<p>My best friend and I both applied ED to college. Me Cornell of course, and she Dartmouth. We both got in, great! Now at school everybody from the principal to the students act as if we have won an Oscar. See my school is not a feeder school to the Ivy League, more a feeder to schools around our area that only people in that area know about. Ivy League appliers per class a year is less than 1%, acceptance less than .5% that apply. (Not really the numbers but u get the point) But I think why people are both surprised about is that we didn't tell anyone, then we didn't brag about it after we got accepted. I think they thought we should be overjoyed and wonder why we got accepted instead of being nonchalant about it.</p>
<p>Anyone else experience this kind of treatment from friends and acquaintances?</p>
<p>Maybe you aren't appreciating the acceptance yourself. It is an amazing thing when you read the stats of the SCEA this year. Celebratory but modest isn't that hard to demonstrate. To your teachers and administrators you might try being appreciative of how they prepared you......even if you did it all yourself. This is their small, brief chance to gain some recognition and feel accomplished too.</p>
<p>kids freak out at all schools. at my school 13% of 270 in the class went ivy and kids were still freaking out about how awesome the ED kids were. just enjoy it, but don't get a swelled head. You are really smart and have accomplished something great. Maybe you're the one who doesn't recognize it. Just remember that getting into an ivy school is only a ticket to success...you still have to ride the train. Feel good about yourself but don't get a swelled head</p>
<p>I wouldn't say star but I have gotten a good amount of attention and plenty of congratulations from my fellow classmates.</p>
<p>I'm the third Ivy Leaguer in my class [so far], the first two being two boys who are going to Columbia and Brown. My teachers were all really excited for me. And my classmates like to brag about me and the other two boys to lower classmen to show how smart our class is because we had always been considered the "lazy, doesn't-give-a-crap" class.</p>
<p>Nope. 5 ED Cornell accepted, 2 ED Columbia accepted, 1 ED MIT accepted, 3 EA Harvard accepted, 1 EA Yale accepted. TBH there could be more that just don't tell anybody that I'm friends with. But I'm pretty sure thats it for Ivy/MIT. Many more will get in RD to some of the ivies. Many other kids going to top-notch schools not listed (a few ED/EA as well). Public school in Eastern Massachussets (Acton, MA).</p>
<p>exactly i don't have a swelled head and that surprises them, i agree with the idea the teachers feel they achieved. I am grauded because the not all the people are sincere about my accomplishment. I worked really smart and with the support of my family i gained confidence. it's just i get the feelling they think i think im better than them for going to such a top school. but im not writing to dwell or get a new prospective, i want to know if other people had a similar or very diferent experience.</p>
<p>don't worry about what others think. u got into cornell, and u should feel really good about it. after i got in, seriously, my entire grade found out in 30 minutes after decision time that night. i guess me telling one person just spread out like wild fire. the next day, some kids started calling me "cornell boy" or " mr. cornell" or "cornelius" or something along those lines. and i believe this was accelerated due to the fact that other people in my grade that applied ED to ivies got rejected or deferred. but def. just enjoy the fact that u got in, cause that feeling won't be there forever.</p>
<p>same situation kryptonite...i told a few close friends, who each told a few friends, etc etc. by the time of the art exhibition that everning, everyone was revelling in the ivy success of those who had been accepted. it was nuts...it was like an art exhibition slash ivy acceptance party at our school's art gallery.</p>
<p>no im from western ny around buffalo. sparticus and Kman u guys got what i meant. I am really happy and proud and won't squander my opportunity.</p>
<p>YES! i got that...but only because im known as a clown around my friends...kids just assumed i retreated into my room to **** around...nuh uh! i was studying! :)</p>
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<p>Nay, nay, nay. You will never forget the feeling. Just like the Olympians who won their race......never forgetting the moment. Always a warm feeling inside with the memory.</p>
<p>NO im from NY not MA not trying to trick you look at my other post, i guess people do have very similar experinces. if your not taking to me please disregard what i have said</p>
<p>at my school where maybe like 4 kids go big and the rest go state school (it's a school in harlem, ny so that sort of distribution is common--a very few extroardinary achievements and the rest standard), so far we've got two Ivies, myself, and a girl who got into Columbia early. It's not so much a similar situation though. At my school kids hear about cornell and either give me a fake congratulations or say something like, "Yeah I was thinking of applying there too..." thus depreciating the very status of such a school and the very meaning of my hard work.</p>
<p>first student to go to an ivy league school.......
But most of the kids do not care about or do not know what the ivy league even is.... so I wouldn't call myself a "star"</p>
<p>i'm from an private high achievin school in India where IIT rules the roost... i'm the second guy from my school to go to an Ivy, partly bec nobosy applies abroad...funnily, the first one to go to an Ivy was my cousin...guess it just runs in the family.</p>
<p>My school is an Ivy feeder, I suppose... This year, out of a class of 45 in the international track, 17 were accepted EA or ED to Harvard, P'ton, Penn, Cornell, etc., so I'm nothing special.</p>