2 College Responses In, 7 to Go

My 18-year-old daughter Jessica has started to hear back from her nine college applications: hooray! She applied for admission to: Brown, Carnegie Mellon (& Music Conservatory), Lawrence (& Conservatory), MIT, Oberlin (& Conservatory), Princeton, Rice, University of Rochester, and Smith. So far, the University of Rochester
has accepted her (with a big scholarship) and MIT has turned her down. We
will hear from the remaining seven by 1 April. It was good to have the
first reponse be an acceptance. The email Jessica sent on 8 March when she
first heard was:

Hey, guess who’s in college!!!!!!!!!! Yay, I’m going to college! Only
another month to figure out which one….