Prior to her parents getting engaged and her car accident, Tali had sent out her applications to her top five choices for where she wanted to go to college in the fall. Tali had a few of the ivy league colleges in the cards along with her father's alma mater and two others. One afternoon, Ziva had gone out to get the mail while AJ was taking his afternoon nap and Tali laid on the couch in the living room reading one of the books she had to for school. Tali briefly looked up from her book when she heard her mother come in from getting the mail. Ziva was a bit on the excited side of the emotion spectrum.

"What's going on, Ima?"

"It looks like you have some mail from the various colleges that you applied to." Ziva answered.

Excitement came quickly to Tali as it danced across her face. Tali grabbed her crutches which had been leaning against the side of the couch next to her after she had set her book down. A bit after that, Tali made her way over to the kitchen island counter where Ziva was with the mail.

"Open it, open it." Ziva encouraged.

"I will, I will; but I think we should wait for Aba."

"You can tell him later when he gets home from work."

"Or maybe we can video call him…" Tali suggested.

Ziva nodded her approval of that idea that Tali just had. With that, Tali set up the video call with her father.

"What's going on?" Tony asked.

"Some of the colleges that I've applied to have gotten back to me and Ima wants me to open them now."

Tony signaled the team that was in the squad room to come over, so they could see the results.

"So which colleges got back to you?" Bishop asked.

"Yale, Ohio State, Princeton, Villanova, Columbia and Duke."

"Who are you waiting to hear from still? McGee asked.

"Harvard, Georgetown University, Liberty University and the University of Maryland."

"Okay, start opening kid before your mom loses it." Torres said.

Tali started to open the mail she had gotten. The first envelope she picked up was Columbia University and read over what the letter said.

"Well?" Tony asked.

"They've accepted me."

Tali then moved on to the next envelope which was from Princeton, five seconds into reading the letter from Princeton; Tali learned that Princeton hadn't given her a spot at their University. After that, Tali had gone through the rest her mail. By the end of all the mail opening, Tali had been accepted to Ohio State, Duke and Villanova. Apparently, Yale followed Princeton's lead. Everyone then congratulated Tali on the acceptances and told her it wouldn't be that long before the other colleges would get back to her. Things wrapped up after that, Ziva went to check on AJ while Tali returned to the couch and the book.