<p>heh, I guess I can kick up the nervousness to entirely different notch, laxfan just posted on another thread that there are over 1000 ED applications this year...quite the increase lol</p>
<p>I am SERIOUSLY about to cry...and it takes A LOT to make me cry...</p>
<p>This SUCKS...</p>
<p>OVER 1000 ED APPS!??!?!??!?! oh dear oh dear oh dear....
yes, one's FUTURE is enough to make ANYONE cry.....</p>
<p>omgoodness, i'm soooo nervous now. I got an email from JHU admin office titled "JHU Admissions Office" and my heart almost stopped!!! I thought it was like an early early rejection cuz my app just STINKS. Then when I finally got the nerve to open it, it was from an admin officer saying that my ED agreement was never received!!! That extremely sucks because I had my resume AND a teacher rec all in that same envelop with the agreement form!! =/.... stupid stupid post office!! =( Whyy of alllll mail they lose...why MY mail?....why my EARLY DECISION JHU mail?!?!??!?!</p>
<p>ALSO...she said that she was looking at my apps....AHHHHH!!!!! MY APPS HAS BEGUN TO BE METICULOUSLY SCRUTINIZED!!!!!!</p>
<p>I think my blood pressure jus shot off the charts =P.</p>
<p>OMG the exact same thing happened to me. only it wasn't an admissions officer who emailed me, it was someone who works in the office and organizes stuff. and she told me that they can't look at my application until they have it. i wanted to cry.</p>
<p>Ok guys... just to make you feel better I saw on another forum where a guy posted he applied ED as a tennis recruit... his SAT was 1410/2400.... now doesn't that make you guys feel better? Let's just hope there were like 200 hundred people just like him who applied....</p>
<p>SEE MY LAST POST ON THIS THREAD:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=116158&page=2%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=116158&page=2</a></p>
<p>OK, I have officially lost it, I've stopped doing everything, and I mean everything, I'm like a bear stuck in his cave, just sitting, with no control over anything. I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do, ahhhh...</p>
<p>^^Bears can leave their cave. Maybe you meant a bear in hibernation?</p>
<p>Just forget about it. You've probably anticipated this moment for several months, what's one more week?</p>
<p>xindianx...its ok. life goes on, even if we dont get into our first choice school. You'll def get in somewhere, and u'll find the right school, the right career, the right life, relax. and its just one more week, it'll come soon enough.
that being said, i wont pretend im calm. lol my panic attacks came back...columbia and dmouth kids are so lucky, they all find out tomorrow! and i mean, i just wanna know, get my rejection/deferral letter and move on with life already! lol
good luck everyone!!</p>
<p>It's always good to be mentally prepared for the worst... I mean, it's not exactly pleasant when you think about it, but just remember that the adcom's decision isn't going to make or break your future. Plus, just think of a rejection or deferral as another opportunity - you'll get to choose from many more schools.</p>
<p>Think about it. If you think you're JHU-worthy, it's their loss if you don't get admitted.</p>
<p>i'm sure many of you are sharing this sensation with me but after knowing the ED result of my friends to columbia, the reality of college admission has finally hit me.</p>
<p>i have 3 friends who EDed columbia and 2 of them got in while one was defered. it was interesting becasue the 2 who got in had much lower scores than the girl who got defered. And it surprised us all because who all expected amy (defered girl) to get in. i think i am finally feeling the spontaneous nature of college admission. as haughty as it sounds, i was thinking i have about 70% chance of getting into JHU ED, but now i have no idea what can happen. all i know is that whatever happen on dec 15th, i have to try to keep my spirit up.</p>
<p>good luck to all of the fellow JHU Eders. i am really hoping that we will be smiling on 15th and also getting to know you guys.</p>
<p>xtina06 - u're doing fulll IB? do u mind me asking whats ur predicted?</p>
<p>I am 80% sure that I will be rejected...so I have stopped worrying...I'm just working on my other apps now...</p>
<p>hi cvasoontara! yes i'm doing full IB...my guess is 60% deferred, 30% accepted and 10% rejected...i hope that's not too vain =/ but i like to be an optimistic person =)</p>
<p>but honestly, i'm more afraid of getting deferred right now than getting downright rejected.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity...what is this "full IB" thing that all of you are talking about?</p>
<p>(we only have AP classes in my school...no IB classes...this might be why I am not familiar with the term...)</p>
<p>i'm curious about that too...does that mean that all your classes are at the IB level? o_O</p>
<p>not ALL...IB = international baccaulaureate and to graduate as "full IB" you have to complete IB courses (some are doubled with AP, aka "AP/IB courses"), do community service hours, write a 4000 word essay, taped oral exams, written exams in May, projects, and all that jazz. </p>
<p>It's alot of work and some colleges dont even put too much weight into it cuz not all schools offer it...blah. I guess I'm jus an overachiever who wants to do it anyways :P Not ALL classes are IB level, most of mind are, but that's jus b/c they fall in the categories that qualify as IB classes.</p>
<p>I hope that helped (if not, sorry, i'm not really sure how to explain it...lol)</p>
<p>My school is VERY into the IB program, so I can add in, lol. There are six areas (English, foreign language, science, math, elective) that you have to complete classes in. The classes are mostly two-year classes, so they take up a lot in my schedule. Like, for the past two years, I've only been able to have one not-IB class. You also have to take an additional IB class called Theory of Knowledge, which is like psychology basically. </p>
<p>For the exams, you can pick between higher level (longer and harder) and standard level (shorter and easier) exams, but you have to take at least three highers.</p>
<p>And yea, there are the 150 CAS (creativity, action, service) hours, extended essay, and internal/external assessments, etc. you have to complete. And we barely get college credit for it. It's so hard to get credit -- like, HL Math barely covers Calculus but covers weird topics like group theory (which I guess isn't freshman college math), so we hardly get credit, but the course is still hard! I know what you mean, xtina06. Our IB coordinator just tells us we shouldn't be doing things for college credit anyway, but I think that would be a great perk.</p>
<p>but i heard Hopkins gives credits to HL class with a grade of 6 or 7 right?</p>