<p>Yes, thank you tebro and zant... ilc, she has every right to cry. You can't just discredit someone's emotions like that.</p>
<p>i guess all the COOL people just got deferred <em>sticks nose jokingly up in the air at phil, prances around until she runs into the wall because she can't see anything in front of her!</em> but i agree - tebro you just said everything i wanted to say but wasn't eloquent enough to.</p>
<p>phil, what are you doing to celebrate?</p>
<p>I am so happy Phil got in. That is just awesome. Don't worry Phil, I'll still get you that midnight-blue iguana somehow!</p>
<p>Midnight-blue iguana? What? When? Where? Oh, I must see that....</p>
<p>Props to tebro and zante for posts well-said.</p>
<p>edit: and yes, I want to hear all about phil's celebration....do tell...</p>
<p>zante~youre cool and all, and im sorry you didnt get into princeton, but its nothing to get so depressed about. a school does not define you a a person--i imagine you are smart enough to know that by now.</p>
<p>tebro~you rock my world! :)</p>
<p>you guys. im so depressed. whats going to happen to the princeton board. dont go! hang around till you all get in in april.</p>
<p><em>blushes</em> </p>
<p>I get very loquacious and self-righteous when I get angry. </p>
<p>It's just not fair for people who don't post regularly, who don't talk to zante and grac and others who are amazing and care so much about their schools, to barge in and preach perspective. It...grrrr. </p>
<p><em>goes to gnaw a leftover steak</em> </p>
<p>congrats Phil! You are amazing and Val, you rock MY world!
and max--your iguana is not safe from me!</p>
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<p>Obviously it's worth getting depressed about since it's PRINCETON, and give me a break, it's only been a couple of hours. I know my worth isn't defined by a school, or by some silly numbers, but crying soothes me, ok? :p</p>
<p>^^yeah, revel in your hatred of princeton for now, then you'll wake up tomorrow and be like 'im so over this' and life will go on for you.</p>
<p>haha, thanks legend and tebro. y'all rock as well. <em>waits patiently for midnight blue iguana</em></p>
<p>Gah, this board...it's so different now...I want it to be last night again....sorry :(</p>
<p>Yeah, it's weird how much things can change in less than 24 hours. 12 hours, really. Although, in the end, I'm glad I know - being on pins and needles for another day wouldn't change the end result.</p>
<p>So, Phil, we're still waiting to hear about your P-ton celebration blowout!! Do indulge us poor deferees begging for scraps of happy news ;)...</p>
<p>Phil-phil, I've never felt so far away from you...
something has changed, for sure.
:(</p>
<p>Something has changed. He is now better than us.</p>
<p>Yeah, and I'm stuck in the middle....</p>
<p>cavalier, it doesn't mean he's "better," and he'd agree---it just means he's what Princeton needed in building a class. Same goes for most (if not all) acceptees/deferrees.</p>
<p>For those of you who didn't get in now; please don't let it ruin even your hour....</p>
<p>In the grand scheme of things, a)where you go to college matters precious little, b) you may still get in to Princeton, and c) you honestly will be happy and successful WHEREVER you go.</p>
<p>Also, don't be too worried because my private opinion is that our admissions office makes A LOT of mistakes, ones that they correct during RD. And it seems from reading a lot of these posts that many deferred here should have been accepted. That sucks for us.</p>
<p>Go win a Marshall/Rhodes/other significant award for some other school.</p>
<p>And please, remember that you will be happy no matter where you go. If I could only eat when one of my friends said a bad thing about his or her school, I would have starved many times over so far this year.</p>
<p>It is not possible not to feel depressed. When they say time heals, it is perspective. As you move away from an object it looks visually smaller and smaller. Similarly as you move away in time, the dissappointment will begin to seem smaller and less hurtful. So right now, just 2 days from the deferral, it is bound to be quite huge. Only thing is to tell oneself 'yes, I am feeling pretty lousy but I have other things to do'. My only advice is in please do not make any new decisions at this time. Just proceed with the original list of colleges and try to get a good job done. And as Gracilise suggested elsewhere, begin work on the P application on the side within the next week or so.</p>
<p>I'd suggest that folks who were rejected or deferred read this string in the parents forum .... it tracks kids from last year who were deferred or rejected from their EA/ED school ... where did they eventually end up and are they happy with outcome?</p>