<p>So how are you going to tell your friends and teachers? My brother and I both got accepted to both Stanford AND Yale, and this is a first for our school. Seriously. No one ever applies to top schools and the last person to go to an elite school went to UPenn and that was 4 years ago. I bet my teachers are going to be surprised!</p>
<p>Honestly, I avoided telling anyone. It becomes extremely awkward to tell people, especially those who had applied there as well. The only person I did tell was my guidance counselor, but that's because she had done so much for me. But my english teacher did have this ridiculous thing to have everyone list all of their college acceptances on this list on the wall, which by excessive badgering I did (especially since word travels fast when one person knows in a small school), so they found out through that, which at least cut some of the awkwardness, so after that I only told when asked, but yeah...</p>
<p>Not worth bragging about. Tell them if they ask.</p>
<p>I agree with Tonyt88 and None.</p>
<p>There's usually no need to tell anyway because your friends will ask you.</p>
<p>Run around the school taunting those too timid to apply, duh.</p>
<p>Since my friends would probably know where I had applied, I'd trust them to ask me.</p>
<p>Just tell people when they ask you but you don't have to go out and boast about it. Anyway, congratulations!! =]</p>
<p>Only tell your teachers, they'll be genuinely happy for you and it won't be awkward one bit.
Once you do that the info will probably trickle down to the students.</p>
<p>Does it even matter that much? Honestly, whether you boasted or not isn't going to impact how your future life goes in college anyways. So what if people remember you as the person who boasted about getting into top colleges? They'll forget about you anyways (unless they tell younger students that someone from their school got into X college). That could be beneficial to the younger students, in fact. Certainly, I'd benefit if I could have acquired the contact info of students at my school who got into Caltech (I did, and found out that Caltech was really less selective than I originally thought).</p>
<p>Well, that's Caltech, and no one's interested in Caltech. :p If it's an Ivy League, then you could be bombarded with such requests. So...</p>
<p>Of course, whether the students actually liked it or not when younger students contacted them - that's another question.</p>
<p>just at the beginning of the class, SAY OUT LOUD!!!</p>
<p>GUYS I GOT IN!!!</p>
<p>InquilineKea: Your comments ring true with me. I really looked up to some former classmates that got into top schools (3 or so in the last decade? Penn, Stanford, and Caltech), so they were sources of inspiration for me to apply to top schools. I guess I'll add Yale or another Stanford to the pantheon of elite schools my high school has sent students to.</p>
<p>why not wear some kind of apparel of the university the following day???</p>
<p>worked great for me :D</p>
<p>Dear Teacher,
Thank you for your recommendation. It got me into Stanford and Yale.<br>
Sincerely,
virtuoso_735</p>
<p>Just tell the teachers you had write recommendations for you. Then of course they'll tell their students. You don't sound like the extremely shy/modest/frightened type so it's direct and graceful.</p>
<p>Simple..tell the people who ask and thank those that helped you, or wait until they ask. I agree with virtuoso, it is an inspiration for those that come after you to know they too might ahve achance coming from you high school.</p>
<p>I concur with the reccomendation route-my latin teacher was SO proud to tell everyone that two of his students got into Columbia</p>
<p>I'm on the same boat as you.. only one of my good friends was rejected from Stanford, which was his dream school (hes been wanting to go there forever), and I was accepted. And the thing that makes it worse is that I think that I'm probably going to MIT over Stanford, so I feel pretty bad because it's almost like I took his spot and then threw it away. (I know thats not the case but it feels that way)</p>
<p>totally know where you're coming from wired_lain, I "took" a spot away from a girl who's dream college was Princeton since birth, and though I claimed to be considering it, I knew I wouldn't go and didn't, and what made it worse was everyone didn't want her to get in (since most people didn't appreciate her arrogant, cocky attitude), so that definitely put salt in the wound. But all I can say is try not to dwell on it.</p>
<p>LOL - One of the smartest girls in the senior class got into MIT and all she did was yell it down the halls and wear a MIT shirt through the day.</p>
<p>Start a conversation with multiple seniors and ask them first about their colleges and then they'll ask you.</p>
<p>The apparel thing might work pretty well...</p>
<p>of course, it depends on how much attention you want to get over your acceptances (congratulations, by the way!) A girl at my school got into Harvard a few months ago. She might have told two or three people, and suddenly the entire student body knew. People were asking her about it so often that I think she got tired of the whole thing pretty quickly.</p>
<p>So yeah, think very carefully about the kind of notice you want to receive from your classmates.</p>