<p>lextalionis, I’m glad you came out of the woodwork and joined us! acme and all others still waiting on decisions, let us know how it goes. (And how could they make you wait another day!)</p>
<p>We’re still on vigil status here. No FA offers showed up today.</p>
<p>Lextalionis - So glad to have you here. Like you, we had a tough mail reading session yesterday and then DS calculated how the school he will be attending is heads and tails above the others…and I felt better after a glass of wine and a few hrs sleep.</p>
<p>KIT-KAT – My fingers are crossed for you and Emory and FA wherever you need it. Your DS sounds like a great kid. I hope he joins mine at the same school so we can start a parent forum for that school 
'cause you seem like a really cool lady!!</p>
<p>OWLICE – wow, what kind of whiskey WAS that last night??? I barely remember all my tears past the memories of that the hunky fireman :0) who jumped out of MythMom’s cake! When’s the next party!!</p>
<p>Our mail came with an acceptance, so for us the vigil ends at 7 p.m. when the final decision is supposed to be posted online. </p>
<p>I hope everyone still waiting gets good news soon. Any good news (results, FA offers, anything) that comes trickling in after last night’s storm will be very welcome.</p>
<p>university1, it was a house special. 
And the next party is May 1!</p>
<p>Not that we can’t have some goodies between now and then, however…</p>
<p>It’s almost tea time! High tea, as in (as Miss Manners puts it) “It’s high time we had something to eat!” The buffet table is laid and tea is brewing.</p>
<p>I also like the hurricane metaphor. To extend: After all the spoiled food from three days without electricity is thrown out, the twigs and branches cleaned up and the power back on things will look better.</p>
<p>And speaking of hurricanes, I can’t without a shout out to my students who were enrolled at Tulane the semester of Katrina. Several of these frosh found their way into my community college classes (on challenging class on psychoanalysis and lit) and they made the best of it.</p>
<p>They had to pay for the semester if they wanted to return as sophs and several did out of a humanitarian desire to help. </p>
<p>It makes me feel inspired to remember them and humbled by what New Orleans faced.</p>
<p>Who jumped out of my cake? I’ll never tell. H was very gracious when I brought him home. Of course he stayed in the guest room.</p>
<p>Nceph-- congrats on the latest acceptance and good luck at 7 PM.
Kitkat-- good luck with Emory tonight.</p>
<p>Wonder how we’ll all spend our free time when this is finally laid to rest!</p>
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<p>When Isabella came through, I lost power almost immediately, before the storm really hit, so I drove S to his dad’s house (in the wind and rain), which did have power. I stopped at 7-11 on the way home to pick up something warm for dinner. You think I thought to buy ice? Nooooooo!!! Of course the 7-11 lost power later, as did everything else, and I spent the entire next day looking for someplace, ANYplace, that had ice! Couldn’t be found. </p>
<p>Power was out for a week, which was actually okay except for everything in the refrig. And had I had the presence of mind (read: brains) to buy ice, I could have saved the stuff in the freezer and had a grand barbeque for the neighbors!</p>
<p>Yeah. I also fed my parking meter on 9/11. As if a meter maid was going to come around that day and give me a ticket…</p>
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mythmom, DS was one of those Tulane diaspora students, who spent that semester as visiting students at colleges and universities all over the country. To be fair, though, while they paid Tulane for that term… that payment was honored at most (all?) of the visiting institutions who could do so. It was complicated at some public institutions, but I believe all privates honored it and enrolled the Tulane/Loyola/Xavier… students on their campuses at no charge.</p>
<p>:: puts out an APB on knitmom ::</p>
<p>To je<em>ne</em>sais_quoi - I want to congratulate you on your daughter’s acceptance to Smith. There are 2 Smithie dads who have been longstanding CC posters, and they could not possibly be happier with the outcomes. Smith seems to be an amazing college. (Either that, or they have truly amazing daughters!) I know that your d. has at least one other excellent college option as well, so she has some good choices. </p>
<p>I know that rejection hurts, but I know that I went through this process two years ago with a que sera sera attitude… and I would have been as happy with sending my daughter to her safety as to her biggest reach. (My wallet would have been even happier with the safety). </p>
<p>My d. is one who did not follow standard advice – she opted for a different path instead of a slew of APs, and her college apps revealed a couple of very special strengths and several glaring weaknesses. But her “reach” is not much different than your d’s “match/safety” … she is at Barnard and I don’t see that as all that much different in terms of outcome than any of the other 7 sister colleges. The main difference is that without the “perfect” high school resume, AP’s or test scores, she ended up setting more realistic goals for herself. (I’m sure that she, too, could have been rejected by more Ivy League colleges, if only she had applied to them). </p>
<p>So yes… please come here to vent or to seek support … but please also let your d. know how proud and enthused you are over the colleges that have admitted her. They are excellent schools, and they will welcome your d. with open arms.</p>
<p>Lots of sadness at S’ high school today with devastating Ivy decisions. I didn’t dare ask if the girls felt shortchanged. I’ve stopped second guessing; I just get more stressed. S is perfectly fine, so I am fine. </p>
<p>This is such a tough time for everyone. Hang in there, it will truly be okay in the end. I am so grateful that those that came before us are here to support us. Let that fireman jump out of the cake again!</p>
<p>jmmom: Thanks for the info. I have no idea whether or not my school honored the payment – probably.</p>
<p>I have tremendous respect for the adaptability of students like your son. I remember, I think, that he spent the semester at Bates and then changed schools because he wanted a new major. Is that correct?</p>
<p>No, jmmom’s son went back to Tulane, delighted to return … and then Tulane stopped offering his major. So it was Tulane, not jmmom’s wonderfully resilient and resourceful son, that changed.</p>
<p>Just want to let everyone know that FA package from Stanford is really really good. I mean it is really that good that I would not have guessed it myself.</p>
<p>mythmom</p>
<p>I think jmmom’s S wanted the same major and it was discontinued at Tulane. Good lord–I don’t remember what I did last weekend and I think I remember what I read about the son of a stranger from the internet from last year!</p>
<p>cross posted with calmom</p>
<p>Dad II</p>
<p>I’m going to say it again–WE TOLD YOU SO!! Congratulations to your whole family–and try to relax with your DS!</p>
<p>Congratulations Dad II. It all worked out!</p>
<p>Congrats to DadII and to all who got just the outcomes they wanted.</p>
<p>To the others, since my son’s story has come up: things can twist, they can turn, hurricanes can blow, schools can retrench. Kids can end up at places totally other than they had planned. And it can still all be good.</p>
<p>There is no one school that is the only place for any kid. Our kids will usually lick their wounds and move on much faster than we, their parents, might do in our wanting only the best for them. (Ask anyone who babysat me in my Forced Transfer Vigil a few years back :eek:, while my son wondered why I was obsessing so).</p>
<p>Now, over to one of owlice’s many buffet stations - shall it be tea? make my own sundae?</p>
<h1>2 son got into Emory. No news on FA yet for Emory or CMU. It will be pretty much make or break decision. #1 and I were on the phone for an hour juggling numbers (#1 and I think the same way - we spent hours juggling HIS numbers too two years ago). Keep your fingers crossed for us. We don’t need full ride or anything crazy like that (although we can dream) - just SOMETHING!</h1>
<p>DadII, congratulations on your daughter’s acceptances and the generous FA from Stanford. I’m glad you’ve moved on (at least I hope you have given your options… they are to die for). However, I won’t be surprised if, like you’d been suggesting, Harvard’s decision was partly influenced by your extreme preoccupation with getting her admitted (as they whittled down a couple of thousand to the final few). Harvard wants to discourage that kind of unhealthy thinking.</p>