<p>Just thought I’d drop off some Alka Seltzer - after all the food in this thread, I think you’ll need it.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all your students and good luck with “decision month”!</p>
<p>We’re done. In at Harvey Mudd, rejected at Cornell and Harvard. He finds it hilarious. He is in at his four favorite schools on his list, three with merit money (waiting on $ from Mudd, but should happen once some paperwork is taken care of). He has NO bad choices. We are very happy, but more importantly, so is he.</p>
<p>Man, I need a recap; I’ve lost track (HA! As if I ever had it!) of whose kid is in where. </p>
<p>And a slice of cake. :-D</p>
<p>mythmom, I’m pretty sure I know what that note said and who it’s from, and what’s going to happen when you get to where that note tells you to go. </p>
<p>Oh, rats! I wasn’t supposed to say anything! Placido swore me to secrecy!</p>
<p>fireflyscout, thanks for the AlkaSeltzer!</p>
<p>mythmom, I sang for Mr. Domingo once; the president (the previous guy) was there, too. Yes, I was on stage at the Kennedy Center Opera House, singing to them! It was even filmed for television (I forgot to watch it on TV, however).</p>
<p>Of course, I had about a thousand people singing with me, but if I leave that part out, is it an okay story? :D</p>
<p>LOL owlice. I had told a story about me getting the 2nd place in a 400meter race. Of course I left out the fact that there were only three people running that day.</p>
<p>PS on my three drinks now.</p>
<p>Dad II, congrats on the 2nd place in the 400 meter race!! Making me laugh here!!</p>
<p>Dad II </p>
<p>I’m sure they are small drinks. I hope everyone here feels welcomed and comforted. I worried so much last year through my son’s acceptances that I just had to hang with you all this year–and what a pleasure it was. Mythmom joked about gaining weight from the delicious food descriptions, but ha,ha they’re only virtual pounds…I think.</p>
<p>Hey, Dad II, want to win first place in a 400-meter? Meet me outside in 10 minutes!</p>
<p>After celebrating this afternoon, son went right to work and got that homework done. I wish I had his discipline!</p>
<p>No senioritis for him, hmmm, 2blue? (Good for him!)</p>
<p>He’s got it, but is successfully fighting it off.</p>
<p>Can’t believe I missed all of this; What a day to have back-to-back appointments all afternoon…</p>
<p>D1 called screaming that she was accepted at Vanderbilt…so happy and then totally shocked when USC was right behind it…Open it up!!! Spring Admit to Annenberg…still not sure at almost 10 pm what to think…Believe it or not, we are not done!!! Emory has us hanging out until tomorrow night…We already cannot figure out how to re-visit top schools by May 1…</p>
<p>I guess we could have worst problems…Congrats to everyone!</p>
<p>I suggest having Robert Pinsky jump out of Mythmom’s cake. Not only is he a top-notch teacher, superb scholar, and excellent poet–and quite possibly the best poet laureate ever–but when I was at Wellesley and he was my professor, he was a major babe!</p>
<p>He can still jump out of my cake anytime! :)</p>
<p>Congrats Rodney, 2blue, cgarrett, Citymom, Consolation & all others w/happy news! Happy belated B’day Mythmom, LOL @ Dad II, and <em>glowering</em> around the room 'cause there’re only crumbs left on that cake plate!</p>
<p>I take a little time off to come home from the office and cook dinner and find FOUR more pages on this thread! Phew! You guys have been busy! Oh well, it’s 10p here, so after much celebrating and carousing at the Aint-Super-household ('cause it’s all over), it’s time to sweep up the floor & turn out the lights. Night all!</p>
<p>Consolation, he’s 67; how far is he going to have to jump?! :)</p>
<p>Consolation: Sure. Sounds way cool. </p>
<p>Our boys seem to have (or had) similar choices. David was accepted at UofC, Brown, Williams but rejected at Dartmouth where he briefly wanted to go. He loves Williams, but UofC was a close runner=up.</p>
<p>Only crumbs?!! SuperMom, you missed that whole platter (table) of cake over there! ----------></p>
<p>May I join the vigil? It’s late in the game, in fact it sounds like the party is over, but I am just sitting here stunned, frozen in shock and dismay. I thought I had dealt with my daughter’s various and inexplicable disappointments. But now she has come home from school with a whole host of stories of friends and classmates who were accepted to the schools at which she was waitlisted/rejected. The ones that hurt the most are the acceptances to my alma mater (NU) where my daughter was waitlisted. One boy was accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and UChicago. OK, he is an academic superstar, no surprise there. But some of the other have left me cold. Stunned. I am truly around the bend in disbelief.</p>
<p>:: pours je<em>ne</em>sais_quoi a drink ::</p>
<p>Mountains, sorry about Brown. But kudos to your S for taking it with some humor. </p>
<p>I talked to D about Bates and said if she thought she wanted to stay on the waitlist, that was fine with me, but she said no, she’s ‘over it’ and doesn’t want to be waiting around until July … she said she loves the four she’s picking from, and that choice is hard enough.</p>
<p>So I think the kids really do have a pretty good outlook… what is S leaning towards at this point, or is he still weighing over several?</p>