<p>I guess this is more of an abstract thread, but I'm curious. How are all REA appliers dealing with waiting until decisions are out?</p>
<p>also oops it’s applicants not appliers, my bad</p>
<p>Pretty badly. It’s driving me nuts. I don’t feel like I have the energy to write essays for other schools but I know I’ll have to start soon.</p>
<p>I agree. It’s really hard/annoying to start other essays… right now the anxiety is killing too much tho (but these other essays will).</p>
<p>Yeah, after having to do 6 essays total for Stanford you’re kind of burned out.</p>
<p>I’m going to try and retool them for as many other essays as I can. Not sure how I’m going to fit my 647 word common app essay (on failure) into a 250 one for MIT though…</p>
<p>yes! starting my other essays is gonna be annoying… and I’m doing subject tests in December and I’m gonna feel annoyed with too… because suppose I get in? all that work for nothing… but hey! its better than not getting in at all :p</p>
<p>While ED prospective students are waiting and RD students still have enough time to prepare for applications, I think I will get good chance of getting responses. </p>
<p>My daughter is a sophomore in high school. My family visited Stanford and she loves it. While we were on campus during a weekend, we probably saw more visitors than students so I still can’t tell whether she will fit in or not. She is totally interested in STEM and did extremely well. She is also a very fashionable young girl with lots of her after-school time spent on composing and producing songs with impressive music (according to others). Though she shared her productions on facebook with friends I asked her not to post on youtube or other more public places. </p>
<p>Somehow I feel kind of funny to picture her in MIT, Caltech, or Princeton, but can see her fit in Stanford, Cornell, and Penn. (I know these are all super hard to get into so I am just wishfully exploring. :-)) What do you think? Will she be odd on Stanford campus if she got admitted (in three years) and go?</p>
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<p>Interesting. In my mind, I see Princeton and Penn being much more akin than Stanford and Penn.</p>
<p>As far as STEM, of course she would fit in at Stanford, its really big here. And music too; I seem to be the only person in my (frosh) dorm who can’t play piano unfortunately :(</p>
<p>Merovingian, how did you wait for your decision? What did you do to calm yourself down? I actually have a count down (44 days) and I think about it way too often.</p>
<p>merovingian, Thanks for the information. I guess my question brought a break to people to pause and relax. :-)</p>
<p>I am sure the STEM part is fine for her to fit in. It is the STEM+Pop music (guitar/piano/drum) + appearance (she put on black wool hat to school and is tall and good-looking) combinations that I am not so sure about. I didn’t see anyone dressed fashinable on campus when we visited, so I am wondering about whether she is going to look odd if she doesn’t change her way of dressing. But it is California and my impression is that it should be a little more common to see fashinable people there than the esast coast smaller universities.</p>
<p>The reason I put MIT, Caltech, Princeton in one group and Stanford, Cornell, and Penn in another is because I view the first group as smaller and nerdier, the second group as bigger and more diversified with different talents. I think these are all tippy top schools, getting in any one of them is an honor. So I guess the first thing is to get in. 
Our college town high school is competitive but she still have time. </p>
<p>Waiting is the hard part, you need to find something to ease the anxiety. Best wishes to all of you.</p>
<p>Savethetrees you’re not the only one with a countdown timer going LOL…downloaded a countdown timer app the day I submitted the application.</p>
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<p>Well, I applied RD, so my wait was even longer than that. For a few days I was anxious but then I kinda forgot about college decisions. I realized that this would be the last time my high school friends and I would all be together, so we took advantage of that as much as possible.</p>
<p>I think that if you mentally fret over it the wait will be unbearable. I would try to relax and enjoy your senior year of high school; man how time flies…</p>
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<p>Well, I guess it depends on what fashionable is. Basically nobody really cares how people dress; there are some guys and girls in my dorm who dress up really nice and preppy every day, and then there are the chiller guys who wear sandals or walk around barefoot. I got the feeling that California is much more laid back and nonjudgmental, back home in the east people felt obligated to dress more preppy.</p>
<p>I dunno, there are plenty of other tall and good looking people here though, and I doubt wardrobe would be an issue…</p>
<p>eeek just submitted my REA app… now to wait and busy myself with other college essays ugh!</p>
<p>merovingian,</p>
<p>That’s great. I remember watching a successful Princeton graduate’s speech in Princeton and she emphasized how college campus is the best environment to find your future significant half. I totally agree. So all you who will be admitted to universities, keep that in mind. Don’t just study all day long, go out and have nice activities and meet people!</p>
<p>I am glad that she may not be too weird there if she was so fortunate to be admitted. So far I see Stanford and Cornell be the top two with strongest academics (I trust star high school counselors more) and good size for opportunities to meet people. :-)</p>
<p>[High</a> School Counselor Rankings | Rankings | Top National Universities | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/high-school-counselor]High”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/high-school-counselor)</p>
<p>@merovingian - great username, btw. </p>
<p>I know that I made my best effort to make my Stanford app the best it could be, so I know that it’s up to the admissions people now. Just kind of focusing back on normal school and dual-enrollment life, and also beginning to crawl into the RD stuff.</p>
<p>I found the advice given in this article to be good:</p>
<p>[How</a> to Make the EA Wait Great | Yale College Admissions](<a href=“Bulldogs’ Blogs: #Meet the Blogger | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions”>How to Make the EA Wait Great | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>Thanks aleaiactaest!</p>