<p>hellohello try a medically induced coma</p>
<p>Heh this is when I benefit from being a pessimist.
This is my view of the situation:
I'm 99.999% positive that I will get rejected from Stanford.
So when I get the rejection email, I won't feel so sad because I have already come to terms with it over the past few months.
However, if by some wild turn of events I receive an acceptance or deferral, then I'll be mega happy.
Thus, I have eliminated my chances of being depressed on Monday and the following days.</p>
<p>haha manzagal i'm trying to stick to the exact same viewpoint.</p>
<p>It's so hard to stay that way when you want it so badly! I'm with hellohello on a medically-induced coma until Monday.</p>
<p>I don't want to think I'll get rejected because I think, therefore I am. XD</p>
<p>too bad descartes was wrong. bacon and locke ftw</p>
<p>Lolz. Don't get me wrong, Stanford is my dream school; why else would I have applied early?
But it's just that historically, I'm not good with merit-based rejection...so I'm trying the new "0% chance I'll end up happy" approach to this.
Also, by thinking this way, I've been able to complete a bunch of other applications.</p>
<p>I'm mentally exhausted though, so I know that on Monday when I get the email I'll most likely be quite emotional...</p>
<p>:/ I think that's kinda ridiculous. You should always hope for the best, in my opinion. It's like... "I might die tomorrow, but oh well, it's just life. Who cares?" Life's important. This is important. Don't make its significance any less.</p>
<p>And yeah, I don't really like Descartes, I just said that off the top of my head. :P I really like Camus.</p>
<p>Work hard to succeed, hope that you will succeed, but be prepared for failure......That's kindof my motto....</p>
<p>I'm struggling to tell myself I didn't make it in. lol</p>
<p>Oh my god I keep on feeling like I'm going to throw up. Today, three of my friends were rejected from columbia, two from cornell, and two from brown. SO DEPRESSING.</p>
<p>I don't know anyone around me applying early anywhere........I realize that there is no way I am going to be even deferred, forget accepted, at Stanford so I decided to work on my other essays. They seem to be a significant improvement over the CommonApp one with which I am stuck with for three other colleges, Cornell, Caltech and CMU.</p>
<p>plaknas...you are from India right?? so am I....
Oh and you can submit different forms of the common app. to different colleges and thus change you essay....the instructions are given in the common app. website...</p>
<p>I'm trying to tell everyone around me who thinks I'll get in that I'm hopeless. But inside there's this part that's kind of expecting acceptance T-T... Can't suppress it</p>
<p>^ exactly. I can't suppress my hope :( omg</p>
<p>im hopeful and hopeless and the same time :(</p>
<p>i want the decisions now :(</p>
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<blockquote> <p>You should always hope for the best, in my opinion.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Absolutely true. The other thing to remember is that you should have a safety school that you would be happy attending already chosen. That way, if you don't get through on the early round at some super-selective school, it's not a catastrophe.</p>
<p>The early app (or any app) at some of these schools are Hail Mary passes. You throw them, hoping for the best, but knowing that the chances of the pass getting caught for a touchdown are slim. You can't invest too much of your soul in it.</p>
<p>i had a reality check yesterday...</p>
<p>all of the 3 people that applied early to columbia in my school got deferred...2 of the 3 people got into cornell but the one that got deferred was the one we all thought would get in. and my best friend got deferred from brown. idk what to expect anymore :/</p>
<p>even though i always look calm, the inside of me is freaking out...and in an hour three of my friends are finding out from upenn. oy vey. loving senior year to the max haha</p>
<p>And so the weekend bears down upon us..</p>
<p>here's to the longest weekend of our lives so far?</p>
<p>Well heres the thing. EVERYONE I now thhinks i'll get into Stanford. Not because of my actual qualifications, but because im black, poor, first gen. Im not gonna let people who dont know what their talking about raise hopes that I have no business having. I really dont care anymore. When the decision comes I will open it, see whatever the hell it says, then move on. No big deal. And im gonna enjoy this weekend very much, i wont even think about it.</p>
<p>If ur smart, you'll accept reality beforehand. Almost all of us could get in, few of us will, and theres nothing you can do about it now.
Godspeed and goodluck to us all.</p>