<p>so all eight ivy league schools (supposedly) put their decisions live online at the exact same time (march 31 @ 5 pm EST). for any of you that applied to multiple schools in the ivy league...</p>
<p>in what order will you look at your decisions?!</p>
<p>on the one hand, you'd want to look at the least competitive (e.g. cornell) first, as the chances are greatest that you'd get in there. and then you'd start off by getting into a college and wouldn't be as upset as you got rejected to the more competitive schools.</p>
<p>but on the other hand, if you start with (e.g.) cornell and DON'T get in, then you'll feel even MORE nervous and think you won't get into any of the others!</p>
<p>but then, if you start at HYP and don't get in, you'll just start off with a rejection and then even if you do (for example) cornell last and DO get in, you might still be upset.</p>
<p>and then, suppose your first choice is... PENN. do you open it FIRST because it's what you care most about? or do you save it until last, once you've (hopefully) gotten into at least one other school? but then if you save it until LAST and don't get into ANY of the other ones... then you'll just be miserable before you even see the rejection from penn!</p>
<p>SO what are you guys all planning to do?
least competitive to most competitive? vice versa?
first choice to last choice? vice versa?
random?</p>
<p>chances are, all the decisions won't really go up at the EXACT same time, so you'll be able to just check in the order that they DO go up. but if, hypothetically, they all went up at the same instant.......</p>
<p>Harvard sends out emails. The decision isn’t posted on the account, right? Unless you try logging into the admitted students part.</p>
<p>I think I’ll start refreshing my email at 5pm. And if Harvard email comes by 5pm, then check that first. If not, proceed to check Yale first, then Columbia.</p>
<p>I spent many hours contemplating this actually.
I decided that it is most rewarding to check results in the least efficient way possible. That is to say, I will check the Ivies in the order from my least favorite choice to favorite. That way, I can give myself the illusion of walking up a staircase to my future.</p>
<p>(I applied to all the Ivies but Columbia)</p>
<p>First, I will check Cornell to boost my self-confidence
Then Brown to add a spice of caprice to keep me on my feet
Then Dartmouth to reassure myself (I got a likely letter, but I will still nonetheless pretend to be pleasantly surprised)
Then Penn to further supplement my confidence and give me hope
Then Yale so that I can feel the rejection yet tell myself that I wasn’t artsy enough
Then Princeton so that I can feel the rejection crashing down on me yet still have one last hope
Then Harvard so that I can know for sure where I will be heading next year
Then I will take a nap so that my head doesn’t explode</p>
<p>What’s so “stupid” about this post? Maybe the OP got a tad too excited, lol, but it’s definitely something to think about. I was really surprised when I heard that every single Ivy decision is posted on the same day at the same time, and anyone who applied to multiple Ivies is going to be at least a little anxious at 5pm on March 31.</p>
<p>Well, I’ll be getting rejected from five Ivies, so I’ll prolly wait till April 1st to receive my Mount Holyoke acceptance, then check the others for a laugh. :P</p>
<p>Hmmmm…ohhhh, so many ways to go wrong with this. Unlike some of you lucky ba<em>tar</em>s, I won’t sit in front of my laptop with the same eagerness of you likelies who are checking for a mere assurance of their already confirmed godliness. Brown and Cornell were just as much a reach for me as HYP were (well, okay, so maybe not Cornell), and I don’t have a strategy with which I can steadily build up my resistance for the final stab. I am just too unloved by the forces of the universe to have the certainty of even one likely, or of one recommendation by a coach, or of one anything, that would relieve even the slightest bit of anxiety on my judgment day.</p>
<p>Wow. The closer it gets to Mar. 31, the more pessimistic that I become. Come 5pm, I will have undergone a complete metamorphosis, from the cheerful and naive teenager that I once was, to the fully withdrawn, shrouded-in-black, matted-haired, strikingly pale insomniac, a being that my spirit had begun to inhabit since the fateful day that I decided to apply to 5 Ivies…</p>
<p>Okay. Enough melodrama. I’ll just suck it up when the time comes, and perhaps drug myself to keep myself from jumping out of my skin. That should do it. </p>
<p>No, really, I will probably check Cornell first. Harvard last. After Cornell, Princeton, Yale and then Brown, which is not my absolute first choice, but is statiscally more realistic than Yale.</p>
<p>I’ll only be checking Penn. My other two, Harvard and Princeton, only will notify by email (someone correct me if I’m wrong on this), which I did not opt for because I like getting my mail the old fashioned way. Somehow, an acceptance letter in your hands seems more fulfilling than an email on my computer screen. But that’s just my opinion!</p>