<p>i applied to HYP, and I will check in reverse order: Princeton, then Yale, then Harvard</p>
<p>and then my other schools whenever they give me decisions (MIT, duke, northwestern, washU, johns hopkins, notre dame)</p>
<p>ah i'm so antsy about all this. i can't believe decisions are coming in a matter of weeks.</p>
<p>my checking order will probably be:
cornell (eh... i don't really care about this one)
darthmouth (i don't really care about this one either)
penn
columbia
harvard?</p>
<p>or which order i receive them in.
but gmail will ruin it for me since i see the first few lines anyways.</p>
<p>It depends on where in my Ivy mood swings I am. If I am in the optimistic side, I will check, and, if given a choice, it will go Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, MIT.</p>
<p>If I am on the other side, then I will probably forget to check. I don't think I have a real chance, so it's just amusing to me.</p>
<p>Haha I have Gmail, and that has preview setting for the emails, so that I can see the first seven or eight words in the email body before I open it. Now that could turn out to be the ultimate surprise-ruiner. X_X</p>
<p>...MARCH 31?!?</p>
<p>I hate this...</p>
<p>Why can't someone just invent those weird mail-tubing things the Jetsons used? Imagine it! As soon as the decision is made, they just print your decision paper, roll it, slide into a tube, a WHOOSH, up and up, and down and down it goes, until it lands safely next to your microwave over.</p>
<p>I hate this.</p>
<p>idk why everyone is so concerned with the subject line stuff. If it gives it away, and then a few seconds later you know for sure either way then the great happiness/sadness with completely overshadow the previous emotion. In the long run you will never think about the subject line again.</p>
<p>Justassleep, there is another form of communication which is faster than the Jetson's tube idea: email. They probably already decided most of our decisions. They probably have their own reasons why to wait until a certain date in order to release the decisions. I know some colleges have rolling admissions: right after they get through your app, they will email/mail you the decision.</p>
<p>lol ninjaniah i was just thinking about that actually. i don't want to be let down without bracing myself beforehand :</p>
<p>^waitn, all the ivy league schools have an agreement not to release decisions until march 31 at 5 pm, so thats why they wait</p>
<p>i haven't decided what order yet...sometimes i think i'll go least favorite to favorite (so then my disappointment of not getting into my favorite won't overshadow my possible acceptance to my other schools), but then I wouldn't want my disappointment from not getting into my other schools interfere with possibly getting into my favorite...at least i have the next three weeks to sort this dilemma out haha</p>
<p>Danr, I was thinking that; but, I know Cornell accepts RD applicants before March 31st depending on which specific school at Cornell you applied to. I guess the other Ivies pity Cornell and allow the college to do so. </p>
<p>Anyways, they send decisions on the same day and at the same time so that no Ivy college gets an added recruitment advantage (to ensure a higher yield). Right?</p>
<p>Columbia -> Harvard -> Princeton</p>
<p>dpattzlover--I completely agree with you about the arrogance of Arch3r's first post.
Some of the other posts are annoyingly arrogant too--several of the top LACs as well as schools such as Stanford and MIT are of equal prestige to the ives.</p>
<p>I only applied to Dartmouth of the Ivies. Other than that, I plan to open big/thick envelopes first and then the smalls. That way I can anticipate rejection, but be pleasantly surprised in the unlikely situation that I am accepted. They also snail mail acceptances and rejections, right?</p>
<p>^ I don't think that stanford sends rejection letters via regular mail.</p>
<p>Cornell
Brown
Columbia
Penn
Princeton
Harvard</p>
<p>Hi eating food,</p>
<p>Stanford does send rejection letters by mail, or at least they did three years ago. :)</p>
<p>columbia, dartmouth, brown, penn, princeton, yale, harvard</p>
<p>Admiral, Stanford actually doesn't send rejection letters anymore via mail ... in your rejection email though, there's a link you can click on that that lets you request a mailed copy of your rejection if you'd like. Harsh huh? :)</p>
<p>wait, so all colleges are hitting us up on march 31? i thought it was just yale that was doing that and then everyone else fooling us on foolios day.</p>
<p>nope all the ivies are available online thru email/college web site on 3/31, and then youll get a letter in the mail on 4/1</p>