I am doing mine in ABC order to make it interesting (although I’ve already been likely-lettered by one university). I’m excited for March 31! I’m checking at home with my mom and my aunt.
I didn’t apply to Harvard, but I’m chiming in:
I’m so excited and nervous too! I only applied to two ivies- I’ll check Yale first, then Penn. I’ll probably check alone, partly because my parents don’t care that much (even though my dad went to Yale, he and my mom have put almost zero pressure on me when it comes to ivy league schools) and will be at work, and partly because bad news will feel like less of a big deal if I’m by myself. I’m trying to remind myself that I have a huge chance of rejection, though I can’t help but get my hopes up.
Congrats on the likely!! That must feel amazing. 
For me, Penn, then Harvard, then Princeton.
For me it’s Penn, Yale, Columbia, followed by Harvard.
The order they come in.
@skieurope I thought they all came out at the same time, 5 pm?
@pinkwhitered There’s the plan, and there’s the reality. Call me pessimistic, but I doubt that 8 colleges are going to be able to magically flip the switch on tens of thousands of application at exactly 5:00:00.
Well I only applied to two… one early, one regular. So I guess whenever that letter rolls in, I’ll just open it. haha. No pressure.
@oxoxhawja3xoxo Wow, you’re definitely lucky. I applied to 16 colleges in total, and I’ve so far been admitted to 5.
I’ll open them in the order they come in as well. If they magically all come at the same time, I think I’m opening Princeton, Brown, Yale, and then Harvard. I’ve been deferred at Princeton so I’m expecting a rejection and will open this first.
Alphabetically, most likely, if they do truly come out at the same time.
If there’s a time gap (or a school’s website crashes from traffic), I’ll check whatever I can see fastest.
Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, and finally Yale.
Princeton (best application/interview), Penn (worse application), Harvard (lowest chance), and Yale (top choice)
I applied to all Ivy’s and got likely letters to Columbia Rabi Scholars, UPENN, Dartmouth and Cornell without interviewing , got into MIT early action, waiting on Yale , Harvard, Princeton and Brown that I interviewed…low pressure for me
@skieurope I applied ED to Columbia and it was exactly at 5pm that they released decisions. So I would assume that the same applies for RD.
For Harvard SCEA there was a delay of about 20 minutes (decisions were slated to be released at 5:00, they came at 5:20).
Are you sure? Mine was available immediately at 5:00 PM EST. Then again, it wasn’t “good news”, so to speak.
@Pinkwhitered I applied to 3 schools total, only two ivies though.
I don’t understand the appeal of spending a thousand dollars on applications.
It’s not like you can even go to all 16 schools anyway. haha
congrats on the 5 you’ve been admitted to so far!
I think what helped me narrow down my options was actually visiting campuses.
Schools I thought I would like ended up just not being for me.
I started with a list of ten schools, but easily cut it down to 6.
Once i got in EA for Harvard, I had to ask myself which of the schools would
I potentially turn down Harvard for, and I could only honestly say two of them.
@Tiberium I’m 100% sure. I just went back into my email and checked again to be absolutely certain of the time. Maybe Harvard releases the decisions in batches.
Funny, I’ve been thinking about this for while. I’m going to start with Yale, then Columbia, and finish with Harvard. Not too interested/invested in Yale so might as well get it out of the way. Not expecting much from Columbia or Harvard but I’m more interested in them. I have Penn and Cornell to check too, but I already got likelies to them so I’m saving them for the end when I get my other 3 rejections, that way I won’t feel so bad