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was at the computer” she said. “And she was just sitting there, smiling.”
Immediately, Mrs. Hathaway thought Emma had received a funny e-mail or an invitation to a party.
“I said, ‘Emma, what’s going on?’ She tells me everything, where she’s going and who she’s with,” Mrs. Hathaway recalled. “And she just looked at me, and said, “Mom, I’m going to Charlottesville next year.’ And we started screaming and jumping up and down.”
Hathaway called Tupper, who was visiting a friend when he learned that he got into Virginia. Carter and Massie were in their respective homes.
“I didn’t want to be disappointed, so I didn’t get my hopes up,” Hathaway said. “It still feels too good to be true.”
Ironically, admission to Virginia did not mean that all four immediately returned their cards saying that they would attend this fall. Hathaway knew she wanted to go there, but Tupper weighed Virginia against the College of Charleston (S.C.), Massie narrowed her choices to Virginia or Richmond, and Carter thought about attending Shenandoah or George Mason.
In the end, the lure of studying at one of the nation’s top universities was
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