<p>I had a pretty good idea of where I was likely and where I was unlikely to get in, so my acceptances were not huge surprises, and I got no pleasant surprises from my reach schools. I remember my very first LAC acceptance was exciting, even though it was a safety.</p>
<p>I think the most exciting of all of them was my acceptance to Wellesley (probably because of the reputation), and my notification of a very generous scholarship at the school I eventually chose. </p>
<p>Moral of the story: Acceptance is good, Money is FANTASTIC!</p>
<p>Of the three I've heard back from so far, my dad has been the one to find out first:</p>
<p>GA Tech arrived via mail but it was the first day of Winter Break so I was out with friends. He called me to say I've been accepted and I got mad at him for opening the package. Turns out it's plastered pretty obviously on the outside.</p>
<p>U Miami he got before me because I was at a Model UN conference. We had just won a trophy for best school so the acceptance letter was icing on the cake.</p>
<p>Northeastern came via email but he got an email alert sent to parents to tell their children to check their mail. This was at a robotics competition so when I finally checked my email I was too exhausted to celebrate.</p>
<p>For all three I just kinda smiled really big. For the first two I was with people who were deferred from their schools. They congratulated me, but I didn't want to overly celebrate and make them feel bad.</p>
<p>However, my first choice, Northwestern, has yet to come. Rumor has it it'll be today (now in fact). I've been checking all day and it's killing me. I really just want to find out before my dad does though. He keeps ruining the surprise and stealing my thunder lol.</p>
<p>I was dropping my friend off at home, and I knew decisions were out in a few more minutes, and we decided to go out to eat, but I asked him if I could check my status at his house before we went to get food. When we got in, I had to use the bathroom, so I did that first, then we went to his computer, and his internet was REALLY SLOW, and he's addicted to WoW, so he kept trying to do stuff on there while IM'ing his girlfriend. I tried to log in to check my status under the wrong name, but I forgot, so I tried to set up a new password, but since the internet was moving so slowly, it took 5 min. to load one page. Eventually I realized I had the wrong name, and fixed it, but he kept trying to play WoW when I tried to check it...</p>
<p>Eventually I saw that it said "You're Admitted" and I started jumping up and down around his room screaming, and he just stared at me and said "I hope I don't do that next year" (he's a junior).</p>
<p>Yale EA decisions were supposed to come out at 5PM. I started refreshing the page at 3:30. By 6:00, I was just habitually refreshing while talking to my friend on the phone. Then all of a sudden there was this BULLDOG and my computer was SINGING and I realized what that meant and I SHRIEKED. And when I say SHRIEKED, I mean "my friend hung up on me and all of my cats ran into the basement"-shrieked. Then I called my grandpa, which I'd promised to do, and apparently he called everyone he knew, because I was fielding calls from my extended family for an hour.</p>
<p>It wasn't until I got my finaid package (i.e., when I knew that I would be able to go) that I started crying.</p>
<p>i had been at a rehearsal the whole afternoon and was getting endless calls from friends telling me if they had gotten in or not. in my desperation to find out, i pulled into my driveway and grabbed my iTouch, logging on to the school's site in my car because my house has wifi.</p>
<p>the minute i read congratulations, i opened the car door screaming, my dad runs out telling me he's set up the comp for me to log in. and i just screamed, "i'm in! i'm in!' while he hugs me and goes "how do you know?!"</p>
<p>"I am actually very calm.
I just smile and sit and...
I just walk up to my mom and say "I'm in""</p>
<p>That's almost exactly how my first choice went. I was a lot more excited when I got my first acceptance even though I wasn't in love with the school because it meant that I would be going to college next year, which I wasn't sure I would be able to at the time.</p>
<p>I would like to thank CC for this story, first and foremost. CC hasn't been wrong on any of the UC acceptance dates (for schools I've applied to).</p>
<p>I had read on CC that UCLA was coming out on the 18th at 5, so I told all my friends that applied that that was when it would be released. I got home, did my best to work on homework, and at about 4:45, I got on Facebook on one tab and UCLA's Admission Decisions page with another tab. I was talking to one of my friends who also applied and we were both refreshing every few minutes or so. Finally, 5 came and went, and I was kinda like "Well that's anticlimactic." Then I ate dinner and came back to my computer to check one more time for the night. There is was, the big "CONGRATULATIONS" banner. I couldn't stop smiling, and when I told my parents, they both rushed upstairs, and my mom started tearing up. </p>
<p>Needless to say, it was a very cool feeling.</p>
<p>When I saw "congratulations" I leaped out of my seat and yelped. My heart started race and I was fanning myself really fast. When I read that they were going to pay for EVERYTHING, I started to run around my room and speak in tongues (I'm pentecostal). I tried to call my mom but I was still speaking in tongues so she didnt understand me. I eventually got it out but I was still so excited that I couldn't even scream out loud. It was amazing. And you know what's funny, I dont even remember the anxiety that I had before my acceptance. It was Rice, ED</p>
<p>^
I kind of expect something like that for a reaction when I (if I, that is) apply to schools next year and get accepted to my top choices, except I'll be running around the neighborhood and possibly knocking on a majority of my neighbor's door and tell that I got accepted to whichever college. Kind of insane I guess.</p>
<p>So I locked myself in my student government office all by myself about an hour after school got out and I clicked on all the links and my heart was racing and I was shaking. I clicked on the final link and then I closed my eyes and after about 10 seconds I opened them up and the first thing I saw was "Congratulations!". My body just started freaking out I started hyperventilating and my hands and feet went completely numb as my heart was racing and I just kept on saying "oh my god, oh my god, oh my god". It was the most amazing thing ever getting into Cornell.</p>
<p>WIT - No emotion.
UNH - Oh.
Penn State - You are admitted... ...but not to the major you want.
NEU - yayish
RPI - smile
Syracuse - jumped for joy!</p>
<p>I applied EA to Georgetown SFS and I couldn't sleep for the entire month leading up to Dec. 15. Georgetown likes to send its decisions by mail and it is a small envelope for both acceptances and rejections. I raced home from school to the mailbox and I opened it and it was empty. I thought that maybe my parents had already gotten the mail.</p>
<p>I raced home and my mom said that she had not gone to the mail. At this point I started freaking out! The mail lady is never late! I went back after twenty minutes and the mail lady was there putting the cards into all of the mailboxes. I was talking to her and she handed me the letter. I though I was rejected because the letter was small. But I opened it and read congratulations!. I started jumping up and down and the mail lady was excited for me too. I ran home and my mom says that I gave her the biggest hug I had ever given her in my entire life.</p>
<p>I cried for about ten minutes so I couldn't read the rest of the letter. My mom called my grandma in Mexico and it was just an exciting day! It definitely is one of the best experiences in life. :)</p>