<p>graci - are you a girl? If you are, girls are horrible. The boys seem to much more supportive of each other. At my S's school the NHS is holding a Rejection Dinner. The price of admission is a rejection letter. The kids that didn't get one are going to be the waiters and serve everone else. They've already signed my S up as the head waiter. Other schools have posted walls of rejection letters. </p>
<p>It's devating to get a rejection letter, especially an early one because you have to fill out all those other applications and wait months for an acceptance. But it helps to try to lighten up about it, and see if you can support each other. The truth is a year from now ALL of you will be college freshman at some great school and be delerioulsy happy living away from your parents!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, Im a girl - and so are the two other horrible kids applying ED who are sooo snooty about applying to Princeton. Girls in general seem to be much worse; you're right.</p>
<p>I love the idea of the Rejection Dinner - it puts such a hilarious spin on the whole thing that you can't help but laugh even if you have been rejected. And good luck to your son - hopefully he can uphold his nomination! I'll have to share that idea with some of my friends that are NHS officers.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the encouragement! And I'll miss my mum + dad, I won't be too deliriously happy... only when I'll caught up on my laundry will I be ecstatic to be away, seeing as they do all my wash now ;)</p>
<p>Princeton has the repuation of being snobby, and a lot of parents and kids that visit get that impression - especially if you're from the Midwest. But I've been told by students there that it's not really true. Even the eating clubs are supposed to be very open and friendly. My S is the most down to earth, laid back kid you can imagine. If you both get in, I'll introduce you. And by the way, he's great at doing laundry!</p>
<p>Coming from Michigan, you always have U of M as a back up. I went there for grad school, and I'm encouraging my S to apply if he gets the thin envelope.</p>
<p>Yes, U of M is my back-up school - it's really nice to have such a high-quality school here with in-state tuiton. My father went there too, but for undergrad.</p>
<p>I think part of the reason my mum thought it was snobby was because she was transferring annoyance for a Princeton student who lives across the street to the student body as a whole. He's a freshman there this fall, and is so arrogant about going to Princeton as a recruited rower - he was like this even last winter! I think she was worried I'd be miserable, if everyone was a snob, but all applicants here are so nice that any worries about that have been dispelled. :)</p>
<p>Hopefully your son and I can look forward to an introduction next fall on campus <em>crosses fingers</em> !!!</p>
<p>Yes, but he's very busy and uses his time very efficiently. I don't forsee him completing any applications until he knows for sure that he has to. He has agreed to start working on essays, but only after he finishes Harry Potter.</p>
<p>haha my mom sends bunch of asian noodle packages and asian cookies and other odd asian things...like weird herbs to drink when im sick. lol. ill share those fun stuff with u kids :-P</p>
<p>can't you just see all of us crowding into someone's suite next year at ::checks time:: 12:26 am and having a CC reunion? Everyone can bring the care packages their parents sent and share the cookies (my mom's a great cook...) and just hang out and talk...::sigh:: then again, I'll probably get rejected and won't be there.....</p>
<p>umm theres gonna be a CC club at pton next year where we bomb CC with princeton advice and again take over the princeton board...even though we will all already be freshmen :D</p>