<p>Got my acceptance letter today!</p>
<p>Just received mine. Feels terrific!</p>
<p>Rejected…</p>
<p>Rejected here. Hurts quite a bit.</p>
<p>waitlisted… next to zero percent chance -.-</p>
<p>Waitlisted. -_-</p>
<p>got my acceptance today too! good luck to everyone who didn’t get in. i’m sure you’ll get in to other places (or already have), so stay positive! seriously.</p>
<p>I got accepted!! I can’t wait to meet all of you guys, CONGRATS</p>
<p>Sorry; I put rejected but I was wait listed. I didn’t want to read the whole letter :P. BUT I was accepted to Amherst less than an hour after I got the mail and I like Amherst much better!</p>
<p>I’m sorta in the same boat spiritualwitch. Accepted by Carleton and got an early write from Swartmore but waitlisted by Haverford.</p>
<p>Accepted!!!</p>
<p>Got the e-mail today! I was a little surprised. I got waitlisted at Kenyon and Colby and rejected at Oberlin, all less selective schools. Makes the acceptance even more satisfying.</p>
<p>^^College acceptances can be so random. Congrats to all who got in!</p>
<p>waitlisted…eh, expected.</p>
<p>Rejected - oh well into 7 other schools so I am fine</p>
<p>accepted…</p>
<p>ACCEPTED! No financial aid with my envelope though.</p>
<p>D was accepted. We’re in CA. Got the letter today.</p>
<p>waitlisted… into some other schools, though, so I’m happy.</p>
<p>I must say that I’m not very disappointed and will not be putting my name on the waitlist. I’m glad I wasn’t rejected but I didn’t particularly care for Haverford, though I do know it’s a great school; it’s just not for me. Congrats to everyone who got in and good luck to those who are on the waitlist!</p>
<p>I know this is a very hard time for seniors as they are waiting for their results. Or receiving them.</p>
<p>You have to know, there is a great deal of serendipity in this whole process. That’s why the results can seem so strange – got in to more competitive school, rejected from less competitive school, or whatever. </p>
<p>Some of you will be rejected from your top schools, and end up lower down on your list. Several things to know: first, this is not a judgment of your skills, your intelligence or you as a person. When you have thousands of people going for hundreds of spots – and 95% of those people are in the same range of skills – the odds are against you everywhere. No matter your skills, no matter your success. Schools are looking for a student body of wide ranging backgrounds and talents. They’re not going to take all tuba players, or everyone from Idaho. So, if you were counting on your sculpting as pushing you over the top – but they already admitted two sculptors in ED – then it doesn’t help. So again – serendipity.</p>
<p>But I have one other thing to tell you: For most of you, your first choices are based on impressions – how you felt walking through the school, what the students you ran into were like, the cache of the school name, the US News ranking (which is really unimportant), reputation of a particular department. You will find, in the end, that NONE of this matters. All of these schools are the tops in the country. You WILL be happy, wherever you go – unless you don’t let yourself be happy because of grumpiness about your results. You WILL make good friends, you WILL get a top-notch education. </p>
<p>So, my bottom line: Feel good about yourself. You are among the smartest, most talented young people in this country. You are on your way to a great adventure. You will get a great education. And – thought it might be hard to accept this week – you will be happy.</p>