Soundtrack to your: acceptance, deferral, rejection.

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<p>Hey! I don't really post here frequently, but I was just curious what songs you all will listen to once you find out your results. Mine are as follows:</p>

<p>ACCEPTED: Power (Kanye West), Let's Get Out of This Country (Camera Obscura), Sleepyhead (Passion Pit), My Girls (Animal Collective), Alejandro (Lady Gaga)</p>

<p>DEFERRED: New Romantic (Laura Marling), Zebra (Beach House), Knife (Grizzly Bear)</p>

<p>REJECTED -_- : Failure (Laura Marling), In This Hole (Cat Power), Let It Die (Feist)</p>

<p>So.... How about all of you!?</p>

<p>PS: Let's just keep this lighthearted and fun. No negativity! Stay Positive!</p>

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<p>Sweeeeet. </p>

<p>Accepted: Back in Black (AC/DC), TNT (AC/DC), Bring Em Out (T.I.)</p>

<p>Deferred: Headstrong (Trapt), Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey), To Be Loved (Papa Roach)</p>

<p>Rejected: Iridescent (Linkin Park), Down (Blink-182), Good Riddance (Green Day)</p>

<p>…And a plethora more. But this is just off the top of my head.</p>

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<p>Bildunsroman, I LOVE your soundtrack! God, I don’t have the time to type up mine right now, but those are pretty straight on for me too. I’d only pick different Rejection songs; don’t know the ones you listed.</p>

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<p>Accepted: This Christmas, Happy Birthday Song, And That’s Why I Chose Yale (admissions video song), I Love College- Asher Roth</p>

<p>Deferred: Try Again- Aaliyah, Fabulous, I Know I Can</p>

<p>Rejected: It’s a Hard Knock Life, Life Goes On, Over</p>

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<p>Accepted: Dear Laughing Doubters by Sondre Lerche (because who wouldn’t doubt my chances at Yale?)</p>

<p>Deferred: A Long December by Counting Crows (because winter break will be a * long * one…)</p>

<p>Rejected: Pale Blue Eyes by The Velvet Underground</p>

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<p>Accepted: Pirates of the Caribbean theme song & Why I Chose Yale x 5 billion.</p>

<p>Deferred: The Smiths.</p>

<p>Rejected:24 by Emmy the Great & Take a Minute by K’nann.</p>

<p>this makes me look like a complete freakshow. But its what i’ll be listening to…</p>

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<p>I didn’t mention That’s Why I chose Yale on my post.</p>

<p>I thought that was a given…</p>

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<p>^ :smiley: :D. Over and over again.</p>

<p>Good call on the Long December. Perfect.</p>

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<p>Accepted: Symphony no. 5, mvt. 3 by Sibelius
Deferred: Symphony no. 2, mvt. 5 by Mahler
Rejected: Adagio for Strings by Barber</p>

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<p>I only have “rejected” songs.</p>

<p>Rejected: You Can’t Always Get What You Want by The Rolling Stones; The Winner Is by Mychael Danna/DeVotchKa; Things You’ve Never Done by Passenger; Acid Tongue by Jenny Lewis; All I Want From You Is Love by Let’s Go Sailing, Misread by Kings of Convenience, Hello…Goodbye by Sean Watkins, West Coast by Coconut Records, O Children by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab for Cutie.</p>

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<p>Dirtyprojector, we have incredibly similar taste in music :0</p>

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<p>ACCEPTED: Oh My God (Lily Allen), Eye of the Tiger (Survivor), How Good it Can Be (The 88), Looking at The Sun (Gramercy Arms), The First Day of My Life (Bright Eyes), Congratulations (MGMT), Africa (Toto) – random, I know-- and finally, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland).</p>

<p>DEFERRED: Don’t Look Back in Anger (Oasis), Fall Into Place (Apartment), Wait It Out (Imogen Heap), Maybe, Maybe (Nico Stai), Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Cake), The Underdog (Spoon)</p>

<p>REJECTED: The Past and the Pending (The Shins), Swim Until You Can’t See Land (Frightened Rabbit), Wishing Well (The Airborne Toxic Event), You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones), Let It Be (Beatles), Here We Go (Jon Brion), Feels Like The End (Shane Alexander), Christmas and Me are Through (Your Vegas).</p>

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<p>@lucyloves: I LOVE the Smiths. On of my top five bands for sure.</p>

<p>Accepted: Let it Out (Girl Talk), When I’m With You (Best Coast), Juicy (Better Than Ezra), Things Can Only Get Better (Howard Jones), I Turn My Camera On (Spoon), The Distance (Cake)</p>

<p>Deferred: Don’t You Evah (Spoon), Stillness Is The Move (Dirty Projectors), Be My Baby (The Ronettes), Don’t Do Me Like That (Tom Petty), 2000 Light Years From Home (The Rolling Stones), To Kingdom Come (Passion Pit)</p>

<p>Rejected: All of the Lights (Kanye West), Montgomery Avenue 1984 (Summer Camp), Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Bauhaus), Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division), Something Is Not Right With Me (Cold War Kids), Wrong (Depeche Mode)</p>

<p>Yes, I listen to super depressing music when I’m depressed. I can’t take the peppy stuff…</p>

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<p>I’ve already been thinking about this question a lot^^
I will actually always listen to the same songs-no matter if I get accepted or not…
I’d just interpret them in a different way. These are my happy/depressed songs: </p>

<p>Gebrünn Gebrünn (Paul Kalkbrenner), Altes Kamuffel (Paul Kalbrenner), Hide and Seek (Imogen Heap), Cabron (RHCP), Imma Be (BEP), Paint it Black (Rolling Stones), As we enter (Damian Marley), Patience (Damian Marley), White Christmas^^, Wonderwall (Oasis), Fix you (Coldplay), We are the champions, Walk on the wild side (Lou Reed), Gamma Ray</p>

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<p>Accepted: Dog days are over (Florence + the Machine), We are Golden (MIKA)
Rejected: Supermassive Blackhole… LOL</p>

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<p>@Neets, dude! You haven’t heard any of my rejection songs?! Get yourself on iTunes NOW.</p>

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<p>Accepted: We are the Champions (Queen), Undefeated (Audio Adrenaline), The Times They Are A Chaingin’ (Bob Dylan)
Deferred: No Surprises (Radiohead), Waitin’ on the World, Don’t Stop Belevin’ (Journey), College Kids (Relient k)
Rejected: You Can’t Always Get What You Want (The Rolling Stones), Would You Be Impressed? (Streetlight Manifesto),</p>

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<p>Accepted - Soil (System of a down, just the drum and guitar solo in the middle for like 20 minutes)
Deferred - Tool, just lots of Tool
Rejected - NIN :)</p>

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<p>One of my favorite songs of all time. I don’t know if I’d want to ruin it by associating it with a rejection.</p>

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<p>I’d probably throw some Disturbed in there if rejected.</p>