<p>Hello All,
On account of all the fun I had with waiting till Christmas to open my EA letters, I have decided to wait until my birthday in mid-April to open my RD letters. Wish me luck, the wait is longer this time around! Same deal with me not seeing the letters till I open them.</p>
<p>For reasons to do this and reasons why one must be self-loathing to do this can be found at</p>
<p>Duuude most colleges release admissions on my 18th birthday. It could ruin my bday 
which is why I’m going to ignore my anxiety attacks that day and not open anything til the next day. But that might ruin Spring Break. Maybe I’ll wait til I go back to school. And stay off all social media where people are bragging about getting into good schools.</p>
<p>I feel ya. I will say, that, at least for Christmas, the day made the bad news better more than the bad news ruined the day. Deposits are due May 1, so you and I will each have to hurry up and decide, especially if you wait through spring break. That’s a looooong time to wait, but waiting makes the good news better and makes it easier to move past the bad news. Where did you apply?</p>
<p>Haha I can wait til mid April. Though that only gives me two weeks to decide. My cousin got his Yale ED on his bday. He was disappointed because they rejected him. I applied to UCLA, Berkley, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Drexel, Barnard, Emory, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, Swarthmore, Villanova, Bowdoin, William & Mary, NYU, Georgetown <3 Idr anywhere else haha I got into Chicago though but I’d rather go to Georgetown.
What are you waiting on?</p>
<p>I’m gunning for Chicago, Georgetown, and W&M.
If you got into Chicago early (which I wasn’t even close) than you WILL get into most of those schools. That is a heck of a list, and those are some really smart schools. All goes well, I’ll go to Chicago or Georgetown. Waiting is a joke though, and people freak out when you tell them, so I recommend it</p>
<p>It could be a priceless birthday present to get into your dream school but it could also ruin your birthday.
I have legacy at Georgetown so I hope I get it but who knows. When is your birthday?
By the way, was it worth waiting on Christmas?</p>
<p>My poor nephew found out the same day as his Eagle Scout ceremony, last Saturday, that he didn’t get into UT-Austin, his first choice. He has been a Longhorn with orange blood since the day he was born. I couldn’t believe the timing was so bad!</p>
<p>^ MaineLonghorn, you make me miss Austin. I was born and raised there and if UT weren’t so darn big, I would have applied and gone straight back.</p>
<p>OP, I guess I can see why you’d wait, but I’m not sure it would work. For one thing, it’s usually pretty obvious by the size of the packaging whether you’re accepted or not, and two, don’t colleges send emails usually titled with “Congratulations” or something?</p>
<p>It was worth waiting till Christmas, it was basiclly a test of willpower, which can be fun. My email spam filter is unbelievably overzealous (about 1/5 of my emails are marked as or actually are spam) and I never see the letters, ill have my brother check the mail for me from late march until my birthday. </p>
<p>I HIGHLY recommend waiting in some form or another, it provides some perspective.</p>
<p>I would open things on my birthday, but I’m afraid it would ruin my birthday completely.</p>
<p>Aerobug, I grew up in Austin and went to UT for my bachelor’s and master’s degrees. I love the city except for the heat! That’s why I moved to Maine once I was out of school.</p>
<p>My RD acceptance letters come after my birthday, so that wouldn’t really work for me xD. But that sounds fun, although it would be super difficult!</p>
<p>Soo my birthdays tomorrow
I’m ready to get rejected from all 8 Ivies</p>