Saturday, March 28, 2009

Well, this is exciting

The college acceptances are coming in. Makes those 6 weeks of torture during the late fall/early winter seem worthwhile now.

In the end Yakov sent 7 applications. He has not heard from 2 of them but he has 5 acceptances. One well-thought-of small liberal arts college seem to pursue him with frequent emails, even a phone interview at their request, all before he had even sent in all his documentation. Yesterday he received the BIG envelope from them. This morning, for the first time, I looked in the envelope and he had overlooked a letter offering him a merit scholarship.

I cannot deny that some of my excitement is a feeling of having accomplished something myself. I did it! I got my son in some FINE schools. I didn't do the academic work and certainly didn't do the application but I directed much of the operation.

And I will do what I need to again next year for Shoshie. She will not need the direction from me that he did. She is much more self-directed and frankly just pays more attention. And as she has seen his success in the last few weeks, she has been more motivated to study hard. PRM

3 comments:

Ruskin said...

Many congratulations to you and your son! You are an inspiration. I hope I can do as much for our children :-)

Ruth in NC said...

Thank you, Lorna. But really, he did the work. I just kept him organized and reassembled records at the appropriate time. And tolerated, as much as possible, his teen attitude.

I would love to be one of your students, Lorna You do such cool stuff and live in such an exciting city.

Becky said...

Congratulations to you BOTH! Wonderful news :)