<p>It's very cute. They are all wishing eachother well. The Princeton and Yale and Penn kids (and probably others but that's who I saw) go to the Columbia and Dartmouth boards (I guess Columbia and Dartmouth come out today), and wish them well. Sort of like wishing the comrades well before they march off to battle:).</p>
<p>I have been watching Dartmouth.....daughter of dear friends is awaiting the news....she works in a toy store so she will have a lot of distractions this afternoon regardless of the outcome!!</p>
<p>Of course, I am proud that it was a Mhaine'er who started the thread on the Dartmouth forum......Elizabeth22 has shown a lot of grace this past year....</p>
<p>I have been trying to avoid the Harvard forum.</p>
<p>I tend to keep an eye on the Columbia forum, and you get to know the kids well enough to be nervous for them. It's really touching to see how they support each other, both within and between schools.</p>
<p>I read the Brown forum. They are giving Celebrian a hard time for having so many posts.</p>
<p>I was reluctant to look last year as I have to confess I found some of the kids on the board at son's ED school to be (at least in Cyberworld) painful(not to mention obsessed and since my son wasn;t, it wasn't useful!) ...but then, at a school that son applied to (not ED) there was a boy who stated an intent to hurt himself after the EA decisions. I know that another parent and I on the board both saw this and responded to it aggressively, and not just through CC....</p>
<p>I think it is great when the kids are so generous with each other, and have a sense of community through the process (especially kids in far flung places without a real-life set of peers for the process).</p>
<p>The Harvard kids and Penn kids are now wishing each other good luck.</p>
<p>However, Harvard and Princeton are still squabbling.</p>
<p>I remember tuning in to S's colege after he applied (I didn't know CC before his apps went out). I felt like I got to know one passionate young man, and now he and my S are roommates!</p>
<p>I know what you mean bookworm. There is a kid on the CC forum that sounds EXACTLY like my S.</p>
<p><em>a little girl peaks in the parent world</em> </p>
<p>O.O</p>
<p>I participate regularly in the MIT board, answering questions in what I hope is a calm and rational way, and right now they are all going completely NUTS there. EA decisions were mailed last Friday, in a blinding snowstorm, and the results are trickling around the country at uneven rates. And to make it "worse", the admit packs this year come in mailing tubes with posters and confetti, so kids with small mailboxes are freaking out that if they get a tube it won't fit and it might get lost.</p>
<p>So much anxiety and angst right now....</p>
<p>Lynda, after you're finished peaking...tragic at so young an age...please feel free to peek around. I hope this doesn't leave you piqued.</p>
<p>awww i love the mit way of sending out decisions...</p>
<p>TheDad, that is so worthy of our very own Pic de la Mirandole. :)</p>
<p>I was just thinking of something cc could do if they wanted to facilitate obsession. They could use that mapping software the kids are using to map the locations for the ED applicants to track the arrival of the ED/EA decisions....And they could use the college list menu as the dashboard with red lights that turn green when the first decision is posted.</p>
<p>OMG. I hope they never do that:).</p>
<p>Alumother,
on the Yale decision site for the Yale early cycle, a few years ago, had a US map with little blue dots indicating something....to this day I do not know what that map was all about....# of applicants, # of acceptances, geographic disperment of all enrolled kids A(ie showing the 50 state representation??) ....anyway, I know that I downloaded a copy of it....and then used one of my viewers to zoom in on our little town to see if there were 4 dots there .. we had 4 applicants....or were there only 1 or 2 dots (meaning perhaps 1 or 2 accepted early) etc etc.....this was one of those items that made it out to the applicant world before decisions did....
so, I laugh at your suggestion of red and green dots..... we must be type A fixers for any process.....thinking of things that would make life easier........so much more fun to think about fixing things out of our control than dealing with real to-do's!!!!</p>