<p>never say never, akiiriah... you're AWESOME!!! athletes are in a pool of their own, anyway.</p>
<p>I want ze bulldog. simple as dat.</p>
<p>well... here's the thing...</p>
<p>Don't immediately freak out and jump out a window, wait for the page to load--last year some people (like myself) actually never got to see the bulldog initially at all, or the music, and it just went straight to our acceptance pages. You'll be able to watch the bulldog animation / music as much as you want, though.</p>
<p>: )</p>
<p>Hahaha thank you for that.... i hope i'll get to see it!</p>
<p>are any of you guys going to sleep? lolll seems like ya'll are equally as nocturnal as I am...</p>
<p>Thanks Fringey =)</p>
<p>And Cozmo, that makes me feel so much better. 14+ hours now...</p>
<p>You wake up in the morning not knowing, and you know you'll go to sleep knowing, and you wonder how different you'll feel. Is it better to hope or to know? And when you know, what's really changed? Nothing about your child has changed. He's still who he is and he has the future that he's had all along; everything you've been working toward all these years as his parent is still to be worked toward. And you know that this decision defines neither him nor you. What makes a person is his character, his energy, his thoughtfulness, his passion or his reticence, his humor or his seriousness, his wild side or his gentle side, his I'll-conquer-the-world-ness or his low-key even keel. And: whether you've managed to teach him to be kind, or persistent, or generous, or charitable. Whether he gives people -- including himself, and you -- the benefit of the doubt. Whether he's confident or humble or some other quality from the long list of things we seek that have nothing to do with college acceptances or test scores or grades. All of these things are still in formation, and will be at the end of today just as they are this morning.</p>
<p>But there's no denying that you'll know something else, too, by the end of this day, and not just whether he was accepted straight-up by his first-choice school. You'll know whether you said the right thing when he found out -- not whether you said what you'd planned to say, but whether that turned out to have been the right thing to say. If he's accepted, did your happiness make him wonder whether that's why you love him so? If he's deferred or declined, did it hurt you more than him, or did your disappointment make things worse, or did your upbeat positivity seem false? Either way, did your emotion take the wind out of his? If you cried, or if you didn't, was he nice about it? Did you expect him to be?</p>
<p>And the answer to these questions, like the answer from the college, will not define you or your relationship with your daughter or your son. That's something you've been building for 17 years or so, and its character is something that you've known all along. </p>
<p>In that realm, today like any other day can feel your closeness or show your errors. It can be a day for a slight course correction, too. Unless something really awful happens, you still have many, many more days for getting it right or getting it wrong -- and as from the day he was born, for knowing him and for not knowing.</p>
<p>Whew - Choirmom, great post.</p>
<p>I will never forget how stressed out I was last year on this day. I think I am pretty sensitive but I just wanted to do the right thing if DD didn't get the news she hoped for.</p>
<p>We (like just about everyone else) tested the site a couple of times to make sure the password was working. I tried it one more time before she came home and was stunned when the letter appeared. She was deferred. I didn't know what to do. Should I let her open it again herself? Pretend I didn't know?</p>
<p>I always try to be honest with my child and I decided to just tell her what happened. "Hey, kid, you got deferred." </p>
<p>Here response was that it was better than getting rejected. </p>
<p>I won't lie. It made for a very long senior year. She had two other schools as back-ups and loads of other possibilities, but it made for a lot of uncertainty. </p>
<p>So, I really feel for all of you kids today. For some, there will be great celebrations - but my heart is with those who don't get the news they hope for. I have said this before and I will say it again - next year at this time you WILL be somewhere that you love. The kids who post on this thread are bright and funny and know how to make sure they don't take themselves too seriously.</p>
<p>I will be thinking of all of you this afternoon.</p>
<p>I'm getting butterflies in my stomach just remembering back to last year when my son was waiting to hear. He logged on at 1:45 pacific, then calmly walked out of his room and said, "I'm in." I thought he meant into the website, because the announcement wasn't supposed to be out till 2:00, but he meant "in" in. He decided immediately to accept and not apply anywhere else, and he's still very happy with his decision. Now, some we know also got the bulldog that day, others were waitlisted, a few rejected and the important thing to know is that one year later EVERYONE is very happy with where they ended up! Good luck to everyone today. Whatever happens today, though, I promise it'll work out well in the end!</p>
<p>hey...does anyone want to bump or create a new official scea 2012 thread bc that other one is mia..i think</p>
<p>There's another new one up already I believe.</p>