<p>I'm glad that I don't have to apply to any of these schools. Like SevenDad and so many other experienced parents note: there is no guarantee of admission no matter how bright and accomplished you are. </p>
<p>"When the dust settled, we were left with record-breaking numbers: an acceptance rate below 13 percent for the first time ever, and an astronomical 86 percent yield. And yet, while those numbers are exciting, when our Admission team went out for an end-of-season lunch on April 10, it wasn’t numbers that we were celebrating. It was the amazing group of young men and women who decided that there is nowhere they’d rather spend the next four years of their lives." </p>
<p>Yes, @ThacherParent, but now we’re going through this same thing for college. I can’t wait for this to be over. Thank heaven we only have one kid. My hat it off to any woman who has endured more than one labor and any family who has to endure multiple admissions cycles. I’m not sure which is worse.</p>
<p>@ChoatieMom I read this to my mom and she asked, “what about admission cycles where you don’t get in, and you have more than one kid?” :p</p>
<p>@ChoatieMom - you know how the head of school or college president always suggests thanking the parents at graduation? Well, when our last of three finished college in 2013 and the university president made that suggestion, I said to myself "hell, yes. this has been one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life, 12 years of tuition (not even counting boarding school), tons of applications and stress, and the usual peaks and valleys along the way…The crazy things we do because we love those kids of ours!</p>
<p>I’m not worthy…I’m not worthy…I’m not worthy… ;)</p>
<p>I am trying to soothe, Little Grasshopper.</p>