<p>Superstition is just that - superstition.</p>
<p>Its funny, I’m almost already envisioning the rejection letter in hopes that it’ll hurt less come that time. </p>
<p>I still can’t believe I applied. What was I thinking?</p>
<p>Even worse, the rejection EMAIL. I’ve always thought that email is much more informal that letters. Email is just…BAM you’re rejected/accepted. At least with a letter there’s the process of waiting to open it, weighing the package…it’s all psychological.</p>
<p>I wonder if all applicants to every school are this analytical. We’ve pretty much analyzed the merits of everything having to do with decision day, including when it is.</p>
<p>I wonder if CCers have a higher chance of being accepted.</p>
<p>I would assume so considering we care enough to find others to comiserate for 6 weeks before we get the decisions we’ve worked our ass off for, pretty much since we learned our first words.</p>
<p>@rejection emails…
to be fair though, its is brilliantly written.</p>
<p>The views on this thread are ridiculous.</p>
<p>But I’m pretty sure if I didn’t spend so much time on this website, my grades/scores could be slightly higher. I might have discovered a new plant in this time or something. So the people not on this site could be like, curing cancer or the likes.</p>
<p>I might go through and actually calculate the SCEA acceptance rate of CC posters. Now that would be a significant amount of my time.</p>
<p>dont bother, i know if im rejected im not going to bother posting it and im sure some people from the past feel the same way…</p>
<p>That’s true. Though if I were accepted, I probably would be in so much shock I wouldn’t post. Then again, if I were accepted, I would forget that I am human and try to fly. So I could be an extreme case :]</p>
<p>Am I the only one trying to stay positive about my outcome?</p>
<p>Maybe its the whole “The Secret” thing, but I feel as if if I stay confident and think I’ll get in, I just might!</p>
<p>Sure it’s a bit harder to bear if you don’t make it… But you never know. ;)</p>
<p>I switch back and forth between positive and negative, but I know it’s not impossible…</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t even notice the views on this thread until now. Holy bajeebies.</p>
<p>I’ll post even if I get rejected, personally. (Might as well, since I’m making the decisions thread.)
It’s gonna be tough that day, though, I imagine. I’ve fallen deeper and deeper into love for Stanford, and now I couldn’t care less about any HYP/ivy/whatevs school, which is totally going to bite me in the bum. I wish I could get my sights back up for other schools, but the more I read about Stanford, the more I realize it fits me way better than any Harvard or whatevs.
BLAHGUGHUGH Prussia you are a stupid shut up!
I hope I’ll snap back into reality before the rest of my post-decisions apps are due, haha.</p>
<p>Actually, Anon, I’ve seen the acceptance rate of CCers calculated a few times in the past in the decisions threads. I don’t remember what it was, though.</p>
<p>I’m the same as sfg… My mind wobbles up and down like a sine graph.</p>
<p>gapyearstudent- I know, exactly what I’m thinking. I felt like I wasted an early chance. it’s a easy decision for stanford. I can just imagine myself opening my email one random day and seeing “I’m sorry to inform…” or “It is with regret…”</p>
<p>I can never get into stanford. what was I thinking.</p>
<p>The views are ridiculous. It’s going to be strange to think that some of us are going to end up at the same school. </p>
<p>@Prussia. Haha, your post made me laugh out loud. Your post embodied the ambivalence that I’m feeling right now.</p>
<p>I’m trying to stay positive. It’s kind of hard having read the SCEA decisions from last year. A word to the wise: DO NOT READ THAT THREAD. It will only depress you.</p>
<p>i decided to expect rejection…</p>
<p>mostly be because I’m just so effing sick of the whole “well with that attitude you sure wont.” it gets annoying after the 200th time you hear it, especially when inside you are desperately hoping for acceptance and are only putting on the fa</p>
<p>Someone already calculated the results percentages last year. The figures don’t include responses after a certain point, but most of those missing are acceptances:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061452248-post288.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061452248-post288.html</a></p>
<p>Prussia: What changes are you planning to make to the thread this year? I, for one, would support a discussion thread separate from the decisions. And maybe we could collect some actual data on acceptance rates for certain scores/states/whatever? That might be a bit ambitious. :P</p>
<p>Lets be nice to the kids of next year (hopefully we will see them at stanford!) And everyone here promise to input your admit decision. That way we can get a CC admit rate. Like i always try to look @ the rate for like a particular sat score so that the acceptance rate looks better. Lets also do a small amount of other stats: gender, state, composite sat/act.</p>
<p>Also, I was wondering if you guys feel this way: whenever anyone says: “you are S0 getting in!” I go like “really? Ok!” As if the random kid in my bio class who barely knows me and never even does the homework is some sort of admissions expert / aura intuition soothsayer person. .My nerves have translated to gullibility… My idea is that there is no way to predict how painful a rejection will feel. Might as well sweeten up the time before then… By the way: you guys rock! Something that we need to hear often duiring this process…</p>
<p>Question: Should I read my decision over email (which I agree is very informal), or should I wait to read it for a few days, just in case a big package comes in the mail? Because the packages are going to be mailed the same day, everyone who gets in will find out soon enough even if they don’t check emails. That way, the rejection will be easier to deal with than a viral “I’m sorry to inform you…”. Or will the added days of anticipation just make everything worse?
Hellllllllp. Please. :)</p>
<p>Is it a package or just a simple normal-sized fat envelope?</p>
<p>oh really? the mails get mailed out on the same day? hmm I might wait well… depends on how long it takes for the mail to get here…</p>