<p>The question is, how much are you willing to pay to get your acceptance decision instantly? Now, lets take this fake auction seriously so we could get a good understanding of how much our anxiety is worth (or not worth). Of course, varying wealth of prospective students will destort the real worth, but we can't have everything right? </p>
<p>I start the bid at 50 dollars.</p>
<p>I'll bet your acceptance that you get in. If I'm wrong, then ..well...I can't really lose there...</p>
<p>not worth a penny.</p>
<p>If you wanted to know early, you should have gone EA, otherwise whats the point in knowing before the rest of the RD candidates?</p>
<p>"how much are you willing to pay to get your acceptance decision instantly?"</p>
<p>it's a paradox. if you know your decision is an acceptance, why would you pay to get it right now, because you already have it, but in reality you dont, so you want to pay to know that you got your acceptance, but to be eligible to bid you have to know that you....etc.</p>
<p>you're asking: what would you pay someone to let you know something you already know so you can know because you want to know. but why would you have a desire to know if you already know?
maybe its not really a paradox and im thinking too much. but isnt that what chicago is about? thinking. also me getting to 300 posts :) almost there.</p>
<p>unless when you said "acceptance decision" you simply meant "decision" rather than "decision of acceptance, aka acceptance letter" then its not a paradox.</p>
<p>gosh. i meant decision or else this thread wouldn't make sense. its like getting a rush ap report but you have to pay more for it. forget it.</p>
<p>I bid 75 bucks.</p>
<p>300 bucks cause thats what its going to cost me to fly out</p>
<p>I would pay 500 dollars.</p>
<p>id pay $10. max.</p>
<p>I think that I'd rather wait, unless getting the decision in April would prevent me from making any trips down to visit the schools; or make it really awkward (which, in this case, it is. I have to practically dance around the school holidays to be able to schedule some visits; and even then I'm missing class. <em>.</em>) If it was unavoidable, or I'd die from the strain, I'd say somewhere in the range of $10-30 US; which does really add up for some people who apply to more than 10 schools. On that note, I had a strange discussion with my mum the other day. I felt that I wouldn't get into a school due to my abominable essays, or at least two of them (after I read them a couple of days later, I honestly thought I must have been sleep deprived when I wrote it) and she bet me $10 - If I got in (not necessarily if I accepted), I had to pay her and vice versa. It's strange what pressure and anxiety do to you.</p>
<p>Two poached eggs and a chicken fried steak for a decision right now. I would add to pieces of bacon for a full scholarship for my financial aid packages</p>
<p>Whoopsy!!!!!!!!!!!! "two"</p>
<p>I would put up 10K and clean the classrooms for 4 years to get accepted!</p>
<p>chicago would have to pay me.</p>
<p>certainty is worth 0 to me.</p>