<p>Yale first, mostly because I think that the decision will be the first posted. </p>
<p>Brown next, because it is the Ivy I am least enthused about (not that I don't like it, but it's just the lowest member of my Ivy pecking order). </p>
<p>Princeton last, because it is the one that I am most emotionally invested in, as a legacy. </p>
<p>Columbia whenever I get the email.</p>
<p>least likely to most likely for me too...
Princeton
Columbia
Penn</p>
<p>Brown
UPenn
Cornell</p>
<p>From most likely to not get in to pretty likely to not get in.</p>
<p>I'm checking Columbia first, then Brown.. but Columbia sent me an e-mail saying 6:00 EST (wt f?!) so I'll probably end up getting Brown's decision first.</p>
<p>Reasons: I'm more set on Brown, and not really expecting to get into Columbia, so if I don't get into Columbia I'll be eh, and hopefully perked up by a Brown acceptance..</p>
<p>yale - deff not getting in
cornell- decent chance but don't care that much
brown - the one I really, really wanna go to & will be most devastated about after rejection</p>
<p>I have all of them minus Columbia (it's bad, I know x( But I have solid reasons for all of them I applied to.) I'm going to check Cornell first, because I don't care that much about it and I'm the most likely to get into it, and then if I was rejected I'll go up the list of ones I'm most likely to get into. If I DID get in, I'll do the rest in the opposite order.</p>
<p>I didn't have a choice (since I applied ED to Pton '10 and had to withdraw my other apps) but hypothetically speaking... I would have checked Princeton first. If I got in, then I would have checked the rest in order of least likely to most likely. If I didn't, then the opposite.</p>
<p>Say, consider this -- suppose you have the decisions for each of the ancient eight in identical envelopes, and you have no idea what's in any of them. You open Harvard's decision and you're accepted -- has the probability of acceptance at the other seven schools changed, now that you know what's inside one of the letters? :p</p>
<p>Harvard---->Yale------->Princeton--------->Dartmouth</p>
<p>Least chance of acceptance to higher.</p>
<p>Not that it matters anyways. I know I'm getting rejected/waitlisted at all of them. :(</p>
<ol>
<li>Brown (don't really care about getting in)</li>
<li>Dartmouth (don't know why I applied)</li>
<li>Penn (Already know that I have a 9/10 chance of getting in)</li>
<li>Yale (Up in the air, but I had a fantastic interview)</li>
<li>Harvard (What I have been working towards for my entire life)</li>
</ol>
<p>I don't know if I should open the e-mail or wait for the envelopes</p>
<p>I only applied to one (Brown)...I can't imagine what you people with multiples feel like! I feel anxious enough getting all my decisions in the space of two weeks, let alone one evening!</p>
<p>Side note: How long do you think it's actually going to take to access the websites? Brown alone, imagine 19,000 people trying to get onto one server at the exact same time.</p>
<p>Hey Alston, how were you already accepted at Penn?</p>
<p>Princeton - at 5
Cornell - um i don't know the time or place to check
Columbia - at 6</p>
<p>I'm banking on columbia, thanks to likely letters.</p>
<p>Order in which they come up. (And if I have to check I'll probably do Cornell and Penn first, leave HYP for the last. (order: YPH :)))</p>
<p>To check for Cornell, go here</p>
<p><a href="https://admissions.cornell.edu/selfservice/%5B/url%5D">https://admissions.cornell.edu/selfservice/</a></p>
<p>I don't know the time either.</p>
<p>me and my friend were thinking of the same thing...i think ill get the definite rejections out of the way before heading to ones i think i have a chance at..after that Berkeley? but i think thats a rejection as well...29th..for me the 30th Early morning (international...time zone difference) is going to be tough..im gonna be flying to Dubai..and then i dont know how to get hold of a computer so early in the morning...wish me luck..im soooo nervous..</p>
<p>Dubai? Well an early welcome from me then! :D</p>
<p>Confirm, it's at about 1 am here on the 30th. :) (Dubai Airport has Computers that are accessible, as well as just about everything else in the world, or so it seems sometimes. :p</p>
<p>P.S: If you have any Dubai doubts, feel free to PM me.</p>
<p>frozen-tears.. that's an interesting situation...
statistically, the probability of acceptance of others shouldn't change since the decisions are supposed to be independent events, and each one still has that 50/50 in or not (reject/waitlist)
but because this process isn't purely statistical (in more than one way), a harvard acceptance may be indication that the others are more leaned in favor of acceptance as well. lol ;)
... this is much interesting than my environmental homework</p>
<p>Are you sure its 1 am??? Because as i am coming from Lahore..its around 2-3 am here so i would expect 230 or 130..lol close enough didnt realize that!..i think ill carry my laptop with me...do they have Wifi at the airport????..please tell me they do!!!!!...thanks for the offer...i know dubai better then any city in this world lol!!btw GOOD LUCK SHRIVATS!!:D:D</p>
<p>I'll load the websites and decide then. </p>
<p>Oh man....this will be so exciting :)</p>
<p>They definitely have Wifi, I don't think they have hotspots though, you'll have to pay through the roof to get access to their network.</p>