<p>accepted: party on the day winter break starts (and live the moment)
denied: party on the day winter break starts (and try to forget everything)</p>
<p>accepted: buy a northwestern sweatshirt and then lay on my bed: commence senioritis
denied: wait for Umich decision, lay on my bed, then cry, commence senioritis</p>
<p>I’m upset because I have to work on Friday until 9 pm… I already told my parents that if I get the email (on my phone), I am NOT going to check the results until after I get home from work because if I don’t get accepted, it would ruin the rest of my shift…</p>
<p>Accepted: Scream with excitement, maybe include a Tiger fist-pump, go out with my family for a late night dinner, put off homework due the next morning for my online class.</p>
<p>Denied: Cry a little, put off homework due the next morning for my online class, call in sick to work the next day to mope…</p>
<p>Accepted: Get all the nu gear my mom will let me buy, call my parents and friends from home, go get yummy dinner with my parents, continue my senior slide, and defer for a year for my GAP YEAR!!!</p>
<p>Rejected: Convince myself i haven’t met my ivy league educated parents’ expectation, realize i’m lying to myself, and then realize as devout D1 hockey fan, a michigan acceptance letter would help my sorrow out quite alot.</p>
<p>Accepted: I’ll think “Thank god I’m done with undergrad college stuff forever!” and then tell all my friends. 
Denied: Think “Oh crappppp I have to do all my other applications now” and then instead go to bed.</p>
<p>Accepted: Cry
Denied: Cry</p>
<p>Anywho… HOPEFULLY 2 days left until we find out… why can’t NU announce when they will release the decision like all the other top schools do… geez</p>
<p>It’s so frustrating I would rather them just tell us it won’t be till the 15th if that is what it will be so I don’t look forward to it coming earlier. Ugh.</p>
<p>Accepted: freak out on tumblr, tell my parents, dance around the house singing, call my friends that currently go to nu, freak out here on cc, go get fat at todai, watch star wars & play game cube games (to calm my nerves down), and go stalk everything nu related while daydreaming myself there. </p>
<p>Denied: cry myself to sleep: cry to get over it and sleep to forget about it. wake up and go to todai to eat any leftover sorrows away.</p>
<p>Accepted: scream, post it on Facebook, eat, stare longingly at NU’s website and try to plan my entire life there, buy many NU shirts and wear them, sigh with relief and realize it was worth stress all of high school…
Rejected: eat, cry, stress over the MANY apps I did not complete that have approaching deadlines, beat myself up for having such a stressful high school schedule</p>
<p>But acceptance is definitely the goal here, and either way my exams the following week are not going to be pretty…</p>
<p>Have you guys seen the upenn thread? Crazy… like 2500 posts!</p>
<p>Sent from my SGH-T959V using CC App</p>
<p>OMG…I clicked on the last page of this thread and saw accepted: … at the top and my heart dropped! And then I realized you guys were posting what you would do if… 
lol</p>
<p>TWO MORE DAYS. And shannon, I totally understand. The NU decision makes up at least 70% of my conversations with friends. Even though i’m 95% sure I’ll get rejected, I just want to know at this point. If I get accepted, I’m obviously buying an NU sweater and maybe a shirt. Possibly gym shorts.</p>
<p>Yes! The upenn thread is crazy! Stanford’s EA thread is pretty busy as well. This was kinda asked way earlier in the thread but what other schools did you all apply to? I of course applied ED to NU, EA to UMich, UChicago, Notre Dame, UTampa, UMiami, and DePaul. I also applied to U of Illinois- Urbana Champaign for their priority deadline.
If I don’t get into NU, an acceptance from UMich, Notre Dame, UChicago, and/or UMiami would definitely make up for it :D</p>
<p>Haha exactly! I think I’ll be okay if I get rejected because it IS a reach for me but if I actually got in…I would basically explode.</p>
<p>I made two christmas lists: one if I’m accepted, and one if I’m rejected. Did you guys know there are little purple northwestern yard gnomes??
[Northwestern</a> Wildcats Team Gnome](<a href=“Access Denied”>Access Denied)</p>
<p>ED to NU, EA to Uva, Wisc - Madison, James Madison, Colorado - Boulder (accepted!), Drexel (accepted!)</p>
<p>If I’m rejected from NU (knock on wood) I think I’m going to apply to UMich and W&M as well</p>
<p>@Shannon2012 the EA deadline for UMich was November 1st</p>
<p>i meant regular!!</p>
<p>Ohhh. Haha that makes sense now. I wish I was a Michigan resident so I could attend UMich without paying so much 
I don’t think they give out as much aid as NU does. However, I’m just hoping to be accepted into NU! I’ll be happy for at least a straight week!</p>
<p>it sounds like a lot of people on here are from Chicago! …yeahhhh sunshine state! But I honestly would deal with north pole-esque weather if it meant I was accepted to NU. </p>
<p>accepted: i don’t even want to think about it and get my hopes up. BUT i will anyways. probably fall off my chair and not be able to get up for awhile, blast it all over the internet, call everyone i can think of, and fall off my chair again. maybe do a few laps around my house. and go out to eat. maybe cry. yeah. probably cry.</p>
<p>denied: cry. a lot. call my friends and eat lots of chocolate. then try to do my best on my exams and reevaluate the rest of my applications/finish up. and be very very sad, but realize that it wasn’t meant to be and i’ll make the best out of whatever happens.</p>
<p>to all the native chicagoans here, what’s it like to live up there?</p>
<p>I live in a surburb near Chicago. I can say that the weather really isnt bad if you layer up, dress accordingly. It definitely is cold, but bearable. Then again, the only time I’m outside during the winter is to get in and out of the car :(</p>