College Anxiety
I didn’t get to sleep early enough to be able to run to school, so instead I took what was scheduled in my book, a rest day.
Throughout this past week my daughter, had been hearing from colleges. Until Friday all the news had been positive. On Friday she was wait-listed at Georgetown. Today she was to hear from Harvard, Yale and Princeton. First she heard from Yale, it was her first rejection. Next she looked for Harvard’s response, she was wait listed. My daughter was a wreck. Since she visited Princeton last April, it has been her first choice. She couldn’t check the website until her mom was home for support. Even then she inched slowly to the computer, and summoned the courage to look. The first word was CONGRADULATIONS. She got into the school of her dreams. Now comes the scramble for how to pay for the dream.
Hopefully soon sanity will return to my household.
March 31, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Oh wow! Congrats to your daughter!! How exciting and awesome!! What is she taking??
March 31, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Congratulations, Princeton is expensive but it’s a great school, any idea what she’s planning on majoring in?
March 31, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Wahooooo, i am so excited for your family…you must be so proud and what an amazing young woman she must be (especially with two amazing parents!! ) Wow…please tell her a mom in buffalo is thrilled for her!!
April 1, 2008 at 2:54 am
yeah man…Ivy league…thats fantastic news. My wife says a big woohoo as well.
big congrats…whats your daughters major??
April 1, 2008 at 4:35 am
Those are some pretty impressive names you are throwing around! She must be one intelligent, young lady and you must be beaming with pride!
Kudos!!
April 1, 2008 at 5:14 am
WOWOWOOWOWOWOWOWOWOW! You obviously have a very intelligent daughter with a great head on her shoulders.
Thanks to her mommy and daddy of course! 
You have much to be proud of!
April 1, 2008 at 8:35 am
YAY!!! Princeton is a beautiful campus, I’m sure she’ll have a blast!! Many congratulations to your daughter for getting in, and YOU and VT Mom for raising such an awesome woman!!
April 1, 2008 at 11:44 am
Congratulations on the fantastic news. Princeton’s a great school; your daughter must be very happy and you must be very proud.
Sounds like the running is going well. Be careful with the foot and don’t push it too hard. Your pacing seems to be right on track.
April 21, 2008 at 4:42 pm
AWESOME stuff! Funny how in the US parents pay for tertiary education, and over here we have to find the means ourselves (or maybe that’s just me, LOL. Since my Dad was given everything on a gold platter, he’s decidd never to do that with any of his kids - or anything else, either - and Mum, well…But I’m too independent and proud for that, I guess). Good luck, though. Education can be very expensive (especially over there; I know; I looked at some American colleges for my Masters).