What does your son say he wants?
Good for you, Nurse B. You only go around once.
My son asked me to get him a sweatshirt of the school that he attends and to invite his good friends. He is more excited about a graduation party. lol.
Also… Electronic notifications on portals come in early morning, depending on where you live.
Portals open at different times. L’ville and Peddie are 9 AM, M’burg is midnight, Groton and Andover are 5 PM, for example.
For the party, there doesn’t even need to be a big deal about going out. Personally, I think a night in spending time with family and friends and maybe having his favorite food would be a nice way to celebrate. Best wishes to your son, and hopefully he’ll have a reason to be celebrating! 
I can’t think of any celebration that would come near to matching my elation over getting an acceptance.
Unless it involved you-know-who 
@HistoryGeek40
Thanks @Napper
That helps. Peddie and Mburg are on our list.
You’d have to order the tee shirts and stickers now, right?
I’d be afraid of angering some god of admissions by being presumptious. I know, that seems ridiculous. But if the acceptance letter doesn’t come, you’d bitterly toss them in the trash?
I wouldn’t order anything until M10. The party of course would be after that. In the event that I check my email and receive good news I would order a shirt or something. If not, no ordering.
Unless your son is applying to only one school as FP, you may well have several decisions to make after March 10. I suggest you consider reframing your party to celebrate his commitment to joining one particular school’s community, rather than cheering him for collecting acceptances. This process is a mutual rite - an offer, possibly multiple offers but only one acceptance. Receiving the offer(s) is just one part. It’s the acceptance that is the crowning event. Assuming your son is one of the happy few who is offered a place or several places, you have until April 10 to decide upon which school and to put your deposit down to hold his place. That’s the best time to celebrate. At least, that’s how we do it.
This is the OP:
"Does anyone have any cool ideas on how to share the good news with my son when he gets accepted (fingers crossed)?
I was thinking of inviting his friends over and sharing the good news in front of everyone. I’m super excited. My friend said that she would bake a logo cake for him."
So, it’s asking for ideas about celebrating (assuming all goes well).
Even if the OP is absolutely certain of her son’s acceptance (and I’m sure some situations make that possible), she can’t be certain of how her adolescent son will react to the news or to hearing it in front of other people. So I would suggest postponing the celebration until she is sure he will appreciate it… or until 8th grade graduation as a celebration of the transition. By then she will know where he is going and can load up on school memorabilia and decorations without qualms. But I’m terrible at celebrating, so my point of view may be useless.
@nurseb430 and @ongoingcaralarm Here is my confession: I ordered the shirts already. I threw the box away and hid them in my room. Will toss them immediately if its not good news. I felt when doing it that I was inviting some super bad karma but I could not resist. I am not that superstitious and I am going to dress the siblings up to deliver the good news if and when it comes.
I think it’s great and it will be so fun. After I read this thread, I did look into ordering a sweatshirt to have on hand, but, I am just too superstitious.
And my son, man! He asked us to keep his news (good, bad or indifferent) to ourselves and not tell anyone at all. I’m petty. But we are going to a fundraiser on the evening of the 12th and I know where the kids are going to school will be a topic of conversation (as it is every year). What about me? when do I get to brag?
(I’m pinning my hopes on my daughter.)
When they graduate.
Eh, graduating high school doesn’t seem as brag worthy somehow.
More kids are accepted than graduate… That diploma weighs a lot more than that acceptance letter.
Ain’t that the truth, @choatiemom.
I also have to say that I am way too superstitious to buy anything before it is all said and done. The universe seems to penalize me when I do such a thing. We didn’t buy anything until we sent the deposit check - I figured we were “locked in” at that point!