<p>it felt horrible...i opened the mailbox and knew right away it was a deferral when i didn't see a package in there...</p>
<p>anyways, i live in los angeles</p>
<p>what do you mean i don't have a username?</p>
<p>Not you Zarah, the poster in between your two posts</p>
<p>Hey def890, you didn't see a package, but you saw a letter right?</p>
<p>correct...it was a normal business sized envelope</p>
<p>how did your parents react? My parents have been drilling me for the past week, "Relax, you're not getting in, no point to stress about it..."</p>
<p>dear user with no name and rest of CA hopefuls
i know it is hard but try to have a nice sunday afternoon.
i know a little bit of CA postal system and believe me when i tell you that yestrday being Saturday, priority or not 50% of chance that you would have not recieved intended mail yesterday.
You still have chance as good as it would have been on last Friday. As a owner of cool(no) user name, i say you have higher chance than any.
Good luck</p>
<p>my parents were expecting me to get deferred. i was expecting it as well, so i didn't think it would feel all that bad when i actually got hte letter. i was wrong. for me, it feels horrible, but life goes on, and i have to finish my last 2 RD applications (columbia and upenn). at my school, all the minorities/legacies/athletes are getting into the top schools, and it's kinda annoying because i'm an asian male (the worst possible combination)</p>
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<p>You just did.</p>
<p>Actually, I do have a username, but because of how the majority of the software industry decided to implement the second half of the ASCII charset, it appears that I don't have one. If you didn't understand that, then don't worry. Unless you're a computer science major.</p>
<p>@Def</p>
<p>I agree - applications should not have boxes for race, gender, or any other characteristic that is out of the applicant's control, with the exception of the legacy box. I myself am not a legacy, but I can see why the school wants to accept people who are more prone to donate.</p>
<p>I got my mail and I live in borderline b/t Orange COunty and LA county.
Result: the thin, white envelope.</p>
<p>Very devastated.
My interviewer told me princeton barely picks anyone from OC,, maybe that's true consdiering how no one ever in my area got in there.</p>
<p>I wanted to be the first one,,but NAH</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>Good luck to the rest of ya'll Californians (and the others in RD round) from Florida!</p>