<p>So I'm sitting here at my computer and thinking about my sleep for tonight. I will most likely not get any. What will I think about before I go to bed? It's my last night before I realize the Dartmouth decision! The next time I put my head on that pillow, I will either be dead (rejection) or sleeping a peaceful night (come to peace with my rejection). All I know is that it's 15.5 hours until they come out and about 17 before I will be able to go home and check it.</p>
<p>17 hours. That's like....NOTHING. That's less than a day. That's about 4 marathons. That's about 1.5 physics labs. That's a really long flight. We have nothing to do but wait. Hence--I am sad.</p>
<p>Enzo, peach3s, sheetmusic, wbow, bianna, welwelwel, california99, and mishy (and all the others!!!) COMFORT ME in my time of need and in return, I shall comfort you.</p>
<p>wow i don't think that i can wait that long. I'm honestly going to spend all of tomorrow sitting in front of my computer refreshing the dartmouth page over and over. I already have my cookie dough set to go. I am so terrified by the fact that decisions have already been made and mailed.. guess i won't be hoping that they're miraculously decide i'm perfect for their school right at 2:59!</p>
<p>peach3s, you capture exactly how I feel. I don't expect to get in, but it would be soooo great. Probably the best thing to have happened to me in my life yet....but it's not going to happen, and I'll have to get over it. It's like waking up early in the morning to check the cast list and not see your name on it, then call the director and ask "what you can do to improve for next time." Only this time, there won't be a next time...</p>
<p>I think I need to go take a shower, then go to sleep. I'm seriously driving myself crazy!</p>
<p>aren't bright students such as yourselves supposed to reflect maturity and profound thought and understanding? dartmouth is a great place, but don't deify the institution. there's plenty others out there that match, if not surpass, the quality of education and life to be found at dartmouth. and don't think twice about your credentials and potential... admissions are a crapshoot. in theory (and this is not necessarily a farfetched idea), you could get admitted or rejected based upon the moods of the admissions officers at the time... isn't that a disturbing thought? but yes, these people are human and humans are fallible. so lighten up, it's not as if this decision objectively decides your academic ability and overall character.</p>
<p>and don't you think you all are lying to both yourselves and everyone else on the board when you incessantly forecast your rejection, when in all reality you really instinctively think that your chances are good? in accordance with your intuitions, i'm willing to bet that a lot of you will, in fact, be admitted. expecting nothing is the best policy, not expecting the worst.</p>
<p>regardless, everyone... i wish you good luck. i'm confident that you all will succeed wherever you end up.</p>
<p>I'm going to be extremely disappointed if rejected because that means filling out 8 more applications and paying about $700 and wondering where I am going to be for the next four years until April. And I won't get to go to Dartmouth, my handsdown first choice school. It would be nice to not have that, considering I didn't lighten my courseload for senior year.</p>
<p>i totally agree with karasoldout. i'm going to hate to go back to those teachers to grovel for more recs, even if its just printing out another copy of the letter.</p>
<p>Want to know something that is kind of unfortunate? My math teacher asked me yesterday if I wanted to go to the math competition in February next year... If only he would have told me I could go a few weeks ago I could put that on my application =(. And no do not think I am some sort of math genius because I'm not. I'm a reserve so yeah, I'm no genius! (Of course on the application I wouldn't put down that I'm only a reserve!!)</p>
<p>And please remember if you do not get in that it is not the end of the world. I understand that Dartmouth was your #1 but to even apply to Dartmouth, you have to think of yourself as a special kid, and in 99% of the cases you are. If not Dartmouth, it will be Yale or Cornell or Stanford.</p>