<p>umm, good luck on lighting a fire under the astrophysics project. </p>
<p>We found that getting THE acceptance worked as a green light for slacking off senior year. Argh. S himself said, ‘they shouldn’t tell you you’re in until the end of the school year.’ (he knew where he was going in October!)</p>
<p>…I love those Skinny Cow desserts. The ice cream sandwiches are excellent…</p>
<p>2for college,
Just don’t “wait” on the wait-listed school - if it’s her first choice, she needs to contact that school IMMEDIATELY to let them know that, and maybe to tell them about stuff she’s doing that didn’t make it into her application. Because the school will get a number of turn downs of the acceptances, they will be looking for students to fill those slots who really want to be there.</p>
<p>2forcollege, no goodie I bring into the Vigil Lounge has calories; neither does any libation. (What you find in your own kitchen, I cannot vouch for!)</p>
<p>Yay! for the good news! Patience and fortitude (as Fiorello H. LaGuardia said) for the rest; the wait will soon be over, whether snow, plowed-under mailboxes, or wrong deliveries. </p>
<p>In the meantime, today is H’s birthday, and we have leftover cake. Who wants a slice?</p>
<p>Well, it depends on how yield is managed. All schools accept many more kids than actually go expecting refusals. At times they miscalculate and go to the wait list, but not always. There are times (this happened to the Barnard class '10) when the yield was greater than anticipated and they had trouble housing all the acceptances.</p>
<p>Still, it can’t hurt to contact schools and show interest and “prime the pump” but not every refusal is replaced by a wait listed student.</p>
<p>Our decision vigil has come to an end (except for being waitlisted at Barnard, where chances for subsequent acceptance are microscopically slim) in a most delightful way: with an acceptance from Cal! I’m blown away and my daughter is jumping out of her skin. </p>
<p>In the Weight Watchers department: tomorrow’s my weigh-in and tonight my daughter and I celebrated at DQ. Prospects for weightloss this week blew forcefully out the window!</p>
<p>Great news! So glad your daughter is thrilled with her decision.</p>
<p>Congratulations to the big envelope recipients! The rest of us - do not lose that hope! D finally got her big package - a letter from Wellesley! Dad for some reason was very excited, much more so than the envelope recipient. Time to rent that Simpsons DVD. :D</p>
<p>BB: Congrats from the mom of another seven sister! (Hint – she doesn’t like the characterization of Columbia’s girl next door. Maybe your girl wouldn’t like it either. Wellesley is a wonderful school.)</p>
<p>Thank you for starting this conversation! Can’t wait until this waiting game is over with! I am a single mom and have to go through this by myself! My daughter did get into Univ. of Florida which makes me very happy. My son is a junior at Brown and my daughter wants to go there badly. She was deferred.
I just want my life back!!! Thank goodness I do not have any more kids.</p>
<p>Thanks, mythmom! I know that your D really likes her school, and it is a wonderful college. Mine did not apply there for one reason - hates big cities. We are forest/horse pasture dwellers over here. D really hates stereotypes, so she might not like the fun made of the seven sisters by the Simpsons either.</p>
<p>archibald: I hear you. Fingers crossed for Brown.</p>
<p>BunsenBurner: No worries. I am not the least competitive about these schools. Whichever is right for each child is the one that is best. Horses, forests, etc. are wonderful! But my D is as urban as capuccino. She is in London this semester, and it isn’t urban enough for her. She misses NYC.</p>
<p>But S is in the mountains at Williamstown. Talk about forest!</p>
<p>These are all such wonderful places. We’re very lucky to see our kids go off to such wonderful adventures. The only way we could part with them!</p>
<p>I’m looking out the window, it’s March 28, and snow is coming down like crazy! S, for the very first time in his life, is extremely upset it’s a snow day - they were supposed to have their last rehearsal today before Saturday’s competition. I’m sympathetic but all I could think of was - there goes the mail for today. I’m bringing the ice cream to work.</p>
<p>For those in snowy climes (and everyone else, too), lunch today will be French Vegetable Bean Stew, which is out of the Moosewood Low-Fat Cookbook. Leeks, white beans, onions, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, garlic, plenty of tarragon, and other things good for you. We will serve this with fresh multi-grain rolls.</p>
<p>Today’s fresh desserts: chocolate-dipped strawberries and fruit tarts. (Aren’t tarts always fresh? 
) Also available are THE best sugar cookies; we ration these because [strikeout]I ate so many when baking them[/strikeout] they are addictive. Four per Vigil Lounger.</p>
<p>Can’t cross my fingers while I’m slicing leeks, but my toes are crossed for everyone who waits!</p>
<p>Hang in there, everyone. In January, I would have guessed we’d be floating in the waiting boat now, but my daughter chose a rolling admission out of state public that has an excellent program in her major and admitted her to their honors program, so it’s all good. We leave for spring break Monday morning and I too was wondering how we’d check the mailbox…</p>
<p>D and I are bummed for a friend’s rejection - accepted to a highly competitive musical theater program at a college, and then the admissions office there sent the friend a rejection - and we’re thrilled for some of her friends’ happy acceptances. Very emotional in the halls of her high school this week. Joy and tears. There was nothing like this when we were in high school, good heavens. I am glad spring break is starting - the kids need a break.</p>
<p>I have learned a lot from this thread. The best new info: Skinny Cow makes caramel drumsticks. I’ve got to get some soon.</p>
<p>Best wishes to all of your high school seniors. What a year, what a year.</p>
<p>Forget college admissions. I’m waiting eagerly for the soup and rolls for lunch!</p>
<p>2blue, I second that! And the fruit tarts sound wonderful!</p>
<p>Soup and tarts sound fabulous right now. Mail comes after lunchtime-- still waiting. DS is on his way home from a visit to his grandparents so he can keep the vigil while I try to regain my sanity. What will I do with my free time once he’s decided where to go?</p>
<p>Have any other moms out there thought this is just as painful as childbirth?</p>
<p>I’ll be there too; I don’t even want to check the mailbox today. Based on some CC posts about acceptances received yesterday, I’m guessing my D won’t be getting one. I hope I’m wrong.</p>
<p>I feel very bad for the international students who applied to Swarthmore and found out through a thread on CC that they weren’t accepted. Someone posted an article from the Swarthmore site about this year’s applicants and accepted students–including a list of the countries represented. Several applicants from countries not on the list were very bummed to find out in this way before hearing from Swarthmore directly. I think the college should not have published this info until they were sure that all international students were notified by them.</p>
<p>Soup and tarts sound fabulous right now. Mail comes after lunchtime-- still waiting. DS is on his way home from a visit to his grandparents so he can keep the vigil while I try to regain my sanity. What will I do with my free time once he’s decided where to go?</p>
<p>Have any other moms out there thought this is just as painful as childbirth?</p>