<p>D received her acceptance from Pomona today and is relieved and ecstatic! Best of luck to all those still waiting to hear.</p>
<p>As we went through the process four years ago with our S we told him that if they couldn’t see what an incredible candidate he was, they didn’t deserve him. Thankfully it was a moot point but I do know others who have subsequently said and used that with some success.</p>
<p>It ALL really does work out…there are many many people on CC at schools that were not their first choice or dream schools who are beyond happy today. The toughest thing for us as parents is to not be living through our kids and to understand that their lives will not be unalterably changed if they don’t get into their first choice schools.</p>
<p>There is life after EA/ED.</p>
<p>mammall - I am going to give your daughter the benefit of the doubt and assume she is a nicer person than you are.</p>
<p>How about a “We’re so pleased, hang in there those of you who did not have our luck?”</p>
<p>Test scores don’t win friends and influence people.</p>
<p>Sorry - I’m off key and don’t mean to be. All my friends have kids in the throes of this hellish process and I also have many nieces and nephews awaiting decisions. No place to talk. But H is pulling up now and it’s the same old process of trying to get D1 to stay home on a Friday night.</p>
<p>riverrunner’s D is in at Yale as of about an hour ago! I’m so proud of her. She immediately got on the phone to her grandparents, aunts, and coach and thanked them for their help and support. </p>
<p>To those of you still waiting on acceptance day: Each of your kids have so much talent and drive. Fit isn’t just about place, but about timing. Maybe it’s like gestation. Not hearing acceptance from the right school this week just means the gestation’s going to be a little longer (and we all know how fun gestation is :(). The outcome will still be great, and worth the wait. Easy for me to say, I know. My heart goes out to you.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all who got good news this week.</p>
<p>I could not get on CC due to too much traffic and I obviously missed something based on Alumother’s and mammall’s posts.</p>
<p>Mammall - Safe to assume your D got in?</p>
<p>The Stanford applicants (and parents) are really suffering. They said waves of decisions after 3:00 and most have heard nothing. People are wondering how a school in the heart of the Silicon Valley can’t send out 5,000 e-mails within an hour. You can imagine the second-guessing that’s going on over there.</p>
<p>Yes, we’re waiting for Stanford SCEA over here. The phone is ringing off the hook with family and friends who can’t believe my D hasn’t gotten an email yet either. It’s now been 2/12 hours since they were supposed to start sending them out.</p>
<p>D is watching marathon reruns of “America’s Next Top Model.” She’d rather be watching “America’s Next Stanford Student.” She has a list of 18 people she has to call when she gets the word. She’s been changing around the order all day.</p>
<p>Me, I’m making fudge.:)</p>
<p>This is ridiculous! Do you think Stanford is doing anything to address this delay issue? so far only two kids received the notification email! This must be a joke , especially when the collge brags that they reject maximum number of applications in the nation. One would hope that will have minimum courtesey to watch the email dleievry part.</p>
<p>When the students had to submit the app forms before 12 midnight Nov 1st, I thought they wud be equally respectful to notify the students by thier own deadline.
S is anxiously waiting. My neighbor’s son called them. its the useless recording. I hope they take us out of this misery soon.</p>
<p>Well, it seems there is movement now on the Stanford site – mostly acceptances it seems which may not bode well for my kid. This has been awful. It’s my third time around in this process and not one notification equaled this one in terms of the stress level. It’s been three hours now. Meanwhile he is online saying, “oh this person got their e-mail from U Penn, this one from JHU, etc.”</p>
<p>No mail at our house today 
I’m not giving up hopes yet, because I was at our local post office last night and it was a zoo! My “scheduled for today” UPS delivery of D’s gifts did not come either.</p>
<p>Stanford parents, I feel your pain! Hang in there! Millions and millions of simultaneous spams get sent immediately, but Stanford is not up to speed?</p>
<p>Son is in at Stanford!</p>
<p>Son did not get into Stanford. This process was pretty torturous.</p>
<p>mimk6 - It’s tough, I know.</p>
<p>That’s pretty nasty of Stanford let everyone wait like that.</p>
<p>D got in to Stanford…</p>
<p>2280 SAT I (first and only try)
SAT II 800 Math 2, 740 Chem, 740 Eng Lit</p>
<p>Rank 5/142 GPA 4.0???</p>
<p>took the hardest classes…many math (Multivariable Calc) and science</p>
<p>One community service for many (1000?) hours teaching science to urm elementary students</p>
<p>good leadership- pres of senior (and sophomore) class (different schools)</p>
<p>crew one year, now works on school’s sailing ship</p>
<p>some drama</p>
<p>Well-rounded???</p>
<p>My second child, a son, applied ED to Bucknell and was accepted today. I honestly didn’t think he would be and had been struggling to get him to finish applications to other schools “just in case”. While I am absolutely thrilled for him, now I feel bad that I didn’t have more faith in him, although I know that ED, just like RD, is a crap shoot. I had been telling him that if he did not get in, it was not a rejection of him, but only an indication of how very many truly acceptable applicants the colleges and universities were all getting in the past few years. It is crazy that we, as parents, are worrying so much that our kids can’t handle rejection. Or are we feeling rejected?</p>
<p>4my3kids - Congratulations on your S. Ditto cgarrett. I love hearing these great news. </p>
<p>I don’t feel rejected; more like maternal instinct taking over to protect my S from heartbreak. Of course, I know I can’t do that, but somehow I wish I could. This instinct must come from the same place as, “I don’t think I can fire a gun at anyone, but if my child is in danger, I’ll put a bullet between the aggressor’s eyes without hesitation.”</p>
<p>This is our second time around. I am feeling both the pains and joys on the board. S1 received a few thin envelopes and ended up transferring to his current school. I had the stomach flu for two days when the first rejection came. He regrouped and made everything work as if it had been his original plan. I tried to learn from the experience. </p>
<p>Best wishes and good luck to all the parents and students. My thoughts are with you.</p>
<p>pianomom</p>
<p>mountains-</p>
<p>thank you. Honestly I feel very lucky and am sorry others have had bad news. My D cried for 20 minutes BEFORE she opened the email. I told her it didn’t matter…I went to a mediocre school and had a great job…but then she called back after she opened it----still crying----to say she was in. I don’t think she would have cried as much if she’d been rejected, and I think we were prepared for that.</p>
<p>I hope you and your kids keep believing…</p>
<p>Last year daughter was deferred from Columbia and eventually rejected. In the Spring, when the results came out, she was rejected at all of her top schools. All email notifications came out within half hour of each other. At one point she couldn’t breath, husband had to get her to breath into a bag. </p>
<p>She just finished her first semester at Cornell. Last Sun when I picked her up from shcool, she said to me, “Mommy, I am really happy. This has been the best 3 months.” I got just a bit teary because her college process was such a long and winding road, but it did all work out for the best.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all admitted EDers. To all deferred and rejected applicants, you will have more options in April.</p>