<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>