Fantastic! Congratulations!
Fabulous…hoping twin 2 has a great option as well!
Love this post, from title to reveal! From another mother of multiples. Go twins!!
Congrats! D19 received the highest scholarships besides the full rides, which we were hoping for. If it makes you feel better, my twins are #4 and #5, and had them all in 6 1/2 years, so lots of college overlap.
Congratulations!
Thanks for sharing your “luck” and joy with us. I put luck in quotation marks because 99% of the credit should go to your daughter and her hard work. (Be proud, Dad! You and Mom did a great job.)
That’s awesome. Congrats!!!
The other twin has accepted at Pitt.
Congrats!
Fwiw this may happen more often than you think–those tippy-top students are most likely to have multiple scholarship offers, all but one of which they have to turn down–making room for a bunch of happy runners up. (That is, if the college actually awards the scholarship to the next in line–some don’t.)
When I was in college, each year I had to sign a form at the FA office stating that I had not registered for the draft because I was female. Senior year, after the clerk pulled my (paper) file she left the room. Looking through the file, I found out I had been only the third alternate for the 4-year scholarship I received. (Cringe–I think my “score” was something like 72/100–lacking in “leadership” and “creativity.” I might’ve thought less of myself had I known earlier.) Thankful those three people above me went elsewhere! Btw, I am also a twin–3rd (and 4th) of 7, and my twin had a full ride at another school.
When I clicked on this, I was worried it was going to be bad news. This thread may be the CC litmus test for determining if you’re a half full, half empty glass kind of expectant reader.
Congrats and thanks for celebrating with us!
have a relative that was offered full tuition at U of Texas law school - one of very few. Relative was young and going through a divorce at the time and wanted to leave the state; turned it down. (ended up in a superb place and situation now. absolutely no regrets!)
We’ve often wondered how the alternate next in line felt about hearing the news late in the summer. I’d like to think the reaction was like OP’s! 
Congratulations to your daughter!
Congratulations! We had a similar experience (in terms of the shock value) with our oldest. He had a goal of top ten b-school. He needed that to make a career move he wanted. It is a long process, by design. Two years. He studied like crazy for the gmat but he was a B+ student his whole life. His father and I spent those two years encouraging him but preparing him for disappointment. I mean NO WAY was he getting into one of those schools. Well, he rocked his gmat, got into his top choice school, and here is the uber shocker, got one of 25 full scholarships. When he called me with that news I was at work and my coworkers came rushing into my office because they thought someone had died. That scholarship was life and career changing for him. Because he had the $ he had been saving he has been able to participate in many of the networking events (which are all over the world). Moral of the story (for us) is when your kid really wants something, he/she CAN get it with hard work. I would have bet my house that this would not have happened. So would have his high school math teachers. Actually anyone who had ever met him because he was really just an average kid. He begins his job with the employer he targeted 4 years ago, this May 31. Unreal. (PS, his getting his undergrad with zero debt made a big difference here - thank you flagship state university! He was free to make a job choice which was better aligned with b-school and he was able to spend a ton of time preparing for the gmat and visiting b-schools. Debt may have changed his trajectory).
Congrats!
Bursting to tell my story. I know how scholarships, even partial ones, can make or break the college experience personally (and long stopped wondering if I had put my U as first for NMS- four year instead of flat corporate one). Therefore, several years ago when we could afford all college expenses (translated my hard work into financial security) I quietly did not encourage my son to put the school he was going to as his pick for National Merit- will never know if he would have gotten it but glad someone who likely could use the money got it. Bragging rights not needed.
Better than winning lottery.
AWESOME!!!
Lots of depressing news on CC - thanks for sharing some great news!
Thanks.
The admissions officer called me yesterday ( we actually have talked about 10x, including a few times in person )… and he told me that my daughter was actually preferred by some of the people who did the voting, but was ultimately not awarded it at first. He then said, he pretty much knew from the beginning that my daughter would get it because he thought the other girl would decline. He just couldn’t tell me until it was official.
That is AWESOME! How fun go read good news.
If I understand things correctly, the other twin could still get need based financial aid if the cost is greater than EFC/2 . (Other parents please correct me quickly if I’m wrong).
The other daughter chose to go to Pitt. They offered nothing. She did have a scholarship to the same school, but preferred Pitt.