<p>I don't think this is something I've seen on here before but I've been having this convo with my friends recently. I just got my 1st acceptance today (to Amherst!) and I was a lot calmer than I expected lol. Maybe I got a false impression of what it would be like from that target commercial :D. Anyways, how did you react to your first acceptance letter/email/etc.? Did you scream, cry, all of the above?</p>
<p>Is Amherst your first choice?</p>
<p>My first acceptance letter was from my safety, so I wasn’t particularly ecstatic. The letter was fully expected.</p>
<p>I blew it off. I knew I would get accepted there.</p>
<p>It’s one of my top choices; my first is either Cornell or UChicago, but I’d go there gladly (assuming that I get a considerable finaid package - the COA is about 63K).</p>
<p>Oh ok. I asked because I got into my first choice (Amherst’s decidedly better rival haha) early decision and was ecstatic. In fact I still cannot believe it.</p>
<p>I was really really happy.</p>
<p>I wasn’t expecting at all. </p>
<p>My first acceptance was from a school that I wasn’t even planning on applying to. My mom asked if I wanted to apply since we were going to apply to all my school on the same day. I shrugged and said, “Why not?”. They didn’t require an essay. All I had to do was copy and paste my information in the boxes. What could I possibly lose? (Besides $30). I knew I woul be accepted. So we applied and school takes it toll. The next week I check on my status to see if my residency was cleared since before they had considered me out of state. I logged in, scrolled right down to where the checklist was and something catches my eye. I paused. Did I just see “Congratulations…”? Did I really see that? I scrolled and sure enough I was accepted. I just stared at the screen in disbelief. And as my smile got larger and larger my scream got louder and louder. I picked up my laptop, ran downstairs, and shoved it in my mother’s lap, still screaming. She started screaming too and eventually we were both hopping up and down, “I’m going to college.” “You’re going to college.” back and forth to each other. After we both calmed down, my mom sat on her bed and let out a sigh, “You are going to college.” Then she gave me a big hug. </p>
<p>Now I’m planning on going to that exact college that accepted. That college was the first to accept me and it was the last one I thought I would go to. It wasn’t even on my radar!</p>
<p>I was studying for my college class’ final in the college library when my sister called and told me the letter came. I hung up, not wanting to cry as I walked in to take a two hour test. She called again and said I got in.</p>
<p>The end.</p>
<p>Well, when I got accepted to GT I was quite happy, but I did not do anything like scream out since when I received the acceptance e-mail I was about three-fourths asleep, but when I received my UNC acceptance, I screamed in joy, since I was completely awake by the time the decisions were released.</p>
<p>I was expecting to get accepted to the place that gave me my first acceptance, so it wasn’t too much of a big deal but I was still excited. It kinda gave me reassurance that I’d at least go somewhere for college next year.</p>
<p>My first acceptance was from my safety school, Penn State University Park, so it was a pretty dull moment and I actually kind of found out by accident because I just happen to look on the status check website, for some reason I can’t even remember, and saw the whole Congratulations, you’ve been accepted blah blah blah…So, it wasn’t a shock really. However, when I got my acceptance from my top choice, Cornell, I cried because I was just elated beyond words.</p>
<p>I expected to get in (school has a 75% acceptance rate and I was far above their stats) so it was more about just waiting until I got to the end of the tour and the woman told me for sure…</p>
<p>Not that I wasn’t happy. It is my first choice and I fully intend to be there August 19th to move in to the Honors dorm. It was just expected.</p>
<p>I was jumping for joy. I was so sure I wasn’t gonna get accepted into university lol.
I have low self esteem</p>
<p>My first acceptance was from my top choice (Emerson). I didn’t think I’d get in. I was supposed to be notified online on December 14th but they had technical issues so I wasn’t going to hear until the 18th and I was so nervous! I got my letter on the 17th and if it didn’t say “Congratulations!” right on the envelope I don’t know if I could’ve opened it. Anyway, I almost screamed when I saw it and then I immediately called my mom and my boyfriend to let them know.</p>
<p>My first acceptance was early action to UChicago, so I basically couldn’t stop smiling for hours on end.</p>
<p>My first acceptance was Saint Peter’s University in December. They notified me by email. It’s my safety school so knew I was going to get in, but since it was my first real college acceptance I was still really excited anyway :)</p>
<p>My technical first acceptance letter nearly got thrown in the trash before opening. It was to a small, religious (ironic because I not religious at all) college that I applied for nearly as a joke because they sent me an email and the application literally took 6 minutes lol.</p>
<p>My first really serious one I was indifferent to but really shocked at the same time. I got a likely from Columbia, which I wasn’t really considering (am now though lol) and I was really surprised because I heard how rare likelies were. I just felt it was weird. I was much happier about amherst and WUSTL’s though, because those were in my top school’s :)</p>
<p>I was just sort of happy that I’ld definitely be going somewhere decent in the fall :)</p>
<p>accepted to umich. i was at buffalo wild wings with some of my friends when I checked my application status. not really too excited because i expected to get in, but I was relieved a bit at least. headed there if I go 0 for 9 on march 28 and april 1st</p>