<p>@Molectron: Guess how I am spending my time today right now??? By literally stalking every UChicago post on this freaking forum. I absolutely can NOT focus on anything right now even though I know that I have quite a bit of HW to do. Oh Lord!!</p>
<p>@merryli Sweet! making someone laugh the day before decisions is no easy feat. and, uh, I haven’t been able to focus on homework for a few days (or weeks…) now. Onward and upward!</p>
<p>I have two weeks to review what I’ve studied all year for my bac exam, and until this moment, I’ve done nothing … I can not focus either !!</p>
<p>ahaha I don’t have any homework which is probably worse… I am basically stalking CC</p>
<p>I remember that’s how it was for me for EA decisions… Good luck all! <24 hours, woo!! you can do it! I mean, about 5-6 hours (give or take an hour or two, depending on how lucky you are) will be spent sleeping, and another 6 or so hours will be spent at school, so you all are so very close! :D</p>
<p>Is anybody else just completely done with this whole waiting thing? I mean, I have been so nervous for so long that if I get rejected I will still probably be happy because it is over. I have become numb to this whole thing by now and honestly I don’t care anymore. I am probably not going to go to any of the places I applied RD for because the waiting game has made me kind of hate them and like the places I got into early. I don’t know, I’m just sick of it. How about you?</p>
<p>^SO. VERY. TRUE. If not for UChi, but definitely for other schools, especially those that send out decisions in waves over a course of a couple months. Always hoping for a decision and never getting one (yet) has also made me start to “hate” the school.</p>
<p>^^ Nope I don’t feel that way at all. If I’m waitlisted, i’m riding that waitlist all the way until the end!!! Every single day past may i will be constantly refreshing my email (not really… but that’s how much I love uchicago and how much I want to go there). </p>
<p>I can feel the rejection coming. It’s the calm before the storm. I have no homework… no school… no girlfriend… no nothing but cc!!! </p>
<p>Would it be unhealthy to wear all my uchicago swag and be holding all my uchicago letters while viewing the decision, I’m hoping it’ll be like a rabbits foot and get me in because luck and patience is the only thing i have now, and with one day left my patience is running thin!</p>
<p>Gahhhhh.</p>
<p>The past week has left me feeling like an electrified idiot soaked in water hanging upside down from the top of the Himalayas for not requesting an interview. Worst way to show interest, ever.</p>
<p>So, yeah, bobby, a rejection would be 1) expected, 2) relieving, but 3) pretty damn disappointing regardless. Oh well. I’d totally deserve it for my stupid choices…</p>
<p>@collegeguyyeah Well, not for UChi–another school. If it were UChi, I would ride that waitlist right along with you! 
UChi is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, as people are telling me…</p>
<p>@Mam Oh yeah, I totally agree. Some schools I probably wont accept a spot on the waitlist but I wouldn’t think twice about it for uchicago. Good thing you already got in though!</p>
<p>@Choco I didn’t request an interview either :o but mainly because I suck at interviewing and I was scared too lol. I did drive all the way up from the south to go on an official visit and my parents and I talked to Grace and this other guy about stuff I was interested in studying (and if it was possible to buy the super ballin’ knit uchicago campus blanket that was hanging on one of the couches in the admissions office… there wasn’t)</p>
<p>I felt the same way as many of you; that UChicago is the only place for me. But then I got my deferral and almost died, literally, from driving close to 100 mph down side streets on my way home from school because I was so mad. Then I realized, as much as a good school can change your life, so can stressing over admissions. I was becoming obsessed and really angry all the time until my friend finally sat me down and talked with me. He made me realize that as much as I might feel that I will die if I don’t go to a certain school, that I won’t and life will go on. Hate to sound like Tebow here, but just remember that God has a plan for each of us, and we have to trust that what happens to us is for the best because only he can see how it is all going to play out for us.</p>
<p>@bobbyf94: Hey! I was exactly like you a week or two ago. I had gotten accepted and offered a very generous scholarship to an out-of-state school. After extensive research (read: excessive and most likely unhealthy stalking of every cc post regarding the aforementioned college), I felt confident that this college would offer the environment I’m looking for: diversity, challenging academics, fun personalities, etc. THEN, I found out that UChicago is updating the admission decisions March 23rd…TOMORROW!!! Even though I was completely calm before, I totally lost it this time. I WANT UChicago. I guess I’ve been pushing this thought to the back of my mind lately just because I am so scared that I will be rejected (and that will hurt the most). But let’s face it: a second choice will always be a second choice. It’s like turning to the rebound guy/girl after the guy/girl of your dreams rejects you. That rebound person (or college in this case) will never match up to the ideals and standards of your first choice. It just can’t. That’s why I am thrown back again into this whole torturous mind-game as I very fearfully await those UChicago decisions to come out!!!</p>
<p>@bobbyf94: I’m really sorry to hear how that UChicago deferral turned out for you. Your friend is right though (and I thank you for reminding us all about it). Not meaning to turn this into a religious discussion at all as I know all of you are entitled to your own worldviews, but God (or maybe fate, destiny, etc) does have His plans for us. One of the Bible verses that I have been reading like crazy in these past few days is </p>
<p>Proverbs 3:5-6–
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.</p>
<p>Right now it does seem like UChicago is the only (and by only we really mean ONLY) place for us. Before I read your previous post, bobbyf94, I was feeling the same way. I was so wrought with impatience, frustration, and fear that I could no longer take it anymore, just sitting around inside trying to do homework but failing miserably at it. So I went running and asked myself how I would be able to function if I found out UChicago rejected me. I’ve been building my castles in the air for quite a while now. Plus, I’ve been working hard (at a rural Alabama h.s. it has definitely isolated me from my classmates who are very happy with the local university) to get in. College–a good one–is the accumulation of all my laborious and painful work. </p>
<p>But life isn’t always about us. There are the admissions counselors, 25,000 other excellent applications (you are all included), and sheer luck. With a 9% acceptance rate??? Heck. How am I ever going to get in? But I think what we all need to remember is that God/fate/life WILL lead us in the right direction. Every new environment/experience opens us up to new possibilities; it all depends on how we view it. I know I am going to do my fair share of crying tomorrow if the results are bad, but then we’ve got to move on. </p>
<p>One thing I’ve told myself (because this Alabama h.s. is absolutely unbearable) to retain the stamina to fight through these last few months is that the world is a bigger place. In the same vein, think of the big, big world then think of UChicago. UChicago is only a small piece of a big pie. We can have our memorable moments and close friends anywhere. Just keep a positive attitude. </p>
<p>Okay. Sorry for getting really emotional here. Wish you all the best!!! Tomorrow!!! :)</p>
<p>@bobbyf94 Yours is one of my favorite posts I’ve read on here. Everything works out in the end, and if it hasn’t, it isn’t the end.</p>
<p>Remember: your school is not the end-all-be-all.</p>
<p>@merryli: I know how you feel about the high school situation. My high school is an absolute joke that consists of a bunch of alcoholics and maybe three other people that I can have an intellectual conversation with. Honestly, I just want to go somewhere where I can argue with people for hours on end about something we discussed in class. But I realize that I can get that same effect anywhere that I go as long as I put the energy into it. And I definitely know that I can get it out of my “rebound” school because it is Notre Dame, which wouldn’t be bad at all because I am a huge Notre Dame athletics fan. I have talked myself into going to Notre Dame because, just by sheer odds, I am going to get rejected from everywhere else I applied. This thinking has helped prepare me for the worst, but also be happy if the odds are in my favor. Either way, I just want this whole college thing to end so all I have to worry about is having as much fun as possible during my last free summer. But good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor!</p>
<p>I don’t think we should s*** on the experience we had in high school. A lot of it is just learning to fit in (I feel like I’m being cheesy). We’re adults now. We can handle whatever they send us. The nicest thing about this otherwise cruel process is how everyone seems to believe in me. I’ve gotten so much support from friends and teachers. They’ve made a UChicago acceptance seem inevitable, but I haven’t been the best student. I have trouble accepting mistakes and seeking help and that has hurt me in the past. I’ve done a lot to improve, and I’m continuing to improve even though it’s the second half of senior year now. Regardless of the decision, I know what to do, I’ll continue to work hard, avoid stopping and I’ll make sure I have fun with everything I do! My calculus homework is really just a puzzle game, my chem labs are just Sims with set goals. I level up, and unlock secrets of how the universe operates as I go along. I know this sounds like a crazy tangent, but my point is, that if we just learn to take things more lightly, they pass over us more easily. Like a character who is killed in a dungeon chamber of a video game, you can always start again, find a new strategy, and keep going.</p>
<p>bobbyf94 and merryli I love finding fellow Christians on a forum for a fantastic school.
I’m nervous for tomorrow, but it is true. There is a plan for each of us and He will see that what needs to happen will happen.
So God bless! And try not to worry so much! 
I’m starting to bug out a little bit at this point, but I’m trying to remain calm:)</p>
<p>Does anyone know about what time it’ll come out?</p>
<p>skittlescutie</p>
<p>A LOT of people got deferred. My school and our school’s biggest opponent in sports both had lots of students apply including myself. And no one got in. It was a flop of deferrals and a few rejections.
I, personally, got deferred and I’m just scared of facing tomorrow.</p>