<p>Thanks Prussia!!</p>
<p>Are you from Prussia btw? ;)</p>
<p>I’m curious also…where else did you get accepted/rejected to?</p>
<p>AND WHY GAP YEAR? lol XD</p>
<p>great post Prussia :)</p>
<p>good post prussia. I actually recall reading in Readers Digest that disappointment results in less negative sentiment and has a shorter period when it is unexpected rather than predicted. However, I’m not sure if this applies to college decisions. Big difference between expecting to fail a test and getting rejected from Yale lol</p>
<p>Blehhhhhh.</p>
<p>Haha, well, it probably varies from person to person. But I think there is a bit of a distinction between what you’re describing and what I was (even if it’s slight): I’m not so much as advocating “expecting disappointment” so much as learning/choosing to be happy with what you’ve already got, happy enough that rejections are not that disappointing at all. So it’s more choosing to not be disappointed, rather than just expecting disappointment.
But yeah, I dunno! Like you said, college decisions are different than potentially failed tests, which are different than other consequential moments, which will be handled differently by different personalities! Kind of hard to predict these things.</p>
<p>And my last name is Prussian! Which I think is cool. My dad’s ancestors moved on over to America before the name went out of style, so "Preu</p>
<p>LOL that name looks really cool!
And it’s okay~ None of us here can do anything now anyways lol.</p>
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<p>Prussia, that is exactly what I am doing. I’m pretty much settled on my state school, which turned down the invitation to be Ivy League a few years back. ( I tell myself; "This is pretty good! It has a great historical background and it’s one of the nine oldest school’s in the nation!) I love it though, I pretty much grew up in the area, I know the campus and the quality of education is not bad at all. I know that I may get rejected from most of the universites I applied to ( I was already rejected from Columbia and American U; **accepted **at St. Johns, Rutgers, York, and Syracuse, **awaiting reply **from Yale, Cornell, NYU, and Boston U). If I get accepted to a university that gives me greater financial aid than my state school, or one of the Ivies then I am set on going there! I am awaiting the rest of my decisions patiently, if they’re good, WONDERFUL, if they’re bad, well they’re bad I love my state school and I’m psyched about it. Either way I win. Haha.</p>
<p>^I don’t think any school has been invited to be Ivy League since its inception ;p</p>
<p>My mistake, you’re right! Rutgers was given the invitation back in the '50s they just turned it down because they did not want to lose funding for Douglass College, and for other reasons. 
Meh…I’m fine with Rutgers either way.</p>
<p>yes it is a great school. I also heard that originally Princeton, Rutgers, Yale and Columbia(?) formed some sort of league, and since it was 4 schools, somehow got nicknamed the “ivy” league for the roman numeral IV. But that may just be something I heard incorrectly.</p>
<p>Yea, I have not heard of that. But I know Rutgers, Princeton, and Harvard, are part of the Association for American Universities which only comprise of 62 universities across the nation…that has to stand for something right? Haha</p>
<p>What’s the average chance of an offer if you’ve been deferred in the EA round? I mean this year they deferred half the applicants so I’m thinking it’s pretty slim…</p>
<p>wouldn’t think it would be much higher than RD rates- Stanford SCEA deferees have a 10% admit rate, but that’s the 80th-90th percentile of applicants as opposed to Yale’s 40th-90th percentiles</p>
<p>Well, I’m back in the Yale forum for pretty much the first time since being deferred. My expectations aren’t that high, but the best of luck to all of you :)</p>
<p>From a few posts I recall here, the admit rate of deferees is something like the rate of acceptance in the RD pool, historically speaking (supposedly).</p>
<p>One week to go! Good luck everyone :)</p>
<p>Good to have you back, jgraider.</p>
<p>4 days!</p>
<p>I’ll hear from 6 Ivies and Duke on Wednesday. I’m very lucky to have Penn as an awesome backup (my school is essentially a feeder), but nothing would make me happier than getting into Yale. One manta I’ve been following (and I suggest you all should, too) is “I’ve done everything I could have.” Good luck and hopefully I’ll see all of you at Bulldog Days!</p>
<p>So I’ll be in class when decisions are out… arghhh the anxiety! 2-3 will be the longest hour of my life</p>