<p>Thank you, everyone, for your thoughts re: my son and Carnegie-Mellon. He spent some time looking at the acceptance info yesterday, and really responded to the spirit and whimsy of the material. He is definitely warming to the place. And a nice Trustee Scholarship from Rochester also boosted his spirits. Still waiting to hear from a few of the ivies. Brown is high on his list, but we were sobered learning that Brown (along with many other schools, it seems) received record applications. Curse those baby boomers!</p>
<p>jpartners,
If you son is admitted to SCS at CMU, have him take a look at the material the freshman advisor puts out. He encourages LOTS of student feedback, has some interesting PowerPoint presentations, teaches three intro sections, and seems like a very nice and accessible guy. (Pattis was also a CMU undergrad.) We are visiting next week (my son is a junior), but he was really impressed with the forthrightness of what he saw online. It was refreshingly UN-packaged.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Epattis/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pattis/</a>
Go to Freshman Advising for lots of good stuff.</p>
<p>Mstee - they finally took Twigonometry down last summer. It was rather droopy, but it was wrenching to see it go.</p>
<p>My son just got accepted to Vassar and Haverford!</p>
<p>Wow BethieVT, sounds like he has some incredible options...the next few weeks should be interesting! But so much better than the waiting weeks...</p>
<p>Bethvt, that's GREAT! Congratulations! Your S definitely has some wonderful choices.</p>
<p>Runnersmom, the waiting weeks are ghastly. Today, I even resorted to cleaning out underneath our bed, I was going <em>that</em> crazy. Yikes, I'm surprised the dust bunnies hadn't attacked us in the night; they were huge.</p>
<p>Yeah, I scrubbed all our kitchen cabinets...really!</p>
<p>Bethie: Congrats again. How on earth is he going to make a decision?</p>
<p>bethievt, ah, kitchen cabs, now there's an idea . . . especially since Ivies come out today. Of course, there's always the baseboards . . .</p>
<p>I've been lurking and these boards have been very educational. Big day for the ivies....I have to say I'm more uptight than my son. So far, he's been admitted to Michigan/LSA Honors, Wash U, BU, Miami (academic scholarship for half-tuition). Duke did not accept him yesterday. Also, waiting on Emory and Northwestern. Any opinions on Mich/LSA-Honors versus Wash U?</p>
<p>Oh, good luck to all of the anxious Ivy waiters!!!</p>
<p>mtldad</p>
<p>I'm much more uptight than my son too. Though I noticed he brought in the mail from the mailbox when he came home from school yesterday. He's never in his life before checked the mailbox. So the interest is there.</p>
<p>sly_vt </p>
<p>Thanks! It's going to be interesting to see how he does come up with a decision. I'll probably post a thread on it.</p>
<p>LOL....my son and I are incredibly close. For the first time, he has admitted to being nervous this afternoon. As well, he asked my wife and I to not come home until after he knows.....he wants to tell us as opposed to us being there and looking over his shoulder!</p>
<p>Oh my, after being rejected at MIT and Caltech I'd pretty much resigned myself that he'd be rejected from the two that are left. (Harvard and Stanford.) Carnegie Mellon looked like a great fit too. He may still decide to go there, but now he's got a hard choice since Harvard accepted him. I'm guessing being a legacy did give him a nudge there, but he's a pretty good candidate - we did think though that MIT was a better fit. Why didn't they think so? He seemed pleased, I think the first rejections were hard on him.</p>
<p>Congrats to all ivy-bound parents!</p>
<p>so princeton rejected me, and i'm not going to pretend i'm not heartbroken, because it was my first choice and i've been stupidly, intensely in love with it ever since i visited. but i got into dartmouth with pretty good financial aid...! so that's probably where i'm going. i was waitlisted by swarthmore and outright rejected by chicago, and i'm still waiting for decisions from amherst, williams, and macalester, but those all seem less important now.</p>
<p>i'm going to sound more excited about this later on, i promise. i'm just exhausted right now and i've only eaten one square of dark chocolate all day and i have to be sad about princeton first, before i can be happy about everything else. i will, though. it's just starting to sink in.</p>
<p>cameliasinensis: sorry to hear that, but you got Dartmouth. Congratulations. just don't get frozen in NH cold.</p>
<p>and do get a meal.</p>
<p>i wrote this in the "denied..." thread: "princeton rejected me. i got into dartmouth; i'm probably going there, and i'm really excited about that... but i still have to cry now, even though i knew this was probably going to happen. i've been happy, and i'm going to be happy later, but i need this moment to be heartbroken because i've put so much of myself into all this." i think that pretty much sums it up.</p>
<p>i haven't had any appetite today, but i do need to eat something. thank you so much, everyone... i appreciate it so incredibly much, i'm not sure i know how to express it properly.</p>
<p>Aww, cameliasinensis, I hate to see you heartbroken! Go get a nice dinner, or even just cozy bowl of cereal. It'll look better tomorrow, and Dartmouth will be great.</p>
<p>mathmom--interesting you would say that. D. was rejected from MIT, and I kind of wondered since she's got all the "soft" qualities they say they want, but it actually worked out as she had been having misgivings about attending a school with a bias toward technology when she is not sure that's what she wants to do. </p>
<p>Yet to hear from Stanford tomorrow, but I'd say the odds of her getting in there are slim--they get SO MANY west coast applicants and they've already taken two from her class EA. </p>
<p>I'm celebrating because we are in South Bend and I've been poking around the campus for a day and I have to say that for D. the whole crazy thing worked. She got into four schools total (she applied to six and we don't know about Stanford); the two that were not safeties both have a lot in common: midwestern, broad based excellence, with a reputation for developing clear thinkers, and with a lively social scene on campus. </p>
<p>I am impressed with what I've seen so far at ND--the students are grounded, hardworking, nicenicenice, and seem to genuinely care about learning without the intellectual pretentiousness that can accompany other serious academic environments. I am not allowed to talk to her while she's doing her overnight but will be curious to hear her impression tomorrow on the way back to the airport.</p>
<p>Today I Enrolled At Rutgers!!!!</p>