<p>Please post your reaction on learning the "Accepted/ Admitted Status" college admission decision. </p>
<p>This thread is intended to capture those initial moments of every type of reaction and emotion. Where, when, how of it.. Both yours and your parents/ loved ones. It is a moment that will stay in our memories for a long time. </p>
<p>Personal moments before we move on to college life.</p>
<p>I smiled ear to ear. My mom asked me if I got in and I couldn’t say anything because I was smiling so hard. My mom then called my dad (parents divorced) and wanted me to tell him the good news, but I couldn’t get the words out because I still had a lockjaw smile.</p>
<p>I wish I had one of those moments. Unfortunately I know/knew where I’m in and where I’m not, so I took it very ‘Oh, nice’-y. I feel robbed :(</p>
<p>When I got into my safeties, I actually started to shudder a little because I realised that compared with my other schools, I really didn’t want to go to them. When I got my Cornell acceptance, I saw the small letter on the table when I reached home and notice the little red part at the top as I moved closer towards it (completely forgetting that all the postal stuff is in red) and immediately thought, Cornell! The envelope was taking for ever to open though so I just ripped it out and then I saw congratulatons! I couldn’t stop jumping up and down and smiling. I read the letter like 5 times in a row but the only thing I remembered after all that was congratulations lol.</p>
<p>not quite the same as an acceptance, but my penn likely… when i saw it i thought it was an early rejection (“am i really that bad an applicant?!”, so opening it to read a very encouraging likely was SO AWESOME and i immediately jumped out of my chair and yelled a little and basically could not stop smiling for an hour or so. if i get into my other major reach schools i might faint, though… the suspense is building!</p>
<p>excitement and joy</p>
<p>…but then…“for winter admission!” ■■■.</p>
<p>I looked on the online portal because i was sure of my rejection. It was hardly even a choice for me. when the page loaded i got an IM from someone that covered it up. And I totally forgot about it for like 2 minutes, but the second i saw congratualtions i couldn’t say anything! I logged off and back in just to make sure! Then i went to hug my mom and my eyes got a little watery. I couldn’t say much for a couple hours! 
:)</p>
<p>When I got my Cornell likley, I just read, “you will be admitted to Cornell” like twenty times, I teared up, but didnt cry. I just couln’t put the paper down!! I felt like I was finally receiving the benefit of all my hard work over the years!</p>
<p>When I got my Duke likely, I started jumping up and down like crazy, then I screamed to my parents the good news.</p>
<p>With my safeties and matches, I just read the letters and nodded my head with approval, but it just wasn’t the same bc the news wasn’t a huge surprise. I was still happy though!</p>
<p>It was like 2am on Saturday and I was on my laptop, about to go to bed. I was just browsing one of the forums to a school I applied to and noticed a thread “Decisions are UP !”</p>
<p>So I got really nervous as I logged in because I wasn’t expecting to hear back at the time…well I was accepted.</p>
<p>I started flopping around in my bed and kind of let out an “EEEEEE.” I then proceeded to throw on my pajama pants (sleep in boxers lol) to run and tell my parents, but I decided not to wake them up at 2am :P</p>
<p>Then of course I was too excited to sleep after that so it was a late night for me.</p>
<p>Wow! These experiences are touching. Haven’t yet received acceptances (hopefully)from my top schools but since I’m going to see it first online, I think I’ll kiss the screen if I find out I’m accepted, and then other reactions will follow suit.</p>
<p>aw, this makes me really look forward to senior year next year. like…i reallyyy want this : ) congrats to all!</p>
<p>sail-lol, i would never be able to get back to sleep :p</p>
<p>I’m not trying to make fun of you, but something here made me giggle.</p>
<p>If a college wrote “you are admitted” instead of “you have been admitted”, I probably would not attend. I’m not perfect, but a college should be pretty good…</p>
<p>I got my Columbia likely when I got back from a not-great violin lesson. I couldn’t seem to focus and play very well and given that it was a few weeks before a competition my teacher was understandably grumpy.</p>
<p>So when I got home, I was a little irritated when I did my routine e-mail check and saw an email from Columbia that was titled “Your Application to Columbia.” I thought “great, another one of those dumb ‘your application is complete’ emails.” Those emails for some reason kind of annoy me since they remind me of the pending decision that I don’t want to think about.</p>
<p>I was completely taken aback when it said I was a likely candidate for admission. I swore pretty loudly in complete shock and frightened my younger sister, who thought something was seriously wrong (the fact that I rarely swear probably freaked her out even more) 
I’d never had so much adrenaline and happiness at once in my life.</p>
<p>I called my parents and ran outside in circles. Someone was out walking their dog and must have thought I was insane haha</p>
<p>Well, I had gotten all my acceptances from either phone (binghamton) or email/online and they were none of my top choices so I was happy but not screaming or anything. Yesterday when I got a letter from one of my top choices, I slowly approached my mail box, saw the large package, ran inside, opened it up to make sure that I didn’t get in for something like spring or something, saw “Congratulations on Gettysburg…September 2009” I SCREAMED. I think my whole neighborhood must have heard me!</p>
<p>i made a catchy song accompanied with a seductive dance when i got into kenyon</p>
<p>I jumped up and High Fived everyone in my APES class when I found out I got into Miami.</p>
<p>I laughed hysterically when I saw my UCI acceptance</p>
<p>and then jumped</p>
<p>and said “That’s right *****!” with a victory sign!</p>
<p>“There are a few moments in life you’ll always remember – this is one of them. Congratulations, it’s the BIG envelope!” -UCSD Front of envelope
I laughed out load</p>
<p>^ lol I heard about that, too!!</p>
<p>I have YET to actually receive a letter… all of em have just been online.
But I got sooo excited after finding out that I got into UCLA. I probably banged my head into my bed covers many times. My sister was there so I was just spazzing with her… well, more like spazzing on my own :p</p>
<p>When I received my U of MN it was nada. Just relieved to finally have one acceptance.</p>
<p>When I got the NYU scholarship/acceptance package, I was anticipating it 'cause my dad had told me there was a UPS from NYU some hours before.</p>
<p>When I got my likely email from Duke. I started jumping up and down, and grabbed my laptop to show the email to my parents.</p>
<p>For MIT, I was so sure of my rejection I delayed looking till Sunday at the online decision. Then I told my mom right before I logged in that I was rejected, to turn around a second later to tell her that I was accepted. I didn’t scream, yell, jump. I just calmly told her I was accepted. I think I was in shock. I still am. Others have celebrated for me though.</p>