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    crfan
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    Does anyone know when acceptances are coming out and if all sems send them out at the same time????

    Thanks!!!

    #939704
    bymeidel
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    some seminaries already sent them out, for example Michlalah. Most seminaries (I think all the B.Y. ones) are sending theirs out on February 24.

    #939705
    bpt
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    sorry cy fan, your acceptance letter was retracted, because you have internet.

    In its place, you’ll be getting an invitation from Harvard or Priceton.

    #939706
    crfan
    Member

    thanks bpt! i didnt realise what I was getting myself into!!

    #939707
    seminaryhelp
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    ya i heard Feb 24 too, ahhhh im so nervous!!!

    #939708
    bygirl93
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    i heard the 25th! i am sssssoooooo nervous!!!!! where u applying??

    #939709

    i heard feb 15… but i guess it’s the 24! let’s all have panic attacks! 1,2,3 GO! 🙂

    #939710
    seminaryhelp
    Member

    lol wheres everyone applying?? i applied to nachlas and seminar

    #939711
    popcorn
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    My niece who is the age of being in seminary decided to be one of the first to forgo seminary. She and a friend are currently working in a Moisad being mentors and running school youth programs for a fine institution. The whole seminary acceptance idea has become mentally and financially exhausting. Adding up the costs of going to Eretz Yisroel includes: TUITION, Airfare

    (2 tickets) beginning of school year and coming home Pesach, cell phones, taxi bus and food money, spending money etc. This all adds up to about $20,000 plus for barely 10 months (more like 8 and half) withPesach vacation and only half of June month for school. Parents are being choked by this. I don’t want to sound old fashioned…but going back 25-30 years ago the whole concept of seminary in Eretz Yisroel was not on the table. Girls just continued on to a local Seminary and Boruch Hashem if you look around these girls have raised fine Mishpochas and were none the worse for “not having had the Israel experience”. After spending over $20,000 on Seminary…just a year later the girls are entering Shidduchim and making it even harder for the parents to now come up with thousands more dollars to make a wedding.

    We are so stuck in the system and trying to keep up with the

    Joneses(Cohens) and worried what would someone else think…that we are creating financial hardships for Parents. Kudos to my niece for daring to make it easier for her parents and not going to expensive Seminary while choosing to still be in a Chinuch environment and helping a Moisad enrich their students and being involved in Youth Leadership while also making sure to learn in the evenings and attend shiurim.

    #939712

    actually, my parents are only paying airfare… either i get scholarships, or i don’t go (c”v!) zehu… and my going has NOTHING to do with keeping up with anybody:) but shkoyich to your niece. if that worked for her, then i’m really happy for her! 🙂

    #939713
    kapusta
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    I’m past seminary so maybe I’m not really qualified for this thread but I’m not gonna let that stop me. 😉

    1.I know of one class in a certain school (not sure if its every year or only one class) that decided amongst themselves not to discuss seminary or getting accepted (among classmates/friends) for 2 days after getting letters. Believe it or not, it really helps. And just because you got in to your “choice” sem doesn’t mean the person you are asking did. If you are in a position to initiate something like this, know you will very likely be saving someone, somewhere, a lot of heartache. Even if only amongst your friends, its a big help.

    2. Its a big deal now but in 10 years it probably won’t make a difference. More importantly, you will end up in the place which you will be the best for, and which will be the best for you. A certain well known rav said his daughter applied to her first choice sem but didn’t get in. He had connections in the school and tried from every angle but couldn’t get anywhere. She went to a different sem where she ended up helping someone who needed it.

    Looking forward to hearing good news! Hatzlacha!

    *kapusta*

    #939714
    bygirl93
    Member

    Lahav and Seminar- hey seminaryhelp- maybe we’ll end up in seminar together- that wuld b cute!

    #939715
    seminaryhelp
    Member

    kapusta- ya my school has a rule that you are not allowed to say where u got accepted to for 2 weeks after the letters come so the girls who didn’t get accepted anywhere, or not in their choice sem. have some time to do something about it. and bygirl93- ya that’d be cute good luck! did u have ur interview yet?

    #939716
    i love coffe
    Participant

    i only know that sharmans, michlala, and afikei sent out acceptance letters. for pninim and probably many others its on feb.15.

    “1.I know of one class in a certain school (not sure if its every year or only one class) that decided amongst themselves not to discuss seminary or getting accepted (among classmates/friends) for 2 days after getting letters. Believe it or not, it really helps. And just because you got in to your “choice” sem doesn’t mean the person you are asking did. If you are in a position to initiate something like this, know you will very likely be saving someone, somewhere, a lot of heartache. Even if only amongst your friends, its a big help.”

    kapusta,

    i wish my class had that rule, its so sad to see the faces of those girls who didnt get accepted to the seminary they applied. even if they didnt tell any one yet you can see it on their faces. later on when they said that that they didnt get accepted i knew i was right. it was hard for them to stay happy for those that did get accepted to their same seminary but they did anyways because it was their friend and they were happy for them.

    Good luck to everyone else, and wherever you get accepted know that it was meant to be, even if you dont know that yet.

    see you next year in eretz yisrael!

    #939717

    Does anyone know when they come this year?

    #939718
    Bowwow
    Participant

    Popcorn- I give a lot of credit to your niece and her classmates for realizing that going to seminary in Israel is not the end all / be all to life.

    #939719
    commonsense
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    whatisleft, they haven’t even had their interviews yet, so for a while.

    #939720
    zeena.kasta
    Member

    Where did you apply??

    #939721

    They haven’t?

    I really thought they did!

    #939722
    commonsense
    Participant

    they are just starting interviews in the NY area.

    #939723
    tb
    Participant

    It’s generally Feb 24th but give or take a day or 2 depending on what day of the week it falls out on. February 15th is the old date

    #939724

    Those are the dates for darchei binah,Tomar Devorah, Midreshet Tehillah and such as well?

    Cause i have heard that people find out this week but i haven’t heard that officially.

    #939725
    tb
    Participant

    that’s the date for the bais yaakov seminaries. don’t know what those seminaries are considered. you can call the offices and ask them

    #939726
    zeena.kasta
    Member

    Who has been accepted into darchei binah,Tomar Devorah or Midreshet Tehillah?

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