<p>holliesue: well, she does have until April 30th (and if she is anything like D1 that’s when she will decide)</p>
<p>emmybet: you still have a ways to go for the waitlist award; my D1 who graduated in 2008 was not rejected anywhere; acceptances and waitlists; I think we lost count at 4 waitlists…she did not want to be on any of them…even she drew the line at April 30th…</p>
<p>**Tuesday’s Countdown for the “reachy” schools is: </p>
<p>Stanford - 3 days to go. Based on last year’s schedule we will hopefully get emails this week! :)</p>
<p>[size=+1]Vanderbilt - 1 day to decision mailing day<img src=“snail%20mail%20only%20-%20probably%203%20or%204%20days%20to%20hit%20your%20mailbox” alt=“/size”> 
:)</p>
<p>The big “H” and other ivys - 8 days to go based on the 5PM March 30th announcement date and time. A week from tomorrow!</p>
<p>March 31st schools - 9 days to go. Single digits!**</p>
<p>I am monitoring the news releases and admissions blogs to nearly a dozen “reachy” schools and will post updates or changes to the countdown as they occur.</p>
<p>Congrats on the Macalester admits, and to madbean’s S. I think some of us have him in line as potential son-in-law material, along with OWM’s son and a few others.</p>
<p>I feel for the CA folks. Things aren’t so crazy in WI (we have lots of state schools and a lot fewer people) but our system is starting to get a little shaky. I wonder how it will be in a few years.</p>
<p>Thank you for the kind words. OK, momjr - the gauntlet has been thrown! Right now D would be thrilled for at least one more waitlist, at one of her reachiest auditioned programs where we have never done more than wish for an acceptance. I won’t encourage her to stay on more than one, but I do think getting the opportunity is such a different feeling from being rejected. She realizes that a waitlist means 1) you still have a chance, and 2) they really did like you a lot, enough that they’d be happy to have you. With reaches, she’s not miffed that they liked other people better, as long as they did like her, too. And as I said, the match waitlist didn’t smart a bit, since she doesn’t want to go there any more.</p>
<p>AvonDad - I’m starting to imagine you’ll be the guy this summer “scheduling” our kids’ launch dates! Those are fun to read on the College '14 thread. Here’s one I’m watching: Vassar announced it will post online Friday night. D doesn’t want to know things like this, and besides, we’ll be on a bus somewhere in Minnesota, but it might spiff up your list as schools drop off.</p>
<p>Because I’m on the East Coast, I’ve really enjoyed hearing more about the UCs. There are really great schools everywhere!</p>
<p>Madbean - CSS sounds like such an incredible opportunity - congrats to your S.</p>
<p>Sorry for those who haven’t gotten the news they wanted. 
I hate for any of these kids to get those “no” letters/emails.</p>
<p>Congrats for all the acceptances to Macalaster. One of S’s really good friends received news a couple of weeks ago, not sure where it is on her list, but I will pay attention and find out. She is a great girl!!</p>
<p>Rodney- my fear is she will wait until the last second! Oy! I have half a mind to tell her the decision needs to be made before she heads to Costa Rica for spring break on 4/9!</p>
<p>Holliesue: I’ve know a lot of kids who dragged it out until the last minute. I was really glad that my D1 applied ED. She has a terrible time making decisions. She knew that her most realist chance for acceptance was ED, and that forced her to make the decision. I can’t imagine her choosing from several choices, with merit money thrown into the mix.
Good luck while your daughter sorts out her options.</p>
<p>Congrats to Madbeans son on the CSS program. It sounds really special!</p>
<p>Also congrats to the recent Macalaster acceptances. This is one of those schools that I would have liked to have visited. Unfortunately, they didn’t have son’s major!</p>
<p>Gosh, I’m assuming my son is going to wait until April 30th to decide! I would love it to be sooner, but between waiting for financial aid information and re-visiting, I don’t think that’s going to happen.</p>
<p>holliesue - I have put an artificial deadline on my D for the first week of April. I think if she waits until May 1 she may end up with housing issues - all of her choices guarantee housing but it may be “supplemental housing” which tends to be triples and quads in a regular sized dorm room. At this stage in the game, D has all the information and there is no reason for her to prolong the process…sometimes I think she is holding her cards close to the vest just to annoy us ;-)</p>
<p>I also want to be able to move on with our lives, I feel like all of our recent effort has revolved around this process long enough. I want to schedule summer plans and reserve flights/hotels if necessary. I also need to spend more time with D2, she is feeling a little left out.</p>
<p>Woot, woot for the many acceptances, and also for the WL’s. Before I was on CC I did not view WLs so positively, but now see them as a “yeah we like you but trying to build a class is tricky”. So I see them as a “you done good” no matter how they turn out. </p>
<p>D is presenting her senior project this evening to a panel of evaluators. Per the usual, one teacher told her it was supposed to be on a research question so that is what she did her draft and practice presentation on. When she got the rubric for the final presentation, it turns out it is supposed to be on her internship and “product” that she designed and completed for the senior project,not the research portion. So she had to redo the whole thing. Sigh. It really is hard to be a part of an inaugural class where they are still designing curriculum. No matter, she will get it done and has no nerves when it comes to talking in front of people so it will be fine. She is feeling a little under the weather, but knows about “good on the day” performance so I have no worries. But keep your fingers crossed anyway at 5:30 pm EDT.</p>
<p>D received another acceptance with merit yesterday. Only one left to hear from - then she has to narrow the field. She applied to five total, has visited them all, and recently did an overnight at one (which she loved, and which I would have been very happy to commit to on the spot - but she said she wanted to do overnights at a couple of others so they would all be considered on equal footing.) I told her that she could do two accepted student overnights, so she will need to eliminate a couple. One is already out; it was her uber-safety and is the easiest one to cross off (although it’s a really nice school). We should be scheduling a couple of trips in the next week or so.</p>
<p>Summer jobs are really difficult to get around here. D went door to door in our downtown area a couple of years ago, to no avail. Last year, she lucked onto a job at the last minute through the mom of one of her friends who had a client looking for a data entry person. She was bored to tears, but it brought in a nice paycheck. This year, she has a one week church mission trip in Canada, then six weeks in South America through a youth service project that she is very excited about - combining two of her passions (Spanish and service). No money coming in this summer, but I feel good about what she’s doing, she is very excited about it, and she has worked really hard to be able to earn good scholarships to the schools she is looking at. So it’s all good.</p>
<p>OWM - Loved the pictures of the Cotillion!! I’m sure that will be one of those nights you will always remember. You just looked like you were so proud! Pictures captured that perfectly.
Congratulations on all the great news and “their loss” to the not-so-great news. Madbean - special congrats on that special program, that is really great!!
I don’t know about you guys, but everytime someone gets good news from XYZ University - I think to myself, “why didn’t we look at that one? People seem to like it! I should have made ds consider it!” Then I have to slap myself and remind myself that we used good logic, have a nice list of schools and everything is fine. I just panic every so often thinking we missed a great school! Next time around, with dd, I will keep everything into the privates for sure because the OOS publics are letting me down big time. Oh well, live and learn right?
Knowing my ds, he will wait until 4/30 midnight to decide. When you decide on a school, it has to be postmarked by 5/1 - including 5/1?</p>
<p>Congrats to OGM and UT on Macalester! Hope Seattle Mom hears good news today.</p>
<p>Congrats to Madbean’s S2 on CCS!</p>
<p>Congrats to cooker on her D’s latest acceptance & scholarship!</p>
<p>Let’s hope for more good news today in our little group.</p>
<p>Kumitedad, sorry to hear about UCSB. Hope Davis, Berkeley and Scripps brings good news.</p>
<p>Congrats to the Malacaster parents! </p>
<p>Emmy, sorry about the wait lists but it sounds like your D is taking it well. Yay for JD2 being able to go home. </p>
<p>Hollie, I wouldn’t force the issue.</p>
<p>And I thought I was the only one this obsessed. My son is waiting on 10 schools…the big day being Mar 30, and like you, I’m counting down. Glad to know I am not the only parent doing this. So far, my son has been accepted at U Mich, U Wisc, Wash U, and Cornell College of Liberal Arts (he got a likely letter from them last week). We live in NYC and he is strongly considering Wash U and Cornell…am over the moon happy for him. Just a little more than a week to go. Fingers crossed. Toes too.</p>
<p>Add me to the list of distracted parents - DS2 is thrilled with his Chicago EA admit, reluctant to turn down Mac (he has not done so yet, though he let his safety Ohio State go early on) and waiting on two ivy lotteries. I am not concentrating - although this should not be stressful at all, since he’s thrilled to go to Chicago, and I do think that’s where he’s headed even were the lotteries to say yes. This is just such a whirl - a phase of not-knowing that makes the parent out-of-sorts at best and a lunatic at worst.</p>
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That’s a good way to put it. So are we. I don’t think they’re the best fit for my D, but she wanted to apply to see if she could get in.</p>
<p>Even though my D has some choices that she is very happy with, I still cannot concentrate either. I think we’re all in the same boat here!</p>
<p>“Congrats on the Macalester admits, and to madbean’s S. I think some of us have him in line as potential son-in-law material, along with OWM’s son and a few others.”
EmmyBet ~ That is so cute! ;)</p>
<p>Welcome to lynjoy and congrats on U Mich, U Wisc, Wash U and Cornell!</p>
<p>anothermom3 ~ Congrats on Chicago EA! </p>
<p>Yes, waiting for the lotteries is dreadful, lol.</p>
<p>Hi all-</p>
<p>Just my random checking in to let you know we are alive and kicking.</p>
<p>I do enjoy checking out the pictures on our Shutterfly account. I haven’t been in a couple of days but I look forward to seeing the new ones.</p>
<p>Things here are so-so. The drama I mentioned last week continues to have ripple effects here and we are trying to work through it.</p>
<p>I mentioned last week I handed him off everything he needs to help him make his decision. He is waiting on four more decisions but I am pretty sure unless he gets into his “dream school” on March 30th he has made his decision so I am pretty much at peace with the whole process.</p>
<p>I am so happy for all those here getting good news. I am so sorry for all those getting disappointments as well.</p>
<p>I continue to believe that these kids are a pretty special bunch and are going to succeed wherever they end up spending their next four years. </p>
<p>I am very impressed by the kids on here who got heartbreaking news in the past week and yet have managed to move on. That tells me a lot more about their potential than any college acceptance ever could.</p>
<p>When the alumni interviewer from Harvard talked to my son he told him he was “well qualified” to attend Harvard. If the expected rejection comes next week he will be crushed anyway-because until you are told no there is always that hope that maybe you will be the first kid from your HS to go there, etc. The death of a dream is always painful-but pain is a necessary part of life-the suffering is optional. So if it happens he will feel the pain for a bit and then I think he will dust himself off and not chose to suffer-he will accept it was a numbers game and not a rejection of him-which is exactly what I think it is for every single child on here who doesn’t get to go to their dream school.</p>
<p>One of the two lotteries is NOT a good fit for DS2 - it is a FAFSA only school which might give him some aid based on our circumstance, and was considered for that reason - we have two in college etc. The other lottery is a good fit and might be considered if he were admitted, but might be dismissed, because he really loves Chicago - I think he got in EA because the essays really showed the devotion.</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t realize there were so many Macalester applicants here – one of D’s from yesterday was also Mac. She visited last fall and loved absolutely everything about it, and her sports are a definite there. It’s a perfect fit for her. Waiting on financial info though, and it is the only one we absolutely cannot drive to if necessary.</p>
<p>We had a waitlist yesterday as well to a real match, very weird. But D lost interest after a deferred EA and isn’t going on the waitlist. It really is an interesting psychological process to watch how some change their minds when the schools “might want you but we aren’t sure yet…” And when they have several acceptances and “they want me” then the WL college plummets on the list. No matter how much they know it isn’t “personal” - well, it still is. EmmyBet, I think your D has a very good attitude about the waitlists - definitely a glass is half full attitude, which is a good thing!</p>
<p>Just waiting on the reaches here, 2 a great fit, 1 not a fit (not sure why it is on the list), and the last I don’t know where it came from - her only ivy. Congrats to all (madbean - very nice!) Boo on the UC schools this year… and I agree with Pepper - we have a special group of kiddos here!</p>