<p>I got a letter with a pin and this blue postcard saying they have all my materials. The pin letter came after the postcard so if you got a pin then they probably had everything.</p>
<p>Eventhough I had a snow day, I spent every minute thinking of what Wednesday, 7:00 pm would be like, and therefore, I haven't accomplished anything else. This feeling of waiting for the decisions is parayzing me. It just needs to be WEDNESDAY already!</p>
<p>I'm trying to figure out the best way to look at decisions. I think I might kick my family out of the house, or ask them all to remain downstairs. If I get in, they'll hear my screams echoing through the house. If not, I won't come out of my room until the next morning, with swollen and puffed up eyes from crying all night. </p>
<p>Thinking about deferral/rejection makes me cringe. </p>
<p>Even worse, I think everyone in my life, from acquaintances, to best friends, to relatives and teachers know that I've applied ED, and that I'll hear on wednesday. Crap.</p>
<p>i think i have a test on wednesday... fysiks... damn that will be bad</p>
<p>Because all of you are sharing what you will feel if you get accepted/deferred/rejected.. I will tell you a story of what happened to my sister last year......
Penn, from the beginning of her junior year, was her number 1 school. She visited the campus many times and loved it. She sent in the online app (applied to SEAS), and hoped for the best. The 15 (or w/e day they received it last yr - i forgot) came so quickly. She decided that she would hang out with friends the night of the decision untill 11-12 and then come home and look at the decision. Although she wanted to see the decision badly, she figured 1 final night of relaxation was what she needed right before one of the most important decisions of her life. When she came home at 11:30, she was xtremely upset. She said that her school was like blood path. That afternoon, all of the ppl from her school got deferred/rejected from Penn (expect for 1 legacy and 1 other, I believe). Anyway, she was now ready to look at the decision. Unlike some of the ppl here, my sister wanted my parents, me, and my grandmother to see the decision. We all gathered in my room and she signed onto the Penn server. The tension and anticipation in the room was unbearable... She typed in her screenname and password...As the screen loaded, I got a thick piece of paper and put it in front of the screen... In the middle I wrote "GOOD LUCK" (im corny)......
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I slowly lowered the paper and the word "I am sorry apperared"......Everybody sighed....."You entered a wrong password or screenname! Everybody laughed, including myself, but you could tell everyone was still stunned at those words..
So she had to go back to the main page and type it in again. She typed in her screename and her password and clicked enter.. I got the piece of paper againd and put the "Good Luck" paper in front of the screen... slowly I pulled it down a quarter of an inch at a time......everybody was dying... we all gulped...and then....
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We saw the letter "C" forming .... My heart started to beat very fast ( I really wanted my sister to get in)... and I took the paper away....
"Congratulation"! You have been accepted.....
My mother started hysterical screaming - my sister was shocked-paralyized and stunned .... everyone was hugging her and we read the letter a million times... she printed it out... and called family/friends... then on AOL she made a PENN Accpetance Away Message... she was so happy...</p>
<p>Just thought this story was interesting and that some of you guys would like it... I hope you will have this amazing experiance in a few days - I never experianced anything like it! Good Luck</p>
<p>that practically makes me cry.</p>
<p>Hey harvardman, THIS is matt except not really. What I mean by that is when I come on CC I use my friends user and pass to post. I don't come up on CC much (although lately I have) so if you wanna caht feel free to im me (im sure somebody at hutner can tell you what my sn is) or else you might have to wait a while for a response. Can I help you with anything?</p>
<p>vinny.. corny story.. but i love corny stories.. that gave me a warm feeling inside.. congrats to your sis and good luck to you</p>
<p>lol....thanks ..... I will need it ....are u getting nervous??!!!! only a few more days...</p>
<p>ALL you ppl that get it :
1) Must come back to these board next yr and help me =) and other ED'ers to Penn go through this process
Agreed?
Also - if you dont mind... all accepted Ed'ers are free to pm me with essays they have wrote for the Upenn questions (i wont copy you or anything - just very interested in what you had to say and stuff - thanks =) )
^Since you didnt find out yet... it is a little early to set requirements on you guys.. but i had to tell you know !! NEVER FORGET CC!</p>
<p>good story, makes me feel ever more hopeful!</p>
<p>i dont think 50 packs of cigarettes and 50L of vodka could cure my current condition.. im practically shaking.. and it doesnt help that my best friend from charleston, SC was bawling her eyes out when she called me for advice (after getting rejected from columbia..)</p>
<p>she was absolutely crushed and it got to the point where i couldnt understand her so i talked to her mom for a little.. and when i hung up.. her mom had to add.. 'ill be ready for you on wednesday... if you need me.. good luck and good bye honey'</p>
<p>when i hung up.. i started getting that sinking feeling (im sure you know it well).. and i could barely sleep that night.. sigh</p>
<p>wow tell your friend thats its just a college. seems like she depressed the hell out of you</p>
<p>sorry to hear about ur friend dw =( ... in your opinion, did you think she had a good chance of being rejected/accepted ... or did she not show u her app? just wondering cause some kind of thought they were going to get accepted, and then they were rejected.... it is really sad - i hope it doesnt happen to anyone here...</p>
<p>hmm... and what was her mom implying - that you were going to get rejected/deferred??? " i will be ready for you on wed"... thats kind of depressing... i would of been like. ... ummmmmm okay - bye</p>
<p>vinny380: that was a really good story...........i hope the same thing happens to me, haha</p>
<p>dw51688: something similar happened to me. my friend, who applied to columbia, didn't get accepted and is devistated. but i know his stats were a lot better than mine so now i've basically lost all hope...which I guess could be a good thing at this point.</p>
<p>for some reason, i am really nervous for u guys even though i dont know you.. i hope u all get in... i have been to penn some many times now and it is truly amazing.....I will definetly be on this site on the 15 to celebrate/grieve/help/support all of you</p>
<p>nope.. it didn't bear my pin... but perhaps, im an intel, tt's all.. cos i go my pin by e-mail abt a week aft i submitted my stuff online.</p>
<p>omg that was just about the best acceptance story ever vinny.</p>
<p>vinny380, interestingly, that exact same thing happened to me. I typed in the wrong password the first time I checked.</p>