<p>Yes, so true, Northeastmom. But we felt envious of many of my son's friends, who found out between 12/8 and 12/10 (eg. Cornell, UPenn, and I think Northwestern). To us, those extra days seemed endless!</p>
<p>Donemom, I do understand!!</p>
<p>I'm also surprised at how many posters say they will hear by snail mail. I thought the first notifications now all come either on the schools' websites or by e-mail.
6 years ago, when we waited for my d's RD decisions (she was deferred EA), it was all snail mail. A couple came early in the form of likely letters, and we knew that the important remaining ones would come on a particular Monday that followed the 1st of April. Believe it or not, I went to the post office early that morning, and convinced them to give me our mail. Then I drove at breakneck speed over to the high school, unopened envelopes in hand. But the suspense was over...her EA school sent a huge manilla envelope with "Congratulations" printed on the outside!</p>
<p>Another "thin envelope" scare today. This time it was informing us of financial aid deadlines! I am about to pull out the last remaining hairs on my head!!</p>
<p>No thin envelopes! Thin envelopes which are acceptances need to have cute/fun/congrats logos or they should be against the law.</p>
<p>Thin envelopes asking for more info or reminding of deadline - sheesh! isn't that why they have your email address?</p>
<p>Cruel and unusual punishment, these thin envelopes.</p>
<p>No thin envelopes! </p>
<p><em>mimics Joan Crawford's "No wire hangers" voice in Mommy, Dearest</em></p>
<p>2 years ago, my D's school snail mailed decisions. I assume they still do so. She preferred that method. While stressful, she looked forward to getting the mail and wanted to see THE envelope (whatever size and result). We were forbidden from removing any mail from the box during that crucial week. Several of her friends had notifications on-line or via the telephone (Stanford). She thought those were way too impersonal.</p>
<p>Good luck to all of your kids with their envelopes, computers, or telephones.</p>
<p>concerneddad, what kind of sadistic college is this anyway?</p>
<p>Yeah, they probably stuff their rejections with a lot of brochures and things and send out one-page acceptances telling you where to download the required forms.</p>
<p>northeastmom said: "Well, at least your EA was Dec.15th, b/c some EA dates are the middle or end of January!!!"</p>
<p>In our case, S applied EA to all his schools and I think most list their EA notification dates on their websites showing dates between early February and March 15.....so we have an even lllonnnnnnnnggggggerrrrrrrr wait! :)</p>
<p>And, just to make it more exciting, after all this waiting for February to get here......I'm going to be out of town just as the bulk of the notices should start coming in!</p>
<p>guiltguru, that is what I am asking myself!</p>
<p>I remember this time last year. I found cc by Googling something like "When do EA decisions come out?". It must have been December 13th or so. I lurked for a long time, licking my wounds after D's EA deferral. Any of you already here most likely have made so many more intelligent decisions than we made already. I guess what I'm saying is, it could be worse:). Or maybe no matter how good your process, how much thinking, how much intelligence we as parents bring to this, it doesn't protect us from the sheer emotional barrage of will they won't they. I am thinking of all of you. Can't believe I have start it all up again next year when S is a junior. Crossing my fingers for you and sending woo woo vibes your way from NoCal.</p>
<p>Yay! so glad someone mentioned that skinny envelopes could be good. We got an anonymous (no hint about its contents) skinny letter today and it contained my son's first acceptance. Fortunately, Son was here when I got the mail so I didn't have to wait long for him to rip into it.</p>
<p>Alumother, I like you found this site by googling last year. Got S #1 into school and will be dealing with S#2 next year. It is really exciting to see the acceptances rolling in for this year's bunch and to relive the nervousness that we felt last year. I wish the best of luck to everyone. It will be over soon!</p>
<p>In case you haven't heard the news, Tulane announced they are dropping several majors in a consolidation plan to conserve resources. </p>
<p>Tulane was one of my sons top choices, but apparently they will no longer be offering Mechanical Engineering. </p>
<p>Now I am even more nervous than I was before!</p>
<p>O.K. as I'm reading all these posts about anxiety and nerves I'm embarrassed to tell you that I actually "stalked" the mailman the day I learned on CC that D's letter was probably coming. Came home and saw mailtruck down the street...I felt my adrenaline release as I ran and hid in the powder room (good view of mailbox from there) minutes seemed like hours before he finally stuffed the mail of the day into the box. I then proceeded to run out, in my socks, and yank the mail from the box....big envelope on bottom of pile...CONGRATULATIONS! across bottom. Wow, how "too involved" am I? I actually think disappointment will set in when the last decision comes in.</p>
<p>We got a really large envelope in the mail from Cornell today. I was so excited, then I remembered, "Wait. Son didn't apply to Cornell!" It was a viewbook and application. I have no life.</p>
<p>That is funny!</p>