Ladies and Gentlemen, its time.
Let’s try to keep this going through decision week so that we will be able to find out who gets in where and congratulate/console them now that we know a little more about them.
School -
When You Expect to Hear -
How, Where, When, and With whom you plan to receive your decision -
What You Will do if Accepted/ Rejected (or Waitlisted) -
For me,
School - Emory University
Expect to Hear - Dec. 15th
How, When, and with whom I plan to receive the decision - I am going to zoom home from school and open it by myself on my front lawn.
What Will I do if Accepted/Waitlisted - If accepted I will have a much more laid-back attitude towards life and school, and also will buy every piece of Emory parafanalia (sp?) I can find. If waitlisted I might consider making my Vanderbilt application into an ED 2. Also, I will probably add and visit a few more mid-range schools.
<p>How will find out - Hopefully alone and before my family! However, I'm sure my dad will see the letter and hold it up to the window and find out and then his expression when I come in the house after school will give it all away.</p>
<p>If accepted - I'll feel euphoria all evening, smile lots, probably go out to eat with family. I'll feel more free, too. How nice it would be to not have to fill out more college apps.</p>
<p>If deferred/rejected - I'll feel crappy all evening, but I'll try to tell myself that who I am has not changed. Then I'll realize that I need to get going on my other apps. </p>
<p>Good luck to you tenacious and all other ED'ers!</p>
<p>Notification: Dec 10 at 5 pm by email. My parents will be away, so it'll just be me by my lonesome.</p>
<p>If accepted: Dance around the house, call a few friends, go to the basketball game and tell the teachers who wrote recommendations for me, and anyone else I see.</p>
<p>Deferred: get angry at being put back in purgatory and submit all the other apps</p>
<p>Rejected: shrug, say "F--- you, Brown!" And get a pint of half baked and watch tearjerkers.</p>
<p>Applied ED, found out today i got accepted, i got their presidential scholarship for 7500$/year... i'm feelin good. I just hope that when i find out my estimated financial package when it comes later this week that i will be able to afford to go there.</p>
<p>You too! I hope everybody who is awaiting a decision posts in this thread. We are all anxious and nervous, and maybe by sharing those feelings together we can ease some of that tension.</p>
<p>Notification: Before Dec. 15th, by snail mail. Guessing either the 13th or 14th, given my location.</p>
<p>If accepted: Scream, cry, tell everyone I know, dance around a lot, jump on the bed, hyperventilate, have a celebratory meal of sushi and ice cream, slack at school a bit.</p>
<p>Deferred: Stare at the letter, yell "F--k" a LOT of times, vent to my parents, cry, then get over it. I'll probably be bummed for a day and then I'll recover. I bounce back pretty quickly usually. </p>
<p>Rejected: Georgetown doesn't reject EA. Which may or may not be a good thing.</p>
<p>Notification- Hopefully Dec 10 by email, but there have been some disputes about that so it might be later.</p>
<p>If accepted- I'm going to cry from happiness, call my college counselor and praise him, then probably go to this ny italian ice place that's so good and bask in New Yorkness.</p>
<p>If defered- I'll probably cry cus I'm so upset that I have to wait another 4 months to find out my fate and have to really concentrate on my other applications too.</p>
<p>If rejected- I'll cry and wallow in self pity, not talk to anyone else that applied ed because I won't want to see anyone else brag about their happiness and then get start to focus on applications I have left to do.
So I'm going to being crying whenever I find out, but I hope those are tears of joy.</p>
<p>School - MIT
Expect to Hear - Dec. 15th
How, When, and with whom I plan to receive the decision - My sis has to open it for me coz im gonna be out of the country! bummer..
What Will I do if Accepted/Waitlisted - I will party party party
Deffered - Do other apps ASAP
Rejected - ......... I will be very sad.</p>
<p>I forgot who I was going to be with- oops. It depends on when the decision is sent out. If it's on the 10th, then I might check my email at school, or I might wait till I'm at home alone. Other than that, if the email comes first, i might end up checking it at work, so my mom will be around in the office too. This is just craziness. so stressful!</p>
<p>Expect to hear: November 9th, 3 PM on the dot although I'll probably cheat and try to check earlier</p>
<p>How, When, and with whom I plan to receive the decision: It's during finals week, so it'll probably be pretty quiet. Most likely I'll be alone in my room, compulsively clicking "refresh" until it shows...</p>
<p>What I will do if Accepted/Deferred/Rejected:
Accepted: Scream "I GOT IN," and subject my entire social circle to weeks of annoying Dartmouth cheers. ("Your cat died? Hey that reminds me.... I GOT INTO DARTMOUTH!")
Deferred: Be the most ****ed off. Immediately send SAT scores to other schools, start working on other applications, hide in my room and sulk.
Rejected: Be slightly annoyed for one night, then move on. It's waiting that's the worst.</p>
<p>School: Harvard
Expect to hear: Rumors about Dec. 10th, but mostly likely Dec. 14th 5PM
How, When, and With Whom: Go straight home, lock the door, and with some fellow CCers =)</p>
<p>If accepted: Probably won't hit me until after a couple minutes later, but I will first be stunned and then start jumping around and cheering.
If waitlisted: I'll be reallllllllly sad, especially because I know that a lot of my friends are going to get in. I'll be too depressed to do anything and I'll go to my room and take a longggggg nap.
If rejected: I'll be sad, but at least I know that Harvard's not for me. I'll go to other apps and try to finish them ASAP.</p>
<p>yeah...another 4 months of agony of not knowing whether you are at the top of the list or not, plus all the pain of filling out other apps...</p>
<p>School: Brown
How, When, and w/ whom: at home; we find out dec 10 5pm but I have dance class 5-7, its like an hour away too so I probably won't find out until 8....i'm going to be a nervous wreck :(</p>
<p>if accepted: i'll probably stare at the computer for a full 5 minutes before it hits me, then run around the house and call my entire family and then pick random prople from the phone book to brag to</p>
<p>if deferred: eh, it's what I'm expecting but i'll probably still cry and be in denial, then sulk around and procrastinate about doing other apps</p>
<p>if rejected: ugh, I don't even want to think about it...</p>
<p>Deferrals ARE the worst. First of all, if you're deferred it's not likely you'll be accepted during RD unless something outstanding happens. There are so many amazing RD'ers that borderline ED'ers lose the ED edge. Also admissions officers tend to trust in their judgment and unless they don't find any reason to change their decision in the four months, they won't.</p>
<p>I don't think a deferral is the worst. It's not true that you won't be accepted during rd, the acceptance rate of deferrals is higher than average by a few percentage points generally because they still know that you're committed. As much as people may say that a deferral is the worst, I still want some hope that I still have a chance, even if I have to wait the longest 4 months of my life to find out what will happen.</p>
<p>I agree. If you're defferred, you're almost always not accepted rd. It's kind of wishful thinking for 4 months and then you slam into a brick wall. At least if you're rejected you know it's really over. And most EDers defferred and then accepted are those who have something change, maybe grades that are a little sketchy improve, they win something, blah blah blah. But if nothing really changes in between then and now, chances are you'll be rejected rd.</p>
<p>That's not necessarily true, celebrian25. At Yale, about 16% of applications are accepted EA. That includes a bunch of recruited athletes that were shoe-ins in the first place. The acceptance rate for everyone who applied early and was deferred is 14.4%, which is well over Yale's overall acceptance rate of 9.9%. It appears as though at Yale, and many other schools for that matter, being deferred isn't necessarily a bad thing at all.</p>