<p>^ True that! My parents want my myportal pass so they can check my decision at work…</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure i’m the first person to apply to Wharton from my school, and since i’m ASB president EVERY STAFF MEMBER KNOWS. I had no idea word could spread so fast. God i’m not excited whatsoever to say, I didn’t get in :/</p>
<p>sooo many students from my school apply ED to ivys, my best friend appleid columbia ED and my other good friend went brown ED
and outside my friends there ALOT more people i know…
but penn decisions come out a few days before theirs sooo… :S
haha saturday night ill either be partying or crying
(i get my decision 4 am saturday morning singapore time)</p>
<p>^ magicmana: ditto, a lot of people apply to ivys and many selective colleges at my school. </p>
<p>No one makes a big fuss about applying to ivys at my school since 50+/120 of your classmates are too… 30+ of those 50 have either already applied to Penn or are going to apply to Penn. >_<</p>
<p>Too bad I’m in a different time zone, so I get to see my decision on Saturday morning.</p>
<p>I want to come in here and tell you guys to not worry and fret, but honestly, I’m right there with you – I’m waiting to hear back from a final-round job interview result. I am tossing and turning at night with anticipation, having feelings very reminiscent of the old days where I was worried about getting into college.</p>
<p>I know what it feels like to get rejected, but I also know what it feels like to be accepted. Some of you are going to have such an ecstatic wave of happiness rush over you this week – I know it did for me back when I got in! It’s an amazing feeling paralleled by little else. </p>
<p>To those that won’t get in: I know it’ll sound very “<em>patpat</em>,” but it is not the end of the world. The fact that you’re even applying to a top school is indicative that you’re probably pretty bright and talented people. Believe me when I say, as a recent graduate who has experienced the real world and has seen how things have turned out for my peers, that the school and degree do not make the man. The ones who are talented, personable, and hardworking win out regardless of school.</p>
<p>So I hope this gives some reassurance to those anxiously awaiting decisions, although I suspect it won’t. ;p</p>
<p>Thanks legendofmax! I think we all know that what you are saying is true, but we often forget because we get all caught up focused on one school. It’s good to be reminded that there is SO much more than where you go to school and that there are many great schools and there are probably 20+ schools that each of us would be just as happy at as we would be at Penn. </p>
<p>I love reading posts like yours because it takes me down to earth for a moment. I’m kind of expecting a not-so-great “letter” this Friday and your reassurance makes me feel a little better about it. :)</p>
<p>Good luck with getting that job, by the way!</p>
<p>Thanks, HU!</p>
<p>Maybe some additional background story might help ease your guys’ worries:</p>
<p>Princeton was actually my first choice back in the day. I was deferred then rejected. On these boards, I was part of a fairly big CC Princeton ED group that had a lot of fun joking around and talking about all sorts of things (I’m still friends with a few of those people even today). After all admissions were said and done for the ED round, a large share of the ED group had gotten in. An even larger share had not. But where did that rejected CC group end up going for RD? Harvard. Yale. Penn. Stanford. Duke. Columbia. Brown. Cornell. Dartmouth. Georgetown. UCLA. UC Berkeley. Tufts. UVA. NYU. Amherst. Williams.</p>
<p>You’ll also notice in past CC threads that this pattern emerges in a similar fashion. Again, you’re all bright people. Even if you don’t get into Penn, don’t be afraid to shotgun-apply to a bunch of schools you will find yourself happy attending. You’ll get into at least one of them (most likely many more). It’s really, REALLY uncommon for someone to be bright/hardworking on CC and experience total failure (especially when there are many threads on how to properly form your essays, handle recs, study for tests, handle interviews, manage EC’s, etc). </p>
<p>Even though I didn’t get into my top choice (and many others didn’t as well), we all still enjoyed our college experiences and found successful ventures along the way. Apply to schools you’ll love, and study things you enjoy. I would have poo-poo’d this type of advice back in the day, but it’s so true and I wish I would have listened! If you only apply to schools that you’ll be happy at, then you’ve already won. If you study things you enjoy, you’ll perform better.</p>
<p>Again, what I say here is the truth. I have countless, countless examples based on what I’ve seen both as a long-time CC member and as someone with friends all over the country who’ve gone to community colleges, state schools, upper-tier schools, Ivies, etc. In the end, it’s all on you.</p>
<p>Enjoy the rest of your senior year and look forward to an awesome four years at college, wherever you may land.</p>
<p>Again, thanks so much! Your advice and insight is really sound. It’s important to keep an open mind.</p>
<p>Thanks Max, it is nice to know that no matter what happens on Friday, I’ll find another school and be happy with it. I guarantee you I won’t believe that as soon as I open the letter and see the decision, but hopefully it won’t be long after when I realize that there is that other school.<br>
Well, we all find out on Friday. Nothing we can really do about it at this point but just hope. Good luck everyone.</p>
<p>altruition- I am a girl, ha. How about you? It’s funny that you say I sound like a girl because (though I think I sound like a girl in my posts) everyone seems to refer to me as a he on these threads. Maybe my username sounds manly, ha.</p>
<p>Yeah, I only told a couple of people as well (my GC and family obviously, and my 3 closest friends). I didn’t tell any of them not to tell people I was applying, but I guess I should have because now it seems like EVERYONE knows at my school… and my mom has told all of the extended family and her friends… 
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<p>Anyways, UNDER 120 HOURS GUYS! :0
Even if I get rejected, I just want to KNOW already. I hate waiting. I don’t want to have to sit around any longer with a glimmer of hope if I’m just going to be shot down… and if by some miracle I get in and I don’t want to have to keep writing and revising supplements… ugh. Friday come already PLEASE! (Then again, it’s kind of nice to have that glimmer of hope…)</p>
<p>Haha, I assumed you were a girl too. </p>
<p>It’s the way you type out your statements. with the “ugh’s” and the “PLEASE!”
it just sounds like I’m listening to a girl (no offense!).</p>
<p>haha, I take no offense. It’s nice not be thought of as a guy, ha. I feel like I definitely type on CC like a total girl and yet people always refer to me as “he”. It’s kind of funny. I can’t really imagine a guy writing the majority of things I post on this site. </p>
<p>Is it just me, or does it seem like the majority of CCers are guys? Maybe I just assume the people who’s gender I cannot tell are guys…</p>
<p>sqrt(25) days @__@</p>
<p>Maybe we should have a “state your gender” thread lol. </p>
<p>I’m a guy btw.</p>
<p>Yeah! you should start one in the Penn forum, ha… see if Penn CCers are guys or girls… I really think guys dominate this forum… but maybe not.</p>
<p>5 DAYS! OMG!</p>
<p>It would still suck to get a rejection on Friday… it would be really, really cool to not have to do a billion other apps in the next 3 weeks, and just slip into hardcore senioritis right away! =)</p>
<p>The panic’s starting to set into me. =( And I’m running out of color combos.</p>
<p>haha even if I get rejected, I’m just going to be ECSTATIC to have my decision. I want to know already how much work I have to do on other apps in the next few weeks. An acceptance would be so amazing… no more apps, far less stress as far as grades go, no more standardized tests, no more worry about college stuff… OH MY GOD IT WOULD BE SOOOOO NICE. Please Penn, accept me? I feel like I’d do almost anything for an acceptance on Friday! if only…ha</p>
<p>I really wish I had gotten just one more point on my ACT and that my junior year grades had been a bit better… I’d feel SO much more confident if that were the case… but it isn’t. 
Oh, well.</p>
<p>I like the new colors, by the way. :)</p>
<p>Let’s just both get in! :)</p>
<p>You live in Maine? it must be absolutely friiiigiiiiid… NJ just dropped 20 degrees on Saturday. Random snow day!</p>
<p>haha Hopeful. Take a guess at which gender I am :P</p>
<p>omg I wanna get in soooooooo badlyyyyyyyyyyy!!!</p>