<p>Nice plan, Calidan!! If I wasn't such a chicken I'd do the same thing, but I need to mentally prepare myself first, if that makes sense. </p>
<p>So you know how I was saying I've come to terms with the impending deferral? Well maybe not as much as I thought... I'm suddenly getting nervous again, and sort of this numb feeling, too. And the added anxiety of doing other apps isn't helping in the least. </p>
<p>Buffalo - "not so desirable?" Now there's a euphanism if I've ever heard one!! Let me help you out a bit. When discussing Buffalo, words like "*****hole, awful, boring, horrible, torture, hell, piece of pure and utter crap..." yeah, those are pretty much what comes to mind. Hence the reason I'm applying to all these awesome city schools. I cannot WAIT to leave!!!</p>
<p>Anyway I'll be in and out for the rest of the night- Somehow my homework, a paper and my Stanford app all have to be finished tonight. Joy, joy. </p>
<p>Alukaszewicz- Wow, I can't believe I haven't made that connection sooner! You and I are neighbors! (And I like the Galleria too, but that's about the <em>only</em> thing I like about Buffalo!!) I'm actually going to be in Toronto over winter break, doing some shopping and relaxing a bit.</p>
<p>It's funny, because I'm probably going to do all my shopping for college in the US. For some reason, things in Canada are overpriced. For example, lets say I want to buy a pair of pants here for $100 canadian. Well, in the US, it'll be around $60 US, which comes out to around $75 Canadian. Plus the tax in most US states is lower than the 15% we pay here (Delaware has no sales tax :)).</p>
<p>Is anyone opening it at the mailbox? I don't have the patience to walk inside and do it. I do, however, plan to get a letter opener before I go out to the mailbox and learn about my future, just so I can save a neat and non-mangled envelope if I get it. I don't really have any elaborate plans beyond that. Oh, I've also been wearing the same shirt since Saturday when decisions started coming out--figured it might bring me luck, plus I just like the shirt. :)</p>
<p>Good idea about the lucky shirt! I didn't even think about that. Now I'm totally going to wear my lucky shirt on Tuesday!</p>
<p>Oh, and my kitchen is all of 6 seconds away from my front door (we get our mail in a little basket by the front door- no mailbox), so it's not that I have patience, it's just that I want to be in a nice familiar place to open it. And I will probably need a chair to sit on!</p>
<p>I'll probably open it at the mailbox. Our mailbox is up the street, so when I'm coming home I'll stop and get the mail, and open it in my car. That way I don't have my whole family standing around me like I would if i went home and opened it in the kitchen. </p>
<p>Good idea with the blue...I might do that too.</p>
<p>I love Arabic-its so different from anything else ive learned( i speak french eng spanish, read italian, and have dabbled in russian). But it is extremely difficult because unlike w/ span or french, you start from nil. Actually my span/french have helped me a bit, but other than that, i had to start at nothing. </p>
<p>The really disturbing thing about the deferral is that my top four schools are georgetown, columbia, upenn, and princeton. statswise, gtown is the easiest...and i got deferred there. so what is gonna happen at the others?????? I keep telling myself that i will have raised my SAT's and will have more polished essays, and that maybe georgetown just already had someone like me, but still. damn all those people that said "oh, of course youre gonna get in" What now?!!!</p>
<p>alita; SFS is not the easiest school to get into. It is one the the hardest--but they don't publicize that fact. Acceptance at SFS is more like the randomness of HYP. SFS accepts fewer than 10%--(never been able to find out how many but it's way way low)-- and the stats for those accepted are far higher than the rest of the uni. Check out the accepted SFS stats from last year. </p>
<p>You shouldn't beat yourself up. At that stratosphere, it's a role of the dice....</p>
<p>I have not posted in a while, though I read the board every single day. I am nervous to an excruciating point, but I don't want to go into that. Congratulations to everyone who got in! And as to all of you being superstitious, hey whatever works, right? I applied to the SFS, and am near SF, so I am expecting it by Tuesday/Wednesday. It will be a long two/three days, but I will hang in there, and SO WILL YOU! LIVESTRONG</p>
<p>I'm def. feeling the lucky shirt idea. I wore the same sweater Fri, Sat, and today (just for a little bit). I'm thinking one more day ought to do it some good. And Josh, I'm opening it right at the mailbox, w/out a letter opener. I just want to dig right in.</p>
<p>I don't know how exactly I will open mine. I was thinking I'm so impatient I'd open it right in the street, however I don't want to find out that I suck publicly....so I'll probably run into the house, throw the other mail on the ground, lock myself in a closet and open it with a flashlight to read by. I will load the closet up with enough provisions to survive the night, in case I get deferred and do not want to interact with humanity. Upon my deferral, I will rip up the letter AND THE envelope (taking care not to defame the Georgetown seal, for I want to clearly see it go up in flames) into very very very tiny pieces, and then, using some sort of ceramic, non flammable surface, light it up and watch it burn. (at this stage, I may have to open the closet door to allow some of the carbon dioxide out. </p>
<p>If I get in, I don't know what I'll do. (You can see I'm a much more elaborate planner for the negative situation).</p>
<p>I will then shun Georgetown as the school that deferred me and begin making evil plans to assure my admittance, which will include, but not be limited to: several letters of recommendation, updates, a letter expressing that Georgetown was and still is my #1 absolute first choice...And maybe even rewrite my crappy essays and send them in again.</p>
<p>lol. I can see it now: "Disappointed College Applicant Sets Self Afire in Closet"</p>
<p>I guess if I get a deferral, that'll be the next big thing: figuring out what to send to G-town to boost my app for the RD round. I already have several more recs I can use, along with an updated resume, and hopefully another essay in a few days.</p>