No final tally here yet - still waiting on one school (CSU Long Beach). I thought this was just a back-up, but last week D expressed interest in touring it & seemed to be considering it. So we wait. I’ve found myself developing a favorite that I feel is the best fit for D & I’m secretly pulling for, but I won’t share with her unless asked. This should all be over soon, right?
STILL waiting to hear from Southern Connecticut!!!
I really, really wish we would hear-- whatever the decision is.
Agreed, @bjkmom - put us out of our misery!
Ok final tally for my S18:
Accepted to Minnesota, Oklahoma, Miami Ohio, Trinity, Denison, University of Southern California, Richmond
Waitlist at Vanderbilt and Claremont McKenna
Rejected from Stanford and WashU
According to him, all 7 acceptances and Vanderbilt still under consideration. Aargh
We finally heard from the last school this week. My D’s outcomes were:
Accepted to: ASU/Barrett, CSULB, UNH, Indiana University, Willamette
Denied: UC Irvine, UCSB, Cal Poly SLO
Waitlisted: SDSU, UCSC
We are heading to Long Beach next week for what is hopefully our final college visit. As it stands now, she’ll be choosing between CSULB and ASU. However, if either waitlist school comes through with an offer, she’ll likely want to accept. Part of me wishes they’d just been outright denials so we can move on.
@S18D20mom whoop! Hope to see y’all at A&M! Gig 'em. Is he going to do Fish Camp if he attends?
@3scoutsmom I would request an official new transcript it should be on there if he is top 10%. If not, I would call and speak with the head counselor or VP of academics and reiterate the need to know for scholarship purposes. I think they try to avoid letting the kids know as much as possible to avoid any hurt feeling or arguements. That may have been a first line “factory” answer just to see if he was serious. Good luck!.
Our miserably inept GC, that we’ve dealt with for the past 6 years and has been such pain in the butt, retired early at Spring break to have knee surgery and won’t be coming back! Too late for us, but thank goodness other kids are in the clear!
@3scoutsmom You could also give the GC the scholarship contact information and ask that they send the final rank for your child. It might also ‘look’ better coming from the GC.
@gclsports See you on campus!
Attending:
Vanderbilt
Accepted:
ASU (Barrett)
UofA (honors)
Alabama
Baylor
Emory
Rescinded applications after ED acceptance so we will never know 
:
USC
Rice
Georgia Tech
Northwestern
Wash U
@droppedit I really needed to hear that about your Bama decision! I hope she goes to Italy and Greece and many more places!
Before reading your post, I had a similar thought. At one point D asked about a few different camps this summer, a philosophy one and the others leadership related, I think. And I was thinking, she can’t do them all. It’s too much money, she’d lose more money from not working those weeks, etc. But then I realized even if she went to all those programs, which are all inexpensive, it might not equal one fifth of the annual cost difference between her two good public options.
I think D has made a decision. I had done some research about what it would take for her to pursue a personal goal she cares deeply about. The number one enormous obstacle people face in pursing this is educational debt. Then it takes some funds to get started once the educational debt is dealt with. I talked to D about the articles I read and it seemed to get her thinking because last night she asked if there’s any reason to make the two college visits we have scheduled for next week…
We had a really nice night last night. We visited several churches in the Holy Thursday tradition. It was so nice to be all together. My oldest D has been contacted for a second interview for her dream job with a relatively good salary in a place with a low cost of living, so she might be moving on, too.
Attending:
Alabama
Accepted:
Alabama
USC (Carolina)
McGill
FSU
SDSU
Utah
Waitlisted:
CalPoly SLO
Rejected:
UCLA, UCI
Bama was a late visit for D18 and simply turned out to be a great fit for her. Good merit and exceptional Pre-OT/Pre-Med programs with shadow opportunities, and solid Honors Program.
Good luck to all with final decisions. 
@droppedit “She could do more than five of them every single year for the difference in tuition alone compared to USC (with their NMF scholarship). Wow.”
DD came to the same realization with UAH - she will be able to do full semester study abroad programs without it causing any financial pain since she accepted their offer that covers tuition/housing. It freed up a lot of funds to add in the extra’s without adding a dime of debt.
@labegg He will absolutely do Fish Camp. Whoop!
The Ohio State Buckeyes!
Accepted and declining: Minnesota, Miami Ohio (20K), Pittsburgh, FSU,(Full tuition) and UGA (close to full tuition)
Rejected: Florida
Came down to OSU, and UGA
By the end of the day, Ohio State checked all the boxes Program strength and reputation. Financials, Urban, OOS desire, National recognition, and the whole Buckeye family nation thing that will follow her forever.
And just when you think its over, we get to go through this once again next year for S20.
Nothing but well wishes to everyone here… The most amazing and most insightful group of parents. All these kids are amazing. It is just incredible how competitive the admission process has been. The only requirement we needed back in the 80;s was just to have a pulse. Go Bucks!
All decisions in. Confirmed Enrollment, paid deposit and received housing so I am 99.9% sure at this point 
Major: Computer Science
Live in Colorado
Attending
Colorado State University - Green & Gold & Honors Scholarship ($4k per year) - Honors College
Accepted (in order of lowest Tuition+Room & Board)
University of South Florida ($12k Pegasus Scholarship)
University of Wyoming ($9675 WUE Scholarship - Honors College)
Montana State University ($14600 Scholarship)
Northern Arizona University ($5k Scholarship)
University of Central Florida ($9500 Scholarship)
Arizona State University ($16500 Scholarship)
University of Colorado Boulder ($3500 Scholarship)
Creighton University ($23400 Scholarship)
Miami University Ohio ($21000 Scholarship - Honors College)
Ohio State University ($15k Buckeye National Scholarship)
Colorado School of Mines ($2500 Scholarship)
University of Portland ($25k Scholarship)
University of Minnesota ($10k National Scholarship)
University of Denver ($23k Scholarship)
No Declines or Waitlists. Only applied to Match, Safety and a few reach schools known for giving Merit
@suzy100 It has felt like a full time job, especially as D18 had 12 in-person auditions for dance (including 3 trips to SoCal, 1 to Austin, 1 to Norman, 1 to Salt Lake City and 1 to Bloomington). Will be really glad when we finally have decisions from both kids.
Attending:
Louisville (Honors, Brown Fellows full ride plus, guaranteed entrance to med school)
Accepted:
Kentucky (Honors, Patterson full tuition plus for NMF, interviewed for but did not get Singletary scholarship), Centre, Alabama
Early on he expressed a big preference to staying in state. Could not see himself going far away for UG. So it was Louisville, Kentucky and Centre, with Alabama there as an NMF automatic merit school just to give him an option if something crazy unexpected happened. No super selective schools so he missed (or escaped, I’m not sure which is the right term!) all of the mix of emotions on the boards of this and the last few weeks.
Eventually he decided Centre wasn’t a fit for him, so he never followed through with Centre’s big merit scholarship applications. Same for honors and Randall Research at Alabama. So really just a two horse race that ultimately became about yes or no on Louisville’s Brown Fellows and GEMS programs.
New freshmen orientation and then two weeks of Brown Fellows activities in June. Until then he is trying to “coast” (his term for it) through the last few weeks of HS academics. AP exams on the horizon. Such a relief to have the college decision settled and behind him, especially with a satisfying outcome.
All decisions are in!
Final results:
Accepted: University of Dayton (honors program), Miami of Ohio (honors program), Indiana University (Hutton honors), University of Notre Dame, Boston University, Washington and Lee, Fordham, and Santa Clara University. Received good merit and other financial aid at all of these, except Fordham.
Waitlisted: Wake Forest, Davidson, William and Mary, Boston College, and Villanova
Denied: Middlebury
I think we are down to 5 (with 3 being leaders). I think she will accept the wait list at two (one has always been her first choice), but we will move forward and she is thrilled with some of her other (surprise) acceptances.
Final Results
Accepted: UGA, Lewis & Clark (with merit), University of Denver (with merit), University of Boulder, Ithaca (with merit) University of San Francisco (with merit)
Denied: nowhere but she didn’t apply to any reaches as that didn’t interest her (and drove me a little crazy)
Attending: University of San Francisco Honors program