<p>Wow, congratulations to all! We are still waiting for envelopes here ...</p>
<p>Janie, WOW!!!!!!! Congratulations to your Daughter. That is amazing and wonderful!!!!!! However, I suspect that Hiram will also be very generous, so get ready for more celebrating when their financial offer comes in. Both schools are excellent choices too!</p>
<p>Carolyn,</p>
<p>How wonderful to get the personalized note! That should really make your DD feel welcome!</p>
<p>Janie, congrats on the big bucks!! And wow, she's almost through college already!</p>
<p>Janie, Carolyn, and Celebrian-CONGRATULATIONS!</p>
<p>celebrian,</p>
<p>I missed your post! Congrats! College bound and bound for success!</p>
<p>Carolyn - most sincere congratulations !! That's just wonderful. I'm kind of feeling sorry for Goucher, though. Your D seemed to like that school a lot - did I miss something, or did she decide not to apply ? Redlands sounds like a super school for her, and I am very happy for both of you.</p>
<p>My D applied only to schools with minimum of 10K kids. Just her preference. You may remember she was so dissapointed in her SAT's - but she retook in Oct, and her total M & V went up 100 pts, and W went up 90 pts. So we think she has a shot at some other schools in addition to getting into Penn State's School of Art and Architecture. But it doesn't matter, since PSU's graphic design program is really good, and she'll be quite happy there. </p>
<p>Congratulations to each of you. It's so wonderful getting that big envelope, and seeing the look on your child's face when they see it, and fondle it a moment, then tear it open. Even when it says "congratulations" on the outside, sometimes they don't take it all in until they read the actual letter inside !</p>
<p>Congratulations Hayden!!!! Does your d have specific goals in mind for her art education??</p>
<p>andi - I'm one of many, many posters here who are crossing every available digit for you! Every piece of good news is celebrated here; but I will venture to say that perhaps none will be celebrated quite as much as your good news will be. </p>
<p>Thank you for asking about my D. She never developed a dream school at all. She doesn't have the slightest interest in college rankings. She does, however, have a dream job, and selected schools only if they had the programs she wanted. Her dream job is to be an art director in the film industry, deciding color themes, overall look of the film, etc. So she had to have a school with a film production program as well as art.</p>
<p>I really feel for all of you parents who, like us, has a child that not only has to be accepted to the university, but also to a portfolio-dependent program. Yikes.</p>
<p>Hayden, your d's ambitions are so inspiring. I'm always so awed and intrigued by young people who have specific goals in mind and so purposefully pursue them. She sounds focused and creative! It's wonderful that she has been accepted into a school that offers exactly what she wants. I'm happy for her and you too!
andi</p>
<p>Janie, Carolyn, and Celebrian,</p>
<p>It's so great to see people whose posts I've enjoyed reading over these past few months getting good news! Three more applications to go and son will be finished with his. He's decided to go ahead and do them in the next two weeks so he can relax over winter break. Meanwhile, we wait and hope for December 15....</p>
<p>Celebrian-congratulations-is this one of the guaranteed pharmacy programs?
Carolyn-I wondered where Redlands was on your daughter's current list. Their personal touch really sold me. Your daughter doesn't have too be far away from home to be away from the parents-just ask my son. We often comment he might as well be on the other coast. The dorms have been closed twice-he has stayed here once but his laundry has visited twice.</p>
<p>Janie, that is such fabulous news about the scholarships for your DD! Please pass on my congratulations! :D</p>
<p>redlands is an awesome, underappreciated school. congrats!</p>
<p>I want to add one more voice for Hiram college. It is one of my daughter's favorites.
She stated it feels like home. She visited it during summer, received acceptance letter a week later after submitting application. Needless to say it did wonders for her self esteem ;) She came even more impressed after overnight visit. One of their special features is stone soup co-op vegetarian cooking.
Since she is excellent cook who likes to to eat what she wants, when she wants and how she wants it, prospect of participating in every aspect of her meals is very attractive to her.
By my D words students at Hiram similar to Knox and Lawrence, her other two favorite colleges. She had connected well with prefessors, renovations at campus are great, now fitness center has state of the art facilities, excellent labs and dorms are nice. Car is a necessity since any store is driving distance.
One of the very impressive statistics for me as a parent how college which admits
not only A, but B and sometimes even C students can produce such amazing PhD records.</p>
<p>I've been gone for a day and come back to hear of ALL the wonderful acceptances! Congrats to everyone!</p>
<p>Hayden
Just adding congrats on your D's focus and admittance to Penn State. S spent a summer there and LOVED it,also wants big campus feel.He would have applied in a heartbeat but they don't have the very specific program he wants. Has she visited yet?Its a great college town..and great homemade ice cream on campus!</p>
<p>"redlands is an awesome, underappreciated school. congrats!"</p>
<p>Its underappreciated for a reason. Can anyone say a run-of-the-mill state school?</p>
<p>Carolyn,
congrats on your daughter's acceptance. Our son seems to be thriving at Redlands his first semester in the Johnston Program. The small classes and professors that seem to care and be truly interested in him as a individual have made it a real contrast to our older son's experience at UCSD. So far no regrets at all (he is signed up for a May term class in Japan which is ideal for the major he is crafting).</p>
<p>I'm kind of feeling sorry for Goucher, though. Your D seemed to like that school a lot - did I miss something, or did she decide not to apply ? >></p>
<p>Hayden, Goucher is still very high on her list. She applied there EA, but they don't promise to give EA decisions until Feb. </p>
<p>LAmom, You know, your Son had quite a bit to do with Amanda's applying to Redlands...and Sierradoc, she may want to email your son at some point about the Johnston center. I think it would be a wonderful opportunity for her if she decides to stay close to home.</p>
<p>But, nothing is set in stone...she will hear from another EA school in the next two weeks, Goucher by February, and other schools RD. So, it ain't over 'til it's over. But at least she has some choices now. :)</p>
<p>carolyn,</p>
<p>My D applied to Goucher EA too--one of the few schools where a campus visit made the difference to her.</p>