<p>If you keep up with the main 2011 Decisions thread, you’ll know that my D was admitted to some fine schools but was rejected at Choate.</p>
<p>Her younger sister, upon hearing this news, remarked “That’s okay, Choate had terrible pudding.”</p>
<p>Have any fun/funny “we didn’t like that school anyway” stories? Post 'em here. Note that I mean for this to be 100% lighthearted…</p>
<p>Hmm… wish I had something amusing to say. We loved Loomis and son got rejected so we can only say “they missed a great kid”…</p>
<p>Okay - I’ll stick with the cheeky spirit of the thread.</p>
<p>To a certain HADES campus - I am eternally grateful you rejected my D because – as a result – she found her perfect match and is thriving. While you were cutting back on bagels and juice they were hiring an award winning chef. So my stomach thanks you for that rejection too - especially on parent weekends. Last month we feasted on Alaskan salmon and prime rib - yum! :-)</p>
<p>LOL…“Terrible pudding”…I love kids’ connections.</p>
<p>LOL. My D didn’t like SPS because there was no ATT cell phone coverage on campus and her IPhone would be useless (obviously pre-verizon iPhones).</p>
<p>My sister told me that, when I was rejected to a school, she said, “You could practically teach those classes at XXX! Besides, their iPod Touch’s weren’t working” :)</p>
<p>A mutant blue gorilla is a stupid mascot. (Which, by the way, is not a very “nice” thing to say. :p. )</p>
<p>Agreed Neato - not very “andoverish”! What is the history?</p>
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<p>ROFL. Must have taken some imagination to come up with it. :D</p>
<p>I gotta say lion rampant not so great either…???</p>
<p>A lion is a great symbol. Have you seen blue gorillas even on your Africa/ serengeti trips? :D</p>
<p>A ferocious lion on a chain - trained to attack. It comes from the Phillips coat of arms, btw. Whose coat of arms was a blue gorilla on? The less fortunate branch of the Phillips family?</p>
<p>This is all in good fun - in case anyone has forgotten the title of the thread. ;)1</p>
<p>And what is the deal about a red Rhino as a mascot for Taft?</p>
<p>agree on blue gorilla, whose foolish idea was that?</p>
<p>but I guess I had trouble not so much with the lion, but the rampant lion…hard to get the costume right…</p>
<p>My favorite is the zebra. It’s just such a silly animal, like a garish horse, and not exactly a threatening foe.</p>
<p>Someone I know referred to Suffield Academy as “Sufficate Academy” upon receipt of a wl letter.</p>
<p>(she was still in the anger stage).
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<p>Well I never liked the name Phillip associated with anything. You know, phillips milk of magnesia, phillips head screw driver. What others did I miss?</p>
<p>how about a “phillips I’m still waiting for a 2002 return phone call from the ad officer who wanted to know of my D ‘What would it take for you to choose Andover?’” </p>
<p>or how about, “Thank you, Choate, for forgetting about us in your crowded waiting room FOR OVER AN HOUR” It was helpful to have an early indication that you could just as easily forget about my 14 year old on campus! (ok, so she did apply and was rejected, but still, can’t we be happy that you rejected her, post-rejection, ten years later because we’re still angry that you did? 
That feels good even now!</p>
<p>Ii omitted the part of the story where Andover rejected my daughter after asking her that question during her interview. :)</p>
<p>Permit me one more post: you’d think my sour grapes would have turned to wine by now, but they’re still whine! ;)</p>