<p>Call the admissions office about a week after acceptances were to have been mailed. Tell them there’s a problem with your mail delivery, and ask them to confirm whether you were accepted. You can skip the backstory. If you were accepted, there should be follow-up letters coming, but you may have same problem of your mother screening your mail.</p>
<p>Acceptance is only one part of much bigger enrollment process. You still need parents’ cooperation regarding college cost-payments and financial aid application information. Did you check “need financial aid” on your admission applications? Did you target schools where you’d fit the +80% percentile profile of applicants, to make yourself a strong candidate for both merit and need financial aid?</p>
<p>Did you look at Dominican University and Elmhurst College too?</p>