<p>I believe that Cami's son posted he was going to Emory and staying on the waitlist for Brown.</p>
<p>Has anyone been accepted off of the Emory waitlist? I heard they had so many acceptances that they may not even get to their waitlist.</p>
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<p>Better late than never! Yes, son has accepted Emory but remains on the Brown waitlist. The decision came just a day or two before he left on the plane for Israel Monday morning. He'll be gone with his class till May 25 and then come home to graduate.</p>
<p>It was a tough decision. In the last few months, son fell head over heels in love with Brown. That dream dies hard and still tugs at his heart. But with Brown waitlist on the back burner and probably unlikely to budge despite son's fervent pleas, it was hard to decide where to send in an acceptance. He made a gazillion lists and charts then threw them all in the trash. Son kept asking me if U Chicago would let him defer his admission to attend grad school there. ;) He recognized what a great school U Chicago was but just didn't feel the magic for undergrad when he revisited in April. </p>
<p>At that point, I assumed he'd end up at Tufts. I went to pick him up at the airport after a visit to Boston, and he told me he was leaning to Emory. (Good thing I had a firm grip on the wheel!) He's interested in middle eastern studies, Jewish studies, and poli sci, also internships at the Carter Center or CNN and study abroad in Cairo. He's had 12 years of Hebrew and has always taken that for granted. Now he is talking about continuing with that and starting Arabic in the fall. </p>
<p>I can't tell you how much people from CC have helped us! At the last minute, when he was researching middle eastern studies, families and students with ties to the department came out of the woodwork. Where else can you get the inside scoop on a smallish department in a mid-size school within the space of 24 hours? One of the families mentioned a son in middle eastern studies doing study abroad in Israel who was currently taking a cruise to Turkey and Cyprus on pesach break. Forget all the "serious" stuff. It was the cruise that did it.....that plus Everybody's Pizza and the fact that Atlanta has a national league ballpark where you can walk up and get tickets on the spot (unlike the Cubs or Sox where you have to mortgage your firstborn). This decision was no slam dunk; son is still having some second thoughts, and we have our fingers crossed it will work out. At least he's taken one more step in the process.</p>
<p>It's so great to see so many fine results for families who were so very kind in putting up with my rants: merblajam's daughter at William and Mary; twinmom's D and S at Harvard and Yale, quiltguru's D at Yale, Andi's S at MIT, and Atlantamom's S at Swat. Too many more to mention! Now all we have to do is figure out how to get so much junk into the car or drag oversize luggage on a plane. If your kids are anything like mine, that won't be easy.</p>
<p>Yay Cami!! I have a vision your s putting the postcard into the mail slot on the way to the airport! Emory sounds like it has so much to offer in the way of s's interests. I hope he has a fantastic visit to Israel and doesn't think about applications for the next few weeks!!
Waitlist aside, you're done!!!!!!</p>
<p>Hey Cami, Congratulations! I'll write more later, but just wanted to set OUR record straight. Our kids are not going to be at Harvard and Yale ... rather Harvard and Vassar. They're just delighted.
Glad all worked out for your son - my daughter had a great time at Emory when she was there for the Scholars Weekend ... was very impressed and met lots of great kids. :)</p>
<p>Yea Cami!!!</p>
<p>Son visited Emory with his research group last summer, also stopped by the nearby CDC. He did say he really liked Emory's campus, his description was a "Disneyland" for college students, with tons of academic seriousness. He liked it better than many of the campuses he visited including some of the ivy's, LACs and top 10 non-ivy's. He received a substantial merit scholarship for Emory, that was another bonus, they are VERY generous.</p>
<p>Congrats again, I think he made a very wise choice.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>ps- Disneyland, as in VERY happy students and profs, extremely clean, neat and tidy, nice dorms and fab computer labs and classrooms, everything in tip top shape</p>
<p>Congrats! Cami! sounds like a fine choice, made for great reasons!</p>
<p>Cami, I just saw your son's decision and want to offer my heartfelt congratulations. Atlanta is a fantastic city and Emory a delightful and memorable school! Who knows? Maybe he'll score tickets to the Master's Golf tournament? It could happen! Best wishes and hugs!</p>
<p>QG</p>
<p>Cami...we adore Atlanta and Emory has wonderful ties to all things best in Atlanta. Lived there twice as a child and twice as an adult, and worked two blocks from Emory. Atlanta is a great city for the young on every level, and so congrats to Emory for landing your son.</p>
<p>Many thanks for everyone's good wishes for son. I am an Emory alum from ancient grad school days, and the campus is definitely attractive. </p>
<p>There's a strange coincidence about all this. My son's middle name comes from a dear friend who died just before he was born. This friend went to Emory for undergrad, did a master's in Egyptology at Brown, and many years later had an exhibit in the museum on the Emory campus of various pictures of antiquities from the Middle-east that he had taken while stationed there during World War II. What are the odds that son would end up at Emory with a waitlist at Brown, and be considering a Middle eastern studies major? I spoke with our friend's widow (who lives within a stone's throw of the Emory campus), and she could only smile.</p>
<p>twinmom - </p>
<p>Whoops! The mind knows but the fingers type strange things at 2 a.m. I remember smiling when I read a congratulatory post some days ago that it's great to live in a society where son could go to Vassar and daughter to Harvard (or vice versa if they preferred). It will be interesting to see how your family manages the logistics of getting one offspring to New York and the other to Boston!</p>
<p>Quiltguru,</p>
<p>When I lived in Augusta, we went regularly to the Master's since a close friend had inherited tickets. (They are passed down in families.) I loved all the foliage on the course and walking around in the beautiful Georgia spring, but unfortunately still can not tell one end of a golf club from the other.</p>
<p>Cami - Congrats to your son for making his own choice and not the choice that others seemed to want to make for him. I recently finished reading History on Trial and I envy the opportunity your son will have to take classes with Deborah Lipstadt. More importantly, I was truly impressed by the level of support Lipstadt describes having received from Emory throughout her entire ordeal with David Irving. Quite impressive. I wish your S luck with the Brown wl, but it's hard to see where he could go wrong with Emory, particularly given his interests. (Your situation sounds a little like ours at this time last year. Like your S, my D had a tough time making her final decision. She attended several admitted student sessions - including one at Tufts - made her final decision (not Tufts), then boarded a plane to Israel and the whole decision-making process quickly became ancient history. I hope your S has a safe and wonderful trip and that he's celebrating Yom Ha'Atzmaut today without a single college thought on his mind!)</p>
<p>All the great acceptances and final decisions have been coming in so fast and furious....</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of the kids and also to the parents whose blood, sweat and tears have been part of this grueling process--we are all "survivors" and I wish all of the College Classes of 2010 much happiness and success.</p>
<p>Congratulations Cami. Emory sounds like a wonderful place and Atlanta is a great city. And there's nothing wrong with nice weather:).</p>
<p>Cami -- Adding my congrats to your son. Sounds like he looked at his choices from all angles. I'm sure he'll be happy and successful at Emory!</p>
<p>Congrats to cami's S !! Great news all around!!</p>
<p>Who is still out there making decisions?</p>
<p>only the lonely transfer families?? :confused:</p>
<p>Aww, jmmom, hang in there! We were one of them once, so I sympathesize (those transfer decisions really trickle slowly, don't they?)</p>
<p>You and your S should get medals for what you've gone through this year!</p>
<p>Congrats on surviving the May 1 deadline and the great places all of your kids are off to in the fall.</p>
<p>Jmmom,</p>
<p>Baby don't worry, we are gonna hang in her with you until through this transfer process. I heard the marmots are already on alert :)</p>
<p>Another member of the been-there-done-that club, jmmmom. Not much streamlined about the transfer process, is there? Daughter had one transfer decision that didn't come in till late June last year. Geez. Fortunately, the decision had already been made by then. Best to your son.</p>