<p>Aniger - sorry about the waitlist. </p>
<p>researching- Happy Birthday to your D! Hope she has a great time celebrating with her friends.</p>
<p>hollie~How nice for you. We had one mom who did this last year pretty special.</p>
<p>May be I have to keep exercising then…;)</p>
<p>re: dieting for graduation – I was in the zone 2 years ago when guitarist graduated, then got a terrible allergic reaction and had to go to his graduation with a swollen, puffy face. This time around for D’s turn, I’m in such terrible shape even my spanx are too tight.</p>
<p>Wanted to say to OWM to have a great time tonight! You are so lucky to have a son who enjoys doing this with his mom!</p>
<p>Thanks again, everyone. Nails done, hair done. I feel like a princess and this night is not about me. Count down to everyone getting dressed: about an hour! </p>
<p>I will post pictures on the shutterfly page but probably not tomorrow since we have the grandson’s 1st birthday party and have to take my mom to the airport.</p>
<p>(guitarist mom: New spanx laid out on the bed for tonight! One of the last century’s greatest inventions.)</p>
<p>I have made it through the week without hitting the dove chocolate. A major triumph as I am known to consume a pound or two on a weekly basis, lately. I have been going to the gym a lot, which is the only reason I haven’t gained too much, but I had a fast 25 to lose anyway.</p>
<p>I feel for all the kids who are waiting for all their decisions at the end of the month, like S’s good friend. I think I would be a basket case without one acceptance in hand. He was deferred ED, so March 30th can’t come soon enough.</p>
<p>OWM~Have a wonderful time …It is all about the great job you have done as a mom ~ don’t you forget ~;)</p>
<p>Idinct~Dove dark Hum…so good</p>
<p>BTW The UC San Diego decisions are in.</p>
<p>One more week of this is all I can take. I am wondering how my DD is staying so cool</p>
<p>325 and scoutmom- I am a quasi-lurker with kids a year older and younger than those in this thread. My older D is a first year at Chicago. The Chicago board is pretty active with some very knowledgeable posters. But if you have any discussions here and would like input from one who was through it just in the past year, I’ll be glad to answer. My D just finished her second quarter but is staying in town this week for her sport. The quarter calendar is one of the reasons she picked the school, although she does have a big skew with all her friends at other colleges’ schedules.</p>
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<p>I second, third, fourth, etc. all the congratulations (thanks for the list, Mamom!) We all need to go out and howl at the moon tonight. </p>
<p>Could someone private mail me the Shutterfly link? I need to see the OWM photos when they get posted. </p>
<p>HollieSue - what fun to get to hand your daughter a diploma! The best thing I ever got to hand to mine was just a horse show ribbon.</p>
<p>Congrats on all the new acceptances!</p>
<p>OWM, have a wonderful night!</p>
<p>I have had a stressful couple of days, dealing with the fallout from the break-in of daughter’s car. Did you know that you need your social security card to get a driver’s license? (stolen) And you need a photo ID (all 3 stolen, DL, HS ID, College ID) to get a replacement social security card. Very frustrating! And on top of all that, it has just hit me hard that my youngest will be 1500 miles away from home in just 5 months. I have known for several years that she would not be hanging around here for college, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. This afternoon, I was working on her grad party invitations and all of a sudden, I was in tears. Seeing all the devastation in Japan, I keep thinking what if something terrible happens here and she is so far away. I know it is irrational, but I am a little irrational these days. She has been invited to spend the summer with her god-parents in Barbados and I don’t even want to tell her, much less let her go! Oh well, I’ll get over it soon enough, but right now I am not a happy camper.</p>
<p>Thanks for the birthday wishes! And holliesue, I hear you… I, too, am part of my D’s graduation. Much to her original embarrassment, I’m the commencement speaker. (She’s come to terms with it now.) Fortunately that means I get to wear those academic robes, but I believe there will be lots of pictures without the robes to hide behind, so I am motivated to at least not GAIN any more in the coming months.</p>
<p>OWM, have a wonderful time tonight!</p>
<p>Ick, first rejection at UC San Diego. Not happy about it, but DD has other options. Must say rats though. There is still UC Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Davis to go!</p>
<p>I know there is an acceptance thread now for our class, but are we also going to do a list of just where they are finally going?</p>
<p>kumitedad - The UCSD decisions seem almost more brutal than UCLA’s last week. Lots and lots of students with stellar scores did not make the cut. It really seems so random.</p>
<p>fishymom - don’t feel guilty about being stressed and overwhelmed with having to deal with the stolen id stuff; it IS stressful and you are allowed to get teary-eyed and annoyed at the world when sucky things happen. I’ve been annoyed for you ever since reading about it and I’m so sorry you are going through that mess.</p>
<p>Chin(s) up on the denials – it is a very tough year for our kiddos, and they all will find the right college in the end! (Easy to say, harder to deal with in real time)…</p>
<p>fishymom ~ Of course you have been under a lot of stress with the stolen ID! </p>
<p>I will also have a hard time letting S go (he made it clear from the beginning that he was not applying near home)…</p>
<p>Finally got a (tentative) financial aid package from MIT. Not bad at all, more than I thought, actually.</p>
<p>Have a wonderful evening with your son, OWM!</p>
<p>kumitedad–so sorry on UCSD. Lots more (hopefully good) decisions to come. And good luck on extra merit $ at Cal Lutheran.</p>
<p>aria2000–congratulations on the good MIT FA package. MORE than you expected? Music to my ears!</p>
<p>OWM–I’m thinking about you waltzing with wonderful S2, surrounded by proud family. And I’m smiling!</p>
<p>I also did not figure out how to get onto the Shutterfly link. Can anyone help poor befuddled me?</p>
<p>jackief–welcome out of lurkdom.</p>
<p>Aniger–did I remember to send sympathy re: waitlist. But he’s got such good prospects! Hoping even more good news ahead. </p>
<p>OneGirlsMom–welcome back and good luck in the coming week.</p>
<p>CollegeMaw-- I applaud your D’s 7 for 7!</p>
<p>researching4emb–I also applaud your D’s 4 for 4! (Plus Happy BDay to her!) I also identify with the overwhelmed by the choice feelings of your D, very much like my S2 at this point. I must say that I am intrigued by your mentioning you will be the commencement speaker. Are you, perchance, the First Lady or Angelina Jolie or? I don’t think either of them have a graduating senior this year–but we are curious???</p>
<p>In today’s mail–the official school calendar for next year for our S2’s HS. Only S2 will not be there (nor, of course S1). sniff. On a nostalgic note–After 7 years loving this school, we will no longer be attending their first day back, parent back-to-school day, etc, etc. 
On a happy note, however–we will not be sending them enormous monthly tuition checks! 
On a let’s-get-real note–we will be sending enormous tuition checks to another institution, the name of which I cannot even guess at this point. Ah, the drama to come.</p>
<p>Did someone here mention the D word? I must quickly skip over such posts and go check my wardrobe of slimming black pantsuits. For a morning June? Hmm. Pass the carrot sticks!</p>
<p>It will be a huge challenge not to be crying as I hand diplomas out to some of these kids who I have been so very close to…hope they have some kleenex on the stage!</p>
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<p>I agree with this, but I don’t really understand how this is possible. I thought that UCSD assigned points for admittance with a heavy weight towards test scores and GPA. Above a certain point value, you were in.</p>
<p>Oh my goodness so much to catch up on! Scoutsmom and 325: Congrats on the Chicago acceptances! Yay to aria with the great finaid package!</p>
<p>Son and I went back to Hartwick College for a Scholarship luncheon today. Such a neat little school, and with the merit aid, it’s just as affordable as PSU. HollieSue, we must have been close to you as we drove around Binghamton. Lots of kids there from upstate NY. They have a really neat off site living area called Pine Lake where kids can live in cabins in the woods, heat said cabins with wood pellet burning stoves, kayak on a Lake and tap trees for maple syrup! [Hartwick-Living-Learning</a> Community](<a href=“http://www.hartwick.edu/about-us/centers-and-institutes/the-pine-lake-institute-for-environmental-and-sustainability-studies/pine-lake-environmental-campus/living-learning-community]Hartwick-Living-Learning”>http://www.hartwick.edu/about-us/centers-and-institutes/the-pine-lake-institute-for-environmental-and-sustainability-studies/pine-lake-environmental-campus/living-learning-community) Ahh, to be my son! He was more interested when he heard that the community is wireless with faster connection then main campus. We both felt that we got a much fuller picture of the college this time and he’s actually looking forward to another accepted students event. Dad get’s that one!</p>