<p>Alumother,</p>
<p>What a beautiful, fantastic, <strong>perfect</strong> ending to what started out as a difficult week! A HUGE congrats to your daughter for her much-desired acceptances to Stanford and Princeton!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish her all the very, very best for a brilliant and exciting college career, no matter where she decides to go!</p>
<p>love, ~berurah</p>
<p>Alu,</p>
<p>Congratulations on the Princeton Acceptance!</p>
<p>I am another one who is screaming with you.</p>
<p>Just a few days ago you started a thread, no happy news at my desk where you said
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So I have to try not to cry at my desk, given that my office has this huge glass window looking out at other humans. I will just go home and eat dinner and tell her I love her and it'll be fine. But nothing I can do will ever erase this for her. My job will be to put it in context.
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<p>(do you think it is becaue you were not suppose to be at your desk to get this happy news?) </p>
<p>I responded back to you
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It is not over yet as you haven't heard form the last 2.
Next year as you see that blur of red hair flashing by you happy as a lark today will be a distant memory.
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<p>Now it's just a matter of whether that blur of red hair will be on the east coast or the west coast.</p>
<p>While this is not in our nature, there are many of us who are more than happy to say I told you so. Forst Stanford, now Princeton (I have this big stupid grin as I write this)</p>
<p>I really hope that you save your original note of dispair and this thread and post it on the CC next year with the subsequent acceptances. What an admissions season this has been. We are going to need some serious help getting over these cyber headaches form all of the cyber champagne whe have ben drinking. Let's crack open another bottle!! :D</p>
<p>Sybbie, if there is anything I hope it is that what I have learned I can pass on to others next year. Thank you so much - tell me I told you so all you want. And that red hair didn't exactly flash by, but it cuddled up to me and wanted to plan her trips. That is our bonding behaviour, we plan:) And guess what I think I have learned to do? Colors! Go Cardinal! [orange]Go Tigers![/orange]</p>
<p>To those who asked about my S's time fetish and asked how I could leave when I saw the mailtruck (sorry, I can't scroll back and see who you were...) Well, fetish could be the wrong word, I just mean he attaches a higher than average importance to punctuality, to the point where it causes him to squirm with distress if he thinks is going to be late. (Very different person than my D.) I had to go, so he didn't think that D's college acceptances now meant I had forgotten his quirky little self. And truth be told, I was so floating from Stanford, I was OK with whatever the mailtruck brought.</p>
<p>Berurah, if your son hears from Stanford, can I try to change his mind away from Duke and get him to come out and marry my D? No pressure of course:) He sounds so wonderful.</p>
<p>I'm raising my glass of cyberchampagne. Thanking the Northern California hippie gods for our good luck. And wondering if all of us, if we don't start curmudgeon's university right away, could we at least come up with a good gap year program for the kids who deserve everything and have bad luck?</p>
<p>Actually, sitting in the bleachers at a soccer game was probably the perfect place to get such news and scream --as long as it didn't coincide with the other team getting a goal! How did the game turn out, anyway?</p>
<p>For you Alu,</p>
<p>Just close the spaces;</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=red] [ i] go Cardinal [ /size][ /color][ /i]</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=orange] [ i] go Tigers [ /size][ /color][ /i]</p>
<p> * go Cardinal !!*</p>
<p> * go Tigers!! *</p>
<p>Omigod. They lost 6-2. My son loves soccer with all his heart but his club team must have lost 100 games in the past 6 years. Lucky his JV team in high school routinely beats everyone in their not-very-competitive league. I like him to get a feel for winning and losing. Winning so he has fun, losing because that's much harder, right?</p>
<p>Close the spaces? I am befuddled.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your daughter, Alumother! I was following her results on the other thread and am happy everything worked out well for her. </p>
<p>And by close the spaces, Sybbie means to copy and paste the above coding and delete the spaces between the brackets and the text they contain. You'll get the brightly colored text that way.</p>
<p>Like this. Princeton Tigers rock!</p>
<p> * go Tigers!!! *
* go Cardinal!!! *</p>
<p>I've been watching for this one. woo hoo! congrats to you both, 1mm</p>
<p>How much more wonderful does it get! Now you can picture her in your old digs, and have great dreams, and know it is all well. Bless you both!</p>
<p>I was wondering all day and I just found this thread-- I am sooooooo happy for you. Waiter, More bubbly!! </p>
<p>Drink it in a nice big hot bubble bath so you can sink down up to your neck, close your eyes, and relax for the first time since November!! :)</p>
<p>Gracilisae, 1moremom, momofthree, SBMom - thank you for following our story. It's just amazing to feel this support. I will be smiling, and sleeping well (!!!), for the next few days. Maybe even weeks. And more importantly, (which I remember when I pull it together to be a good mom), so will my D. Goodnight and sweet dreams.</p>
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Berurah, if your son hears from Stanford, can I try to change his mind away from Duke and get him to come out and marry my D? No pressure of course He sounds so wonderful.
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<p><em>blush</em> He should GET so lucky!! :) Your daughter sounds like a dream. Your description of her sweet giggle made me smile! I have to admit, my son is kinda cute :), but then, I guess I'm a little biased!</p>
<p>love, ~berurah</p>
<p>Alumother- Your D's a dancer, right? If I'm totally wrong, just ignore me, but I'd love to email/PM with her if she ends up deciding on Pton, assuming she's interested! And congratulations to both of you!
-JSSBallet</p>
<p>Ones goes away for the weekend and look at all the great news!!</p>
<p>Isn't there a saying about "plumbing the depths of misery to find true joy?" I was so touched by your angst a few days ago... an electronic wail....prompted by your gut feel that your daughter deserved an acceptance to at least one of her top choices... your candor in expressing your feelings for her is, in some ways, exactly what this parents forum is about. Rarely do we get to talk about our expectations or desires for our children... except with our spouses (if lucky) .... and this entire college process is often so overwhelming it is hard to keep the feelings and thoughts inside the house. </p>
<p>So glad for you that your gut feeling about your daughter was confirmed with her most recent acceptances. I will share that early in the game with our son, my husband made an offhand comment that he
would cry if our son got into his alma mater. I was blown away at the time because it was my first glimpse into how important it was for him to share the experience. I was fortunate in that I was able to make the decision a special experience for my husband when the time came. Our son was in Canada when the decisions were posted....but he had left behind his login information and I was able to print off the acceptance "certificate" and I slid it into a folder and put it with the other envelopes that came that day. After looking at 1 or 2 others, he opened up the folder, and he almost could not comprehend what he was reading. So, screaming at a soccer game, shedding a tear or two at home, dancing a jig.....all of them are displays of tremendous affection for our kids. </p>
<p>Big congrats to you and your family and all this wonderful news! I am guessing your daughter will not be hanging with my niece at Berkeley, but will wait for final decisions! Enjoy the excellence!</p>
<p>No offense, but when I was in high school, I strongly disliked parents who were overly involved in their children's college application process.</p>
<p>Listen, first of all, the world does not care where your child goes to school. Second, it doesn't actually make that big of a difference in your child's life whether he or she goes to Louisiana State or to Stanford. I know it sounds shocking, but unless your child is going to be the next President of the United States, it doesn't really matter.</p>
<p>And finally, this is your child's college career, not yours. Please, let's move on and talk about important things.</p>
<p>terminatorguy,</p>
<p>Wow! What overwhelming support--NOT! </p>
<p>Maybe, just maybe, alum's daughter WILL be a future president of the United States!</p>
<p>Hopefully, she will be able to count on your vote! :)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
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<blockquote> <p>And finally, this is your child's college career, not yours. Please, let's move on and talk about important things.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>What could be more important to parents than their children? And this is the Parents board of a college admissions site for crying out loud. Which college our kids go to and how they got in is exactly what we are supposed to be talking about here. I think you've stumbled into the wrong place.</p>
<p>Actually, it can make a huge difference where you go to college - in terms of who you meet, how you spend your time, what academic interests you develop, who you get internships with, what subjects pique your interests, which friends you make, ... and I'm not saying that Stanford would be better - but the experiences DEFINITELY would be different.</p>