Recently, the college decisions of Edina High School seniors seem to have a monopoly on EHS students’ Instagram stories, and a certain page created by the Student Council is the source of all of this traffic. The account @edinaseniordecisions2026 posts the post-graduation plans of Edina’s seniors, ranging from sports to military service. The account has over 420 posts and has amassed almost 3,000 followers.
The account’s first post was on Jan. 23, and it stopped taking submissions after May 1, which was National College Decision Day. Juniors and Student Council members Madeline Hansen and Emma Huff ran the page using information gathered on a Google Form that seniors could fill out with their college decision, their intended major, a photo, and any other commitments, such as military service.
“The account is a way that the rest of the senior class and the rest of the school can get excited for their peers and see where everyone’s planning on going in the future,” Hansen said.
Huff said that her favorite part of posting is the creative aspect of designing the layout of the posts. She enjoys finding different crests from colleges, matching background colors with the crests, and generally “making them as cute as possible.”
Hansen’s favorite part of running the decisions page is getting to be one of the first people to know and see the wide variety of schools that students will attend. She says it has also functioned as a way for her to learn about new colleges that she has never heard of before.
According to Huff, the decisions page is also a way for students to estimate their chances of getting into schools that their friends will attend.
“We have Naviance, where you can see the probability of getting into a school. If your friends or people you know get in, it’s like, ‘Maybe I can reach for that school, try that opportunity, or look more into that school,’” Huff said.
The most popular schools, according to Hansen and Huff, are the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Iowa, Miami University in Ohio, Indiana University, and other in-state schools.
This piece was originally published in Zephyrus’ print edition on May 19, 2026
