<p>Oh my....Dartmouth will be releasing their ED decisions at 3 PM EST on December 8 (at least they'll be posted on the application status page then). Will anyone be sleeping between now and then???</p>
<p>since they are mailed on the 7th and mail takes a day to get to my house, i think i might just skip school and camp out by my mailbox...</p>
<p>i dont think i'll be sleeping much either--i'm gonna be wired from now until the 8th.</p>
<p>and then on december 9th i guess i'll start sending out my other applications :-p</p>
<p>I know, I feel the exact same way. Hopefully our pessimism will be unneeded???? I live all the way out in Washington State, so I will be camped out by my school computer on the 8th :-p.</p>
<p>My school ends at three (i'm an east coaster), so I can't decided whether to drive home and check my status, or just check in the school library right after school ends. </p>
<p>if i dont get in, i dont wanna drive home all depressed, but at the same time i don't know if i can wait till i get home!</p>
<p>good luck!! hopefully we'll be future classmates as of next week!</p>
<p>How do you know this, that they're posting on the 8th????</p>
<p>^ login to your dartmouth admissions status thingy</p>
<p>It was announced on the Undergraduate Application Status thing. And mishy, I hope we'll be classmates, too!!! Good luck :).</p>
<p>A new letter on the admission status site:</p>
<p>"Thank you for your Early Decision application for Dartmouth's Class of 2010.</p>
<p>We are now in the final stages of our decision making process, and will soon be notifying you of our decision on your candidacy. Decision letters will be mailed to Early Decision candidates on December 7. An electronic version of your decision letter will be posted on this page after 3 pm Eastern Standard Time on December 8. It will be available until December 16. "</p>
<p>WOW, cool. I wasn't even going to look @ the site till the 9th at the earliest...I'd been checking throughout late November, and I decided enough is enough!</p>
<p>Thanks for telling us!</p>
<p>Thanks Mishy...hope that'll clear things up with people who are confused :P.</p>
<p>I am a mess.</p>
<p>I usually get home from school at around 2:50. How close to exactly 3:00 do you think it will go up? I'll probably be so nervous driving home I'll crash the car into a tree and die. At least I'll be spared the pain of actually seeing the rejection.</p>
<p>Or I could wait at school and check there, for the sake of my life and my sister's...I have a sympathetic last period teacher who would probably be happy to let me use his computer. Of course, then I would to face people right away (but it would maybe be good for me to be not alone, then there'd be someone to scrape me off the floor...) and I'd still have to drive home upset. </p>
<p>Or, I could go home and check the mailbox first because I'd rather find out that way....even though it's historically taken mail from Dartmouth two days to get to my house. And I do have visions of myself just staring at an envelope and being too afraid to open it.</p>
<p>Ugh I'm overanalyzing it. It is going to be a hard week.</p>
<p>sheetmusic--i'm in a similar predicament (see a few posts above)</p>
<p>maybe we should just stay home on the 8th :-p</p>
<p>Oh no...I won't stay home. That would be worse because I'd have nothing to do all day but refresh the stupid website.</p>
<p>I was thinking about skipping school next Friday for a specific reason, but that was before I knew that we'd find out on Thursday. Now I'm afraid that if I even stay home Friday I'd be the sad loser who can't go to school after she gets rejected from college...</p>
<p>Seriously, I have a nerve-induced stomach ache just thinking about it! I have never expected to get in, but as the decision draws closer, I feel myself caring more and more. Eek! I can totally see people arguing over my application, just like in the film 12 Angry Men. I think that'd actually be very entertaining...it'd be an excellent spoof on the college admissions process :P.</p>
<p>sheetmusic--good point. i guess i'll just check online when i get home from school. i just hope i'm deferred and not rejected so December 9th isnt too dismal.</p>
<p>mademoiselle--i was expecting the small envelope also, but now i'm like obsessed and can't stop thinking about getting in or not. this is going to be a lonnng week.</p>
<p>what kind envelope do you receive if you get rejected/defered? (big small thin thick?)</p>
<p>I think the consensus we reached is that all Dartmouth decisions come in small envelopes.</p>
<p>yeah but someone in the previous thread said acceptance letter comes in big but very thin envelope, and rejection letter comes in small thin envelope. Can anyone confirm this?</p>
<p>I read that acceptances are in small thick envelopes and rejections/deferrals are in small thin envelopes.</p>