<p>~you tell friends and relatives "We" got waitlisted Harvard" or "We" got into Amherst or "we" had an interview at MIT.</p>
<p>~you're license plate says "770V780M" in reference to your child's SAT score.</p>
<p>~you've been taking your child to college fairs since he/she was in 6th grade.</p>
<p>~you search the Web for car-window decals with a space that says "also accepted at..."</p>
<p>~the Thanksgiving dinner conversation is devoted to critiquing essay drafts.</p>
<p>~you've memorized Tiers I and II of the U.S. News National University rankings.</p>
<p>~you've pushed your child to participate in strange extracurriculars/hobbies like Civil War reenacting, playing the didjeridu, learning to write and speak Elvish, etc.</p>
<p>~you've hired a private investigator to verify that your child's great-great-grandfather was half Cherokee.</p>
<p>~in your child's junior year you start hunting for houses for sale in Montana or Wyoming</p>
<p>~you proclaim that the family will only be allowed to communicate using SAT verbal vocabulary words.</p>
<p>~you put the high-school college counselor's home number on speed dial.</p>
<p>~you send flowers and chocolates to the admissions offices at Swarthmore, Princeton, and Stanford.</p>
<p>~you revive an old friendship with obnoxious in-law who graduated from Duke.</p>
<p>~the message on phone answering machine notes that your son/daughter is National Merit Semifinalist.</p>
<p>~you bought your child the Top 100 SAT Vocabulary Word Shower Curtain from Amazon.com</p>
<p>Does anyone have some more?
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