Same boat, very nearly, with TE helping to close the gap at some need-aware schools. And the need-aware possible “match” schools would likely have been prohibitive in cost (but they’ve waitlisted, so we’ll never know.)
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It sounds like a mostly good week of admissions! Congrats to those students.
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Thanks. Yes he will be waiting to try to snatch them up as soon as they are released. He knows to check his Auburn email daily so hopefully will get a heads-up about the date.
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D24 filled out Austin College’s Myers Briggs test, learned she is an INFP. She tried calling ASU today to decline their admissions offer, was told to do it online, which is funny because on one part of their website, it said to call in order to decline the admissions offer. Huh, ok.
D24 is annoyed that I’m bugging her to start online browsing for a duvet cover for her bed. 
I joined the Austin College parents group on FB and already have learned some helpful info. From what it sounds like, everybody’s kids at AC really love the school. The parents on the FB group have all commented how easy it’s been for their kids to make friends and get involved. Lots of parents saying that their kids really love being there. My mom heart is so happy to hear that. 
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It’s going to all be over this time next week! I have never been so excited about moving on to the next thing, and then just trying to enjoy the remaining time I have with S24 before he is off and running. But it sure does not feel good today. We are doing a college visit for D26 on Monday, sort of a distraction as it is out of town. Sort of not as it is a place that s24 was rejected from!
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Congrats!!! That’s a big admission fish to catch!! Getting all excited for the kids!
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I just wanna know what University Mom hoodie I’m gonna get. And I’ll be able to take senior photos once the admission packet arrives. 3/28 4pm PST. That’s my countdown to getting my sweatshirt 
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We are going on a trip next Friday morning (to whichever school c24 is going so destination unknown until Thursday night as well. I am with you I am so ready to get my sweatshirt!! 
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Having a similar issue here! My kid is in at the dream school but a frenemy applied RD and no word yet on that.
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That is a very good news. It is hard to get admitted to WashU. My S24 was rejected. My D21 was waitlisted back then.
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D24 did not believe me about the squirrels… I was 6 for 9 squirrel references on tours.
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Yes, we are really thrilled! Not to diminish his own individual contributions, but our HS sends a decent number of kids there, and I am very sure that helps. Even so, though, it is still not at all guaranteed even for the most competitive of our kids, and is definitely into the range where some kids who get into other great colleges for whatever reason don’t get in there.
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It is a very good school. So happy for you and our family. Now Ivy League results will be the icing on the cake for him.
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We went last spring break so she could get a feel of the area before she decided. She had special perks begause S21 goes to Brown so she got to hang out with big brother, stayed in his dorm, and went to classes. Some by herself :). I focused mostly on the surrounding areas and walked a ton so she could see what else there is to do.
Yep D got dropped back into reality today with a waitlist at Wisconsin (her first choice) after I think 11 acceptances. And her BFF got in. Ouch. Lots of tears, but to be expected. We are en route to Belize in the morning and will get Lehigh and Syracuse results en route. Given the likely WiFi issues my 80 year old Dad is manning the portals and will report back. Gulp. Hoping they really want an Oregon ski racer -social justice warrior-camp counselor-taylor swift loving kid. If not, hope there’s a lot of rum in Belize …
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Exactly the metaphor we used!
Incidentally, the other part of the “icing” will be a bunch of LAC decisions we will be getting today–Carleton, Amherst, and Williams–plus Vassar on a day TBD. Which as I mentioned before is basically how he got to what I consider to be a too long application list–it is like he has both a full university list and a full LAC list operating in parallel.
And we had a really interesting conversation last night which basically started off with him musing that maybe if he had known he was going to get offers like William & Mary (Monroe), Haverford, and WUSTL, he would have applied to fewer Likely/Target schools and even more Reaches. And I will admit I pushed back a little stronger than is my usual habit, but I did point out he still had three Ivies and four highly-selective LACs to go, and maybe that is in fact not just enough Reaches, but too many!
And NiceUnparticularMom, who is now getting fully engaged when it counts, reiterated her very firm philosophy he should be choosing the school where he will be happiest, and whether that is a Likely, Target, Reach, or whatever should not be relevant to that decision.
And I am happy to report to the parents here that Team Parent basically “won” that conversation! Meaning on reflection S24 conceded maybe he is getting a bit caught up in the game, maybe being influenced a bit too much in the moment by peers and such who are currently waiting anxiously to hear from the reaches to which S24 himself did not apply. And I remain confident that in the end he will make his choice for good reasons, but it is very interesting to me to see how he is not at all completely immune to the peer stuff . . . which of course would be an unreasonable expectation.
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I think you will be in good shape! (Both ways, your kid sounds awesome.)
I also think it is far less likely that you will catch an earful of complaints about being dragged on a long chilly walk with wind gusts up to 40 MPH just to see another stupid old church, when I clearly told them all to bring layers, although maybe I forgot my own fleece in the boot of the rental car, so I have to say I told them so through teeth I am desperately trying to keep from chattering, oh and it turns out the church is closed for services today anyway . . . but I think I am digressing. Point being I hear Belize is very nice.
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This is important but I’d say it has to be kept in balance. For us, for better or worse, “fit” and happiness are further down the list. College will be a huge challenge for us financially, so our twins are doing lots of hinting at big loans to either go to a school with a friend or to achieve some kind of “fit” preference like big time sports.
So we’re arguing that “happiness” for the next 25 years matters way more than happiness for the next 4. But kids aren’t built for long-term planning.
This is the underdiscussed downside of the FAFSA debacle. We’d be done and decided by now. But instead of making a list of places we can afford and choosing the best fit, we still don’t know if they’re going at all.
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Good luck to everyone and keeping fingers crossed. For the most part the decisions are already made and we are all waiting for another 6 days to be informed .We applied to very few schools.
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Sorry, I should be more consistently clear about something.
In my view, the very first thing is always that the college be comfortably affordable for the family. Before any other consideration. What that means in practice depends on context, but my basic view is you want college to expand your options as much as possible, and things like large student debts restrict your options, and so that is very much to be avoided.
So really it should always be the COMFORTABLY AFFORDABLE college that will make you happiest. I guess my defense is that I take that as such a given I don’t always think to make it explicit, but it is 100% what we believe.
And actually even that is not a great defense, because I also believe if both A and B were affordable, but B was enough cheaper you could do things like save up in advance for further education, a house down payment, or whatever, that would be fine to consider too! So I really don’t mean to imply cost should be ignored.
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