<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>DD received an email from Juilliard tonight informing her that acceptance decisions would be posted on Thursday night at 8:00 PM.</p>
<p>She will be at All States so she has asked me to go online and look at it at 8:01 PM. I am already hyperventilating.</p>
<p>If I take a couple of Benadryl, maybe I can pull a Rip Van Winkle and awaken on Thursday at 7:45 PM. :)</p>
<p>DD is fine - I AM A WRECK!</p>
<p>B R E A T H E… (Do I need to send you a paper sack)</p>
<p>See if you can complete an entire reading of “War and Peace” between now and Thursday. It should keep you occupied betwixt now and then. Here’s a list of titles should Tolstoy not be your author of choice. [List</a> of longest novels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels]List”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels)</p>
<p>Or there’s Churchill’s six volume history, “The Second World War”.</p>
<p>Keeping my fingers crossed. Happy reading (the results, not my suggestions). Best of luck! And to ALL awaiting Juilliard, and other results.</p>
<p>One word: xanax!</p>
<p>Calm down!! Hyperventilating will not change any of the admission decisions, so just relax, and check on Thursday! I’m also waiting for some decisions this week… but I’m not too anxious about it. I wish you all the best…:)</p>
<p>Can we start a “breathing” support group for this week??!</p>
<p>As a good friend once told me, there is no sense in worrying unless you plan to take some action. Try making three lists - each one containing things you will need to do and questions you will need to ask in the event of an acceptance, a wait listing or a rejection. Come Thursday night, you can tear up two of them and put the third to good use.</p>
<p>Perhaps you will only need two. I imagine that Juilliard’s yield is fairly high and therefore reasonably predictable, so maybe they do not do wait lists. Does anyone know for sure?</p>
<p>Every morning I wake up and think “I made it through another night.” This is a LONG week, but I’m confident when all is said and done, our kids will all be great! Good luck everyone!!!</p>
<p>My daughter got that email as well–it’s going to be a long three days, but hopefully we’ll be so busy that it will fly by.</p>
<p>Go for alot of brisk walks. I read once that when you go for a walk, at least for a while, you can walk away from your troubles.</p>
<p>I have been told that they do waitlist kids…One year a girl out DD school was indeed waitlisted for VP…She was offered a position in different studio or she could be waitlisted for teacher she wanted…Decided to be waitlisted…spot opened…she got in.</p>
<p>DS got the same email. He’ll be in an orchestra rehearsal Thursday evening and I’m driving him, so I’ll be sitting in the car on shpilkes.</p>
<p>Yes, Juilliard definitely does wait-lists. A friend of mine was wait-listed for double bass last year and ended up getting in and getting a full scholarship!</p>
<p>Thanks for the helpful advice all! I am having a difficult time reading “War and Peace” with a paper bag over my nose and mouth! 
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<p>Made it through today - I was busy at work so that was good!</p>
<p>BluePearl - good luck to your daughter also!</p>
<p>What if the two of you just flew down to Puerto Rico for a coupla days? Wouldn’t that help?</p>
<p>I can’t resist jumping in as you’re all talking about War and Peace. It just so happens I am revising the Maude translation and working on a new edition of War and Peace for Oxford University Press. I took the assignment as a kind of occupational therapy but I most definitely cannot keep my mind on it (or anything but conservatory acceptances).</p>
<p>You all entertain me! Well, even though I do not have any connections to Juilliard, I will be checking this thread Thursday night!! This is better than reality tv!! I am wishing all of you the best!</p>
<p>I am so sorry not to have wished your DS good luck too!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>I started an online countdown clock… :)</p>
<p>Best!</p>
<p>Even though DD decided not to pursue Julliard, I still watch for those acceptances every year and cheer on those who try. Good luck to everyone who gave it a go.</p>
<p>Good luck, all!</p>