<p>Talked to Pomona Admissions office yesterday and they said letters would be mailed via regular mail on Friday 12/14. Guess notification depends on where you live in the country and how quickly mail moves this time of year.</p>
<p>My son got accepted to Ursinus EA. The more I read about the school the more I like it.</p>
<p>He's still waiting to hear from Goucher, McDaniel (which should be soon I think) and the state U. Also, his regular app at Susquehanna is complete and they start notifying regular decision on 1/15 for the early apps, so I imagine he will hear early from them.</p>
<p>Cyber-hugs or cyber-valium, as you prefer, for all parents who are on pins and needles. I have no dog in this race, but am just contributing longterm perspective to keep you company and be supportive.</p>
<p>My two eldest both applied ED. The first was denied (ouch) at ED, but referred over to the RD round. He was one of those who couldn't work on the other apps while awaiting the ED, but after recovering from the ED disappointment (some shoot-em-up video games for an evening , very uncharacteristic for him!!), he bounced back strongly. He spent the last two weeks of December on the other 7 apps. I saw that with each one he wrote, he got better and better. Mid-winter I asked him, "what's your first choice now if you don't get in at RD to your first choice ?" His reply: I'm not ever going to think about "my first choice" again. I'll wait to see where I actually get in and then prioritize them." In Spring, he had a choice between 4 fine schools, got turned down from 4 (including his old "first choice"). He thought and made a few calls (didn't feel he needed any revisits) and chose. The following October from campus came an email, "If I had known how happy I'd be now, this socalled #2 school would have been my #1 all along." Graduated cum laude, working professionally now, all's well...</p>
<p>Second kid learned a bit from older borther and worked through December on other apps while awaiting her ED. When I carried in the ED letter on a Saturday morning, she was at her computer writing essays for another school.
She opened the envelope, winked, and pushed "EXIT" from her essay work.
She also loved her ED school for 4 years.</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK to all, and know that regardless of this month's news, your kid will find a home next year in a great college, or more to the point, will make his/her college experience great.</p>
<p>This site is awesome! I am a dad of a son who applied EDI to Skidmore. While we are waiting on a decision sometime this week, he in fact has already gotten into two really good schools, including one offering a huge scholarship. While I am nervous, he is pretty calm about it (that may just be an act). I do know that the next few days will be really long. I am not usually a nervous type of person, but this has really been stressful for me. How are all of you parents dealing with this? I know the course of my son's life will change this week. Any help or opinions would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>I discovered CC while in the countdown to app deadline and waiting it out 3 years ago and it was such a salvation to have a place to focus my preoccupation, since any manifestations would have driven my son crazy. He was the cool one. The hard part was his school did not send any before the 15th and with holiday mail it was a long wait. I felt like a stalker for the daily post until the 20th when it arrived! I was happy to be home the day the good news came and that the envelope said congratulations on the outside so I could know the answer (son was at work). Of course that was the day the letter carrier was in a chatty mood and I didn't want to alarm him by leaping about on the porch so had to practice matronly restraint until I closed the door. Good luck to everyone. As many stories here reveal, the right thing really does work out way more often than not. But the wait is a killer. Duct tape and judicious use of the "adult beverage" of choice are recommended--as well as CC as needed. Hang in there...(I may be back in the mix next year this time)</p>
<p>As mmaah pointed out, if you're waiting for snail mail, they could be mailed out as late as Friday the 14th and arrive as late as the 20th, depending on where you live. Some schools will give you an answer over the phone if it gets to be the 18th or 19th and you haven't heard yet.</p>
<p>Both of my older kids were notified by snail mail and did not have their other applications ready. Of course, I was more anxious than they were, because they were both more confident they'd be admitted. If you're waiting for snail mail from a popular cc college you can look at the college threads to find out when the letters were mailed. Kids will start posting when the mail arrives in their state.</p>
<p>Our mail usually arrives around 3 PM or earlier. The day my S was expecting his Princeton letter, the mail had not arrived by 4:45 PM. I called the post office and was told the truck was in the neighborhood. I was ready to go out and find him. Finally around 5 PM our postman walked up to the door in the dark with a large white envelope from Princeton. I put it on the kitchen table and waited for my S who arrived home about 15 minutes later. He ripped open the envelope and opened the folder looking for "the letter." When he read "Congratulations!" he let out a yelp.</p>
<p>Thanks! Will do the checking. D prohibited me from contacting her ED school in any form under any circumstances. She is handling all communications, and only occasionally will ask me for help with something.</p>
<p>She has her other apps ready to go, even the big state research U one is finished and quietly awaits the click on the "send" button. I asked DD why she has not sent them all yet, and she told me that since chances of her getting into her ED school are not exactly 0%, she will wait for the answer just in case if it is "yes", it will save me "big bucks" on those $50 fees. Very thoughtful of her...</p>
<p>On a lighter note: I joked to hub that some pharma can make a ton of money if they would come up with an anti-anxiety pill specifically for those avaiting ED decisions. H looked at me like I was nuts, "Ahem, does the world need another Viagra?" He had no idea what "ED" meant in collegespeak. What a caring and involved father! ;)</p>
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<p>She's cool. But she also printed out one hardcopy, right? We live where there are occasional regional power failures due to weather, particularly ice storms that bring branches down onto power lines. Last year we had one that lasted an entire week, really jammed kids up. If working on essays, tell them it's okay to spill the ink and make an occasional hardcopy of draft essays, too. Those who had hardcopies could keep working, everyone else here lost a week because of this regional power failure, unless their family's house had a generator.</p>
<p>S applied ED to Brown. We're spending the next few days affirming his strengths. He is quite open about his fears, etc., and we reassured him his college application anxiety is shared by most if not all kids, and he will land in the school that is perfect for him. Fortunately, he has finished and submitted all his other applications. We visited another college yesterday, and one more application was sent last night. He is sending a supplement (writing) and that is ready to go. Best of luck to everyone. This waiting game is awful.</p>
<p>Thanks to all who responded. It is so nice to know I am not alone with my anxiety. I finally asked my son why he didn't appear nervous about hearing about ED from Skidmore and he shrugged his shoulders. He then got very quiet for about five minutes and finally looked at me and told me how much he liked Skidmore. I realized that he was facing his first major rejection of his life. Keep up the stories on here so that I feel I am not alone. The ED one about Viagra was priceless! Thousands of kid's lives are going to change this week. I was never this nervous when I was waiting to hear. I hope the snail mail is not slow this week.</p>
<p>jollymon</p>
<p>I was a nervous WRECK through the entire process. I was relieved by the EA acceptances and then thought I'd never worry again when he got an early write to a 3rd school, but in fact I was on pins and needles until the last big envelope came in. My son played it cool, but it was the only time period of his life, before or since, that he ever checked the mailbox.</p>
<p>Skidmore did look like a great school when we visited. But other posters are correct that we may want one thing and find out that another thing is even better. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks so much! We come form a small country school where hardly anyone talks about college and my son is the only one at the school who has applied ED to college (in fact his guidance councelor didn't know what ED was and the other councelor didn't know there was a college in Saratoga!). So, to find out there are people out there who know this feeling is really reassuring. I am really happy to find that I am not alone with these feelings. Thanks to all of you and good luck to you and your kids. For the first time in months, I am somewhat happy today after reading the notes on here realizing I am not nuts! =)</p>
<p>We're waiting on D2's EA results from Georgetown, and again it's nerve-wracking. But I'm encouraged by D1's strange sort of reverse-angst experience with her EA application two years ago. She's a classical soprano and had been planning a college major in voice and opera - had auditions scheduled and everything. But in her senior year, she got encouraging mailings from Harvard, communicated with faculty there and was again encouraged, so she decided to take a shot at it EA. There was great excitement when she got in and she decided not to pursue her other applications. Then Jan. 1 came, and with it, buyer's remorse - she'd been seduced away from the voice major by Harvard and she'd adandoned her dreams, etc., etc. We may be the only parents around who've ever dealt with a kid who was despondent because she'd gotten into Harvard! Two years later, she's happy as a clam and can't imagine that she ever wanted anything else. Let's face it - at 17 or 18, what our kids think they want is based on very limited information and they're incredibly adaptable. Even if there's temporary heartbreak, the vast majority will be delighted with the way things work out.</p>
<p>jollymom - Not nuts at all. I was ready to pack my bags last night and go away somewhere remote by myself! Instead, reality set in and I am now getting ready to drive to a Boston hospital to visit one of my best friends who just underwent her third heart surgery in a few years. Situations like this help put things in perspective for me. I know we are all anxious, but based on the extremely helpful and encouraging posts of parents who have been through all this, I know our kids will be fine. Thank you, everyone, for the continued, priceless support.</p>
<p>Dec. 15th is Saturday. Will a college send out its decision for EA on Dec. 14th if the college says that the notification date is Mid-December? Anyone has experience on this?</p>
<p>D is also waiting on snail mail from her ED school. Their website states that decisions should be "received within one month from the application date" (November 15). As all the kids are, she is CLIMBING THE WALLS especially now that the letter could come any day this week (or maybe not this week!).</p>
<p>As for me? I have 3 scenarios:</p>
<ol>
<li> D is rejeceted, she is miserable, I LOSE.</li>
<li> D is accepted, I am broke, I LOSE.</li>
<li> D is deferred to RD, she continues the ride on the emotional rollercoaster until spring, I LOSE.</li>
</ol>
<p>Time for a margarita! :-)</p>
<p>We are waiting on 2 EA responses that should come this week, including the preferred first-choice school for D. Every time I drive by our mailbox on the corner of our street, I have lust in my eyes. H is thinking of standing out there for a while in hopes of a transference. I will be glad when this process is over for good (hopefully this week!!!)</p>
<p>It's so nice to read all these posts by parents and know I am not alone! My D2 applied SCEA to Stanford....and I am more nervous than I remember being for D1! D2 refused to let me see or help with her apps (she had some other help...)....so I'm in the dark HOPING that her personality, etc., came through in them. She, on the other hand, seems to be taking it in stride, and continues to meet deadlines for other schools. </p>
<p>I agree that things USUALLY seem to work out for a reason. I had a friend whose son was dying to go to Yale, but didn't get in. He decided to go to Michigan, where he has other family members living nearby. As it turned out, my friend died from cancer the same week her son graduated from high school. He went to Michigan and, several months later his dad was murdered in Mexico. So, so sad. But THANK GOD (or whomever) that he was in school near family who loved and supported him.....I still get teary thinking about it. I keep thinking, maybe we should just be thankful our kids are bright and motivated......</p>
<p>However, I'm still a nervous wreck!</p>
<p>I keep checking DS's EA school websites, blogs and CC chats. None has listed a decision date yet. He's oblivious, and hasn't even asked. I'm here because I figured y'all would get it...</p>
<p>Well I certainly get it. My blood pressure went down a hundred points today after reading all your comments and realizing I am not the only crazy parent out there. But I find myself doing more web surfing than I have ever done in my life hoping to find something I know is not out there. This website has been a Godsend to me as I read other stories about parents in the same postition as I am. May you all get the rest you need this week and stay away from the scotch as it really is appealing right now. =)</p>