<p>Yeah I got in. I’m in a more eastern part of NJ so maybe you really do have the pony express haha. Good luck to you when you finally find out your decision!</p>
<p>has anyone from southern NY heard yet?</p>
<p>One thrilled daughter in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. J. just opened her big white envelope. I’ve never seen her this happy.</p>
<p>Big envelope in TX.</p>
<p>Son’s letter arrived in Texas. SAT around 2000. 3.9 GPA, many APs, legacy with dad a member of Sorin society for 20 plus years (just threw that in for anyone wondering if they only allow legacies in). Eagle project was a grotto in an underserved Catholic school. Wouldn’t let me read essay but told me it was about being with some friends who bullied a kid and how he left that group and he and that boy became good friends. Volunteered at a camp for children with cerebral palsy last summer. I’m not sure how he failed (probably SAT as he is a math head and verbal scores were not high) or what more he could have done but I plan to be sad about it tonight and then make the best of it. </p>
<p>Congrats to all that did get in! There is really NO other place even close to it.</p>
<p>Chauffeur, I a sorry that your son was turned down by his top choice of college. It broke my heart to read that you wondered shy he failed. I don’t want to minimize the disappointment of not making it into one’s top school, but at the same time your son doesn’t seem like he failed to me. I have been going through this process for nearly a year with my daughter and everywhere I look, especially over these last several days, when the selective schools are mailing out their decisions, I see admission decisions that don’t make apparent sense. Sometimes, it’s clear that some schools are so selective that they can and do play a numbers game and so good, hardworking students get shut out if their numbers are on side or another of some arbitrary cut-off point. At other times, it seems that there are just too many worthy applicants for too few spots and that means great students, like your son, get turned away. </p>
<p>I can tell you from my experience of dragging my kids all over the east coast and part of the midwest to visit 30 colleges, that there are many great schools out there that will value your son and the kind of integrity he demonstrates as a person and in his projects. After this disappointment passes, I hope that he will find the school that will welcome him and help him to continue to grow. Good luck to your son and your family.</p>
<p>Big envelope here! via pony express in NJ</p>
<p>I haven’t received anything yet from SoCal. Does anyone know why?</p>