<p>i agree fully with redsnow… i think that out of all the days in the world to get emotionally attached to stanford, tonight and tommorow until 6:30 EST/ 3:30 PST is not those days… im gonna focus heavily on being calm and taking things hour at a time and not being overly emotional when i go to check. if i get in, there goes my “emotionalless” state, if i dont get in, the emotion-less state will help me to logically realize tht i need to move on and study and do other schools supplements instead of being sad, etc…</p>
<p>@matrix
I like your attitude. :)</p>
<p>I felt oddly calm today! But as soon as the date nears, I will be SO nervous!</p>
<p>I have two major exams tomorrow but I can’t bring myself to prepare for them at all…</p>
<p>@SushiCat</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, and if it’s not too personal to you, what school do you go to?</p>
<p>Okay, I know that you guys are all really nervous and I was in your shoes just one year ago. This is a stressful time and tomorrow is going to suck for a lot of you, but you’re all adults and you’ll manage.</p>
<p>I knew I wanted to go to Stanford for five years by the time I applied. I was absolutely in love with the school and for me, it was Stanford or bust. I eagerly applied REA and patiently waited a grueling six weeks for my decision. I ended up getting a deferral, which I was really angry about. I knew that I would end up being either accepted or rejected and I wanted them to tell me right then, not three and a half months later. My pride was a little hurt, but I buckled down and submitted 12 other college applications (Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Washington University in St. Louis, Cal Poly SLO, Rose Hulman, Yale NUS, and my state school). Just three weeks after submitting these applications in the hopes that I would get into at least one good school (I really thought I’d end up at Northwestern), I got a call from my Yale admissions offer telling me that I had gotten a likely letter and they wanted me to come visit campus. I spent the weekend of President’s Day being courted by a phenomenal school but couldn’t figure out why Stanford didn’t want me if Yale thought I was such a hot commodity. If I was in the top 100 applicants of Yale’s 27,000, why wasn’t I in the top 700 of Stanford’s 6,000? It didn’t make sense. I loved Yale but still thought I wanted to go to Stanford. A few days after coming back from Connecticut, I got a likely letter from Harvard in the mail. Once again, I was in the top 200 applicants of Harvard’s 30,000, but not in the top 700 of Stanford’s 6,000.</p>
<p>On March 29th, 2013 at 4pm I sat on my bed with my phone and hesitated before checking my email. I didn’t even know if I wanted to get in at that point. I mean, I really loved Yale, but my whole family desperately wanted my to go to Stanford. Getting in would make things confusing. I opened my email, found that I was accepted and was really happy. I called my mom and told her in a voice that shook with excitement. This is what I had always wanted. Right?</p>
<p>Then came the hard part… I had offers from Yale, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford (along with plenty of the others I applied to - ironically I was waitlisted at Northwestern). I narrowed it down to Yale and Stanford pretty quickly (for financial and weather reasons), but agonized over the decision from there. I did resent Stanford for deferring me and I knew that Yale WANTED me. I waited until 12 minutes before the deadline to decide…take a look at my username and you’ll figure out where I am now (hint, it’s not “cardinal2017”).</p>
<p>Basically what I’m trying to say is this:
- You WILL survive tomorrow
- You WILL love your college, no matter where you go
- Rejection/deferral is NOT the end of the world
- There is a school out there that WANTS you
- Sometimes what you think you want for your whole life doesn’t turn out to be what you actually want when push comes to shove</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone tomorrow and feel free to PM me if you want to talk about being deferred or rejected.</p>
<p>Also, have a little comfort food on hand and come up with a witty Facebook status to post either way (in or not) - mine was “Time heals all wounds, but frosting is much faster.”</p>
<p>Sorry for the long post, but I thought it was important to share my story.</p>
<p>I’m in this strange state where I’m completely calm except for panic bursts every few hours when I accidentally wonder whether I’d be accepted. Completely fine right now as I’m typing this post. In a bit, I’ll probably panic again, then revert back to calm. This is very disconcerting.</p>
<p>redsnow,</p>
<p>Do you mean the type of school/ geographic location or name of school?</p>
<p>@bulldog2017 well said. thanks for tuning in and offering advice… congrats on being a Yale Bulldog!
I think that the things you said make sense and are really practical and logical.</p>
<p>The name of the school. You said that you had an internship at Caltech, so I was just wondering.</p>
<p>@Aigese
try listening to “F… the world, im the king” kinda music. u get what i mean? i know it sounds bizarre but it helps calm me down and just separate myself from all worries and gets me to focus and feel good at the same time… kinda makes u feel invincible no matter what happens.</p>
<p>Thanks Bulldog2017! That’s some great advice, I (we) really appreciate it.</p>
<p>Redsnow,</p>
<p>I got the internship because my aunt is good friends with one of the professors there. It has nothing to do with the school. All I got from them was a work permit. </p>
<p>If you want to find out more about it, take a look at this video:
[Human</a> Prosthetics for Paralysis: Joel Burdick at TEDxCaltech - YouTube](<a href=“Human Prosthetics for Paralysis: Joel Burdick at TEDxCaltech - YouTube”>Human Prosthetics for Paralysis: Joel Burdick at TEDxCaltech - YouTube)</p>
<p>It was very rewarding. :)</p>
<p>@sushicat</p>
<p>i recommend you delete the post, and instead u send redsnow thru PM…just a precautionary advice cause the info u disclosed could disclose ur real identity.</p>
<p>@bulldog2017 Hey, </p>
<p>Thanks for your post. Kind of relieves all of us!<br>
But congrats on all of your acceptances. What made these top tier colleges want you so much? What’s your story?</p>
<p>@SushiCat</p>
<p>Oh that makes sense! I know people from Flintridge, awesome school! I go to Arcadia High, if you know anything about it.</p>
<p>anyone on this thread from NC tht is applyin to stanford SCEA?</p>
<p>@matix, thanks!
@Redsnow
Do you know anyone from the class of 2014?!!
PM me! :)</p>
<p>no probs sushicat!</p>
<p>Guys. What do these people know about us. A few paragraphs of info, how good we are at taking a test, grades, and our hobbies? Look, we’re applying to Stanford. Odds are we all have pretty amazing applications, whether it’s in scores, recs, or extracurriculars. By all means, we’ve made high school our b****. So why should we stop? Why let a couple of guys couped up in an office slow us down in being incredible? Most of us, including me, will likely be rejected tomorrow. But let’s make that where the fun starts. As hard as they try, the AO’s can’t possibly know us well enough. There’s simply too much complexity in all of us to put on a sheet of paper. As great as being accepted would feel, an even greater feeling for me would be making it in the world and having all of these top schools do a double-take and hitting themselves on the head for having missed me. So come on guys. Let’s separate ourselves from those guys who fear their whole lives for this decision. We’re more than that. No matter what happens tomorrow, let’s keep working our asses off, keep winning life, and show this school what we’re really made of (and what they’re missing out on). Let’s keep flying higher and higher, no matter what judgement comes o us tomorrow. Just venting a little :)</p>
<p>I really have no more motivation to post in this thread anymore. Just waiting at this point to be rejected/deferred.</p>
<p>I should really get to writing my college essays (have 3 more schools to go), but I really don’t feel like it. I’m telling myself I have all weekend to go at it, which is true, but meh. Probably going to start reading for AP Lit now.</p>
<p>EDIT: Venting, eh? Let’s see…
Well, apparently I suck at Physics. I was super confident after getting solid As for the last few tests, then gg the latest one. Meh, I’ll take the B to UC Berkeley.
I have a really bad feeling that if I get accepted, they’ll audit my application. While I told the truth the entire way through, like I said, I made some really lame awards international level (they were, but nothing competitive), and some other minor stuff.</p>