<p>I'll be on CC, reading everyone's decisions, then when I feel I've had enough of the rejections, I'll open my own letter, breaking the long miserable streak like the first rain after a drought! </p>
<p>I'm kidding. I'm likely one of the least qualified applicants here. I didn't want to go to an American school until the beginning of senior year - when some of you guys have already applied! Ha, funny. Anyway, my parents/friends/guidance cousenlor/self would not in the least be disappointed by a big fat reject. In fact, that would put me in some pretty amazing company. Good luck you guys!</p>
<p>Edit: Wait, I didn't answer the original question. For me no matter what, it would be Cornell first, because I had a really good on-campus interview with a professor, and I'm curious as to whether that meant a lot.</p>
<p>@Dpattzlover, I like this part of your suggested plan: "Then Dartmouth to reassure myself (I got a likely letter, but I will still nonetheless pretend to be pleasantly surprised)" lol</p>
<p>"waitn184"....this was not my post, I was quoting and asking if anyone else thought it was a tad arrogant form him to say this......Arch3r25 posted it on the first page, so compliment him, not me!</p>
<p>dpattz just adding some humor, gosh :D Sorry if I came across as arrogant :( What part is arrogant? I'll recant!</p>
<p>And I agree that it probably wasn't a good idea. I hadn't had the time to visit all of the schools. I don't think Brown and Yale are at all a good fit for me, but I'd be very happy at any of the others. They all have phenomenal engineering programs though, which was what I was looking at while doing applications.</p>
<p>Oh, it was funny, but the "First, I will check Cornell to boost my self-confidence" and
"Then Brown to add a spice of caprice to keep me on my feet" was a bit arrogant--> both are very competitive schools and I don't think anyone should consider them as "sure bets". You know what I'm saying?</p>
<p>Dpattz my bad, I quickly skimmed through the post, and missed the quotes/your explanation at the bottom!. It is not that arrogant Arch. I guess the part about you assuming acceptances from other Ivies (which, as dpattz stated, are not sure bets) sounds ignorant. Your mentioning of the Dartmouth likely and your intention to gain self confidence through that likely can sound arrogant to some people (I actually found this part humorous, it is always good to encourage yourself, haha) You just got to remember some people (like me) would die to get into schools like Dartmouth, and those people (DPattz? haha) can get emotional from that joke. </p>
<p>However, any arrogance you showed is leveled off with the humbleness of your belief that you will not get into HYP, so it does not bother me.</p>
<p>Right, I see what you mean and I'm sorry. I actually don't expect to get into Brown--that's what I meant. Regarding Cornell, my school is a feeder :/</p>
<p>In any case, I'm sorry and definitely wasn't trying to be arrogant. I guess I'm just giddy that the end is in sight.</p>
<p>arch- I totally understand where you're coming from and didn't consider your post arrogant at all! In my mind, it was admirably confident and optimistic!</p>
<p>On a totally unrelated note...
I can only imagine how many Ivy League admissions sites are going to crash on March 31 @ 5 PM... tens of thousands of applicants trying to log into each one... there's no way the sites will be able to keep running! For Yale SCEA decisions, the site crashed right when decisions went up and went on/off for the next few hours...</p>
<p>Thanks, lol. @plumsnow, I would assume the Ivies could schedule admissions decision emails efficiently since they are the leaders of education in the world, but no...... they have to do it on the same date.</p>
<p>well i dont plan on looking at any of them until the next day, after i receive my decisions from more realistic schools, so that i will hopefully have an acceptance under my belt already. when i do look, though, it will be in the order of:
1)Penn(school i least want to attend of the ivies i applied to)
2)Dartmouth(my #1, but somewhat more realistic than H, to hopefully brighten my day)
3)Harvard(no expectations of getting in, so if i dont then its not a big deal, and if i do then i get to end the day with an awesome surprise)</p>
<p>Of course, its very probable that i will just end up looking at them on the 31 anyways despite this plan, as i just wont be able to handle the anticipation</p>
<p>I think I am going to open my email/college servers in different browsers, but not read the text until all windows are open and arranged on my computer screen for all my colleges.</p>
<p>Then, I will read all my decisions at the same time. I believe I am the first to suggest this unique approach :)</p>
<p>Caution: If you feel like you will receive a significant amount of rejections, I suggest you open your emails one by one. </p>
<p>Disclaimer: I will not add to the server crashed, etc. by opening multiple emails because I can't reach a computer til later in the evening (6,7) on that day.</p>
<p>I suggest that we open ONE notification each day, as to further prolong the process so we can truly savour how badly we all want this, to better remember later down the road and for motivation, maybe. (This might also be good if you, like I, will mostly be opening rejections.)</p>
<p>Seriously, I might. I love excitement and tension and drama :) lol. To read one a day would be nerve-wreckingly, awfully fun.</p>