<p>Happy? Sad? Mad? Didn't care?</p>
<p>Jest wondering, still a high schooler.</p>
<p>Not sure if this is the best place to put it...</p>
<p>Mine didn’t care. They literally said “oh” to the first one, and had a similar reaction to the second one. After that I stopped bothering to tell them. College just isn’t their thing.</p>
<p>^The reaction of my parents was similar. The only one they were excited over is my current school. As for the rest, they didn’t really know what they were - my mother, for one, thought the University of Chicago was a public school.</p>
<p>My dad hit me when I didn’t get a full ride at Harvard</p>
<p>My parents were disappointed that I didn’t want to go to the same crappy, overcrowded, bad-reputation having college that most other people that go to my high school go to because it’s cheap. Then I decided to not go to my other state school choice because it wasn’t a very good quality school and the campus seemed like it needed a major, major upgrade. </p>
<p>So instead I go to a school that’s a little ways out of state, but close enough so that I actually still get their in-state tuition 
My parents were still a little upset about the cost difference since I don’t get our state scholarship, but the school has such better quality than the state schools I looked at. And most importantly, they have a fantastic program for my major.</p>
<p>I pretty much had to ignore them saying __ is a good school or why don’t you want to go to ___ it’s cheap! I had to do what was best for me, and I’ll be the one paying back the loans at the end of the day anyway, so I might as well go to a school I enjoy! Plus now that I’m here I think my parents really like the school.</p>
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<p>Well it’s his fault that your family makes more than $60000.</p>
<p>^ It could be the mom’s fault…</p>
<p>My parents were meh. No real reaction. They were just kind of like… k? You going there then?</p>
<p>Most of the schools I applied to were safeties or matches, so it wasn’t like there was a lot of surprise at those acceptances. My parents were excited at first anyway, though (probably because I’m the oldest of five kids, so having the first kid get their first college acceptances is an emotional thing). My mom was thrilled when I got into the college I am currently attending because her dad taught here and it has sentimental value for her, but at the time of the acceptance, we didn’t think they would be able to afford to send me here, so at that point it was excitement that I had gotten in, not that I was going.</p>
<p>To be honest, I was pretty upset when I was rejected from HYP + Dartmouth. My parents didn’t care though, and they spent a lot of time trying to make ME feel better. They were actually kind of annoyed at me when I didn’t get over it after the first few minutes, lol.</p>
<p>you got accepted?</p>
<p>parents: ehhhh how much financial aid did you get???</p>
<p>you got rejected?</p>
<p>parents: ehhhh they probably wouldn’t have given you aid anyways</p>
<p>My mom wanted me to stay in-state for college, but after months of convincing her otherwise (and that it was financially feasible to go out-of-state) I finally got my way.</p>
<p>My parents weren’t as excited as I was when I first started getting acceptances but when I got off the waitlist at Loyola they were so excited teehee and they were sad because I was sad when I got rejected/waitlisted. :D</p>
<p>When I was rejected from Harvard, my parents weren’t surprised at all. I wasn’t even all that surprised. They were like, “Hah! We knew it!”</p>
<p>Frankly, when I told my Dad that I was accepted to my top choice (I initially told him in jest that I was suspended from school), he yelled at the top of his lungs at his practice; nonetheless, all his employees thought he was going insane. On the other hand, my Mom actually cried… </p>
<p>For better insight, I went through a series of hardships during Middle/High school, which is not to say other people have not experienced what I went through, and getting in had a lot of sentimental value… at least at the time, haha.</p>
<p>Acceptances: Great job!
Rejections: Ah well!</p>
<p>They’ve never been very demanding, I’m grateful for it.</p>