<p>If my mom asks me “are you nervous??” one more time, I think I’m going to cry. How do I tell her to shut up without telling her to shut up? :|</p>
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But that’s different… the lottery depends entirely on luck, MIT depends on an application, so rejection is like a “you’re not good enough for this school.” I don’t know, I just find it extra-painful, even if I know the odds. You know? Or maybe I’m just going crazy haha.</p>
<p>“If my mom asks me “are you nervous??” one more time, I think I’m going to cry. How do I tell her to shut up without telling her to shut up?” </p>
<p>Tell her you don’t really want to talk about it, but a trip to Dairy Queen would be nice…</p>
<p>There’s a difference between being confident and being realistic… MIT itself has said the class could be filled many times over with extremely qualified, deserving students. They have to turn down many, many kids who “should” have been accepted.
It is not entirely a matter of worth or accomplishment. It is largely a matter of luck.
You should not take rejection as an insult or an assessment of unworthiness. It is not.</p>
<p>If you assume you will be rejected, then acceptance would a shocking, thrilling surprise. If you are “confident” that you will be accepted… A rejection will be all the worse.</p>
<p>If you try success is not guaranteed.If you don’t try failure is guaranteed !!</p>
<p>HAHAHA colorado_mom, I’ll have to try that. Although I’m not sure there is a Dairy Queen around here, perhaps Cold Stone or Ben & Jerry’s instead. Mmm.</p>
<p>Kudos to you Handala; I’m sort of jealous of your optimism right now. Man. I just hope everything works out so I don’t have to be 0/2 for 2 weeks while I wait for all my other results.</p>
<p>hai Prussia!</p>
<p>'Sup dude!! 
Hope you’re doing great! I think our coincidence of interests was super cool/funny, by the way. Sorry I never replied to that. I hope you go far in your renewed interest!</p>
<p>Also, I do kind of see your point, Handala. I’m actually reasonably confident in HYP, just not M. Reason being that I’m confident in myself, but I feel like I screwed up my MIT app specifically in various ways, largely because I didn’t realize it would become my #1 choice (or a major contender) at the time. In my situation, I feel the acceptance of emotionally-neutral pessimism is appropriate. But if one feels like they really did all they could to present themselves perfectly to MIT, and has the stuff to back up the confidence, then by all means, be optimistic! Too much optimism could spoil some of the real thrill of an acceptance, though, in my opinion-- but I don’t think your presented confidence was excessive.
I do disagree that all truly worthy students will be accepted, though.</p>
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<p>Is it because of my high fever, or did this just skip a few logic gates…?</p>
<p>^ I doubt the logic gates exist.</p>
<p>Let’s just say: Hope for the best, and prepare for the worst. You don’t need to be over-confident in yourself or over-realistic (which may lead to pessimism) in your incoming rejection. Just stay tranquil</p>
<p>I can’t imagine what it’ll be like leading up to the rejection. As an international, I’m getting my decision at 6am on Monday.</p>
<p>One thing I can’t get out of my head is that even though I’m expecting rejection, there’s always a small part of me inside that says, “you know what, maybe they looked upon my application and saw something that stood out. Maybe they liked me out of all the Australians/applicants from Oceania, out of whom they pick one (two tops).”</p>
<p>I suppose the attitude I’m taking is: there’s still a chance and I live in hope, but I’m happy with how things are going now (since I just started uni or “college” here in Australia) and don’t really mind leaving behind my current lifestyle.</p>
<p>Just remember,</p>
<p>Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.</p>
<p>well, up to now, everyone’s discussing about preparing to rejection. But what would you do if you got wait-listed???</p>
<p>Same thing as rejected.</p>
<p>@CanaryK As a Mom, I love the posting about asking if you are nervous. Believe me, if you tell your Mom to shut up at this point of the game, she will get it, actually, she will not going to be upset We, Moms, get it and we can take a lot GOOD LUCK TO YOU! BTW, are you nervous? JK.</p>
<p>@Prussia I love your post. I tell my D to focus on the great schools she already got in (UNC, Vanderbilt and WASHU), instead of just focusing on MIT, but guess what? She tells me to SHUT UP! I guess she is nervous. GOOD LUCK TO YOU TOO!</p>
<p>Well, we are all here preparing ourselves for rejection but we would be happy if my D is wait-listed, of course if she gets accepted, we will have a party!
Good luck to all!</p>
<p>^DMOC
I will consider it a second chance :)</p>
<p>MIT is but one vector to success.
If you don’t catch it, focus on the rest.</p>
<p>The plan is this: wherever you go, you thrive.
A generation of mathematicians, logicians, scientists, leaders?
We’ll make the world shake. </p>
<p>It’s always been done this way. </p>
<p>Good luck, everyone. Both on Sunday, and whenever else you need it.</p>
<p>completely agree with the post above. and yes, you should hope, but expect rejection. just imagine the screen telling you Sorry, blah blah and you will be prepared for a rejection. it will still hurt probably, but okay. Moving on and proving yourself you can do it without MIT. here in my country, situation is pretty tough. no one gives money for science, we have one great physics/maths college which is admitted as one of the best of that kind in the Europe but gets almost nothing from the governement, corrupted people are everywhere, but we have a lot of people who made it. A guy who attended one of Zagreb’s high schools is now a PROFFESOR at the MIT. I personally know one ph.d. in maths who is one of the top scientists in the Europe in that field. Never ever give up and the doors will open for you. Maybe some day MIT just sends you an invitation to work there.</p>
<p>Wow pigs, way to do a 180 from your Yale attitude.</p>
<p>Yepp, because I take MIT students and MIT way more seriously</p>