<p>It’s nice to see this morning that our deferred kids are doing just fine and moving forward. I’m glad we’ve had each other to help keep ourselves positive for our kids.</p>
<p>I’m really happy for those who got good news for ED/EA. And for those who’s kids were rejected, as others and I have said it really can be a blessing in disguise. There is no way my older daughter could have been as happy at her ED school as the one she went to this past year.</p>
<p>Learning to regroup from setbacks is such an important life skill. The most qualified candidate doesn’t always get the job or promotion; we will all experience heartbreak and loss in our lives. However, I believe part of the our kids bounce back is because the parents here are so understanding, supportive and aware of what their kids have accomplished. Props and hugs to all the parents who help their kids learn to roll with life’s punches!</p>
<p>It’s great to have everyone’s kind support for all of the different situations we are all facing. </p>
<p>Archermom, I actually tried to send you a pm but no luck…all the best and feel free to check in if you want!</p>
<p>A thin priority mail envelope arrived from Hamilton College today - and I was instructed not to open anything! I am nervously waiting for my son to arrive home from practice. At first, I was anxious about the thin envelope - but I am rethinking this and wonder if it is in fact good news - worth them spending the $4.90 on!</p>
<p>I am sure if they spent the extra postage it means an acceptance! Congratulations.</p>
<p>I’m new to this site - just stumbled onto it. Going through the college app process for the first time. Daughter was deferred form both Georgetown and Boston College today. She’ll be very disappointed when she gets home.</p>
<p>While waiting on Vassar ED (waiting, waiting, waiting…) my son received a RD acceptance from a financial and academic safety state school, and a nonbinding EA acceptance from another selective LAC. He is so thrilled - he heard about the state school and ran down and told his favorite teacher that he is going to college!!
This process is very, very hard on these bright and sensitive kids. My next son will be going through this next year, but he will be applying to schools that accept 60 to 70% of applicants, so it will not be so stressful. We just have to keep his left foot healthy (soccer player) and maybe he will be recruited!!!</p>
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<p>How true. My oldest S graduated last May and spent several months job hunting. He said, “You won’t believe how many crummy jobs I DIDN’T get.” He is much more mature and able to handle setbacks now than he was as a 17-year old freshman applying to college. He told his younger S: “Don’t worry so much about getting into college; there are much more important things in life.”</p>
<p>That said, kids who are applying to college today take very difficult course loads and are insanely busy with EC’s. Now matter how much students love what they are doing, the thought that all their hard work will pay off with a fat envelope to their dream school is always in the back of their mind. When they get a rejection or a deferral they feel they did all that hard work for nothing. The kids who have supportive parents who acknowledge their disappointment and help them move on, will bounce back and grow stronger.</p>
<p>Hey, ksu227,</p>
<p>My daughter received a thin priority mailer from Hamilton on Saturday with an ED acceptance letter in it. So thin was good. </p>
<p>She’s delighted (ecstatic), as are we, knowing that the holidays won’t be filled with high drama. And knowing that she’s headed to Hamilton, her first choice.</p>
<p>Ahhh, a few pages of this thread brings all that anxiety back!</p>
<p>Three years later story: D was rejected ED, then accepted ED2. She is blissfully happy at the ED2 school; it could not possibly be better for her.</p>
<p>Hang in there!</p>
<p>Does anybody know where we can get real percentages of deferrals? One of the Stanford threads said it’s supposed to be 10%, but it sure seems higher than that; the Yale thread said 65%! I’m not finding much on official school websites…</p>
<p>Kathyc - The school’s newspapers may be good sources. They probably won’t have them until Christmas break, though. Brown was about 64% in 2006. While this article discusses the 2007 ED acceptance rate, the rest of the article talks about 2006. They did not provide deferral/acceptance rates for 2007; not yet anyway. I suspect the deferral rate this year is similar.</p>
<p>[Web</a> Update: Early acceptance rate steady at 22.6 percent - Campus News](<a href=“http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/12/06/CampusNews/Web-Update.Early.Acceptance.Rate.Steady.At.22.6.Percent-3143929.shtml]Web”>http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/12/06/CampusNews/Web-Update.Early.Acceptance.Rate.Steady.At.22.6.Percent-3143929.shtml)</p>
<p>Thanks, mountains, for the info–it will be interesting to see what really happened.</p>
<p>Hello SFmomoftwo - wow, yes, thin was good for Hamilton ED! My son is also thrilled. Neat that your daughter is going cross country to attend school in New York (I assume you live in SF) - we lived in Mill Valley for 8 years before moving to Connecticut in 2001. Love both coasts…</p>
<p>Neat that the kids are getting to know each other online a bit through Facebook before they head off to college - now I kind of “get” what part of the original intent of Facebook was all about. My son has been connecting with incoming Hamilton students and it all seems great.</p>