<p>I've noticed that there has been a plethora of pessimistic posts/threads lately, and as a rising junior, I'm hoping for a little bit of motivation for the coming year, and I'm sure many rising seniors are wandering the CC forum, hoping to find the same.
Ok, so here it is:
Anyone who was accepted to his/her top choice college in the recent past:
Please post the school, the number of years/months/weeks? you had been interested in the school prior to applying, whether you applied ED/EA/RD and whether you HAD considered the school to be a reach, a match, or a sure-thing, prior to receiving your invitation.
Thanks!</p>
<p>I got into 2 of my top 3, but not my #1!
I know that’s not what your looking for :)</p>
<p>Congratulations!! 
What were your top three?</p>
<p>Ill take a stab that Tufts was in the top 3?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/215577-can-more-graduated-seniors-do-actual-results-threads.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/215577-can-more-graduated-seniors-do-actual-results-threads.html</a></p>
<p>Duke, brown, tufts. Brown said no :(</p>
<p>S2’s 1st choice was Princeton and he got in. At HS graduation, his GC gave back essays and forms the graduates had filled out at the beginning of their sophomore year stating what they wanted to study and where they wanted to go (one school only). S2 freaked when there it was, staring back at him: Princeton. It was #1 then, it was #1 when he applied, and it was #1 when he had to choose from among the many that had accepted him. Happy ending.</p>
<p>i applied to two reach schools- vanderbilt, because i fell in love after researching it second semester junior year, and stanford, because why not?
applied SCEA to S and RD to vandy… no to the former, yes to the latter, and attending in exactly 22 days :****)</p>
<p>When I was applying, my 1st choice school was Stanford.</p>
<p>I ended up getting rejected from Stanford, but into many other great universities (Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Duke, Northwestern, etc.).</p>
<p>I chose Harvard.</p>
<p>Long after I had chosen Harvard and as I was beginning to organize all the papers and notebooks I accumulated over the years, I opened a diary that I wrote in 7th grade.</p>
<p>The first diary entry read: “I want to go to Harvard.”</p>
<p>So now I’m going to Harvard, and I couldn’t be happier with my choice in post-secondary education and my life as a whole. It seems things DO have a way of working out in the end, regardless of whether or not we realize it at the time.</p>