<p>Okay. I sent an email to my admissions counselor. We’ll see whether or not she responds.</p>
<p>New discussion to keep us occupied- How are you going to tell people when you get in (to Barnard or some other institution of choice)? </p>
<p>I’m thinking of decorating the driveway to tell my parents, but it might snow. Any other snazzy ideas?</p>
<p>This is how I worded my question:</p>
<p>“I’ve checked online to see if I could find the answer to this question (but I haven’t been able to): Has Barnard released the number of students who applied ED this fall?”</p>
<p>This is her response:
“We are still finalizing our Early Decision application process. You should hear back from us within the next week or so.”</p>
<p>So, yeah, completely avoided the question. Hope she doesn’t hate me. </p>
<p>And chocolat, I won’t do anything. I’ll just be so relieved that I will . . . well, I’ll probably cry (one way or another), and then I’ll sleep if I don’t get in; if I will, I’ll update my blog and facebook and Twitter and then dance to some good music. My mom will know before I do because I’ve told her to watch for the envelope in the mail. She’s supposed to call me if it’s a big envelope and not call me if it’s small. :-/</p>
<p>Decorating your driveway is such a cute idea! I wish our driveway wasn’t permanently covered in mud/snow.</p>
<p>I’ve actually told people that I’m going to drive to see them. I’m going to drive to my dad’s work first, then stop at friends houses one by one (and more will probably come for the ride). Then, I’ll call my mother, if she’s at work, and scream a bit… facebook, livejournal, text messages… cry!</p>
<p>and the next day I will bring the letter to school.</p>
<p>If I don’t get in, I will leave the envelope on the counter and take a very long nap… and wear black, forever.</p>
<p>(Kidding on the black part… somewhat.)</p>
<p>I’m so nervous right now!</p>
<p>Omg, I really like the driving idea. I should do that. A lot of my friends are waiting to hear back, and some of them applied to bigger-end schools - MIT, UChicago, Stanford - so we’ve been counting down with each other. I’ll drive over and see each of them (all three of those schools are supposed to email decisions on the 15th, so I guess it depends on when the Barnard letter actually shows up).</p>
<p>And I’m not going to school the next day if I don’t get in.</p>
<p>This is one of those rare issues that make me desperate. I’ve only gone through something like this twice before - once, when my parents didn’t let me go to Poland for my cousin’s funeral (I was crushed - I still feel like I didn’t get closure, as she was one of my closest friends), and, another, when I really wanted to get an internship at a premiere publishing house (and I did).</p>
<p>It’ll be very hard to move from Barnard to my second-step school.</p>
<p>I remember when one of my friends - she’s two years older than I am - applied ED/EA (can’t remember which) to Georgetown, was deferred, and then finally rejected. The rest of her senior year was ruined, and though she ended up at UChicago, whenever the word “college” comes up around her, she withdraws. It’s so painful for her, and I’m sure I’ll be like that too. I didn’t think I could fall in love with a school, but after I visited this past summer, I was hooked. Desperately, desperately hooked.</p>
<p>Oh, man. College. It sucks. Lol.</p>
<p>6 DAYS!</p>
<p>I have decided that this thread is really amazing because it gets me to calm down when I start freaking out. I like you guys already. :)</p>
<p>sunnysundays: See, now we HAVE to get in so that we can become friends. For sure. 
Now as for Into the Woods, I don’t sing, but I miiight audition and just have a small part, but more than likely i will do tech stuff cause i havent been on crew in a while and i miss it. lol I actually really enoy calc… but im really bad at putting it off until the last minute haha.</p>
<p>The post about the postmark dates for previous years got me really excited that maybe we will find out a couple days earlier than I had thought, so that’s cool.</p>
<p>Also, I do believe that one of the reasons I love Barnard so much is because it must be filled with theater kids, and theater kids are awesome. Always. </p>
<p>Which brings me to a new activity! Since there seem to be so many of us on this board who are someway involved with theater, tell us the shows you have participated in and your role/tech job. And if you are not in theater, what is your facorite extracurricular?</p>
<p>For me: Screwtape (backstage manager), Once Upon A Matress (stage crew, this show is awesome), Charlotte’s Web (Charlotte), Jekyll & Hyde (minor part in the chorus), Rowing to America (bad show, european chick), URINETOWN!!! (backstage manager, amaaazing show) annnd Dracula (one of Dracula’s vamipress minions). And I’m super excited for Into the Woods, but it will be my last show in high school. </p>
<p>Your turn! :)</p>
<p>Oh in that long message I forgot to put what I will do!
If I get in, I will scream. And scream. And maybe cry of excitedness. Then call everyone in the world who I know would care. And then jump up and down. And go celebrate. My three best friends all applied ED to, so right now 2 of them know and got accepted. 1 will find out Friday. I’ll be last, so we’ll do something when I know.</p>
<p>If I get rejected… I’ll cry and sleep and fail my finals. </p>
<p>Wej, I know what you mean about falling in love with a school. Barnard stole my heart!! :*(</p>
<p>My two best friends applied early to Yale and UChicago + Georgetown, so it will definitely be an eventful week. </p>
<p>I’m not sure I can describe this feeling to anything else in my life… I don’t know that i’ve ever felt this passionately about one decision! (Also, I’m sorry to hear about missing your cousin’s funeral. That’s awful, and I can only imagine how you must have felt.)</p>
<p>Theater activities!
Thoroughly Modern Millie (chorus, set design), Into the Woods (Milky White, set design), Alice in Wonderland (Mouse, set design), and The Sound of Music (nun, Frau Scmidt, new postulant, and party guest).
ALSO, every january during midterms we have One Acts, where each class puts on a one act play and competes for categories such as best actress, costumes, set, etc.
Freshmen year, i was the student director for “A Picnic Play”, sophomore year, co-wrote and was the semi-lead role of stenographer in “Disorder in the Court,” and last year, was Betty in Jonathon Rand’s “hard candy” (WHICH WON AGAINST THE SENIOR CLASS FOR BEST PLAY! still excited about that…)</p>
<p>…and about the Barnard stealing my heart? I knew it was bad when my mac told me that my top visited sites, in order were, my email account, the new york times homepage (my default homepage), google, barnard, THEN FACEBOOK.</p>
<p>gloriachristmas: If this was facebook, I would like everything you just said.</p>
<p>If I get in, I will probably scream, hug my mom, run around the house, jump around… call all my friends and family, and be too excited to do anything else… gahhhh it’s soooooo SOON!!!</p>
<p>haha my top ten sites according to Google Chrome are:</p>
<p>Facebook, Google, AOL, Wikipedia, YouTube, Barnard, MLIA, BBC World News, and xkcd.</p>
<p>(And this is a shared family computer!).</p>
<p>MLIA is up there on mine too… oh! and after facebook, it now is college confidential!</p>
<p>GetTheSmurf- YES LET’S BE FRIENDS! audition! i will live vicariously through you; we’re doing anything goes (one of my favorite shows to perform, simply because it’s SO MUCH FUN) at my high school and i REALLY wanted to audition for bonnie, but i didn’t because it’s my last show and i didn’t want to NOT tech, and there’s too much tech stuff to do this show for me to do both. and aw if we both go to barnard i will teach you to fence again! it’s my favorite thing of ever.</p>
<p>GloriaChristmas- milky white is one of my favorite parts in ITW! that’s so awesome and congrats on owning the student run thingy! i wish my school did student run… trying to start that up for this year…</p>
<p>mm… starting from summer '05…
anything goes (chorus), mame (gloria upson), wizard of oz (wicked witch of the west), little shop of horrors (run crew), fiddler on the roof (run crew), museum (more crew ahah), urinetown (crew again!), our town (stage manager… literally, not the role haha), brigadoon (stage manager), metamorphoses (stage manager), anything goes (chorus if they let me!, and stage managing). and i paint sets (and myself… it’s like a problem).</p>
<p>I was just going through my desktop and I realized something that I’m going to share now: when I was writing my essay and supplements, I kept a picture of Barnard open on my desktop for motivation!</p>
<p>Every time I open up the Barnard site, my heart twists a little bit, knowing so much that I want to be there but I may not be. Five days or so until that decision is in my hands.</p>
<p>gloria- i kept a picture of me in the freshman quad open while doing my essays</p>
<p>I’m freaking out again 
I can’t quite get over the “what if I don’t get in” idea. I will be depressed. For sure.</p>
<p>guys don’t stress so much about it!!! obviously we all love barnard and would be happiest there, but anticipating the depression is not going to help. see, what sucks about this process is that they’re not really judging YOU, they’re judging a carbon copy of you; they only know what can be said in print on paper. everything will turn out how it’s supposed to, i can promise you that. </p>
<p>as far as what if you don’t get in? you mope for 48 hours, and then you take a deep breath, and carry on, being the strong, beautiful barnard woman you are. we’re all going to get in, and it will be great. but even if we don’t, it will be okay. really!</p>
<p>:) smile!</p>
<p>ps, 5 days! :)</p>
<p>:) thank you.</p>
<p>I reallllllyyyyyy hope they send them out this Friday.</p>