<p>Though statistics say 70-80% of us won't matriculate in the early round, we're all great students and still stand a chance. No matter what, we'll do great wherever we go. As cheesy as it sounds, it's the student who makes the university, not the university who makes the student.</p>
<p>You shouldn't get angry about it. It is a reality, you know. If we at least try to accept that, maybe Dec 14th won't be so horrible.</p>
<p>I'm not angry. In fact, I'm a very relaxed person. I have backup plans ;).</p>
<p>I wasn't referring to you.</p>
<p>Oh. Sorry, it was just written after mine so I assumed...</p>
<p>this thread is making me antsy (haha, sounds like these pretzels are making me thirsty).
the countdown is really getting to me, and i have to keep telling myself the brutal odds, but...ah...<em>harvard</em></p>
<p>"I wasn't referring to you."</p>
<p>I'm only a junior, thus I didn't apply. I don't think it's right for someone to make a person feel like crap just because he or she does.</p>
<p>actually, its not that we lack confidence. it's more like a defense mechanism, so that if we're deferred/rejected, we wouldn't be as disappointed.</p>
<p>exactly! (TEN)</p>
<p>k k k, guys, i didn't think this topic would cause such a controversy. forget i ever posted this topic and let it die k?</p>
<p>No hurts from anyone now, k? lets all be happy now and hope for that acceptance letter</p>
<p>Actually, I think this thread is a good idea. A lot of the posts/threads (What we would look like?,If you were ACCEPTED!, etc...) by people on the CC boards (myself included) have been working with the assumption that we'll "get in". This is definitely not good. I think we need to put things in perspective and not focus so much about getting in. Reality is that 80% of EA applicants are not accepted. Chances are that most of us are not getting in. I don't wanna bring anybody down but nobody on these boards has a higher than 50-50 chance of getting in.</p>
<p>at least he didn't say we will get rejected
but the reality is, many will be rejected
and no, I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist.</p>
<p>Not really. Only a few will be rejected. That percentage is also substantially lower for CC visitors, since CC visitors represent a particular cross-section of the applicant pool. So, the reality here is, few will be rejected, a greater-than-average number will be accepted, and a slightly-less-than-average number will be deferred.</p>