M10 Parents' Edition the try-not-to-freakout-thread

After today’s acceptance without fa I’m more worried than I was yesterday. I really don’t want to be the reason DD doesn’t get to go to away to school. It will break my heart to break hers that way.

Best wishes to all of you!

@makp715 We are in same boat…

Hope everyone can pass this day by being super busy or super relaxed or doing something fun!
Tomorrow’s the big day. I hope everyone shares so we can get some insights from the results of this process.

Good luck to everyone! :x

Best of luck to everyone. Remember luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Our children have been prepared to the best of their ability. We have undoubtedly done our part. I wish for them that they all get the opportunities to thrive at whatever school they end up attending.

I am anticipating being here next year!!! Groundhog Day for me is March 10th!!! Anyone else re-reading posts that tell us what to tell our kids ? For @makp715 keep positive-- have a good feeling it will be ok and want to hear your good news! We have awesome kids and are really blessed to be their parents. You all are special people and feel like we have become friends.

How are you planning to spend the day tomorrow? With a season-end snow predicted for tomorrow am, it may become a work-from-home day, which is a blessing or a curse depending on the decision

I too am under snow (and possible kids’ snow day) watch. I had planned to work from home anyway, but snow makes it an easier decision. Our eighth graders were given the option to stay home, but DS agreed that he should go to school (and I was not interested in having him home, anxiously pacing around), though he wanted me to be checking emails and portals during the day. He will hear from at least 2 schools well before school starts, so who knows. Hopefully it will be a good day with all of us cooped up together.

@1000miles I’m going to work tomorrow. I have a huge event I am planning at work, so since DD is at a cultural workshop all day, I cancelled my scheduled day off. Her workshop is where I work, so we will come home together and when DH gets here open emails.

I will also be thinking of all the kids here and hoping for the best for each of them!

Best wishes to you all! :x

Our M10 was a Sunday-- so some of the answers came on Friday, the 8th. And we had a major snowstorm. We live in a REALLY small town (think Mayberry!), and the postmaster called me at work to say there were packages from schools waiting for us. I had to beg a colleague to drive a big heavy farm vehicle to the post office (the roads were awful) to pick up the mail that morning. And then when I phoned D at home to excitedly tell her that several packages had come, she mumbled “Mom, can you call me later? It’s a snow day… I’m sleeping.” Ack!! 8-|

I don’t understand. I thought by agreement no school could give a reply before m 10? Should we start compulsively checking the portals?

@sadieshadow I believe only TSAO schools are bound to that, but others have followed suit.

I am going to be home all day tomorrow. Well, a trip to the bank, a trip to the Walgreens…but other than that, home. I have laundry to do, as we are leaving in the evening for Birmingham and then either to Gatlinburg for spring break (if there are zero acceptances) or up north to visit and revisit. I am hoping that NMH gives us a yes because they are the earliest to email the decisions (11 pm my time), and if I know early I can plan the packing for northern weather instead of southern. It just would make tomorrow less…fraught. If I know she’s in at at least one place I can also get some sleep, and not tear my hair out and keep myself up.

I am thinking of just taking some ambien after 11 no matter what happens. Honestly that would be the best thing.

Good luck, everyone!

Soo . .St. Andrews letter came a day early which was too bad in our case. … got the wait list but without replies from other schools it raises anxiety before bedtime. He loved SAS but it was not his first choice thankfully. Tomorrow-will get two replies in the early am. My husband who up until this moment refused to play out any scenarios already asked me . . what if he is not accepted to . . and then he is accepted to . . what do we do about the Waitlist? My reply—lets not go down that decision tree just yet–it may not be relevant in the end. My son is fine–only his older sister was upset for him which was sweet.

@sadieshadow - 4 years ago when M10 was Sunday TASO and many other schools announced well ahead of March that they would be sending decisions on M9. If schools mail USPS letters there is a little more variation in when they are received. If it is via email or portal timing is more precise.

Chimneykid 2 is in this cycle but is applying late to what I will call invisible gem schools along with some of the ones mentioned more frequently here. Wishing you and your kiddos all good things tomorrow.

Hang in there, @sadieshadow – 4 years ago, our first letter was a WL too, and it was from the “safety” school! OY. I got no sleep that night, but the next day brought happier news. Hoping the same for you!

Got it! Thanks.

So good news! Millbrook portal at 5 sharp an accept. Blair email came through at around 630. Accept! We love both of these schools in so many ways. Feel gratitude towards them and pride for my son. Waiting for Berkshire but feeling happy already. Fingers crossed for everyone.