<p>Two rejections in the mail today. That brings us to 2 rejects, 1 waitlist and 1 acceptance (with merit aid that came today). Wow…what a week.</p>
<p>ds had two recent acceptances and found out last night that he was for sure rejected from another school after having been deferred earlier. </p>
<p>still waiting to hear on another school.</p>
<p>still have visits to make.</p>
<p>@mihcal1 - The next thing I fear is making a peer pressure decision instead of the right one. I have my fingers crossed that he will love Owl days at Rice since I think that is a great fit for him. My D had the courage to turn down an Ivy for Pomona 2 years ago. In our case, both Pomona and Rice are virtual unknowns in the Northeast.</p>
<p>All these rejections and waitlists are making me more nervous!!! We’re still waiting on 7 schools…</p>
<p>When do you hear, Megan? We have 5 more, mostly on Thursday.</p>
<p>D has likely letters from brown and Dartmouth. Waiting on Princeton, which gives the best aid. She is already accepted at u of Michigan and georgetown. Decision time starts after 5:30 on Thursday. Stress until then</p>
<p>tfairy, you and your D don’t need to get streessed out if she has already been accepted in several great schools.
Good luck on Princeton decision.</p>
<p>We hear about CMU tonight at 12:01 am! Then we hear from the others on Wed. and Thurs. He has acceptances from Case and Haverford so far, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed for more good news!</p>
<p>I’ll be waiting with you megan, till 12:01. So stressful! My son thinks it’s coming in the mail and doesn’t even know about the release date. I figured, why stress him out too. But I’m practicing my responses…“I’m so sorry, honey.” Still not sure what I’d do for a positive response. Just a heads up, when older son applied to CMU, they never even put it on the portal. He just got the package. And other years, it hasn’t gone on time. Good luck!</p>
<p>@NJ Mom of 2 – He’d be in good company. There are lots of Vals at Rice. :)</p>
<p>Ugh, all that waiting, and…waitlist. I didn’t rehearse that one. That really throws a wrench in the works. He’s 5 out of 6 so far not including this one, so maybe he’s run out of luck.</p>
<p>sorry, busdriver. </p>
<p>No need to rehearse waiting. You KNOW how to do that, at this point. </p>
<p>good luck.</p>
<p>busdriver - I feel your pain! S was accepted into CMU’s Humanities but waitlisted for SCS. He’s a future comp sci major - now what? Does he go and try to transfer in later, or does he go somewhere else? How can you turn down a chance to go to one of the top comp sci schools in the country? I know it’s possible to transfer between schools, but if there’s even the slimmest chance that it could backfire, he’ll have to transfer out of the school completely and start over somewhere else.</p>
<p>You’re right about that, poetgrl, we do know how to wait already! Not really depressing, but kind of deflating. He was on such a roll.</p>
<p>Well megan, you have a tough call there. My older son, exact same situation a few years ago (except denied SCS). Went in as a Logic and Computation major, was going to double major CS. Had tons of experience programming, so KNEW he wanted to be a CS major. After awhile, he decided, no way, CS here is going to suck up every minute of my life, and is majoring Econ/minor CS. I am dead certain he would be a CS major anywhere else, but at CMU it encompasses your entire life, as they work so hard. He has many other things that he’s busy with, so he just wasn’t willing to give all that up. He may stay there for a masters in IS.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the right answer is. I know he is extremely happy where he is now. How not being a CS major affects job opportunities, he has yet to find out.</p>
<p>busdriver - thanks so much for that insight. It was really helpful. I’m not sure S wants to work that hard. He loves CS but he also loves creative writing and liberal arts, so he’ll want to devote time to that too.</p>
<p>An issue is that there are so many other things available for them to do at school, that they stay really busy. In high school, with much of his free time, my son was playing computer games. Now he doesn’t have time to even read his email, much less play games. But he may be spending more time on his extracurriculars than on his school work…they are productive, management type activities so I’m not complaining. But your son may be extremely gifted at CS, or absolutely brilliant, so maybe he doesn’t have to work that hard and will have extra time. It’s going to be a tough decision, but I guess at least when all the schools give their answers he doesn’t have much time left to choose!</p>
<p>Just a few more hours until the ivy acceptances!</p>
<p>My daughter is the first from her HS to get into an Ivy.</p>
<p>Gosh, congratulations tfairy!!</p>
<p>tfairy - congrats on your daughter. From your previous post, you seem to think Ivies would give your daughter merit aid. It is not the case. Ivies and many other top tier schools only give out need based aid.</p>
<p>My daughter is done! Now the decision between Ohio State and Kenyon. Such different schools. How did this happen?</p>
<p>Leaning toward Kenyon (today) She changes her mind on a daily basis. :)</p>