<p>I think the number of recruited athletes doesn't play as much into that as everyone claims. I'm not saying defferral is a rejection sentence, but if they're going to reject you why not do it from the start</p>
<p>Sheeeit! If the acceptance rate is that low for RDers, and Yale is EA, why the hell would you not apply EA?</p>
<p>Rabo - That's the point of several books like "The Early Admissions Game"</p>
<p>School: Princeton
When I expect to hear: It's up in the air. Earliest Dec. 13th by mail, Probably Dec 15th.
How, Where, When, and With whom you plan to receive your decision - I will go to the mailman and yank the mail out of his hands. It will be in front of my house.
What You Will do if Accepted/ Rejected (or Waitlisted) - </p>
<p>Accepted=Scream for joy, tell my friends and my teachers, and go psychotic
Deferred=Be really sad for a week, mope around, start second-guessing my app and thinking that i won't get in anywhere, have a doomsday/pessimistic scenario
Rejected=Slit wrists.</p>
<p>I hope you're not rejected, Economium. Personally, I would rather be waitlisted than rejected because there will still be a sliver of hope in the back of my mind while I scurry to complete other applications. Obviously I won't bank on it, but it could still potentially happen.</p>
<p>School: Princeton
Expect to hear: 13th-15th (sooner the better!)
How, when, where, who: mail, after school, in my dining room, by myself</p>
<p>accepted: be very, very happy, and go on pustore.com to order $400 of stuff
deferred: be disappointed, but start thinking about other applications
rejected: be very, very ****ed. Princeton rejects very applicants ED, the ones that had "no business in applying anyway," according to the guy at my regional admissions thing. There is no was that I didn't have any business applying there...HA.</p>
<p>School - Williams
Expect to Hear - Dec. 15th (But there is some speculation over the distribution of letters as early as the 8th..)
How, When, and with whom I plan to receive the decision - After concealing the closed letter from my family, I will go out for ice cream with my best friend. Then, over a huge amount of ice cream, I'll force my friend to read me the verdict.
What Will I do if Accepted - jump around for a bit, smile uncontrollably, and then eat my ice cream in triumph
Deferred/Rejected - drown my sorrows in my big cup of ice cream, come home and hide the letter from my parents (until I think of a good way to tell them), and then scramble to complete the supplements for other schools</p>
<p>That sounds like a good way to do it saturnine :).</p>
<p>As for me:</p>
<p>School: Yale
Expect to hear: 16th officially, 15th is what happened last year
How/when/with: On the internet, after swim practice, by myself :).
Accepted: My heart will beat extremely fast and I will float over to where I keep my Yale bumper sticker thing and then go and stick it on my car.
Deferred/rejected: Shrug it off, meh, I was expecting it.</p>
<p>saturnine--that is the BEST method I've heard; either way you get ice-cream!</p>
<p>School: Princeton</p>
<p>When You Expect to Hear: (disagreeing with EncomiumII based on what my alum told me) theoretically December 15th, but more like December 18th--they'll <em>mail</em> it on the 18th, via snailmail because they're traditional. </p>
<p>How/Where/When/With whom: Snailmail, because Princeton is bull-headed and anti-electronic notification like that. Right next to my mailbox. Whenever it arrives. With myself and the other 30 questioning voices in my head. </p>
<p>Accepted: shrug, pull out the pertinent information, toss the non-important information in the trash, and go do my English homework. And save the acceptance letter and casually toss it to my dad at dinner. </p>
<p>Deferred: shrug, toss the envelope in the trash, and go do my English homework. Later, start working on the JHU application.</p>
<p>Denied: shrug, toss the envelope in the trash, and go do my English homework. Later, start working on the JHU/Cornell application and realize that it's more my thing to be in an urban/rural setting, and it'd have sucked to be a middle-class kid in a school of rich people. Seriously, eating clubs? What was I thinking?!</p>
<p>It's not logical or healthy to base my self-worth on what a bunch of people who don't know me decide, in thirty minutes, based on a few pieces of paper. The irony of the situation is not wasted after reading post-modernist drama for the past month. :)</p>
<p>School -
When You Expect to Hear - Thursday in the afternoon sometime...I'll be checking starting at 11 that morning. (Who am I kidding? I check every couple hours NOW)
How, Where, When, and With whom you plan to receive your decision - Home, alone.
What You Will do if Accepted/ Rejected (or Waitlisted) - </p>
<p>Accepted- Probably cry, drive much too quickly to school to do math team/student government stuff/ tell everyone/ thank everyone.</p>
<p>Deferred- Be really angry that they couldn't even be courteous to make a decision.</p>
<p>Rejected- Cry, go to school to have people cheer me up, and get going on other apps.</p>
<p>Bump. Come on, I know there are a lot more.</p>
<p>Maybe they're all drowning their sorrows and apprehension in ice-cream. </p>
<p>-L.</p>
<p>School: Stanford</p>
<p>Notification: Somewhere between the 10th and the 15th snail-mail. I'll probably ditch school and wait for my mailman on the curb so I can avoid my parents/brother/sister.</p>
<p>If accepted: Drive for a while and think a lot, then eventually tell a couple of my friends and watch the gossip-machine that is my school work its magic.</p>
<p>Deferred: Be depressed and at the same time wonder why since this is what I've been conditioning myself to expect.</p>
<p>Rejected: Redefine my naive notions of an admissions process that is less superficial than I'd hoped.</p>
<p>-Ender</p>
<p>School -Cornell
When You Expect to Hear - December 10th 5 pm online AHHHHHHHHH
How, Where, When, and With whom you plan to receive your decision - Home, on my laptop, hopefully alone with no one else creeping b/c knowing my family they will want to "talk about it" when I get a big FAT R
What You Will do if Accepted: start screaming orgasmically...then go out and party like its my birthday</p>
<p>Rejected: be ****ed off, finish my RD apps</p>
<p>Deferred: ditto</p>
<p>Good luck to everybody! </p>
<p>One of my best friends applied ED for Claremont McKenna so I'm rooting for all the ED/EA-ers this year!</p>
<p>Same here actually, yellowpages. Tebro, I don't like ice cream or chocolate, so what should I drown my sorrow and apprehension in?</p>
<p>Aaaanndd I just read an article saying that ED1 applicants increased by 18 PERCENT at my prospective school. YAY. It also said that they decreased by 11 percent at Yale. Anybody have any theories on that one?</p>
<p>me? STANFORD!!!!!
accepted: WOW, i would run around the house going nuts and call all my friends over for a party and go and scream at my science teacher who said i couldnt get in
Deferred: AHSWELLZ, its alright, i still gotta chance..better than being rejected
rejected: uh oh....</p>
<p>no ice-cream or chocolate...O_o</p>
<p>you are not a woman. you are hereby not allowed to be a woman, even if you are one. or not one. O_o </p>
<p>umm. alcohol? or really good soup? or sugar cocaine, aka pixiestiks?</p>
<p>mistuhxstoopeed: your teacher actually told you that you wouldn't get in? That's harsh.</p>