<p>wjb - I’ve come to the conclusion that H and Y are, at the heart of it, the two most similar top universities in the country. FWIW, when your S chooses either of them, he also taps into a long-term relationship with the other. There are frequent road trips and collaborative events, and when the two play their annual football game the student body from the visiting school moves en masse to the other campus and crashes on the couches of their opposites.</p>
<p>Boola Boola WJB!!!</p>
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<p>After the two glasses of pinot grigio I drank – and not virtually – at 11:30 PM yesterday, this menu actually sounds pretty good. ;)</p>
<p>wjb-- we have a good friend whose son, a delightful and personable young man, attends Yale. Congrats to your S!</p>
<p>mountains-- do you think the waitlist schools will call our offspring or e-mail them? I doubt snail-mail from what I’ve read elsewhere but my S doesn’t check e-mail regularly…which means I have to bug him a couple times a day besides sticking by the phone when he’s at school. Oy-- and I thought waiting for the mail was tough. </p>
<p>Honestly, though, I hope once his exams are over he’s going to feel the waitlist is a big “so what”?</p>
<p>mountains: Maybe your son likes the <em>drama</em> (give him something to write about).</p>
<p>Kids really are different. Once an option that kids really liked came, they tossed the wait list letters across the room saying, “they wish” or some such.</p>
<p>I wanted to go to the bitter and and luxuriously visit and consider every option, but my kids were like executioners. “Off with their heads.”</p>
<p>wjb: Congrats to your son (and you) on his Yale decision! How wonderful that he had two such great places to choose from.</p>
<p>countingdown: IB is intense, and I hope your S finds time to continue his creative writing. There isn’t much room for it in most college-prep curriculums.</p>
<p>My high school senior S is not interested in fiction at all, in any form, either creating it or appreciating it. All of his non-school reading is non-fiction. His TV watching is confined to science/history/politics shows and documentaries. The last movie that he went to see was when Lord of the Rings was in the theaters. But he is an excellent writer – about history topics, for example. He thinks that kids should have a choice about how to learn to write, either in literature or non-lit classes. I can’t believe that he didn’t inherit even a little piece of my enormous fiction-loving gene.</p>
<p>acme - Based on past threads on my S’ waitlist school, they call and ask if they are still interested. If you say yes, they give you a week to decide. On the Colby Admission Blog (one of the best admission blog, by the way), I remember reading that they call and give the students 24 hours to decide. Yikes.</p>
<p>I read that colleges will ask the student first if they are interested to also “protect” their waitlist data. That is, if the student says “no,” this particular student will not count towards the “number of students offered a spot from the waitlist.” I have no clue if this is true.</p>
<p>mythmom - S definitely does not like the drama; simply wants to torture his mother. His latest play is about a twisted murder-mystery - at least the mother wasn’t the victim, so there is hope. :)</p>
<p>mountains, thanks for the enlightenment. The 24-hour decision time frame sounds barbaric. And we don’t have call waiting! I picture an admissions officer getting a busy signal and just crossing s’s name off the list…</p>
<p>On the topic of boys and reading/writing: my s1, who was strong in math as a boy, grew to love poetry and fiction and turned into a writer. Sadly, he has also grown away from math…
S2, who always hated reading, is a typical guy reader-- he reads everything he can about a topic he is interested in, for example golf, but fiction not so much.</p>
<p>“I remember reading that they call and give the students 24 hours to decide”</p>
<p>Apparently, they are not the only ones…My D was waitlisted at another school that has a 24 hr timeline; she replied, “if I couldn’t pull the trigger on ED how would I ever decide in 24 hours…forget it…I’m done…”</p>
<p>Giving a kid 24 hours to decide is horrible. I hope that’s the only school which does that. </p>
<p>Interesting discussing regarding boys, reading and writing. And 'rithmetic too, I guess. My oldest has always been an extremely avid reader and writes well. He is also an very rapid reader which is a blessing. My youngest will read lots of technical stuff, but isn’t a fiction fan. I hope he likes his upper level English classes. This year they use an English textbook which he hates with a passion. He is turning into a slower writer than he used to be, which isn’t good as his homework load will really be cranking up after this year. He did some beautiful writing in elementary school. One piece was entered into a competition and didn’t win anything to his teacher’s shock. It came back with a comment questioning if it was “really his voice” as it was “far too sophisticated” for a kid his age. It didn’t bother him, but the teacher was furious.</p>
<p>2blue where is your son going?</p>
<p>He decided on Yale. The BBD schedule gave him a much better sense of what classes there are like, which was a huge deciding factor for him. I wish other schools’ visiting days would have provided the same opportunity, but know he had lots of good reasons for making the decision he did. Life is good.</p>
<p>2blue: Wow! Yale! Soooooooo great.</p>
<p>About 24 hours wait time – presumably the school figures the student has had ample time to consider.</p>
<p>It may not be thoughtful to the student, but it is very thoughtful to other students waiting. It’s a really difficult call.</p>
<p>S got off the wait list at one school before May 1st! Way before. One April 5th. I don’t know how they did that! But he had already chosen another school.</p>
<p>I agree that 24 hours would be enough to give one a heart attack but I think some colleges do that to allow the waitlist to move faster and other kids on the waitlist can be notified sooner.</p>
<p>2blue, congrats on Yale for your son! And if the other schools’ visiting days didn’t do as good a job, then that is their loss.</p>
<p>Back a few pages…lindz, so true about the FL parents. They breed kids here to go to their parents favorite state U (not that I’m one of them-ha ha ;))</p>
<p>mythmom, my waitlisted D wrote a whole essay about her <em>drama</em> about picking a school for her creative writing class. Anyone that read it, though she names it only once in the piece, said they better take her off that list! Of course, could I get her to send that essay to them…no.</p>
<p>wjb: Yale is a fantastic choice! Congratulations for being the last one in under the deadline!</p>
<p>So who’s with me in the waitlist limbo??? mountains, acme???</p>
<p>Labor: water broke ten at night, went to bed to rest up for birth, next day dropped dogs off at grandparents and proceded to hospital around three pm.
Fellow Bradley classmate already walking halls on maternity floor which was in the middle of overhaul. This was back in the days of ‘bait and switch’ birthing room, i.e. they show you beautiful peaceful ‘birthing room’ on tour, but in actual practice “someone else is in there now”. We did have it for a couple of hours, then carted off to regular delivery room for finale. DS arrives at dawn, day before Mother’s Day. Soft cry while being toweled off,
they were concerned but he was fine. Thurs night to Sat morning. </p>
<p>I brought some mocha chocolate cake, try this while Owlice’s cake is baking</p>
<p>We are now serving 100 year old quail eggs for those in the wait list limbo. We waited for them, and now they are here!</p>
<p>Along with that we offer a morning cup of coffee laced with fine Napoleon brandy, duly aged as well.</p>
<p>I am in 2nd year fin aid limbo.</p>