<p>Usually my mom makes me go to school on days like this, but maybe I can convince her to have a “mental health day”. I know I wouldn’t be able to concentrate anyway.
After I open the letters, good or bad, we are SO breaking out those chocolate truffles I see conveniently hidden on our top cabinet shelf…</p>
<p>I would advise everybody to go to school. I’m saying this because it will get your mind off things. Just do your daily routine until you get back home.</p>
<p>Swissbrit, yeah on second thoughts that’s probably a good idea. Especially because my mail usually comes later.</p>
<p>I asked my parents if I could stay home, because I was seriously considering it, my dad started laughing uncontrollably at me. But I guess if I stay home, I’m probably going to drive myself even crazier.</p>
<p>Gather everyone I know that applied and open all of our letters one by one around a table haha.
-x-
I wouldn’t want to do that. x]
It adds peer pressure to the added tension of hoping you don’t get rejected/waitlisted.
And I don’t think I can handle that, ahaha.</p>
<p>Don’t they email you first to let you know if you’ve been accepted/denied/waitlisted?</p>
<p>If I already know the outcome from the emails, then I probably won’t do much on March 10th, except check the mailbox. But I doubt I’ll get the letters on March 10th since I live overseas… and I’m wondering if they still give all those cool stuff to overseas students (if they’re accepted, of course).</p>
<p>I would still go to class on March 10 and LAUGH OUT LOUD in class if I got accepted :D</p>
<p>I’m going overseas on the 11th, and since I’ll have to miss school that day I probably won’t be missing the 10th. Besides, my mail comes around three o’clock anyways. I’m just hoping that the decisions actually come on the tenth so I won’t be anxious while I’m away.
I live very far from the schools so fingers are crossed!</p>
<p>My d asked to stay home and I said fine. </p>
<p>At the time my d was getting up at 5:30am to get a ride to the train then a bus to arrive at school for 8am. She had missed very few days before then and I felt she wouldn’t be missing that much (that’s the reason we applied to bs).</p>
<p>She found out very early that she was accepted in one school and her number 1 choice sent snail mail (and we knew it). </p>
<p>I think she just wanted to sleep in.</p>
<p>We spent the first of those day(3 kids 3 different years applying) in the hospital waiting room awaiting the results of an emergency surgery for a child that wasnt applying that year. After that, any results were just a by play of life.</p>
<p>Turn on my camera and record all my reactions. :D</p>
<p>For all my friends who go to schools that end in 8th grade, they have letter day. So like their school takes them out on a field trip to wherever the kids voted (most of the time its something like going out to lunch and then six flags) the day before they get their admission letters (this year it was friday, Feb 4). I guess it’s to get their mind off it and loose some of the stress they have.
For me, I have a field trip for french class on March 10th. We’re going to a french restaurant and doing some french activities, so I guess that’s going to be my “letter day”. I’ll probably go to school then field hockey, and finally get home and hopefully see a thick letter waiting for me!</p>
<p>One post stated Exeter notifies at 6am via email. Does anyone know how other schools notify?</p>
<p>@Zenrose,
Andover notifies by a FedEx package, Deerfield notifies by mail, SPS notifies online, Middlesex notifies online, and Groton notifies online. I’m not sure about the other schools, there was a thread about how schools notify acceptances.</p>
<p>ifax108- Would the Andover fedex package come on March 10 or after?</p>
<p>Make sure you check your spam and junk email folders – that’s where the Exeter email showed up a couple of years ago – it was a rejection.</p>
<p>@Zenrose,
Idk, I haven’t ever gone through this process before. If you live in the northeast, I bet the FedEx package would arrive on the 10th.</p>
<p>I have tri-mester tests on March 10th!!! Also, it is the second day of tests so that night it will be hard to study, and I still have to go to school the next day even if I am depressed!!! Also, I think just occupy yourself with activities, friends, and movies.</p>
<p>My friend who applied to three school (all different then mine) is laid back, dosen’t worry, and all ways says what happens, happens. As a result, this is really relaxing to me, who is high strung and freaking out all the time!</p>
<p>@mhmm - D: Oh, wow. I’m sorry; I hope whoever got the surgery was okay.</p>
<p>My parents would never let me miss school just to wait for mail, regardless whether it will determine my future or not. I’ll probably be so unfocused at school, though, that it wouldn’t be worth it. -shrugs-</p>
<p>My parents suggested themselves (after I had given them various instructions on how to contact me during the day depending on what class I would be in) that I stay home from school on March 10th-however, I declined. That Thursday is the day of the first production of a high school play that I auditioned-up for, and we have to be on time to/at school or we can’t do after school activities. </p>
<p>The night before we get out of the last dress rehearsal at around 10, so any suggestions on how to calm my nerves during the day? I and around 6 other people at my school are applying to Exeter(6 am e-mail), so I know we will all be crying/laughing for the same reasons.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>