<p>Cur -
Congratulations again! Your daughter is truly unbelievable. How will she ever choose? :)</p>
<p>Cur, the offer is still open to lend you some of my son's multi-sided dice if you need help making a decision. I think he has up to 20-sided.</p>
<p>Congrats to those families with recent posts on the acceptance thread....Cur's D at Amherst, Calmom's D at Fordham, and Quiltguru's D at Wesleyan!</p>
<p>Son received his final acceptances from Emory and Tufts. The chase, however, still continues. Son may pursue waitlist at Brown. He visits the Chicago campus next week.</p>
<p>S accepted at Pomona today! Deciding between Dartmouth, Brown, U of Chicago and maybe USC, because of scholarship. Only school that rejected him was Stanford.</p>
<p>I just looked at Amherst online yesterday for my D. No merit aid. :( I'm betting it won't be in the finals for Cur's D. It looks like a great school, but she has so many other wonderful options.</p>
<p>Everyone has wonderful options, and I'm hoping that someone will start a final decisions thread soon, so we can see where everyone is landing.</p>
<p>Final tally for son's college applications (in order received):
Oregon--accepted
Purdue--accepted
Indiana--accepted
Bentley--accepted
Pittburgh--accepted
Fordham--waitlisted, and today
NYU--rejected
He already visited Purdue, Indiana, Fordham, and NYU. He will be visiting the other schools (Oregon, Bentley, and Pittsburgh) during the Easter Spring Break period.</p>
<p>Calmom, my daughter is a sophomore @ Gallatin and LOVES it. If you are planning a visit, PM me and I'll let her know.</p>
<p>We live outside the District of Columbia and DD spent her first year at Loyola Marymount [I'm a Californian] and HATED it. The transfer to NYU has been a great success. But as you know, each child is different.</p>
<p>But again, if you'd like more info, LMK</p>
<p>Quiltguru--somehow I missed the Wes accept!!!! Congrats!</p>
<p>I realize, in the scheme of things, that your D has gotten some, oh, fairly impressive offers from some other, shall we say, not so bad schools (LOL), but I'll put a good word in for my favorite LAC, just in case, ;).</p>
<p>My D's list</p>
<p>Ramapo College - full scholarship
TCNJ - scholarship
Rutgers - accepted
Univ. of Delaware - scholarship and Honor's Program
American Univ. - scholarship and UCP
Boston Univ. - scholarship
Northeastern - scholarship
NYU - scholarship
Barnard - rejected
Columbia - rejected</p>
<p>Not bad. I am very proud</p>
<p>Son's list:
Penn State-U Park-small scholarship
University of Washington-accepted, Honors
UCSC-accepted, don't have financials yet
UCSB-scholarship, Honors
UCSD-scholarship
Boston University-big money
UCB-scholarship
NYU-accepted, don't know financials yet
Son is torn between UCB and NYU, will depend on money.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone whose been accepted, scholarships or not. Its amazing to see all the great accomplishments of everyone. Just got my last acceptance from Chapman with a scholarship so I'm 6/6 and pretty happy with the process overall so far. Good luck on deciding! ;)</p>
<p>Well, it's not really a college , it's a program, and it's not really an acceptance, it's a flat out rejection....but I'm doing the happy dance anyway.</p>
<p>D was rejected from the combined bs/md degree at Texas Tech (which she had grave doubts about anyway). She has also decided not to accept a waitlist position at Duke. </p>
<p>So , do you know what that means? She is ...wait for it....DONE!! No!! You're joshing me, right? Now she has to PICK ONE? You have got to be kidding. We just got finished with this! AARRRGGHHH.</p>
<p>Whew....everyone who's kid is done raise their cyber glass of scotch and give a big Yahoo. </p>
<p>YAHOO!!!!!!</p>
<p>Uh OK Cur........starting hitting that delete button!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only one asterisk allowed per kid :D</p>
<p>andi
LOLOL!</p>
<p>Noooooooooooo. I can't make her choose just one! All her schools have been good as gold to her (sometimes literally). This new scholarship might have taken down a few more pins though. We'll see when the dust settles. A couple are on life support, 7 are stone dead now. Is this how this process works? Things come off in layers? Finally revealing the "truth" when we get down to two or three? We hope?</p>
<p>Noooooooooooo. I think it is more like this. Remember the first time she broke out and grinned at you about 18 years ago plus a few weeks...and your former awe and devotion was jolted into a sudden recognition and then attachment with a full heart?<br>
And the "truth" if you chose your colleges with an open heart, which we all know you did, is that many of the "sound of closing doors" re colleges will always be "homes of possible bewitching futures" you will still cherish and respect. We have so many great human beings teaching in our colleges and working hard to make them special learning communities. It is hard to say goodbye to grand people who only want the best for your son or daughter. I predict you will hate to say goodbye..but isn't producing a young adult who makes "healthy positive attachments" the centerpiece to good parenting? That is what I felt when my son felt some real loss and sadness saying goodbye to versions of his future at fine schools he would never attend. As a parent, I felt sadness when the choice was made because it meant the end to an era of particular closeness and shared time and talks and the beginning of a not yet clearly defined era for parenting roles when things shifted toward the future we sought together.</p>
<p>Does it have to be a cyber glass of scotch or can we make it real? My kid's done, except for the final selection. For that, we'll take a few more road trips, share a few more of those analytical conversations, and finally pick one lucky institution:). Cheers everybody!</p>
<p>Yes, all results are in; and here's the final tally for my d:</p>
<p>Accepted: Barnard, Fordham (Lincoln Center), NYU - Gallatin, Northeastern, UC Berkeley (spring admit), UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, U of Chicago, U of Washington</p>
<p>Waitlisted: Boston U., Brandeis</p>
<p>Rejected: Brown </p>
<p>So we are done. Final choice is between Barnard & NYU, only one of which we can afford. I think the fates have already decided for my d., as all indications point one way....</p>
<p>Cur, this is the worst part of it all for you. Mine was lucky. When the money came through he didn't hesitate for a moment. Well, I guess I did.</p>