<p>What is up with USPS, I'm in LA and still no letter, maybe it's just the USC mail sorting</p>
<p>OMFG i still havent heard.... can i call today guys????</p>
<p>oh ***. rejected.</p>
<p>lol it would be worse if it wasnt:
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY '09!!!
(and Stanford for grad school. i still sweat the place, even though they dont sweat me.)</p>
<p>Anonymous: Princeton is an amazing achievement!</p>
<p>Oh god, I haven't heard anything either. I am TERRIFIED of calling in. I don't want to be rejected over the phone.</p>
<p>Someone take the first bullet!</p>
<p>Call Laurak....come on!</p>
<p>Someone already has already (see anonymous05).</p>
<p>I didn't realize anonymous05 had called in for his decision... I'm still debating. I have a government final tomorrow, and I don't want to be an emotional wreck either way. I'm thinking about calling during lunch, though. Augh! Why are they doing this!</p>
<p>You'll be a nervous wreck if you don't find out.</p>
<p>fo real just call</p>
<p>geminihop: I'm so sorry to hear about the bad news! But you still have Berkeley, and that's a fantastic school. I'm sure you'll do great. Besides, my rejection will be far more embarrassing--I spent three months working on that application. And it still probably sucked.</p>
<p>As for me, I've decided to wait until tomorrow (I'm such a wimp). The timing of it all just works in favor of my emotional well-being. I have Spring Break next week with a visit to UCLA on Monday, so if I'm rejected I'll have a week until anyone at school really has to know and two days to mourn before immersing myself into another school. Personally, I hope the decision just never comes because I know I won't be able to handle it. Nevertheless, you all will be amongst the first to know when I find out... Good luck to everyone who's still in the dark!</p>
<p>thanks! laurak :) I wish you the best of luck! I will be visiting UCLA next Wednesday, lol, so enjoy that...</p>
<p>~I think I might have sabotaged myself by waiting so long...I was already thinking even that Berkeley fit me better :), but Stanford is definitely a gorgeous place to be!!!</p>
<p>haha no i didnt call, laurak.</p>
<p>thanks eiffel. princeton and stanford are academically equals, but stanford is...cali...weather...ahhhh = GRAD SCHOOL!</p>
<p>Can't you check online by now?</p>
<p>I think I am the last person on the planet to hear back from Stanford. I just got home from school, but the mail hasn't run yet, which is obscene. I really don't want to call in, especially since the other two people who hadn't heard were allegedly rejected and me compared to them is like apples and oranges.</p>
<p>UncleFeezus: No, I don't think they have an online system set up. They never gave us a Student ID/password when they confrimed our application status anyway.</p>
<p>Minutes later: Rejected. It's only a matter of time before it sinks in and I start punching holes in the walls. But congratulations to everyone else :)</p>
<p>Oh! Dang it Laurak! So where are you headed to now? And don't forget, that we have a shot at Stanford again in 4 years for graduated work.</p>
<p>Would write more, but I had my wisdom teeth pulled out today.</p>
<p>aww, laurak, don't worry about it.. like eiffel said, we all just might end up there after another 4 years.. and who knows, you might even find out that you didn't want to go there at all .. haha jk :) best of luck in finding a school that's right for you</p>
<p>p.s. YAY 100th post!</p>
<p>Thanks eiffel and nemesis--I'm actually handling the rejection quite well. I think I was prepared for it and moved on before the decision even came. I'll be heading to UCLA in the fall, which is not where I thought I would be but I'm excited. Although Stanford's not out of the picture, I know that Iowa's my goal for my MFA, but you never know about that PhD!</p>
<p>Again, congratulations to everyone else, and those who were wait-listed/rejected, I wish you the best of luck at your respective colleges. Stanford doesn't know how many gems they're missing.</p>
<p>Thanks laurak! Have fun at UCLA!!!</p>
<p>I second that, ... hey sunkist:) - have fun at UCLA laurak!
It's between UCLA and UCB for me. I got accepted by all schools I applied to except Stanford (deferred first, then rejected). The only thing that bothers me is that I even bothered to apply to Stanford. Had I followed my gut feeling, I would have known better. My experience there during summer was awesome, ... except kids I met who were sons and daughters of professors (still friends with them), had warned me about the prejudice going on. Hey, some of the development cases don't even want to be there, ... but they will be because that's what mom and dad had destined for them.</p>
<p>I am taking off for the East Coast (Harvard and Cornell) tomorrow, and then I'll be attending both Regents' events at UCB and UCLA. By next weekend, my mind should be made up on where I want to be. Frankly, my acceptance at Harvard with concurrent rejection at Stanforrd choked me enough to make me think. It's gonna be 4 years of my life, and I seriously want to do myself a favor, and find a place where I can move on to the next phase, without politics.
Seems these adcoms are nuts. (At this point, I actually wonder whether any of them are qualified to write a good thesis, ... but then, oh well, lol:)</p>
<p>It's gonna be 4 years of my life, and I seriously want to do myself a favor, and find a place where I can move on to the next phase, without politics.
That's an extremely admirable attitude, _jc, one with which you'll undoubtedly go far. I know a kid in my class who was being recruited for football at Harvard, but he got so sick of them jostling him around he turned them down for San Diego State.</p>
<p>Good luck with your selection, _jc--we'd love to have you here in LA! ;)</p>