<p>Oh, and Moonmaid - your prom dress experience is the embodiment of my father’s standard advice whenever we find a bargain: “Buy two!”</p>
<p>FlMathMom - sorry there was no big envelope. It’s easy to say that he will be so happy where he ends up; so for now, lots of hugs to you both.</p>
<p>We are waiting for 3 answers on Wednesday afternoon. When S left for school today he said he is so happy with his current offers that he is not even thinking about Wednesday today. He added that it will change on Wednesday morning, but for today, he is happy. That makes me happy :)</p>
<p>Glad you bought 2 dresses, Moonmaid. My mother who is the best shopper in the world would be overyjoyed at the $$ you saved!!</p>
<p>“We are waiting for 8 schools announcing then, including all the top choices. Super yikes.”</p>
<p>Yep. Super, super yikes. We are waiting for 4 schools, and I just found out that I have to leave on a one-week business trip Wednesday morning! D seemed unconcerned… at first, but then wanted to know how to go about informing me of the decisions. Should she give me a quick call after each decision becomes known or just wait until she has all 4 and break the news to me all at once?</p>
<p>I don’t know. Which option has the least likelihood of heart attack associated with it? I would hate to drop dead of shock alone in a hotel room. How long before they’d find my body?</p>
<p>FlMathMom - Sorry to hear about Olin not coming through for your son. As you indicated, its is a very difficult process that is compounded by the very small number of students. But it sounds like he has some excellent options left on the table and I am sure he will make a wise decision and be happy with his choice. A year from now his response may be Olin who?</p>
<p>FlMathMom - sorry about disappointing news from Olin, but it looks like your son has great choices. Good luck with the FA $$$ from HM.</p>
<p>EmmyBet – I am glad your D had a great trip and sad she got 2 rejections, especially the one from her #1 choice.</p>
<p>Aww EmmyBet, we sure know in our house how losing the favorite stings. Hugs to you and your D. </p>
<p>Sometimes I daydream about what would have happened if my D had gotten into her first choice. While wonderful, I actually don’t know if in the long run it would have been the best choice. Maybe “someone upstairs” was looking out for her best interests- I’d like to think so.</p>
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<p>Change D to S and her to him and this is my sentiment completely. I am enjoying a sense of peace and calm that I hope everyone here can find in the weeks ahead.</p>
<p>Did anyone else hear the NPR (Morning Edition) piece this morning on the Amherst admissions committee deliberations?:
[Behind</a> The Scenes: How Do You Get Into Amherst? : NPR](<a href=“Behind The Scenes: How Do You Get Into Amherst? : NPR”>Behind The Scenes: How Do You Get Into Amherst? : NPR)
Glad D had a few acceptances in hand before that aired. Still, I like their openness in showing how the process works. And it means that Amherst is finished, so maybe we will hear before Friday!</p>
<p>kinderny - you said that so well. Big believer in fate, I just wish I knew what that fate was right now!</p>
<p>Boychild just got a big, thick envelope in the mail from Bates. Fingers crossed.</p>
<p>Keep us posted emilybee! Sounds promising!</p>
<p>Flmathmom- So sorry to hear about Olin. He has fantastic choices but its hard to lose a dream.</p>
<p>Emmybet- Glad the college-free weekend was a nice break. We really loved the break we had a couple weeks ago. Its nice to see that relaxed kid emerge. And hopefully that rest is giving her a little bit more emotional reserves to deal with the disappointments.</p>
<p>emilybee- That sounds like great news from Bates!</p>
<p>At least one, maybe both, of D’s last options are in the mail. One is her hands down favorite and the odds are against her since its another highly competitive auditioned program. One is probably her reachiest academic non-auditoned school and a nice one that she likes a lot but doesn’t seem to be a frontrunner. But acceptances can have a funny way of changing that. Its been interesting to see D’s interest in schools ebb and flow. She is definitely not the ED type!</p>
<p>I hope you guys can feel my smile when one of your kids gets the fat envelope and my sigh when it’s not…
@dignified: pull the band-aid off all at once…</p>
<p>Got the 3rd rejection. She’s down, hope she can find something fun to do today. In some ways school might have been a relief, a good distraction.</p>
<p>I’m watching the clock - I know she won’t let this ruin her whole break. But she gets her sad time. Everyone deserves a little of that.</p>
<p>Dignified – Are you staying in a hotel with regular maid service? Then somebody will find you quick… Personally, I’d rather hear day by day than wait til the end. <em>Anything</em> beats silence.</p>
<p>Come on, Big Fat Envelope! If I ever own a racehorse, you’ve just read what it will be called.</p>
<p>Who is it on here that has the foals? Novelisto - you win for best name! Thanks for the giggle!</p>
<p>Hoping for the best for all today…USPS where are you??</p>
<p>Emmybet: I’m so sorry about the bad news. That a lot to take in all at once. I’m glad that your daughter waited to check so that she could enjoy the trip. She sounds like a very resiliant girl, so I’m sure that once she gets through the sadness, she’ll be fine. I’m glad that she has other good choices. </p>
<p>Dignified: If we don’t hear from you by Thursday, I’ll be pretty worried. Thanks for the laugh.</p>
<p>Emmybet, 6 years ago, one of mine went the Musical Theater route for admissions, and what a nightmare it was. Makes regular college admissions a breeze. So congratulations that she has some choices. </p>
<p>We are done here and we had a relatively easy go of it this time around. S4 applied to schools that were not much in the way of reaches and had 4 good solid safeties, so he was set. His one reach school rejected him and the other sorta reach WLed him. But he got into all of the other low reach/high match type schools,including his first choice school. Now it’s working out the finances. I’m a little sad that some of the schools had to be discarded because they were just too expensive and did not come up with money, but we knew up front that would probably be the case with them. This is as good as it gets, and I know it. </p>
<p>Hopefully, each of yours finds one school that works out. After all that all they can attend, one school. Most of the time, the kids will find so much new and exciting where ever they end up going. It is a new chapter to their lives. I’m crossing my finger that all the news that arrives turns out to be happy news ultimately, and to a good experience next year.</p>
<p>So sorry for the bad news Emmybet!</p>
<p>Sorry about the bad news, too, Emmybet and FlMathmom. Even if the kids aren’t expecting to get in, it still hurts, and so much more when they are! I’m glad they both have other options they are happy with. </p>
<p>What a bummer of a day for a trip, dignified1! I would vote for all at once, too, unless you think your child will need support/encouragement after each one.</p>
<p>I love the name “Big Fat Envelope”! Thanks for the chuckle, Novelisto. BTW, are you a writer?</p>