Please, please, please let it be Thursday. I plea the admission gods. Friday would be too long to wait. Don’t toy with my emotions like this.
Even though admissions haven’t been released, my daughter (applied ED) just came into my room sobbing, saying she feels like such an idiot for thinking she could get into an Ivy League school. I don’t know if something specifically happened to bring on this emotion, and I did my best to console her, but sometimes the words of a mother are no match for the claws of anxiety and sadness. It breaks my heart to see her this way.
No matter what happens when results come out, I want each and every one of you to know that you are intelligent and that you are worth it. No self value is dependent on what university you attend. You are all unique, complex, multifaceted, creative individuals. You’ve gone through life and gathered your own beliefs and experiences. I think that’s what is beautiful about the college experience: you get to reflect on how unique your 17 or 18 years of life have been thus far.
It’s a cliched notion, but please don’t get too down on yourself. As both a mother and just a normal human, I can empathize with your nervousness leading up to decisions, as well as the sadness some of you will have after. Just remember that life goes on, and there is always someone there to help <3
@JaninaWeinas Thank you so much for your comment! You’ve helped us nervous-wrecks profoundly (or me, atleast).
I hope your daughter is doing well once again. We’re all in this together and none of us truly know what’s going to happen on December 14. But like you said, it’s definitely not a defining moment of our lives.
Regardless, best of luck to you, your daughter, and everyone else on this thread!
Can someone please chance me for ED 2022
ACT: 34C (35E, 35M, 32R, 35S)
SAT Subject Tests: 800 (Math) and 750 (Biology M)
GPA: 4.00 (Unweighted)
Class Rank: We have deciles, so I’m in the top 10% but I did also win an academic honour in the 11th grade for being ranked 1/48 in my class
ECs:
TEDx: Head, Senior Year; Curator, Junior Year; Team Member, Sophomore Year
Student Council: Class Representative, Junior and Senior Year
Model United Nations: Freshman and Sophomore Year; won an award at the UC Berkeley MUN in Beijing Photography and Journalism for Trinity College Dublin’s annual Art/Science Workshop
Team Leader for a year long project teaching science to children with neurodegenerative disorders
Internship for 3 weeks at a primary health care facility
Been teaching for two years at an Orphanage
Exchange programme in Spain; been studying Spanish outside school for four years
In my essay, I wrote about being a gay teenager in India and how my experiences have made me a very strong, resilient person, and I think my other essays were pretty great as well.
@chisquareNomad u have a better chance than me if that makes you feel better. 2 more days
@JaninaWeinas I feel exactly like your daughter. I too find myself randomly tearing up or bursting into tears in the weeks leading up to decisions. I don’t know–I just have an awful feeling that won’t go away. That’s why it hasn’t been easy to work on other applications, and I’ve been putting it off. I think not getting in will crush me, and the last of the motivation I have to finish my senior year strong.
EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY! The wait will be worth it. But at this point, I’ll be the bad guy. Just think that you are rejected because nothing worse can happen then. In the past three days, I’ve been rejected three times, college and competitions. And I’m feeling very okay because I had low expectations. The chance for admissions to many of the colleges is very slim nowadays. It’s unpredictable. After you put in all the effort, the rest is not up to you. Worrying too much only places unnecessary psychological stress on you. It won’t affect the college decision. It won’t affect your destiny (speaking from a Buddhist cause and condition perspective, totally not preaching haha). Remember that you made up your college list after extensive research and picked a dozen out of thousands of great institutions out there. Anywhere you go will be a great place (if you strictly followed your own criteria and disregarded ranking)! If you’ve shown your college list to your counselor or know that one of the colleges will very likely accept you. Then, what’s the need to worry? The academics will be great regardless of where you go. It’s all about how hard you want to push yourself. If you wanna do research, go ahead and connect with profs. Challenge yourself. Love the school that you end up going, and if you are open, then you’ll definitely make lifetime friendships there. Take a deep breath. (And I should probably take a deep breath too after this nonsensical rambling haha).
Thank you @ArtistNatureLove and @JaninaWeinas for those comments. I think we all needed them! Good luck to everyone.
Yeah, it is very unpredictable. I know someone who got rejected by all their schools including safeties except got into USC.
My belief is to get excited! Think about getting in, think about not getting in. This is an experience each of us will only have once. Make the most of it!
In the Cornell thread it seems that everyone who got the financial aid email got in…I know a different school but still interesting.
I didn’t apply for financial aid; what did the email say?
I technically didn’t apply for aid either. It just said set up you account. I haven’t done it yet so I got sent another reminder. I highly doubt that the email means anything.
The email doesn’t mean anything because literally every single person who applied for aid got it. If anything is an indication of them considering you it’s if they requested your IDOC, because a good amount of people didn’t get that request. That probably doesn’t mean anything either. In any case, we’ll know in a few days.
I know I’m going to be fine if I don’t get in but it’s going to be so disappointing. I can’t imagine having the same passion for another university.
Each day feels like a week when you’re waiting for EDs to come out.
I’m honestly such a mess right now. I can’t concentrate on ANYTHING else…
I’m trying to study for midterms and do my schoolwork but instead I’m just refreshing this forum and my email lol oops…
Anyone know if Brown takes what school you go to into account? Like if someone else from my school applied early also are we against each other?
I think that they read your applications together, but they don’t have any quotas for a certain high school. You can both get in, or you can both get rejected. One of you can get in, while the other doesn’t etc. Five kids from my school applied to Middlebury ED and they all just got rejected :/. Also, of course they take your school into account in that they always judge you (your grades, course rigor, scores) in the context of your high school.