<p>omgosh i’m so scared for this moment yet i can’t wait for it. it’s such a weird feeling to be utterly terrified but want it… </p>
<p>anyway i guess i lucked out because it’s spring break here and my family is going to visit Washington DC (i live in texas) so we leave tomorrow and come back around noontime on saturday… so pretty much i’ll get home.. and it’ll be here.. and i’ll die..
i’m trying to prepare myself mentally… like.. if i don’t get in, well tons of qualified people don’t get it and i’m not even THAT qualified and i’ll feel bad taking a more qualified persons space (because i’m a URM)
and if i do get in.. well awesome.
i have a backup plan which i’ve already pretty much executed in preparation for my rejection. but i’ll still be devastated. thinking about it makes me want to throw up.. haha.
aghhh oh my gosh. this is hard…</p>
<p>I have to say it sucks for internationals who can’t check their decisions until late at night. I’m jealous of the west coast though who gets their decisions at 9 in the morning.</p>
<p>it’s not always good that early in the morning since you are most likely wasting the rest of the day to either be emo or like celebrating, wasting an perfect day to do hw on…
However, still better than mailed decision. I would check my mail box every 30 minutes since like noon, get it around 5pm, tell friends and family around 6 and use the rest of the day to absorb the decision.</p>
<p>1) As previously mentioned, open up the decision on your own. If your parents are pressuring you all day to find out on December 15th, and you aren’t ready to face it, say, “No.” It’s your moment. The first scream of joy or disappointment shouldn’t be from the person peering over your shoulder – it should be you.</p>
<p>2) I know MIT is, for many of us, our dream and/or first-choice school. Let it be that way. However, with a 90% rejection rate, be ready. How? Get hyped up about another one of your schools. Genuinely hyped up. Since applications, I’ve fallen in love with my second-choice school to such a degree that I sometimes pause when I think what would happen if I were to be accepted there and MIT. Falling in love a second time around doesn’t mean you’re cheating on MIT It just helps a lot in case the worst happens.</p>
<p>Great advice Skramata! My daughter shared her login ID with me so I could help complete the financial aid requirements. However, a week before Early Action notification she changed her password so she could view the decision on her own. After she was deferred, she changed the password back so I could keep track of the final financial aid stuff. Now she changed the password again so she can look at the decision when she wants to, alone or with her parents (probably alone). That doesn’t mean I won’t be on pins and needles for the rest of the week. I kind of miss the old days when the notifications came in the mail and we’d have to rush home every day and check the mailbox. Still have my MIT admissions letter from 1977. Good luck to all!</p>
<p>however, the collegeconfidential students, from what I’ve heard, are usually more qualified, so it’s probably around 30% or so acceptance for us…</p>
<p>Haha, I love how 30% admittance is a “reassuring” statistic.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that there’s some selection bias in reporting, though- someone who’s rejected will probably not be as eager to share that with the entire internet as someone who just got accepted.</p>
<p>Ahhhh…unfortunately I will not be able to check my decision saturday at noon…i will be downtown for a st. paddy’s day parade. O well; I know my priorities</p>
<p>I have my own personal counter. Her name is ‘mother’ and she asks me every half hour or so if I’ve been thinking about it, and if I’m nervous. I should have left her thinking it came out on April 1st – she’s driving me up the wall.</p>
<p>i have the state competition for acadec. i could check when i get home at like 6pm, but i think i may just steal my coach’s computer if i can’t stand the wait.</p>
It just helps a lot in case the worst happens.</p>