Wait A Minute, Mr. Postman

The first wave of college applications have been sent and PoS, worrywart that she is, is pretending that she's not worried. On Halloween, she applied to Beloit in Wisconsin, Knox in Illinois and Ohio Wesleyan in...never mind.

Knox has a 14 day turnaround time from the day you apply. That's great, except perhaps they shouldn't have told applicants that. As you can imagine, 14 days is a long time to mope around the house trying to figure out if you're in or out. It leads to conversations like this:

PoS: Susie got into Knox.
Me: That's nice.
PoS: And they gave her $ 11,000. And that's not even financial aid!
Me: That's nice.
PoS: (crazy look on face)
Me: What's wrong?
PoS: Nothing (more crazy in the face)
Me: Isn't Susie like super athlete, super student, super community service girl?
PoS: Yeah
Me: Okay. Well if she heard back, it just means she applied earlier.
PoS: Yeah
Me: It's going to be a long November, huh?

The curse in going to a small school is that everyone knows everyone's business. If PoS had 500 seniors in her school, she'd only know where a handful of students had been accepted. In a senior class of 24, everyone knows the intimate details of to where, and with how much scholarship money, everyone has applied and/or been accepted. So what do you do as a parent? Give pep talks and silently curse the admissions department.