<p>Are you going to do it alone or with family? The second it comes out?</p>
<p>I think I'd like to do it alone, deal with my feelings, and then talk to my parents. I'd probably be the kid waiting until the second to open it up.</p>
<p>Alone. Then I’d throw the rejections away and pretend I never applied to those schools in the first place.</p>
<p>Sometimes your parents will know anyway. An amazing number of schools are still using snail mail, and the envelope gives it away a lot of times.</p>
<p>I hope to do it via envelope–I’d be so sick waiting for the page to load. I’d open it alone also.</p>
<p>Some colleges have bumped up their server/network capacity so the load is immediate (thinking U of Chicago last year, the EA response to clicking on the answer was subsecond!).</p>
<p>I’ll probably sit in front of the computer screen frantically pressing F5 on the decision screen. And if I do receive rejection letters, I’ll probably do something weird like framing them.</p>
<p>If in the mail: open on sight ASAP. If parents around, run for cover and open. Skip to decision line. If rejected, shred immediately. If accepted, brag. </p>
<p>Same process for online basically</p>
<p>Rejection letters burn really well. 
Don’t forget about the possibility of limbo (eg, waitlist) status…</p>
<p>All I know it the opening will be like my favorite movie series: Fast & Furious.</p>
<p>I plan to open them in the order I receive them. I guess I’ll throw out the rejections but I’ll be opening them very quickly :D</p>
<p>I will open or click on them in solitude (even my matches and safeties) because I don’t need to deal with someone else’s reaction when I’m trying to deal with my own. I will be very emotional during decision periods in December and March/April.</p>
<p>On my own, several at a time. open reaches with safeties and so forth. that way i dont get that disappointed at rejections from reaches</p>
<p>Basically what kdswish and halcyonheather said.</p>
<p>Easy decision for me. I’ll go to the webpage by myself. The mail takes all the suspense out of it, because 99% of the time, the size of the envelope gives it away.</p>
<p>I’ll do it as soon as it comes in the mail or is available online. Then, I will scream right away no matter what my results are and tell everyone I know.</p>
<p>I’ll check the size of the envelope. Then react accordingly.</p>
<p>I had a friend who applied to UPenn early decision. He wanted to have people around when he found out. He hooked up his computer to the projector in our science fair period and brought up the page the second it became available. He made it in and I think the whole school knew within seconds because he ran around the campus screaming afterwards. It is a hilarious youtube video now…</p>
<p>@berzelio, I was JUST watching that video yesterday before I even saw your post. Pretty funny video.</p>
<p>I think I will video tape myself opening the decision online. Absolutely alone. If I get in, I post. If I get rejected, I delete because NOBODY wants to see MY crying face.</p>
<p>Thought I’d bump this since RD decisions are coming out.</p>
<p>Locked in my room, hugging my cat, frantically searching for the congratulations.</p>