<p>I still vividly remember the time I got into Cornell. It was in 2007, so it was a while ago.</p>
<p>Weird, several weeks before the Cornell admissions decision came out, I bought myself a PS3 and just began to play call of duty. I really got into it and enjoyed it so much that I forgot about college acceptances that were about to come out. A couple of days later, my friends began to talk about colleges they had gotten in, and I remembered that I hadn’t checked the admissions decisions. So, during lunch break, I went to my school’s computer lab and found out that I got into Cornell, Duke, and Northwestern. However, I got rejected from Yale, Princeton, Wharton, UCLA (what the hell?), and Stanford. I was happy that I got into Cornell, but I was rather angry that I didn’t get into my number one and two choice schools. I had taken extensive amounts of my time writing and revising my essays for Stanford, and it felt bitter to get outright rejected. I thought they should have given me at least a waitlist just to acknowledge my efforts and time spent into the application.</p>
<p>At the end of the day though, because I was having so much fun at that time (senior year was awesome), hanging out with friends everyday, and playing PS3, I wasn’t stressed out at all about college decisions.</p>
<p>My advice to those who are too anxious about college acceptance decisions: just relax. It isn’t end of the world if you don’t get into Cornell. There are lots of good schools out there besides Cornell. Also, buy yourselves Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 and play its on-line multi-player everyday leading up to decisions day so that you won’t stress out and enjoy life, haha.</p>
<p>just wondering, are you guys who talk about checking it at school from the west coast or something? i thought it usually comes out at 3 or 5 pm here on EST</p>
<p>Though I would actually prefer to check at 5 PM, when I’m home from school. But knowing results are out at 2 PM (for me), I wouldn’t be able to restrain myself.</p>
<p>I’m from the east coast, so I’ll have to wait until 5 PM. hopefully I’ll be home alone by that time…I don’t really want to break down crying in front of my family
If I got rejected, I would sigh, get off the computer, and go take a nap. And then get started on my other college apps. Or do homework. Depressing night.
If I got accepted, I would refresh the page about 34950 times to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. Then, I would start jumping up and down and screaming, and run around the neighborhood a few times, still jumping and screaming. Then I’d call my parents and do the ceremonial facebook status update And wear my Cornell shirt to school the next day.
so nervous for December 8th, banking on my 11/11/11 11:11:11 wish…
good luck everyone! :)</p>
<p>Lol my friend said she had to different dreams where I was accepted to cornell. I know it doesn’t mean anything and it’s definitely not affecting my hopes, but i found that really funny…</p>
<p>I’d flip the **** out and scare the hell out of my family/dogs, and then leave an extremely unexcited/vague FB status like “sup cornell” or something of that sort to make it sound like it’s not a big deal to me.</p>
<p>If I get accepted, I’d scream and shed tears of happiness!!! Then, I’d beg my dad to take me to Ithaca, so I can purchase like $1000 of Cornell merchandise.
If I get rejected, I’d hide in my room and cry for days. :(</p>
<p>Though, if I get rejected, but get into Dartmouth (my #1!), I’d be less upset. Cornell is a close #2, though. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>So, I think this is a great thread and I clicked to it from “latest posts”, except I didn’t realize it was in Cornell (I thought it was HSL), but I’m here so I mind as well post even though I applied to Columbia ED. :'P </p>
<p>Anyway, I don’t think I would be able to celebrate for a while because I would probably just stare at my computer screen in shot. Actually, even after I got over the initial shock, I would probably wonder if they made a mistake. And then after like 24 hours, if they haven’t emailed me saying that they accepted me in error, then I’d freak out and probably buy a sweatshirt.</p>
<p>@rchhay…
I agree! It’s great to see a pleasant thread.
Hm, I hadn’t thought about the error thing. I hope Cornell doesn’t accept me and then rescind when they realize they made an error. I’d be devastated…</p>
<p>^ Yeah, I think there’s definitely less risk of the Ivy Leagues sending something out wrong because they don’t actually email you the decision, right? Don’t they just email you something telling you to check your account? </p>
<p>The only reason I’m so wary is that I know a couple years back one of the UCs, I think UCSD, sent out an email telling supposedly admitted students about an admit weekend and it was accidentally sent out to rejected students.</p>
<p>That’s so depressing. :’(
I heard that MIT? tells you to sign in your account, and then if you can’t, that means you’re rejected. Isn’t that terrible?!
I personally prefer a letter; I think the online decisions are so impersonal. At the least, I’d want to be rejected in a letter.</p>
<p>Wow, that is actually super terrible. I feel like if I applied to MIT and it were my first choice, I’d be the one sitting there and going “Well, I’ll just try again one more time to see if I entered in my password wrong…” and end up being there for at least ten minutes before accepting defeat. </p>
<p>I actually think it’s nice to have decisions available online, but I think the potential for mistakes like the one UCSD made might be a little higher. However, I’ll accept the potential for mistakes just because I feel like with the admissions being available online, you’re really the first person to know and it’s not like your parents can find out before you.</p>
<p>Congratulations guys, we took the “break from the serious stuff” and started worrying about the possibility of acceptance mistakes… Now we’re still going to be worried, even if we do get accepted!</p>
And wear my Cornell shirt to school the next day.