A CC Christmas Poem

Parents Forum
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<p>I'd like to encourage everyone to join me in a group project.</p>

<p>Let's redo Twas the Night Before Christmas, College Confidential style.</p>

<p>I will get us started and hope you all will join in with additional verses . . . . . . It should be fun.</p>

<p>Here we go:</p>

<p>Twas The Night Before Decisions</p>

<p>Twas the night before Decisions, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The passwords laid out by the computer with care,
In hopes that Acceptances soon would be there.</p>

<p>The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
Except for DD who sat wide-eyed with dread.
And mamma did ramble and I too did yap,
Of how tired we were of all this college search crap . . . . .</p>

<p>Who is next?</p>

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<p>While down in the kitchen lay each college folder.
The important dates highlighted, yellow and bolder.
I tried to assure DD she was in
To her top-choice selection - in Fall she’d begin.</p>

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<p>Don’t mean to hijack the thread, but about 2 yrs ago there was a cc takeoff of “The 12 Days of Christmas” written in the SA thread. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/62644-sinners-alley-happy-hour-230.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/62644-sinners-alley-happy-hour-230.html&lt;/a&gt; Start reading around post# 9170. It was a riot.</p>

<p>OK back to your regularly scheduled Christmas poem.</p>

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<p>the tuition, room and board and all of the costs,
our heads are spinning, we’re all at a loss,
is it on merit, or FA we’ll have to rely,
will it mean…kiss the dream school goodbye?</p>

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<p>Twas The Night Before Decisions</p>

<p>Twas the night before Decisions, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The passwords laid out by the computer with care,
In hopes that Acceptances soon would be there.</p>

<p>The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
Except for DD who sat wide-eyed with dread.
And mamma did ramble and I too did yap,
Of how tired we were of all this college search crap . . . . .</p>

<p>While down in the kitchen lay each college folder.
The important dates highlighted, yellow and bolder.
I tried to assure DD she was in
To her top-choice selection - in Fall she’d begin.</p>

<p>the tuition, room and board and all of the costs,
our heads are spinning, we’re all at a loss,
is it on merit, or FA we’ll have to rely,
will it mean…kiss the dream school goodbye?</p>

<p>With so much at stake and so much to ponder,
I knew tomorrow would be faced with eye-wide wonder.
The wait till 5 o’clock could not cause much more pain…
Will it be joy or tears when they pull up their names…</p>

<p>Accepted to Harvard! Deferred from Brown! Rejected from Princeton? The admits are clowns!</p>

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<p>More rapid than eagles the decisions they came
And kids started shouting and called them by name:</p>

<p>“Now Brandeis, now Kenyon, now Colgate, now UPenn
On WashU, on Colby, on Bowdoin, on Princeton”</p>

<p>From the top of the ranks to the top of hall
Sign away! Sign away! Now there’s no money at all !</p>