<p>If you get waitlisted what are your chances</p>
<p>I got into Bucknell today...I'm probably going to end up going there.</p>
<p>congrats...I don't know If I'll go there, I have to get in, the stupid school can't seem to afford a computer despite it's $38,000 tuition, so they don't email me.
I literally see my mail truck parked down the street, and stupid fat mailman is slow</p>
<p>^Lol, I'm sure you'll do fine. And have some pity for the "fat mailman," they have a hard job.</p>
<p>^haha that sucks.</p>
<p>Here's something interesting, I went onto the other ivies' sites to see how they were doing Reg. decisions, and Columbia's log-in looked just like Cornell's. So I tried logging in, and it worked! There was no time of submission though, since I never applied/submitted anything to Columbia.</p>
<p>ughhh actually it's not the fat guy today after all, its the other mailman, the sketchy looking skinny one who's like a dealer on the side lol.</p>
<p>regardless, the flipping truck has been PARKED DOWN THE STREET FOR LIKE AN HOUR and the mailman is nowhere to be seen. what the hell did he do, get lost???? I live in a small town...whats taking him</p>
<p>ahh, it sucks so much - i'm home now, but i have to leave in a bit - a half hour before decisions! i'm half-tempted to skip practice or show up halfway through, but as much as i want to i can't allow myself to do it. i guess i'll be waiting another hour+.</p>
<p>it's so weird... i mean, obviously we all hope that whatever happens at whatever schools, we end up with a happy result, whatever that may be. but isn't it sad to think that most of us will end up with an unsatisfactory result?</p>
<p>^Yes, it's very sad. But with all defeats comes strength. When a broken bone heals, it only gets stronger, often stronger than ever before.</p>
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<p>That is so not true I don't even know how to respond.</p>
<p>Unsatisfactory result does not equal your not getting into your first or second or third choice. Satisfactory result equals going to a school where you learn a lot, are challenged, make friends, enjoy yourself, and get a great preparation for your career. Lots of schools can do that.</p>
<p>The hardest time to think about that is an hour before The Big Decision comes, I know. But remember this comment in four years, and come back and tell me if I'm right.</p>
<p>ok super bad news for me...bucknell actually waitlisted me. They weren't even like a real reach school, kind of inbetween target and a low low reach for me. I know they only have 950 spots out of like 8,000 applicants but still I'm so disappointed...I think it's because they think I'm uninterested, since I didn't do ED I or ED II and most kids get in that way and I didnt bother visiting or anything but still it was like a target school and I didn't get accepted. to tell the truth I wasn't planning on attending if accepted, but it's kind of a blow and makes me even more nervous for cornell...I mean if my target school waitlisted me what does that show???</p>
<p>no... i actually know you're wrong now. i didn't by any means say that we won't learn to love and probably even be glad that we end up at wherever we end up. i guess instead of unsatisfactory i should have used disappointing - perhaps that would've been clearer - but that somehow doesn't seem strong enough.</p>
<p>i've already been accepted to NU, and I already know i can/will completely love it there if i attend. that being said, rejections tonight will still be extremely depressing, because they represent something more. even harvard, which i know i have no chance at this year, will just be very sad, because it's symbolic of more.</p>
<p>so obviously 4 years from now we won't still be upset. but for most of us tonight is realllly gonna suck. (and probably the coming weeks, having to confess we were rejected)</p>
<p>Ahhhhhh -- disappointing. Yes, that I can understand. It's dreams that are being dashed, and finality that is closing in. </p>
<p>But do remember that you have your entire lives ahead of you, and nothing -- nothing -- that happens today should change your attitude toward the exciting adventure you're about to have.</p>
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ok super bad news for me...bucknell actually waitlisted me. They weren't even like a real reach school, kind of inbetween target and a low low reach for me. I know they only have 950 spots out of like 8,000 applicants but still I'm so disappointed...I think it's because they think I'm uninterested, since I didn't do ED I or ED II and most kids get in that way and I didnt bother visiting or anything but still it was like a target school and I didn't get accepted. to tell the truth I wasn't planning on attending if accepted, but it's kind of a blow and makes me even more nervous for cornell...I mean if my target school waitlisted me what does that show???
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<p>That's the same feeling I got when I was rejected by NYU.</p>
<p>jl08: if we are to lose this war tonight, it's not because we're not good enough; it's because we're born in an extremely competitive decade.</p>
<p>Why didn't anyone make fun of the extremely corny thing I wrote above? I mean I completely set myself up!</p>
<p>aw I'm sorry fat free. NYU stuck me in their gsp program for a year before I can join CAS...I'm considering it since nyu is good but of course I like cornell wayyyyy more and gsp doesn't sound great, altho the info session made me like it a lot more</p>
<p>but now I know I have no chance with cornell. if nyu gsp'd me and bucknell waitlisted me, then the cornell guys probly laughed at my application. :(
I think I won't bother checking cornell till later on, because two rejections in an hour are too much to handle</p>
<p>btw that broken bone thing made me LMAO haha</p>
<p>Molly, it is totally possible that they waitlisted you just because they either thought you weren't sufficiently interested in the school and thus wouldn't attend, or they might have thought that you just may not have been a good personality match for the school. All schools look for different types of students. And Cornell is by far more diverse in culture and personalities than Bucknell, or most any school for that matter. All I'm trying to say is that them waitlisting you should not be taken as a direct criticism of your resume and qualifications.</p>
<p>Oh and I'm glad somebody found the broken bone thing funny!</p>
<p>ah.. i just wish i had my letter from gtown....my mail is so slow!!!</p>
<p>mmm yay I just got rejected by Yale!
hopefully Cornell brings me good news.</p>
<p>lerm!!! 1224.....ah....i am nervous.....
good luck!</p>