Rachel will be going to college in the fall after all! Honestly, I was a little worried that we'd miscalculated and all the colleges on her list had overnight become too selective.
But two acceptances were posted on Sunday. She's been accepted to U.C. San Diego and U.C. Santa Cruz. If she hadn't gotten into Santa Cruz, we would have been really deflated, even depressed. Santa Cruz is one of the easier U.C.s to get into and was her backup.
As for U.C. San Diego, she was not at all interested in going there (arbitrary reason: too far south for her), but persistence on my part finally convinced her to just apply anyway. We literally added U.C. San Diego to the U.C. online application at the last minute before we hit the Submit button. OK, it actually took 30 minutes to add it because she had to pick one of the six colleges at U.C. San Diego to be her first choice. That took a little poking around on the Web site at about 11 p.m.
But I'm so glad we did, and so is Rachel now. She's actually excited that she got in. I think it's become her first-choice college all of a sudden. Or maybe she's just relieved that she got accepted somewhere!
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