<p>I have a Columbia playlist ready. If I get in, every word will be lyrical and beautiful. Otherwise, each syllable will be somber and depressing. In either case, I probably wont go to school on Friday.
Oh, and if I get in, I’ll go to Columbia on Saturday and hug the columns of Low Library, buy various pieces of Columbia Apparel, and wear blue for weeks :)</p>
<p>I’ll be on my volunteering shift at the hospital.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know how I’ll react. Most likely, I’ll internalize it and be quiet for the next week. I’m dreading telling everybody that I got rejected. Right now, it’s safer for me to assume I’m rejected because if I am, okay, I totally called it, and if I get accepted, it’d be a great surprise.</p>
<p>At any rate, I’m trying not to think about Thursday too much.</p>
<p>Yea I’ll probably follow neiro6 and bbear12 and take the bus/train into the city to Columbia.</p>
<p>CC meetup, schemmy? xD Though I don’t know if you’d really want to meet me after a 5 hour bus ride.</p>
<p>If we both get in, Ill gladly meet anyone :b…I live in NJ, only like 1.5 hr bus ride to NY, 2.5 to get to Columbia</p>
<p>and I’ll listen to this a lot: [“Empire</a> State of Mind” Jay-Z | Alicia Keys [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>I’ll be glad to meet anybody too…after all, just a 5 hour flight</p>
<p>lol schemmy888, that’s actually the first song on my playlist followed by, [Frank</a> Sinatra-New York,New York-Lyrics - YouTube](<a href=“Frank Sinatra-New York,New York-Lyrics - YouTube”>Frank Sinatra-New York,New York-Lyrics - YouTube)</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA @schemmy888 you read my mind! If there was a single thing I would do, it is play that song. I live in the midwest and I will be home after school. I’ll probably be in my room and, pending good news, I think blasting empire state of mind through the house would be a clever tell to my parents. Besides that, I think my friends would probably throw me a party over the weekend.</p>
<p>Rejection… if that happened. I too, think I would internalize it. I’m not really the type that gets overly excited (manic). I can scream if I’m excited, but not really in frustration. I can berate someone, but not yell at them. I am totally on the same page as @nebbalish. I have told EVERYONE “I don’t think I am going to get in,” “I know I will get rejected,” “I’m expecting bad news,” for precisely the same reason. No overly emphatic disappointment, but the possibility of a once in a lifetime surprise</p>
<p>I live in SoCal so i’m not sure flying to Columbia would be too easy. </p>
<p>But if there are a lot of SoCal admits we should have a meet-up! LA, SD, OC? I’m the same distance from all three.</p>
<p>@mustangman I will be dreading everybody’s “oooh you’re too good for Columbia!”, “it’s okay if you don’t get in!”, “that sucks”… JUST LET ME CRY IN PEACE PEOPLE. </p>
<p>But yeah. I hate getting pity from other people.</p>
<p>+1, nebbalish</p>
<p>It’s especially bad when you’ve just begun to come to terms with it and are processing it on your own, and then someone else comes along and brings it back up.</p>
<p>I’ve been restraining myself from telling so many people that I’ve applied to Columbia. But people just seem to know in my school. T___T</p>
<p>And this guy at my school is going to get into Harvard (won lots of national and international science competitions, he’s as much as a shoo-in as I’ve seen) and I don’t want to deal with that this week.</p>
<p>Accepted: Play Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” on repeat.
Rejected: Remember that I will still end up going to a great school; that if my mother had been able to go to an Ivy like she wanted (she got into Penn, but couldn’t afford it) I wouldn’t exist; and that in the long run it won’t really be my loss (arrogance lollollol).</p>
<p>@bbear12 can you share some of the rejected some of the songs comprising your heartbreak playlist? When I read your post, I thought about a skit they ran on SNL a few weeks ago. It was like an office scene and this one girl didn’t get the promotion (I think it was Emma Stone). Everyone was telling her @nebbalish “it’s alright you’ll be fine.” They invite her out for drinks and she asks them to just leave her office for a minute of alone time. She turns on Adele’s “Set Fire to the Rain,” and just starts bawling. Then one by one they all re-enter to see if she’s coming and they all just start crying to the song. This skit seemed to summate and make fun of the loneliness of rejection and the truth that we all know the feeling, cute. Anybody else see this? Anyone else uber-excited to try to get snl tickets if accepted?</p>
<p>Not a huge SNL fan, but I’ve been waiting on TDS/Colbert tickets for years, and I’ll be 18 soon… so psyched.</p>
<p>@Mustangman “Set Fire to the Rain” is going to be my song come Thursday.</p>
<p>And in the spirit of the holiday season, I’ve been singing along to “All I want for Christmas is an acceptance letter from Columbia University.” </p>
<p>That song was created for us ED’ers. </p>
<p>I DON’T WANT A LOT FOR CHRISTMAS. THERE’S JUST ONE THING I NEED. I DON’T CARE ABOUT THE PRESENTS UNDERNEATH THE CHRISTMAS TREE. I JUST WANT YOU FOR MY OWN. MORE THAN YOU COULD EVER KNOW. MAKE MY WISH COME TRUUUEEEEE…</p>
<p>ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS…IS AN ACCEPTANCE LETTER FROM COLUMBIA!!!</p>
<p>LOL …all of you are too cute <3 <3 <3 I truly wish we all get in…</p>
<p>@Mustangman I’m actually a big SNL fan and saw that skit haha. As far as the playlist goes, my accepted and rejected playlists are the same; the meaning I give it depends on Thursday’s decision. Anyway, here it is if anyone’s interested. I’m open to any suggestions :)</p>
<p>Empire State of Mind (Jay-Z), New York, New York (Sinatra), We Are the Champions (Queen), An Open Letter To NYC (Beastie Boys), New York State of Mind (Nas), Good Life (One Republic), Across 110th Street (Bobby Womack), New York State of Mind (Billy Joel), The Sound of the City (David Londen), Angel of Harlem (U2), New York City Cops (The Strokes), Back in NYC (Jeff Buckley), Cali to New York (Black Eyed Peas). </p>
<p>Some of this stuff really has nothing to do with NYC, but I felt they were appropriate (like #3). Ill listen the NYs #1 Music Station, Z100, afterwords (like I am right now)</p>
<p>To be honest, I haven’t told my parents that decisions come out Thursday. I didn’t know they would until yesterday, and I guess I’ll keep it to myself regardless of the decision before telling them.</p>
<p>If I get in, I can hardly see myself going to school on Friday. If I don’t get in, I’ll probably carry on with my daily routine. Like many here, I’m expecting a rejection, so at this point I don’t think I’d be too bummed out if it happened. However, if I get in, it’d be the best surprise of my life and the best way to start the holiday season.</p>