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<p>that is such a great suggestion! I completed my Yale, Williams, and Stanford app in just 2 days while waiting on Harvard!</p>
<p>Mine will say in the subject: Congratulations!!!!!. Then i will open it up and it will say: Congratulations, you do not have to bother making the trip to boston next fall, maybe you can get in to a community college.</p>
<p>LOL!!! Good twist, pjv80287!</p>
<p>Thread on the Yale board breaking down last year's admissions decisions there. It looks like Yale rejects more than Harvard, but still they accepted 14.3% of the EA deferrals (RD looks like a beast though! 7.3%!)</p>
<p>DUDE! people in my school are freakin out.</p>
<p>Like to an insane degree that the world has not known.</p>
<p>The competition here is so fierce, that people are afraid other students will send them fake rejection letters to scare them.</p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p>eek! That is so unfortunate. Why can't we all just get along?</p>
<p>could be worse. it can read in huge red letters, "NOPE".</p>
<p>I'm scared to read the e-mail alone... That's why I'm ditching fifth period on the 14th and checking it with a couple of friends. Ha ha. They can keep me from killing myself, LOL.</p>
<p>MM-I was about to reply and say how the email is coming at 5 p.m., which is after school, but then I remembered that not everyone is special enough to follow Eastern Standard Time :-P. I know I want to check it by myself (because I'm less emotional about things than my friends/family), but good luck.</p>
<p>Heh. Good luck to you, too!</p>
<p>Good luck to all of us!!</p>
<p>Good luck and good tidings to all!</p>
<p>I am just scared about how I will react when/ if I don't get in. Will I cry? Will I just be quiet and bitter? Will I be completely over the whole Harvard thing? Who knows. I just hope that I can deal with rejection quickly and well.</p>
<p>Does anybody go from feeling like, "I think I have a pretty good shot. My application was solid and i'm a good contender. Probably like 65%" to feeling like, "Why did I ever apply to Harvard? What the hell was I thinking? I have about 4% chance! I hate myself" I also think it's funny how you say people at your school are flipping out when i no noone else at my school applied to harvard and only two others applied to ivies (and one other to MIT). Most of the other top kids in our school are really poor and only applied to places where they could get a full ride or are really christian and would only a pply to like grove city college.</p>
<p>PJV, I totally relate. I think it's just insecurity. Harvard is a crapshoot, but that doesn't make me feel any better. I don't think it shoulde be so random!</p>
<p>My friend told me once that her aunt used to be an admissions counselor at Brown, and what they would do was they would narrow the candidates down to whoever they thought deserved to attend which would be about twice as many kids as they could take. They would then write everybody's name who was still in c ontention on a piece of paper and scatter them down a stairwell. They went to the bottom and worked their way up, whoever was collected first received a nice fat letter. Whether or not this is true, it seems as if it might as well be. It takes skill to get to that bottom 4000 or so at Harvard, but after that you just have to hope you roll lucky. That's what's nice about EA, we got to roll the dice twice!</p>
<p>um.. i'm pretty sure they don't do that</p>
<p>pjv80287,
That is EXACTLY how I'm feeling right now...</p>
<p>yeah, i don't really believe they do that either, but it the logic is that they might as well because the results are pretty much the same. You just have to get lucky.</p>
<p>Well, just look at the columbia "massacre" as some are calling it. You cannot take the decision personally. Ultimtaely, it doesn't really seem to be about you as an individual.</p>