<p>Good Morning all ☼☼☼</p>
<p>Happy Saturday After Y’all</p>
<p>O-mom~It is wonderful $$ news $$</p>
<p>PHB~It is a sign. It is a great idea for your D to see the campus on “regular mode”.
Will she be able to do Admitted students though…we just registered S2.</p>
<p>S2 HS had a Seniors mom dinner last night…It was a lovely occasion.
College acceptances were on everyone’s mind, a lot of talk and exchange of ideas.
It seems our school had good results…:)</p>
<p>Stay 
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<p>Hi All
I haven’t read the last few pages, but I want to congratulate everyone and their beautiful children on acceptances, commiserate on the rejections, and give support to the waitlisted. D’s application process is “on pause” right now as she and I deliberate over the next steps. She was accepted at 2 schools; WL at 2. I have started a “Class of 2015: Waitlisted!” thread to discuss and support those of us who are starting on that journey of hope. Feel free to post your advice and insights there.
As always, good luck to everyone. This one was a heartbreaker.</p>
<p>**The SS Indecision left port on April 1st.</p>
<p>The ship is scheduled to dock in 29 days when all final commitments to schools are due.**</p>
<p>Avon-wow…that made me nervous…hoping my daughter, who is captain of the SS Indecision, will be able to make up her mind…</p>
<p>she seems more concerned with finding shoes for prom than deciding which college to pick…
may be avoidance…but man is it aggravating…</p>
<p>2education, grats on Duke and second choice, both with merit – nice!</p>
<p>MilMom, grats on narrowing down the state at least! I lived in Alabama part-time in college as a co-op student, working on Redstone Arsenal. I hope the next move is what you want and that you get out of the “hurry up and wait” period soon!</p>
<p>kinderny, we won’t be making it to the Hampshire visit day. Another school which she’s never visited has their admitted students day the same weekend. Too bad, I’d love to have a meet-up! Let me know how it goes. </p>
<p>researching, grats on the Clark decision!</p>
<p>gbs, grats on two acceptances. I know what you mean about matches not coming through. My daughter was rejected (not even the cold comfort of a waitlist) from a school we thought was a no-brainer match.</p>
<p>blue, grats on the honors invite. That reminded me of a funny comment from the CU-Boulder thread: “I think many anxious parents (myself included) see the Honors program as a way of segregating our bright motivated kids from the great slacker/stoner unwashed.” Okay, I hate to admit it, but that is sort of true for me!</p>
<p>I know lots of you have upcoming visits: hope they go well, even if that just means eliminating a school.</p>
<p>I’ve enjoyed reading the little analyses on getting into the ivies. I doubt any of my kids will go that route, but much of the advice probably applies just as well to getting better merit from lower tier schools.</p>
<p>My daughter’s current itinerary on the SS Indecision: I’m waiting for her to get home from her solo visit today. I didn’t get a chance to talk to her long, but it sounds like this one is off the list. That means she’s down to Hampshire, Beloit, or CU-Boulder. My husband also gets home tonight (unfortunately they arrive 4 hours apart at the airport!) We have to talk finances and see what we’d need from Hampshire to make it work.</p>
<p>Happy weekend to all my CC friends. I hope everyone gets a chance to enjoy nice weather as you move closer to THE DECISION.</p>
<p>MilitaryMom: I hope your future comes into clearer focus soon. Deciding to retire or not is a huge step. We were there six years ago. </p>
<p>It’s a great feeling to be DONE and to hear the enthusiasm in your child’s voice as he talks about selecting a dorm room online on April 11, picking his classes at Summer Welcome, bringing his college friends to our tailgates before football games, wondering if his team will have a basketball coach soon.</p>
<p>I really wish all that contentment for all of you. (Well, maybe not the part about your school not having a basketball coach right now, but the good stuff.) It makes it much easier to enjoy the last weeks of senior year.</p>
<p>We counted last night at dinner. 16.5 days of school in April since we get three days off around Easter. On IB/AP test days in May, the students don’t have to go to their other classes. That means only three non-test days of school in May for our son. And one of them is Senior Service Day where they work in the community and another is a Chem-A-Thon at the local state university.</p>
<p>Less than 20 days in a classroom left! Graduation seven weeks from tomorrow!</p>
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<p>It just made me so happy to read your words owm…As my son was reflected on his and friends results, he said to me:" You know what Mom I got lucky, it is one minute in the admission committee that made the difference between me and the next applicant…"
He is truly humbled by his results and feels for all his friends that did not get the yes they were expecting for.</p>
<p>Last year, S1 had to decide between his two final choices (Gtown and UVa), I gave him a last piece of advice on the way down to revisits: I said "Choose with your heart, not the name, not the rankings, not what people think you should do, choose with your heart…"He recently shared with me that it was a very liberating feeling for him to hear that. At the time I did not really think about it 
But apparently , he relieved a lot of pressure.</p>
<p>Well,I wanted to share as we all embark on revisits …
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<p>Omom: Congratulations on the $$ and the last day of work. I admire those of you who are returning to school. I can’s imagine sitting in a classroom, taking exams, and writing papers again.</p>
<p>PHBmom: I think that the Durham trip is a definite sign.</p>
<p>Snoozn: I’m glad that your daughter has narrowed down her choices. My daughter was very intriqued by the idea of UC Bolder. It was too far away for us to seriously consider, but it sounds like a great school in an amazing setting. </p>
<p>I really like 2education’s advice. When I look at my older daughter’s friends, the ones who chose the schools that really clicked emotionally are all very happy. They’ve changed majors and dropped the EC’s that originally factored into their choices, but they’re still very happy at the schools they chose based on feeling. </p>
<p>I have one other suggestion for kids making choices. It really helps to meet and talk to students when they visit. The structured programs are a bit of a “dog and pony” show. If your has a friend or aquaintance who they can meet for coffee, or a quick tour, it’s worth encouraging them to set up a meeting. </p>
<p>Good luck to those of you on the SS Indecision. We landed safely on the other side, and my daughter is happily focusing on dorm and roommate selection.</p>
<p>Hello everyone!</p>
<p>madbean ~ Thanks for sharing your S2’s admission story. He sounds like a very interesting, creative kid.</p>
<p>oregonianmom ~ Great news on the scholarhips!</p>
<p>2education ~ Nice advice on choices. :)</p>
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<p>2education, you are so right. My D just did that on her own. She said she’d been thinking of the movie “The Kids Are All Right,” the scene at the end where they take their daughter to college. She said she kept thinking of that scene, and pretended that she was that girl, and if she was in that movie, which of the many campuses she visited would it be? The answer came to her immediately (Clark). It was a total gut/heart reaction, and I know in my gut/heart it’s the right one.</p>
<p>Ugh, commiseration with everyone who is sailing the boat. We’re down to two choices, pending FA: one where I know my son would fit in perfectly and would find support for the things he values most and another which would be more of a risk socially but might (who knows for sure?) offer better research possibilities as well as cachet. H thinks son should stretch himself and go to the school where everyone is not like him; I think fitting in well would allow S to do much better academically. Hopefully the answer will be clear when S goes back to visit one for the first time and revisit the other. But it’s going to be so hard to drop that card in the mail! Anyone else torn between campus culture and academic reputation?</p>
<p>2education and momjr – GREAT decision advice there, bookmarked it for the next few weeks! Thank you–altho so much of D1’s will be up to the final FA</p>
<p>Any final revisits we are able to do will be on a “regular” student day for us. One will still be a bit of a ‘dog and pony show’ since it’s also an admitted student day but as long as it’s also a regular school day it’s a better real life glimpse of everyday campus life than a Sunday event–she’ll be able to chat with a student heading to class or at the cafeteria rather than just the ‘hand picked’ admissions staff students. And she can sit in on 1 or 2 classes. Unfortunately with the family schedule it looks like overnights won’t be possible anywhere at this point.</p>
<p>O-mom, what great news with the scschips!</p>
<p>Congrats on the $$ O-mom!</p>
<p>Boychild has disembarked from SS Indecision. He will be going to Bates! We are thrilled with his choice. As one of the other posters said it is so exciting talking about the next steps. We are going up for admitted students day on the 25th so DH can see the school and boychild can meet some of the other students, facility. I can’t wait to put the Bates College decal on my rear window. :)</p>
<p>Boychild graduates 6 weeks from today. Seniors are done 6 weeks before the rest of the school. It’s great because they are so done by then and with nothing to do but find ways to get in trouble.</p>
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<p>Congrats on a successful end to this leg of the journey.</p>
<p>a 2014 parent popping in for a moment – hope you don’t mind! I love that the SS Indecision has been launched again by your group! Last year, my S got sick over spring break, so we could only visit his choices the last week of April…the last one on April 30th… (he had never visited one school and the others he had only seen during the summer)… We had to find which post office was open the latest on May 1st in our area.</p>
<p>Like researching4emb’s D, he made the decision totally based on where he felt most at home. Tried doing the spreadsheet, but all the schools looked good that way…</p>
<p>For him, making the decision was the most stressful part of the whole application experience. Saying “no” to schools was really hard!!</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you!</p>
<p>emilybee~Congratulations on reaching Maine’s shore</p>
<p><em>GO BATES BOBCATS</em></p>
<p>emilybee- congrats!!!</p>
<p>2Ed, Thanks! Are there Batesies in your family? </p>
<p>Thx, Hollie!</p>
<p>Congrats, Emilybee! Bates sounds like a great school.</p>
<p>Congrats to all the families who are done with indecision. Wish we were there but we are just in the everlasting waiting game- where we will live, when will we move, where d will go to college, where and what kind of trucking school my oldest will attend (some are no pay for him, some he will need us to fill out a FAFSA for this year). whether youngest will get into summer program, and more and more and more.</p>