<p>gladmom, we have not received any additiona communication from Stanford yet, other than the “yes” e-mail. </p>
<p>Since we are a real middle class family, I hope the package will be decent.</p>
<p>I’ll supply the ace bandages and ice packs for anyone who decides to kick the mail box!</p>
<p>Happy Birthday, mythmom! Your posts were so helpful on the Barnard board when my older daughter applied there last year ED (rejected…but so happy now at New College of FL…things do have a way of working out for the best - words to live by today!)</p>
<p>Now for my younger daughter…she should hear from her last 2 schools today. Thankfully she has acceptances from several good schools (+1 WL), so whatever the mail and the computer bring today, all is good. I just want to know!</p>
<p>wedgedrive, that’s crazy that your daughter was waitlisted at Skidmore and got into all those other great schools. Skidmore is the one we’re waiting for in the mail today and after seeing the results on this board, I don’t have very high expectations for a fat envelope.</p>
<p>Dad II-Congratulations to your D! Good luck with the financial aid packages!</p>
<p>Dad II: We are also middle income. My fingers are crossed for both of our families.</p>
<p>it’s tough to tpye with crossed figners</p>
<p>lnch is served!</p>
<p>2forcolege,
I hope your d gets the fat envelope from Skidmore, but good to hear she already has some good choices “in the bank”.</p>
<p>2forcolege let us know the Skidmore outcome. Wedgedrive, ditto for Oberlin.
We all need closure soon!</p>
<p>:: gets virtual cigars out of the virtual humidor ::</p>
<p>:: gets the chocolate cigars out of the pantry ::</p>
<p>:: hangs streamers and fills balloons with helium ::</p>
<p>:: checks the shot glasses ::</p>
<p>Omigod, it’s SNOWING AGAIN!!!</p>
<p>The mail brought the Big Envelope from Pomona–surprise!–and a scholarship from Rochester (but still no FA package…). I only know about the scholarship because for some reason I found the letter pushed itself up against the car windshield, which just made those words leap through the envelope. Don’t know how THAT happened. :)</p>
<p>Still no word from Williams…in a mere 5 hours will know about everything but them. Well, except for FA…omigod, omigod…I think I’d better lay off the caffeine for the rest of the day…I’ve started obsessive baking. Put a pan of gingerbread in the oven, about to start on the Tollhouse cookies and a lemon curd sponge roll.</p>
<p>Wedgedrive, Skidmore sounds like yield protection to me.</p>
<p>Mythmom, Happy Birthday.</p>
<p>jerrylaurie, another Yale deferree here, S is an unhooked white boy from New England with no likely letters. Luckily my S doesn’t know about likelies because no one he knows got one and he doesn’t haunt the internet!</p>
<p>DadII, congrats. Good luck with FA.</p>
<p>:: stacks plates for gingerbread ::</p>
<p>Ok- 3 hrs until the mail comes. I was on here earlier but have had to be covert in my operation on CC since DS now knows I lurk and is trying to discover my screen name… He’s gone now, so it’s safe (looking behind my back). All of a sudden he now realizes that TODAY could be THE DAY and I have been directed that under no uncertain terms should I even TRY to get the mail for the next 4 days as it is HIS mail and HE will get it…I asked if I could just get it but not open it and he said, NO, it’s HIM going to college… I tried to explain that it’s a FAMILY issue and he disagreed, so I told him if he didn’t believe it, then to try to pay for it himself… I’ll be walking down to the mailbox if he’s not home… tapping my fingers and eating bon-bons from Owlice’s Cafe (maybe it should be Alice’s Restaurant??? ;>) … humming the tune… you can get anything you want… at Alice’s Restaurant…
Good luck, it will be a big day…I have extra wine and glasses, even some we can smash if necessary – I saw that someone’s got the first aid kit out too… thanks for thinking of that!!</p>
<p>I am betting my S will go upstairs at 4:45 and take a nap. That’s what he did for MIT EA decisions.</p>
<p>AAAGGGHHHHH!!!</p>
<p>LOL!! How about the VIRTUAL mailbox? I need a couple of Owlice’s bandages for my knuckles. Been banging them on the keyboard in frustration since 8am this morning. I know they SAID that decisions would be online this EVENING – but surely they didnt’ MEAN that. Do they have any idea of the AGONY I’m experiencing? Yes, yes – we anticipate a denial, but DON’T THEY KNOW I’m getting carpal tunnel clicking on “reload”?? LOAD THE DRATTED DECISIONS, DARN IT!!</p>
<p>It’s bethievt who has the first aid supplies, SuperMom, and yes, unfortunately for all who wait, I think they really DID mean this evening!</p>
<p>We have birthday cake planned for 7 PM, whatever happens. </p>
<p>Anyone here ask his/her parental unit(s) about this day back when you were the student? And they HAD to wait for snail mail!!!</p>
<p>So everybody, what happened to knitmom?</p>
<p>Super_mom, right there with you…I keep checking just in case they put them up early…my S just walked in my room and said, i feel nautious (i can’t even spell)…there must be a better way than to do so many on one day…next child i think applications should be based on varied decision dates!</p>
<p>Congratulations, Consolation, on that nice mailbox haul! university1, I’d check the mailbox myself and then put it back in the box for him to retrieve. CountingDown, I can’t imagine a kid who could fall asleep knowing a decision is coming! SuperMom<em>You</em>Are, I don’t think they will come out this early. Is your son on spring break, expatme? It would be horrible not to have school to fill up the day. wedgedrive, knitmom left out yarn and knitting needles for us this morning if we needed to keep ourselves occupied. I bet she’s taking her own good advice!</p>
<p>I went to the post office. A school from which Son received a thin envelope with an acceptance on Saturday now had the thick envelope arrive. The mail won’t come to the house mailbox for several more hours. Hopefully, some FA info will come.</p>
<p>Thank you owlice for taking such good care of us!</p>
<p>no, spring break is over. it’s 10:36 PM here, we are in for a fairly long night before a day of school and work tomorrow!</p>
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<p>The memory’s the first thing to go. Apologies, Bethievt. That’s what I get for not rereading the thread b4 posting. The 1st Aid kit’s much appreciated. Hope it contains Excedrin migraine!</p>
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<p>I cannot be more eloquent, and therefore quote CountingDown’s cogent analysis: </p>
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<p>Please read: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/484160-admission-bd-not-bfd.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/484160-admission-bd-not-bfd.html</a></p>