<p>I hope and hope that I would have to make a mind-numbing decision like that in my senior year. I would go insane and I would love every bit of it.</p>
<p>lol its not as great as you think.</p>
<p>im deciding between burning my Stanford rejection letter or shredding it. Hmm....</p>
<p>Xyrsu, it isn't fun. Seems like it would be. I really felt for my daughter. She has made her decision and is now firm. But boy-oh-boy, that first night, she was tentative, then full of doubt the next day, worrying if she made the right choice. But over the weekend and today, she is quite happy and very comfortable with her decision. The nice thing when you are picking among MIT, Berkeley, Stanford and Columbia is that you do have a comfortable feeling knowing that any one of those schools will be an excellent choice.</p>
<p>I agree about campus visits during admit weekend. Sure they are a big cheering event but if you seek out what is important to you, you will find the answer you are looking for. Congratulations to all you Stanford kids. It's a great school and located in the most beautiful part of our country!!!</p>
<p>irock1ce--I felt the same way for awhile. But I realized it didn't really matter...I don't really bear any ill will toward Stanford, they just didn't have room for the likes of me. In the end, I was waitlisted at Harvard and Brown, and I got into Penn and Duke, and I'm enrolling at Penn in the Benjamin Franklin Scholars Program. Could things have turned out any better for me at Stanford? Probably not. Being honored with BFS is kind of confusing (considered among the top 100 at one top-10 school, and yet can't get into another), but it just reaffirms what we've all known all along--there is an element of crapshoot involved in this whole process (except for those students who are so mind-blowingly amazing that they get in everywhere) and trying to understand will just drive you nuts. Just wish all those Stanford acceptees good luck, move on and go to the exceptional school you'll doubtlessly be attending. It'll be a great four years. Quakers '09 Baby!</p>
<p>Hey, aya! Good luck at Princeton :) Shame we won't be meeting at Stanford, though!</p>
<p>(tally count: 3 Middle Eastern Stanford acceptees that I know of so far.)</p>
<p>Yup, I decided to go to Stanford 3 days ago. Sent in my enrollment form and the letters to all the universities I'm not enrolling at.</p>
<p>xyrus:
Belive me that if you work hard enough you will be in the same situation as many of us. But also believe me that it like a corner of hell inside heaven. When you start to recieve acceptance letters, its all about celebrating and showting, but when May can be seen around the corner, you begin to worry about making the wrong decision. I even had fever and had to stay home one day. I brought down my list to only two shcools (Stanford or Princeton) but ever since, when I just made a decision I change my mind. It is funny how I move from East to West instantly, sometimes every five minutes. No wonder mind is faster than light.</p>
<p>Xyrus, it is horrible having to choose between two wonderful universities, believe me! I felt sick for days and ended up crying one day because I felt terrible about having to say no to a university I had gotten to know (and love) so well. In the end I decided that the choice I made wouldn't make a difference because it is not the university that shapes you into the person you will one day become, but YOU who does that. So I picked the one that had the sunnier climate :D</p>
<p>i luff schtanfud. the end.</p>
<p>wow it sounds as though everyone's gotten in everywhere... stop complaining idiots... if you've really gotten into many of the top schools, you wouldn't be complaining.</p>
<p>duuuude...</p>