<p>My reaction to acceptance can be best described as this:</p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=a8q-elxC6gU%5B/url%5D">http://youtube.com/watch?v=a8q-elxC6gU</a></p>
<p>It was more like silent, numbing disbelief for me. I kept refreshing the site like 20 times waiting for it to be "fixed". </p>
<p>It kinda caught me off guard though because after clicking "check application status" it just popped up. I thought it would be more like it is now, where you gotta click the "check your decision button". I was prolly gonna wait and hover over the buttom for 5-10 minutes preparing myself. But I liked how they did it (it saved me like 5 years of my life that I would've lost because of stress)</p>
<p>I did about 200 fist pumps upon finding out I was accepted. After that though what was weird was that I had a headache for like 20 mins and I rarely get headaches. I dunno how to explain it, but maybe the massive release of stress at a single point in time was too overwhelming...</p>
<p>Yea, I got a headache a little while after the decision too...</p>
<p>shocked and unbelievable and........ heheheee... i read the letter again and again like trillion times!!!</p>
<p>u got the letter already?!!!</p>
<p>i screamed.</p>
<p>now i'm kinda mad since everyone at my school assumes i didn't deserve to get in. haha racist punks. check the stats mofos.</p>
<p>Not going to lie, I cried.</p>
<p>I reacted pretty weird. I just clicked that link and then saw that it was a letter so I figured I was deffered...not noticing that size 72 congrats with the corny pics on the top of the page...lol. Then started reading the letter and was just like, w†f? Then when I finally realized I was accepted I just kinda shook my hand and went "yes!" and that was the end of it. I guess finding out by the link kind of makes it less dramatic...
But I think the main reason I havent been ecstatic yet is that a realy don't realize i'm in yet. When that letter comes, Im sure I'll get crazy!</p>
<p>I signed in, expecting to have to click a "check your decision" button. I was planning to stare at that button for like 10 minutes, thinking about everything before I found out, but I logged in and the screen popped up, "Congratulations!" I was like holy *****, I'm not prepared for that, but yay! Then I had a headache for the rest of the night.</p>
<p>Yeah...what's with the headaches? I rarely get them but they seem to be a pretty common reaction to the decision.</p>
<p>I assumed there would be some other screen to click to after the ID and password were entered on the website, so I was taken by surprise when the first thing I saw was the "Congratulations!" image. It was an amazing moment.</p>
<p>i was surprised then shaking and smiling all at once. it was incredible</p>
<p>I looked at the "congratulations" picture/banner thing, didn't believe it. Read the letter once....attempted to scream...but no sound came out. So I went the other route and started crying hysterically. -_-</p>
<p>haha that video sums it up</p>
<p>except i screamed at the top of my lungs for like 5 minutes straight</p>
<p>I was expecting to get my notification on the 15th.. I was bored so I checked it and it really took me by surprise =)</p>
<p>I took my my dad's samurai sword out of his closet, went into my room and closed the door, and then started hacking at my book case. Then my desk. Then my closet door. Then I took a nap, and when I woke up I tried to pretend it had all been a dream, until I saw the splintered wood all over the place. And then I asked my friends how they had done. Last year Cornell took 6 or 7 people form my school ED... this year 2 out of 15, while a neighboring school got something like 9 people taken. Awesome. Then I went on this wretched, insidious site and saw that people with worse SATs and GPAs and extracurriculars than me were accepted because they live in bumblefu*k, Nebraska and not long island. Then I went out last night to wash away the pain of rejection, and woke up this morning with a broken finger.</p>
<p>I can appreciate that you are upset.</p>
<p>However, I have an ever greater appreciation for the admissions people at Cornell for not admitting someone as immature as you. Perhaps they read your lack of maturity or level of arrogance in your application and that's why you were rejected. I'm sure it has little to do with your location on Long Island considering, as you admit, the school close to you got 9 people in the school. </p>
<p>You have a lot to learn from other people living in "bumblefu*k" Nebraska who were rejected but know how to do it gracefully. </p>
<p>Grow up a little, then apply as a transfer if you still want Cornell.</p>
<p>On a website filled with narcissistic a-holes, you really shine.</p>
<p>all i can say is, you can be bitter with class.</p>
<p>it takes a real winner to be able to keep composure when his or her dreams fall apart. so by all means, get upset. i would be! but do not, do NOT be so rude as to pull apart other people's hard earned accomplishments because you did not accomplish the same thing.</p>
<p>life is not always in your court, accept it.</p>