<p>the anticipation is killing me
my mood keeps fluctuating between optimistic and borderline depressive</p>
<p>asjklgfdg saturday!</p>
<p>Anybody have any good Midd Early decision facts to share with the anxious group?</p>
<p>I don't know if I have good facts, but I have facts:</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Today was the first day that my app status said that all my materials were received. Is that unusual?</p>
<p>Me too Ready. My heart skipped a beat when I saw the page had been updated... but that's the only news.</p>
<p>Lion, I too have been visualizing my rejection. I can just see that Middlebury emblem at the top of the letter... "We regret to inform you..."</p>
<p>I was wondering, if you're rejected, how exactly to they spell that out, so there's no confusion? "You've been rejected. No, we don't mean deferred. We mean rejected. As in, we WON'T be considering your application with the regular pool. We repeat: this is a rejection. You have no hope of an acceptance. This is the last you'll be hearing from us." I mean, they've got to be blunt with ED, since there's a big difference between rejection and deferral... Hm...</p>
<p>lol. That's it. Give it up. Rejected. REJECTED. R-E-J-E-C-T-E-D. But thank you for applying to Middlebury College! </p>
<p>uuuggghghhhh i am so depressed and moody and generally not having a very good time waiting. for about a day there i was like, "hey, it could happen." but now i realize that i'm just not going to stand out enough from the crowd of white girls from NY. lol not be pessimistic about the whole demographics situation, but it does play a part. i was looking at statistics for not this college, but some other top college/university, and i think it was like 400-something applicants from NY, and 2 from Montana. That bites.</p>
<p>I'm getting so scared of the (probably inevitable) rejection. Today I saw a girl find out she didn't get in to Dartmouth, and it just broke my heart. </p>
<p>Incidently, it was the weirdest situation EVER. Right after school they set off the fire alarms for what later turned out to be a gas leak. After standing in the cold for twenty minutes without coats, they put us all into the assembly room (because it makes SO much sense to put 400 students back into the building with the gas leak). The head made the lower schoolers sing Christmas songs in a desperate attempt to get our minds off of the situation. In the middle of "The Toyshop Door is Locked Up Tight", I looked over and saw my classmate, who apparently was able to check on her cell phone, crying.
This was a pretty rambling and completely off-topic post, but I guess I really just have two points:</p>
<ol>
<li> Gosh I hope none of us get rejected. That looked painful.
BUT</li>
<li> Even if we do get rejected, there is absolutely no way it can be as bad or as weird as finding out in a room with hundreds of random schoolmates, in a building with a gas leak, with everyone around you freaking out, and lower schoolers singing.</li>
</ol>
<p>LOL thank you lion</p>
<p>Well, hello fellow ED applicants :)
I also applied ED to Midd (hence, why I'm here, obviously :D)
I've had my heart set on it since soph. year, so I'm /really/ hoping I won't get rejected, lol.</p>
<p>If accepted, what are people planning to major in? I'm toying with a dance/enviro. studies double, with language classes stuck in there somewhere.</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!</p>
<p>If I get into Midd I'll major in HAPPINESS!!</p>
<p>Writing or
Writing/Russian double or
Writing/Studio art double or
Some major/minor combination of the above</p>
<p>Subject to change, of course</p>
<p>Haha, that's amazing.
That's cool about the writing. I write plays and short stories (so, mainly creative writing).
And the Russian! I'm probably going to take either Chinese or Italian...
GAH, so many choices, lol.</p>
<p>did a lot of people from your schools apply to Midd early?</p>
<p>Three from mine, all of us girls in the northeast. One a legacy (not me, unfortunately).</p>
<p>Yes indeed, I'm hurtling through a play of my own this evening, Decameron. It's 20+ pages at the moment and needs to be about, oh, twice that length by Friday... only, I don't know what's going to happen next... gah!!</p>
<p>Only one other person at my school applied early, but it's the girl I've been best friends with since I was six! There is major potential for awkwardness there. But truthfully, I really will be genuinely happy for her if she gets in, even if I don't. </p>
<p>As for a major, I have absolutely no idea. I've toyed with Drama, Latin, Studio Art, and Econ. So I guess that's a pretty wide range...</p>
<p>im the only one ed from my school but why oh why do i have to be from nj</p>
<p>Evidence that the college process is driving me down that long road to insanity:</p>
<p>I've checked the "application status" thingum multiple times today. Why? I have no idea. I know that my application is complete, and I know that they won't post the results until Saturday. And yet, I've checked probably three times.</p>
<p>In the last two days, I've pretty much stopped doing homework (except the really necessary stuff). Instead, I've taken back up knitting to calm my jitters (I always find that working with my hands helps anxiety) and have been watching TV. So much TV, in fact, that I've run out of good shows, and have resorted to soap operas! Seriously. I've been watching General Hospital all week long. </p>
<p>I guess it could be worse. Today one girl in my class told me that she had been lighting her arm on fire lately (I mean, not completely enflamed; just with her lighter). I think watching General Hospital is probably much, much healthier.</p>
<p>But how are all of you doing with the waiting? Any bizarre new habits?</p>
<p>How about obsessively reading/posting on this thread?</p>
<p>Maybe fortunately, I've had so many big projects to work on that I haven't had tons of time to stress. And you know, I'm not SO stressed, being totally confident of at least a deferral by now. My friends have just started hearing from their ED schools, which is quite exciting in itself.</p>
<p>But goooosh I wish it was Saturday already!!</p>
<p>Oh also, today was a total surprise snow day, which has incalculably lifted my spirits!</p>
<p>I think there was one more person applying ED from my school, but fortunately, our applications are quite opposite (in terms of extracurriculars, interests, etc).</p>
<p>I'm dealing with the stress... okay, I suppose. I'm really busy at the moment, so it's relatively easy to keep my mind off of the countdown. However, I have a couple of friends who are already into college (and great ones too, like Princetown and Brown), and every time they mention it I get very jittery, lol.</p>
<p>I am SO annoyed that they are coming out Sat., actually. I wish they came out tomorrow! I'm not even going to be at home this weekend! Ugh!</p>
<p>EVERYONE is getting into college from my school---there havnt been any rejections yet, even for people who were way underqualified. It makes me think I have a better shot than I know I actually do...ughhhhhhhhh</p>
<p>lol lioninwinter, *** about that person lighting her arm on fire? how rational.</p>
<p>i'm the only app from my school, period, with the possible exception of one girl who may apply if she's turned down from yale (not likely, in my opinion). and as to everyone's compulsive behavior, you are not alone. </p>
<p>we had a snow day today (: so i'm not quite sure how the brown decisions went, except i know that two people were deferred, and another deferred from columbia. we aren't doing too wel /: lol we usually don't.</p>
<p>i'm less nervous about saturday than i've been. i'm convinced i'll be getting deferred or rejected, so i guess it's whatever. and i only have one app left!! colgate, my mom went there, i adore it. okaayyyy i have to go study for economics bleh. 2 days! oh i really hope you all get what you want, you seem like very cool people!</p>