<p>YES victory lap! Can you imagine hundreds, thousands, of kids running the streets? AWESOME.</p>
<p>I can totally udnerstand the people thing, except its the opposite for me- we are all white and MIDDLE class. I'd like to mix with richer, poorer, URM, ORM, and all.</p>
<p>My good luck thing? I don't know... I'd have to say my regular lucky charm has been working just as good here as usual. I have a wooden pendant on a leather cord that I hang round my neck at all times. It's a pisces symbol, as I'm a Pisces, with the symbol carved in the black wood, and the lines are white.</p>
<p>Haha, my mom would kill me if I stayed home. First of all, she hates me missing class int he first place, but she also knew what a mess I'd be if I just sat at home!
Plus I promised my friend and my Enviro coach that I'd check online decision with them!</p>
<p>it might be too much pressure but if i hear the doorbell ring and see a thick envelope i am gonna cry and cry. I will be checking choate online though...and there's is like @ 3:00 est so that 1:30 my time. If i don't get any post then i will know i didn't get into andover. This guy i know who applied last year didn't get any and they came on here and realized that the rejection letter was coming later and that he didn't get in... really sad. Anyways, I have a violin lesson @ 2:00 so I will know about choate by then. </p>
<p>Has anyone had experience with Choate posting their results early?</p>
<p>Choate expelled 7 sophomores a few weeks ago for drug use. I was stunned- not that they expelled them, but that the sophomores were a.) stupid enough to do it in the first place and b.) stupid enough to do it on campus. That's what long weekends are for, if you MUST.</p>
<p>Yeah...
Don't you just love when things work out? I am a planner. If I don't have a plan, I worry about what-ifs. Such as... I don't have a ride home. Who will give me a ride home? What if they don't show? Who can I count on? Will I have to call someone?
Today I let go of that and when to a friends house without a clear plan of getting to play rehearsal. I got one, it worked out fine, and it felt liberating!</p>
<p>Saer, I totally understand what you are saying!! I make schedules and checklists every day and make sure they go accordingly so everything will work out. I have a morning to-do list and as soon as I get home from school I have to make a schedule according to the amount of homework I have to do. </p>
<p>Like what you said, sometimes things don't have a set plan, like the time I forgot my lunch money, and I was really freaking out because I left it on my kitchen counter, but ended up borrowing a friend's and it all worked out fine. I guess I just need to chill sometimes. :)</p>
<p>don't say that principalviola!!!! keeping hoping till the hope runs out!!!!!! it feels like25252525252525 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Bleh. Me too, I've been thinking I have no chance at either Andover or Exeter - plus, I have a friend that goes to Exeter, and hearing all about it stories and amazing-ness does NOT help!</p>
<p>These forums can really bring you down sometimes, regardless of how helpful they are.</p>
<p>i know the feeling, i have a friend that goes to andover and i am applying to there. every day i hear how great it is and how i will get in, but what if i don't!? i am so nervous, and we all feel the same because we want it so badly.</p>
<p>Then, there's also that sense of, "Why didn't I get in? My friend got in... that makes my friend better than I am."</p>
<p>Sending in an application feels more like sending in a very guarded and very personal part of yourself. You notice, most acceptances say, "you". As in, "you as a person are who we want to attend," not, "you on paper."</p>
<p>A rejection would feel like I as a person failed, not just my stats.</p>