<p>I thought I'd post over here since a lot of you guys have posted on the parents board. You all seem like you're nervous wrecks! Are you're parent nervous too? There's a thread for anxious parents on the parents' board.</p>
<p>The next few weeks will be difficult, so your school work should be a great relief because it will distract you from thinking about Princeton!!! Seriously though, I thought you could use a Mom here in case any of you get bad news in December.</p>
<p>lol homework distract me?
I think CC is distracting me more from homework, and here on cc we talk about princeton...so gahh! yes I'm a nervous wreck. </p>
<p>But if my parents are, they don't look it, which is good. I've told them not to go near the mailbox for the whole week surrounding dec. 15</p>
<p>I wish I had a mom nervous for me... mine's just like "well if you don't get accepted, you could always go for community college or no college at all". Thanks for the inspiration ;-;</p>
<p>Aww!
well, as long as it's a community college on the east coast =)</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, my mom tries to be excited when I talk to her about it, but it usually only lasts for about 30 secs. She just generally doesn't seem too impressed, which is insane considering this is Princeton we're talking about. But whatever. And Dad...oh, don't even get me started on him. I think he just found out I applied there ED. Haha.</p>
<p>lol! aww...but i wouldn't start getting them too excited until after you get in. What gets me mad is that people at my school gossip too much and there would just be no way to keep the decision to myself. sigh</p>
<p>Yeah the actual decision itself ... ungh. Gossip's going to be another thing to deal with :P</p>
<p>(I thought you were leaving cc! haha)</p>
<p>but yea, I hate it when other people's expectations of me are higher than my own. When people say "what happened??" what is that supposed to mean?!</p>
<p>Yeah I can't pry myself away from CC, arghh. Impossible!</p>
<p>Well, Im excited for all of you guys. If you all get in Ill send some homemade cookies to Princeton for you all to share! But you've got to do your homework becasue Princeton doesn't look well on senior slide.</p>
<p>My son was so excited when we took him to see Princeton last summer that he was beaming ear to ear. A professor showed him around and he sat down in a classroom and didnt want to leave. I told him he had to go back home and finish high school.</p>
<p>lol that's hilarious! well, good luck to him~ </p>
<p>I know I know...
homework blah!</p>
<p>I do think you should think about how you can handle people who ask you, "What happened?" What are some good responses? Like, " I applied to Harvard RD and when they found our about my Princeton application Harvard called the Princeton admissions office an begged them not to take me, because Harvard wanted me so badly." I'm sure you guys could think of some others.</p>
<p>lol, you're such a cool mom. Hmm that is a good idea though.</p>
<p>When my son says to his friends, "If I get into Princeton......." they say, "You mean WHEN you get inot Princeton......" He's been known as "the smart kid" at his high school since 9th grade. His interviewer asked him why more kids from his high school don't apply to Princeton. He said they thought that they wouldn't get in. I said, "Did you tell her that if you dont' get in, no one from your high school will ever apply again?"</p>
<p>OK. Now back to your homework.</p>
<p>lol
I actually did homework! Now this is my "five minute" break...</p>
<p>maybe if you bake me some cookies</p>
<p>homemade cookies to go with coffee at frist, sounds good!</p>
<p>My parents actually didn't want me to apply to Princeton ED, especially my mum. She thought everyone there seemed snobby - I don't know how she made this judgement as I was along with her the entire time and everyone we encountered was really, really nice. She was just hoping I'd apply Dartmouth ED, I think.</p>
<p>I'm so worried about the post-15th gossip at my school! My Princeton app is mentioned to me over and over during the day, and when I'm like, "Thin envelope - all the way" everyone's all like, "Oh, no way! You'll for sure get in!" I don't think they realize how difficult it really is to get into Princeton. Plus, there's like six others from my school, and two of them (both ED) always compete with each other... so there's all that animosity. I'm sure it will only increase as D-Day nears! :::::stress, haha:::::</p>
<p>I didn't even intend for people to know where I applied, but the gossip mill is horrid at my school. A teacher who wrote a rec for me let it leak, and now... yeah.</p>
<p>You seem really cool, cookiemom. Of course we can use a board mother for consolement/sucrose purposes!</p>
<p>This is great. Now we're an actual family, haha.</p>