<p>^Congrats!</p>
<p>Wait, you know i meant likely from Rice, not Stanford, right? lol</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>^ Yes I know you meant rice haha</p>
<p>Accepted: Blink a lot. Walk around in a daze. Then... tell my family. And friends. And just be overjoyed in general.</p>
<p>Rejected: Kind of nod my head and be like, 'Yeah, figures. Tell people. Be sad for a few days. Then move on. </p>
<p>And hey, I don't think ab2013 wrote that for anybody else's benefit anyway. I've been drilling it into my head that my chances at being accepted are zilch too. It's better than to expect an acceptance and not get one.</p>
<p>I got a likely from Stanford about 2 weeks ago.
I actually thought a Stanford acceptance was a longshot, therefore, when I received the letter, I didn't know how to react.
At first I was like "Wait...am I really reading this?!"
After reading the letter about 6 or 7 times(it's worded a bit oddly), it finally set in that I had been accepted :)
And then after I realized that I had this option, I was like "Ugh..now I need to choose!"
(I got into Caltech early action)
Yupp.</p>
<p>lol Stanford actually sends out likelies? I would think that it doesn't really NEED to do that... most people would be persuaded enough by an acceptance</p>
<p>Yeah Stanford sends out likelies to kids who they know will get into other excellent schools.</p>
<p>Ya, i know, but it's stanford... it's almost everybody's first choice</p>
<p>Accepted: Jump hug everyone</p>
<p>Rejected: sulk, the failure will probably stay with me for the rest of my life :P</p>
<p>supreme hahahahhahahaha burn down lots and lots of trees.</p>
<p>Only thinking about accepted: Agreed to buy my friends $1000 worth of food. Kiss my teachers. Make love to my computer. Scream like a girl. Calm down in about 10 minutes and watch a TV show.</p>
<p>Accepted:</p>
<p>Not sure what I'd do, actually. Just from my environment, I wouldn't think it's likely. Of course, I'd be extremely, extremely shocked and thankful and happy at the same time. Maybe to the point where I don't have a reaction at all - I could just stand there like a dummy and look up with a 'deer in the headlights' look. Then I'd cry. Probably a lot of crying.</p>
<p>Rejected:</p>
<p>I'd be relieved. I hate having to wait. I got admitted at Baylor and I wanted to go there since sophomore year, until Stanford came along the end of my junior year. Yes, I'll be kind of upset if they say a no, but I'm over the phase of 'if I'm not admitted my life is over.' </p>
<p>Either way, I'll just be happy that my college admissions trials have ended.</p>
<p>Either scenario, I'll be perfectly happy. I'm a first-generation college student - I'm ecstatic to chase opportunity, whether it comes through a fat envelope from Stanford or any other college.</p>
<p>Accepted: Probably stare at the email without blinking for 2.5 hours, then punch the air in joy for .5 hours, then buy a window decal and 500000000000 articles of clothing, then call my friend who got rejected EA and laugh at him (you might think i'm an *******, but he was sooooo sure he was going to get in and told me i had no shot at getting in, so ha to him), then eat for .25 hours, sleep for 8 hours, then go to school and not say a word until somebody asks me what happened, at which point i will yell very loudly "I GOT IN!!!!"</p>
<p>Rejected:
Burn my stanford hat, sweatshirt, and blanket. Then move on with life.</p>
<p>^See that's why I choose to not buy college apparel until AFTER i get accepted.</p>
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I know poeple just say "i won't get in" all the time even when they desperately want to get in and they cherish that small piece of hope that they might. Oh man. I think we're just too old to keep lying to ourselves.
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<p>To tell you the truth, that's very true ... I wanted Stanford to accept me really badly when I turned in my app even though there are thousands of people who are better than I am. But I just don't care about getting into Stanford anymore. I still like the idea, but caring about that is a lost cause.</p>
<p>Just wait to see how it plays out ... and accept what you get as reality, I guess. But sometimes reality's hard to swallow. (not just talking about airplane food in coach -- sorry that has no relevance but somehow I wanna fly somewhere after I graduate from HS)</p>
<p>It takes one to know one ;)</p>
<p>Yea, surprisingly, I could care less about whether or not I get into Stanford anymore. I've done everything I could. Whatever. If they don't want me, then I probably don't belong anyway.</p>
<p>Yea we've done the best we've can in HS and then some more (or else we wouldn't be spending our time as seniors on this site ... maybe that's why I need a vacation badly). If we really did fit, we would have gotten a likely (or the mail guy is withholding my mail). Oh well. At least I have schools that want me -- you probably do too. </p>
<p>Anywho, I'll come back for Stanford when I apply to grad school. I'll be back!</p>
<p>Well just because you didn't get a likely doesn't necessarily mean you didn't get in. You just weren't Stanford's "top pick".</p>
<p>Accepted: meh. :| tell my parents.
Rejected: meh. :/ tell my parents.
Waitlisted (did everyone forget about this option?): pull my name out immediately.</p>
<p>^Stanford waitlist is still impossible, huh?</p>
<p>part that, and part I already got into a one of my top schools. :/ Although I'll leave it to Stanford to change my mind...</p>