Which decision will you open first?

Applying to College
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<p>Most of us will be getting the majority of our decisions during a very tight timeframe around March 31st/April 1st, which means multiple decisions becoming available at once. How will you open yours? And in which order? Your safety first, your reach first, first come first opened?</p>

<p>I myself will be opening my decisions in ascending order (of preference), but the problem is that my two safeties will be releasing their decisions on April 1st, and my reach/matches on March 31st, so I'll have to open my matches first, then wait for my safeties, and then finally my reaches. Hopefully this way I won't be devestated by the bad news of rejection and I'll feel good knowing that I have acceptances in my pocket before I face the match/reach rejections.</p>

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<p>Open via internet. Whichever comes first ASAP!!</p>

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<p>If I get more than one decision by mail on one day, I think I start with the the small envelopes and and finish with the large (if I have both, that is, which I hope!).</p>

4

<p>Internet first, then mail. Whatever is on top of the stack gets opened first. So the mailman gets to decide.</p>

5

<p>whatever comes first of course! I haven’t heard from any of my 18, and the majority of them happen to be march 27 - apr 1. via email, since snail mail comes exactly one month later.</p>

6

<p>definitely first come first serve</p>

7

<p>eek, i’d rather open the ones i might not have gotten into first, i think. but why would you wait when the decision’s right in front of you!! definitely open whatever gets to you first.</p>

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<p>yea, I plan on opening them as I get them.</p>

<p>if i get several on one day, i would probably open then in order from most likely to get into to least likely to get into. that way, I will have some good news before some possibly devastating news.</p>

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<p>First come, first served…I think I’ll end up opening my Duke decision first (I think this one will come first) before Columbia</p>

<p>But if they come at the same time, I’ll probably open Columbia first.</p>

10

<p>i’ll feel for the thicker envelope and open that first. :D</p>

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<p>Surely it’s better to open reaches first! Imagine opening your ultimate safety first and finding out you’ve been rejected- then turning to a pile of letters from better schools…</p>

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<p>does it really matter? It’s not as if changing the sequence will change your acceptances or rejections.</p>

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<p>I agree on opening reaches first for a different reason - if it’s a “no” from your reaches, you have the rest of the letters [acceptances] to comfort you.</p>

14

<p>small envelopes first…</p>

<p>then large ones to comfort me! :)</p>

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<p>Haha, I have no choice because of how mine come out.</p>

<p>American: This coming week (came out 13th last year)… Then Northeastern from the 15th on (they release in waves, it’s weird).</p>

<p>Bryn Mawr comes next, around Easter, and then Vassar a couple days later. Colgate and Grinnell arrive near April 1st.</p>

<p>It’s kind of nice, because I think AU and BMC are the most likely to accept me- the rest are sort of up for grabs, so hopefully I don’t lose hope halfway through.</p>

<p>The ones I care most about are sort of in the middle, so I might have a cushion if something goes wrong.</p>

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<p>I’m hearing back from SIX schools on April 1st out of the twelve i applied to</p>

<p>the three schools that get priority are Pomona, Carleton, and Haverford, and the rest it goes small envelopes first big ones last</p>

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<p>Waiting by the phone for the next month, hoping it rings…</p>

18

<p>Hey, not all small envelope are harbingers of bad news. My ED acceptance was in just a thin, regular envelope.</p>

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<p>I don’t care. As long as I know where I got in.</p>

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<p>I don’t care…whichever comes first, mine all aren’t coming on the same day and I won’t be at the place where they’re coming when they come (…boarding school). I have someone checking my mail for me, so I’ll hear about whichever school they decide to tell me about first.</p>