<p>Got our first acceptance today@ Whitman (as well as a Chicago waitlist) :~) Thank goodness, now we can enjoy our spring break! Thanks for the support.</p>
<p>YAY, MOONRISE!!! Congratulations!! Doesn’t that feel good?!</p>
<p>It’s such a relief! We got the (safety) cake, now anything else is frosting.</p>
<p>^Moonrise, that’s exactly how my H&I felt about D’s acceptance…not really a safety, but definitely a good fit for her. She has three yeses now, but I was right. There’ll be no Black and Latino alumni in her future. 
Three more to go.</p>
<p>I am walking with cramped nerves for my D. She applied for a “one of a kind” program - the Exotic Animal Training Management at Moorpark. This is her second year of applying, unfortunately acceptance decisions are made by lottery - so all her good grades (4.0) do not matter. 52 places available, this year some 190 applications. The program has pre-requisites, last year she had as her Plan B to finish her Psychology BA. This year…I do not know. And to make it worse, we do not expect to hear something until early May.</p>
<p>Moda, your situation is definitely unique but having some yeses sure helps the frazzled nerves.</p>
<p>Good luck abu, sorry you have to continue the wait for so long.</p>
<p>D was waitlisted at Wash U Stl, which I thought was pretty good, since I thought that was the greatest reach for her.
But she was also waitlisted at Rice, which was kind of her favorite. She says she’s okay with it. She’s got some good safeties where she’s already accepted. We’re awaiting word from USC on whether she’s receiving a scholarship or not (which will make or break whether we can afford it or not) and from two other schools in California, where she really wants to be.
But I must confess, I think I cried a little too hard when I was watching The Hunger Games yesterday :~-(
I think I need a life…</p>
<p>March 29th after 5 pm for his reach schools. I ran out of XANAX, just kidding. I will admit as a parent, I cannot concentrate on my other tasks. I’m playing scenarios in my head for all the things that may transpire.</p>
<p>I’m patiently waiting for the mail to come…hoping the decision from CMU is in there, one of S’s top choices. </p>
<p>S keeps telling me to stop talking about college so much (I guess it makes him nervous, I don’t know), but I can’t help it!! It’s on my mind every second of the day!! I’m trying to pretend I don’t care, but it’s not working!</p>
<p><a href=“https://succeed.naviance.com/download.php?id=TnNCSm53cWR0OVpldXdRa2JOKzd5QT09[/url]”>https://succeed.naviance.com/download.php?id=TnNCSm53cWR0OVpldXdRa2JOKzd5QT09</a></p>
<p>The link above helped me a lot with my college decisions – I know I’m not a parent, but I hope you all can read this and feel just a bit more relaxed. (Sorry for intruding in a Parental forum.)</p>
<p>This waiting game sucks. Son is waitlisted at his two favorite schools, rejected by what he thought was a safety and waiting on two reach schools. Very glad he was accepted to the honors program of our best state university [which is where we were hoping one of our kids would go]. I just wish that it would have been by his choice and not by default. Having difficulty getting a super smart kid to not internalize the rejection and turning it into failure rather than just part of the process. I’ll be very happy when this week is over!</p>
<p>The mail cannot come soon enough today. Good luck all!</p>
<p>Mail comes here in about 2 hours, though sometimes it is late on Mondays. I have so much to do, studying for work, projects, chores…and I am so scattered lately that I can’t seem to get anything done but eat. And drink too much wine.</p>
<p>I’m reading this instead of working. I work partly at home, which feeds into the anxiety. Waiting for the dog to bark that the letter carrier is here. She and my dog like each other, though. I wonder what the carrier thinks depositing all those envelopes some of which are thick and scream “You’re In!” while others are thin, obvious rejections. They can’t help being human about it.</p>
<p>It 's a tense week. Good luck to all of your kids!</p>
<p>This waiting game is so tough. I told my S last night that I am no longer worried about March 29th because he has been accepted at 3 great schools (yay Rice). Although he is very excited about Rice in particular he voiced to me the pressure he feels he is under as Val of his school. He thinks if he doesn’t get into at least 1 Ivy, he will be looked at as a failure by his classmates. It told him it is so insignificant the day after graduation, but he feels he would leave school with a negative legacy. That’s a lot of pressure for an 18 year old. Three more days!!</p>
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<p>When you consider how many valedictorians there are in this country and contrast that number with the number of spots at the Ivies, it’s just amazing that the sentiment expressed above continues to be perpetuated. If your son is a valedictorian and already has some great options, it is just a shame that he feels the kind of pressure that would make him feel that others would consider him a failure for not being accepted to schools which reject most of their very qualified applicants. “Negative legacy?” I find that just really sad.</p>
<p>And you are right, who is going to remember which schools their val did or didn’t get into? Most kids are going to be too busy contemplating their own futures to spend any time thinking about any other kid’s college application process.</p>
<p>NJ Mom of 2 – if your Val son gets into an Ivy, would he also feel peer pressure to attend, even if it wasn’t the best fit for him? Sometimes a rejection can be a blessing in disguise, if it would save him from forgoing his own self-interest in order to meet other’s expectations.</p>
<p>Nrdsb4 is right, everyone is just concerned about their acceptances, they really don’t care whatsoever where the valedictorian got into. This might be a great time to give the, “You are just a dot in the universe” speech. That what happens to you is of great importance to you and to your family, but not to anyone else. Even if we all completely disappeared tomorrow, we still are merely dots in the universe. I don’t know, maybe not so comforting, but true.</p>
<p>Of course, that doesn’t make the long wait for the mailman to come (and why is he so late today) any better! Time to go check for the third time. I want this dot in my universe to be happy.</p>
<p>Crap! Son was rejected at Bowdoin and waitlisted at Bates on the same day. It’s going to be a long rest of the week waiting for Friday and Saturday when he hears from the two remaining schools.</p>