<p>my school got even gayer over the summer, if imaginable. they now wont let anybody into the buildings during lunch even though it'll be like 90 degrees in the shade. they also are going to tow cars that are parked in any lot other than the student lot BUT they didnt even tell the students that. i found out from my physics teacher whose probably the only adult at that school that actually has a soul. and to top it off, they're combining junior prom and senior ball. my senior year is going to be weak sauce. like diet ranch.</p>
<p>I will just keep praying that December comes a lot of sooner...
Must get into my ED university =/ And I, too, shall camp out by my mailbox around December 15th. I don't know if I'll be brave enough to see my decision online!</p>
<p>I'm happy there are online decisions. That way, -I- can find out my decision first, not my parents. The mail is delivered while I'm still at school (track), so my mom would see the decision first. I just want to be able to seal myself in my room and read the decision myself.
But first, I'm going to agonize over whether or not to click on the link that leads to my decision. Once I do click the link, I'm going to cover the computer screen and only reveal a tiny-tiny-tiny bit of it at a time. That might make it worse, though. Perhaps learning my decision is like taking off a band-aid; it will be less painful if I just do it quickly...</p>
<p>I hate online decisions because all it takes is ONE click to find out. That's just scary. It's like a ONE SECOND decision... in a sense. That part makes me go crazy, but I bet I'll be so anxious by then that I'll click it anyway. And I shall cover up the screen with my hands and count to 5 before I reveal the decision. ><</p>
<p>I have a feeling that I'm going to hoard my letters and spend weeks debating whether or not to open them before I finally do.</p>
<p>Maybe this is a myth, but doesn't a thick letter = acceptance, and a skinny letter = rejection (or you could be deferred, I guess...)? So you'd be able to tell from the second that you saw the letters.</p>
<p>I'm checking online everyday for Rutgers. Online is straight and to the point. I don't wanna go thru the trouble of opening the letter in suspense.</p>
<p>The worst part of applying to colleges is that none of my friends understand how competitive some are. I'm applying to MIT, and all of my friends think that I'm definitely getting in (they don't understand that MIT is an unbelievably competitive school). They keep telling me, "Oh, I'm so excited! I can't wait until you go to MIT- then, I can visit you, buy a sweatshirt, and feel smart!" It's really annoying, because I'm 99.9% sure that I'm going to be rejected/deferred.</p>
<p>I'm ready to leave.</p>
<p>I actually like my high school. I don't care if I'm not the typical, rebellious, "I'm-so-worldly-and-mature-I-can't-wait-to-broaden-my-horizons-and-go-to-college" teen. I feel really comfortable in my school, and about my roles in it.
Oh, gee. I'm lame.</p>
<p>What schoolls u guys lookin at</p>
<p>did anyone else's guidance counselors tell them freshmen year that they should get all the prerequisites done so they could have an easy senior year?</p>
<p>hah good joke.</p>
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<p>grinnell. kenyon. whitman. university of washington. i like schools like carleton, macalester, boston college, and colby, but i had to take them off my list because they dont offer the classes/major i want :(.</p>
<p>LesOs, I know what you mean. People tell me the same thing for MIT. And Northwestern. And UChicago. And a lot of other schools. I don't think they understand how HARD it is to get into all these schools. Just because I'm doing ED to Northwestern doesn't mean I'll get in. And just because I'm okay academically doesn't mean anything. AT ALL.
It's even worse when people THINK they'll get into Princeton or Columbia or whatever. It's like, "You have 1800 SAT scores. Do you REALLY think so?" xD
The counselor advises them to not apply, but they do anyway.</p>
<p>Yeah... I hate the feeling that I get when my friends ask me if they can get into very competitive schools (and they are average students with <1800 scores).
Me: Umm... nobody ever knows what colleges look for these days. If you like a school, you should apply. If you apply, you have some chance of admission, but if you don't apply at all, your chance is 0%. If you love the school, apply!
(except my friends keep talking to me after that, and I'm forced to offer them trite, vague response after trite, vague response).</p>
<p>I'm applying to UChicago and MIT EA (but MIT secretly, because I KNOW that my friends are going to badger me about whether I'm accepted or not. I'd rather keep the deferral/rejection that I'm prettttty sure I'm getting to myself). My RD schools are Hamilton, Fordham, Dartmouth, Vassar, Tufts, Brandeis, and Northeastern, but that roster is always changing.</p>
<p>whoo juniors 08 ...</p>
<p>oops wrong thread lol</p>
<p>...don't you mean juniors 09?</p>
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<p>yeah, I know what you mean. I have only told like 3 people where I'm applying ED. I won't tell ANYONE where I'm applying RD even. It's pretty obvious people will keep asking me if I got in all the time, if I tell them where I'm applying. So annoying.
And yeah, I keep giving them very vague answers about their chances at like PRINCETON or something. This one girl with 1800 SAT's is applying there. And the counselor has said nothing. If I were the counselor, I would discourage the applicant, however bad that sounds, since this applicant is not an URM and has no EC's whatsoever. Just a bad idea...</p>
<p>I just wanted to give out a resounding
'08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>