<p>The night I was supposed to find out, whether I was accepted or not to Smith College, the website was down. It was supposed to be posted at 6:00 p.m. so I had to wait. My parents and I actually brought a laptop to my brother's chorus concert and kept trying to log on every fifteen minutes. Four hours later, when we were home, I was sick to my stomach and kept thinking that I probably was not accepted. Finally, at that moment when I gave it one last try to see my status, I found out that I was accepted!</p>
<p>I was in shock on the verge of throwing-up while my parents were crying. I stayed-up all night jumping up and down screaming "I'm going to be a Smithie!" I finally went to bed at three in the morning. This happened last December but I still have the urge to declare "I'm going to be a Smithie" several times a week.</p>
<p>Colby - Shock and then went to bed (It was 1 AM)
Wesleyan - Screaming and saying "OH MY GOD!" a lot.
UC San Diego - I just said "Yay!"
Bowdoin - Jumping up and down and screaming like crazy and then hugging all my friends.
Kenyon - "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"</p>
<p>all my acceptances i got over the internet (since im an international) and most of them were very unexpected. i.e. i went on to northeastern site to see if all the packages were accepted and they just had congratulations instead. and i got told of my american acceptance via fedex who said a package was arriving in a week before the uni told me so lol</p>
<p>but it wasnt overally joyful since non of them gave me enough financial aid. money is a big problem so the acceptance letters seems pretty pointless.</p>
<p>I had had no idea that WashU admissions were out yet, much less online, so I got home one Friday afternoon to discover a rush-shipped envelope on my front porch. I didn't think much of it since the last rush envelope like this that I had received was from a state school's honor program that I had no interest in attending. So I open this one up nonchalantly, see the WashU emblem and "Congratulations!", and almost go into apoplectic shock. I jumped up and down for 5 minutes straight, then called my parents and best friend and breathlessly yelled to them the news. My mom thought something was wrong when I called because I was so out of breath...haha.</p>
<p>I got into CMU and Harvey Mudd, after my safeties. I barely had any sort of reaction. I was like..oh well, good for me. I told my mum, who grew happy, and I hugged her, but for some reason I didn't care to smile.</p>
<p>Guess I'm a little sick of this uni business as a whole. Oh well.</p>
<p>I got an early acceptance letter from Grinnell... I had no clue what it was, since it wasn't in a big package or anything. it had a little "congratulations!" on the envelope, but I still didn't get it. when I opened up the envelope and read the letter I thought it was a joke. lol I started tearing up and my fam thought I was crazy. i called my best buds to share the news and kept repeating "i can't believe this! that's SO cool!" then I went on cc to confirm that other people were getting these letters too, since I still thought it was a joke. haha. I REALLY REALLY thought I'd be rejected from Grinnell, so I was in complete shock that i got an EARLY acceptance letter. =] </p>
<p>For wesleyan, I had seen that posters on CC said they got early acceptances, I of course didn't expect to get one. then my little brother came in with the mail and I saw a huge package... he was like, "it's from wesleyan..." i couldn't believe it, I ripped open the package and read the letter. my response was pretty much the same as it was for Grinnell. I called my best buds and kept saying that I couldn't believe it. Wesleyan has been my dream school since forever, so the early acceptance was pretty amazing. =D</p>
<p>When I got into Maryland: OH WOW I GOT INTO COLLEGE
Miami with full tuition scholarship: <em>sunglasses</em> YEEEEAH
Rice with full ride: HOO HAH</p>
<p>This is not technically an acceptance, but when I heard I had enough financial aid to go to MIT, I told my sophomore friend, who has been supportive of me ever since I was just a little interested in MIT. He started to cry.</p>
<p>My school posted decisions at 3:00 PM on a school day, so when I shrieked I was actually in school. I was giddy for a while after, but then was given a hard time by my siblings for being "too obnoxious" and "completely full of it." It's really tough to restrain that emotion though, and I wasn't even bracing myself for having to restrain it because I honestly thought I had no chance! It looks like other people screamed too so I don't feel as bad anymore, haha.</p>
<p>And since I only read the "Congratulations!" before I started screaming and hugging my friends, I didn't read the letter until later. When I called my mom she thought I was joking and called the friend that was with me to check that I did actually get in. A few hours later I was finally able to focus enough to read it but still had to wait until the actual letter came in the mail so that I knew it was not a mistake.</p>
<p>I think decisions were posted at 3 on a Friday... so I left school after 6th hour and just sat on the couch watching Law and Order to distract myself until 3... then I moved up into my room and pulled up the decisions portal but it still wasn't up. Watched a little more Law and Order, then the portal came up. I logged in with my parents and only saw the word "Congratulations!", then fell back out of my chair and just kinda screamed. Then I calmed down and went to swim practice.</p>
<p>I was happy when i got regents to UCSB
I grinned and said "yay!" when I got into UCSD
I said "yay!" and told my mom when I got into UCLA, and she yelled back that I should finish my homework. And it took me about an hour and a half before I could concentrate again. :P</p>
<p>My story is so anti-climatic. I have been thinking about GWU for about three years now and finally the admissions is upon us. I have been all worked up about the decisions coming out tonight (wednesday) when my uncle, who works at GW but in athletics, texted me yesterday and said "just talked to admissions. Welcome to GW!"</p>
<p>I have been waiting years to hear that but it came through a text that was quite anti-climatic. Kind of ****ed about it. </p>
<p>But if I get into Columbia, that would be a wholeeeeeeeee other celebration.</p>