<p>Well, DS got the thumbs down from JHU. He’s taking it pretty well, since it wasn’t one of his top choices–but counselor recommended he apply. It was his first rejection, so maybe it will soften the blow if tomorrow doesn’t go well. But he does know he’s in some great schools and I know one of them is going to be a great choice for him.</p>
<p>Good luck, and bring on the wine!</p>
<p>I’m way too many pages “late” in my reading, but I’ve shared all the joys and sorrows you and your kids have experienced. I’ve high-fived and shed tears (truly), and shaken my head in frustration right along with you. Is this the wildest ride or what?</p>
<p>Novelisto, that tape did get her invited (as one of 100 musicians, all instruments) to audition live. And she did. It was that awful weekend when she wasn’t feeling well…walked down the long lonely marble corridor with a backwards look and a teary thumbs-up at me…and SHE WON the competition! Top music scholarship on top of their highest academic merit scholarship.</p>
<p>And she’s not going to that school! </p>
<p>Much has happened since then…almost ready to post decision (which is made) but she’s up for Honors College and until she hears on that, I’m forbidden from releasing any news. My, haven’t we become superstitious!?!</p>
<p>And she’s back in good health; thanks for asking!!!</p>
<p>Congrats HighHead on Stanford and I second rom828 re Moonmaid’s D. </p>
<p>Welcome Nervous!</p>
<p>Surprisingly quiet night, but I guess we’re resting up for tomorrow’s ride? Our news is good: Scoutson got in to JHU. Our excitement is always tempered, however, since FA information is not provided…</p>
<p>Congratulations to MnMom and Highhead on the good news tonight as well as to the NM scholars.</p>
<p>Stanford!!</p>
<p>(and dignified1 posted that her D is in.)</p>
<p>Another 2014er parent chiming in - sounds like lots of good choices here. Hopefully, the sting of rejection will be overshadowed by all of the great opportunities. For those waiting for the lotteries tomorrow, fingers are crossed.</p>
<p>“No comments so far on Stanford admissions…? D accepted. Not sure what this means for Wednesday…”</p>
<p>A bit of happy shock here. D was accepted to Stanford along with at least one of her good friends (!) Definitely could knock MIT off its perch… if the finaid looks good. I would personally be sad to lose MIT, however, and can hardly imagine that their finaid offer can be beat.</p>
<p>D says she doesn’t care about tomorrow’s decisions (HYP to go!) anymore, and I almost believe her ;). Regardless, it will definitely be hard for any of the remaining three (*if *she gets in) to beat out MIT or Stanford.</p>
<p>I can’t wait to be one of those parents offering advice to the 2016-2018 group. I have learned so much this year from all of you and have already started thinking about what I would do differently. Hopefully, my insights will help others through this crazy process.</p>
<p>A big CONGRATULATIONS for today’s acceptances! I’m so happy for your kids. :)</p>
<p>Thanks rom828 and emilybee. Even if D had been accepted at MSM, I think she still would have chosen Vandy. I think D knew Vandy was the right place during auditions when she was surrounded by students at Blair telling her, “You have to come here!” Nowhere else did she get a welcome like that. Coming from a small-town Texas high school, I think it’s definitely the right fit for her. I was also nervous at the prospect of her spending four years in a conservatory-type environment; I just don’t know if she is yet ready for that. If she stays devoted to music, I think she will have the opportunity for that kind of study in grad school. I am glad she will have more of a traditional college experience, at such a great place. I think she will thrive.</p>
<p>Some congratulations are in order:</p>
<p>MnMom’s D and scoutsmom’s S – happy dance for your acceptances to JHU!</p>
<p>Highhead, congrats to your D for her Stanford admissions! Edit: Adding UT and Dignified’s kids. Man, oh man – what great news!!! Break out the champagne!</p>
<p>VAMom, sorry about the thumbs down from JHU admissions; they clearly don’t know who they’re passing up, as they also WLed my DS 
their loss! Glad to hear your S has already moved on. This is my S’s first WL; he did have a good streak going with 8 acceptances after his ED deferral but as my grandmother used to say to me “everything in life has a beginning and an end.” He’s still hopeful for tomorrow – got to love that – but also realistic. Like your S, helps that he has schools that already make him happy. </p>
<p>moonmaid: i think your daughter is going to the right place – wonderful U + great $. I began college as a piano performance major and by the end of freshman year switched to art history. went on to a doctorate. college is only done once in a lifetime – it’s a time to explore and gain a wealth of knowledge in all sorts of disciplines. She can go to a conservatory for further training for grad school. She’ll get the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>again, good luck to all expecting news tomorrow!</p>
<p>HIP HIP HOORAY for our three (I think) Stanford acceptees and Scout on JHU. Wow Tufts AND the Ivies tomorrow (CC crash!) - good luck to all. Hugs to all feeling the sting today or with FA delays/concerns. I hope we will have much more good news than bad in the next 20ish hours; and I hope for happy children who know that they are more than the sum of the college decisions.</p>
<p>I just heard of a situation where someone received several likely letters from Ivys and was then rejected from them all. Sigh, I wish they hadn’t told me this…</p>
<p>All you knowledgeable CCers. What do you think???</p>
<p>that hubby of mine better hurry home with earlier mentioned red wine…</p>
<p>we already have tickets for the weekend our S was invited to in one of his letters…</p>
<p>nervousmomo : DS is in the same boat as you as far as Columbia. Lots of emails including a likely science fellow (the wording was “…we told you were a likely candidate and now I am telling you are a likely science fellow …”). I really don’t think there is anything to be worried about. DS is now suspicious of likely letters after Berkeley interviewed him for Regent, was told by the prof. that we was most likely to get it and then got rejected for Regents (did get admitted). Kind of strange that Berkeley should do that - it has totally turned him off Berkeley. He did get Regents at all the other UCs, so he really has nothing to complain about …</p>
<p>Wow, Dignified1! Congratulations to your D — MIT AND Stanford. She seems to have the magic touch for college acceptances this year. For those of us with younger sibs, I’d be interested in hearing about to what you attribute her great success in college acceptances.</p>
<p>One more parent waiting on the lotteries of tomorrow. (I had my wine already thanks…) DS2 did get a Midd acceptance this week - one of the schools that remained on the list and to which he sent an application, but which never interviewed him. Columbia and Brown tomorrow in our house. Cheers to all who made it thru the year. May your children all be blessed.</p>
<p>Wow, I left work early for S’s baseball game and then took freshman D to the Cavs & Heat NBA game and missed about 6 pages of news while I was doing non-college things (with great enjoyment I must add).</p>
<p>Congrats to the Stanford admits dignified and UT. S got a no but he was pretty much expecting it so he wasn’t too upset by it. Their numbers were just brutal this year. His response was, “well, maybe I will go there for grad school then.”</p>
<p>Congrats to scoutsmom on JHU. S got waitlisted and again was OK as it wasn’t one of his top 2 choices.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone else on all good news today and condolences on the waitlists and rejections. As several posters have said, our kids are fortunate just to be able to apply to this caliber of schools and they can only go to one of them. As our visitors from the 2010/2014 forum have said, the kids are all happy where they ended up and the stress has been passed along to the next class of kids and parents.</p>
<p>We have three lottery balls in play for tomorrow. 2 ivies and Duke. S really wants Duke and is now concerned after JHU waitlisted him. He will be on his senior class trip to DC the rest of the week but has all the access codes and two Wi-Fi devices with him. If he can’t find a hot spot, his GF has an iPhone with web access so he will be connected. Hopefully, he will be too busy on the trip to get upset if he gets a lot of bad news plus all of his best friends in his class will be on the trip with him.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone waiting on the announcements tomorrow.</p>
<p>Woot woot for the latest round of acceptances, and the kids inching closer to committing. And condolences for the rejections… but really, every kid in this thread appears to have good choices for the fall.</p>
<p>We are done with waiting! D got into her final school, Connecticut College, tonight. She was 5 for 5, a success rate that I credit largely to her, of course, but also to the help we got from CC. She did the Xiggi method and got her test scores where they needed to be, and we were able to focus on a small clutch of schools that had what she wanted and all seemed like good fits with at least a reasonable chance of acceptance. It helped that she didn’t want to go for the reaches.</p>
<p>All the stats postings and Chance Me threads can be so alarming… through this we learned that if you find the right schools for you, excluding of course the lottery elites, it can go better than you think. It was actually an enjoyable experience-- I loved the trips we took, and the exploration, and to see her focus on what she wanted and where she could see herself at 21, and of course now, at the end of this journey, to see her joy in her success.</p>
<p>Now she has to decide! But first a few days to forget about college and focus on the last play of her high school career… and counsel her friends as they survive the roller coaster of these last few days of acceptance stress.</p>
<p>Good Morning All!</p>
<p>D got her first rejection last night from JHU. She was okay with it but was a little curious about the decision since she had been talking to a couple of the coaches there. But she has been accepted to some really awesome schools and has tickets to the lottery tonight! Though she does have her heart set on going to school in Boston (Northeastern or BU). </p>
<p>Congrats to the acceptances and hugs to the waitlists/rejections. I sit here and talk to the computer and cheer with the happy news and groan with the sad news.</p>
<p>All of these kids have some awesome choices to make.</p>
<p>Rumor has it, here in the Northeast we are getting quite the storm on April Fool’s Day…that will be interesting. I won’t care by then if the snowplow takes out the mailbox!</p>
<p>Have a great day everyone and good luck to everyone who will be hearing results today!</p>
<p>Another busy night on this thread!</p>
<p>Congratulations to Mnmon’s D and Scoutsmom’s son on JHU. I’m an alum, so I love to hear about kids getting in. The campus is particularly beautiful in the spring, and Baltimore is much nicer than it appears on TV shows.</p>
<p>Congratulations to Highhead, UT and Dignified on the Stanford acceptances. What an exciting option. Stanford seems to have it all - great academics, sports and weather.</p>
<p>Congratulations to Anothermom on Midd.</p>
<p>Congratulations to Reasearching on Conn College. It’s great that your daughter has so many good choices.</p>
<p>Moonmaid: I think that Vandy will be a great fit for your daughter. My friend’s daughter is a music minor at Vandy, and she loves the program and the “music kids.”</p>
<p>Proudmom: So glad that your daughter had a great trip and arrived home safely. I’m sure that you’ll sleep better now that she’s back.</p>
<p>I’m sorry about the WLs and rejections, but I’m glad that all of the kids have other good choices. They can only go to one school.</p>
<p>Welcome Nervousmom. I have never heard of someone getting a denial after a likely letter unless there was a major change in circumstances like a suspension or arrest.</p>
<p>Good luck to those waiting for today’s decisions. I’m with you in spirit.</p>