For each hi reach college acceptance my son is forcing me to watch a Jennifer Lawrence movie.
It may have been too high a price to pay…
After that a fancy dinner, probably at Morimotos.
I’m ruined…
Bad negotiating.
I hope you limited applications to high reach schools.
Well at first he wanted me to wear a speedo at the YMCA pool,
I told him people pay a lot to swim with dolphins,
what should they pay to swim with a whale ?
I like Morimotos.
We’ll be celebrating by writing a big check. And that is all. For the next 4 years!
HRSMom - curios choice of word. Does your family also " celebrate" with having root canal? :))
For one daughter, the acceptance was kind of spread out as she accepted in October, signed a National Letter of intent in November, got an official acceptance to the school in Jan (I think) and then got a financial aid award in February that could have brought the whole thing down (not enough money; it was a mistake). We celebrated when she signed, and I had to buy a shirt and have it shipped priority (I’m so cheap I never pay full price for those things!). Her big celebration was a school celebration for signing day in April.
Other daughter knew she’d be accepted because of her scores and grades, so it was no surprise. Guess I blew the celebration thing. Usually when we celebrate or have hard news (‘Hey kids, we’re moving. Again!’), we go out for PooPoo Platters at the Chinese restaurant.
I like Jennifer Lawrence.
@HRSMom we’re in your boat. Though I still feel that our D has earned some kind of “nice” gift. My H, not so much. “No better gift than a college education without debt.” Sigh. I get it. But…
May 1 is the end of the dream and the beginning of reality! This has been an expensive process already with visits and fees. Now with tuition, a celebration will be something less tangible than it used to be.
@furrydog Are you kidding? Do you know how much a root canal costs?? :))
Can you tell I’m he CFO at my house?
My wife and I will take the girls to dinner when they make their decisions. It has been a long college hunting season and we all just want to exhale and celebrate their success and toast the next 4 years.
For both kids we broke out a bottle of champagne once the final choice was made.
I bought two half gallons of ice cream, Mint Chocolate Chip for the acceptances and Moose Tracks for the rejections. It made the process a bit more fun! When she finally made her choice at the very last minute we were doing a second tour of the school and popped into the store to buy the sweatshirt. There was no formal gift or dinner out, just a huge breath of relief once the process was over mixed with some tears and uncertainty.
I guess I was lucky in the application dept. Neither girl were particularly tense about possible acceptances/rejections and we didn’t do anything special to celebrate (except send the deposit check). In retrospect maybe we should have. Still one more to go so we may yet. But no Speedos and no Jennifer Lawrence. 
I like Jennifer Lawrence. Now, if a reach acceptance would have involved having t watch anything involving Sascha Baron Cohen, I would have been tempted to steer him to the local CC.
Well I got nailed for 1 Jennifer Lawrence movie ( American Hustle) . He got into Columbia but not the other IVY. I told him the public honors college admit was worth 2 trailers or an anime movie… hahaha.
2 admits out of 3 total applications was pretty good.
Man that sushi bill at Morimoto’s will be depressing.
" “No better gift than a college education without debt.” - Amen.
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Just had a flashback to my own college days. A friend bought a graduation gift for her parents. She knew they had scrimped and saved sending kids to college, and she bought them a set of kitchen dishes. She couldn’t afford a big gift, but she knew they had tired of living with the set of old chipped dishes. I thought it was a lovely idea - a nice daily reminder that she had appreciated their sacrifice.