Harvard Decisions Soon :0 !!!!

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<p>To my fellow substandard applicants (you know, those of us that have less than 2100 and 3.8, mediocre ECs, etc.) How are you feeling about your chances? Do you have a interesting background that will overbalance (A word?) your stats. Or are you like, and you're picking out your rejection themesongs? (Suggestions would be appreciated, so far I've got 'So What' by P!nk, 'Hallelujah' from shrek, and that one by Nickelback that has the phrase 'all got drug dealers on speed dialers'.</p>

<p>Seriously people, chill out about decisions. They will come and they will be good or bad, and you'll reconcile yourself with them, whatever they are (I hope). Hovering over chance threads won't change the outcome...Some indications that you have a problem are:
1. You have recurring dreams of being rejected from X Ivy school.
2. Your 'favorites' include more than two chance sites.
3. You got a 28 on your last Calc test because you decided hovering around chance threads would be more beneficial than studying.
4. If you can rattle off the 25%-50% SAT ranges for every ivy you applied to.
5. You curse the ancestors of the freakish people who get 2400s (congratulations to those of you that pulled that off)
6. You cyberstalk people with similar stats to yours who were <em>gasp</em> accepted.
7. If you go into cardiac arrest everytime you see a standard white envelope with your name on it.
8. You have IOPMSD (Ivy Optimism-Pessimism Mood Swing Disorder).
9. You have calculated your personal probability of getting accepted. (If any one has done one for someone with 2060, 3.88, 700, 700, 660, let me know).
10. You don't care about any date after April 1st.</p>

<p>So if you have 5 or more of the above signs, don't worry, there is help. </p>

<p>Stage 1:
1. Realize your personal worth will not be determined by how many (or if) you get in to.
2. Remember, It's more about what you do in college than where you go. Surviving an Ivy League college won't matter that much if that's all you managed to do.
3. Know that people with 2400s/4.0s get rejected too. It's a crapshoot.
4. Recognize that one of your 'backup' schools is probably also a great school and you might get a lot of money (I got 10,000 from my backup school)
5. Realize that Ivy acceptance doesn't = happy ending. There are plenty of people that just aren't cut out for the rigor of Ivy League.
6. Oh, and you might just be one of the smarter people at your 'lesser' school. Just like in high school.
7. Remember, you still have to graduate high school. Even if you are accepted by your dream school, you probably won't stay accepted if you graduate by the skin of your teeth.
8. Stop picking out rejection themesongs (From personal experience, this is hard).
9. There's absolutely nothing you can do about your app now, so don't worry if you began a sentence with a preposition.</p>

<p>Stage 2:
1. Get off the chance threads and do something worth doing (like alphabetizing your video games, which is totally underrated).
2. Start looking for scholarships. No matter where you go, you'll appreciate the extra cash.
3. Slay the rest of high school. Leave on a good note, not begging for mercy.
4. Pour your heart into something you've been longing to do, but haven't had the time. After all, its a universal expectation that senior year grades will take a slight dip. Why not make the reason for the dip worthwhile.</p>

<p>If you were not amused by my poor attempt at humor, I humbly apologise. Just trying to lighten things up a bit. Put it in perspective. So, if it helps you to solve your problem, feel free to rant about the inadequacy of your stats and leave your frustration here. Remember, there's at least one other person (aka me) who is feeling your pain.</p>

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<p>Oh my god I apply to just about every one of those signs.</p>

<p>Yale and harvard haunt my dreams. I check the mail every damn day. I freak out when I see big envelopes. I freak out when I see small ones (Likely??).</p>

<p>I got a 32% on my last calc test. Didnt care or even study. (Teacher lets you borrow back points so next 9 weeks I'll borrow back points to get an A/B)</p>

<p>I'm mood swingy as hell. April first is on every calendar in highlighter.</p>

<p>I'm sub standard, but I have diversity I'd like to say.</p>

<p>I'd say I'm a mild expert at posts like this ;) - and I approve.</p>

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<p>Sounds like you're a goner. You and I might have to enter therapy together.</p>

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<p>This thread made me smile. I, for one, was a basketcase today. I have been trying to keep putting along, but today this whole limbo game got to me. I am at the point where I want all of the decisions to come out. Whatever the outcome may be, I really need to move on. I think we all do. </p>

<p>We should all be so proud of who we are and what we have accomplished thus far. As much as we hope and wish for those acceptance letters, we don't need them. I'm sure we will all be somewhere great this time next year and realize how silly all of this fretting was.</p>

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<p>I'm already a neurotic to begin with. This process is like hell. I've started calling my friends' parents for consolation. I'm losing concentration. And syntax variation. </p>

<ol>
<li>Slay the rest of high school. Leave on a good note, not begging for mercy.</li>
<li>Pour your heart into something you've been longing to do, but haven't had the time. After all, its a universal expectation that senior year grades will take a slight dip. Why not make the reason for the dip worthwhile.</li>
</ol>

<p>These are my favorites.</p>

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<p>I know I'll look back on all this and go '***?!' I'll probably cringe a little and be like 'I said THAT?' </p>

<p>I don't know about you two, but I'm not stressing overmuch because I got accepted to another great (non-Ivy) engineering school a month ago and they gave me money, so either way it works out pretty sick for me. Actually, I feel a little bad because I applied to a few 'back-up' schools and now they're all sending me messages telling me how they would love for me to come to their school. I am not going to enjoy telling them they won't be seeing me come fall.</p>

<p>@mimi1991: totally with you on the decisions. i think once you get rejected they should tell you immediately...but I suppose then you would know exactly how far (or unfar you didn't get)</p>

<p>Limbo...I think of it more like a black hole. A great big application eating black hole that vomits out rejection letters...</p>

<p>EDIT: Oh snap, they star out my IM speak swear...That's interesting.</p>

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<p>Every acceptance brings you closer to sanity. I got accepted to my third choice today- so I feel a bit better.</p>

<p>But all thats left is Ivy... oh god back to square one ;p</p>

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<p>Yeah, being accepted to other colleges helps you realize you don't fail at life, particularly when they give you money. I think it's a type of therapy that us substandard Ivy hopefuls should employ so we don't get majorly depressed.</p>

<p>I applied HYPSM, so when April 1st rolls around...oh crap, I have not purchased my themesongs from iTunes yet...Better get on that.</p>

<p>Actually, it might be a bad thing if I get accepted <em>hyperventilates</em> because then I will owe a substantial amount of money to the people I made bets with...</p>

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<p>Lose-Lose.</p>

<p>You get rejected you can't go.
You get accepted you can't go because you spent all your money on the bets ;p</p>

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<p>Oh no, I will go regardless of whether I get accepted or not (I'm getting desperate now :) ). I'll just show up and be like 'Yo, I was accepted to Harvard'. I think some woman at Stanford did that and ended up being at Stanford for three years even though she never got accepted...Yep...</p>

<p>Colleges/Collegeboard inspire a unique form of...I don't really know what to call the emotion. It's like some hideous mixture of dread and anticipation and sense of impending doom...I kind of remember feeling this way as I waited for my AP scores and SATs to come out. Damn collegeboard...all the evil stems from them</p>

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<p>I remember my Junior year AP report... Word to describe it? Roller-coaster</p>

<p>AP-US history : 5
AP-Chem : 1
AP-Lang : 5
AP-Spanish : 2 (I'm Hispanic and can speak Spanish- major fail lol)</p>

<p>True poly sci major hahah</p>

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<p>That would be hilarious though... you just walk around and go to classes? Meet people... then they don't see you at graduation or on rolls. Lolwut?</p>

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<p>Woot! We both got 5's on APUSH!</p>

<p>I only took two because my school = major suckiness and only offers two junior year. The other was chem.</p>

<p>That's weird that you slayed two and got owned by the other two...</p>

<p>I think your calling might be an English major...sorry to you enlighs majors out there...but honestly, who majors in their own language? What do you do with that, except teach English?</p>

<p>I'm telling you, I will pretend to be a Harvard student. You'll see me on the news three years from now being dragged away from Harvard kicking and screaming.</p>

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<p>I know! That spanish exam destroyed me! They had some new questions using antecedents in the listening part- thats amatter of remembering not comprehension lol.</p>

<p>The Chem exam melted my face off! I was giving random explanations on the written part like- oh this double bond here is responsible for the color of the ion field! (not really that bad)</p>

<p>But no way- English major is eternal damnation to mockery! Maybe if I wanted to be a teacher, but there's no changing my poly sci.</p>

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<p>I love when you're sitting there trying to remember something and you can see the page in your text book it was on, even the paragraph it was in, but you can't remember what was actually relevant --> that would be me on a foreign language AP</p>

<p>If it makes you feel any better, here's how my chem class ended up: 8 1's, 5 2's, 3 3's and a 5. So my class got royally screwed. Didn't you adore the noncalculator free response section?</p>

<p>I think I am going to major in underwater basket weavin' at MIT. That's the plan.</p>

<p>Forgive my stupidity, I am a aware this is a Harvard...thingy...but what Ivy did you apply to?</p>

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<p>harvard and yale. im on a pda at a party now so this is hard to type lol. </p>

<p>my chem class was 34 1's 14 2's 5 3's 2 5's. lol</p>

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<p>Oh man...that's unfortunate.</p>

<p>It's a good thing college's don't really look at your scores.</p>

<p>I am at home contemplating going to sleep...Maybe I should add 'sleep deprivation due to constant CCing to my list'</p>

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<p>Ha, I love the list, and the last two points are excellent. :)</p>

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<p>At this point, I'd just like to GET IN to a school. Then I'll panic about the others. :&lt;/p>

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<p>Nah, the dreams the worst. Freak me out every time.</p>