I Love Columbia

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<p>I have been praying all week, actually, probably all year, for God to help me get accepted to Columbia University. I applied to the College and I want to major in English Literature. Please God, please help me get in. I really deserve to be accepted. I have worked so hard for this opportunity and I even sent them a letter a few weeks ago, renewing my interest. It is the perfect school for me. Not only is New York an amazing place to live; I would love to be that close to the Met and be able to take classes at SAB, but Columbia also has the perfect student body. The class size is small and the school is amazing. Some of the best professors in the world teach there! The core curricullum can teach me so much; you get an exposure to things you will never study again. PLEASE, Please, I really hope that I get in. I really don't know why I am posting this up here. I have so much homework right now, but all I can think about is that email that I will get on the 31st from Columbia.
Last year, I would have gotten a B in AP chemistry if I hadn't passed the AP test because I did poorly on the first semester final. On that day, I went home to check my grade on WEBGRADE, just hoping that my grade hadnt dropped from the incredibly difficult final exam. <strong>NExt was that feeling of uncertainty, of not knowing what will happen next, but knowing that it could change your life</strong> When I opened the webgrade page, I saw that i had gotten a B+. Fortunately, the grade went up to an A after the AP test.
This time, however, the decision that Columbia makes will be final. I will read that email. I will try not to cry, and I will feel the hopelessness. I will feel the uselessness of all of my high school work. I probably wont cry at first because I will be in denial. I will be hoping that it is all a dream--by the way, i had a dream last night that i did not get in anywhere--and it wont hit me for a little while. Then, the next day and everyday after that i will be crying, really crying, not just tears coming down my cheeks, but my heart wrenching and my breath stopping and my arms and legs banging on the floor. Of course, i would never show this to anyone. I would tell all my friends and family that i really didnt care about getting in to Columbia and that it was not a big deal. Inside, I will be dying. I will want to come back to this moment, because this moment of uncertainty is much better than the moment of and after REjection!</p>

<p>OR...............wow, its really hard to get myself up from that mood that i just described. i will have to pace myself to explain how happy i will be if i get in. If i open that letter and it says congratulations, I WILL jump up and down like two thousand times. I will not be able to control the excitement. I will scream at the top of my lungs, Oh my gosh!!!! i got in. Then, i will call all of my friends and even the people that i dont really talk to and i will go out and buy a columbia t-shirt and a columbia hat, stickers and everything else. I will wear them all and stick them all over my car! i will be the happiest person on earth. Then, i will call the ad com and tell them that i love them. I will be a maniac and crazy happy and i will love everyone in the world. I will go out and donate all the money in my wallet to those people who stand by supermarkets and stuff asking for money, i will be ecstatic OH MY GOSH. my heart is jumping up and down right now thinking about this. I HAVE worked so hard and i really want to get in. Please, please, please, please.</p>

<p>WELL> I WILL SEE IN 2 days.
I wil come back to this post and read my descriptions and whichever I am feeling, well, that will be it. I really hope i get in. Other than the health of my family, I want this more that anything in the world. </p>

<p>PLEASE< PLEASE ACCEPT ME!!!! COLUMBIA, I love you more than anything!
PLEASE</p>

<p>OH< ALSO IF I GET IN I WILL TELL MY RECOMMENDING TEACHER BECAUSE HE WAS SO NICE TO ME AND WHEN I GOT THE DEANS SCHOLARSHIP FOR NYU, HE TOLD ME I DESERVED IT></p>

<p>i am sorry i am being so obsessive and revealing everything to you guys, but all i want for you guys to do right now is please, PRAY FOR ME to get into columbia! PLEASE.</p>

<p>THANK YOU ALL</p>

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<p>Peace On Earth</p>

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<p>i really hope you don't die if you get rejected.</p>

<p>i keep telling myself...</p>

<p>"idiots aren't necessarily stupid"</p>

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<p>Someone paraphrase that</p>

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<p>Paraphrase: Pray For Me To Get Into Columbia Because I Love That School</p>

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<p>Ohhh, ok, I'll offer you a non-denominational prayer</p>

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<p>if you want someone to paraphrase what s/he wrote, ..(i didn't read the whole thing) i think it comes down to</p>

<p>"columbia is the focus of my life...i want columbia...i love columbia... i need columbia.. oh baby... oh baby... etc etc"</p>

<p>if you want someone to paraphrase what i wrote.. i suggest it be me:</p>

<p>-I wonder how someone intelligent (which is what you probably need to be...in some degree or aspect to get into columbia) could even think like this.</p>

<p>It's got to be all about flexibility.
being able to do things no matter what the environment throws at you.</p>

<p>possibly, he'll get rejected and be fine with it. like i was. I was upset ...-but ONLY because writing the other applications was such a pain in the arse and i wanted to do my work.
god damn sarah lawrence and their 4 essays.</p>

<p>[I'll tell you -I didn't get into columbia ED... , but i've also realized that columbia was a horrible choice for me after i spoke to many of my sisters (she's the reason I applied ED -she's a junior) friends who are attempting my same path.. (neuroscience/politics).... (or really anyone who is creative by any means and is too independent for their own good)....I'm trying for Brown...]</p>

<p>i hope he realizes that.
for his own good.</p>

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<p>P.S.
Your god is probably too busy killing muslims right now.
he doesn't care about you getting into columbia.</p>

<p>good luck from me though.
wherever that can get you.</p>

<p>i hope my best friend gets-in too.
you can pray for him.</p>

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<p>"Your god is probably too busy killing muslims right now."</p>

<p>wow!</p>

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<p>this person is definitely a she</p>

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<p>God probably doesn't want the fine students of his/her/its religion going to the 100% liberal, Bush hating, pro-science Columbia University haha</p>

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<p>or maybe He's sending his missionaries there... :)</p>

<p>good luck brwneyes. i hope you feel better soon.</p>

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<p>although I do sympathize your anxiety, you need to write better than that for english lit major at columbia.(sorry to be cold but it was very hard to actually finish reading that post)</p>

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<p>Wow! haha you remind me of me.... back in the ED round. I posted dozens of very similar posts lol! I was obssessseeeeedd!</p>

<p>Well ... you know what hun, I've learnt that DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE!
I've been wanting to go to college in NYC FOREVER!!!!!!!! And looks like I'm finally going I've made it.
And I had formerly wanted to go to Columbia and I didn't get in ED.. but one way or another I got pretty close.
I'm going to Barnard.. so I'm almost there!
So never give up hope!
One way or another.. whichever path life takes you... if you want it bad enough, and if you pray hard enough, and IF IT IS MEANT FOR YOU, dreams COME TRUE!
AND THEY COME TRUE BIG!
AND YOU WILL BE SOOOO HIGHHHHHHHHHHHH ON LIFE !!!!!! :)</p>

<p>P.S - I want to major in english lit too! haha
Good luck my dear.. May all your dreams come true!</p>

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<p>And sweetheart.. don't listen to what these people say.. lol ... Are they being mean to you ??? .. :s
I guess they are less sympathetic to obssessive compulsives in the RD round :)
You shoulda been here ED.. it was awesome support!
But don't worry I'M ROOTING FOR YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>AGAIN GOOD LUCK! DREAMS COME TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY AWESOME SILVER WAVEZ. YOU SO MADE MY DAY!!</p>

<p>P.S. I AM MUSLIM!
P.P.S. I wasn't trying to write an essay, I was just writing my thoughts as they flowed out. I am a great writer.</p>

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<p>HAHAHHAAHAHA YUP! I think writers would call that style STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS lol
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF WHO"S AFRAID OF VIRIGINIA WOOLF</p>

<p>well i'm glad i could be of help browneyes
good luck!!!!
perhaps i'll see u on columbia campus!!!
wooooooootttt</p>

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<p>silverwarez, you were pretending to be in love with columbia, everything columbia.
When I got rejected from columbia, I didn't mind that much. Though you called, cried, and posted all the stats about how close you were.</p>

<p>then you went back and told me
if brown was in nyc, you'd love brown.
and that you really only loved columbia because it was 'good' and in nyc.</p>

<p>browneyes: i noticed on the nyu thread you spoke of how it 'rawks' or something........</p>

<p>if you're in love with nyc, that's fine.
i run away to nyc all the time.
sure, it's great. buy a summer home or something.</p>

<p>-f you're just into columbia for the name and the city, you're not going to get anywhere. I've stayed at columbia plenty of times, and after exiting the small group of friends i have, and my sisters friends, i've seen a digusting amount of students -- pseudointellectual -'i'm want to call myself a new yorker' types.
sadly, nyu probably has more of these. those kids need to grow up.</p>

<p>if you went to the informative sessions, you'll know that they hate students who mention nyc on the 'why columbia' short answer...
Leaving it out only makes you slightly above those annoying bastards.</p>

<p>ps browneyes, you're muslim.. yet you go to a jesuit high school?</p>

<p>eitherway, you guys all worship the same supposed god.
i guess it doesn't matter.</p>

<p>just so you know..
I'd rather go to sarah lawrence, even if i get into gallatin at nyu and possssssibly even brown (probably not, because they have fantastic cognitive neuroscientists and i'd have to go)
but not because its ****ing ivy league or because its in a rad city.</p>

<p>sorry to start fights.
but you guys honestly don't even seem to care what college you go to as long as it has a name you can brag about and is in new york.</p>

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<p>youngboysigh. . . her name is silverwaVes, not silverwarez! She is not a knife and fork!</p>

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<p>u know.. i actually see so many people calling her silverwaRez and not silverwaVes on other the boards too. It's mind boggling, but I thought it was waRez too when I first saw it.</p>