
D18 will be fine…she will end up where she needs to be though she has some tough choices with her top three so far. Just want these last 4 RDs in ( well 3 now) so she can move forward and embrace her future. She is excited about where she is in which is better than some kids.
@bearcatfan it is my alma mater too and I am embarrassed by this. The stress is real. There is little/no concern that these are teenagers and having watch her apply to 12 schools I know this is not the norm (thank goodness). I understand congratulating admits but not if you are doing this in your own roll out way that is full of uncertainty. Kids can deal with things if you give it to them straight. They should announce their plan and adhere to it. Just like the kids adhered to the admission deadlines.
Oh @MinnieFan hugs to you and your DD. Syracuse should be ashamed of themselves. We keep hearing about emails and postcards and advance notice and it’s nuts. Kids just want to know where they’re going to be in the fall. My daughter has started judging colleges based on their admissions process and the winner so far are the public universities. She had a private college who waitlisted her. When she called to ask why they accepted her with a 25k annual scholarship.
The way some of these schools go about their decisions is truly shameful. It not even a matter of getting accepted or rejected. It is just about how they go about playing the game. I just hope a lot of these kids turn their backs on them. I personally think, that all decisions should be out by early February at the latest. It gives everyone a chance to honestly decompress and think about what they have at hand. Some of our decisions were even released by October and November… I think those schools have an edge and smartly so, especially if any merit was involved. Our decision pretty much came down to two schools by December. Anything after that, she had already lost interest. Same to those schools who claim that merit notifications might not come out until late March only to find out that there merit will not be awarded. Shame of you!!!
On another note, It is really interesting to see how all the kids are posting their final decision. We always wondered where a lot of these kids will end up going to college. For all of you stressing over the process (us included), it seems that everyone finds their “home”… I see all these postings about kids choosing, UGA, USC, Wisconsin, Indiana, Florida, FSU, Ohio State, Alabama, Maryland. etc etc…Not sure how and why, they all got to where they got to. But I am assuming there were a few rejections along the way. But lots of state schools, many similar to each other and all seem to be very proud of their final decision…I know we are… Schools like Syracuse, which we did not apply to, shame on you!
Oh @MinnieFan I’m so sorry that you and your D have been given the runaround in this process by your alma mater! I agree that schools should pick a date and not leave students hanging on. This process is hard enough without schools making it harder. Hugs to you both!
Huge congrats to all the recent admits here! <:-P <:-P <:-P I go away for 2 days and the thread just blows up with acceptances! It’s exciting and I’m so happy the wait is over for many of you. This is it folks, the ride is almost over!! 