How are families planning on opening decisions notifications?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have an effigy of every AO in the country, ready to be engulfed in flames

Now this is a trend I could get behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will have the tripod set up to record us all watching dc open the emails. I have a sweatshirt and streamers for each school they applied to and will bring them out if it is an acceptance and play their fight song.

If it is a rejection then we will all go outside and smash the 4 ceramic place settings I also bought that have the colors of each college they applied to. Of course we will not film that.

We did this for our oldest and it was great.

weird

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS has been getting email notifications during the school day and texts us the news. It’s not like when we were applying and the answer arrived in the mailbox.

Good ole days suspense, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will have the tripod set up to record us all watching dc open the emails. I have a sweatshirt and streamers for each school they applied to and will bring them out if it is an acceptance and play their fight song.

If it is a rejection then we will all go outside and smash the 4 ceramic place settings I also bought that have the colors of each college they applied to. Of course we will not film that.

We did this for our oldest and it was great.

Why oh why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have an effigy of every AO in the country, ready to be engulfed in flames

Oh my

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have an effigy of every AO in the country, ready to be engulfed in flames

You know they read here don't you? There goes your kid's acceptance to Hahvad now. Kid was sooo close until the AO read this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there any specific way anyone is planning to open their notifications?
Are the kids planning to open on their own alone first?
Did anyone talk about this part; if dc will do/not do solo, or record when opening or whatever plans there may be?

We will not be recording anything. That sounds so performative and intrusive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD’s ED decision is expected Friday at 3. She plans to come home from school and take a nap and then open it. She’s her own person.

Smart kid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there any specific way anyone is planning to open their notifications?
Are the kids planning to open on their own alone first?
Did anyone talk about this part; if dc will do/not do solo, or record when opening or whatever plans there may be?

Just open the mail. My ds opened his own mail addressed to him. Iwould not open his mail regardless of how anxious I might be.

[Anonymous]

Anyone asking this question clearly doesn’t get the stress these kids are under. No one wants to fail (and they do see deferrals/rejections as failing) in front of an audience.

[Anonymous]

Omg leave your poor kid alone

[Anonymous]

My kid won’t let me live down my comment about not to open a certain university’s decision email that came out right before we were heading out to a family dinner at a nice restaurant because he wasn’t going to get in and we didn’t want dinner to be ruined.

I was WL-d at the school and it’s notorious for having no rhyme or reason to its admission decisions. He did open it anyway and he did get in. Lol

[Anonymous]

My kid wanted me there and we sat on the couch next to each other and they opened each one.

This next one-they’ll do on their own probably and just tell or text me 🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will have the tripod set up to record us all watching dc open the emails. I have a sweatshirt and streamers for each school they applied to and will bring them out if it is an acceptance and play their fight song.

If it is a rejection then we will all go outside and smash the 4 ceramic place settings I also bought that have the colors of each college they applied to. Of course we will not film that.

We did this for our oldest and it was great.

Your mistake was not filming the best part!

[Anonymous]

I asked DS, because I was curious more than anything else, if they were going to wait to open their ED decision vs. opening at school.

"No, I'm going to be refreshing my email in every class" LOL

More power to him, he worked hard for this and he does not want to wait. I can't wait to get the text.