<p>2 weeks.</p>
<p>14 days.</p>
<p>(I know that chances are that mail will arrive before 04/01, but this will make getting the mail so much easier!)</p>
<p>Ahhhhhhh so anxious!!!</p>
<p>Me too. I’m particularly nervous, hoping that my deferral in the early round didn’t make it harder to be accepted in the round this time.</p>
<p>Don’t worry :] they probably didn’t even let that be a factor this time around and just reviewed you as if you only applied RD. </p>
<p>wej, have you had a moment yet when you feel like everything you’ve known might just change next year, regardless of where you go? I’m sort of scared, but also very, very excited.</p>
<p>cvbfxvbzfb scared.
13 days!
Less than two weeks. I’m gonna die. How are you guys planning to open your mail? In front of parents, or alone? I’m still debating…</p>
<p>inconspicuous.s.n: you won’t need to even open it. Acceptances from Barnard are in a big red, white and blue Express Mail cardboard mailer (unless they change things up). Otherwise, it’s the proverbial think envelope.</p>
<p>My daughter’s came when she was at an after school rehearsal and I knew it was an acceptance. I could not stand it…knew how anxious she was…so I took it to her to open there at school. Could not resist.</p>
<p>@Skittle</p>
<p>Yep. I’m starting to accept that I might end up at my state uni - the U of MN - and that I can still find my way in the publishing biz, even though I don’t end up in NYC or at the school that I really want to attend.</p>
<p>I wasn’t the perfect student in high school, and that will hurt me.</p>
<p>I’m all right with that, I think. </p>
<p>I just really want this to be over. Everyday the stress just raises exponentially.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>@inconspicuous</p>
<p>I already promised my best friend we’d be on Skype together for the next round of letters. So I’m going to get the mail and bring it up to my room and call her on Skype and we’ll take turns opening letters haha. And then I’ll tell my parents 
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<p>@wej</p>
<p>I kind of had the same realization yesterday. I got into the Honors program at my state univ. and even though the idea of going to such a huge university scares me so much, I feel like wherever I end up I’ll be fine and end up happy. </p>
<p>And I really want to write for the rest of my life, and what you said about the publishing business reminded me of something someone told me… that if you know you’re passionate about something and it’s the driving force behind everything you do and live for, you can’t fail. You’ll have a great career ahead of you :] </p>
<p>But I feel ya on the stress… sigh. We’re all in this together!</p>
<p>How are you dealing with the next couple of days? What’s a good distraction?</p>
<p>I’m trying to go into the next two weeks with a expect the worst, hope for the best mentality. I have also forbidden everyone to touch the mail before I see it. Whether it’s an acceptance or a rejection, I want to be the first person who knows.</p>
<p>i went to barnard last week and they said the acceptances are being mailed out march25</p>
<p>Really? The admissions office actually said that?</p>
<p>Wow, there are a lot of people here who wants to be writers…well, if there is gonna be a club, ill join right in :] I’m eagerly waiting for my letter as well…sigh. 13 days seems like a lifetime</p>
<p>Omg, appleseeds… if that’s really true… only a week left?! Ahhhhh!!!</p>
<p>haha I don’t want to write, I want to go into Magazine work…but not the writing end. But I have to admit, I’ve met wayyyy too many carbon copies of me! I guess I’m a North Easterner at heart…here in rural Texas I stick out like a sore thumb. Do know how many people ask whay I’m always so dressed up??? When I went to NE, I blended for the first time ever. I mean, I was born in Cambridge, but I only lived there for a year before I moved to Minnesota. I mean, it’s a little disheartening honestly. I met girls who have the same quirky taste in indie music, and love to spout out lines from random theatre shows (bc their all secretly theatre buffs). If I rave about Ira Glass here, I get blank stares. But everyone listens to NPR, and loves this american life, and downloads the free podcasts…I feel very laaaaammmmmmeeeee. It’s also nice, bc I would get to be surrounded by like-minded people, but I have to admit that it does hurt what little ego I do have. Atleast, if I get in, we can all go to MGMT concerts, and no one will be like “WHO ARE THEY???”</p>
<p>So, the whole express mail envelope thing scares me, cuz if mine is really late, I’m just gonna KNOW that I was rejected. I don’t have a chance of going to a major state Uni, but if I don’t go there I’ll probably end up in…public school (da da daaaaa)
hahaha I’m worried, but my worry fluctuates. Sometimes I’m like, “Syracuse isn’t the worst place to end up…newhouse is top notch”. But it’s also not cheap, so chances are if I went there, fin aid wouldn’t be all that great.
Wellesley comes out on the 26th and so does Smith, so I’m looking forward to those. I have to admit, I’ve set myself up for rejection so that if I do get rejected it won’t hurt that much. I’ve put a rediculous amount of effort into not falling in LOVE with my schools but it’s so hard! This same thing happened to my sis last year, and she ended up getting wiatlisted at Yale…and THEN they cut the 700 person waitlist down to 50 people in June and she made that round…but then they only accepted one person from those 50 ppl. Talk about dragging the pain out! I hope this horror story doesn’t happen to me.</p>
<p>Haha, it seems like everyone who applies to Barnard likes the publishing industry. I’m really hoping to study journalism and the newspaper industry there<3</p>
<p>I know what you mean about being stuck in the wrong state. I feel like I’m such a city girl but im stuck in a pretty little suburb in California. How much farther from NYC can you get? Haha, if we do get in, can you just imagine how many theatre shows and concerts would be at our disposal every day?</p>
<p>RE: publishing</p>
<p>Wow, I never saw the trend.</p>
<p>Personally, I want to write fiction and work as a literary agent/editor someday, and I’ve been interning in the biz for an entire year now. </p>
<p>@sammi
CONCERTS GALORE. <3 I’m also just really excited about the number of publishing events there are - so many conferences, bookstores, houses, agencies, readings. </p>
<p>Not to mention that incredible Barnard faculty.</p>
<p>… Why do I torture myself?
<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>I’m so excited about all of that…all the events<3 we wouldn’t know where to go with so many different things going on! But the good thing about going to Barnard and being in NYC, we could be nerds and go to those bookstore readings and concerts, but still be consider completely normal. Everyone around us would have just as many interests<3</p>
<p>Seriously, I second that. Why do we torture ourselves? I want to fly on a plane and go break into the admission office, just to find out about these results. Whos with me?! :]</p>
<p>I hate how they have to wait to send out the letters… I feel like by now all colleges have pretty much made their decisions, so why can’t they just send them out now? It would help with so much, esp with finances and planning, etc. Wahhh :[ I am going to NYC next Saturday… if I don’t get anything by then in the mail I will DEF stop by Barnard hahaha.</p>
<p>I dunno, I feel a bit hopeless. The idea of all the shows is uh-mazing!</p>
<p>I feel kind of hopeful about Barnard but I don’t want to be too hopeful because, in my mind, being too confident means that I won’t get what I want. </p>
<p>@SkittleRose: I am so jealous! I loved NYC when I went there last year but, sadly, I was unable to see Barnard OR Columbia. We passed within blocks but we didn’t have time to stop.</p>