What will YOU do if you get in?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>Next week by this time we may very likely be Columbia students (knock-on-wood). So if you refresh that email page and all of a sudden... you see that email and it starts off "Congrats!...", what will you do?</p>

<p>Personally. I think im gonna a) not tell my parents yet. Tell my mom to call in sick on Friday due to (made-up-reason-here). Then after they leave for work, I'm gonna drive 15 minutes to Columbia. Spend an hour looking for a parking spot. Proceed to the bookstore, buy a Columbia hoody, bumper sticker, and whatever else I can find. Stick that Bumper sticker on my car and drive home... and when my parents finally realize its there (this can take them a while), I'll THEN tell them =). I'll probably play 50 hours straight of Zelda on my new Wii that I've been banned from touching until I get into college too...</p>

<p>But if I get deferred. I have one week to start/finish my Stanford application!!! yay =P... Oh Columbia god, please let me get in. Amen.</p>

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<p>i would go to school and sleep through every class.</p>

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<p>i'd probably promise Satan my first-born, or sacrifice a virgin to whatever heathen god answered my prayers... ACUTALLY:
1. Party like it's 1999
2.Play Counter-Strike four days straigt.</p>

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<p>omg counterstrike !!! and columbia ed! thats two things we have in common. lets hope we both get in so we have 3.</p>

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<p>On Saturday, I'd go up to the city and raid the Columbia bookstore and stock up on merchandise.</p>

<p>And I'd probably waste all of my text messages for the month on a mass SMS to everyone in my phone book with an "I LOVE YOU" or something similar.</p>

<p>And I'd e-mail my interviewer/the people that wrote my recs and give them all a big thanks.</p>

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<p>then its agreed. we shall have a Counterstrike PARTAY! (1.6 please.)</p>

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<p>Ugh, I'm going to have to download/re-install Steam again... I guess I'll have some more free time though, so it's worth it.</p>

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<p>I live in San Francisco so I would probably order a bunch of Columbia merchandise online... but first I would scream reallllllllllly realllllllly loud and call my entire family... even my relatives in Belarus</p>

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<p>Y'all need to take things a day at a time. The more you talk about this sort of thing, the more you'll be disappointed at the inevitable deferral/rejection that's coming to 80% of you. It's OK to be optimistic, but you don't want to be doing a victory dance on the 5 yard line when someone tackles you before you reach the end zone.</p>

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<p>regardless of the decision, i would still sleep during school lol</p>

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<p>I agree with Columbia2002, it's almost painful to be conjecturing what you're going to do when it's not for sure :(</p>

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<p>I think we should have a "deferment/rejection" celebration. For people who get accepted, they're happy enough, but for those who get rejected or deferred...they're gonna be mighty annoyed.</p>

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<p>if you take things one day at a time, your acceptance wont be nearly as beautiful. the more that I play something up the more sweet (or bitter) it will be for me. after all, how special could the moment be without all of the drama and passion leading up to it? its all part of the admissions experience for me :) </p>

<p>EDIT : watch me regret this later</p>

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<p>hahahaa...</p>

<p>"watch me regret this later" that killed me. hahaha..</p>

<p>anyways, if i get in i will:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>brag my acceptance to everyone i know and tell them they are all beautiful.</p></li>
<li><p>buy Columbia merchandise to self-commercialize myself around my school. in other words, brag.</p></li>
<li><p>tell my parents and my aunt who raised me that i loved them.</p></li>
<li><p>buy everyone i know food.</p></li>
<li><p>just go on with what im doing in classes right now, which is basically sleeping.</p></li>
<li><p>and last of all....COUNTER STRIKE. chyea.</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>rofl lol " 2. buy Columbia merchandise to self-commercialize myself around my school. in other words, brag."</p>

<p>i have picked this one out</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ivysport.com/product-product_id/20/category_id/129%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ivysport.com/product-product_id/20/category_id/129&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>u could order it and then if you dont get in ... cross out columbia and put what college u are going to</p>

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if you take things one day at a time, your acceptance wont be nearly as beautiful. the more that I play something up the more sweet (or bitter) it will be for me. after all, how special could the moment be without all of the drama and passion leading up to it? its all part of the admissions experience for me

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<p>If you planned out exactly what you're going to do when you get your email (i.e., scream, the hug mom, the fly to Disneyland), doesn't it sort of take away from the excitement? I think so.</p>

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<p>I agree with Columbia2002- I was deferred once, and I can tell you that it will hurt alot more if you allow yourself to dream about getting in. This time around I'm expecting the worst so that if I don't get in it will be just what I thought would happen. If I do, then it will be all the more wonderful and satisfying.</p>

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<p>i didn't say that you should plan out your celebration. i said that for me, squashing the drama and passion leading up to the decision would make it less special.</p>

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<p>hmmm.... either way, I'm gonna pawn noobs with my AWP like they're minutemen.
btw: CS or CS Source?</p>

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<p>It's better to dream of the acceptance--- i'm feeling very not confident about getting one anyway so I won't be depressed (much).</p>