<p>I imagine my D would say…“oh, there MUST be some mistake”! </p>
<p>(She actually got an early “congrats on your National Merit” letter from a college, that turned out to be a MISTAKE. I think they sent it to all the commended students who listed this college for notification. Fortunately, it turned out she was a semifinalist anyway…and we knew that going in…but can you imagine how that felt to the students who were only commended, awaiting their status with baited breath, told by this college they’d made it, probably celebrated, then…“Oh, no…Just Kidding, my bad”.</p>
), probably cry (real men cry), pray, thank God, run out into the street and yell, run back inside and tell my sister and mother, call my brother, send a text to everyone in my phonebook, post it on Facebook, join the Yale '14 group, and keep refreshing the page and listening to the music, cry some more, call Yale and tell them that I accept the offer of admission, then pray some more, and jump around some more as well :D</p>