RD Decisions...anyone have a date/

<p>I want to jinx it by speaking of it :D Ha! March certainly drives everyone crazy!!</p>

<p>DARN mid march is comminnggg. I hate march the waiting is so painful!</p>

<p>Dropping in to say good luck! :)</p>

<p>i think the notification will be on Wednesday or Thursday for Questbridge applicants, like last year.. they knew it before regular ones..</p>

<p>Gad, you get an email saying "Your decision is ready." Then you have to sign in to the applicant section of the site and it'll have a link to your admission decision letter. The official letter in the mail comes a few days later.</p>

<p>So, questbridge notification would be an indication of our results. Hmmm I cant really say whether I wanna know the approximate date beforehand :D I would prefer it being sprung upon me :)</p>

<p>i think uchicago doesn't tell us when decisions come out because they want kids to be stressing over the decision rather than the date. When we know the date then we have to proclivity to care more about the time, the planning of the ceremony of opening the letter, the planning of what you are going to be doing that day and so on. But, when we have no idea when the decisions come out, we cannot plan for any thing and it comes about as a normal part of our life. (they are hoping that you check your email randomly and get pleasantly surprised and if rejected you have your time and discretion to tell your loved ones). Also, with each passing day, we have the hope that it could come today, but with a fixed date you know when the decisions are coming out and there is nothing you can do about it.</p>

<p>i'd also prefer the decisions to come all of a sudden...</p>

<p>yeah, I don't like how MIT released the date of when they would announce the decisions. I understand that they were excited about releasing on Pi day, but it made it awkward for a couple of my friends the days and hours leading up to it (especially since they all knew to check while we were at a Science Olympiad tournament).
I like UChi just sending us an e-mail when we can check our status.</p>

<p>@marry_rich
yeah tats true.. though the part about them hoping that we would check our mail randomly must be wishful thinking :)</p>

<p>Yeah; MIT just sending the email out saying to go check would have been better, and would probably have made the easter egg an even better component; rather than announcing the date and time in advance, just timestamp the message and see how many people see it...XD</p>

<p>(actually seeing the Easter Egg could even wind up being a criterion for admission, much like the Puzzle & Questions Three seen earlier here...<.<).</p>

<p>But, isn't that how most of the colleges release their decisions? Announce the date beforehand.</p>

<p>No... for EA, all Chicago did was e-mailed us that decisions were ready and they also put up a post on their blog. Back then, before EA decisions were released, I tried to bug them on their blog, but all they did was say "soon." So when Chicago released decisions, it was pretty sudden, but it was also around the same time as 2012 EA.</p>

<p>I'll play safe and say next Monday for Chicago RD, but it COULD come out tomorrow.</p>

<p>One positive thing about what Chicago does is that it prevents you from being distracted from what you're doing. For MIT, even though I knew I would get rejected, I spent all day in school wondering, "What's gonna happen tomorrow at 1:59 PM???" Funny thing is that something popped up on Saturday, so I couldn't get back home and on-line until 3 yesterday. I almost cracked from the overwhelming and killer suspense because from 2 to 3 PM, I kept thinking, "I know I should get back home, but I can't and I know decisions are already up." </p>

<p>But it only takes a mere millisecond for the decision page to load to kill all that tension (and hopes and dreams and desires ... whether consciously or unconsciously) Unless you're still using dial-up. That would kinda suck.</p>

<p>Okay. I totally get that. My first choice school too did that. Announced a week beforehand when decisions were to come and I drove myself mad.</p>

<p>Ab- I agree. Go with next Monday, just to be safe. Wouldn't it be horrific if they actually didn't come out until the first?</p>

<p>butternut, I think we both would not make it until Apr 1st...</p>

<p>That would just be cruel.</p>

<p>Seriously, I don't know how I'd manage to go on living for that last week of March if schools wait until their pledged April 1.</p>

<p>I'll have to disagree with the way I react with having a set date. I tend to let myself forget about it until it happens, whereas with vague notification dates I check all the time (like now). I always mentally prepare myself no matter when it happens. My last two decisions were for my bottom two on my preference list, so I didn't do anything. However, for my early action decision, I made a music video to pass the time. Best idea ever.</p>

<p>@asian
You have a point too! I am freaking out big time here, checking my mail every 10 second, refreshing the login site again and again!</p>

<p>I'm hoping for a bit of luck on St. Patty's day...</p>