<p>From someone who remembers what it was like last year, just a brief note to wish you all good luck during the next anxious hours and days. May your children get acceptances and financial aid! </p>
<p>I remember: how happy we were at 12:01 a.m. to get the on-line notification from one school; disappointed the next morning for another's on-line rejection; how frustrated we were to receive several wait-lists at different on-line notification times during the day, then jubilant to get a large box with an acceptance and generous financial aid the next day on the 11th.</p>
<p>All this to say: be prepared for a roller-coaster of emotions. Remember, you and your child have done the best that you could, and the decisions are out of your hands.</p>
<p>Thank you - so much, BrooklynGuy. I always look forward to posts from those who have been through this already. Thank you, and all the other veterans, for helping those of us who are new.</p>
<p>Thanks for that…I just had a cup of coffee to try to make it to 12:01 for SPS! Our dogs will be waiting with me, and if it’s positive, I have “permission” to go into my daughter’s room with the news! I keep thinking that so many of these kids have never been rejected from anything in their lives.</p>
<p>Pom_mom: Last year, SPS was the morning rejection for us, so I guess they changed the time for this year.</p>
<p>And it is unknown if the Andover packages will arrive on the 10th this year, or be shipped on the 10th to arrive on the 11th. Last year, with the 10th on a Monday, know one knew what would happen. But, at 4:00 p.m on the 10th, when no one on CC had any news from Andover, I knew we were in the same boat as everyone else. And after all of the waitlists, I was surprised by the Andover acceptance. Another piece of advice: don’t let what one school does serve as a prediction for what others will do.</p>
<p>Good Luck to all waiting for the mail today. I so remember what it was like last year. I haven’t been on much in the last month due to other things going on, but have been thinking about everyone involved in the process a lot the last few days. </p>
<p>We found out one acceptance via email just after mid-night last year, the others all came on the 11th (Monday as noted). 2 small (both waitlists), 3 larger envelopes (all acceptances, but one with FA waitlist). </p>
<p>I’m not looking forward to doing it again next year with my daughter.</p>
<p>This morning has been a wild ride for us. My d was accepted at SPS, then she checked Mercersburg, which was her first choice, and she was waitlisted. We were very surprised. She really loved Mercersburg, had a good interview, worked really hard on the essays, but w.e. Then I just opened the email from Exeter, after she left for school, and she was not accepted. It’s nice to have that acceptance in hand, it makes everything else easier to swallow.</p>
<p>Ah, Im dying here…
waitlisted at SPS. Middlesex. In at Brooks (3rd choice)
Now waiting for 2nd choice. The snail mail cant come soon enough today.</p>
<p>Good luck and have a glass of wine tonight!</p>
<p>emdee - If Mercersburg is her first choice, you can call and tell them that she will attend if accepted. Since she got accepted to SPS, she is obviously qualified; they may have been protecting thier yeild. It’s worth a phone call, if it really is her first choice. </p>
<p>Also, re-visit days are huge. They can easily turn a 2nd or 3rd choice into a first choice.</p>
<p>So far my son was accepted at one and waitlisted at two others. I’m not optimisitic aobut him being waitlisted - but was wondering if waitlisted and rejection were the same thing. Do schools send out letters that say “sorry - you were not accepted” with no mention of a wait list?</p>
<p>I’m surprised by the outcome. My son has great credentials, scores, EC’s etc - and he interviews like an intellignet adult. The interviewer at one of the schools that waitlisted him told me straight out that he was one of the strongest candidates she had ever met and that she would give him her highest endorsement. She met with him for 1.5 hours. Oh well - he’s a great kid and a resilient kid and he’d still go on to be a success if he spent his high school years in a reform school. </p>
<p>I hope things are going well for everyone else.</p>
<p>I’m hanging onto WAITLIST til the very end when they tell me it is officially closed.</p>
<p>I must admit – I am so much worse today than I anticipated. It is difficult to not take it personally. Son is quite fine – but not good ole Mom – me thinks they may leave me out of college planning after this.</p>
<p>If we call about the waitlist, do you think they will offer financial aid? I am waiting to see if she initiates any inquiries regarding getting off the waitlist. This morning she was pretty stunned and didn’t say much, I want to know what she is thinking and not start something if she is going to be satisfied going elsewhere.</p>
<p>The day has been salvaged by the Fedex package from Hotchkiss. After reject from Exeter and waitlist at SPS all before breakfast, I could barely breathe today. I made it home from work a few minutes before my daughter came home from school and saw the Fedex. Called husband and started to cry immediately…logged in to find two more waitlists from Groton and Choate (two schools that we really believed she’d get into)…agggh. Thank goodness for Hotchkiss, which was her first choice all along! Best of luck during the rest of the waiting.</p>
<p>What are the odds of actually getting into a school that you are waitlisted in?
With revisit days just around the corner, there is not much time
Do they go down some random list?</p>
<p>congrats, pom_mom! FedEX from Hotchkiss? I think you may be the first on this forum receiving the offcial notice from Hotchkiss. We haven’t even got the online decision yet, which is supposed to be up at 6pm.</p>