<p>Have any out of the ordinary how-your-child-found-out-they-were admitted stories?</p>
<p>My son came home to a phone message on our recorder today that said, "Hi this is so and so student calling from Butler University! Just want to congratulate you on your admittance to BU ....blah, blah".</p>
<p>Guess she beat the mail! He didn't receive his official acceptance yet!</p>
<p>That’s not quite as bad as UCSD notifying people they were admitted when they really weren’t - or notifying them that they were rejected when they were really admitted -
<p>Not a snafu, but applicants to USC have been trying to read the tea leaves of the various “status” messages regarding their applications. Sometimes there are hints as to whether an early admit (which often comes with a scholarship interview) is in the offing. </p>
<p>Oh, I should add this is relevant since USC does things the old fashioned way, so the official acceptances arrives via envelope, not electronically. The status messages are accessible on the USC web site, password accessed.</p>
<p>At my kids’ college, kids find out they’ve been accepted before official notification, because if they log in, there’s a link to make their admissions deposit. That link shows up as soon as the student is accepted…</p>
<p>Years ago, I found out I had been admitted to a certain law school when I received a tuition bill!! (I guess my acceptance letter went lost.) I didn’t go to that law school, but I found it pretty funny.</p>
<p>Lehigh set up email addresses prior to admissions notification (or at least they used to)…in 2008 kids knew they were admitted two weeks before actual notifications were made</p>
<p>Yesterday was Match Day for the Texas medical schools. (Many Texas residents only apply to Texas med schools.) Complicated …but the shorthand version is : at 8:00 a.m. all the kids who hadn’t pre-matched to their #1 school logged in to see where/if they had matched. More than one saw the screen say “Sorry, you didn’t match”. Spouses, parents, and friends were called. “I didn’t make it.” Let the wailing period begin. </p>
<p>8:06 somebody noticed that they indeed they had matched to a higher ranked school than at 8:00. By 8:20 they had climbed the ladder all the way to their #1 school. Others chimed in that their status kept changing for the better, too. (It was if someone was loading school decisions one at a time. Southwestern, then Houston, then Galveston…)</p>
<p>At this point some of the 8:00 rejects log back on to see all the commotion. They log back on to the clearinghouse “after twenty minutes of crying” to see that they were in fact going to med school. One gal had called her parents crying hysterically and now had to call them back, as she was in, and at her second-choice to boot. They accused her of playing a cruel prank on them and were angry. She logs on again and she’s in at UTMB-Galveston, her first choice school. She doesn’t want to call her parents at this point. lol. </p>
<p>I was watching it IRT on another site. It was fascinating to watch the kids support each other through the ups and downs. No nastiness, no jealously that morning, just support and congrats. Kind of nice to see.</p>
Apparently, and she loved the school. It was one of those “let’s check it out” kind of things and it was a great interview/tour. My husband wants to go there!</p>
<p>No, zmom. Mine was already in at her #1 Texas state school. I was appointed that morning to see if she had somehow screwed it up on-line. She hadn’t. I was just there as an interested observer. </p>
<p>One of her good friends at college was one of the “move-up” kids, though. She got her second-choice and is over the moon happy (and still hoping for #1).</p>
<p>OT: Still a work in progress, menloparkmom. As close as 90 miles, as far away as across the country. </p>
<p>For those familiar with her UG saga, y’all may get a kick out of the fact that she is interviewing at Yale Med soon. In her withdrawal note to them from her UG acceptance, she told them she’d be trying to get into their med school in 4 years. Well, here she is. ;)</p>
I’m so excited for both of you!!! What a wonderful piece of news. I’m vicariously enjoying it on a day that my little guy failed gym. Middle school gym. Failed.</p>
<p>Curm, I bet there are many CCers who are thrilled for you and Mudgette and might not have heard the good news if you hadn’t so generously posted it.</p>
<p>cur, not surprising at all! you have one special girl! can’t wait to hear the next set of stories about “moving the kid” across the country, if that’s where she chooses to go! I still chuckle when I remember your day by day installments of moving midge into college 4 years ago.</p>