That’s great news, @beebee3 ! You’re DONE!
Yes DONE! Giggling quietly to myself, so happy to be done and now I can just spend the rest of the year cheering the rest of you on! Good luck to all, cannot wait to continue to hear all the good news (as well as the stresses, we had plenty here lol).
Congratulations to all of the accepted students! S20 still has a few more apps to fill out. One more EA for 11.15 and then 2 for RD. He also is planning to fill out the petition for the Kelley school of business at Indiana because he is not a direct admit. HIs SAT is high for the school, but his GPA is low. We’re not planning on visiting or sitting in on classes until he hears back.
Right now he has to get back to his grades!
@beebee3 That is just fabulous! I’m so excited for you! We won’t be done until March at least. That’s when some big school scholarships get announced.
@cshell2 All of my kids found those visits really helpful, both in weeding out schools that they liked the tour but hated sitting in class, and those that rose to the top once they interacted with professors and saw the student/prof dynamic. For D20 the LLC was the icing on the cake. She’s a musical theater kid (not studying it, just loves it) and the LLC has a piano, an acoustic guitar, and all sorts of things that make the theater junkie in her super happy. She met quite a few students in the LLC and immediately connected with them. Best of luck to your S on his visit.
@beebee3 Congratulations! Such fabulous news. Enjoy a relaxing rest of Senior year!
Thanks for all the good wishes. I wish it were over for us, but still waiting on 3-4 decisions.
@mountainmomof3 I would never call it ‘UDel’ anywhere but here so people know what I’m talking about! Same with UMinn, and a host of others. 
Good to hear about the experience your niece/nephew had at UD. D20 wants to visit if she does not get into choice #1.
@MuggleMom Glad your daughter enjoyed her visit. We have usually, no always, kept it to just the normal campus tours. I’m nervous that they would backfire with a snotty kid or poor professor. Hard to make a generalization about an entire school based on such a small sample size. My D likes to read Reddit and look at YouTube videos, after a campus visit.
@beebee3 Congrats to O, and you of course.
CONGRADS @beebee3!
@bigmacbeth - my comment was completely tongue in cheek! There was a huge commotion on the UD parent’s page at the beginning of the school year with parents of older students making sure the new parents knew the “correct” name. Funny enough, the school itself often uses UDel. So funny! Other than that silliness, it has been great!
@beebee3 - congratulations!!!
Congratulations to all the wonderful acceptances! And totally jealous of those who are DONE! ?
For the rest of us, I hope there are still many, patience and patience?
@voyagermom congrats on Penn State!! Just curious if they sent an email or you just found it on the portal. My daughter recently applied and is hoping to hear soon too.
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@Musicmom2015 she saw her Penn State acceptance on the Portal
@voyagermom Thanks so much for posting about this! My daughter was accepted too - first one so it’s exciting for us!!
Congratulations to those recently admitted to Penn State!
@Musicmom2015 , by any chance did your daughter check her portal earlier with no decision and then check again later and see her Admittance?
I’m trying to figure out whether Penn State is updating just once per day (overnight) like has been reported in the past, or if it’s worth checking more frequently. 
@Kayak24 she had not checked the portal at all! She just applied the week before so we didn’t expect anything. Plus with my older son, he always got an email when a decision was made, and then would check the portal. But when we checked last night it was there and the letter was dated November 5th. I was happy I checked cc yesterday! Good luck!
@musicmom1215 , thank you for the info and congratulations again! 
@Musicmom2015 we were just checking the portal to make sure there wasn’t anything missing from her application and then were pleasantly surprised that she had already gotten an acceptance. Congrats to your dd as well!
I am a little surprised at the number of parents who have portal logins and check them for their children. We do not have access to any portals or logins and I don’t feel like we are hands off. I could not imagine checking portals for my children. I am thinking we are in the minority here. The more I read, the more I see how students without parents guiding the process are at a distinct disadvantage. There are parents who don’t know they need to be managing this, others that don’t want to be managing this, and still others who can’t manage this (language barriers, educational barriers, time barriers). Is it the expectation that parents have logins and would be managing this process?
I don’t think there is an expectation either way re portals, tbh. I have access to all of them because she uses the same password for all of them, and we picked it together for her easily remember it. Neither of us check them very often. We’ve found that usually an email alert will let you know of a change. Last year my D19 checked a few obsessively just because she was so surprised to have not gotten a response yet. My daughter’s schools this year seem to be more checklists than portals that will give you a decision. Maybe they are and we just aren’t collectively paying enough attention?
Honestly I think there’s no right or wrong. It all depends on the distinct personality traits of the kids and parents and how that combination works together to get things done the best possible way. With my first child, I had to do very little. This round, the kids are way more passive and are not the personality type to pay much attention to the detail or hang on every email update sent. I was very different. My parents, even back in the dark ages, did nothing. I even filled out the FAFSA by myself with their tax returns in hand. It didnt seem like much to me then, but looking back I’m wondering why my parents didnt help? I know it’s because I have very particular personality traits that they did not have to. Kids these days are no different. Parent involvement might be higher. But the level is determined by how the kid is wired and how that mixes with the parent’s ability and motivation.
Edit: It just occurred to me that maybe this is a product of our generation, parents. We did not have the ability to check portals back in the day. Hey, I even tell my kids they are lucky they aren’t doing their college research by card catalog! I think Gen Xers are just fascinated with the process and maybe a little eager to engage in it now that information is much more freely communicated?