<p>I know it's not Saturday yet, but I wanted to make this thread before I forget. </p>
<p>Once you get your prep school decisions, post:</p>
<p>-the schools you applied to
-the schools that accepted you
-the schools that waitlisted you
-the schools that rejected you
-which school you plan on attending
-if you don't get into any prep schools, what will you do next fall? (go to public school, home school, local day school, etc.)</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>Please also include financial aid data. Applied, got what expected, didn't get any, got half what expected, etc. and which schools are generous and which not.</p>
<p>Ethnicity, location and any hooks such as legacy, development, feeder school, athlete.</p>
<p>I think this thread's great...but what I expect will occur is that people will want to connect with people who are going to be showing up in real life at the places they will be attending.</p>
<p>While it will be interesting to read lists of "I got in here and didn't get in at these places," I envision the really exciting threads will be ones created for each school along the lines of "OMG! Who else is going to be revisiting at Lawrenceville?!"</p>
<p>And kids...please check with your parents about sharing the financial aid information and getting too personal about who you are. Once someone adds up all the little hints about you that you've left here over time and figure out who you are...those seemingly anonymous tidbits will suddenly become neon signs.</p>
<p>If the past is any indication, many of those accepted will not know where they are going until after revisits. FA is an issue for many and many go back to renegotiate, many stay over to get a better feel and change their minds, there are waitlist. It gets complicated after the 10th. Too bad last year's kids don't come back!</p>
<p>I already know my decisions. Shall I post them or shall I ceremoniously wait until March 10th? :)</p>
<p>Chaos, if for some dumb reason you do not gain admittance, have your dad do what another father did in the early days of Deerfield Academy when his son was not admitted. Have your father drive up to Exeter, open the door, boot you out and leave. This story is told in the book "the Headmaster" about deerfield's Frank Boyden.</p>
<p>haaaahahahhi have to do that!!! i so want to do that!! or just arrive on campus and set up a tent and start attending classes!</p>
<p>I read The Headmaster. Excellent book. That was by far my favourite part.
I think we should post full stats with our acceptences/rejections/waitlistings, like on the WAMC threads.
By the way, the Boyden let the boy stay.</p>
<p>Like D'yer Maker was saying, it may be just a little too personal to post the amount of financial aid you receive. But please do, if more comfortable, post whether you got financial aid (if you applied) and if you got more or less than parents expected. Who was generous with financial aid, in your opinion? This is the place to specify your opinions!</p>
<p>Also, Headmasters sounds like a great read. Just reading this board has so far got me hooked on "The Price of Admission" and "Overachievers." Two AMAZING novels I just couldn't put down until I was finished. </p>
<p>Good luck in two days!!!</p>
<p>Even, if I don't get accepted into Andover, I have a plan.</p>
<p>1) Report to my friend who is a lower at Andover's dorm with my air matress and sleep there. Then go to the classes that best interest me. </p>
<p>2) Sneak into a room at their Andover Inn and inhabit there every night until day rises once again for wonderful academics and extracurriculars.</p>
<p>3) Blairt's tent plan.</p>
<p>How can I loose? haha. I'm just kidding. =] I really do love Andover, though.</p>
<p>Aren't The Price of Admission and the Overachievers nonfiction?</p>
<p>Chaos, how do u know already? tell us!!!</p>
<p>@helonmelon: I believe he lined up a private consultation with the CC Magic 8 Ball...</p>
<p>Ok, kids, don't forget to BREATHE! If you don't get accepted to your dream school, it's not the end of the world. It's also not a judgement of your worth. Competition is severely tough and admission decisions don't always make sense.</p>
<p>So, try to relax and don't beat yourself up if you get the thin envelope. There are plenty of excellent schools that would love to have you enroll.</p>
<p>Try to get some sleep tonight! Good luck. :)</p>
<p>As another parent, I second that—and, as I said in another post, sometimes Plan B turns out better than Plan A would have. Also, if any of you watched the MTV show last night on "geniuses," you saw that California senior who applied early decision to Stanford and who is two (I think) years ahead of his classmates, has perfect grades and SAT scores, and seems like a very nice, well-adjusted, popular kid to boot, get rejected (not even deferred!) by his first-choice school. Yes, he was upset, but he got right back on the bandwagon and started strategizing about how to make the remaining college applications (to Harvard, Yale, Penn, and Columbia, as I recall) he would now have to send in more competitive. He'll do fine wherever he ends up, and so will everyone here. Admissions decisions often have more to do with making sure the entering class is as diverse as possible, in all respects, than with any one applicant's scores, grades, ECs, etc.</p>
<p>So, if you're the color turquoise you shouldn't feel too blue because Rembrandt didn't use you in this painting. You're still a beautiful color.</p>
<p>If you're the word "gossamer," you're not going to be so thick that you can't see why Hemingway selected other words, but not you, in that last chapter. You're still a marvelous word.</p>
<p>If you're a high C sharp, you don't shriek with dismay that Pavarotti avoids you. You may even sing his praises because if he did, that's when you might sound bad.</p>
<p>Admission decisions are not judgments on the worth or value of the applicants. We all make decisions and choices each and every day. Maybe it's which science project to do...and we can only choose one from many possibilities. Or sometimes we take the scenic route over the faster route, just because we have time today that we usually don't have to spare.</p>
<p>Maybe you'd have been perfect...last year. Maybe you'd be the right fit...at the school you visited as you were coming down with the flu and just never bothered applying to. Surely you don't believe that all the schools you didn't apply to suck or would be awful places. So don't delude yourself into thinking that a negative outcome is a reflection on you.</p>
<p>And if you have positive outcomes...yes, feel proud of your achievement. But understand the luck of it all as well. Luck you had a role in creating...but there's a lot of "right time and place" inherent in these decisions that make them more like subjective choices of artists than Olympic competitions in which champions prevail based solely on their performance in head-to-head competition.</p>
<p>There will be winners the next few days...but, as incongruous as this may sound, nobody should walk away in defeat.</p>
<p>D'yer--Eloquently put. :)</p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone! You are all an amazing (and entertaining) group of applicants, and I've enjoyed hearing your stories, hopes & dreams. And good luck to you lurkers too!</p>
<p>Try to go to as many revisit days as you can. You may find that your priorities change when you are actually on campus.</p>
<p>bump.. it seems like a few people got their decisions already. Remember to post them here!</p>
<p>I hope prepparent comes around today. He hasn't been here for ages.</p>