<p>How are you guys dealing with the impending decision day? I find myself looking at the stats of people who got in last year, surfing the Dartmouth site, and reading all the blogs. I hate myself for getting so attached, but I can't help it- I'm already bleeding green. </p>
<p>So, enough of this pity party. What are you guys doing to avoid thinking about D-Day?</p>
<p>WOW, you sound like a mirror image of myself… guess we’re all in the same boat. Anyway, to avoid thinking about D-Day, I have actually been researching other schools that I would be happy at and trying to fall in love with certain aspects of said school, knowing full well that it could be where I end up pending a deferral/rejection from Dartmouth. So far it’s worked pretty well, I am liking a lot of what I have read about the schools listed below.</p>
<p>Check out Midd/Colgate/NW… all very similar to D in my opinion.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree, I’m doing everything you mentioned. I kept telling myself that I wasn’t going to get too attached because of the selective nature of the school, but I’m just crazy about Dartmouth. Sadly, avoiding D-Day is basically impossible at my school, we have 6 ED’ers. Every single day I’m plagued with questions about interviews, stats, and other little things. Aside from that, my neighbor and best friend is also going ED so I can’t even avoid it at my own home. Going along with what Jacko5x said, it helps to look at schools that are similar to Dartmouth just to see if there is any way that you could “love again.” As of right now, I’m particularly fond of Middlebury.</p>
<p>Think about it this way, we’re all in the same boat. = D</p>
<p>Yeah oh my God. I am in the same boat. I impulsively check my status page and email, just in case they tell us something about when they’re going to notify us! Haha that’s the worst part, that we don’t even know when we find out! I’m thinking next week? ahhhhhhhhhhhh.</p>
<p>Hahahaha, I love how I’m not alone. I thought I was the only person like this—I thought I was crazy.</p>
<p>Ahh to be a prospie again… Hang in there guys! The last week or two before decisions come out are for sure the worst.</p>
<p>Haha, I’m also an EDer, and I haven’t been checking the blogs or looking at a lot of stats. I’ve actually been avoiding all that stuff completely because I figure, if I don’t remind my self too much the time will go by more quickly. </p>
<p>Ahhh man, two weeks shouldn’t take this long.</p>
<p>(I hope they do tell us when we find out though)</p>
<p>I’m really bad. I set the Dartmouth website as my homepage. I check my email frequently throughout the day to see if I’ve received anything from Dartmouth. I ordered a Dartmouth pennant to keep me motivated. I chat with my Dartmouth tour guide every few days now, asking him about school. Every time I see someone wearing ANYTHING Dartmouth I have to start talking to them. </p>
<p>Dartmouth needs to release information right away or I think I might go crazy!</p>
<p>I’m mostly just freaking out because they haven’t sent me an email or any log in info yet.</p>
<p>On a similar vein, I’m slightly worried because a lot, but not all, of the applicants from my area have been interviewed, but I have yet to be contacted.</p>
<p>Hmm, do you know what it means if you don’t get an interview? Because I didn’t get one either. I know they say that there might not be someone in the area that can interview applicants, but is that actually the truth? Are they trying to tell me that they aren’t interested enough to want an interview? </p>
<p>Okay, I’m going to stop now. I think I’m getting hysterical…</p>
<p>No, they are being sincere. I’ve been worried about it too because I interview well so I figured that it would only help my chances, but they really mean it when they say that interviews are optional, limited by alumni availability, and are not a make or break factor in admissions. My friend’s sister was admitted Early Decision a few years ago, and her interview was scheduled for the day after she received her acceptance.</p>
<p>You have no idea of how relieved I am to hear that, murphman428. I submitted my application pretty late, so I thought that they would get to me eventually, but when nothing came, I began to have nightmares of them looking at my application, laughing, and burning it up. Or maybe taking out a big red stamp and pressing SUPER-REJECTED on it. It’s times like this that a vivid imagination is a curse. =(</p>
<p>Interviews are definitely not required or always offered. I did RD, but I did not have an interview for several of the schools to which I was accepted (including Dartmouth). So don’t sweat it guys :)</p>
<p>I literally had a dream that they looked at my SAT math score and decided it was 20 below the absolute lowest cut off…it was awful</p>
<p>I set Dartmouth’s web page as my home page too … I haven’t allowed myself to stop during my runs for months now, I keep going every time I tell myself I want to stop because quitters don’t get into Dartmouth.</p>
<p>blue star: Nice, that’s one thing I’ve never been able to do consistently even though I play sports…er, the running, not setting a homepage :)</p>
<p>Interesting way to get through it. Good to see everyone’s freaking out.</p>
<p>I’m only a Dartmouth RDer (for Class of 2014) but I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one so obsessed with EA/ED schools… I’ve had so many nightmares about being deferred/rejected that now I’m convinced, even in the light of day, that there will be no good news for me 
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<p>I’m trying to fall in love with my safeties, but it sure is hard…
Good luck all!</p>
<p>I’m a bit nervous that they track how many times you visit the Dartmouth Student Info System online, because I might look REALLY compulsive. I always check for update. I’m trying to do the same thing with looking at other schools. I’m trying to get out other applications, but I can’t get Dartmouth off my mind. Good luck to the rest of you, and may we all see each other in Hanover next year.</p>
<p>And I thought I was stressing…you guys make me look like a bum lol. God bless everyone applying, this week is taking far too long to end.</p>