<p>As we approach 12/22, I'm starting a thread to serve as an outlet for anxious applicants and parents. Our daughter was smitten by WLU after a visit we practically forced her to make. WLU firmly displaced my alma mater (a fine public university a little over an hour to the northeast) as her number 1. After 12 years at a small private school, she thought she was ready for a large, dynamic university. But she was very attracted to the beauty of the campus and the intimate academic and social environment. She was able to meet professors, students, and a coach during a couple of subsequent visits. </p>
<p>We hope her application process will have a happy ending by Christmas.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all other ED applicants who explore this message board!</p>
<p>Again, though, you MUST visit. For the right kid it's the perfect school. </p>
<p>Much of what you read here is a fair honest appraisal of its benefits, drawbacks, and other issues facing those who attend.</p>
<p>It is heavily Greek. Is that right for your kid?
It is in a very small town. Is that right for your kid?
There is an active social party scene. Is that right for your kid?
It is tough academically. Is that right for your kid?</p>
<p>I have only one major, major, major issue but not with the school. PM me if you want \\\</p>
<p>Yes Dima, it's hard for us too to believe the class of 2012 is in the cue. It was just yesterday we were looking at pre-schools.</p>
<p>I appreciate your advice musictoad. My daughter has visited and made her decision to apply ED with eyes wide open. She wants strenous academics and I'm confident she can handle the academic work. Also, she loves Lexington (we have much family in that part of Virginia and several members who are WLU alums). The Greek system/social scene offers a new world for her, but she is also attracted to this aspect of WLU. </p>
<p>I'm interested in your perspective though, and will PM you later when I have time and after I learn how to do so.</p>
<p>I hope to hear of other applicants from different places.</p>
<p>When should we expect the letters to go out? Any advice for the Johnson scholarship essay?</p>
<p>You can bet that this Grannie is fervently praying that a very special 17 year old will be receiving good news from W&L next week. It would be the best Christmas present ever! </p>
<p>If for some crazy reason all our wishes do not come true, though, we know that in the end, all will be well. God works in mysterious ways.</p>
<p>Thanks for introducing me to College Confidential!</p>
<p>Has anyone received the result yet? It's said that emails will be sent no later than 12/18 and today is already Dec 17th...
I am so nervous plp.</p>
<p>trang.nguyen, I'm in the same state as you....sooooo nervous!! i literally cannot fall asleep at night these days! is it real that on Dec 18 can we receive notification online? the good news is that the torture for waiting will finally end;the bad news is we will have to face the hard truth so soon... anyway ,good luck to you! and to myself too!! hope we can see each other in Sep next year!!</p>
<p>ahhhhhhhhhh,i can literally hear the clock ticking....i hope everybody here got admitted and we will become the first group of friends of class 2012. good luck to everyone!!</p>
<p>hope so....I am checking my mail but oops i just cannot log in. Dunno what's wrong with that.
Livinghorror : Yes, I have asked them and they said they will send us notification emails today or tomorrow.</p>
<p>today or tomorrow.... it's so late and cold here. should i go to bed and lie wide awake and just sit here waiting and waiting? i log onto my email but no message yet...</p>
<p>It's great to have another generation take part in this discussion. I'm glad I could introduce you. You somehow sound too young to be a grannie!</p>
<p>Trang and Living, don't let the email make or break your Christmas. You've each obviously accomplished a lot of good things to get to this point. And an ED decision may not be the final word on W&L. Take Grannie's good advice: in the end, all will be well.</p>
<p>That said, we're glad to see two other students so excited about W&L. I wish you both success.</p>
<p>For the benefit of any applicant who may be following this thread, the Admissions Office is not notifying ED-1 applicants, at least domestic applicants, by email in the next two days as suggested above. Decisions will be delivered by regular US mail so as to be received by 12/22.</p>
<p>Also, the thickness of the envelope is not an indicator of the decision. Acceptances, rejections and deferrals apparently all come in thin envelopes.</p>
<p>Im not sure how the Admissions Office will notify international applicants. My guess is that Trang and Living have good information on that.</p>
<p>if the letter contains, as it has in the past few years, a color piece of paper visible when held up against a light.....congratulations, you've made it.</p>
<p>From what I remember:
a) int'l applicants are notified by email and later letter
b) acceptance, rejection and deferral letters are all printed on the same paper</p>
<p>full disclosure: I haven't even been in the States in a while so my memory could be quite off</p>
<p>I am an ED applicant and I called the admissions office and they said that they were sending the letters out today so we should get them by Thursday or Friday.</p>