<p>don’t know if this is the right place. </p>
<p>DD is now 4 for 4. We have our fingers crossed wishing for the good luck to continue.</p>
<p>mountains, you can have the Tagalongs if you will leave the Thin Mints to me. </p>
<p>kitkat, “(LITTLE UNGRATEFUL TURD!)” made me lol; thanks for that!!</p>
<p>I posted on a similar thread that some of the students have going over on the College Admissions board; H and I were talking last night, and neither one of us can remember how many schools we applied to. I honestly don’t remember applying to more than one, but surely I must have. (Right? Or did I?! Transfers, yes, I remember those, but my initial college apps? Don’t remember.) H knows he applied to at least two, because he went to one and wishes he’d have been able, financially, to go to the other, but others? He doesn’t remember. He knows he applied to two grad schools, too, but doesn’t remember how many others he might have applied to.</p>
<p>So… how many of you know 1.) how many schools you applied to, and 2.) which schools?</p>
<p>(Did the diversion work? Are you thinking of something besides jumping the mail carrier?)</p>
<p>(Probably not!)</p>
<p>Dad II, congratulations to your daughter, I’m sure the community would be glad to hear your news in the stickied Acceptance thread.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/392652-class-2012-master-list-acceptances.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/392652-class-2012-master-list-acceptances.html</a></p>
<p>See, DadII, we told 'ya 
Congrats! Let us know when she is 8 for 8 (was it 8 or 9?).</p>
<p>My D is 4 for 4, but still wants to hear from the other 4. Nothing in the mail today. Snooping on the Scripps and Wellesley forums revealed that they have been mailing their stuff today. In two days, she’ll know. My major complaint is that some colleges cut it too close to the deadlines for their open house registrations, and planning travel on such short notices becomes a logistics nightmare! I keep reserving tickets for D and cancelling them since Alaska only lets me hold them for 24 hrs.</p>
<p>I’m finding myself dreaming about the $$$ (the lack thereof, the loans, what will happen to my health if I return to work, wondering what will happen if I don’t…). </p>
<p>S has heard from four of his seven; three acceptances and a waitlist (which he declined). Nominally, we are waiting on three more schools. In reality, it’s the dark horse in this race that we’re waiting on…and they don’t email/have online access to decisions. It’s the first school he fell in love with. It’s across the country. He’d need to visit. And they said they’d mail by April 1st. </p>
<p>He made a list of schools he loved. It will be hard to say good-bye to what might have been at some of them. Some will be MUCH harder than others. Makes me cry just to type this, even though I know any one of his top three will be a fabulous experience academically and socially.</p>
<p>How to deal with the attendance office, who strictly enforces the “three days for college visits” rule, is a BIG stressor. He’s already used two of the three, and has missed a week this semester for an excused academic purpose. I can see them being a real pain about this.</p>
<p>This year’s results make me scared for my younger son. Brutal, brutal decisions around here.</p>
<p>Am going to bring out my container of hamentaschen. Apple, cherry, apricot, lemon and prune!</p>
<p>owlice- I applied to two. A small LAC and two Cal-states, I think.</p>
<p>CountingDown: I had that sadness even for the schools my kids got into but didn’t choose to attend. We need to be made of sterner stuff. Well, me primarily. I’m sure you’re fine.</p>
<p>And happy Purim.</p>
<p>mythmom</p>
<p>I can relate. I felt really sad about the schools my son had to leave behind. It sounds silly, but we courted these schools for so long and then had this teensy window where we had to arrange last looks and then my son had a day or two to make a final decision. I think he was doing a lot of internal work on this, so it may not have felt as sudden to him. Fortunately his hs set no limits on how much time he could take for visits–that would have been really stressful!</p>
<p>Nervous today - D got an e-mail from George Washington that decisions will be online at 5 PM. So far she has only heard from 2 of her 7 schools (accepted to the bottom 2 on her list, of course) but GWU is higher up on that list, and with Georgetown so competitive, this may be her best Wash DC opportunity.</p>
<p>I only applied to one college, was accepted, and was done. A lot of kids at D’s school still do it that way.</p>
<p>Congrats Dad2!</p>
<p>Well - last night’s Duke rejection was a mixed blessing - #2 son never wanted to go there - but his dad was pushing it hard. #2 Son now realizes, however, that if Duke rejected him, there is a good chance Emory will too. #1 son and I suspect that Emory is the top choice.</p>
<p>So…we are now waiting to hear yes or no from UM (can’t swim there) and Emory. Waiting on financial aid and official acceptances from CMU and Univ. Rochester. (has heard verbally from coaches that he is in). Waiting to talk to coaches from Pitt and Clemson (both honors programs, nice merit money - don’t care about financial aid money in these cases). I HATE WAITING!</p>
<p>Oh I applied to two schools - Miami in Ohio and Wittenberg at the last minute - the overnight trip to Witt blew me away I had a great time and that is where I went. I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up, and my dad had told me I needed to stay in state unless I could come up with a justifiable reason to go out of state. Later he told me a valid reason would have been “because I want to”. Hahahaha!</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you for making this process a little more fun… “I’m in purgatory” made me laugh out loud, really.</p>
<p>As for colleges, I think I applied to four. In my memory, I applied to the University of New Hampshire, Wells College, Kenyon College and either Clemson or Clarkson. Also in my memory, I got accepted at all four. Of course, I don’t have the letters so I could be making all of this up, because somewhere in the back of my mind is the idea that I applied to two women’s colleges and two coed colleges, but Clemson and Clarkson are both coed, right?..</p>
<p>Yet I can recite D’s choices alpabetically, alphabetically by state, by tuition cost, by distance from home…</p>
<p>I love hamentaschen. I’ll take prune! When I was little, my grandmother had a Hungarian neighbor who used to make pastries with prune filling (and apricot, yum). I’ve had a lifelong love of prune as a result.</p>
<p>When we started this process, my son’s then-GC identified two wonderful, highly selective schools as “safeties” for S. (I still think he really meant “matches,” but I do have the photocopied page from Ruff’s with an “S” next to those names.) I think this colored my S’s view of the whole thing, and he just would not become interested in any slamdunk safeties. He had only one “safety” on his list, and it was NOT that safe. I was so terrified that my S would be Andison II, as many people warned me might happen, that I made him apply to two more schools at the last minute. Both were highly selective, so what good it would do I don’t know, but they were both very suitable for him and it just seemed as if it would increase his chances in the “lottery.” </p>
<p>Now he’s heard from 3 schools, and been accepted at all of them. Which ones? The “un-safety” I found, and the two schools identified by the GC! Even if he’s rejected by the rest of the schools on his list, he has great choices.</p>
<p>Hindsight is 20/20, but I’m now wondering about the realism of our fear levels. (Of course, we’ll never know how close the decision between acceptance and rejection was…and many superb candidates have experienced the flip side of the coin toss.)</p>
<p>The stats of some of the Duke rejectees were amazing. Absolutely phenomenal. It really makes you wonder how they get into the schools that do accept them! It was an eye opener for #2. </p>
<p>Our GC is worthless - absolutely no direction whatsoever is provided for kids in our school system. Just a pat on the back, good job and good luck.</p>
<p>My D had the good fortune of being accepted into a summer program at a private school last year. THEIR college admissions guidance counselor helped her narrow down her choices. She started with a list of around 20 schools, narrowed it down to 12, then 10, then 8. I think the GC looked at the 8 as two safeties, two matches, two slight reach, and two reach. Although as consolation noted, my D has been accepted at schools that were identified as reach schools by the GC. Still waiting to hear from two.</p>
<p>KitKat – your son is looking at Pitt? Have you visited? We are from the Southwest, so Pitt will be a real culture shock (read that FREEZING), but my S visited last summer and really liked it. We are on our way tomorrow to see it together… have a Pens game to go to also. </p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>I remember I applied from an East Coast HS to at least 6 schools, waitlisted at 2, accepted to 4 and picked the one with the best football team closest to the beach (USC) which also had the best financial package. Nowadays, the competition is FIERCE and the money is being spread thin. What I don’t remember is the panic/purgatory of the MAILBOX MOMENT that I am going through now. </p>
<p>I guess this will all end by mid-April (?) and then we’ll find something else to obsess about, right!!! :O)</p>
<p>Yep #2 is looking at both Pitt and CMU. I think we will go to next weekends’ visits for one final look-see. He got into honors program, and into the b-school - a big deciding factor for him though will be whether he can do a walk-on on the swim team. It is a very nice school - perhaps a bit urban for my taste but I went to a small school. It has some great programs. Alot too will depend on if there is money from CMU. </p>
<p>Let me know how the visit goes. What isyour son going into???</p>
<p>If I had seen this vigil thread a month ago, I might not have gone into the hibernation I did. As it was, about a month ago, I decided the stress of reading CC was too much for me, so I decided I wasn’t coming back unless or until my DS had another choice. He had been accepted to his safety back in January, but I didn’t think I could deal with reading about early writes and wondering why he wasn’t getting any or worrying whether he applied to the wrong schools. He finally got into another school yesterday evening and now officially has “a choice,” so I logged onto CC and noticed it had been exactly a month since I last read CC. I can so relate to the stress everyone here describes. Before my DS checked his decision online yesterday, he chastised me for stressing him out. He said the only thing that was stressing him was the way I was behaving. He’s always been more mature than I am.</p>
<p>Boy, do you miss alot when you sleep around here…</p>
<ol>
<li><p>I’ll take the prune hamentaschen (my husband ate the last one yesterday)</p></li>
<li><p>dadII: Never had any doubt this would be your d’s outcome</p></li>
</ol>
<p>3.kitkat: Re: Emory…not over till the fat lady sings…we are waiting for that one too!!</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Back in the dark ages, I applied to 2 schools: SUNY Binghamton and Franklin & Marshall…accepted to both: Parents said “debt or no debt?” I chose the latter; loved SUNY-B, took debt for Ivy MBA…</p></li>
<li><p>geezermom: I literally laughed out loud reading your post…we have two left as well with a super-reach also…I’m thinking we too may be done…</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Speaking of dreaming… I had a dream last night that D got the fat envelope from her dream school and she was reading about how they’re going to give her all this money, blah blah blah, and I was reading it over her shoulder and noticed that the letter had someone elses name on it. So I kept trying to interrupt her to tell her that it wasn’t for HER, and she just kept celebrating her good fortune.</p>
<p>Ugh.</p>
<p>Good morning, I am back. I would suggest that a freshly backed apple pie a la mode would be right for an early before lunch snack.
Abandoned the vigil yesterday for a brief celebration of DDs acceptance to Northwestern. The first one outside the safety/low-match range. Since fin. aid info is not yet available, our happy mood was not shadowed. Now I can start worrying about it.
Now DD has a “choice” - excellent school with most probably a HUGE debt or an affordable safety outside the “top 20” company.
Seven more schools to go. We expect two replies this week, but the last five should be next week. So I will stay with you till the very end.</p>