<p>... and wait for decisions the old-fashioned way- by mail!!!!</p>
<p>I've decided to keep my college-decision-virginity and get my decision in the mail. The online-thing is too uncertain, too nerve-racking for me. At least in the mail, you can tell by the size of the envelope what it's probably going to be. And even then, you're not completely sure until you open it, so it's a gradual process. </p>
<p>Traditionalists - UNITE!!!</p>
<p>P.S. I found out that i got deferred from Stanford online, so I guess that makes me a half-college-decision-virgin. I had planned to wait for it in the mail, but I couldn't wait past 3:05PM on 12/15. :-\ o well... but this time around I'll be bugging the mail man!!</p>
<p>Not that I want to ruin your decision virginity and I admire your courage lol but it's possible that those decisions won't come for a week afterward depending on where you live and you could be missing valuable time on deciding where to go and comparing colleges.</p>
<p>haha, yes my post is just a tad satirical, but I'll try to hold out as long as I can. I would probably at most want to wait 3 business days, because if they send the acceptances by UPS, then I would get it by that time. If not, then..... well we won't talk about that now, will we....</p>
<p>i was going to do that, but then i ended up checking the minute it was available online</p>
<p>for me, i thought building up anticipation by waiting for the mail would only make a rejection worse. If I was going to be rejected, I wanted it to be like ripping off a bandaid, quick</p>
<p>nice sn carpe diem! That's what I ended my long essay with! Yeah sorry about my previous postings - I've been really loopy lately, due to admission-decision jitters and the like. In my English essays now, I'm making really strange analogies- like comparing mid-nineteenth century to a prized pie devoured by the hungry, fat bureaucrats of European nations. o dear. When we do our read-around-groups with our essays, people break out in laughter and turn around and stare at me, with bewilered looks on their faces. ahh. This thread is kind of pointless. Sorry about this. mmm... maybe this is where we can spout our indiscernible nonsense. Every day seems to be going by so slowly, as I keep thinking this is the day they are reading my application, deciding my fate, weighing my strengths and weaknesses. In my head, I fabricate the admissions officers' conversations about my app. "Well, I like how he did this.... but I'm concerned about that..." Oh the cruelties of life. Dear God, I need a life.</p>
<p>Hahaha I never come to the Stanford forum and the first thing I read (this thread) made me laugh so hard and I'm really not even sure why. CATennisPlayer, I think you've got a good life so far, spouting indiscernible nonsense to your cyber college applicant constituency (I'm pretty sure that's an incorrect use of that word, but it sounds cool and adds to the alliteration). </p>
<p>I thought about waiting in the mail for my decision, but I have to stay after school every day until 6:30 or 7 anyway and I wouldn't want to be thinking about the mail that could possibly be sitting in my mailbox when I got home for that entire time.</p>
<p>I appreciate your traditionalism and enthusiasm, though. ;)</p>
<p>O hello thar j07! nice to see you outside of the Princeton forum! :) Yes, I had assumed that most people would rather check online. I may even do that, too, if my nerves dictate. Anywho, while we're waiting, has anyone read the book, The Physics of Consciousness, by Evan Harris Walker? I think that's my favorite book ever (even though I didn't understand half of it)! That man was brilliant. I have "How Long" from Lifehouse stuck in my head; it keeps reminding me of college decisions. It goes: "how long till the word will be completed
how many times will history repeat it
how long will it take" ...for admissions decisions to come out!! :(
Dum-ditty-dum-dum... So how's school going right now? Has senioritis kicked in for you yet? I can't wait for the college experience. It's so weird not knowing where I'll be next year. I wish they'd just get it over with and tell us. Well, it's time for bed now. To sleep, perchance to dream....</p>
<p>It'd be almost anticlimactic to wait for the mail. Acceptance letters are sealed in an envelope stamped "Congratulations" so you'll know even before you see the letter.</p>
<p>Do they really stamp the envelopes with "Congratulations"? I mean, USC's didn't have anything except a yellow stripe at the bottom. meh.... The longer I wait, the more I want to find out. By the time they release decisions (whenever that will be) I don't know if I could take it anymore. At least I'll have a vague idea of where I stand, because I should find out from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, UCLA, and Princeton by then, so I'll see if I get accepted to those. Of course, Stanford has different essays from me (except for the Long Essay) and an update form, besides the fact that they probably look for different traits in their applicants. I just hope they didn't think I was too scatterbrained or that I put my intellectual passion on a platter for them. I just wanted them to know that I love to learn. This process is horrible. I'm glad I never have to do this ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever again. Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.</p>
<p>ive experienced mail and online acceptances...
mail is much more exciting because you actually open a mailbox, take out an envelope, rip open the package..etc.
online, it's like click click click boring.
but then again it depends on how much you wanted to get into the school</p>
<p>Having tried both sorts of decisions, I'm waiting for the post. :D Partly due to irrational superstition (all my rejections have been online!), and partly because there's a ridiculous thrill to ripping open a giant acceptance package (although, when they come in the tough plastic covers that FedEx uses for international mail, and there are no scissors around, things can get ugly. ;)).</p>