<p>MoSB - Sounds like a great match - congrats!</p>
<p>momofsongbird ~ Congrats on your Hillsdale decision!</p>
<p>MoSB - yippee!! I know your D will love Hillsdale. My S & I have a plate of cookies waiting for you and SB on the other side!</p>
<p>MOSB Yeah!!! :)</p>
<p>It’s been a real pleasure to have shared this journey will all of you. It really has.</p>
<p>Do we have some pretty awesome kids or what???</p>
<p>Nothing that happens later today can change that-these kids rock!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone-I will try and check in later and see how everyone’s kids made out and post how my son did as well.</p>
<p>Congrats, mosb, on your daughter’s decision! It sounds like the perfect one. I so happy everything’s worked out for you!</p>
<p>mosb</p>
<p>The fit is it, and I am so happy for you and sb.</p>
<p>MOSB - your post made my day. Sincere congratulations. Celebrating here with you…</p>
<p>Congrats MOSB!!!</p>
<p>The fit is The thing. So very very happy for your little SB. Sounds like the journey and self discovery for her was so worth it!</p>
<p>Having a quick catch-up while eating lunch at my desk. If I don’t catchup now, I will spend half the evening reading pages and pages of posts. :eek:</p>
<p>The 2008 senior letter is an amazing read. That post has been printed and is going home for S. I am hoping he might find some nuggets in it he could use as a basis or part of his commencement speech. It should go to our GC’s but I doubt they would fully comprehend the significance and meaning of it. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>MOSB - Congratulations on Hillsdale. It is a tremendous small LAC. We promoted it to our S but he wanted larger schools so we didn’t pursue any of the LAC’s. They are very independent and fiercely proud of their traditions. 
She should have a wonderful college experience there.</p>
<p>Less than 4 hours to go for the Lottery results! :eek:</p>
<p>MOSB - What a wonderful journey - congrats!</p>
<p>Missypie - Yes! My D’s friend has asked and is receiving a breast augmentation for her 18th birthday - in her defense, she has a genetic deformaty that has left her with no/very little breast tissue and insurance is covering it. But the topic of conversation lately has revolved around Bs or Cs and I am not referring to GPA!</p>
<p>I know several older girls who got a little “work” done for graduation. It’s apparently very popular. Hmm…</p>
<p>Well, I just removed the Google Alert for the other school that admitted D. I guess she should tell them she’s not coming (although it’s certainly not the type of school that has a WL.) Sigh…that school would have been so affordable!</p>
<p>^^ omg
really? </p>
<p>Gotta ask why a young teen with perky-ness would do anything…</p>
<p>Why not wait until after the babies and get it all restored…?</p>
<p>Gosh back in the day, our grad. gifts were things like a refrigerator, luggage, stereo with big speakers etc… :rolleyes:</p>
<p>MOSB- you had me crying…your daughter is such a special young lady! I wish her the best! Congrats on having made the decision!</p>
<p>Congratulations on all the wonderful news pouring in here! And heartfelt sympathy on the disappointments.</p>
<p>D and I stepped off this ride after one big swishing loopdiloop Monday evening when the last two envelopes arrived, one thin, one fat. The thin was from D’s first choice (an auditioned theater program) so the fat envelope was left unopened while she cried her eyes out. I think it was all the built up tension as well as this singular loss. When she pulled herself together she opened the fat envelope to find the final acceptance along with a merit offer and an offer to visit the campus at their expense. More tears. Both happiness and frustratioin that the acceptances and offers of money come from her academic choices and not the auditioned programs.</p>
<p>Humor is generally the cure for the blues in our house. I had a meeting so I missed most of the fun but my younger daughter videotaped my older daughter singing a rather bawdy and insulting song to the schools that rejected her. That cheered her up a lot. Her girlfriends added some humor to the evening and by the time I came home several hours later there was lots of laughter and smiles.</p>
<p>A couple of days later and she is starting to get some perspective on this journey. It helps when her friends and teachers say the same encouraging things I have been saying; she listens to them! So now she has to do some decision-making. That will be its own kind of thrill ride. For right now we are letting things settle and not bringing up college, letting her get used to the new reality of her options. I am just so glad this part is past us. I don’t think I fully breathed for a month.</p>
<p>My thoughts will be all of you waiting for the big lottery drawing tonight. Hope each of your kids hits big. I hope the disappointments are fleeting and that you and your kids can take a moment to savor the pride of a job well done. I hope the universe provides the outcome you hope for but if it can’t it provides the cure you will need, whether its humor, or ice cream or music or good friends.</p>
<p>Good luck!!</p>
<p>Mosb – Sincere Congrats to sb on finding her fit! Keep us posted about the Honors College. I wish her best of luck.</p>
<p>Wow, a few days away, and a full day to catch up.</p>
<p>So a lot going on with everyone - congrats for some impressive acceptances, and I’m impressed with the heads held high on the denials. And a big congrats to those of you that know where your kiddo is headed next year already!</p>
<p>A few thoughts:</p>
<p>– My D is surely the “lovely young woman” about to be rejected from Amherst (ha ha)!</p>
<p>– Add me to the Missypie, OregonianMom, OneGirlsMom and VAMom club, and what momjr said about girls applying to LACs this year. They work their tails off, have truly committed and passionate EC’s and it’s just so tough. Also like Classof2015 (I think) mentioned maybe on another thread, it’s so hard for athletes to find time to visit colleges, and like Classof2015’s daughter, mine also revised her list right until the end and didn’t get to some places to interview. I think that showing interest thing is directly affecting her especially with the waitlists. My D applied to so many of the same colleges as the rest of you (esp. I think Oregonianmom).</p>
<p>– Really struggling here with how much weight to put on the money. We told her we’d find a way to pay for college, and we will. It’s part of the reason we only had 2 kids, so we could afford college. She’s worked hard and deserves to go where the best fit is for her. So when it looks like it’s coming down to a very good school for more money vs a solid school for a LOT less money, and everything else is pretty much equal, except that the little things (food, dorms, facilities, campus) all swing to the “better” school academically, but not by a whole lot… how to decide? Aside from staying away from the US News rankings, how do we know she will be just as educated at the end of the day?</p>
<p>– Strange week here so far. First, an outright rejection from a reachy LAC where we thought she had a good shot after a great interview, positive visit, terrific supplementary essay… and was a direct legacy. Sort of shocked not even a waitlist. And I’m not gonna lie, it hurt to see the acceptances here. Went through the whole gamut – what if we’d insisted she study for those SATs more, what if she’d used the sports as a tip (didn’t want to do the whole recruiting thing, definitely didn’t want to apply ED, but how frustrating to see a classmate with much lower grades, class rank, etc. get in there ED with a sports tip), what if she’d taken another AP and not gotten a B in another, what if H hadn’t been such a troublemaker when he attended years ago(!), what if we’d contributed more money over the years (okay, what if we’d contributed ANY money, ha ha)…what if what if what if… </p>
<p>Then after a day to stew it over, D came home from school and said, “you know, I’m glad I didn’t get in there, I don’t think it was the right place for me anyway.” I laughed and said, “I came to the same conclusion today!” It really probably wasn’t the best college for her, not that strong in her intended major, not great size-wise, there were little things she didn’t like about it (dorms, bookstore, that kind of thing!), wasn’t crazy about one of the coaches for one of her sports, etc. So maybe that showed in her application, maybe they thought she only applied because her dad attended, who knows. But we for sure know that that $65 application fee will DEFINITELY be the last $$$ H’s alma mater sees from us! </p>
<p>As an aside, I am SURE that MY alma mater would have accepted her!!!</p>
<p>– Then in the mail comes a letter from a school I didn’t even know was on the list. Yes, D just didn’t mention that she had added this school last minute (I couldn’t keep track of the cc charges after a few application fees). She had not visited and had not interviewed, and it is a very good college and is the closest to home, and she was waitlisted. I suspect this school was added because it is close to BF’s potential college, but I am leaving that alone for now. The admissions website “strongly suggests” an interview so I am actually pretty surprised that with such a lack of showing interest, she was waitlisted, and I am sure that had she made the effort to visit/interview, or connected with either of the coaches, it would have been an acceptance. </p>
<p>But the reason I bring this up (aside from the surprise of seeing a letter from this college in the mailbox), is that the waitlist letter was one of the nicest letters she has received. REALLY nice (especially as compared to the horrible other WL letter) and really full of information about what it means, how to proceed (basically they are saying, if we are your first choice, tell us, and you will almost surely be admitted). It puts a completely different spin on how she perceived being waitlisted (as a positive) vs the other one (a real downer).</p>
<p>We have two more, an Ivy tonight and the aforementioned Amherst (expecting rejections), so the current 4-2-2 will likely end up at 4-4-2, which is a dead even record and statistically means she picked the right schools to apply to after all!</p>
<p>Sorry I can’t congratulate everyone individually, but even for those with rejections and sad waitlists, it looks like everyone contributing has had at least one acceptance so far (and plenty have lots more), so our kids WILL be going to college next year. Hurray!</p>
<p>MOSB, I’d never heard of Hillsdale out here in California until a young woman came to work for me. She’d just graduated from Hillsdale, and was a very bright and capable and talented young woman. And she adored her time there. Now she’s moved on, but I’m sure she’s thriving wherever she is.</p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p>
Two years ago a senior at local HS died on the table during breast augmentation surgery. Just one month prior to graduating.</p>
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Our catharsis was dumping all the marketing material in the recycle bin from the schools that son did not get a YES from in addition to deleting the Google alerts and FB ‘likes’. Very cleansing.</p>
<p>Yay Songbird (and MO, of course)! I grew up in Michigan and Hillsdale was a great school even those many years ago - and it sounds like it keeps getting better and is a marvelous fit.</p>
<p>And I’m right with you, guitarist’s mom … I’m not sure what D’s final record will be, but definitely not what was expected at the beginning of this process, and each thin envelope (waitlists for us so far, but we’re sure to get the other kind today!) is a blow. At least your last waitlist was well-written! We got one where it really took a lot of reading to even figure out that it WAS a waitlist letter!</p>
<p>Friends are doing mother/daughter reductions this summer. If D and I “did things like that” I might consider it. What a gift to get them off her chest for the next 30 years… lol</p>