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Andi, you and your son have made all of us happy.... and strangely.... proud!!
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Not strange at all! You've been a part of it, both in giving us support and courage and in helping us to understand. </p>
<p>Thank you friends! <3 <3</p>
<p>Andi - Just got home from LA & saw the news! First My eyes popped out & now I'm feeling light-headed for you & your son! Congratulations! This must seem a little heady for you all! But boy! what a difference a year makes! tears of joy are welling up over here on the west coast for you! I know some great kids (young adults) who are @ MIT! Your son would fit right in!</p>
<p>Congratulations!!!</p>
<p>Just read the thread from last year...very sorry about what happened. So very glad, though, that things turned around 180 degrees for you and your son this year.</p>
<p>I look forward to your story of Andison's journey from summer 2004 till now.</p>
<p>Good luck and best wishes to Andison and you, and may your lives bear great big ripe beautiful bursting fruit!</p>
<p>Congrats! I am happy for you! I had read about last year...</p>
<p>Good luck and best wishes.</p>
<p>What a lovely spring you will savor this year...this news resonates. Just happy thinking of Andison's Accepted Student visits and that great Move-in day next fall. Keep the music playing regardless of where you land!</p>
<p>Andi,
Congratulations.<br>
I was just remembering how we were all agonizing over his unwarranted lack of acceptances and offering advice and condolences. How slowly the time went. Has there been an interval since then in which the passage of time was more normal?<br>
You'll have to write us what advice was most helpful, but not now. I know you are all celebrating.<br>
We'll need to pass on the wisdom you've gained come late April and early May.</p>
<p>Hi, Andi:</p>
<p>Thanks! Yes, DD has been accepted to MIT!! </p>
<p>We are thrilled. Still pinching myself about this. Congratulations to you as well. Hope to meet you at CPW. Maybe we should wear CC buttons so we can put faces to ID's .</p>
<p>Hey, I'm so happy for all of you!!! Any clues?? Is this the one? We'll just have to be patient for a couple weeks more...</p>
<p>Andison has it all...a bump in the road to really appreciate where he soon will be, an extra year of maturity, and a caring family...what more could you ask for??</p>
<p>Congratulations!!!!!</p>
<p>Andi-- so happy for your son. Mine graduates from MIT in less than three months (yikes!) but it has been a wonderful journey and worth every penny, every sacrifice, and every hour he's spent agonizing over a project, paper, or problem set. </p>
<p>You have some wonderful and hard choices ahead and I'm so happy for your whole family with how this has turned out.</p>
<p>Andi, So happy for You, Andison, and Andifamily!
Looking forward to your telling of the decision!!</p>
<p>Congrats on such wonderful choices. What a ride you'e had! I have a sophomore at MIT and he is very very happy. Exhausted, stressed, and pushing himself way past what he thought was possible, but happy. </p>
<p>WOW.</p>
<p>I celebrated on the <em>correct</em> thread. I may have celebrated in Sinners Alley (who can remember what goes on in there?) But I'll just try to sneak in here before we're shut down.</p>
<p>Woo-hah!</p>
<p>Andi, hearty congratulations to Andison and your entire family. Deferred joy is so much richer, IMO.</p>
<p>Thank you SO much for your very valuable contributions to this forum. You were generous to share with the forum as you went through this challenging year. Your "Picking up the pieces" thread has spared untold other readers similar heartache. I do hope you will write up your experience once you have the time to share the full story, from beginning to jubilant end. I hope as well that you will continue participating on the forum, so we all can vicariously enjoy Andison's experiences at the college of HIS choice, whichever that fortunate school is!!</p>
<p>You and Andison made lemonade from the lemons. Now you can enjoy the champagne!!</p>
<p>P.S. Of course, the Mod Team congratulates all posters who are celebrating acceptances. This one in particular, however, because of its unusual trajectory, resonates with many -- which is why I have singled it out.</p>
<p>Congrats! My entire family loves MIT (son is a freshman). But a big scholarship at Brandeis is great too. How wonderful to have such great choices!! The gap year was a big success.</p>
<p>Dayum, Andi -- Congrats!</p>
<p>JEM Thank you so much for that lovely post! I'll be here - there are others who have more kids coming along the pipeline. I think we have made the lemons into lemonade but lemon champagne? That oughta be interesting!! I think I'll have the grape variety :)</p>
<p>jmmom south of the border?? And here I thought you were sweating out these last decisions in SA!! </p>
<p>Faline thanks. The Shenandoah Mountains sound so peaceful - do people there worry about college decisions as much as the rest of the world?</p>
<p>thanks twinmom and quiltguru!</p>
<p>hsmom - I like that idea. Someone should design an official CC button for all the parents here who will be visiting various colleges in the next month. Students too.</p>
<p>Andi - I looked at the College Confidential image but it is registered and I don't know who to ask about it to get permission to use it. Does anyone know who we could ask? I was just thinking of printing it out and laminating it. However, I don't want to infringe upon copyrights so I need to ask the owner of the copyright.</p>
<p>I have referred this question regarding the logo to Roger Dooley, forum administrator.</p>
<p>Yes- I'm in at Miami (ohio)'s honors program! I thought I wouldn't get in- I only applied because I thought'd I'd regret not getting in. Now choosing between case western and miami's honors program. Not sure why I was accepted, I was far below the average honor student, but I sure am glad!</p>
<p>Whooo, Hoooo! That is great Celebrian25. You have a hard decision to make, two great schools to choose from.</p>