<p>everybody stop eating… You don’t have money for new clothes… you need the money for tuition…</p>
<p>timely- thanks the “at least we have it better than some usually does the trick”, and since my son’s state school is in Bufallo (so very,very cold) I’ve been sharing info about their ski club. I’m definately trying to remain optomistic.</p>
<p>I have been obsessing for about a month now. Once we entered March, the time going by could not go fast enough. Funny, but my S has never really shown any anxiety at all until yesterday. I was very happy that he was not stressing the accept/reject/waitlist issue and actually had made comments that he was going to wait until all of his letters were in and have a letter opening party. That idea is now gone, he told me yesterday for the first time that he is ready to know now and whats to get it over with. He starts his spring break on Monday of next week and hates the idea that he will have to spend an additional week before he can tell his teachers. </p>
<p>So now I have gone from the internally stressing parent to the comforting, patient, "its all going to be alright, lets go out and do something parent. But I still lurk on all the forums for my S’ applications to see if there is any word out on notifications. I keep telling myself, one more week, thats all. Then, we will know and make the necessary arrangements for visits, FA, deposits, etc.</p>
<p>The worse part is that my W is oblivious to all this. Maybe because there are too many other things to worry about or because she is very content with our S’ EA acceptance that as far as she is concerned there is no need to look anywhere else. I expect that CC will be extremely busy over the next 7 days as most parents and many students will be using this avenue to try to relieve some of the stress (I do not see how that is possible). I know that I will be checking several times a day for anything new.</p>
<p>Goos luck to all students and parents. Our little ones have grown up and they are leaving the nest. Luckily, I have two more that I get to do this with all over again in the next couple of years. Of course, I will have CC to help guide and reassure me that all is OK.</p>
<p>Bourbon will be available at 4 PM for those who missed the brownies.</p>
<p>:: heads to the kitchen to wash the shot glasses ::</p>
<p>4 is a little early for me, but I’ll catch you all at the end of happy hour.</p>
<p>My youngest D promised to make a chocolate cake this afternoon. I’ll eat an extra piece for the CC parents.</p>
<p>Rodney, the weasther is no excuse. I live in VT, where it’s <em>warmed up</em> to a toasty 26 degrees!</p>
<p>ok so i could use some help, other than brownies and bourbon, which sound good…we are still waiting for some responses, but my s just got an acceptance, that he wasn’t expecting, from an excellent state school ( public ivy). we live overseas, and although we went to see it 2 years ago, he never really did a lot of research on it, because he never though he would get in…and we have family who teach there. BUT it is quiet, almost rural, and he is much a city kid, loves Boston…how does he make that kind of decision from here? we are quite bewildered!! his first choice and this school are very comparable academically, size, but location and money are the two factors that are opposite for each school? Any suggestions? sorry for the long rant…</p>
<p>Get on the internet and start looking at the website, check CC threads, read magazine articles and talk to family that teaches there. I am sure your S did some due diligence before applying or was it just because of family. How well does family there know your S? Perhaps they could give him some insight. Also, is it out of the question for him to visit there and stay w/family when decision time rolls around. Some schools actually will offer travel vouchers to help alleviate the costs to attend “admitted student” days, could he put two visits together as one?</p>
<p>expatme: I guess your family will have to weigh the relative importance of location vs. affordability in your own equation. If you posted your schools maybe we could be of more help.</p>
<p>Consolation: congrats on all your fat envelopes. I think you have a target audience for your confections!</p>
<p>I just came home from work to find my s jumping up and down with an acceptance and 25K scholarship to Brandeis—seeing him feeling excited and proud was priceless</p>
<p>mythmom: s got accepted to william and mary, and his first choice is tufts which is still up in the air for another week. He has been accepted to northeastern, which he has been willing to go to in case of a tufts doesn’t come through, but now it is a little harder, the quality of w and m vs. northeastern?
atg: we live overseas, no way there is any visiting going on!
and yes he has contacted family, although they are not very close, we have been on the website, ultimately he will have to choose, i know…not the worst situation to be in but i am just not sure i have any parental advice for this …maybe just as well.</p>
<p>expatme…good luck to your S. I hope that whatever decision is made that he enjoys and is successful. He seems to have some good choices.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who received good news today; hugs to everyone who got less than good, or almost worse, NO news today! We are among the latter. (Consolation, when I read your post about two fat envelopes, I was very close to driving home to check the mailbox! I did manage to restrain myself, and as it turns out, it would have been a wasted trip anyway.)</p>
<p>(ambles in Vigil lounge…did someone mention shot glasses?..)
nothing in the mail today. And then I had an awful thought that put chills down my spine…if I feel this bad just because nothing came in the mail, what happens when something does come, and it’s not good?<br>
congrats to those who did get good news! (now, any brownies left?)</p>
<p>Nothing in the mail for us as well. Although we didn’t expect any decisions right now. But I learned at CC (my major source lately) that one of the schools mailed the first large batch of decisions today.
So will be checking mail tomorrow.</p>
<p>Thanks for the brownies, owlice, but especially for the bourbon.</p>
<p>And lindz, the cookies hit the spot.</p>
<p>Consolation ! You are holding out on us - pass the confections quick! (and congrats!)</p>
<p>I did go for a walk, helped a little.</p>
<p>Here’s some background music: [YouTube</a> - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - The Waiting](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLCJEYLIBQY]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLCJEYLIBQY)</p>
<p>expatme: If finances are not an issue, then he can make this decision. Northeastern is a very urban school and not really a liberal arts college. He might actually like William and Mary better.</p>
<p>Keep us posted.</p>
<p>expatme- I don’t know if you have much sway in the matter, but you might want to give quite a bit of weight to the ‘family in the area’ choice. Logistics are tricky when you live overseas.</p>
<p>It has been a huge relief knowing that our S’s college is 30 minutes from close friends, and just an hour away from family. They have been a tremendous help in helping him get to the airport, giving him a place to stay when the dorm closes for school breaks, thanksgiving, etc.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I could have left him in a city where he had no support system.</p>
<p>Yesterday I went to the post office (and had to keep letting up on the gas because I was speeding), opened the box, and D had THREE fat envelopes, and I started to cry. How pathetic is that? One of them was from a school that had seemed very interested in her, but I’ve heard stories of people who felt that their kids were being ‘recruited’ pretty heavily and then got rejected, so I think seeing that one was what pushed me over the edge. </p>
<p>So she’s applied to eight, heard from six, and got accepted at six. Still waiting on the two, and then the number-crunching and more ephemeral decision making begins (“mom, have you SEEN their uniforms? I can’t go there!”)</p>
<p>Boy, am I envious, jude_36! How wonderful for your D–and you! We have only heard from one, which we were quite confident about, and all the ones that are making us crazy are still hanging out there.</p>
<p>Just one thing: uniforms?? athletic or band? Just wondering . . .</p>
<p>::leaves plate of peanut butter cookies on table::</p>
<p>Gotta keep up our strength!</p>
<p>Hi gals – Yeah, I know you don’t want it, but I am leaving some grapes and vitamin water. As an old timer, there is life after admissions, so I am providing some real nourishment, and along with those grapes, how about a plate of grape leaves?</p>
<p>S is a frosh. I can’t believe it was just a year ago that we went through this. And I hadn’t found CC yet and thought I was an alien creature. Everyone else seemed to handling things so well.</p>
<p>He is happy at the school that he chose that chose him; all is well, and it feels like a million years ago.</p>
<p>Courage ladies. This too shall pass. I promise. All too soon you’ll be sad because your kids don’t call enough!</p>
<p>And my D has been in London this semester. Wah! Beulah, peel me a grape.</p>