<p>don't</a> think about this too hard -- How to tell if your head is about to blow up.</p>
<p>Hahahahahahahahaha</p>
<p>omg four weeks, how did it come so fast. I sent my app in sept, I cant believe its almost time!!!</p>
<p>cicero_oratore:"This post shows the stupidity of some of America's allegedly brightest and most dedicated students...."</p>
<p>Actually it kind of shows your stupidity... you imply that by posting in this thread, you are not bright and not dedicated and therefore are stupid. First off, there is no reason for most dedicated to be included... dedication has nothing to do with being bright (the very definition of bright is someone who is naturally intelligent) or stupid, or this thread for that matter. Furthermore, using one's free time to post on college confidential in a fun thread to help pass the time till decisions come in no way relates to intelligence. It simply means we are anxious, which you must also be, seeing as how you have a cc account and found your way into this thread, whose subject was obvious from the title. </p>
<p>Your comments actually serve no pupose and make you look like the idiot. Also your comment about Americans evokes that good old sense of European elitism. </p>
<p>Anyway, back to the main topic of the thread, I am going to check them in the order that they come to me... that way I'm checking them in the order destiny/fate intended and I won't second guess anything. </p>
<p>As an alternate strategy, I would propose that everyone should open Cornell first, and if you get in, we all meet at a prearanged time on one of the infamous bridges that cross the gorges around Cornell with our laptops. Then, when everyone arrives, we look at the other emails/decisions, and those who get in celebrate at a random location in Ithaca while those who are denied jump off in a massive protest of increasingly difficult admissions standards. WHO's WITH ME????</p>
<p>........and if we don't get into Cornell???</p>
<p>@Amadeuic - HAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA i totally caught that Anchorman cultural reference</p>
<p>Man in Black: All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right... and who is dead.
Vizzini: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in Black: You've made your decision then?
Vizzini: Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
Man in Black: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Vizzini: Wait til I get going! Now, where was I?
Man in Black: Australia.
Vizzini: Yes, Australia. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in Black: You're just stalling now.
Vizzini: You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in Black: You're trying to trick me into giving away something. It won't work.
Vizzini: IT HAS WORKED! YOU'VE GIVEN EVERYTHING AWAY! I KNOW WHERE THE POISON IS!
Man in Black: Then make your choice.
Vizzini: I will, and I choose - What in the world can that be?
Vizzini: [Vizzini gestures up and away from the table. Roberts looks. Vizzini swaps the goblets]
Man in Black: What? Where? I don't see anything.
Vizzini: Well, I- I could have sworn I saw something. No matter.First, let's drink. Me from my glass, and you from yours.
Man in Black, Vizzini: [they drink ]
Man in Black: You guessed wrong.
Vizzini: You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...
Vizzini: [Vizzini stops suddenly, and falls dead to the right]
Buttercup: And to think, all that time it was your cup that was poisoned.
Man in Black: They were both poisoned. I spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder.</p>
<p>im not going to check it until the afternoon of the next day because i have the aime on april 1</p>
<p>omg I just realized I have a sports event until 7pm that day!!! thank god for iphones!!!
...but wait, I dont think I want to check around other people. I'll scoot off around 4:50 or so, and maybe never come back, lol!!!</p>
<p>Collegebound_91 --- just wait it out!</p>
<p>jdjaguar: I love how you specified which direction Vizzini falls in!</p>
<p>Penn
Princeton
Columbia
Harvard
Dartmouth
Yale</p>
<p>I figure I'll alternate between hard to get into and ungodly hard to get into.</p>
<p>^AHHAHAAHAH that made my day</p>
<p>just a quick question... when is decision day? (for both harvard and other ivies)</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>3211: march 31 @ 5 pm for the whole ivy league!</p>
<p>Harvard - Princeton - Yale - Penn, or whatever order they come in.</p>
<p>Well, I've got 4 weeks to decide how I want to go about this one :)
what a toughie!</p>
<p>jdjaguar - loved the story, may ask what the purpose of that was?? making a hard decision??</p>
<p>Oh god, we don't even have school that day, so I'll have the entire day to be worrying nervously at home with nothing to distract me.</p>
<p>I think I'll check everything in alphabetical order.</p>
<p>jdjaguar I loved your story as well haha. I think this story represents how many students (no matter how clever/qualified they are) get rejected from one Ivy and another. (Yale + Harvard?) I do not know haha. The point that no matter which cup Vizinni selected would result in his doom symbolizes the idea that top level students do not have a choice as to which schools they will attend (at least in the admissions phase).</p>