<p>Well, this is it, I suppose. A few mere hours ago - or maybe its only been a few minutes; time seems to be flowing strangely now - I gathered the small amount of courage I possess in my frame and pressed Submit. It's been a horrible few weeks or months for most of us. The stress of a heavy courseload combined with the earnest desire to gain acceptance into our dream school. I know that tomorrow during lunch I'll probably collapse into tears out of the pure horror and fear and hope that I feel. </p>
<p>This thread isn't meant for anyone to post stats, or argue about philosophy, or anything remotely of the sort. All this thread is meant to accomplish is to offer hope for all of us. I know that many of us won't get in to Yale. Gosh, I could be one of those. But this is the Yale thread, and everyone on here is a student who, more than anything, wants acceptance from Yale. So for this reason, I created this thread. A sort of meeting-ground for all of us, to just offer hope and kindness for each other now when we're the most emotionally distraught. I hope that we all make some great friends on this thread. Yes, we probably all won't get in to Yale. But some of us will get in to Dartmouth or Princeton, Duke or Penn, Harvard or Cornell, Notre Dame or Columbia or Swarthmore or Chicago. At the very least, I know that we'll all be happy in the end. </p>
<p>I know that I'm determined to meet most of you sometime in the future, whether at Yale, the football field, the workplace, or just some random meeting brought about by serendipity. I hope that here, on the Yale boards, we all find some kind of comraderie, and deep friendships created through a mutual infatuation with Yale.</p>
<p>I mailed mine in last week. To be quite honest I really didn't go through any of the anguish or stress that everyone seems to be raving about at my school. I finished the actual app in one sitting (besides like numbers and stuff I needed to look up), did one essay in one sitting months ago, and then worked on another w/ my counselor's editing help for about two weeks. Then I mailed it. The hardest part was putting it in the mailbox. But other than that I just don't see where the craziness could come from. Anyone else feeling the same? Of course I want to get into Yale, but I'm all but guaranteed a spot at another top school so I'm not sweating it. We're all going somewhere good. Whatever. :)
~film - the chill one.</p>
<p>DualAnya,
I am as emotional as you about this whole thing :)
Thanks for the positive words. It is all too rare on CC to hear positive and encouraging words. Usually, you just see people telling one another that they will never be accepted into the school they have been dreaming about for their entire lives, just to make others feel bad. </p>
<p>Good luck to you and everyone else applying EA.</p>
<p>like filmxoxo, i'm not feeling much of the post-submit anxiety that many others feel. Maybe it's becuz my app is, to the best of my abilities, as good as it can be. There's nothing i could have done to really make a substantial improvement in my app. I've done everything i could, and the rest is in the hands of God. Also, it's hard for me to feel anxious about something that will happen in 1.5 months. However, I promise u that i will start feeling ridiculously anxious the week before EA decisions come out :) Peace and love everyone, let's keep this thread alive.</p>
<p>I'm with filmxoxo and wrathofgod! It was a relief to submit my app and I feel that I've done everything I possibly can to present myself well. If the Yale gods decide that I don't belong, that's fine...... as Dual said, I have faith that I'll end up at one of those other amazing schools she listed (I'm applying to five of them.. hahha). My parents have been really great throughout this whole process.. and I think I'll end up going where I'm meant to go.</p>
<p>Maybe that's just an excuse I keep telling myself so I won't feel nervous or whatever, but it works:P</p>
<p>Nevertheless. I really really want to get in. heheh.</p>
<p>gooooooooood luck everybody :) school is school, and college is college, and LIFE GOES ON</p>
<p>What a nice thread!
If it's any comfort, none of the people that I met at Yale were gods or superheros, just smart kids with a good sense of fun and fairly unimpressive ping pong skills. I think that pretty well describes most of us on this forum, so our chances aren't really that abysmal, you know.
Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>yes, i really do hope that we can all meet each other at yale. but wherever we end up going, we will not regret that we applied to yale. that's how i look at it. i may, rather, i will cry, listening to yale's a cappella music, but at the end, i will be proud that i did not give up for fear of losing. </p>
<p>Wow, it's nice coming back to this thread and seeing that people have responded! A bit of a shock actually...</p>
<p>So, am I the only one who completely freaked when Yale sent them the "We have received your application" letter? I mean, it was strange...I got the letter in the mail, and I saw that it was from Yale, AND that it was a thin envelope...and even though I KNEW that decisions don't come out until December, I had this scary instant where it felt like the world had just stopped turning, and my heart actually skipped a beat...Yes, I AM melodramatic, but I swear that I felt horrible at that instant! Just imagine what I'm going to be like if (read: when) I get my rejection...</p>
<p>I had been planning on skipping school the following day if I was rejected, and running down the hallways screaming in glee if I was accepted. Unfortunately for me, the following day is a Saturday, so I have an entire weekend to wallow in misery/frustration/ maybe hopefully possibly happiness...</p>
<p>Sooo, what are you all going to do during the weekend of December 17th and 18th to celebrate or make yourself feel better, depending on your decision?</p>
<p>me! I'm an official registered eli until at least May 2006 :)</p>
<p>Weekend of December 17th and 18th. Let me consider the situation
Finals week will be over and winter break will just have started. If I get in, a hugeass party will definitely be in order. If i don't, hey, i got 2 weeks to wallow in misery.</p>