<p>hey, whats the story for how you guys found out and what did you do after? heres mine:</p>
<p>i was sitting around at home waiting at about 4:20 then i came on here to see if anyone knew a notification time and there was a thread called 'rejection hurts' so i knew they were up and i checked and saw it. then i went and had a beer with one of my friends on top of a mountain and watched the sunset and then went to this place pie n burger and had a victory burger, shake, and piece of pie.</p>
<p>You said 4:20 right... So you were obviously smoking a blunt</p>
<p>^ yeah he probably imagined the whole pie thing</p>
<p>yeah, it was more of a metaphorical pie, the pie within all of us....
but no really, it was about 4:20</p>
<p>i read the mail, ran to tell my mom, then popped in return of the king to watch the scene where sauron is defeated...
"Frodo! Frodo!"</p>
<p>Due to an unfortunate ice storm, our power was knocked out for the whole day on the 15th, which was incredibly unnerving, but LUCKILY came back on around 6:30 pm. I checked immediately and after I read my decision I just screamed. I'm sure my neighbors thought someone was getting killed in the house or something...</p>
<p>I was at my CC, and my bio prof was letting me check my e-mail in her office throughout the afternoon. When the decision was finally up on the web (but I hadn't clicked the link yet), I was like, "Ok, here we go." I clicked the link, the acceptance letter was there, and I just started screaming. I don't mean the "hey, life is great" yelp, I mean a full-on scream! And if you think I was the crazy one, my prof was screaming just as loud as (if not louder than) I was! I feel really sorry for anyone taking their finals in that building just then...surely someone went deaf.</p>
<p>I was surprisingly calm.</p>
<p>After telling my parents (who were in bed watching TV - they forced me to print out the letter thing so they could read it themselves), I called my college counselor/favorite teacher ever on her cell phone (she gave me the number for this purpose). </p>
<p>"Hey, Ms. Ciccone."
"Who's this."
"Ryan."
"Oh (excitedly), so did you find out?"
"No, waiting for that damn email. How'd the team do."
"We won. So what else is going on in your life."
"Nothing - though I did just get accepted to STANFORD UNIVERSITY"
"OH MY GOD!"
[insert five minutes of "Oh my god" "congrats" "I know, thanks" "i'm so happy for you" "yeah" "you deserve it" "I knew it" etc]</p>
<p>At that point, I stopped studying for my AP Physics test (which luckily got cancelled due to a 2 hour delay). I was on this site all night, watching people put up their decisions and knowing I was feeling exactly what the other admits were feeling. It was a very good night. </p>
<p>When I woke up Friday morning, the first thing I thought was, "Why am I so happy." Then I remembered and my heart started beating fast again. Then I heard on my radio alarm that I had a two hour delay, so I turned that off and slept for two hours.</p>
<p>i was crying hysterically before i checked the email b/c i heard the rumor that stanford sent out acceptances first and rejections last (total opposite, btw)- it was already 5ish and ppl were already getting emails. i was so depressed and listening to prince's "purple rain" waiting for giant red letters flashing "NO" to come on my computer... then i saw "very special pleasure" and went crazy - printed out 800000000 copies in case it was all a horrible dream and called every person that ever existed. I didn't even bother to study for my bio test - called my friend who got into nwestern and thanked buddha/oprah/goddess/maya angelou...and on friday, i pigged out major at dippin dots and got a metallic foreign object shaped like a spike driven through my bottom lip. best $80 of pain i ever experienced. best inofficial senior ditch day ever. still hurts like hell.</p>
<p>i was actually in a hella long journalism production meeting, and kept checking my email during it even though my adviser was giving me dirty looks. and then before i went home i checked CC and read that people were already finding out. so i drove home, ran up to my room, saw my empty email box, logged onto the website for the hell of it and saw the access decision button. i clicked it and briefly considered running away so i wouldnt have to see the gigantic NOT IF HELL FREEZES OVER, shut my eyes, opened them, saw "hearty congratulations" and screamed. yup, full out scream. and then i started leaping into the air, scared my cat half to death, tripped/jumped/flew down two flights of stairs, hugged my mom, called nearly everyone i knew, printed out the letter and read it very carefully to make sure i wasnt hallucinating, and then did ritualistic happy, i win at life dances around my room for nearly an hour. after that i didnt do any homework and waited to turn 18. i think this was close to 6, eastern time.</p>
<p>Oh goodness, talk about being the most stressful day of my life.</p>
<p>I checked my e-mail in several of my classes throughout the school day. Then, I read on the Stanford website that the decisions would be made available late afternoon Pacific time. I'm in Boston here, so that meant I was refreshing the Stanford web page until about 8 pm, when the link finally appeared. I just clicked, read the first paragraph, stared in shock for a moment, and said to my sister "I got in". This was followed by hugs abound and excited phone calls to both of my parents. Later that night I went out with some friends to celebrate. Overall, a very good day.</p>
<p>As soon as I read the first couple sentences in the decision window, I screamed and started crying. Then, for the next 1/2 hour, until the email finally got through to my inbox, I refused to believe it and kept saying over and over, "the window popped up too fast, it can't be right..." Absurd in retrospect, but it seemed perfectly logical at the time. My dad was laughing, and now I can see why, lol.</p>
<p>And then I kept rereading the printout letter just to make sure I wasn't deluding myself.</p>