<p>I just spent the past 30 minutes cruising the Columbia boards and looking at ED acceptance/rejections. One word: SCARY! There's kids with perfect stats getting rejected, and kids with subpar ones getting accepted. Everything we predict about ourselves and other posters on the Penn ED board will probably be wrong.........</p>
<p>I'm just unbelievably scared right now. I wish every single Penn ED'er on this board the best of luck. You're all equally amazing:)</p>
<p>I'm just waiting for someone to start the official decision thread.......</p>
<p>i need to do those essays this weekend. meanwhile... i've been going on the columbia site too. those decisions are so random. i am so soooo nervous.</p>
<p>I looked at the Columbia board too. Those who got in with subpar scores usually had an obvious reason - underrepresented geographical region, hook etc.</p>
<p>i might not even apply now. i dont think i can afford upenn. i want to go to law school, so going 100k in debt for undergrad seems stupid. the federal government seems to think my family can afford to pay about a quarter of their annual income for me to go to college. which might work. if they move into the dorm with me.</p>
<p>yeah i understand. that's how it is for me too. we really can't afford it but i'm not too sure if we qualify for financial aid (great logic as i applied ED, huh?) you should apply anyway, though. you never know what will happen.</p>
<p>i don't care about the money...i'd go with only a few thousand bucks in grants. i don't need that much to live on, americans are just spoiled with an inflated sense of entitlement to quality of life. </p>
<p>apply RD, eckie: if there's not enough $, u can go elsewhere. simple.</p>
<p>thats the thing though. i'd rather be flat out rejected than know i can get in...but am not able to attend. looking at the nuttiness of the columbia decisions has kind of upped my confidence, at least a bit.</p>
<p>but yea. maybe i'm a selfish person. but if I got into Penn but did go because the money wasnt working out, I would probably be miserable at any other school.</p>
<p>vds takes....rolls to neville on the right flank....runs into trouble with robben, passes to ferdinand.....ferdinand up to fletcher, to scholes, to giggs.....makelele challenges, giggs evades......giggs up the left flank, supported by O'Shea, drops back....sheasy to fletcher, to scholes....scholes with a run up centre....path impeded by terry and lampard, plays christiano ronaldo on the right side.....ronaldo, facing bridge....steps over, fakes, O! what a fantastic little move there.....to the goal line, sends in the cross, searching for rooney, terry challenging.....rooney too far, steps up followed by the chelsea captain O! what a nifty flick on! can van nistelrooij get on the end of it? </p>
<p>Cech is distraught, gallas appeals for a penalty of some kind, but his own indecision does not play for the man in charge and the goal remains. </p>
<p>There are seventy five minutes elapsed, and United leads it now one-nil at the theatre of dreams, old trafford, in the city of manchester.</p>