<p>Wow, some big news on our thread today! Congrats to the admits, scholarships, and fingers crossed on the waitlists.</p>
<p>D got accepted to Macalester College today! It’s not at the top of her list at the moment, but it’s always nice to be wanted. 
8 more decisions coming our way…</p>
<p>It’s fun seeing the pics on Shutterfly. I will have to go comment on some of them now.</p>
<p>OMom- congrats on the Macalester acceptance. </p>
<p>EmmyB- sorry to read about the waitlist. Fingers crossed that JD2 gets to finally go home next week. She was very lucky to have landed on your doorstep!</p>
<p>Looks like we have lots of nannies and babysitters in the group. I wouldn’t call that easy work, you can never let your guard down.</p>
<p>My daughter has just had no luck in our tiny town finding a job. The one place that everyone hates and always has job openings is Dairy Queen, and she is resigned to that if nothing else pops up. I know that most schools expect substantial student contributions from summer earnings in return for substantial financial aid packages.
My patron saint St. Jude candle worked wonders for Vandy, but I don’t want to push my luck with him, since I still have to post my public thanks!
Thankfully they sell a wide variety of saint candles in our local supermarket, lol.</p>
<p>momjr - that was a nice gesture! I may steal that idea sometime soon.</p>
<p>oregonianmom: our Ds must have been separated at birth. we are waiting on Macalester too. Was it snail mail? Was it a big envelope? We haven’t gotten anything today, electronic or otherwise. The portal only shows the application status (received).</p>
<p>It was snail mail, and it was postmarked on the 18th. The envelope is the size of a sheet of paper folded in half, and it said Yes Macalester on the outside. Inside was a small folder with the letter, invitation to admitted students events, reply cards, etc. I’m sure your D will get hers tomorrow. Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks! this waiting is hard. i’m trying not to infect D. LOL</p>
<p>Japanese D2 has a flight home on Wednesday! We’re so happy for her! What a crazy adventure. I know she’ll be happy to be back with her family, even with the troubles they have at home.</p>
<p>She told me a friend of hers has been caught in Spain all this time, too, under the same circumstances. But they are both heading home in the next few days.</p>
<p>EmmyBet–glad your D is good with the WLs. She still has several good irons in the fire. And I am so happy your JD2 has a flight and a plan! You have been so generous to extend the long welcome during the troubling time.</p>
<p>O-mom–Yay on the Macalaster acceptance. Very good school and may bode well for upcoming decisions.</p>
<p>S2 came home after rehearsal and checked his UCSB decision online. He had been told he was accepted last weekend, but we did not know until today if he would get into the College of Creative Studies–a tiny (400 students total in 8 majors) and very cool program that they bill as “grad school for undergrads” as they have free range through the universities course catalog and often do advanced research/original creative work etc. I was pretty sure that wasn’t going to happen for several reasons, one of which was a rather awkward phone interview (a call out of the blue) with a prof. But… drum roll… S2 was accepted to the CCS! It’s such an honor! Although my DH said the CCS (very secret, very small, hidden away school within the large University) reminded him a bit of the X-Men school. Heh.</p>
<p>Hoping to hear more and more good news from others.</p>
<p>After all the lowered expectations (prompted by reading CC for the past 3 years) this admission cycle for S2 is not going at all the way I’d half-expected, half-feared. Who would have thought that I would have such a lucky kid??</p>
<p>Resisting the mailbox urge was worth it! D was extremely excited to call me (pulled me out of choir rehearsal - usually I pull her out of rehearsals!) to let me know that there was a big envelope. A Macalester acceptance (O-Mom, I think our girls might have been separated at birth, as well!). It’s the very first decision, not counting the flagship acceptance last fall. We’ve still got LOTS to go and Mac was not the top of her list, but she’s thrilled to finally have an LAC option.</p>
<p>It’s spring break for D. We thankfully took a vacation this year and it is making time go by more quickly. We aren’t spending every waking moment thinking about college decisions. Like OneGirlsMom we heard from state flagship last fall but still have 9 more notifications. D did get deferred in Dec from a reachy reach. I suspect she will not get into that college but who knows. Going to enjoy the vacation and family time:)</p>
<p>Congrats on all the happy news!! May this board continue to be filled with such news during these next few weeks!</p>
<p>Madbean - The most amazing and accomplished young woman I know is a graduate of CCS. Very, very difficult to get into that program. Congratulations!</p>
<p>oregonmom and OneGirlsmom-- Congrats on a Mac admission. We are sitting on one too–it is the best aid offer so far as well.</p>
<p>Congrats OGM’s D and Omom and EVERYone who has had such good news lately. And fun to hear about all the rotund dawgies :)</p>
<p>madbean–so cool about your lucky kid and the CCS</p>
<p>Need to find out what D1’s list is looking like currently as some of the $ pkgs trickle in…there’s a couple I did not get special circ. papers to as they were towards the bottom of her list last time I checked but reading the posts here is a good reminder how fast that can change.</p>
<p>Bummer here at la casa kumitedad. A big no from UCSB. Davis and Berkeley coming up this week, as well as Scripps. To quote from one of my favorite movies “Fasten your seatbelts, its going to be a bumpy night!”</p>
<p>Madbean, woot woot about the CCS program! I hear fantastic things about it.</p>
<p>My D got home late from rehearsal and while I was cooking dinner was getting texts and FB messages about the news tonight. Who got in to UCSB and UCSD, and who didn’t. Who’s making their peace with UC Riverside. Joy and sadness abound. A couple of good friends got great merit aid offers from excellent smaller privates today, schools they actually like, so that was happy.</p>
<p>Every day for the next week and a half will be nutty…</p>
<p>OGM an OMom-congrats on Mac!!
Madbean-CCS sounds fantastic! congrats!!!
kumitedad- so sorry for the no from UCSB.</p>
<p>Omom, OGM and UT: Congrats on Macalester!</p>
<p>Emmybet: I’m sorry about the WL’s, but it sounds like your daughter is handling them well. I’m happy to hear that JD2 will return home this week. </p>
<p>Madbean: Congrats on the CCS acceptance! I think that your son has talent in addition to luck.</p>
<p>Kumitedad: Sorry about the bad news. I hope you get some good news soon.</p>
<p>Tessa: Enjoy your vacation!</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got accepted/received merit awards, and sorry to all who were waitlisted.</p>
<p>mamom ~ That is great news for your S!</p>
<p>Madbean ~ Congrats on CCS!</p>
<p>oregonianmom & UT84321, OneGirlsMom ~ Congrats on Malacaster!</p>
<p>D tells me she has all the info she needs to make her final choice, but so far no decision. Any guesses as to who long she will ruminate on this??? ha ha!!</p>