<p>OK, now I am finally joining you for the remaining of the evening. Less than 1 hour till the final decision. I give up on working or doing someting useful till the decisions are up. I will just spend all the remaining time WAITING in the vigil lounge with you.
[Comes in with a large cup of tea]</p>
<p>Tea sounds wonderful…just the thing.</p>
<p>Congrats on Stanford! (all our reaches are today)</p>
<p>DD was rejected 
Oh well. Her mind was pretty much made up with an excellent choice anyway.</p>
<p>I have to make dinner (ugh). Of all the nights, why didn’t I think of take-out? Maybe I can take out my angst on the chicken…</p>
<p>^^^ Yeah, pound it really hard!</p>
<p>Same Cage – you’re kidding right? The link’s still not active, here! (in the event that the link’s working where you are – regrets on your d’s results. but I have no doubt that like all the other kids on cc, she’s got lots of great colleges under her belt!).</p>
<p>Supermom:</p>
<p>Try the direct link at admits.yale.edu That’s how I got in following a suggestion by someone on the Yale board a few days ago. </p>
<p>Now I’m just sitting on CC avoiding calling DD, who is away on spring break and asked me to find out for her. :(</p>
<p>We had some problems and had to use another browser, but they are up.
If your problem is that the link for decisions seems to not be there,
reboot or start a different browser.</p>
<p>D didn’t get in. Sigh. Pton and UPenn yet to go. I did not expect Yale - she
has a small hook in pton and upenn (fencing coaches want her, but not at the top of their list). The Yale coach said “if you get in, come see me”.</p>
<p>She is accepted at Duke and Northwestern, so it can only get better.</p>
<p>Another 1/2 hour</p>
<p>BTW, I wish I were kidding, but from what is being posted over on the Yale board, maybe they’ve only put up the rejections so far. Everyone who has been able to access their decision has been rejected.</p>
<p>With a ten percent admit rate it would probably seem like that.</p>
<p>Someone just posted that, when taking out the 880 or so admitted EA, the admit rate is more like 5% or even less!</p>
<p>25 minutes to go, </p>
<p>I can’t breath</p>
<p>:: pops the champagne cork ::</p>
<p>EVERYONE gets champagne! </p>
<p>I know there are some disappointments, and that they hurt. But champagne is still in order, methinks, whether you want to cry into it for a little while because some of the news is not good (tissues are on the Vigil Lounge center table and on every end table; help yourselves), or whether you have good news to celebrate immediately. </p>
<p>Want to kick something? Southwest corner has the replica mailboxes, adcoms, and school logos. Bethievt has the first aid supplies, and knows how to use them!</p>
<p>Vent, laugh, cry!</p>
<p>And then celebrate the wonderful kids you have! Because they’re ALL wonderful!</p>
<p>owlice:</p>
<p>You are so wonderful! I’ve been lurking on this thread all along and just had to post when we got our sad news (still avoiding calling DD . . . I can justify it by thinking she’s not expecting a call until 5). I have a DD2 who is a freshman in high school and I am looking forward to making that second journey with you as a companion.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the good thoughts!</p>
<p>(You all know that when it’s my S’s turn, someone is going to have to knock me out for a few weeks, right? I might sometimes talk a good game, but my antiperspirant failed hours ago, and I don’t even know your kids! Except to know that they are all wonderful, of course, because they have such fabulous parents.)</p>
<p>(Yeah, I’ll bet you’re glad I’m not sitting next to you now, aren’t you?!)</p>
<p>Thanks, Same Cage! I promise I’ll try different antiperspirants between now and then to find something that stands up to stress better! :-D</p>
<p>Owlice:</p>
<p>If you’ll handle the catering on that vigil, too, I can put up with the sweet stench!</p>
<p>Dad II- your D already has wonderful, top tier choices!!! Take it easy…she has accomplished so much, be proud!!</p>
<p>owlice - I have a feeling a lot of us will still be here when it’s your turn. I’ll give you something to knock you out. :)</p>
<p>My house smells yummy with chicken simmering in balsamic vinegar and garlic, but the clock seems to have stalled…</p>