<p>would anyone like to do this?
so now it's 20 days until we get to result...
...maybe it's a stupid thing to do...
but i can't help///</p>
<p>I am counting!</p>
<p>Haha, I love this thread. </p>
<p>I'm actually a lot less anxious than I thought I would be... Maybe by the time the second week of December rolls around I'll be a little more crazy.</p>
<p>Oh, I'm anxious like mad. I keep reading up on all of the "Chance Me!" threads and they- naturally- make me feel so inadequate! I did everything I could, though, so now...sixteen(ish) days!</p>
<p>I'm counting down too, don't worry. I find myself forgetting a ton of things these days...I'm completely unfocused on anything else.</p>
<p>Chances threads are scary. I've vowed to stop reading them. So far I've successfully resisted the urge to make one. </p>
<p>I'll be nuts before the 15th. And then one of these things will happen:</p>
<p>Reject: I will cry and hide under my bed for a couple days or weeks.
Defer: Board the train, get off at Swarthmore, PA, walk right up to Parrish and shout "Do you want me, or not?"
Accept: Flip out and wait anxiously for other information. Start packing for Ride the Tide. Visit frequently.</p>
<p>i kept writing Swarthmore on my scratch paper half unconcious...
so today's the 18th day.
would anyone volunteer to come everyday to count down? haha</p>
<p><em>is delayed</em></p>
<p>I had a dream about Swarthmore last night! That's how ridiculous I am. =D I'll have the same reaction as you, Brillar, to each of those situations. </p>
<p>Well, I'll probably cry regardless. I'm a weeper, haha! What is it now, roughly thirteen days? Last year, most people were notified before the 15th. But, hey, it's a two-day difference. Okay, I'm rambling now. Eeeek, it's coming close!</p>
<p>I told my mom to research Swat and make a list of things that are bad about it, and to show it to me only if I don't get in. She told me that was a stupid idea (which it is--there really are no bad qualities that I can even think of, and I wouldn't have applied ED if there were). Haha, I come up with the worst ideas when I'm under pressure.</p>
<p>Here's my take on it--
Early Decision is like your saying "I do" before they do. They have the upper hand completely, so if applying were proposing:
Acceptance would obviously be the best.
Rejection would be painful, but at least they'd be being honest with you.
Being deferred would be like their saying "maybe" when you were DOWN ON ONE KNEE.
So I'd rather have all or nothing.</p>
<p>That's actually a pretty good idea, Pastafarian.</p>
<p>My only thought is, if I'm rejected, is at least I won't be horrendously overworked for four years. Which is a really bad consolation because I'm not one of those "easier is better" people (if I was I guess I wouldn't have applied to Swat, haha).</p>
<p>Aaaah Halima! I almost wrote part of my Why Swat essay like that... As if the college and I were at the "we" stage of our relationship and I was proposing. </p>
<p>Being deferred would be crazy- I can't even handle the last two weeks of our wait- waiting three more months would be terrible.</p>
<p>I know! Is it just me or has the fact that it's now December just escalated these last two weeks to being impossible? The first three were fine. Now I'm dying.
13 days.</p>
<p>luckly swat only defers very very few. It's basicly either accepted or denied, and the few taht they do defer, about 30/40 of them get accepted in the end, so that's good news. yeah, i dont' want to get defered either</p>
<p>Halima, you're hysterical. I think I'm in love with you!!
Ps did you apply to Swat? You haven't said here that you have. I hope so. You sound cool.
Or did you apply somewhere else and their CC board is lame and Swat's is AMAZING with funny, respondant people and you decided to mooch?</p>
<p>...<em>finding Lstern's comment weird</em>...</p>
<p>So I'm in my Swarthmore interview and she asks if I could do anything (as a job) in the whole world, and money were not an issue, what would I be/do? I say "well I hate to sound like a beauty queen " <strong>weird look from interviewer</strong> "but I would want world peace" (flip out inside) "Um, I mean I would want to make the world a better place" Then I procede to explain all the bad things in the world, and in doing so, I begin to CRY.
Wait what? Cry? Yeah. Cry. In my interview, after I told her that my dream job would be, and I quote, "world peace."
WOW. I have no chance of getting in...</p>
<p>alexmol- are there stats about the amount of deferrals somewhere, or are you just guessing from what you've heard?</p>
<p>Halima- Haha, I'm not sure if I understood your story completely well, but I think that tops another spec's "lukewarm drink" awkward moment, by far. It's a good thing for you that 90% of Swatties want to make the world a better place, but crying is a little odd (but not a reason for not getting in).</p>
<p>i talked to the head of admissions during a info session and asked him about it, and he said out of the 400 people that apply only 30-40 are deferred, and that they really don't like to defer people, and they only will if they apsolutly think you have a very strong chance of getting in later, and that about 30-35 of the 40 are accepted later. p.s. he was such an awsome guy, i hope he's the one reading some of our apps</p>
<p>Oh, okay, that's cool. I always thought deferrals were more common than that.</p>
<p>UGH. Yeah, now that it is actually December, it's harder to wait.</p>
<p>Less than two weeks...!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Err...I don't think those deferral stats are that high. Out of those deferred ED for the class of '11 (yes, about 40 kids), under 10 got in. It wasn't 30/40...those that did get in after being deferred showed an obscene amount of interest throughout the months they waited though, so you'd still have a good shot. It's still too early to worry yourself with that. As for Jim Bock being an awesome guy, I definitely second that. :]</p>