<p>Y’all are dead on. If I get rejected (rejected, not even deferred), my hopes of getting into ANY of my other colleges will be diminished. Sigh, its funny, now I’m hoping for a deferral. No! The Secret dammit the secret.</p>
<p>I’m not applying to any of those fancy-pants East Coast schools. If I don’t get into Stanford, then it’s a UC for me–whichever one I can afford. I honestly think it would be kind of fun to go somewhere like UC Santa Cruz, just because my test scores would be WAY above the average. :P</p>
<p>Oh, and Prussia is absolutely right: all this talk of waiting for letters is absolute insanity. Why would you ever want to introduce an artificial extension of the waiting period? You must all be masochists.</p>
<p>I agree with Prussia and Starmie. I wish you could hit the submit button and have your decision 10 minutes later. I think 45 days is long enough to wait, so I’ll be opening that email immediately. I just hope it comes on the 11th because I have what will be my hardest final on the 15th, so if I get the decision just before or even have to wait until after my final I will certainly be distracted during the test.</p>
<p>Up until today, I thought I had a pretty good chance. Now, I know I’ll be rejected. Oh well, hope the UCs pull through.
Did anybody else apply with an art supplement?</p>
<p>Gah, I’ve been reading all the posts on this thread and it’s made me feel very hopeful for you guys. I hope you get in.</p>
<p>My best friend and I both applied EA to Stanford. She has higher SATs than me (110 pts higher), but I have higher GPA (by .05). She has more community service, but I have more outgoing/diverse ECs. She’s better at writing, but I applied with an art supplement. We both have the same level of classes/APs. We’re both from the same school, and we’re both from the bay. 
Last year, only 3 kids got picked from our school, and one was a GENIUS.
I’ve been having these dreams where we both get in. Great dreams.</p>
<p>But now, I’m having nightmares. Gosh.</p>
<p>Aren’t the questbridge kids getting their decisions in 3-4 days or something? I remember the mention of them getting theirs 13 days earlier than us a while back.
I know applicannot is one of them… Anyone else?
Because holycrap I know it’ll freak me out to see any decisions coming out already.</p>
<p>I wrote my essay about a discussion I had with a research mentor and how it changed my perspective on life.</p>
<p>Just wondering, when did you guys submit your application? I submitted mine late October.</p>
<p>@Anon93</p>
<p>Same here. 30th October.</p>
<p>And yes, I am as scared as you people are. Damnn</p>
<p><em>thinks of thick envelope and congratulations mail</em></p>
<p>I think it’s imperative to reiterate that we have to stay positive.</p>
<p>I personally don’t believe that any sort of negative energy in this forum helps anybody’s cause. So let’s keep our heads held high and hope for the best.</p>
<p>Positivity is key!</p>
<p>@The Juggernaut</p>
<p>Come on man… it’s hope for the best, and prepare for the worst, and preparing for the worst is much easier with lots of people around. :D</p>
<p>If we expect rejection, then we can either start the acceptance (emotional, not college) process early or be totally shocked when we get on. Honestly, I’ve been expecting the worst in everything for the past seventeen years and it’s worked fine so far.</p>
<p>@Juggernaut
It’s okay to be positive if you know you can accept the chance of being rejected. If you can take rejection without completely breaking down then that’s the type of positive energy that should be had. </p>
<p>On the other hand, expecting rejection will virtually ensure that you don’t freak out when you get the rejection letter and also provide tons of excitement for if you get accepted.</p>
<p>Nervous…Stanford has finished collecting materials and is now reviewing EA applicants.</p>
<p>@mrbopalop1</p>
<p>that happened 5 days ago, bro. Nov. 19th XD</p>
<p>@sarbaraj
lol, cool. I stopped checking each day for materials checklist so I didn’t know
until i randomly checked yesterday.</p>
<p>I submitted mine Oct 15th. And I agree with Juggernaut. Positivity is key.</p>
<p>My bad, when I said I submitted in late October, I meant late September. I wonder if submitting early hurts me. That’s me overanalyzing everything again.</p>
<p>At the risk of sounding very, very conceited - I bet for most of us, being rejected from Stanford would be the first rejection letter from anything ever.</p>
<p>I guess it has to happen sometime.</p>
<p>@sarbaraj101 and mrbopalop1: Maybe it’s just me, but it doesn’t make any sense to me to always expect the worst just because things may turn out the way we don’t want them to. Just because there’s a (fairly decent) chance that we may have to face failure isn’t reason enough for me to expect a rejection.</p>
<p>Decision day is almost upon us (a few days compared to the years we’ve waited for this); I hope all of us get good news.</p>
<p>Im w/starmie and all other expect the worst and plan for the worst-ers</p>
<p>it just makes things easier if we do get rejected and more awsome if we dont, and its not really that we are expecting that we wont get in, i think its more of just the outward attitude vs the inner hopes. i think all of us inside are very conflicted about what we truly feel will happen and personally, a substancial part of me says im going to get in, so its not like we are giving up hope. we are just sort of muting our feelings by pretending like we know that we wont make it in as an outward facade.</p>
<p>I mean if we really didnt think we had a chance we wouldn’t have applied at all…</p>
<p>WELCOME all new peeps! nice to see some fresh blood after 300 posts of the same AverageJoe18924198234-s.</p>
<p>aparently i know someone from questbridge who got in like a month-ish or so ago? idk how that works though…</p>
<p>not gona lie
im probably like 300 of the 18000 or so views on this thread…</p>
<p>Same, questbridge came out for my area 3 weeks ago?</p>
<p>I think we need a new topic. All this talk about rejection/acceptance is too depressing. Anyone have anything interesting?</p>