Official ED Thread!!!

<p>yeah i'm with russiasaurus. i'd say i've convinced myself about 80% that i will not get in, though to me a deferral is worse than a rejection because at least when you're rejected, you can just be done with it and move on. i replayed in my mind today my interview (i was in chemistry, and it is boring as all hell), and even though i knew it didn't go well, i remembered just how excruciatingly awful it was!!! for that alone, i'm sure i will be rejected. but, anyway, i'm still anxious to know. i feel like this week and the next are going to INCH by.</p>

<p>Trust me I appreciate how lucky I am being from Hawaii. College apps aside its a fantastic place to grow up. But yeah it does feel re-assuring that only 1 other person is going ED from my state.</p>

<p>okay, I can't wait to hear</p>

<p>When do they come out officially?</p>

<p>They go in the mail on the 14th, and we can check online on the 15th.</p>

<p>There's no chance we'd get the mail on the 15th, is there? I'd so much rather find my acceptance/rejection in the mailbox than read it on a computer screen!!</p>

<p>yeah, i agree with you, russia. but unfortunately i do not think there's really a chance that we'll get the letters on the 15th. but don't worry, i've read some of your previous posts and i really don't think you will be receiving the small envelope, if that's any consolation. then again, you never know.</p>

<p>I'm actually really glad that we find out online. If it were by mail, I would constantly be checkin by the door, and flipping out every single time the elevator opened that it could be the mail. At least this way we know exactly what day and time. I just hope the server wont crash or anything.</p>

<p>Only six days!</p>

<p>I'm so scared guys! We all obviously love Midd so much...we deserve this!!!!</p>

<p>I saw on another thread that someone said it was pretty much impossible to get through the "front door" (i.e. not being an outstanding athlete, URM, or legacy). That really freaked me out. I mean, purely in terms of demographics, I have everything against me. Do you think that that stuff about the "front door" is really true? I mean, they have to admit SOME plain ol' people! ... Right? Oh gosh, now I am convinced I'm going to be rejected.</p>

<p>theyogini - Do you practice yoga/are interested in eastern religion/philosophy? Just asking because of your namesake.</p>

<p>So, who's gunna be the one to check what time decisions are available on Saturday?</p>

<p>after 8 am EST, supposedly</p>

<p>Hey, I was a "plain"-old acceptance! No legacy, no athletic accomplishments, no music, 1 AP, middle-of-the-road test scores, pretty good grades. Never stepped foot into a hospital. Didn't organized some massive fund raiser. I did the things I enjoyed doing, did them extremly well and got a lot out of doing them. I guess that showed: I was denied ED but got in regular.</p>

<p>Seriously--be confident in who you are and how you presented yourself. And best of luck Saturday.
Nick</p>

<p>Thanks MiddNM :]</p>

<p>MiddNM made my day :)</p>

<p>I'll go ahead and second what MiddNM said. I had good grades and decent test scores, but probably the shortest list of extracurriculars of anyone who applied. I wasn't lazy about things outside of school, just never did anything with college in mind (I only started to really care about the app process junior and senior years). I just showed that I cared about what I DID do (piano, foreign languages, etc.). I should mention too that even though I play tennis and am a ski bum in the winter, I never did any sports for school. The admissions office likes people with real lives, real personalities, and real quirks. Most people here don't strike me as the types who obsessed over every possible advantage or angle that could get them into college. So my advice is to not stress and to know that you may or may not get in, but that in the end most people applying to a place like Midd will go to a good school regardless, have fun wherever they end up, and get a good education. That said, good luck on Saturday!</p>

<p>I second russia. and devartham (was that your name? sorry, it was on the page before so i can't see what it was) i do practice yoga. and it's not that i'm uninterested in eastern philosophy, but i don't exactly study it, per se lol (which translates to: i don't study it at all).</p>

<p>Thanks Klink and MiddLM. You made me feel a lot better!</p>

<p>So, currently I'm trying to prepare myself for a rejection. I actually make myself visualize the computer screen on Saturday (so soon!) popping up and reading REJECTED.<br>
I've also started making mental lists of reasons why I shouldn't want to go to Midd. They aren't very long.</p>

<p>4 days, 15 hours, 14 minutes, and 58 seconds until we find out!</p>

<p>Do you think they have made all of the final decisions by now?</p>

<p>I've heard that most admissions committees make decisions until pretty much the very end, but I really have no idea.</p>