<p>Congrats to all those accepted EA!</p>
<p>I've been told that I'm pathetic for hating the post office because I haven't gotten my letter yet. </p>
<p>Grr. I love how my mail comes at 6pm.</p>
<p>My daughter received the Trustee's Scholarship, and apparently is being considered for the Richard Warch Scholarship. I was surprised they included this information with the acceptance letter, as that was not our experience with our older daughter.</p>
<p>S was awarded a Presidential Scholarship, and the offer was in the same thick packet as the acceptance letter. S is very happy and M & D are very proud of him.</p>
<p>My D received her EA acceptance in the mail today, along with the Trustee's Scholarship offer. :-)</p>
<p>I got my EA acceptance! Woohoo! I also got the Presidential Scholarship so I'm def happy! :)</p>
<p>S (chubbs12) had to withdraw his EA application as he was accepted ED at Grinnell. His application to Lawrence was one of the most difficult of all his withdrawls. When we visited and met professors, I was impressed with the education and I walked away with the feeling that the professors at Lawrence truly care about their students. Congratulations to all who are accepted. For those who attend, you will be going to a gem of a college.</p>
<p>Still nothing received in Milwaukee today. Maybe it's coming by dogsled?</p>
<p>Well, that's irritating! I'd be tempted to call the admission's officer.</p>
<p>DS received his EA acceptance yesterday (thick packet). Also received $7k/yr Alumni Scholarship.</p>
<p>It is irritating but I'm sure the admissions folks have been burning the oil late for the last few weeks and I'm not sure a call will do much good when the delay is probably with the post office at this point.</p>
<p>I am curious that some applicants apparently were notified by phone before receiving their letters. There's certainly nothing wrong with that; I just wonder why it happens with some and not all. </p>
<p>Of course, I shouldn't be so presumptuous. It's always possible that the delay is that rejections come out later than acceptances. :(</p>
<p>MilwDad--You're a better person than I am! Certainly, a more patient one. Your son will be accepted. Try not to worry. ... The postal service is a strange creature. We live in Lexington, Kentucky, and mail sent across town has been known to take longer than mail sent across country. You're only an hour or so outside of Appleton, so it could take all week!</p>
<p>It may be that those who are awarded merit scholarships are the ones to get the phone calls. But over the next 2 1/2 months we will all have to learn patience.</p>
<p>Dadx3--
Just curious... Did you guys also apply to UPS or is that too close? D, who has been accepted EA to Lawrence, did a late RD application to UPS. It has a great reputation and on one of our visits (to Whitman) we ran into a girl who absolutely loved UPS - which is one of the reasons that my D decided to apply (that and the fact that her college advisor also thought it was a great school).</p>
<p>Got my letter today w/ a 12k trustee scholarship.</p>
<p>My friend also got her acceptance letter today...10k scholarship. We both didn't get phone calls before our letters arrived.</p>
<p>Deferred. Oh well. All I can say is that it's very odd how differently peer institutions view the same application. Lawrence, like its peers, also seems to be getting a very large number of apps this year, and it probably didn't help that we are in-state as there seems to be a preference by most LACs to attract out of state students. Still, it's a head-scratcher. When we visited LU the director of admissions, after interviewing my son and already having his credentials, called us in and said "Well of course it has to go through the process but I can tell you your son will be admitted to Lawrence." Famous last words, I guess.</p>
<p>I suspect that he will be admitted eventually in the regular process, but by then I fear my son will have mentally struck LU from his own personal list, given the offers other schools have made. At the end of the day it's likely more disappointing for my wife and I than for him. The irony, of course, is that he will probably end up at an out of state LAC that finds him more attractive than another, similar, in-state applicant. C'est la vie.</p>
<p>No way! I looked at your son's stats on the profile, and there's no way he was deferred! It could well have been a mistake. If it were me, I'd contact the admissions officer and inquire about that possiblity. Or have my son do it.</p>
<p>MilwDad, my son couldn't apply EA due to music considerations. Therefore he was never deferred. He definitely went where he thought they loved him most. I wanted him in CA and he ended up in Wisconsin. In the end, I just got out of it and let, like my ol' Dad would say, the racket rip. It all works out in the end. But, you never know what's going to happen until the very end.</p>
<p>Hindoo, I don't know what to tell you. You can imagine our surprise. I can only assume LU had a wonderful (and large) set of EA applicants. </p>
<p>This has been a very educational process for us, no pun intended.</p>
<p>We have another son three years behind whose academic credentials could substantially surpass the older son's, at least objectively. But we have a feeling he'll be perfectly content to go to big state U, and that that would be the right environment for him. Conversely, we think our older son will thrive at an LAC. Kind of wish we could switch the two around a little bit, but life isn't like that. :)</p>
<p>overseas, I agree with you. There's only so much we parents can manage about the process. We can give direction but it's going to play out despite us. So we are trying to have as much zen-like acceptance of the twists and turns as we can muster, and trust that all will work out in the end.</p>
<p>MilwDad--I still think you should contact the admissions officer to see if a mistake was made. Really. With a 34 ACT, an 800 CR on the SAT, and strong ECs, your son should have been accepted EA--and with a scholarship! In my humble opinion.</p>
<p>I think you missed your calling. You obviously should have been an admissions officer at Lawrence. ;)</p>
<p>He does have some excellent credentials, but in fairness, he also has a 3.3 GPA (although that will very likely go up this year as he has finished his math and chemistry requirements; he's a social sciences kid who wants to be in the diplomatic corps some day). And he's wanted for gunrunning in three states.</p>
<p>Okay, I made that last part up.</p>