<p>Hey now… the vibe has totally been destroyed! Who cares if I’m going to get rejected! I can still cling onto my last bit of hope! Oh who am I kidding… anyone want to join a “to be rejected on the 31st” club?</p>
<p>I will! May I self-elect as vice-president? lol, i’m so nervous…</p>
<p>I’m 99% sure I won’t get in. I mean, it’s so competitive-I have to beat out some 20,000 people for a spot.</p>
<p>So yup, most likely a rejection for me.</p>
<p>Haha waiting for the 31st feels alot like waiting for Christmas when you were a little kid… all the anticipation… only at Christmas you knew you were going to get presents, while the 31st may just hold a giant lump of ivy league coal…</p>
<p>Guys, in all honesty, who cares? You (/we, cuz im probably gonna get rejected too :P) did whatever we could and tried our chances at the ivy lottery</p>
<p>If it doesnt work out, it doesnt matter, at least not in the scope of our lives. We’ll still go on to do good things in life (if we work hard), and we’ll probably think that in hindsight, it didnt matter much where we went to university, as long as we ended up where we wanted to in life</p>
<p>So stop putting yourselves down and enjoy senior year, and countdown to PROM haha thats what im doing.</p>
<p>The only good thing about this long wait for decisions since January is that day by day, I’ve cared less and less about admissions</p>
<p>Eh, but not obsessing would ruin all this psyche-destroying fun! ;)</p>
<p>I won’t sweat too much about not getting in; it’s just traumitizing to know that decisions are about to come out, and it’s been 3 months (wow that went by fast… :eek:)</p>
<p>Before we know it, we’ll be ready to move on to our dorms no matter where we end up, and we’ll embark on a new stage of our lives, closer than ever to becoming fully independent. Isn’t that scary?</p>
<p>spunaugle thats kinda true haha</p>
<p>ab2013 thats true too the time has flown by since january lol</p>
<p>back from spring break to an empty mail box. i should accept a rejection already :(</p>
<p>well said, 100Canadian. 
isn’t it amazing how much influence college and university admission decisions have over our self-confidence, even our lives? i totally agree with you… we’ve worked hard these past 4 years, hopefully gaining something from our toils - sure, everything we’ve done looks great on college apps, but hopefully we will all be better people because of what we have accomplished. </p>
<p>it’s time to let the chips fall where they may and have some FUN. it doesn’t mean we can’t be dissapointed when we get that rejection letter, but it’s out of our hands now. so just stay positive, and if that rejection letter does come, just shake it off… make some tasty lemonade out of our lemons (or however that saying goes, lol). </p>
<p>good luck everyone! 
create some unforgettable memories this senior year!</p>
<p>^ amen sista</p>
<p>and lol @ all of you who are freaking out and whining that you’re not gonna get in. chiiiillllll.</p>
<p>im still nervous, but im kinda focusing on prom now. gotta get a prom date haha</p>
<p>likely letters are bull ****.</p>
<p>I agree with ontheradio haha</p>
<p>@ontheradio,
Hah, I like the priorities.
@everyone,
I’m curious to see the rest of your opinions on this: college admissions is the ultimate verdict on one’s performance in high school–an acceptance would validate the 3.5 years of hell we put ourselves through to get in (the other .5=second semester senior=slacker=fun), and a rejection would completely null it. In either case, the admissions process would replace the myriad of achievements we had in high school with a single word, either admit or reject, and that would be the only thing we would carry forward with us as we left high school and entered college/the real world, leaving our ECs, grades, and everything else behind.
Agree/disagree why?</p>
<p>mocha-- it certainly felt that way to me at the time, but I think that now living on the other end of it that perspective is a bit narrow. All the things you’ve done in high school you’re still going to carry with you, but those things that were formerly external accomplishments won’t be external anymore, all of their value is now internal.</p>
<p>@ others:</p>
<p>I’m a single guy. I should raffle off as a prom date. Anyone from Boston to DC whose prom is between May 13th and May 21th or May 25th and June 22nd want to make a bid for a good cause (keeping me on campus one more year)?</p>
<p>haha sorry modest, my prom is may 8th :]</p>
<p>mocha, i think a lot of the time that’s what college admissions does feel like, and i can definitely sympathize with that mindset. but i also think that the whole thing gets blown way out of proportion sometimes, to the point where after a while you realize you’ve been making such a big deal out of something that shouldn’t be.</p>
<p>someone in the hsl forum made this comment a while ago, and i’ve never really forgotten it. it kind of applies here:</p>
<p>“I think the problem is that we get lost along the way to our goals. We say, “To be a doctor, you have to get good grades to get into a top school to get into a top med school to get into a top hospital…” when the goal is actually just to be a good doctor … We’re all ultimately working towards happiness, not to have our name in that valedictorian plaque in the high school guidance office. Though that would be nice.”</p>
<p>just something to think about, i guess.</p>
<p>Got one yesterday! So excited!!</p>