<p>DS accepted to Northwestern!</p>
<p>I think that I am in worse shape than D. She assumed the day that she applied to Stanford that she wasn’t going to get in anyway. Good defense mechanism. They are notifying the applicants 2pm Pacific, 4pm Central and 5pm EST.</p>
<p>She sent in her application to Georgia Tech the same day in order to be considered for the President’s Scholarship Program (deadline was Oct 31). She received Semi-Finalist notification last Fri., so I assume she has been admitted (PSP has a flowchart on their website that says admitted-------> SemiFinalist. Still hasn’t received acceptance package. </p>
<p>She has interviews for other schools this weekend.</p>
<p>She was is automatically accepted to the two flagships under the 10% rule (UT-Austin is still top 10 in engineering and A&M is not a bad alternative) </p>
<p>Que Sera, Sera.</p>
<p>Good luck to you too!</p>
<p>UnivMom - How do you know about the Stanford time? My D says there is controversy over on the Stanford board about the exact time. Apparently the admissions office is being vague?</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone, especially Dakota’s son, who’s a fellow wildcat now! yay!</p>
<p>Son accepted to Northwestern’s McCormick. Everyone can finally relax and enjoy his Senior year.</p>
<p>My son also was accepted to Northwestern (Weinberg) - very happy!</p>
<p>D heard that they were trying to get it out at 5pm EST, who knows. I believe D told me that it would be coming out on Friday. She doesn’t want to look until Sunday, she is sure it will be her first reject. Last year they accepted one boy from her school. Brilliant kid. He was not Val or Sal (who were rejected), but #3, quote “its great being #3, I get to sit on the stage at graduation and don’t have to write a speech!”</p>
<p>This thread brings back memories of last year … my daughter applied ED and I was a total nervous wreck. I was amazed at how calm she seemed to be; she’d gotten into her safety (rolling decision) and was happy with that, and was working on her other applications. No hint of nerves.</p>
<p>When she got in, she finally confided in us that she also had been a bundle of nerves for a week, unable to get anything done. She just did a very good job of hiding it from us.</p>
<p>She’s very happy at her ED school, BTW. </p>
<p>Good luck to all of you!</p>
<p>Daughter accepted ED to Columbia (CC) - very proud papa!</p>
<p>Daughter just got her acceptance letter from her ED school, Wake Forest. She is very excited and we are very proud of her.</p>
<p>Someone on the Stanford board posted a link to the Stanford site that says after 3:00 p.m. on Friday. It will be by e-mail – seemingly the letter will be in the e-mail. I find this whole day and time thing unnerving. Four years ago, my daughter applied there EA. We knew the mail would bring an answer in December but we didn’t know the day or the time. The day it came it was the furthest thing from my mind – I was genuinely shocked when I saw it. She didn’t come home for two hours after school – the mail was the last thing on her mind. This time around, it feels so weird to know practically the minute the news will arrive. It feels like when they tell you the doctor will call by the end of the day with test results and you’re watching the clock wondering about your fate. Also, what is different is that I wasn’t posting on CC at this point last time around. Ignorance held a certain kind of bliss I think. I hadn’t read a ton of posts about amazing students and stats, etc. I am wondering if too much knowledge makes the process harder at some point. Not that I don’t appreciate CC and being informed, etc. – I just think knowing more compounds the stress.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info on the Stanford email arrival time. My D doesn’t look nervous to me, but she’s been glued to cc the last 24 hours. She learned about the time announcement on the Stanford website tonight. She’s not going to be home when the email arrives, but later Friday evening. </p>
<p>I’m not prepared if she doesn’t get in.</p>
<p>Oh, we have an EA in the cooker, too, and sometimes I fixate but then think of all that tuition if its a “yes” and also about all the many, many wonderful other schools out there. I would be a little sad to see her commit to one at this point. She’s applied to some that she hasn’t even visited. I look forward to a crazy scramble this spring. Who needs peace of mind right now anyway? Isn’t this suppose to be a roller coaster year?</p>
<p>My daughter has a pact with two of her best friends not to open the Stanford e-mail until after their Sunday Nutcracker matinee. The suspense is killing me–I don’t see how they can resist checking e-mail! In this case, I’m way more stressed out than she is! Also, two of her other good friends have already found out that they got into “reach” schools, so I’m feeling a little down–not a very mature reaction, I’m afraid.</p>
<p>My tooth split in half, yuck! Anyways, the day the letters go out. After looking at 15+ colleges, Skidmore has an essence that is unlike any other. I know that everything happens for a reason, but there was just something truly special about Skidmore. My son and I were walking around campus and we went down by the pond. A group of ducks followed him around and he said, “Look, they want me to go here.” To see a 6’5" young man so happy about a gaggle (?) of ducks was a memory for me. Slidmore just seems like a perfect fit. In fact, he is writing a 10 page paper on Global Warming, and when I asked him why he picked that, he responded, “Everyone at Skidmorre thinks it is important.” I think that says it all!</p>
<p>Jollymon - my wife split a tooth in half yesterday. Do you think we’re all subconsciously grinding?</p>
<p>I was grinding with you all until today - D had a snow day and spent the morning staring out the window waiting for the mail truck. It came at around noon (about 1/2 hour late, of course)…</p>
<p>ED acceptance to Bucknell!! <strong><em>huge sigh of relief</em></strong></p>
<p>Hooray for her, I am so proud! (and broke-to-be)!!</p>
<p>A major snowstorm is pounding us right now. Brown ED decisions are available at 5 p.m. and there better not be an outage! S has decided to check online (was pondering waiting for the snail mail). My mouth has been dry the last few days from making sure I don’t grind my teeth (the air must be getting through the gaping mouth).</p>
<p>My son just got his EA decision today in the mail’ he was accepted into Engineering at WPI!!! We’re so very proud!!</p>
<p>Just want to post that the stress is over at our house. My son was accepted to Dartmouth yesterday. My wife and I are so proud of his accomplishments. He was able to do this all on his own. No high cost advisement was used. He scored 2120 on his first sitting of his SAT and then got a 2250 on his second sitting. He wrote his own essay and did his own app’s. Power to public schools and your own passion to make it in to a very selective school!!!</p>