<p>It's a happy day in our household. After an EA rejection by Stanford, my son came home this afternoon from an out-of-country camping trip to admission decisions from all four of the schools to which he applied...3 offers of admission and one early write that told him he's been nominated for an honors program at an Ivy...</p>
<p>So, Stanford turned him down. But Georgetown, NOrthwestern and U VA accepted him--and U VA offered him their Echols Honors program. COrnell sent him an early write saying they had nominated him for the Dean Scholars Honors program.</p>
<p>I still feel the sting (about which I've been complaining for the last week!) of the Stanford rejection...but the "yes'es" from G'town, NU, U VA and Cornell are sweet indeed...</p>
<p>He has no idea which of the four he'll choose. But since you-all kindly "e-listened" to me complain for a week, and offered many words of encouragement for which I'm very grateful, I just wanted to share our happiness and to say thank you for all the moral support. </p>
<p>And you'll be glad to hear the son is STILL more mature than I am...he's happy, very happy--but he's got it all in perspective; doesn't consider it the greatest event in the universe, any more than he considered the rejection the end of the world. Isn't it grand to see our kids grow up so very very nicely?!</p>
<p>WOO-HOO!!! Excellent news and congrats to both of you! Four outstanding universities have recognized his accomplishments and abilities. Now it's time to celebrate! Is your son thinking about attending the Echols Day on the Lawn on April 4th?</p>
<p>overanxious mother I send you heartfelt congratulations! What a wonderful choice of schools, and one with an honors program no less. I'll be looking forward to hearing which school he decides on! Have fun.<br>
I hope your post is a good omen as we all head down this last (thankfully!) week of decisions.<br>
Enjoy your good news!!
andi</p>
<p>Congratulations! These are all terrific schools, though quite different. The Echols Honors and Deans Honors make the admissions all the sweeter and deciding among the schools even tougher! You'll have a busy month.</p>
<p>I can't begin to tell you how very, very thrilled I am for your son! What a wonderful and exciting array of choices! I will be interested to hear what his final decision will be. Meanwhile, I hope your entire family celebrates the wonderful news in an appropriate fashion! Congratulations to your son on a job very, very well done! ~berurah</p>
<p>My heartfelt congrats!!! What a bountiful spread! He will have a hard time picking. Let us know how he makes the decision. This is so sweet. And I know you have been so supportive. Enjoy!</p>
<p>MUY BIEN. COngratulate him for his fine and hard work. Those are excellent colleges. man..i hate to be deciding on those fine colleges..just too hard of a decision because all those colleges are people's dream college.</p>
<p>Congrats to your S! What wonderful news all in one week. Enjoy the ride watching him light up when mulling over the various possibilities at each school. Some find this decision-making time stressful, but my S found it exciting and very postive when deciding from 3 very strong competitors. We felt there was no wrong choice, just different ones. He would have been happy at any of them, but of course, hindsight tells him the one he did choose made him the happiest.</p>
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<p>Wow, What a wonderful bunch of news for your son, and for you. I love your name on this site, as I expect we could call ourselves by that name (well, at least us MOMs) at various points along the way. How lovely to have this particular group of schools from which to choose after a scary time! Way to go! Hope you will keep us informed as the decision process develops!</p>
<p>Thank you, everyone: I'm feeling like I've found some "new family" on this board...I hope I can celebrate with all of you just as enthusiastically, very very soon! I will let you know my son's thinking as we go through the decision-making process...all I know at this point is that my son says each of the schools has a 25% chance. Of course, he categorically refused to think about visiting or thinking about "which one" til he had admission offers in hand (a rejection, even a well-taken one, will do that to you!) and that just happened today...but he did say that if he still can't make up his mind by May 1, he'll go for U VA because it's so much less expensive (we're in VA)...</p>
<p>For me, I will be sad to "lose" each of the 3 he doesn't choose...each for a different reason...as you say, he can make no "wrong choice"...I'm so happy he has these choices; he has worked so hard...I'm just thrilled for him...</p>
<p>I hope we will go to the Echols Day on the Lawn 4/4...I want to go...whether son will agree to it remains to be seen...his feeling is he will get a better "feel" for U VA if he goes on a "regular day" rather than on this special day...I want to go fairly badly, though, so he may "indulge me" and agree to go w/me...we also need to get to Chgo (not a hardship for us...Chgo is where I grew up) before the 5/1 deadline...Cornell and Georgetown are less "crucial"--he visited both in the fall...</p>
<p>Thanks again SO much for you e-friendship! AND here's hope we're ALL celebrating all together over the next week...</p>
<p>What a fantastic accomplishment and such great schools - I know there will be much discussion and thinking in your house over the next few weeks as he makes his decision. Kudos to him for the reward after all of that hard work - I know he will do well!!</p>
<p>This is great.... as a mom, all I can say is I wanted my child to have some nice choices and I think it is a wish all parents feel for their child.... all the hard work and diligence has paid off for your son and now you get to witness his research and decision making as he decides where to spend the next 4 yrs! congrats anxious mom.....many of us have been anxious these past few years but few of us chose that as our moniker!! kudos to you for being honest and believing in your child......Stanford is a great school, a beautiful school ... but, it has a feel around it of being a "business" so, I personally think things have worked out just fine.......congrats to your house for navigating thru these rough waters!!</p>
<p>Your family must be SO happy... what a decision! An embarrassment of riches, almost. Now the schools all have to woo HIM. The shoe is on the other foot. Best of luck and enjoy the process.</p>
<p>What great choices! Congrats! It's so nice to sit back and say to yourself, or anyone who will listen, "Yep! My son's going to college! Whew!" Even though, all along, you always knew he would..... And now choices! But these really are the difficult decisions we want for our kids! I'm happy for you oamom, now we can call you a little less anxious LOL! Can't wait to hear his decision!</p>
<p>Overanxious:
I can totally relate...DD denied at Stanford EA...their loss :p
Accepted at Baylor with $$ last fall; accepted at U Victoria in Feb with $, UCSD, Vassar, & UVA this past week- still awaiting Cal.
They are all good options, and I still wonder what Stanford's problem was, though, perhaps, it was simply not meant to be, as there is a great chance she would have chosen it and maybe that would have been a poor fit for her?
We are still trying to fit in a couple more visits and the chouce will be tough, but it is so nice to have so many options to consider, each with different pros & cons.
It will be interesting to see what is decided on April 30th (at midnight, no doubt.)</p>